Navaratri is a call for spiritual awakening

Nava-raatri is a call for spiritual awakening

October 5, 2013 | By KNews | Filed Under Letters

 

DEAR EDITOR,
Hindus are currently observing one of our very and perhaps most sacred and auspicious festivals—Nava-raatri. In its literal sense, it is nine nights of worship, prayer, introspection and scriptural recommitment.
Religious observances, traditional worship have, at times, more than one significance.
Apart from them being the adoration of the Divine, they are commemorative of thrilling bygone events, allegoric when interpreted from the occult standpoint, and are significant pointers guiding man on the path of God-Realization.
Nava-raatri is one such event. Outwardly, the nine days of worship are featured with wide performances of ritualistic worship. It is dedicated to worship of God as Mother—the feminine aspect in three prominent names, viz, Durgaa, Lakshmee and Saraswatee.
However, underlying all outward engagements during this occasion, there must be a more sublime and profound inward transformation of life, that every spiritual aspirant seeks to undergo. This deeper purpose of Nava-raatri is captured in its division of three sets of three nights each, to which the spiritual aspirant in his life of spiritual pursuits adore the different aspects of the Supreme Goddess. This has got a very sublime, yet thoroughly practical, truth to reveal. In its cosmic aspect, it epitomizes the stages of the evolution of man into God, from manhood to Godhood. In its individual import, it shows the course that his spiritual pursuits should take.
The central purpose of existence is to recognize your eternal identity with the Supreme Spirit. It is to grow into the image of the Divine. The Supreme One embodies the highest perfection. It is spotless purity, “Niranjana”. To recognize your identity with That, to attain union with That, is verily to grow into the very likeness of the Divine.
The spiritual seeker has, therefore, as the initial step, to get rid of the countless impurities and the un-divine elements that have come to cling to him in his embodied state. This transformation is to be had during the first three nights (first segment of Nava-raatri), where the Supreme is worshipped as Mother Durgaa. Then he has to acquire lofty virtues and auspicious divine qualities. This happens in the second three nights of the season, wherein the Goddess as Lakshmee is adored. Thus purified and rendered full of purity and goodness, Knowledge flashes upon him like the brilliant rays of the sun upon the crystal waters of a perfectly calm lake. This is to be had in the final section of Nava-raatri in which Saraswatee is worshipped.
This arrangement has also a special significance in the aspirant’s spiritual evolution. It marks the stages of evolution which are indispensable for every seeker of spirituality, through which everyone should pass. One naturally leads to the other, and to short-circuit this would inevitably result in a miserable failure. Nowadays, many ignorant spiritual seekers aim straight at the appropriation of Knowledge without the preliminaries of purification and acquisition of divine qualities, and complain that they are not progressing in the path. How can they? Knowledge will not descend till the impurities are washed out and purity is developed. The pure and good plant can grow on no impure soil.
Therefore, Nava-raatri if observed as pointed out above brings man to realize his higher self and to feel the Supreme Spirit within— all of which helps in the journey of realizing the Ultimate Goal—to merge with the Supreme. There are two birds on the same tree. One is perched at the top and the other below. The bird which is sitting on the top is perfectly serene, silent and majestic at all times. It is ever blissful. The other bird, which is perching on the lower branches, eats the sweet and bitter fruits by turns. It dances in joy sometimes. It is miserable at other times. It rejoices now and weeps after some time. Sometimes it tastes an extremely bitter fruit and gets disgusted. It looks up and beholds the other wonderful bird with golden plumage which is ever blissful.
It also wishes to become like the bird with golden plumage, but soon forgets everything. Again it begins to eat the sweet and bitter fruits. It eats another fruit that is exceedingly bitter and feels very miserable. It again tries to become like the upper bird. Gradually, it abandons eating the fruits, and becomes serene and blissful like the upper bird.
The upper bird is God—the Supreme Spirit within. The lower bird is the individual who reaps the fruits of his deeds, viz., pleasure and pain. He gets knocks and blows in the battle of life. He rises up and again falls down as the senses drag him down. Gradually he develops dispassion and discrimination, turns his mind towards God, practices meditation, attains Self-realisation and enjoys the eternal bliss of God, which is the end goal of life. Nava-raatri must foster and help in meeting this end.
In essence, Nava-raatri is a call for spiritual awakening.
Pandit Charranlall Nandalall
Secretary of
Sanatan Vaidic Dharma Pandits’ Sabha, Region 3  

 

 

 

Why I Killed Gandhi by Nathuram Vinayak Godse- must read

this may be a repeat but read on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti

 

Subject: WHY I KILLED GANDHI by NATHURAM VINAYAK GODSE Gandhiji’s assassin, Nathuram Godse’s Final Address to the Court. WHY I KILLED GANDHI – Nathuram Godse’s Final Address to the Court. Nathuram Godse was arrested immediately after he assassinated Gandhiji, based on a F. I. R. filed by Nandlal Mehta at the Tughlak Road Police staton at Delhi . The trial, which was held in camera, began on May 27, 1948 and concluded on February 10, 1949. He was sentenced to death. An appeal to the Punjab High Court, then in session at Simla, did not find favour and the sentence was upheld. The statement that you are about to read is the last made by Godse before the Court on the May 5, 1949. Such was the power and eloquence of this statement that one of the judges, G. D. Khosla, later wrote, “I have, however, no doubt that had the audience of that day been constituted into a jury and entrusted with the task of deciding Godse’s appeal, they would have brought a verdict of ‘not Guilty’ by an overwhelming majority” WHY I KILLED GANDHI Born in a devotional Brahmin family, I instinctively came to revere Hindu religion, Hindu history and Hindu culture. I had, therefore, been intensely proud of Hinduism as a whole. As I grew up I developed a tendency to free thinking unfettered by any superstitious allegiance to any isms, political or religious. That is why I worked actively for the eradication of untouchability and the caste system based on birth alone. I openly joined RSS wing of anti-caste movements and maintained that all Hindus were of equal status as to rights, social and religious and should be considered high or low on merit alone and not through the accident of birth in a particular caste or profession. I used publicly to take part in organized anti-caste dinners in which thousands of Hindus, Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas, Chamars and Bhangis participated. We broke the caste rules and dined in the company of each other. I have read the speeches and writings of Ravana, Chanakiya, Dadabhai Naoroji, Vivekanand, Gokhale, Tilak, along with the books of ancient and modern history of India and some prominent countries like England , France , America and Russia . Moreover I studied the tenets of Socialism and Marxism. But above all I studied very closely whatever Veer Savarkar and Gandhiji had written and spoken, as to my mind these two ideologies have contributed more to the moulding of the thought and action of the Indian people during the last thirty years or so, than any other single factor has done. All this reading and thinking led me to believe it was my first duty to serve Hindudom and Hindus both as a patriot and as a world citizen. To secure the freedom and to safeguard the just interests of some thirty crores (300 million) of Hindus would automatically constitute the freedom and the well-being of all India , one fifth of human race. This conviction led me naturally to devote myself to the Hindu Sanghtanist ideology and programme, which alone, I came to believe, could win and preserve the national independence of Hindustan , my Motherland, and enable her to render true service to humanity as well. Since the year 1920, that is, after the demise of Lokamanya Tilak, Gandhiji’s influence in the Congress first increased and then became supreme. His activities for public awakening were phenomenal in their intensity and were reinforced by the slogan of truth and non-violence which he paraded ostentatiously before the country. No sensible or enlightened person could object to those slogans. In fact there is nothing new or original in them.. They are implicit in every constitutional public movement. But it is nothing but a mere dream if you imagine that the bulk of mankind is, or can ever become, capable of scrupulous adherence to these lofty principles in its normal life from day to day. In fact, honour, duty and love of one’s own kith and kin and country might often compel us to disregard non-violence and to use force. I could never conceive that an armed resistance to an aggression is unjust. I would consider it a religious and moral duty to resist and, if possible, to overpower such an enemy by use of force. [In the Ramayana] Rama killed Ravana in a tumultuous fight and relieved Sita.. [In the Mahabharata], Krishna killed Kansa to end his wickedness; and Arjuna had to fight and slay quite a number of his friends and relationsincluding the revered Bhishma because the latter was on the side of the aggressor. It is my firm belief that in dubbing Rama, Krishna and Arjuna as guilty of violence, the Mahatma betrayed a total ignorance of the springs of human action. In more recent history, it was the heroic fight put up by Chhatrapati Shivaji that first checked and eventually destroyed the Muslim tyranny in India . It was absolutely essentially for Shivaji to overpower and kill an aggressive Afzal Khan, failing which he would have lost his own life. In condemning history’s towering warriors like Shivaji, Rana Pratap and Guru Gobind Singh as misguided patriots, Gandhiji has merely exposed his self-conceit. He was, paradoxical as it may appear, a violent pacifist who brought untold calamities on the country in the name of truth and non-violence, while Rana Pratap, Shivaji and the Guru will remain enshrined in the hearts of their countrymen for ever for the freedom they brought to them. The accumulating provocation of thirty-two years, culminating in his last pro-Muslim fast, at last goaded me to the conclusion that the existence of Gandhi should be brought to an end immediately. Gandhi had done very good in South Africa to uphold the rights and well-being of the Indian community there. But when he finally returned to India he developed a subjective mentality under which he alone was to be the final judge of what was right or wrong. If the country wanted his leadership, it had to accept his infallibility; if it did not, he would stand aloof from the Congress and carry on his own way. Against such an attitude there can be no halfway house. Either Congress had to surrender its will to his and had to be content with playing second fiddle to all his eccentricity, whimsicality, metaphysics and primitive vision, or it had to carry on without him. He alone was the Judge of everyone and every thing; he was the master brain guiding the civil disobedience movement; no other could know the technique of that movement. He alone knew when to begin and when to withdraw it. The movement might succeed or fail, it might bring untold disaster and political reverses but that could make no difference to the Mahatma’s infallibility. ‘A Satyagrahi can never fail’ was his formula for declaring his own infallibility and nobody except himself knew what a Satyagrahi is. Thus, the Mahatma became the judge and jury in his own cause. These childish insanities and obstinacies, coupled with a most severe austerity of life, ceaseless work and lofty character made Gandhi formidable and irresistible. Many people thought that his politics were irrational but they had either to withdraw from the Congress or place their intelligence at his feet to do with as he liked. In a position of such absolute irresponsibility Gandhi was guilty of blunder after blunder, failure after failure, disaster after disaster. Gandhi’s pro-Muslim policy is blatantly in his perverse attitude on the question of the national language of India . It is quite obvious that Hindi has the most prior claim to be accepted as the premier language. In the beginning of his career in India , Gandhi gave a great impetus to Hindi but as he found that the Muslims did not like it, he became a champion of what is called Hindustani.. Everybody in India knows that there is no language called Hindustani; it has no grammar; it has no vocabulary. It is a mere dialect, it is spoken, but not written. It is a bastard tongue and cross-breed between Hindi and Urdu, and not even the Mahatma’s sophistry could make it popular. But in his desire to please the Muslims he insisted that Hindustani alone should be the national language of India . His blind followers, of course, supported him and the so-called hybrid language began to be used. The charm and purity of the Hindi language was to be prostituted to please the Muslims. All his experiments were at the expense of the Hindus. From August 1946 onwards the private armies of the Muslim League began a massacre of the Hindus. The then Viceroy, Lord Wavell, though distressed at what was happening, would not use his powers under the Government of India Act of 1935 to prevent the rape, murder and arson. The Hindu blood began to flow from Bengal to Karachi with some retaliation by the Hindus. The Interim Government formed in September was sabotaged by its Muslim League members right from its inception, but the more they became disloyal and treasonable to the government of which they were a part, the greater was Gandhi’s infatuation for them. Lord Wavell had to resign as he could not bring about a settlement and he was succeeded by Lord Mountbatten. King Log was followed by King Stork. The Congress which had boasted of its nationalism and socialism secretly accepted Pakistan literally at the point of the bayonet and abjectly surrendered to Jinnah. India was vivisected and one-third of the Indian territory became foreign land to us from August 15, 1947. Lord Mountbatten came to be described in Congress circles as the greatest Viceroy and Governor-General this country ever had. The official date for handing over power was fixed for June 30, 1948, but Mountbatten with his ruthless surgery gave us a gift of vivisected India ten months in advance. This is what Gandhi had achieved after thirty years of undisputed dictatorship and this is what Congress party calls ‘freedom’ and ‘peaceful transfer of power’. The Hindu-Muslim unity bubble was finally burst and a theocratic state was established with the consent of Nehru and his crowd and they have called ‘freedom won by them with sacrifice’ – whose sacrifice? When top leaders of Congress, with the consent of Gandhi, divided and tore the country – which we consider a deity of worship – my mind was filled with direful anger. One of the conditions imposed by Gandhi for his breaking of the fast unto death related to the mosques in Delhi occupied by the Hindu refugees. But when Hindus in Pakistan were subjected to violent attacks he did not so much as utter a single word to protest and censure the Pakistan Government or the Muslims concerned. Gandhi was shrewd enough to know that while undertaking a fast unto death, had he imposed for its break some condition on the Muslims in Pakistan , there would have been found hardly any Muslims who could have shown some grief if the fast had ended in his death. It was for this reason that he purposely avoided imposing any condition on the Muslims. He was fully aware of from the experience that Jinnah was not at all perturbed or influenced by his fast and the Muslim League hardly attached any value to the inner voice of Gandhi. Gandhi is being referred to as the Father of the Nation. But if that is so, he had failed his paternal duty inasmuch as he has acted very treacherously to the nation by his consenting to the partitioning of it. I stoutly maintain that Gandhi has failed in his duty. He has proved to be the Father of Pakistan. His inner-voice, his spiritual power and his doctrine of non-violence of which so much is made of, all crumbled before Jinnah’s iron will and proved to be powerless. Briefly speaking, I thought to myself and foresaw I shall be totally ruined, and the only thing I could expect from the people would be nothing but hatred and that I shall have lost all my honour, even more valuable than my life, if I were to kill Gandhiji. But at the same time I felt that the Indian politics in the absence of Gandhiji would surely be proved practical, able to retaliate, and would be powerful with armed forces. No doubt, my own future would be totally ruined, but the nation would be saved from the inroads of Pakistan . People may even call me and dub me as devoid of any sense or foolish, but the nation would be free to follow the course founded on the reason which I consider to be necessary for sound nation-building. After having fully considered the question, I took the final decision in the matter, but I did not speak about it to anyone whatsoever. I took courage in both my hands and I did fire the shots at Gandhiji on 30th January 1948, on the prayer-grounds of Birla House. I do say that my shots were fired at the person whose policy and action had brought rack and ruin and destruction to millions of Hindus. There was no legal machinery by which such an offender could be brought to book and for this reason I fired those fatal shots. I bear no ill will towards anyone individually but I do say that I had no respect for the present government owing to their policy which was unfairly favourable towards the Muslims. But at the same time I could clearly see that the policy was entirely due to the presence of Gandhi. I have to say with great regret that Prime Minister Nehru quite forgets that his preachings and deeds are at times at variances with each other when he talks about India as a secular state in season and out of season, because it is significant to note that Nehru has played a leading role in the establishment of the theocratic state of Pakistan, and his job was made easier by Gandhi’s persistent policy of appeasement towards the Muslims. I now stand before the court to accept the full share of my responsibility for what I have done and the judge would, of course, pass against me such orders of sentence as may be considered proper. But I would like to add that I do not desire any mercy to be shown to me, nor do I wish that anyone else should beg for mercy on my behalf. My confidence about the moral side of my action has not been shaken even by the criticism levelled against it on all sides. I have no doubt that honest writers of history will weigh my act and find the true value thereof some day in future.

குழந்தை வளர்ப்பு ஒரு கலை

 

“அப்ப எல்லாம் யாரு குழந்தைகளைப் பார்த்துகிட்டது? நாங்களேத்தான் வளர்ந்தோம். நாங்களே தான் சாப்பிட்டோம், நாங்களே தான் படிச்சோம். எங்கப்பாவுக்கு நாங்க என்ன வகுப்பு படிக்கிறோம்னு கூடத் தெரியாது. இப்ப இருக்கற பெத்தவங்க குழந்தைகளைப் பொத்திப் பொத்தி வளக்கறாங்க. கண்ணுல வெச்சி வளக்கறாங்கன்னு, அவங்க குழந்தைகளை வளர விடறதே இல்லை” என்ற ரீதியில் வயதானவர்கள் பேசுவதைக் கேட்கலாம்.

முன் எப்பொழுதைக் காட்டிலும் தற்போது குழந்தை வளர்ப்பில் அதிக கவனம் செலுத்தவேண்டிய அவசியமும் தேவையுமும் தான் என்ன? சுமார் முப்பது முதல் நாற்பது ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன்னர் சிறுவர்களின் வாழ்க்கை எப்படி இருந்தது? தினமும் பள்ளிக்குச் செல்வார்கள், பள்ளியிலே ஆட்டம் பாட்டம் விளையாட்டு, வீடு திரும்பியதும் வசதிக்கு ஏற்றாற் போல மாலை உணவு / தேநீர், புழுதி நிரம்பிய தெருக்களில் இரவு வரையில் விளையாட்டு,கொஞ்ச நேரப் படிப்பு, உறக்கம். வார இறுதிகளிலும் விடுமுறை நாட்களிலும் காலை வீட்டைவிட்டுக் கிளம்பினால் இரவு தான் திரும்பும் பழக்கம். மிகச் சில குடும்பங்களில் புத்தகம் வாசிக்க வைக்கும் பழக்கம். சொந்தக் காசிலே சிறுவர் புத்தகங்களை வாங்கும் பழக்கம். கூட்டுக் குடும்ப வாழ்க்கை என்பதால் ஒரே வீட்டில் நிறையப் பொடிசுகள் இருக்கும், பெரியவர்கள் இருப்பார்கள். ஒருவருக்கு ஒருவர் விட்டுக்கொடுத்தும், அன்பினைப் பொழிந்துகொண்டும் வாழ்ந்தனர்.

சரி, இதில் என்னென்ன நன்மைகளை நாம் இழந்துவிட்டோம்? மிக முக்கியமாக விளையாட்டுகளை நாம் பறிகொடுத்துவிட்டு நிற்கிறோம். கிராமப்புறங்களைத் தவிர்த்துத் தெருக்களில் சிறுவர்கள் புழுதிகளில் விளையாடுவது அரிதாகிவிட்டது. விளையட்டுகளுக்குப் பதிலாக மாணவர்களின் நேரம் தொலைக்காட்சியிலும், வீடியோ கேம்களிலும், டியூஷன்களிலும் சென்றுவிடுகின்றது.

விளையாட்டுகள் கொடுக்கும் உடலுறுதியும் மன உறுதியும் அசாத்தியமானது. நம் தாத்தா பாட்டிகள் போல வயதான காலத்திலும் உறுதியாக, திடமாக இருக்க முடியுமா என்பது சந்தேகமே. அதனை விட நம் குழந்தைகள் நிலைமையை நினைத்தால் அச்சமே மிஞ்சுகின்றது.

உளவியல் ரீதியாகவும் வெற்றி தோல்விகளைச் சரிசமமாகப் பாவிக்கும் மனநிலை பாதிக்கப்படுகின்றது. தோல்வியைக் கண்டால் ஓடி ஒளிந்துக் கொள்கின்றனர். கூட்டாக சிறுவர்கள் விளையாடும்போது ஏற்படும் நன்மைகள் ஏராளம். மற்ற குடும்பங்கள் பற்றிய அறிதல், விட்டுக்கொடுக்கும் பாங்கு, வெற்றி மற்றும் தோல்வி இரண்டையும் ருசிபார்த்தல் ஆகியவை சாதாரணமாக நிகழும்.

அடுத்தது, அந்நாட்களில் தொலைக்காட்சி குறைந்த நேரத்தையே எடுத்துக்கொண்டிருந்தது. நிகழ்ச்சிகளும் குறைவு, தொலைக்காட்சி பெட்டிகளும் குறைவு. ஆனால் இன்று இல்லம் தவறாமல் பெட்டி ஓடிக்கொண்டே இருக்கின்றது. பெரும் நேரத்தை இது விழுங்கிவிடுகின்றது. தொலைக்காட்சியில் நன்மைகள் இருந்தாலும் அதன் சதவிகிதம் மிகக்குறைவே. குழந்தைகள் தொலைக்காட்சியை அதிக நேரம் பார்க்காமல் இருக்க வைப்பது பெரும் போராட்டமே.

கல்வியைப் பற்றிய எதிர்ப்பார்ப்பிலும் பெரும் மாற்றம் நிகழ்ந்துள்ளது. தனது பிள்ளை பெரும் மதிப்பெண் பெற்றால் போதும் என்ற எண்ணம் ஆரம்ப பாடசாலையில் இருந்தே ஆரம்பித்துவிடுகின்றது. இதனால் இதர விஷயங்களில் குழந்தைகள் கவனம் செல்வதைப் பெற்றோர்கள் விரும்புவதில்லை. பாடம், படிப்பு, டியூஷன், மனப்பாடம், மதிப்பெண். இது போதும் என்ற மனநிலையில் உள்ளனர். இதனைத் தவிர, ஏராளமான கவனச்சிதறல்கள், எதிலும் நாட்டமில்லாமை ஆகியவை பெரும் கவலைக்கு உள்ளாக்கியுள்ளது.

சிதறிப்போன கூட்டுக்குடும்ப வாழ்கை நம் சிறுவர்களை வரும்காலத்தில் பாதிக்கலாம். பெரியவர்கள் பல விஷயங்களில் சமன் செய்தார்கள். உணவு முதற்கொண்டு கதை சொல்வது, கண்டித்து வளர்ப்பது என குழந்தை வளர்ப்பின் பெரும் பகுதிகளை அவர்கள் செய்துவந்தார்கள்.

இத்தகைய சூழலில் குழந்தை வளர்ப்பு கவனமும் முக்கியத்துவமும் பெறுகிறது. உடல் ரீதியாகவும், உலகமயமாக்கப்பட்ட சூழலும், நமக்குள் புகுந்துள்ள உணவு பழக்கம் தொடங்கி, குழந்தைகளை அணுகுதல், கல்வியை அணுகுதல், ஊடகங்களைப் பயன்படுத்துதல், உறவுகளைப் பேணுதல், குழந்தைகளுக்கான கதைச் சொல்லலின் அவசியம், தரமான நேரத்தை குழந்தைகளுடன் செலவழித்தல், விளையாட ஊக்கப்படுத்துதல், அதற்கான தளங்களை உருவாக்குதல், இன்னும் ஏராளமான விஷயங்களைக் குழந்தை வளர்ப்பின் அவசியத்தை உணர்த்துகின்றன.

நம்மிடம் காணக்கிடைக்கும் குழந்தை வளர்ப்பு கட்டுரைகளில் வெளிநாட்டு தரவுகளும் அவர்களின் குழந்தை வளர்ப்பு அணுகுமுறைகளுமே தென்படுகின்றது. நம் சூழல், நம் குடும்ப கட்டமைப்பு, நம் உணவுப் பழக்கம், நம் கல்விச்சூழல் எல்லாம் நமக்குத்தான் நன்கு விளங்கும். எல்லா குழந்தைகளும் ஒன்று, எல்லோர் உளவியலும் ஒன்று என்றாலும் இன்னபிற விஷயங்களை கணக்கில் எடுத்துக்கொள்ளாமல் நமக்கு கட்டுரைகள் வந்து சேர்கின்றன. அவைகளை நாம் எப்படி வழிகாட்டியாக எடுத்துக்கொள்ள முடியும்?

நம்மூர் பெற்றோர்கள் அவர்களின் சொந்த அனுபவங்களைச் சக பெற்றோர்களுடன் பகிரவேண்டும், அதற்கான தளங்களையும் அமைத்துக்கொள்ள வேண்டும். ஒவ்வொரு குழந்தையும் தனித்துவமானவர்கள், அவர்களுக்கான அணுகுமுறையை அந்தப் பெற்றோர்களே முடிவு செய்ய முடியும். மற்றவர்களின் அறிவுரைகளும் அனுபவங்களும் ஒரு வழிகாட்டி மட்டுமே. அதே வழிமுறை நம் குழந்தைக்கு ஒத்துவராமல் போகலாம்.

குழந்தை வளர்ப்பு ஒரு கலை. குழந்தை வளர்ப்பில் அழகிய சிக்கலே எந்த நேரத்தில் அவர்களைத் தோளில் சுமக்க வேண்டும், எப்போது அவர்கள் விரல் பிடித்துக் கூட நடக்க வேண்டும், எப்போது வழிகாட்டியாக முன்னே நடந்து செல்லவேண்டும், எப்போது அவர்களை முன்னே நடக்கவிட்டுப் பின்னே நாம் செல்லவேண்டும் என்று அறிந்து, புரிந்து நடப்பதே.

குழந்தை வளர்ப்பினை புரிந்து, குழந்தைமையைக் கொண்டாடி, ஆனந்தமான, வலுவான , செறிவான இளைய சமூகத்தைக் கட்டமைக்க முற்படுவோம்.

 

 

 

Senapith the Devotee par excellence

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A story of a devotee of LORD VISHNU. 

‘Work incessantly, but be not attached to the world’ is the teaching in Bhagavadgeetha. It conveys the precept that to achieve Jnana, one should not run away from his family ties or his earthly position, but he should be in the midst of samsara but should not be tied down to it or depressed by it. In one word he should be like a lotus leaf in water. Bhakta Senanapith stands as a true example of such a life.

Bhakta Senanaith was a barber in Avanthipur. He was born low but he had a great soul. He was blessed with Jnana, bhakti and Vairagya essential qualities required of man to seek moksha. He knew he should not turn out to be a sanyasi, but he should fulfil his duty properly. He had a perfect control over his indriyas, he was totally devoid of the temptations of any man, he had conquered the two evils that usurp man’s reasoning ability-bondage and egoism. He had established Lord Vittala in his heart and he had been performing manasik puja unto the Lord.

One day, it so happened that the Muslim king wanted to have his hair cut. So he sent for Senanaith. But at that time, Senanaith was cut off from the world, lost in his prayer to God. This staunch devotee was bathed in the waters of Santhi, wore the white dress symbolic of peace, decked himself with vairagya, cleaned the temple of heart, situated in the nine doored body, arranged it with the rangoli of vignana, seated Lakshmikanth on the asan of satya, lighted the lamps of compassion, equality and philanthropy, ‘Sravana, manana nidhi dhyanas’ as Arghya padyas offered his purified soul filled with jnana as mahaprasad, a selfless thought as tambula and a feeling of total surrender as harathi. He was thus engrossed in his prayer unifying body, mind and soul.

He was one with God thus when the king’s soldiers came to fetch him. His family members did not want to bring him down to the mundane world from his ecstatic world. So they said that he was away. Relatives are worse than fire. One relative thought it the best time to pull down the image of Senanaith in the eyes of the king. So he took the trouble of going to the king and conveying the message. This angred the king and he ordered the barber to be drowned in the sea.

Will the allmighty living in the heart of his disciple leave him to his fate ? No! He dressed himself as Senanapith, held a bag under his hand and presented himself before the king. The omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, all pervading God dressed himself as an untouchable to be a barber to a muslim ! Can anything be more surprising than this ? He was prepared to do hair cut to a muslim just as a lover stoops down to a low level to please his lady love.

The king’s anger cooled down at the sight of the Lord in the guise of Senanapith. The king and his followers were filled with a special love for the barber ! It’s but natural since it was not the lowly barber before him but the Almighty Himself ! God began the duty of the man he had donned ! He carried on the job of the barber with such a skill that the king was highly pleased with it. Then the servaid maids brought him scented oil in a large silver bowl to be applied to the king. The barber began to apply the oil to the king’s head ! How lucky the king was ! By the holy touch of the Lord, he was cleansed of his petty jealousies and was blessed with a pure heart. What more ! He could see the reflection of his barber in the oil bowl, not the regular face he knew, but the face of the Almighty. He saw him four armed. He was fully decked with various ornaments at his hands and the neck, with a diamond crown on his head, the heavenly sankha and chakra in two arms and with Abhayahasta with a broad chest the seat of Lakshmi devi, broad eyes and a pleasant smile on his face.

The king couldn’t believe his own eyes. He was lost to the world deriving pleasure out of the darshan he had of God until he was requested by his first assistant to have his bath. The king got up and addressed Senanapith – ‘You are so wonderful! I’ve never come across such a person like you. I’ll have my bath and food and come back. In the meanwhile, you too have your food and come back to me’ So saying, he gifted him with a handful of golden coins. God went to Senanapitha’s house, kept them in his cash bag and disappeared.

The king could not forget the godly image he had witnessed in the oil bowl. The feast he had that morning could not beat out the feast to his eyes, before that. He told his courtiers, ‘I have not come across such a pure heart. His leela appears unbelievable to me ! You fetch him to me once again.’

By the time the soldiers came to the house of senanapith, the latter got over ecstatic state and had become down to earth. He heard from his family members that the soldiers had come many times to fetch him.

Initially he was frightened about the anger he would have aroused in God, but his bhakti, vairagya dominated over his fears. He consoled himself thus- ‘Why should I worry ? If the Lord Brahma gets angry over his vahana – Swan, He may stop gong on it but can he deprive it of its innate tendency of separating water and milk ? Accordingly the king may deprive me of my earthly possessions, but can he raise his little finger against the Almighty seated on a throne in the kingdom of my heart ? God is omnipresent, in me, in the king in everything around. If that is the case why should I worry about the anger of the king ? When God is the director of human drama we play, why should we be disturbed over it ? Will the God who accepts my pooja make me suffer in the hands of the king ? God himself had donned the form of Panduranga and had given us these physical forms. A foolish man behaves wisely if he sits on the throne of Vikramaditya. The same way, I thought foolishly, for a second being born in karma bhoomi.’ Thus he drove the darkness of his ajnana through the light of jnana and proceeded on his way. He felt sorry for us human beings. Ironically we treat the real as unreal and unreal as real. The world we live in is maya, while the God who lives beyond it is real but being lost in this maya we don’t find the time or the need to chant the name of god. As if to teach us a lesson he was chanting Anantha, Vaikunta, mukunda, Krishna, Govinda, Damodara, Madhava on his way, The king was delighted to see him as the sunflower at the sight of sun, as the lotus at the sight of moon, the lover at the sight of his lady love. He prostrated before Senanapith and hailed him thus.

‘Oh great man ! I am sorry, I have treated you as lowly all along but today I had an awakening. I am thrilled at your ‘divya darsan’ in the oil bowl. Why don’t you show it to me once again ?’ So saying he sent for such a bowl once again. But no! he couldn’t be blessed for a second time. Senanapith could guess at once what had happened. He was moved to tears at the kindly act of God. ‘Oh Dayasindhu, Deenabandhu, oh Pundarikaksha ! have you come down to do such a menial task for a menial labourer like me ? You can create, sustain and destroy by a mere thought. Inspite of having such great powers have you done my job to display your warmth for me ?

The king too shed tears of joy when he heard that he had the darshan of God. The staunch devotion of Senanapith made him lucky. He could easily get the darshan. Senanaith said, ‘Oh king, you are very lucky. Your parents are blessed souls!’ He felt his bag was heavy and when he looked inside he saw the golden coins given into the Lord by the king. Senanaith cried again.

‘Oh my Lord ! what an irony ! You lord of Goddess Lakshmi are given a few gold coins for the menial job you have undertaken for mysake, your bhakta ! How can I praise your kind’ness and how can I ever express my gratitude to you ?’

Ever since then, the king became Senanapith’s disciple and they have been praying to God together.

Such is the greatness of true devotees of God. God blesses not only those who pray to him but also those who are associated with them.

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ஒளவையார் அருளிய விநாயகர் அகவல் (மூலமும் உரையும்)

Kumar Ramanathan

விநாயகர் அகவலும் பொதுவான பொருளும்:-

விநாயகர் அகவல் என்னும் நூல் ஔவைப் பிராட்டியாரால்அருளிச் செய்யப்பட்டது. இது தமிழ்ச் சைவர்களின் நித்திய பாராயண நூல்களில் ஒன்றாக விளங்குகின்றது. தமிழர்கள் கைக்கொண்டொழுகிய வழிபாட்டுநெறியோடு யோகநெறியையும் விளக்கியருளும் சிறப்பு வாய்ந்தது.

இக்கருத்துக்கள் சைவசித்தாந்தப் பேராசிரியர் திரு இரா.வையாபுரியார் அவர்கள் விநாயகர் அகவலுக்கு எழுதியுள்ள பேருரையினின்றும் திரட்டப் பட்டது.

‘சொல்லிய பாட்டின் பொருளுணர்ந்து சொல்லுவார் செல்வர், சிவபுரத்திலுள்ளார்’. விநாயகர் அகவலைப் பாராயணம் செய்யும்போது இப்பொருள்கள் நினைவுக்கு வந்து பாராயணத்தைப் பயனுடையதாக்கும்.

இந்நூல் 15ஆவது வரி ‘அற்புதம் நின்ற கற்பகக் களிறே’ என்று கூறுவதால் இந்நூலில் கூறப்படும் விநாயகப் பெருமானின் திரு நாமம் ‘கற்பக விநாயகர்’ என்பது.

அவர் தன் நிலையில்,

• சொல்லுக்கும் நினைவுக்கும் எட்டாதவர்.
• துரியநிலையில் இருப்பவர்.
• ஞானமே சொரூபமாக இருப்பவர்.

இது அவருடைய சொரூப நிலை அல்லது உண்மை நிலை எனப்படும். இது பரசிவமாக இருக்கும் நிலை.

ஞானமே சொரூபமாக உடைய பரசிவம் தன்னை அடியவர்கள் வழிபட்டு உய்வதற்காகவும் அடியவர்களுக்கு அருள் செய்வதற்காகவும் அற்புதமான வடிவம் கொண்டு காட்சிக்கும் நினைப்புக்கும் சொல்லுக்கும் எட்டுபவராக எளிவந்து அருளும். அத்தகைய அற்புதக் கோலங்களில் ஒன்று விநாயக வடிவம். ( அற்புதம் – அற்புதம் என்பது உலகில் எங்கும் காணப்படாது இயற்கைக்கு மாறாக நிகழ்வது. இது திருவருளால் மட்டுமே நிகழ்வது.)

அவ்வற்புத வடிவமானது:

• தாமரை மலர்போன்ற மென்மையும் அழகும் மலர்ச்சியும் உடைய திருவடிகள்.
• அத்திருவடிகளில் இனிய ஒலியெழுப்பும் சிலம்பு.
• பொன்னரைஞாண்.
• அழகிய பட்டாடை அணிந்த இடுப்பு
• பேழை (பெட்டி) போன்ற வயிறு.
• பெரிய வலிமை மிக்க தந்தம்.
• யானைமுகம்.
• முகத்தில் அணிந்த சிந்தூரம்.
• ஐந்துகைகள்.
• அங்குசம், பாசம் என்னும் ஆயுதங்கள்.
• நீலமேனி (நீலம் – கருமை)
• தொங்குகின்ற வாய்.
• நான்கு தோள்.
• மூன்று கண்.
• கன்னத்தில் மதநீர் வடிந்த சுவடு.
• இருபெரிய செவிகள்.
• பொற்கிரீடம்
• பூணூல் புரள்கின்ற மார்பு.

இது குணங்குறி அற்ற பரசிவம் உயிர்களுக்கு அருளும் பொருட்டு மேற்கொள்ளும் வடிவங்களுள் ஒன்று. அதனால் தடத்த வடிவம் அல்லது தடத்த நிலை எனப்படும். இறைவடிவங்களைத் தரிசித்துத் தொழும்போது திருவடியிலிருந்து தொடங்கி உச்சிவரைக் கண்டு திருமேனியில் விழியைப் பதித்தல் முறை. திருவடி என்பது திருவருள். திருவருளால் இக்காட்சி நடைபெறுகின்றது என்பது பொருள்.

• அவருக்கு நிவேதனப் பொருள்கள் முப்பழம்.
• ஊர்தி மூஷிகம்
• அவர் தன்னை வழிபடும் அடியவர்களுக்குத் தாய்போன்ற அன்புடையவர்.
• எப்பொழுதும் அடியவர்களைப் பிரியாமல், அவர்களுடைய அறிவுக்கு அறிவாய், அறிவினுள்ளே இருந்து அவர்களுக்கு வாழ்வில் வழிகாட்டுவார்.
• அடியவர்களுக்குப் பக்குவம் வந்த காலத்தில் குருவடிவாக வெளிப்பட்டு வந்து, முன் நின்று தீக்கை செய்து உண்மை ஞானம் புகட்டுவார்.
• அடியவர்களை யோகநெறியிலும் ஞானநெறியிலும் நிற்கச் செய்வார்.
• ஆணவம், கன்மம், மாயை என்னும் மும்மலப் பிணிப்பிலிருந்து விடுபடச் செய்வார்
• நின்மல அவத்தை (அருளுடன் கூடிநிற்கும் நிலை) யில் நிற்கச் செய்வார்.
• அளவில்லாத ஆனந்த அனுபவம் விரியச் செய்வார்.
• இறுதியில் தன்னைப்போலத் தன் அடியவர்களையும் என்றும் மாறாத அழியாத நிலையில் (தத்துவநிலை) நிற்கச் செய்வார்.

விநாயகப் பெருமான் உணர்த்தும் ஞானநெறி

• குருவாக வந்து தீக்கை அருளுகின்றார்

• இதுவரையிலும் அவ்வுயிர் செத்துப் பிறந்து உழல்வதற்குக் காரணமான மயக்க அறிவைப் போக்குகின்றார்.

• திருவைந்தெழுத்தை (‚ பஞ்சாக்கரம்) நெஞ்சில் பதிவிக்கின்றார்.

• உள்ளத்தில் வெளிப்பட்டு விளங்கி நிற்கின்றார்.

• பதி, பசு, பாசம் எனும் அனாதியான முப்பொருள்களின் இயல்பினை விளக்கி உரைக்கின்றார். சஞ்சிதம் எனும் பழவினையைப் போக்குகின்றார். ஞானோபதேசம் செய்கின்றார்.

• உபதேசித்த ஞானப்பொருளில் ஐயம், திரிபு ஆகியன நேரிடாமல் தெளிந்த உணர்வு உண்டாமாறு அருளுகின்றார்.

• ஐம்புலன்கள் விடயங்களை நோக்கி ஓடி விருப்பு வெறுப்புக் கொண்டு துன்புறாதபடி புலனடக்கம் உண்டாவதற்குரிய வழியினைக் காட்டியருளுகின்றார்.

• உடம்பில் உள்ள தத்துவக் கருவிகள் எவ்வாறு ஒடுங்குகின்றன என்பதை அறிவிக்கின்றார்.

• பிராரத்த வினை தாக்காதவாறு காப்பாற்றுகின்றார்.

• ஆணவம லத்தால் வரும் துன்பத்தைப் போக்குகின்றார்.

• ஆன்மாவை நின்மல நிலைக்கு உயர்த்தி நின்மலதுரியம் நின்மலதுரியாதீதம் என்னும் நிலைகளில் திருவருளுடனும் சிவத்துடனும் கலந்து நிற்கச் செய்கின்றார்.

குருவாக வந்த விநாயகப் பெருமான் இவ்வாறு ஞானநெறியை அருளி, இந்த ஞானநெறியில் நெகிழ்ந்து விடாது உறுதியாய் நிற்பதற்குரிய யோகநெறியினையும் அறிவித்தருளுகின்றார்.

• ஒன்பது வாயில்களை உடைய உடம்பில் உள்ள ஐம்புலன்கள் ஆகிய கதவுகளை அடைத்து மனம் உள்ளே (அகமுகப்பட்டு) நிற்கச் செய்கிறார்.

• இதனால் ஆதாரயோகம் மேற்கொள்ளும் முறையினைத் தெளிவிக்கின்றார்.

• மவுனசமாதி நிலையினை அடையச் செய்கின்றார்.

• இடநாடி, வலநாடி, சுழுமுனா நாடி என்னும் நாடிகளின் வழியாய் மூச்சுக்காற்று இயங்கும் முறையினைத் தெரிவிக்கின்றார்.

• சுழுமுனா நாடி மூலாதாரத்திலிருந்து கபாலம் வரையிலும் (தலையுச்சி) சென்று நிற்கும் நிலையினைத் தெரிவிக்கின்றார்.

• அவ்வாறு செல்லும் வழியில் உள்ள அக்கினி மண்டலம், சூரிய மண்டலம், சந்திர மண்டலம் என்னும் பகுதிகளின் இயல்பைத் தெரிவிக்கின்றார்.

• மூலாதாரத்தில் உள்ள ஹம்ச மந்திரம், குண்டலினி சத்தி, பிரணவ மந்திரம் என்பனவற்றின் இயல்பினைத் தெரிவிக்கின்றார்.

• இடகலை, பிங்கலை என்னும் மூச்சுக்காற்ரினால் குண்டலினி என்னும் சத்தியை எழுப்பிச் சுழுமுனைநாடி வழியாக மேலே கபாலம் வரையிலும் பிரணவமந்திரத்துடன் ஏற்றும் முறையினையும் தெரிவிக்கின்றார்.

• இவ்வகையில் பிரணவமந்திரம் பலகலைக்களாகப் பிரிக்கப்பட்டு, (மூன்று, ஐந்து, பன்னிரண்டு, பதினாறு) உடம்பில் அங்கங்கே நிறுத்தித் தியானிக்கப்படுவதாகிய பிராசாத யோகம் என்னும் நெறியினையும் கற்பிக்கின்றார்.

• இப்பிராசாத யோகத்தினால் ஆன்மா பிரமரந்திரம் (தலையுச்சி) என்னும் இடத்தையும் கடந்து மேலே துவாதசாந்தப் பெருவெளி என்னும் இடம்வரையிலும் சென்று சிவத்துடன் கலந்து நின்று சிவானந்தம் அனுபவிக்கச் செய்கின்றார்.

• இவ்வாறு ஆறாதார யோகம், அட்டாங்க யோகம், பிராசாத யோகம் என்னும் முறைகளில் நிற்கச் செய்து மனோலயம் அடையச் செய்கின்றார்.

• இதனால் உண்டாகும் அகக் காட்சியினால் ஆன்மாவின் இயல்பு, உடம்பின் இயல்பு, மாயாமலம் கன்மமலம் ஆணவமலம் என்பனவற்றின் உண்மையியல்பு ஆகியவற்றை அறிய வைக்கின்றார்.

• சப்தப்பிரபஞ்சம் (ஒலியுலகம்) அர்த்தப்பிரபஞ்சம்(பொருளுலகம்) என்பனவற்றினியல்பையும் அவற்றில் பரம்பொருள் சிவலிங்கரூபமாகக் கலந்திருக்கும் முறையினையும் அறியச் செய்கிறார்.

• இத்தகைய பரம்பொருள் மிகச் சிறிய பொருள்களுக்கெல்லாம் மிகச் சிறியதாகவும், மிகப் பெரிய பொருள்களுக்கெல்லாம் மிகப் பெரிய பொருளாகவும் இருக்கும் நிலையை உணரச் செய்கின்றார்.

• இத்தகைய பரம்பொருள்சை உலகவாழ்வில் இருந்துகொண்டே அறிவதும் அப்பொருளுடன் கலந்து ஆனந்தம் அனுபவிப்பதும் கரும்பினைக் கணுக்கணுவாகச் சுவைத்துச் செல்லும் அனுபவம் போன்றது.

• இந்த அனுபவம் நீடித்திருக்கத் திருநீறு உருத்திராக்கம் முதலிய சிவசின்னங்களை அணிய வேண்டும்.
• அவற்றையும் அவற்றை அணிந்துள்ள அடியார்களையும் சிவமெனவே கண்டு வழிபடுதல் வேண்டும்.

• எப்பொழுதும் அடியார் கூட்டத்துடன் கலந்திருத்தல் வேண்டும்.

• திருவைந்தெழுத்து மந்திர செபத்தைக் கைவிடலாகாது.

இவ்வாறு விநாயகப் பெருமான் பக்குவமுடைய ஆன்மாவுக்கு ஞானோபதேசம் செய்து ஞானநெறியிலும் யோகநெறியிலும் நிற்கச் செய்து இவ்வுலகிலேயே சீவன்முத்தனாக இருந்து சிவானந்தம் அனுபவிக்கும் நிலையினையும் தந்து, அவ்வான்மா சிவத்தைப் போலென்றும் ஒரேதன்மையுடையதாய் இருக்கும் நிலையினை அடையச் செய்கிறார். அந்நிலையிலிருந்து அவ்வான்மா தன்னைவிட்டு நீங்காமல் தனக்கே அடிமையாய் இருக்கும் நிலைமையினையும் விநாயப் பெருமான் அருளுகின்றார் என்னும் அரிய செய்திகளை விநாயகர் அகவல் என்னும் இந்த நூல் கூறுகின்றார்.

ஒளவையார் அருளிய விநாயகர் அகவல் (மூலமும் உரையும்): அட்டாங்கயோகம், பிராசாத யோகம்.

 

“இன்னா செய்தாரை ஒறுத்தல் அவர் நாண நன்னயம் செய்துவிடல்”

• ஒரு கோவில் மண்டபத்தில் ஆன்மீகச் சொற்பொழிவாற்றிக் கொண்டிருந்த துறவியின் பேச்சுப் பிடிக்காமல், ஒருவன் ஒரு கல்லை அவர்மீது வீசினான், அக்கல் துறவியின் தலையில் பட்டுக் காயத்தை ஏற்படுத்தியது. துறவியின் துன்பத்தைக் கண்ட மற்ற பக்தர்கள், எழுந்து ஓடி, அந்த இளைஞனைப் பிடித்துத் தாக்கத் துவங்கினர்.

  அதைக் கண்ட துறவி, அவனை அடிக்க வேண்டாம், அவனைத் தன்னிடம் அழைத்து வருமாறும் சைகை செய்தார்.

  அவரது சொற்களுக்கு இணங்கிய பக்தர்கள், இளைஞனை மேடைக்கு இழுத்துச் சென்றார்கள். பயத்தோடு நின்ற அவனைப் பார்த்துச் சிரித்துக்கொண்டே துறவி, அருகில் வைக்கப் பட்டிருந்த தட்டிலிருந்த மாம்பழம் ஒன்றை எடுத்து அவனிடம் நீட்டினார், அவன் பயத்துடன் தயங்கினான். “அவனைத் தண்டிக்காமல் அவனுக்குப் பழம் தருகிறீர்களே சுவாமி….” என்று பக்தர்கள் கூச்சலிட்டார்கள். அவர்களை அமைதிப்படுத்திய துறவி, கூட்டத்தினரைப் பார்த்துக் கூறினார்:

  “ஓரறிவு உடைய மரமானது தன்மீது கல் எறிபவனுக்கு பழத்தைத் தருகிறது. ஆறறிவு உடைய நான், எனக்குத் துன்பம் செய்தவனுக்கு ஏதேனும் நன்மை செய்யவேண்டாமா?”

  துறவி கூறியதைக் கேட்டவுடன் அவர் பாதங்களில் தடால் என்று விழுந்து அழுதான் அந்த இளைஞன்.

  குறள்: 314
  “இன்னா செய்தாரை ஒறுத்தல் அவர்
  நாண நன்னயம் செய்துவிடல்”
  மு.வ உரை:
  இன்னா செய்தவரைத் தண்டித்தல் அவரே நாணும் படியாக அவருக்கு நல்லுதவி செய்து அவருடைய தீமையையும் நன்மையையும் மறந்து விடுதலாகும்.
  Translation:
  To punish wrong, with kindly benefits the doers ply;
  Thus shame their souls; but pass the ill unheeded by.
  Explanation:
  The (proper) punishment to those who have done evil (to you), is to put them to shame by showing them kindness, in return and to forget both the evil and the good done on both sides.

  

  ஒரு கோவில் மண்டபத்தில் ஆன்மீகச் சொற்பொழிவாற்றிக் கொண்டிருந்த துறவியின் பேச்சுப் பிடிக்காமல், ஒருவன் ஒரு கல்லை அவர்மீது வீசினான், அக்கல் துறவியின் தலையில் பட்டுக் காயத்தை ஏற்படுத்தியது. துறவியின் துன்பத்தைக் கண்ட மற்ற பக்தர்கள், எழுந்து ஓடி, அந்த இளைஞனைப் பிடித்துத் தாக்கத் துவங்கினர்.

  அதைக் கண்ட துறவி, அவனை அடிக்க வேண்டாம், அவனைத் தன்னிடம் அழைத்து வருமாறும் சைகை செய்தார்.

  அவரது சொற்களுக்கு இணங்கிய பக்தர்கள், இளைஞனை மேடைக்கு இழுத்துச் சென்றார்கள். பயத்தோடு நின்ற அவனைப் பார்த்துச் சிரித்துக்கொண்டே துறவி, அருகில் வைக்கப் பட்டிருந்த தட்டிலிருந்த மாம்பழம் ஒன்றை எடுத்து அவனிடம் நீட்டினார், அவன் பயத்துடன் தயங்கினான். “அவனைத் தண்டிக்காமல் அவனுக்குப் பழம் தருகிறீர்களே சுவாமி….” என்று பக்தர்கள் கூச்சலிட்டார்கள். அவர்களை அமைதிப்படுத்திய துறவி, கூட்டத்தினரைப் பார்த்துக் கூறினார்:

  “ஓரறிவு உடைய மரமானது தன்மீது கல் எறிபவனுக்கு பழத்தைத் தருகிறது. ஆறறிவு உடைய நான், எனக்குத் துன்பம் செய்தவனுக்கு ஏதேனும் நன்மை செய்யவேண்டாமா?”

  துறவி கூறியதைக் கேட்டவுடன் அவர் பாதங்களில் தடால் என்று விழுந்து அழுதான் அந்த இளைஞன்.

  குறள்: 314
  “இன்னா செய்தாரை ஒறுத்தல் அவர்
  நாண நன்னயம் செய்துவிடல்”
  மு.வ உரை:
  இன்னா செய்தவரைத் தண்டித்தல் அவரே நாணும் படியாக அவருக்கு நல்லுதவி செய்து அவருடைய தீமையையும் நன்மையையும் மறந்து விடுதலாகும்.
  Translation:
  To punish wrong, with kindly benefits the doers ply;
  Thus shame their souls; but pass the ill unheeded by.
  Explanation:
  The (proper) punishment to those who have done evil (to you), is to put them to shame by showing them kindness, in return and to forget both the evil and the good done on both sides.

Why MODIfied India will give jitters to alienated Bharatwasis?

Subject: Why MODIfied India will give jitters to alienated Bharatwasis?

Modi: Enemy at the Gates

Modi has arrived and arrived in style, notwithstanding the bombastic resistance from the Congress and their paid agents in the BJP and Media. Delhi is finally on NaMo’s radar and his troops can see the domes of South Block, which he will hopefully occupy by May 2014, if not earlier.

The political career of the senior BJP leadership is over. They did not see the writing on the wall and have now been removed by their cadres. The BJP President, Rajnath Singh, handled it well, but in hindsight, his efforts were completely unnecessary. The lesson for the future is to let the leadership come out through open internal elections where the village, district and the state level leaders vote. Had there been a contest to choose the PM candidate, it is evident that Modi would have easily vanquished the rest. Unanimity is not required. This is true democracy.

The Congress is notably jittery. During Modi’s recent visit to Jaipur, the Rajasthan CM had the electric supplies shut so that the village folk did not see the live telecast. Their impending doom will now translate into incoherent actions. Where in the world has anyone ever heard of an opposition leader, who is only a state CM, being discussed thoroughly be it TV, print media, cocktail circuits, vegetable vendors, taxi drivers etc. NaMo is taking away 80% of their time. Nobody wastes time on the ruling dispensation. Does anybody even discuss MMS, PC, SG, RG etc? The discussions on them are generally negative and the junta only wants to know if they are likely to go to jail.

From the Aam Admi’s point of view, NaMo had made an important statement on a Zee TV program “Kahiye Janab”. He stated: “*Na mein kahta hoon, na kisi ko kahne deta hoon*”. No wonder, the levels of corruption in Gujarat is comparable to that of Singapore.

Modi at the gates of Delhi augurs well for the Indian State.
a) Sycophancy and nepotism will soon be an era of the past.
b) Good bye to vote bank politics.
c) Bureaucrats will fall in line.
d) NGOs who operate from garages of Lutyens Delhi will have to move to safe havens in Congress ruled states.
e) Many newspapers will die. The advertising budget in Gujarat was reduced by 80%.
Expect the same by the Modi Government.
f) The Armed Forces will get their much cherished “Political Control”. Issues will be solved pronto before
any soldier can say “Jack Robinson”.
g) Along with Swamy and Jethmalani, most of the black money stowed abroad will be brought back. The Rupee will challenge the Dollar.
h) NO Income Tax as per Swamy’s statement.
i) Terrorists will now have a “maut ka saudagar”. The Congress has made India the most dangerous country after Iraq and Afghanistan.
j) The Pakis and Chinese may have already gone into a huddle.
k) Modi has a good memory. The Americans had better watch out.
l) J&K will finally be Indian Territory. Enough of Article 70.

An eminent General recently wrote an article “Death of Politics”. I disagree. Modi will bring in clean politics. He has no dependents or damaad to speak of. A bright future awaits a *Modi*fied India.

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Lets us work and make our…
Government – Proactive
Media – Reactive
Political Parties – Elective
Voters – Selective
Crowds – Constructive
Youth – Creative

MMS, the closet spiritualist

The widely respected economist and scholar has been credited with heralding a new era of economic liberalisation in India with his laissez-faire policy. Yet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been at the receiving end of late. Criticisms include use of adjectives like “ineffective”, “pusillanimous” and “understated” to “spineless” and “puppet PM.”

“It astonishes me that Manmohan Singh should talk so little and be so barely visible that we might be forgiven for thinking thatIndia has an imaginary Prime Minister,” wrote a celebrity-journalist in his blog a few months ago.

It is difficult to believe that the architect of India’s laissez-faire could be all that vulnerable, naive or “imaginary”. The non-committal, non-controversial and understated disposition that characterises the gentleman could be a veneer that conceals a far more evolved and enlightened approach towards his duties and responsibilities – in the current situation, as prime minister – that enables him to navigate life without much ado.

In a speech he gave at a public conclave held in the Capital, Manmohan Singh said: “I do not want India to be a super power; I just want India to stand in the comity of nations.” So he doesn’t seem to display any signs of being power-needy.

Perhaps he has no dark side, then. Manmohan Singh could, in all likelihood, be an advanced spiritualist who perceives himself as having absolutely no stake – neither in the country, in the species nor in the planet! He also shows great resilience in adverse situations, whether in a political, social or economic exigency. To be detached like a yogi even while living among fellow beings in the rough and tumble of politics and economics is no easy task. Guru Nanak described such a one as ‘raj mein jog’ – that is, the one who can achieve enlightenment in civic life. He also said: “The lotus in the water is not wet / Nor the water-fowl in the stream. / If a man would live, but by the world untouched, / Meditate and repeat the name of the Lord Supreme.”

Extolling the attributes of the one who has cultivated studied non-attachment to highs and lows, Guru Tegh Bahadur sang thus: “…He who has neither gluttony in his heart / Nor vanity nor attachment with worldly things, / He whom nothing moves, / Neither good fortune nor ill, / Who cares not for the world’s applause, / Nor its censure, / Who ignores every wishful fantasy / And accepts what comes his way as it comes… / He knows the righteous path…”

Some might conclude that Manmohan Singh’s proclivity for remaining a ‘Nirlep Narayan’ makes him out to be one without a stake and therefore he has nothing to win or lose. If he makes promises, they’re bound to be ones that concern issues that would get resolved if not now, later and if not later, even later, perhaps… or not.

It might not be in order to compare Manmohan Singh with King Janaka, who is the only one Krishna praises in the Bhagwad Gita for having transcended everything even while administering a kingdom. However, there are tantalizing similarities between the PM’s studied ‘indifference’ and the non-attachment and transcendence of someone like Janaka, that leads one to conclude that Manmohan Singh is laissez-faire by nature, in the spiritual sense.

How will all this pan out if Manmohan Singh and his party lose the next round of elections? He might just quote from the Ashtavakra Gita: “From one lifetime to another, kingdoms, sons, wives, appearances and pleasures to which you were attached have been lost… For innumerable births have you undertaken work, painful and exacting, with your body, mind and speech. Hence find rest at least now.”

 

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Narayani Ganesh is a senior editor with The Times of India. She writes on issues concerning the environment, science and technology, travel and tourism, heritage, philosophy, and health. She edits The Speaking Tree Sunday newspaper and daily column of that name, and is a leader writer with the Times of India opinion pages.

 

ways to make your Parents Happy

The parents now a days are quite worried about the behavioral changes in their children due to several socio-economical reasons. The gap between parents and�us, the youth,�is increasing day by day due to which the family bonding is getting weaker and weaker.�We, the youth, want liberty in every deed we do. We want our parents�not to be disturb�us in what-ever�we do�in what-so-ever manner.�We have�forgotten the amount of time�our parents have invested in for�our brought up.�We have forgotten the countless efforts and sacrifices by�our parents throughout our lives.�

Starting from our birth they have taken care of our food (  years * 365 days * 3 times = 24000 times!), our clothes (daily washing, ironing, new purchasing), our education (daily home works, uniform, school/tuition fee), religious moral teaching every day (THE REAL GREAT JOB), computer toys purchasing and God knows how many other countless efforts they have put in to make us a complete human being�to survive in this world. Indeed, all those efforts�cannot be covered in this article but the overall emphasis is that its our moral and�religious�mandatory responsibility�to take care of them now.

Below are some small�acts of kindness which I request you to consider to show your affection with them and to take care of them:

1. Give them enough money so that they don’t have to ask you.
2. Share funny and entertaining things with them to make them laugh or smile.
3. Don’t speak loudly. Speak slowly, nicely�and softly.
4. Do not walk in front of them in market or anywhere. They might walk slow being old; stay behind them. Give them respect.
5. Ask for small tasks again and again. For example, “Abou Jee, do you need water? Should i bring tea for you? Are you hungry, baba” etc�
6. Closely monitor thier health. visit doctor if required. Have them thorougly checked time to time.
7. Take care of their medicines. Set reminders on your phone for their medicines and�serve them on time.
8. Take them to the mosque. Walk slowly. Follow their pace.
9. Take them to the park�for walk. If not possible daily, then take them on weekend.
10. Do not call them by their name. Call them with respect.
11. Open the door for them with respect
12. Adapt yourself according to�their�schedule not vise versa.
13. Do shopping for them (buy their clothes, shoes, small items like tooth paste).� Buy your mother a nice coffee cup. Take them to market and buy them according to their likings. Buy your parents some nice books; usually people love to read books in old age.
14. When you come back to home, visit them first in their room.
15. Respect thier social circle and let them enjoy with their friends.� Article written by Junaid.Tahir
16. In case of conflict on any issue, try to follow them as much as possible. Remember, they have been sacrificing their money and time in raising you for years and years. Its time to pay back. They have been showing all the patience during your childhood. Its time for you to be patient.
17. Keep them with you instead of sending them�to old houses etc. This will be a big act of ignorance if you do.
18. When starting the food, serve them first.

In the end, I would recommend�making a check list of this email and and paste it on any wall in your room or kitchen and read it often to remember

Please do share if you are doing any other good thing in making your parents feel great 🙂

 

Bond of love

My wife called, ‘How long will you be poring over that newspaper? 
Will you come here and make your darling daughter eat her food?’ 
I tossed the paper away and rushed to the scene. 
My only daughter Sindu looked frightened.
Tears were welling up in her eyes. In front of her was a bowl filled to its brim with Curd Rice.
Sindu is a nice child, quite intelligent for  her age. She has just turned eight. 
She particularly detested Curd Rice. My mother and my wife are orthodox, 
and believe firmly in the ‘coolingeffects’ of Curd Rice! I cleared my throat,
and picked up the bowl. ‘Sindu, darling, why don’t you take 
a few mouthful of this Curd Rice?Just for Dad’s sake, dear. And, if you don’t, 
your Mom will shout at me’I could sense my wife’s scowl behind my back.
Sindu softened a bit, and  wiped her tears with the back of her hands. 
‘OK, Dad. I will eat – not  just a few mouthfuls, but the whole lotof this. 
But, you should…’ Sindu  hesitated. 
‘Dad, if I eat this entire curd Rice, will you give me whatever I ask for?’
 

 
‘Oh sure, darling’. 

 
‘Promise?’
 
‘Promise’.


I covered the pink soft hand extended by my daughter with mine, 
and clinched the deal. ‘Ask Mom also to give a similar promise’,
my daughter insisted. My wife slapped her hand on Sindu’s, 
muttering ‘Promise’, without any emotion.

 
Now I became a bit anxious. ‘Sindu dear, 
you shouldn’t insist on getting a computer or any such expensive items.
Dad does not  havethat 

kind of money right now. OK?’


‘No, Dad. I do not want anything expensive’.

 
Slowly and painfully, she finished eating the whole quantity. 
I was silently angry with my wife and my mother fo 
r forcing my child eat something that she detested. 
After the ordeal was through, Sindu came to  me with her eyes wide with expectation.
All our attention was on her.
 
‘Dad, I want to have my head shaved off, this Sunday!’ was her demand.

 
‘Atrocious!’ shouted my wife, ‘A girl child having her head  shaved off?
Impossible!’

‘Never in our family!’ my mother rasped. 
‘She has been watching too much of television.
Our culture is getting totally spoiled  with these TV programs!’ 
  
‘Sindu darling, why don’t you ask for something else?
We will be sad seeing you with a clean-shaven head.’ 
 
‘No, Dad. I do  not want anything else’, Sindu said with finality. 
 
‘Please, Sindu, why don’t you try to understand our feelings?’ I tried to plead with her. 
 
‘Dad, you saw how difficult it was for me to eat that Curd Rice’.  Sindu was in tears. 
 
‘And you promised to grant me whatever I ask for. 
Now, you are going back on your words. 
Was it not you who told me the story of  King Harishchandra,
and its moral that we should honor our promises no matter what?’ 
 
It was time for me to call the shots. ‘Our promise must be kept.’ 
 
‘Are you out your mind?’ chorused my mother and wife.


 
‘No.  If we go back on our promises, she will never learn to honor her own.

Sindu, your wish will be fulfilled.’


With her head clean-shaven, Sindu had a round-face, and her eyes looked big and beautiful.

On Monday morning, I dropped her at her school.
It was a sight to watch my hairless Sindu walking  towards her classroom. 
She turned around and waved.

 
I waved back with a smile.


Just then, a boy alighted from a car, and shouted, ‘Sinduja, please wait for me!’ 
 
What struck me was the hairless head of that boy.   
‘May be, that is the in-stuff’, I thought.
 
‘Sir, your daughter Sinduja is  great indeed!’
Without introducing herself, a lady got out of the car, 
and continued,’ That boy who is walking along with your daughter is my son Harish.

 
He is suffering from… … leukemia.’ She paused to muffle her sobs.


 
‘Harish could not attend the school for the whole of the last month. 

He lost all his hair due to the side effects of the chemotherapy.
He refused to come back to school fearing the unintentional but cruel 

teasing of the schoolmates.’

 
Sinduja visited him last week, and promised him that she will take care of the teasing issue.

 
But, I never imagined she would sacrifice her lovely hair for the sake of my son! 
 
Sir, you and your wife are blessed to have such a noble soul as your daughter.’ 
 
I stood transfixed.  And then, I wept.
‘My little Angel, you are teaching me how self-less real love  is!’

 
*The happiest people on this planet are not those who live on
their own terms but are those who change their terms for the ones whom they love 

யோசனைகள் … யோசனைகள் … யோசனைகள் …

யோசனைகள் … யோசனைகள் … யோசனைகள் …
By – சீதாலக்ஷ்மி, கொச்சி
(நண்பர்களே காபி செய்து கொள்ளுங்கள்)

குளியலறையில் பற்பசை, சோப்பு போன்றவை திறந்திருந்தால் கிருமித் தொற்று ஏற்படும். எலி, பல்லியின் சிறுநீர் அதில் பட்டு நோய்கள் பரவும் ஆபத்து உள்ளது. எனவே அவற்றை சோம்பல்படாமல் மூடி வைக்க வேண்டும்.

மார்க்கெட்டில் வெட்டுப்பட்ட பழங்களோ, காய்கறிகளோ வாங்கக் கூடாது. அதன் வழியாக கிருமிகள் உட்புகுந்திருக்கும் என்பதால் நோய்கள் வர வாய்ப்புண்டு.

பள்ளிக்குழந்தைகளின் லஞ்ச் பாக்ஸில் வைக்கும் அயிட்டங்களை ருசி பார்த்துவிட்டு பேக் செய்வது நல்லது. அவசரத்தில் உப்பு, காரம் கூடுதலாகவோ, குறைவாகவோ இருக்கலாம். அதைச் சரி செய்து அனுப்பினால் குழந்தைகள் வயிறாரச் சாப்பிடுவார்கள். நமக்கும் திருப்தி.

டிவி ரிமோட், கடிகாரம், கேமராவுக்கு அடிக்கடி பாட்டரி வாங்குகிறோம். அப்படி வாங்கி மாற்றும்போது பழைய பாட்டரிகளைக் கவனக் குறைவாக புதிய பாட்டரிகளுடன் கலந்து வைத்துவிட்டு சிறிது நேரம் குழம்புவோம். இதைத் தவிர்க்க ஒவ்வொரு முறை வாங்கும் போதும், பேட்டரியின் கம்பெனியை மாற்றி விட்டால் குழப்பம் வராது.

வேலைக்குச் செல்லும் இல்லத்தரசிகள் விடுமுறை நாட்களில் மிளகு, சீரகம், சோம்பு, கறிவேப்பிலை ஆகியவற்றை மிக்ஸியில் பொடியாக அரைத்து வைத்துக் கொண்டால், காய்கறி பொரியல், கலந்த சாதம், முட்டை ஆம்லெட் போன்றவற்றுக்கு அவசரத்துக்கு உதவும்.

வெளியூர் பயணத்துக்குச் செல்லும்போது தோசை, ஊத்தப்பம் போன்றவற்றின் மீது லேசாகத் தண்ணீர் தடவி பிறகு பேக் செய்தால் அந்தப் பலகாரங்கள் வறண்டு போகாமலும் மிருதுவாகவும் இருக்கும்.

மாதாந்திர மளிகைச் சாமான்கள் வாங்கியதும், டப்பாவில் அடைப்பதற்கு முன்பு, சென்ற முறை மீந்துபோன சாமான்களை சிறு பாலிதீன் பைகளில் போட்டுவிடுங்கள். புதிதாக வாங்கியவற்றை டப்பாவில் நிரப்பியதும் அதன் மேலாக அந்தந்த சாமானுக்குரிய பாலிதீன் பைகளை வைத்துவிட்டால் முதலில் பழையனவற்றைப் பயன்படுத்தலாம். அவை தீர்ந்த பிறகு புதியனவற்றைப் பயன்படுத்தலாம்.

தோசைக் கல்லில் வெடிப்புகள், ஓட்டைகள் ஏற்படுவதைத் தவிர்க்க தோசை வார்த்து முடிந்ததும்,கல்லை எண்ணெய்த் துணியால் துடைத்துவிடுங்கள்.

எண்ணெய்ப் பசை படிந்த பாத்திரங்களை பளிச்சென்று ஆக்க கோதுமை சலித்த தவிட்டை நீர் சேர்க்காமல் பாத்திரத்தில் தேய்த்துப் பாருங்கள். பாத்திரங்கள் பளபளப்பாகிவிடும்.

குக்கர்,மிக்ஸி போன்றவற்றின் கேஸ்கட்டுகளைப் பயன்படுத்திய பிறகு, ஒரு மணி நேரம் குளிர்ந்த நீரில் ஊறவிட்டால் அவை நீண்ட நாட்கள் உழைக்கும்.

சமையலறை ஜன்னல், மேடை டைல்ஸ் மற்றும் சமையலைறையில் உள்ள எக்ஸôஸ்ட் பேன் எண்ணெய்ப் பிசுக்கைப் போக்க, மண்ணெண்ணெய் அல்லது பெயின்ட் கடைகளில் கிடைக்கும் தின்னர் கொண்டு துடைத்தால், பளிச்சென்று ஆகிவிடும்.

சமையலறையில் பாத்திரம் கழுவும் ஸ்டெயின்லஸ் ஸ்டீல் சிங்கைச் சுத்தப்படுத்த பழைய செய்தித்தாள்களைக் கொண்டு தேய்த்துக் கழுவினால் போதும். அழுக்கு நீங்கி சுத்தமாகிவிடும்.

சமையலறையில் நீண்ட நாட்களுக்கு நல்லெண்ணெய் ஸ்டாக் வைத்தால், சிக்குவாடை வீசும். இதைத் தவிர்க்க நல்லெண்ணெய் வாங்கி வந்தவுடன் அதில் சிறு துண்டு கருப்பட்டி அல்லது வெல்லத்தைப் போட்டுவிடுங்கள். சிக்குவாடை வீசாது.

சமையலறையில் பயன்படுத்தும் கை துடைக்கும் துணி, பிடி துணி போன்றவற்றைத் தண்ணீரில் சிறிது ஷாம்பு கலந்து ஊறவைத்து, அலசினால் பளிச்சென்று இருப்பதுடன் வாசனையாகவும்

இருக்கும்.

சமையலறையில் உபயோகிக்கும் குக்கர் சூடாக இருக்கும்போதே கைப்பிடிகளிலுள்ள ஸ்க்ரூக்களை நன்றாக முறுக்கி வைத்துக் கொண்டால் பிடிகள் அடிக்கடி லூஸôகாது.

முளைக்கீரையை உப்புப் போட்டு, வேக வைத்து தேங்காய், பச்சை மிளகாய் அரைத்துக் கலந்து இரண்டு கரண்டி புளிக்காத தயிர் விட்டு கடுகு தாளித்தால், கீரைப் பச்சடி சுவையாக இருக்கும்.

பாகற்காய் பொரியல் செய்யும்போது முளைக்கீரை அல்லது அரைக் கீரையைப் பொடியாக நறுக்கிச் சேர்த்து வதக்கினால் கசக்காது. நல்ல மணமாகவும் இருக்கும்.

முருங்கைக் கீரையைச் சமைக்கும்போது சிறிது சர்க்கரை சேர்த்தால், ஒன்றோடு ஒன்று ஒட்டிக் கொள்ளாமல் உதிரியாக இருக்கும்.

முள்ளங்கி இலையைத் தூக்கி எறிந்துவிடாமல் அதை நறுக்கி, சிறிது எண்ணெய் விட்டு வதக்கி, மிளகாய் வற்றல், எலுமிச்சம் பழம், பெருங்காயம் ஆகியவற்றைச் சேர்த்து வறுத்து, அதைக் கீரையுடன் அரைத்து துவையல் செய்யலாம். சாதத்தில் கலந்து, நெய் ஊற்றிச் சாப்பிட சுவையாகவும் இருக்கும். ஆரோக்கியமும் கூட.

எந்த வகையான கீரைகளையும் எப்படிச் சமைத்தாலும் அதோடு கூட இரண்டு வேக வைத்த உருளைக் கிழங்குகளை மசித்துக் கலந்துவிட்டால் மிகவும் சுவையாக இருக்கும்.

முருங்கைக் கீரை, அகத்திக் கீரையை வதக்கும்போது, கரண்டியின் அடிப்பகுதியை வைத்துக் கிளறவும். அப்படிக் கிளறினால் கட்டி விழாமல் கீரை உதிரி உதிரியாக இருக்கும்.

கீரை கடையும்போது சிறிது வெங்காயம்,வடகம், இரண்டு காய்ந்த மிளகாய், சிறிது சீரகம் தாளித்துக் கொட்டி கீரை கடைந்தால் கமகம வாசனையுடன் கீரை

மணக்கும்.

பசலைக் கீரை உடலுக்குக் குளிர்ச்சி தரக் கூடியது. இதை அடிக்கடி உணவில் சேர்த்துக் கொள்ளலாம். உடல் சூடு, சிறுநீரகக் குறைபாடுகள் நீங்கும்

BHAGAWAN RAMANA MAHARISHI

 

Bhagawan Ramana Maharshi

 

Bhagawan used to have two pieces of small clothes with him. He used to use these for covering very little part of his body, irrespective of the season. He would store one cloth in a small hole in a tree and sometime later, he would actually wash it and dry it and then use it. One day one of his followers became curious and wanted to know what he was hiding in that hole of the tree. He went there and pulled the cloth out of that. He was shocked to see that the cloth had more holes than the cloth itself. He asked Bhagawan, “Bhagawan! You have so many followers and many of them are stinkingly rich. Cant they get u a simple untorn loin cloth for you to wear?” Bhagawan responded, “Who said I am poor and I needed a untorn loin cloth? Dont u see this? This has so many holes in it like Sahasraaksha (One with 1000s of eyes). Indra is also known as Sahasraaksha. In Rudraadhyaayam (Namakam recited during Rudrabhshekham), Sahasraaksha is one name used to address the Lord. I feel as if Indra is wrapping me. What more privilege a human being can have in a life?” But he never took any money or anything from any body because Bhagwan never had to touch money (only once after ran away from home).

 

 

 

ஆசிரியரும் புத்திசாலி மாணவரும்

ஆசிரியரும் புத்திசாலி மாணவரும்

அகத்திய முனிவர் தென்பாண்டி நாட்டில் தங்கியிருந்த சமயம் அது. பாண்டிய மன்னன் ஒருவன் அவரை வணங்க வந்தான். அவனுக்கு முதுகில் கூன் இருந்தது. தனது பரம்பரையே இப்படி கூன் விழுவதாக அவன் அகத்தியரிடம் சொல்லி வருத்தப்பட்டான். அகத்தியர் அவனுக்கு ஆறுதல் சொல்லி, பிறவிக்கூனை குணப்படுத்த தன்னிடம் மூலிகைகள் உள்ளதாகவும், சில நாட்கள் கழித்து ஆஸ்ரமத்திற்கு வரும்படியும் சொல்லி அனுப்பினார்.மன்னன் நம்பிக்கையுடன் சென்றான்.

தேரையரை அழைத்த அகத்தியர், சீடனே! கூனை நிமிர்த்தும் மூலிகை வகைகளின் பெயர்களைச் சொல்கிறேன் கேள். அவற்றை காட்டிற்குள் சென்று பறித்து வா, எனச்சொல்லி, மூலிகைகளின் அடையாளம் மற்றும் குணத்தையும் எடுத்துச் சொன்னார். தேரையரும், அகத்தியர் கூறியபடியே அவற்றை அடையாளம் கண்டு ஒரு பை நிறைய பறித்து வந்து விட்டார். அகத்தியர் அந்த மூலிகைகளைச் சாறெடுத்து, ஒரு பாத்திரத்தில் ஊற்றி கொதிக்க வைத்தார். தேரையரிடம், தேரையா! நீ இந்தக் கரைசல் பக்குவமாக வரும் வரை கிளறிக்கொண்டிரு. எனக்கு காட்டிற்குள் சிறிது வேலையிருக் கிறது. நான் வந்ததும் இறக்கி வைத்துக் கொள்ளலாம், என சொல்லிவிட்டு சென்று விட்டார். தேரையரும் பக்குவமாக காய்ச்சிக் கொண்டிருந்தார். அப்போது, அவர் அமர்ந்திருந்த இடத்திற்கு மேலுள்ள மேற்கூரையில் இருந்து டக் என சப்தம் வந்தது. இது கேட்டு நிமிர்ந்தார் தேரையர். என்ன ஆச்சரியம்! வளைந்திருந்த அந்த மூங்கில் நிமிர்ந்து நேராகி இருந்தது. தேரையரின் மூளையில் பளிச்சென ஒரு மின்னல் வெட்டியது. குரு என்னவோ, தான் வந்த பிறகு கரைசலை இறக்கி வைத்துக் கொள்ளலாம் என்று தான் சொல்லியிருக்கிறார்.

ஒருவேளை அவர் வர தாமதமானால், கரைசல் மேலும் சூடாகி, இந்த அற்புதமான மருத்துவக் குணத்தை இழந்து போகலாம். மூலிகையின் புகைபட்டே வளைந்த மூங்கில் நிமிர்கிறது என்றால், மூலிகை கரைசலைத் தடவினால் கூன் நிச்சயமாக குணமாகத்தானே செய்யும்! இது தான் சரியான பக்குவம். கரைசலை இறக்கி வைத்து விட வேண்டியது தான், என நினைத்தவர், அடுப்பில் இருந்து பாத்திரத்தை இறக்கி வைத்துவிட்டார். களைப்பாக இருந்ததால், சற்று படுத்திருந்தார். வெளியே சென்றிருந்த அகத்தியர் வந்தார்.

அடேய்! உன்னை நம்பி எவ்வளவு முக்கியமான பொறுப்பை ஒப்படைத்து விட்டுப் போனேன். நீ என்னடாவென்றால், உறங்கிக் கொண்டிருக்கிறாயே! மூலிகை குழம்பு என்னாயிற்றோ! என்று கோபமாகப் பேசியவரிடம், மிகுந்த பணிவுடன் சென்ற தேரையர், நடந்ததைச் சொன்னார்.அகத்தியர் மிகுந்த மகிழ்ச்சியடைந்தார். சீடனே! எனக்கு கிடைத்தவர்களில் நீ மிகவும் உயர்ந்தவன். ஒவ்வொரு ஆசிரியருக்கும் இப்படி புத்திசாலி மாணவர்கள் கிடைக்கவும் கூட கொடுத்து வைக்க வேண்டும்! அன்றொரு நாள் ஒரு உயிரைக் காப்பாற்ற மூளையில் இருந்த தேரையையே குதிக்கச் செய்தாய்.இன்று, கூன் நிமிரும் பக்குவத்திற்கு கரைசலை தயார் செய்துள்ளாய். பெரியவர்கள் சொன்னதைக் கேட்க வேண்டும் தான்! அதே நேரம், சமயத்திற்கு தக்க முடிவுகளையும் எடுப்பதன் மூலம் அவர்களின் அபிமானத்தை மேலும் பெறலாம். மகனே! இனி நீ என்னுடன் இருக்கக் கூடாது. வெளியே செல், என்றார். தேரையர் அதிர்ச்சியானார். நல்லதைச் செய்ததாகச் சொல்லிவிட்டு, இப்போது வெளியே போகச் சொல்கிறாரே! என குழம்பி நின்றார்.ஒருவேளை நாம் செய்தது முட்டாள்தனமோ.. குரு நம்மைப் புகழ்வது போல பழிக்கிறாரோ, என கலங்கி நின்றார்.

“குருதேவா! நான் ஏதும் தவறு செய்து விட்டேனா? தாங்கள் என்னை வெளியே போகச் சொல்லுமளவுக்கு நான் தங்கள் கவுரவத்துக்கு பங்கம் இழைத்து விட்டேனா? அவ்வாறு செய்திருந்தால், நான் உயிர் தரிக்க மாட்டேன்…” என்று கூறிய தேரையர் கிட்டத் தட்ட அழும் நிலைக்கு வந்துவிட்டார்.அடடா… தவறாகப் புரிந்து கொண்டாயே! திறமையுள்ள இருவர் ஒரே இடத்தில் இருப்பதால் மக்களுக்கு லாபம் குறைகிறது. அவர்கள் வெவ்வேறு இடங்களில் இருந்தால் பயன்பெறும் மக்களின் அளவு கூடும். நீ தனித்தே வைத்தியம் செய் என்று அனுப்பிவைத்தார்.

 

how to be happy and Contended..? a story

There lived a Sadhu who regularly used to give discourses. One day at the end of the discourse he was talking of being grateful to existence. “Operate from a space of gratitude, `Kritajna’. This will allow us to expand.” a beggar was sitting in a corner and listening to the discourse, he came up to the Sadhu and said, “Maharaj, your talk was great. But one thing I am not able to do. You said to be grateful to the existence because it has always showered benediction on you. Sorry! But, existence has not given me anything. I am struggling even for one roti”.

The Sadhu said, “ I agree with you, I will give you two lacks, right here, will you be grateful?’ The beggar was thrilled.

“But I want something in return from you”, said the Sadhu. “I do not have anything, what can I give you? If I have something I will definitely give you.” said the beggar.

“I won’t ask you anything that you do not have”, said the Sadhu. The agreement was made.The Sadhu said, “I will make arrangements for the two lacks; you please give me both your eyes.”

The beggar was astonished. “What will I do with these two lacks without my eyes! I don’t agree to the deal,” he said. “I prefer my two eyes to the two lacks”.

The Sadhu said, “but you said you don’t have anything and were cursing existence.’

This is a beautiful story. Two eyes he had, then two hands, two legs, stomach etc., He is already a multi millionaire. But all these gifts we do not see. For the beggar, money was very important.That we can see is such a great gift of existence. We can hear. We can walk. All are great gifts. If you say you are unhappy, it is ridiculous. In fact we should dance and celebrate that existence has given us so many gifts.

We are normally focused on what is missing in life. The moment you start operating from what you don’t have, whatever you have also go into darkness.

why Congress and all other parties blame Gujarat and Narendra Modi ??? read on

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  This is a very good and thought-provoking article. I would like to give a few more incidents to enable  Ashok  Malik  to refer in his future writings. Most of the  cases occurred in Congress- ruled states and  Congress was ruling at the Center.   

1) P. Rajan’s  case-  It  took place in Kerala  during  the Emergency.  You may read P. Rajan’s case  on Wikipedia and “Stripped Law- Rajan : A revisit”. At that time  Chief Minister was Achutha Menon ( A communist).  The Home Minister was K.Karunakaran (Congress)The CM never  resigned at that time.

2)Bhagalpur  blinding:-  Took place in Bihar. Police blinded 31 under- trial prisoners by pouring acid in their eye. At that time Jagannath Mishra was CM  of  Bihar. He had  not resigned at that time.

“The Bhagalpur blindings refers to a series of incidents in 1979 and 1980 in Bhagalpur in the state of Bihar, India,  when police blinded 31 under trials (or convicted criminals, according to some versions), by pouring acid into their eyes. The incident became infamous as Bhagalpur blindings. The incident was widely discussed, debated and acutely criticized by several human rights organizations. The Bhagalpur blinding case had made criminal jurisprudence history by becoming the first in which the Supreme Court had ordered compensation for violation of basic human rights.^[1]“

3) Bhagalpur  riot

The Bhagalpur riots of 1989 refers to the violence between the Hindus and theMuslims in the Bhagalpur district of Bihar, India. The riots started on 24 October 1989, and the violent incidents continued to happen for 2 months. The violence affected the Bhagalpur city and 250 villages around it. Over 1,000 people (around 900 of which were Muslims^[2]), were killed, and another 50,000 were displaced as a result of the violence.^[3] It was the worst Hindu-Muslim violence in independent India at the time,^[1] surpassing the 1969 Gujarat riots.

Satyendra Narayan Sinha was CM at that time.

In his autobiography Meri Yaadein, Meri Bhoolein, released by the then Bihar Governor Buta Singh in the presence of Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee {now President of India}, Satyendra Narayan Sinha  accused his Congress colleagues of “fanning” the 1989 Bhagalpur violence to malign him, specifically mentioning his predecessor and former chief minister Bhagwat Jha Azad and the former speaker Shivchandra Jha. He also accused the Prime Minister of overruling his order to transfer the then superintendent of police K S Dwivedi who had failed miserably to discharge his duties. The decision was not only an encroachment of the Constitutional right of the state government but also a step detrimental to ongoing efforts to ease tensions.^[25] When he stepped down from the post of Chief Minister of Bihar, Jagannath Mishra succeeded him. He recalled when he met Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi later on, he informed him about the “role of some Congress leaders” in the riots. The Prime Minister expressed surprise and said “so, the riots were motivated!^[26]

 

4) Naxal Uprising in West Bengal

 

Siddhartha Shankar Ray

After the Congress won the General Election of 1972, he became the Chief Minister of West Bengal from March 19, 1972 to June 21, 1977. He took office shortly after the Bangladesh Liberation War, and his administration was faced with the massive problem of resettling over a million refugees in various parts of the state. The civic services of Calcutta in particular found rehabilitation of the Bangladeshi refugees to be an uphill task, and failed in this aspect. The crackdown on Naxalites also took place under his watch.^[9]

Ray is often misunderstood for his role during the heydays of the Naxal uprising in the state. The Left have always blamed him for unleashing a reign of terror, which he didn’t deserve. But Ray took all the criticism without a murmur. At his time, the district magistrates and superintendents of police had enough independence. They treated the Naxals under criminal procedures. Ray didn’t prevent them from doing that. But he didn’t encourage them, either. He was deeply disturbed when the government had to call in the Army in Birbhum to tackle Naxals. “I have no child. But the Naxals, as I see them, are like my children. It pains me when I have to send in the Army to tackle them,” Ray had said. He introduced a unique method to tackle Naxals. Jail break and shoot out encounters were done to eliminate  large number of under- trial  Naxals. 

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It’s always Gujarat

Ashok Malik

 

8 Sep 2013 

 

Vijay Salaskar was killed on the evening of November 26, 2008. An inspector in the Mumbai police, he was driving the vehicle that was also carrying senior officers Hemant Karkare and Ashok Kamte when it was ambushed by Lashkar-e-Tayyaba terrorists.

 

This was a dramatic incident that made clear the intensity of the attack on Mumbai on the dark night of 26/11.

 

Following his martyrdom, the government of Maharashtra recommended Salaskar for a gallantry award. On January 26, 2009, three months after his death, the Union government named Salaskar for the Ashok Chakra. India was grateful to him.

 

P. Chidambaram, then home minister, took personal interest in ensuring Salaskar’s young daughter was given a government job. No doubt in the years to come Salaskar will go down as an authentic Indian hero and school textbooks will carry chapters on him and his colleagues.

 

What was the trajectory of Salaskar’s career before he was killed?

 

For 20 years he had been a doughty warrior for the Mumbai police, part of a band of officers responsible for cleaning up the city underworld.Criminal syndicates in Mumbai — some but not all of them later merging into terrorism — established themselves as a force by the 1980s. The state government decided to adopt a proactive policy of neutralising these groups and safeguarding Mumbai.

 

Salaskar was instrumental in this, killing his first criminal in 1983. Subsequently, he was responsible for removing some 70-80 people who, depending on how you saw them, could have been gangsters, petty criminals, terrorist auxiliaries or just plain suspects.

 

How did Salaskar do this? Presumably not by feeding his victims lollipops.

 

Salaskar was an encounter specialist. His methods were his own. The government followed a “don’t ask-don’t tell” approach. There was nobody to leak letters or even ghost-write these for him. There was no gaggle of activists out to challenge the Mumbai police or any politician who was backing it. There was no Central Bureau of Investigation to conduct lengthy investigations into Salaskar’s career record and attempt to finish him. He was lucky.

 

Sitting in his cell, D.G. Vanzara, former chief of the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad, may well be pondering Salaskar’s luck and fate. Today, Salaskar is held up as a model, no-nonsense police officer. For doing pretty much the same thing, Mr Vanzara is painted as a villain. If we get over the trite cliché that all fake encounters are bad — of course they are; though it must be said not one of
Mr Vanzara’s encounters, or Salaskar’s for that matter, have been legally proven to be fake — it is worth asking why Mr Vanzara does not deserve sympathy.

 

He has been in prison for six years now, implicated in three high-profile cases, without the trial having even begun. He is not alone; 32 officers of the Gujarat police, and virtually the entire ATS squad, find themselves behind bars and out of action. The anti-terror network set up in the state in the early years of this century has been crippled.

 

The CBI and a politician-activist cabal in Gujarat have no interest in quickly taking Mr Vanzara’s cases to resolution. A delay and a battle by innuendo suit them best because they are targeting Narendra Modi’s political future, not “seeking justice” as is claimed. If nothing else, Mr Vanzara deserves to have somebody pay for a good lawyer. If at the end of all this he is acquitted, who will give him back his lost years? Even if there are convictions, it is a fair guess that many of the 32 Gujarat policemen who are currently remand prisoners (undertrials) have probably already spent more time in custody than they may be sentenced for.

 

Thundering voices on television insist Gujarat cannot be compared to Punjab in the 1980s or Kashmir in the 1990s. True, it can’t; but that doesn’t mean it faced no threat from terrorism. In the 1990s its coastline was used by terror groups to bring in munitions, including for the 1993 Mumbai bombings. After 2002, Mr Modi began to carry the highest threat perception, greater than any other chief minister at least. This has been borne out by successive Intelligence Bureau inputs. In 2010, the WikiLeaks cables revealed Western intelligence agencies believed that the Lashkar threat to Mr Modi was clear and present and had not died out with the elimination of Ishrat Jehan and her accomplices in 2004.

 

For anybody in public life — politician, civil servant, even activist and journalist — a fundamental test of integrity is in according different subjects equal treatment under conditions of equality.

 

Has this happened with Gujarat? Why are terror threats to Gujarat and its chief minister ridiculed and the anti-terror operations of Gujarat police sabotaged? Why does this happen to no other state?

 

Take two other examples.

 

Recently, the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC), headed by a Congress member of Parliament, demanded a CBI inquiry into alleged manipulation in the Tulsiram Prajapati case.

 

Prajapati, a criminal who happened to be a dalit, was killed by the Gujarat ATS. The basis of the commission’s move was a “sting operation” carried out by a conman at the periphery of the media — and previously accused of and arrested for blackmailing public servants using fake “sting op” videos — who found support from Congress Party spokespersons.

 

The NCSC’s promptness was remarkable. In Uttar Pradesh, dalit writer Kanwal Bharti was arrested for a Facebook post that criticised the state government and backed Durga Shakti Nagpal, the civil servant who took on the sand mafia in Greater Noida. Why has the commission not found Mr Bharti worthy of support?

 

Second, Mr Vanzara’s long spell in prison, without trial, is seen as justified by those who blame him for the killing of Ishrat Jehan.

 

Gopal Kanda, a former Congress minister in Haryana, has been charged with harassing, stalking and driving to suicide a woman called Geetika Sharma. This past week, he was given bail and allowed to attend the state Assembly.

 

There was no clamour in the media.

 

All women are equal but is (or was) Ishrat Jehan more equal than Geetika Sharma?

 

Now if only Geetika Sharma had lived in Gujarat and Kanda been a minister in the Modi government…

 

 

The writer can be contacted at :malikashok@gmail.com

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Happy Ganesh Chaturthi

 

ஓம் சுக்லாம் பரதரம் விஷ்ணும் ஸஸிவர்ணம் சதுர்புஜம்

ப்ரசன்னவதனம் த்யாயேத் ஸர்வ விக்னோப சாந்தயே

ஓம் கஜானனம் புத கணாதி ஸேவிதம்

கபித்தஜம்பு பலஸார பக்ஷிதம்

உமாசுதம் சோக விநாச காரணம்

நமாமி விக்னேஸ்வர பாதபங்கஜம்

 சோடச கணபதி மந்திரம்.

1) ஓம் ஸூமுகாய நமஹ

2) ஓம் ஏகதந்தாய நமஹ

3) ஓம் கபிலாய நமஹ

4) ஓம் கஜகர்ணகாய நமஹ

5) ஓம் லம்போதராய நமஹ

6) ஓம் விகடாய நமஹ

7) ஓம் விக்னராஜாய நமஹ

8) ஓம் தூம்ரகேதுவே நமஹ

9) ஓம் கணாத்யக்ஷாய நமஹ

10 ஓம் பால சந்த்ராய நமஹ

11 ஓம் கஜானனாய நமஹ

12 ஓம் வக்ரதுண்டாய நமஹ

13 ஓம் சுர்ப்பகர்ணாய நமஹ

14 ஓம் ஹேரம்பாய நமஹ

15 ஓம் ஸ்கந்த புர்வஜாய நமஹ

16 ஓம் ஸ்ரீமஹாகணபதியே நமஹ

With  Regards

 

May Lord Ganesha bless u and ur family  with Success, Happiness and  Prosperity  upon  You and  your family 

 

 

 

 Happy GANESH-CHATURTHI

 

 

Py Ganesh Chaturthi

Little Girl and her plant- story

 

 

A little girl was enjoying the beauty of the garden in her home. Her father had a good collection of rare and exotic plants. He grew them with tender care.

The girl was fascinated by a plant full of fine and fragrant flowers. She went near the plant and enjoyed its beauty and the fragrance of its fine flowers. Suddenly she noted that the plant was growing in a heap of filth. She could not tolerate the presence of dirt at the bottom of the plant with such fantastic flowers.

She conceived a plan to clean the plant. She pulled the plant with all her might and uprooted it. She then carried it to the tap and washed the shoot and roots in running tap-water till all traces of dirt were washed away. She then placed the plant on a clean stone and went away, thinking that she had done a great deed indeed.

Later her father came to the garden and saw the uprooted plant. Its flowers and leaves had wilted and the plant had almost died in the scorching sun. His little daughter ran to him to exhibit her achievement. “I have cleaned it, Daddy”, she reported innocently. “It was placed in dirty soil. Now it is clean.”

The father showed her how her treatment had almost killed the plant. He told her that he had collected the filthy soil and placed it to cover the plant’s roots as it was the best medium to grow that plant. It could grow up healthily and produce fine flowers only if grown in filthy soil. She was sad that the plant had suffered and withered by her cleaning.

Flash:

Pain, poverty and illness may cause agony in our life. Sight of successful persons may make us depressed and envious. A great gardener mixes the right soil for each plant. In the same way God provides each of us with the best environment required for optimum spiritual growth. But it may appear to be unpleasant to us and we may even complain to God about our plight.
– – – written by Angel

 

 

திருமண மந்திரத்தின் உண்மையான அர்த்தம்;

திருமண மந்திரத்தின் உண்மையான அர்த்தம்;

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திருமண மந்திரங்களிலேயே சர்ச்சையை ஏற்படுத்தும் மந்திரமும்,கடவுள் மறுப்பாளர்களுக்கும்,பகுத்தறிவாளர்களும் சுட்டிக்காட்டும் மந்திரம்இதுவே ஆகும்.அந்த மந்திரம் என்னவென்றால்.,

“ஸோம: ப்ரதமோ விவிதே கந்தர்வோ விவித உத்தர:
த்ரூதீயோ அக்னிஷ்டேபதி:
துரீயஸ்தே மனுஷ்யஜா:

திருமணமாகப் போகும் மணப்பெண் முதலாவதாக சோமன் என்பவனுக்கு மனைவியாக இருந்தால், இரண்டவதகக் கந்தர்வன் என்பவனுக்கு மனைவியாக இருந்தால், முன்றாவதாக அக்னிக்கு மனைவியாக இருந்திருக்கிறாள், நான்கவதகத்தான் இப்பொழுது அருகில் இருக்கும் மணமகனுக்கு மனைவியாகிறாள். மணமகள் இதற்குமுன் மூன்று கடவுள்களுக்கும் மனைவியாக இருந்த பின்புதான், நான்காவதாக மணமகனை மணக்கிறாள் என்பது விளக்கமாகும்.

ஆனால் இதன் உண்மையான அர்த்தம் எல்லாருக்கும் புரிவது இல்லை. பெண் குழந்தை பிறந்ததில் இருந்து திருமணம் வரை இருக்கும் காலத்தை மூன்றாகப் பிரித்துச் சொல்கிறார்கள். முதல் பாகத்தைக் காப்பாற்றும் பொறுப்பை ஏற்பவர் ஸோமன். இது சந்திரனைக் குறிக்கும். சந்திரன் குளிர்ச்சியும் மகிஷ்ச்சியும் அளிப்பவன். தேவர்கள் பலசாலியாக இருப்பதற்கு எப்படிச் சந்திரனின் அருள் தேவையோ அது போல பூமி வளம் பெறுவதற்கும் சந்திரனின் அருள் தேவை. அவன் அருளால் உலக ஆரோக்கியத்திற்கு உகந்த வகையில் பருவங்கள் உருவாகிறது. பூமி, வலுவும் வளமும் பெறுகிறது. அவன் அருளால் பெண்ணின் குழந்தைப் பருவம் ஆரோக்கியமானதாகவும், வளம் பொருந்தியதாகவும் இருக்கும். இதற்குச் சந்திரனின் அருள் தேவை. மேலும் ஆயுர்வேத முறைப்படியும், சோமம் என்றால் “கபம்” என்றும் ஒரு பொருள் உண்டு. பிறந்த குழந்தைக்கு இருக்கும் அதிகக் கபத்தினால் தொல்லைகள் கொடுக்காமல் காப்பாற்றும் பொறுப்பை ஏற்பவன் ஸோமன். மேலும் குழந்தை பிறந்து சிலவருடங்கள் வரை தாயின் கண்காணிப்பில் இருக்கும். தாயின் மென்மையான அணுகுமுறையைக் கூட ஸோமனின் உதாரணத்துக்குச் சொல்லலாம்.

வளர்கையில் பெண்ணின் குணமும், குரலும், மாறி அழகு அதிகரிக்கிறது. பெண் கனவு காண ஆரம்பிக்கிறாள். இதில் இருந்து அவளைக் காத்து நல்வழிக்குத் திருப்பும் பொறுப்பு கந்தர்வர்களுடையது. அதாவது தாய், தந்தை இருவரும் சேர்ந்து பெண்ணைக் கண்காணிக்கிறார்கள். அவளுடைய அழகுக்குக் காரணனான கபத்தை மட்டுப் படுத்தி அவளைத் தன்னிலை பெறச் செய்வது கந்தர்வர்கள் பொறுப்பு. அழகும், பருவமும் சேர்ந்து விட்டால் பின்னால் ஏற்படும் உணர்வுகளுக்கும் அவளுடைய துணை தேடும் நினைவுகளுக்கும் காரணம் அக்னி. இந்தச் சமயத்தில் தான் பெண் அந்த அக்னியைப் போல இருக்க வேண்டும். அவள் நினைவுகளும், கனவுகளும் அவளைச் சுட்டுப் பொசுக்காமல் அவளைப் பாதுகாப்பவன் அக்னி. அந்தப் பாதுகாப்பு உணர்வு அவளுக்குத் தோன்றக் காரணமாக இருப்பவன் அக்னி. ஏனென்றால் சிருஷ்டியின் மூலமே பெண்ணால்தான். தன்னிச்சையாகச் செயல் படும் தகுதி அவளுக்கு இருந்தாலும் அவள் ஜாக்கிரதையாகத் தன் குடும்பம், சமூகம் என்ற உணர்வுகளோடு ஆரோக்கியமான சிந்தனைகளோடு செயல் படுவதற்குக் காரணம் அக்னி.

பெண்ணினம் காப்பாற்றப் பட்டால் அத்தனை தர்மங்களும் காப்பாற்றப் படும். ஆகவே திருமணம் ஆகும் வரை அவளைக் காக்கும் பொறுப்பை அக்னி ஏற்றுக் கொண்டு மணமகனிடம் மணப் பெண்ணை ஒப்படைக்கிறார். ஆகவே தான் திருமணங்கள் அக்னி சாட்சியாகவும் நடைபெறுகிறது. மணமகன், மணமகள் இருவரும் சேர்ந்து ஸோமன், கந்தர்வன், அக்னி இவர்கள் மூவருக்கும் முறைப்படி அவர்களுக்குப் பூஜை செய்து வணங்கி வழி அனுப்புவார்கள். முறையே சந்திரனுக்குப் பிடித்த பழத்தை ஒரு குழந்தைக்கும், கந்தர்வனுக்கு வேண்டிய ஆடை, அலங்கரம், வாசனைத் திரவியம் போன்றவைகளுக்கு மணமகன், மணமகள் ஆடைகளில் இருந்து நூல் எடுத்தும், அக்னிக்குப் பிரியமான நெய்யும் கொடுத்து வழி அனுப்புவார்கள். இதில் அவர்கள் இதுவரை செய்த தவறுகளை மன்னிக்கவும், மேலும் இனித் தவறு செய்யாமல் இருக்கவும் இருவரும் வேண்டும் வேண்டுதலும் இருக்கும். அக்னி பரிசுத்தமானது. அவன் பாதுகாப்பில் இருந்த பெண்ணும் சுத்தமானவள். அப்பழுக்கற்றவள். ஆகையால் நாம் சந்தேகமே இல்லாமல் வேதங்களும் மந்திரங்களும் கூறும் உண்மையைப் புரிந்து கொள்ள முயற்சிப்போம்.

அன்புடன் படுக்கோட்டை ஜோதிடர் சுப்பிரமணியன்.

 

 

Shri Gurubhyo namaha

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WHY YOU SHOULD SUPPORT NARENDRA MODI AS PM IN 2014 ? PL. READ

 

Why I shall support Modi in 2014. By .By Avay Shukla – Retired IAS o

Whatever your political inclination , this article is worth a read ..
>>
>>TODAY as we are poised to look ahead, and forward, with HOPE to a better INDIA …
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>>Why I shall Support Modi in 2014…
>>By Avay Shukla – Retired IAS officer
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>>I have been getting more and more worried over the last year or so at the direction( or lack of it) in which our country is headed. It is
>> like a runaway plane falling from the skies and we are plummeting past one alarming indicator after another– inflation,economic slowdown, falling rupee,complete break-down of law and order, ever emboldened Naxalites, total internalization of corruption, an administration that answers to no one,complete lack of governance, cronyism on a scale never seen before, a brazen lack of accountability, public  intimi-dation of constitutional authorities, a judicial system that has all but collapsed, environmental disasters that no one knows how to cope with, complete paraplegia of decision-making at all levels in government, appeasement of †minorities†and Other sections that are reachingridiculous and dangerous levels, dynastic politics at the Centre and the states reminiscent of the Mughal era…….
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>>I could go on and on but after some time the mind becomes numb and registers only one emotion – IT IS TIME FOR A CHANGE. Another five years of this and we would be well on our way to becoming a failed state and joining the ranks of Pakistan, Haiti and Somalia.
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>>The general elections of 2014 offers us one last chance to redeem ourselves. I have been on this mortal coil for 62 years and have never voted for the BJP but have, after much thought, decided to support MODI in 2014. This is considered a heresy in most neo-liberal circles in India today but we have to go beyond mere labelling and stereotypingto understand my decision.
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>>But before I go on to Mr. Modi himself, let us review the context in which this decision has been taken. The state of the country is self evident in para one above.
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>>The next question then
is: What are the alternatives or choices that we as voters have?
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>>The Congress will only perpetuate the present mess-even more worrying and dangerous is the fact that, were the Congress to return to power, it would consider it to have a renewed mandate to carry on as before.
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>>In any case, who in the country would lead the Congress- a reluctant dynastic or an ageing economist who has discovered his true skills lie in politics, or a backroom puppeteer? Or, God forbid, all three? ( Seriously, this is a possibility- after all not one of these three want to shoulder sole accountability, and they may reason that if a dual power center can ensure two terms, a triple may be good for even more!) No, to my mind the Congress is not an option.
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>>Who else, then?
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>>Well, if we scrape the bottom of the barrel assiduously we will come up with Mamta Banerjee[ TMC], Mulayam Yadav[ SP], Nitish Kumar[JDU], Naveen Patnaik[ BJD], Jayalalitha[ AIADMK], Sharad Pawar[ NCP] and Mayawati(BSP). There is no need to discuss their achievements or ideologies at a national level (incidentally, not even one of them has a remotely national outlook or ideology since they cannot see beyond pandering shamelessly to the vote banks in their respective states) because they are state (not even regional) leaders and none of them can hope to be Prime Minister on the strength of their own Parties.
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>>They all realize this, of course, hence the idea which periodically emerges like a skin rash, of a Third or Federal Front. This didn’t work even when a Third Front could agree on a leader (as in the case of I.K. Gujral or Deve Gowda). How on earth will it work when every one of the state leaders mentioned above feels that he or she has been reincarnated precisely to become the Prime Minister of India?
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>>The negotiations for choosing a PM (if the Front comes up with the numbers, that is) will resemble one of those WWF fights where about six hunks are put into the ring to beat the daylights out of each other till one of them is left standing to claim the crown. I cannot see all of them agreeing on even one policy issue, whether it is reservations, industrial stimulus, foreign policy, dis-investtment, environmental protection, center-state relations etc. If they come to power at the Center, the paraplegia of today will become quadriplegia tomorrow.
>>Fortunately, in any case, they can never muster the 274 seats required-it will be difficult for them to reach even hundred even if they do very well in their states.
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>>So a Third Front is a
non-starter, and voting for any of these parties will only help the Congress by dividing the anti-congress vote. [You will have noticed that I have not mentioned Mr. Karat of the CPM. That’s because he’s become like a flat bottle of Coca-Cola – earlier he was all fizz and no substance: now even the fizz has gone].
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>>That leaves only the BJP, with its historical baggage of the RSS, Hindutva, Ramjanmbhoomi (by the way, this baggage also includes five years of exemplary governance under Vajpayee from 1999 to 2004) – perhaps enough baggage to dissuade me from voting for the party. Except that this time the BJP has an add-on: Narendra Modi. And that, to my mind, adds value to the party and makes the crucial difference.
>>
>>Modi has been reviled ad-nausea m by the “secular†parties and sections of the elite media for many years for the 2002 riots in Gujarat, by the former not because of any love for the Muslims (as I hope to show later) but simply in order to appropriate the Muslim vote, and by the latter because they have to keep whipping somebody in order to get their TRPs – in India only extremes succeed. Modi has been tried and condemned by them not on the basis of facts but by an opportunistic mixture of innuendo, presumption, speculation, half-truths, hear say. Look at the facts. There was a horrendous orgy of killing of Muslims in Gujarat in 2002 where about 2000 of them were massacred. Some of Modi’s ministers and many BJP/ VHP workers were involved: quite a few of them have also been convicted, the trials of many still go on.
>>
>>The Supreme Court set up at least three SITs and is itself monitoring the investigations. Many PILs have been filed in the SC and the High Court accusing Modi of master-minding these massacres. In not a single case has either the Supreme Court, the High Court or the SITs found any evidence of Modi’s personal complicity.
>>
>>Yes, they have held that he could have controlled the situation better- but nothing beyond that in-spite of ten years of frenetic drum beating and sustained vilification.
>>
>>Now look at the other set
of facts. Under Modi’s current watch, perhaps for the first time in India, people have been actually convicted for communal rioting and murder- more than 200 convictions, with about 130 of them sentenced to life imprison-ment. All the communal massacres in India since Independence have not
resulted in even one tenth of these convictions.
>>
>>Modi’s government has to be given some credit for this: yes, the investigations were carried out by the SIT and not by Modi’s police; yet Modi could, if he was so inclined, have interfered covertly in the whole process by asking his officials not to cooperate, by intimidating witnesses, influencing judges, conveying hints to prosecutors- something which, as we all know too well, governments of all political hues in India have mastered.
>>
>>Modi could have done what the Congress has done so successfully in Delhi in three other high-profile cases being monitored by the Supreme Court- the Commonwealth Games Scam, the 2G case, and Coalgate ( not to mention also the Sikh massacres of 1984): have these cases made any headway? has wrong-doing been proved in a single instance? has anyone been convicted?
>>
>>No, Sir, these investigations will drag on and on till they are lost in the mists of time. Supreme Court monitoring cannot ensure justice unless the govt. of the day allows its agencies to function – it is to Modi’s credit that he did so allow them.
>>
>>Compare this with the manner in which the police in Delhi have been emas- culated to protect some senior Congress leaders in the 1984 Sikh carnage – everyone in Delhi knows, even after 27 long years, that their hands are dipped in blood, but the evidence will never reach the courts; the recent acquittal of Sajjan Kumar only confirms this.
>>
>>The biggest stigmata on Modi is the charge that he is †communal†and not  secular†.
>>
>>All (non-NDA) political parties never tire of tom-tomming this from the roof-tops and consider this their trump card to ensure that he will never achieve his Grand-slam at the centre. But after eleven years this is beginning to wear thin and people are beginning to question the assumptions behind this charge and even the definition of what constitutes †communal†and “secular.â€
>>
>>Nirad Choudhry had long ago given his opinion that India is the Continent of Circe where humans are turned into beasts-it is also the graveyard of the Oxford Dictionary where the meanings of words are turned on their heads to suit political exigencies! So †communal† today means a Hindu who is not ashamed of saying he is a Hindu, and † secular†means a Hindu who panders to other religions in order to get their votes at the next elections!
>>
>>By this inverse definition Modi is considered communal- notwithstanding that not a single Hindu- Muslim riot has taken place in Gujarat under his watch since 2002, notwithstanding that the BJP got 17% of the Muslim vote in the Assembly elections in the state earlier this year, notwithstanding that the party won five of the eight seats which had a dominant Muslim voter base, notwith-standing that the average Muslim in Gujarat is much better off economically  than his counterpart in Assam, UP or Bihar (headed by †secular† parties).
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>>Compare this with the record of the Samajwadi party in UP where more than a hundred communal riots have taken place in less than two years, with the Congress in Assam where hundreds of Muslims were butchered last year and at least three hundred thousand of them are still languishing in relief camps with no hope of ever returning to their villages, with the Congress ruled Maharashtra where hundreds of Muslims were killed with the active help of the police after the Bombay blasts. ( Needless to say there do not appear to have been any convictions in any of these pogroms). And MODI is communal?
>>
>>I am a Hindu but I stopped going into any temple twenty years ago because I was sickened by the rapacious behavior of their pundits. I am no longer a practicing Hindu in a public, ritualistic sense and frankly I don’t know how many of the religious beliefs I retain, but I still consider myself a Hindu because Hinduism is more than just a religion- it is a culture, a civilisation, a way of life.
>>
>>
>>But in the Kafkaesque India of today if you were to proclaim that you are a Hindu ( even though you have equal respect and regard for all other religions) you would be branded †communal†– this is what political discourse has been reduced to by our politicians. And being †secular†no longer means treating all religions equally: it means splintering society into a myriad †minorities†( another perversion of the Oxford Dictionary) and then pandering to such of them as suit you in your naked pursuit of power.
>>
>>In the process India has been converted into a complex jigsaw of minorities, castes, tribes, classes, sections and what have you. The British could have learnt plenty from us about Divide and Rule! But more and more right thinking people are beginning to question this recipe for disaster, and I am one of them.
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>>India is 80% Hindu- why should one then have to be apologetic about proclaiming that one is a Hindu ? We have been ruled and exploited and vandalized for eight hundred years by Muslims and for another two hundred years by Christians, and yet we have accorded these two religions a special status as †minorities†with privileges that the Hindus don’t have. Has any other country in the world ever displayed such a spirit of accommodation and egalitarianism? Is there a more secular civilisation in the world? And yet, a Hindu who says he is a Hindu is considered communal!
>>
>>Does a Hindu have to prove his secular credentials time and again by greater levels( or depths) of appeasement of other religions simply so that they can continue to be vote bank fodder for political parties? Modi has had the courage to raise these questions and is therefore being reviled by those political parties whose apple carts he is threatening to upset. But people are beginning to pay attention. Modi is not considered secular because he is proud to be a Hindu and refuses to give doles or concessions to any religious group( including Hindus, but that is conveniently glossed over) beyond what is provided in the constitution and the laws of the land. He believes this weakens the social fabric of the country and that even handed development is the best guarantee for equitable prosperity for all. He is not considered secular ( and instead is branded as communal) because he says publicly that he is proud to be a Hindu. And
has he done anything blatantly or provocatively pro-Hindu in the last ten years? There is not a single instance of this and yet he is vilified as communal and anti-minorities by the same party that presided over more than two hundred anti-Muslim riots in the seventies and eighties in Gujarat, that massacred 6000 Sikhs in 1984, that lit the fuse in Ayodhya by installing an icon of Ram in the mosque there, that failed to take any action when the Babri masjid was being razed to the ground! Modi has carefully distanced himself from any public support of Hindutva, has kept the VHP and the Bajrang Dal on a tight leash in Gujarat ever since he came to power there, and has even incurred the wrath of the RSS for not toeing the line on their purely religious agenda. It takes time, and some mistakes, to attain maturity; the Modi of today is not the Modi of 2002: then he was still in the pracharak mould of the RSS, inexperienced in
the exercise of power, lacking administrative experience. He has now developed into a politician with a vision, an administrator who has delivered to his people and caught the fancy of the entire corporate world in India and abroad. Rahul Gandhi has been around in politics for almost the same length of time but has still not progressed beyond his epiphanic perception that India is a bee-hive.
>>
>>Pause a while to honestly compare Modi’s qualities with his peers in the political firmament. His integrity is impeccable, both personal and vicarious. Even Mr. Manish Tewari has not been able to charge him on this score, and that’s saying something! I am not aware of a single major scam unearthed during his term( compare this with the Congress either in Maharashtra or at the Centre: the Congress has more skeletons in its cupboard than a graveyard does).
>>
>>Modi has no family to promote or to insure against inflation for the next hundred years( compare this with any other party leader, all of whom have given an entirely new meaning to the term †joint family†– brothers, uncles, wives, sons, sons-in-law, nephews-all happily and jointly looting the nation’s resources). Modi has a vision and a road map for the future and he has demonstrated in Gujarat that he can implement his vision.
>>
>>No other major leader of
the parties that are vilifying him comes even close to comparing with him in this respect – Manmohan Singh once had a vision but his unique concept of †coalition dharma†has ensured that he now cannot see, or hear, or talk; Rahul Gandhi cannot see beyond bee-hives and boats that rise with the tide, Sharad Pawar cannot see the woods for the sugar-cane stalks, Mulayam Singh has been fixated on the Prime Minister’s chair for so long that he has now started hallucinating; Nitish Kumar’s vision is a peculiar bi-focal  which  enables him to see only Muslims and OBCs; Navin Patnaik, being erudite and sophisticated must be having a vision but he has not deigned to share it with anyone yet; Mayawati cannot see beyond statues of herself and of elephants; and as for Mamta Banerjee, she is colour blind – she can only see red. Modi’s track record as an administrator inspires confidence in his ability to play a role at the
national level.
>>
>>He sets specific goals, provides the resources and then gives his bureaucrats a free hand to operate. He has ensured water availability to towns and to greater number of farmers, Gujarat now has 24X7 power and has even offered to sell power to other states.
>>Modi has realised long before his peers that future growth can only come from the manu-facturing sector since the past stimulus provided by the service sector is now bottoming out, and has prepared his state to attract capital: perennial road-blocks which have bedevilled other states – land acquisition, labour issues, law and order, lack of decision making, cronyism – have all been sorted out. It is no surprise then that Gujarat has been receiving the second highest amount of investment funds after Maharashtra.
>>His opponents, looking for anything to denigrate his achievements, cavil that Gujarat has always been a progressive state and no credit goes to Modi for all this. True, Gujarat (and Gujaratis) have always been entrepreneurial and progressive, but any economist can tell them that the higher you are on the performance scale, the more difficult it is to make incremental gains – and these gains Modi has been making year after year.
>>Gujarat has consistently been among the top five states in just about all economic, social and human development indicators, and far above the national figures.
>>Here are some figures I picked up in the Hindustan Times of June 12, 2013:
>>
>>[a] Infant Mortality Rate
>>                                     2005        2010
>>     Gujarat                      54              44
>>     Haryana                    60              48
>>     Orissa                         5               60
>>     INDIA                        58               47
>>
>>[b]  Access to Safe Drinking Water( in %)
>>                                      2002           2011
>>      Gujarat                    84.1            90.3
>>      Maharashtra           79.8             83.4
>>      Andhra                    80.1             90.5
>>      INDIA                      77.9             85.5
>>
>>[c]  Poverty Reduction ( in %)
>>                                     2004-5         2009-10
>>     Gujarat                    31.6               23
>>     Karnataka               33.3               23.6
>>     MP                          48.6               36.7
>>     Orissa                     57.2               37
>>     INDIA                      37.2               29.8
>>
>>[d]  Annual GDP increase( in %) from 2005-6 to 2012-13
>>     Gujarat                       10.3
>>     Uttarakhand               12.36
>>     MP                               8.82
>>     Maharashtra                9.97
>>     Delhi                          11.39
>>
>>Modi is no paragon of virtue. He is arrogant, does not allow a second rung of leadership to emerge, brooks no opposition, is impatient and authoritative, is not a consensus builder. But then we are not seeking to canonize a saint but looking for a political leader who can get this country out of the morass that its present stock of politicians has got us into. We are looking for someone who can be decisive rather than justify inaction under the garb of seeking an elusive † consensus†. We are looking for someone who has the courage to have a vision and the skills to translate it into reality. We are looking for someone who will work for the country and not for his †joint family†.
>>
>>We are looking for someone who can restore our identities as INDIANS and not merely as Brahmins or Scheduled castes or Muslims or Backward castes.
>>
>>We are looking for someone who will not pander to religions and be truly secular.
>>
>>And we are looking for someone who will not be ashamed to say that he is a Hindu in the land that gave birth to the most tolerant and enlightened religion this world has seen.
>>
>>Modi may fail- in fact, there are good chances that he will. But he at least promises change, whereas the others promise only more of the same.
>>
>>He offers us Hope. Shouldn’t he be given a chance?
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>>** The author retired from the Indian Administrative Service in December 2010. He is a keen environmentalist and loves the mountains – he has made them his home._
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>>  ZINDAGI DA KEE BHAROSA, KADDON PATAKA BOL JAYEE, so let us ENJOY
>>
>>”To fight the darkness do not draw your sword, light a candle”
>”You can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets”
>
>Note:
>If you  would like to forward this request to others, please do     Thank you.

 

We are not Responsible

 

 

We are not responsible!

EQUITYMASTER HOMEPAGE 24th Aug 2013

The UPA Government has earned itself the dubious distinction of involvement in several large corruption scandals. Each time various Government functionaries absolve themselves of all responsibility. Perhaps it should admit being anirresponsible Government, which it is. 

The latest is the scam at the National Spot Exchange Limited (NSEL). When a group of investors, with an aggregateRs 5,500 crores stuck in the exchange, complained to Arvind Mayaram in the Ministry of Finance, the expected answer was that his Ministry was not responsible. It was the Ministry of Consumer Affairs that was, under whose jurisdiction the regulator, Forward Markets Commission (FMC) was supposed to be responsible for regulating the exchange. But FMC Chairman claims he is not responsible, as he was appointed regulator but without power! The question, raised by these columns earlier, and unanswered is, who permitted the NSEL to start operations, without first authorising a regulator to regulate its operations?
Imagine the chaos that would ensue if each regulator took a similar stance. What if the RBI shirked responsibility of a banking fraud and claimed it was not responsible? What if SEBI maintained that it was powerless against a company who, e.g. had raised money through an IPO and misused it? Is it any wonder, then, that individuals repose their faith in gold and not in paper assets? If the Government is genuine, it has to protect investors, else it will incur their wrath prior to a general election. 
Echoing the sentiment, the NSEL says it is not responsible. The top management has been sacked, which is a gesture by the promoters of the Exchange to shirk responsibility for the actions of a management they appointed.
Let’s look at other examples of shirking of responsibility.
The Finance Minister says that it is not responsible for the state of the economy, which is in dire straits. It is not responsible for the high fiscal deficit or for the unsustainably high current account deficit. For the latter, it is the citizen, with his penchant for gold, explained above, who is responsible! For the poor GDP growth it is the companies who are responsible, for going slow on investment, and not the Government, which has blocked several permissions required for the investment. The National Highways Authority of India has had to cancel 6 road projects because of not being able to get land acquisition clearance. But, of course, the Government is never responsible.

Consider the depreciating rupee. In 1947, when India became independent, the Rupee was equal to the US $. It is now Rs 65/$. So in 66 years, the currency has depreciated 65 times. The value of the currency is related to productivity of the country. This means that India has, since independence, sharply declined in productivity. The Congress partyhas been in power for over 75% of the time during these 65 years. But, of course, it is not responsible! 

The falling rupee will, obviously, lead to inflation. Crude oil, as well as gas, translated to INR, would be more expensive. This would mean that all petro products, petrol, diesel, LPG, kerosene, would cost more, and so will power from gas based plants. So the subsidies on the petro products and power will shoot up, and, in a bid to contain them, the Government will raise prices, with the velvet glove admonition to ‘kindly bear with us’. Corporate profits will be hit by the hike in costs, combined with the higher interest rates which are the consequence of a badly managed economy. Of course, the Government is not responsible. 
This is a criminal misallocation of resources. The national productivity rises when children are given a proper education and training and when laws and regulation are conducive to economic acitivity and growth. Not when subsidies are given for people to drive cars in. Annual sale of cars is under 4 m., or 0.08% of our population. The Government subsidises them instead of spending money on better education.
Only a few countries are teaching their children how to think. These include Finland, Poland, Japan, South Korea and Canada, who consistently score high on the PISA test. India scores poorly. Children become smart, and, later, productive, when they are challenged to think for themselves. In India the Government has cleared the way for all to be promoted. This does not challenge them to think. They are not as productive as they can be. Without productivity, the nation slips.The currency weakens. Other countries race ahead. But the Government is not responsible. 
So tyrannical are the rules and laws in India, and so subjective, that we destroy our own industries and encourage the brightest to go abroad. 
The sugar industry, one of the most controlled industries, is being killed. Prices for sugar cane are fixed by both the Centre and the States, both competing with each other to increase prices, never mind the viability of the sugar factories. They set high prices to get farmer votes; the cost is borne by the mills. The mills are going bankrupt. Bad politics drives away good economics. But the Governments are not responsible. 
Another example is that of iron ore exports. These were banned after cases of illegal iron ore mining (corruption, again, in various states like Karnataka and AP) were discovered. It is easy to ban, or destroy. It is not easy to rebuild. The drop in iron ore exports is a contributory factor to the Current Account Deficit. It has led to a loss of jobs. And to a fall in production of steel. Is anybody reviewing the export ban? Or is nobody responsible?
Well, companies like Tata Steel have, in partnership with a Canadian company, set up an iron ore project in Canada, and has already got permission. (South Korean Posco, after an 8 year wait in Odisha, has not). If a large FDI proposal such as Posco comes in it eases pressure on the rupee. But there is no thinking in Government. As this article in the Economist points out, economic activity is being shifted out of India.
America is anticipating an economic boom, predicated largely on a boom in output of shale gas, using a technology called hydraulic fracking. Now it is not the availability of technology that is preventing the search for shale gas in India. Technologies can be bought, or obtained, or developed. Rather, it is ownership rights. In the US, the land owner has the right to everything on, or under, his land. In India it is the Government. As a result, the prospectors for oil and gas, can deal with land owners and sign contracts for exploiting the gas below their lands. And finds a lot of it, lowering gas prices and incentivizing producers of energy dependent steel, fertilisers, metals, etc, to relocate to the US and create jobs and growth.
In India, the Government claims right to any resource under the ground of property belonging to any individual. It auctions the right to hunt for oil/gas, creates a huge mess in the pricing of it. Production drops and prices rise. The fall in production leads to higher imports, a higher current account deficit and a falling currency.
So, what is important to the Government? Is it the ownership of resources under individual land or is it the possibility of larger oil/gas finds and an easing of economic problems? A responsible Government would know the right answer.
There is something strange happening in the gold market, as per this blog. Export of gold from London (where it is not mined, but, rather, held as a backing for gold ETFs) has zoomed, to Switzerland. In 2012 exports were a mere 92 tonnes. In the first half of 2013 it is 797 tonnes. It appears that this gold is being melted to smaller sizes for export to Asia. Presumably most of it is smuggled into India, as import duties have been myopically hiked.
There is another interesting article titled ‘Hawala Logic’ by Anand Ranganathan, which points to the sharp fall in the rupee versus the US $ in the months preceding a general election, presumable to fetch more rupees when the $s stashed abroad are brought back. The only exception was when the BJP was in power in 2004 and the rupee appreciated.
It is possible that the Government may announce another amnesty scheme, in which those with funds stashed in Swiss banks and other offshore centres (which the Supreme Court is insisting on taking action against) can be brought back with a smallish penalty. The fall in the rupee more than pays for the penalty. Then the Government will take credit for the strengthening of the rupee. The stock market, where the money will be invested after the recent fall, could bounce back, and everyone will sing happy days are here again. This is just a hypothesis.
Last week the BSE-Sensex lost 79 points to close at 18,519, and the NSE-Nifty dropped 36 to end at 5,471.
International factors are ominous. As per this blog ‘What Happened in 1987’ the current rally since 2012 in US markets is driven entirely by valuations, and not by earnings. The US Fed is likely to taper off its bond buying programme from September, and is to have a new boss who may be more hawkish. On the flip side, should PC come out with a disclosure scheme that would lead to funds stashed abroad coming back, it could lead to a rally. If not for that, the economy, the currency and the stock market would continue to slide. Of course, the Government is not responsible.

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J Mulraj is a stock market columnist and observer of long-standing. His weekly column on stock markets has run for over 25 years. An MBA from IIM Calcutta, he has been a member of the BSE. He is now India Representative for Institutional Investor. A keen observer of events and trends, he writes in a lucid yet readable style and takes up issues on behalf of the individual investor. Nothing pleases him more than a reader who confesses having no interest in stock markets yet being a reader of his columns. His other interests include reading, both fiction and non fiction, bridge, snooker and chess.

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FINAL INTERVIEW WITH GOD

THE FINAL INTERVIEW WITH GOD

THE FINAL INSPECTION

The soldier stood and faced The Ultimate,
which must always come to pass.
He hoped his shoes were shining,
Just as brightly as his brass.’Step forward now, you soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
Have you been true and going to the Temple?’The soldier squared his shoulders and said,
‘No, Sir, I guess I isn’t.
Because those of us who carry guns,
Can’t always be divine.

I’ve had to work most 365 days,
And at times my talk was tough.
And sometimes I’ve been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.

But, I never took a penny,
That wasn’t mine to keep…
Though I worked a lot of overtime,
When the bills got just too steep.

And I never passed a cry for help,
Though at times I shook with fear.
And sometimes, forgive me,
I’ve wept unmanly tears.

I know I don’t deserve a place,
Among the people here who are with You.
They never wanted me around any way,
Except to calm their fears.

If you’ve a place for me here,
It needn’t be so grand.
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don’t have a place for me, I’ll understand.

There was a silence all around the throne,
Where all the Devas had often trod.
As the soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his Almighty.

‘Step forward now, you soldier,
You’ve borne your burdens well.
Walk peacefully on to the streets of Bliss,
You’ve done your time to deserve it.’

(Author Unknown and edited too my taste.)

Thinking of all the soldiers of the free world.

It’s the Military, not the reporter who has given us the freedom of the press. It’s the Military, not the poet, who has given us the freedom of speech. It’s theMilitary, not the politicians that ensures our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It’s the Military who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag.If you care to offer the smallest token of recognition and appreciation for themilitary, please pass this on and pray for our men and women who have served and are currently serving our country and pray for those who have given the ultimate sacrifice for freedom.

 

 

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Tale of two Democracies

  True Democracy in Action

                                                   JOGISHWAR SINGH

As a Swiss citizen born in India, I am many times brought to think about my 

experiences of the democratic systems prevalent in the two countries.

Before Indian ‘patriots’ start screaming murder at what I am going to say, I 

should point out that I am fully aware that I am talking about two different 

historical realities.

Switzerland has been independent for over 800 years while India is a newly 

created entity, now a mere 66 years old.

Switzerland has a population of only 8 million while India has the second 

highest population of any country in the world at over 1.2 billion (give or 

take a few million). And expected, in the near future, to even outstrip 

China, and become the world’s most populous. 

The trigger for this set of reflections was what I saw on the 7.30 pm eve. 

news on Swiss TV a couple of weeks ago.

The Swiss President, Mr Ueli Maurer,  was leaving on a five day state visit to 

China. The news showed him arriving  at Zürich airport in an ordinary private 

vehicle. The President got out of the  car by opening the car door himself. 

He walked to the nearby baggage trolley stand outside the airport entrance. 

He took a baggage trolley out, rolled it  towards the car, lifted his suitcase and 

travel bag himself, put these on the trolley which he then rolled towards the 

entrance like any passenger lambda like you or me. He walked up to the check 

in counter with just two other persons  walking behind him. He checked his 

luggage in for a commercial flight without  any special treatment being meted 

out to him.

For any Indians (or others) who might  find it difficult to believe what I have 

described above, you can CLICK on  the link provided hereunder, at the 

end of this article, to view a TV news  clip from the evening prime time 

news for July 16, 2013..

This clip is really worth watching.

Conditioned by my personal experiences of dealing with politicians and 

government ministers in India while serving as an IAS (Indian Administrative

Service) officer, I was so struck by the contrast between what I had experienced

in India and what I was seeing on the TV screen that I told my wife that this

represented one of the finest examples of democracy for me, certainly of the

Swiss variety. It made me proud to be the citizen of a country where the serving

President behaves like an ordinary citizen and does not feel the need to consider

special privileged treatment as his divine birthright. 

I remembered the countless times when I had seen the fury of Indian politicians, 

much below the level of the President of a country, at what they considered as

a slight because they had not been treated as demi-gods.

I am not a psychologist. I do not know whether centuries of slavery have 

generated this distorted VIP culture in India but I remember that we all did curse

the politicians there for causing so much inconvenience to the general public

by expecting, demanding and getting privileged treatment. 

Who in India, except maybe some politicians or bureaucrats, has not been 

inconvenienced by VIP visits for which miles of roads and highways, even entire neighbourhoods, are blocked off to traffic, and flights are delayed, awaiting the 

arrival of some VIP or even his/her flunkies/family members? 

Any such inconvenience would cause an uproar in Switzerland. 

In India, it does not generate even a whimper.

In this context, an incident from the not very distant past strongly lingers in my 

memory. A few years ago, a former IAS batch-mate of mine (1976 batch) had

visited Switzerland. 

I have noticed that Switzerland becomes a prize destination of choice for a lot 

of Indian ministers and bureaucrats during their hot summer for attending all

kinds of useless conferences which are essentially talking shops organised

by the United Nations, an organisation which is a hotbed of nepotism and

inefficiency.

This IAS officer wanted to see Switzerland, so I acted as his local tourist 

guide. 

While we were going around the Swiss federal capital, Bern, it was lunch 

time so we decided to have lunch at a restaurant very close to the Swiss

parliament building. 

As we took our seats at a table, a Swiss gentleman sitting at the next table, 

reading his newspaper while sipping his coffee, greeted us in English.

While we ordered our meal and waited, he finished reading his newspaper,

drank his coffee and called for his bill which he paid before leaving. While

going out, he again politely wished us goodbye, even saying, “I hope you

enjoy your stay in Switzerland” in English.

After he had left, I asked my visitor if he knew who the man had been. 

Obviously, my visitor did not know the answer. I informed him that we had 

just been greeted by the then serving Swiss President, Mr René Felber. 

My guest thought I was making fun of him. He would not believe me so I 

called the restaurant manager to confirm the veracity of what I had told him.

The manager duly confirmed what I had said. 

My Indian visitor was flabbergasted. He said, “How can this be possible? 

He actually paid his bill before leaving”. 

So, what struck my visitor the most had been the fact that a VIP had 

actually paid his bill! I wonder what he would say if he saw our current

President, Mr Ueli Maurer, personally loading his bags on to a baggage

trolley and wheeling it to a check-in counter just like any ordinary citizen.

His disbelief could only be countered by visual evidence on the TV!

My visitor’s reaction brought back memories of when, as a serving sub-

divisional or district level official, I had been called upon to organise lunches

and dinners for numerous collections of freeloaders travelling with ministers

or bureaucrats in India. 

I seldom remember any politician or bureaucrat actually paying or even 

offering to pay for the bonanza laid out for them. Those who did offer to pay, 

did so at the ridiculously low official daily fare of eleven rupees (today, a

mere 20 cents US) per person or something like that. 

Nobody ever asked how it had been possible to lay out a lavish meal 

comprising several dishes, accompanied by expensive alcoholic beverages,

for such a petty sum. I never found out myself who used to pay for all this

extravaganza at the end of the line. 

Like a good Indian bureaucrat, I just used to pass the buck down the line to 

my junior magistrates and revenue officials. To this day, I am unable to clarify

which poor victim — read, citizen! — who got stuck with paying for all the

freebies on offer.

While working as chief of staff to the President of the Swiss Commission for 

the Presence of Switzerland in Foreign Countries many years ago, I had the

chance of accompanying him to Strasbourg for meetings of the Council of

Europe. I also had the privilege of close interaction with several Swiss

members of parliament over an extended period of 12 to 14 months. 

The contrast to the behavioural pattern of what I had experienced in India 

with politicians was so stark that it has stayed seared in my mind even 

till today. 

I am by no means suggesting that Swiss politicians are angels, but the 

kind of behaviour that Indian politicians or bureaucrats get away with as

a matter of routine in India would torpedo their careers in Switzerland

in a jiffy.

Each such incident deepens my gratitude to Waheguru Almighty for having 

made me settle down in a country like Switzerland where the President

carries his own bags to the check-in counter. 

Where no roads are blocked for hours so that some VIP can, in the name 

of security, be whisked around in convoys of official vehicles. 

Where politicians and bureaucrats pay their bills in restaurants. 

Where grossly sycophantic behaviour is not the general and accepted 

norm. 

Where no red-light beacons or screaming sirens signal the passage of 

VIP vehicles. Indeed, the red-light-beacon culture of officialdom in India

merits a full story in itself.

I might accept India as a true democracy the day I see its President or 

Prime Minister behaving like the Swiss President before his departure

on an official visit abroad.

I don’t think I will ever see such a sight in India during my lifetime. 

You think, maybe, my grandchildren will?

To view the TV news-clip, please CLICK here.

August 15, 2013

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GAYATRI MANTRA AND ITS SCIENTIFIC INTERPRETATION

GAYATRI MANTRA AND ITS SCIENTIFIC INTERPRETATION Gayatri mantra has been bestowed the greatest importance in Vedic dharma.  This mantra has also been termed as Savitri and Ved-Mata, the mother of the Vedas. Om bhur bhuvah swah Tat savitur varenyam Bhargo devasya dheemahi Dhiyo yo nah prachodayat The literal meaning of the mantra is: O God! You are Omnipresent, Omnipotent and Almighty, You are all Light. You are all Knowledge and Bliss. You are Destroyer of fear, You are Creator of this Universe, You are the Greatest of all. We bow and meditate upon Your light. You guide our intellect in the right direction. The mantra, however, has a great scientific importance too, which somehow got lost in the literary tradition. The modern astrophysics and astronomy tell us that our Galaxy called Milky Way or Akash-Ganga contains approximately 100,000 million of stars. Each star is like our sun having its own planet system. We know that the moon moves round the earth and the earth moves round the sun along with the moon. All planets round the sun. Each of the above bodies revolves round at its own axis as well. Our sun along with its family takes one round of the galactic center in 22.5 crore years. All galaxies including ours are moving away at a terrific velocity of 20,000 miles per second. An alternative scientific meaning of the mantra, line by line is provided below.

Line 1: OM BHUR BHUVAH SWAH: Bhur the earth, bhuvah the planets (solar family), swah the Galaxy.  We observe that when an ordinary fan with a speed of 900 RPM (rotations Per minute) moves, it makes noise. Then, one can imagine, what great noise would be created when the galaxies move with a speed of 20,000 miles per second. This is what this portion of the mantra explains that the sound produced due to the fast-moving earth, planets and galaxies is Om. The sound was heard during meditation by Rishi Vishvamitra, who mentioned it to other colleagues. All of them, then unanimously decided to call this sound Om the name of God, because this sound is available in all the three periods of time, hence it is set (permanent). Therefore, it was the first ever revolutionary idea to identify formless God with a specific title (form) called upadhi. Until that time, everybody recognized God as formless and nobody was prepared to accept this new idea. In the Gita also, it is said, “Om-iti ekaksharam brahma”, meaning that the name of the Supreme is Om , which contains only one syllable (8/12). This sound Om heard during samadhi was called by all the seers nada-brahma a very great noise), but not a noise that is normally heard beyond a specific amplitude and limits of decibels suited to human hearing. Hence the rishis called this sound Udgith musical sound of the above, i.e., heaven. They also noticed that the infinite mass of galaxies moving with a velocity of 20,000 miles/second was generating a kinetic energy = 1/2 MV2 and this was balancing the total energy consumption of the cosmos. Hence they named it Pranavah, which means the body (vapu) or store house of energy (prana). Line 2: TAT SAVITUR VARENYAM: Tat that (God), savitur the sun (star), varenyam worthy of bowing or respect. Once the form of a person along with the name is known to us, we may locate the specific person.Hence the two titles (upadhi) provide the solid ground to identify the formless God, Vishvamitra suggested. He told us that we could know (realize) the unknowable formless God through the known factors, viz., sound Om and light of suns (stars). A mathematician can solve an equation x2+y2=4; if x=2; then y can be known and so on. An engineer can measure the width of a river even by standing at the riverbank just by drawing a triangle. So was the scientific method suggested by Vishvamitra in the mantra in the next portion as under:-

Line 3: BHARGO DEVASYA DHEEMAHI: Bhargo the light, devasya of the deity, dheemahi we should meditate.  The rishi instructs us to meditate upon the available form (light of suns) to discover the formless Creator (God). Also he wants us to do japa of the word Om (this is understood in the Mantra). This is how the sage wants us to proceed, but there is a great problem to realize it, as the human mind is so shaky and restless that without the grace of the Supreme (Brahma) it cannot be controlled. Hence Vishvamitra suggests the way to pray Him as under: Line 4: DHIYO YO NAH PRACHODAYAT Dhiyo (intellect), yo (who), nah (we all), prachodayat (guide to right Direction). O God! Deploy our intellect on the right path. Full scientific interpretation of the Mantra: The earth (bhur), the planets (bhuvah), and the galaxies (swah) are moving at a very great velocity, the sound produced is Om , (the name of formless God.) That God (tat), who manifests Himself in the form of light of suns (savitur) is worthy of bowing/respect (varenyam). We all, therefore, should meditate (dheemahi) upon the light (bhargo) of that deity (devasya) and also do chanting of Om. May He (yo) guide in right direction (prachodayat) our(nah) intellect dhiyo. The important points hinted in the mantra are 1) The total kinetic energy generated by the movement of galaxies acts as an umbrella and balances the total energy consumption of the cosmos. Hence it was named as the Pranavah (body of energy). This is equal to 1/2 mv2 (Mass of galaxies x square of velocity.) 2) Realizing the great importance of the syllable OM , the other later date religions adopted this word with a slight change in accent,  viz., Amen and Ameen. So Memorize and Chant Mantra everyday Courtesy :Thanks Sampath Iyengar : USA