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AUSPICIOUS DAYS ARE AHEAD ! Happy New Year 2020 (Post No.2446)

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Posted by me on 1-1-2016 (now posted with a different format and new pictures and additional matter)

Who is a Kududupai man?

A fortune teller as well as a bogey man; a magician cum beggar.

Kudukudu is the sound made by a kettle drum in the hands of a fortune teller in Tamil Nadu and other places of South India. They (always men) are fearsome and roam the streets at the dead of night. If they are not given food or money they curse the people. And the belief is that it will come true like a Gipsy’s curse. They worship the fearsome goddesses like Durga, Chandi, Suli, Veeri, Malayala Bjagavati. It is believed that they can do evil by invoking the powers of those goddesses. Mothers used to frighten the naughty children with the name of this person like a bogey man in the west. But Bharati, the greatest of the modern Tamil poets, use this man  as a positive figure. But here also that there is a curse that if the learned do something wrong they will be utterly destroyed.

A NOVEL FORTUNE TELLER – POEM BY TAMIL  POET SUBRAHMANYA BHARATI (1882-1921)

1.KUDUKUDU KUDUKUDU KUDUKUDU KUDUKUDU

Auspicious days are ahead;

Castes combine; conflicts cease

Speak up, speak up , Sakti, Durga

Predict, predict, propitious days for Vedapura

2.Destitution disappears; affluence is attained

Learning spreads apace; sin ceases to be;

If the learned take to trickery and commit crimes

They ‘ll be ruined, alas, utterly ruined.

குடு குடு குடு குடு குடு குடு குடு குடு;

நல்ல காலம் வருகுது; நல்ல காலம் வருகுது;

சாதிகள் சேருது; சண்டைகள் தொலையுது;

சொல்லடி, சொல்லடி, சக்தி, மாகாளீ!

வேதபுரத்தாருக்கு நல்ல குறி சொல்லு.

தரித்திரம்போகுது; செல்வம் வருகுது;

படிப்பு வளருது; பாவம் தொலையுது;

படிச்சவன் சூதும் பாவமும் பண்ணினால்

போவான், போவான் ஐயோவென்று போவான்!

3.Commerce expands in Vedapura ;

Industry grows; workers prosper;

Sciences flourish; secrets come to light;

Power plants multiply; know-how develops;

Fertile ideas arise in abundance.

4.KUDUKUDU KUDUKUDU

Speak up, speak up, Malayala Bhagavati

Antari , Veeri, Chandika, Sulini

KUDUKUDU KUDUKUDU

வேதபுரத்திலே வியபாரம் பெருகுது;

தொழில் பெருகுது; தொழிலாளி வாழ்வான்

சாத்திரம் வளருது; சூத்திரம் தெரியுது’

யந்திரம் பெருகுது; தந்திரம் வளருது

மந்திரமெல்லாம் வளருது, வளருது;

குடு குடு குடு குடு குடு குடு குடு குடு;

சொல்லடி, சொல்லடி, மலையாள பகவதீ!

அந்தரி, வீரி, சண்டிகை, சூலி

குடு குடு குடு குடு

5. KUDUKUDU  KUDUKUDU

Masters are becoming brave;

Paunch shrinks; diligence spreads;

All forms of wealth grow apace;

Fear dies; sin perishes;

Sciences grow; castes declines;

Eyes  open; justice is perceived;

Old madness vanishes all of a sudden;

Heroism is attained so is honour.

Speak up Sakti, Malayala Bhagavati

Virtue flourishes, virtue thrives.

குடு குடு குடு குடு குடு குடு குடு குடு;

சாமிமார்க்கெல்லாம் தைரியம் வளருது;

தொப்பை சுருங்குது, சுறுசுறுப்பு விளையுது;

எட்டு லட்சுமியும் ஏறி வளருது;

சாத்திரம் வளருது, சாதி குறையுது;

நேத்திரம் திறக்குது, நியாயம் தெரியுது;

பழைய பைத்தியம் படீலென்று தெளியுது;

வீரம் வளருது, மேன்மை கிடைக்குது;

சொல்லடி சக்தி, மலையாள பகவதி;

தர்மம் பெருகுது, தர்மம் பெருகுது.

–பாரதியார்

Tamil original is from Kathai-k-Kothu, year 1939.

English Translation is done by Prof. S Ramakrishnanan ( S R K )

Source book- BHARATI PATALKAL,

TAMIL UNIVERSITY, THANJAVUR, 1989

EDITOR- SEKKIZAR ADIPPODI Dr T N RAMACHANDRAN

நல்ல காலம் வருகுது ( அச்சே தின் ஆனே வாலே ஹைன்) — பாரதியார்

புதிய கோணங்கி

 குடு குடு குடு குடு குடு குடு குடு குடு;

நல்ல காலம் வருகுது; நல்ல காலம் வருகுது;

சாதிகள் சேருது; சண்டைகள் தொலையுது;

சொல்லடி, சொல்லடி, சக்தி, மாகாளீ!

வேதபுரத்தாருக்கு நல்ல குறி சொல்லு.

தரித்திரம்போகுது; செல்வம் வருகுது;

படிப்பு வளருது; பாவம் தொலையுது;

படிச்சவன் சூதும் பாவமும் பண்ணினால்

போவான், போவான் ஐயோவென்று போவான்!

வேதபுரத்திலே வியபாரம் பெருகுது;

தொழில் பெருகுது; தொழிலாளி வாழ்வான்

சாத்திரம் வளருது; சூத்திரம் தெரியுது’

யந்திரம் பெருகுது; தந்திரம் வளருது

மந்திரமெல்லாம் வளருது, வளருது;

குடு குடு குடு குடு குடு குடு குடு குடு;

சொல்லடி, சொல்லடி, மலையாள பகவதீ!

அந்தரி, வீரி, சண்டிகை, சூலி

குடு குடு குடு குடு

குடு குடு குடு குடு குடு குடு குடு குடு;

சாமிமார்க்கெல்லாம் தைரியம் வளருது;

தொப்பை சுருங்குது, சுறுசுறுப்பு விளையுது;

எட்டு லட்சுமியும் ஏறி வளருது;

சாத்திரம் வளருது, சாதி குறையுது;

நேத்திரம் திறக்குது, நியாயம் தெரியுது;

பழைய பைத்தியம் படீலென்று தெளியுது;

வீரம் வளருது, மேன்மை கிடைக்குது;

சொல்லடி சக்தி, மலையாள பகவதி;

தர்மம் பெருகுது, தர்மம் பெருகுது.

–பாரதியார்

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GANDHARI and KUNTI DIED IN FOREST FIRE with VIDURA AND DHRITARASHTRA (Post No.7404)

GANDHARI and KUNTI DIED IN FOREST FIRE with VIDURA AND DHRITARASHTRA (Post No.7404)

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Post No.7404

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Gandhari made Sri Krishna responsible for the  Kurukshetra War  and uttered a fearful curse on the

Yadavas, of which he was the most distinguished representative. She prophesied that a cruel calamity would overtake the house of the Yadavas, inasmuch as Shri Krishna ignored or failed to prevent the ruinous war between the Pandavas and the Kauravas. on the strength of her chastity and ascetism, she even said that Shri Krishna himself in no distant future would fall a prey to a foul death. It is important to bear in this mind that in this connection that Shri Krishna smilingly  accepted this curse and recognised her truthfulness, piety and penance.

After the Kurushetra war, Dhritarastra and Gandhari lived for sixteen years  at Hastinapura under the protection of Pandavas. They forgot to a great extent their grief at the loss of their sons on account of the wonderful care and sympathy bestowed upon them by Yudhisthira . At the end of the sixteenth year, however, they decided to go on a mission of pilgrimage to the Himalayas. In this mission they were accompanied by d Dhritarastra’s half brother Vidura, his minister Sanjaya and Kunti, the mother of the Pandavas .

FAREWELL SPEECH; HASTINAPURAM WEPT

 On the eve of their departure,  Dhritarastra addressed a big assembly of the citizens of Hastinapura and men from the countryside. In this meeting Gandhari appeared by the side of her husband with her eyes bandaged, and made a request to the assembled multitude through her husband asking their forgiveness of the sins of her sons.

The final departure scene of the old sorrowful King Dhritarastra  was pathetic. Kunti came forward to lead the journey, Gandhari  put her hands on the shoulders of Kunti and Dhritarastra  followed Gandhari , placing his hands on her shoulders. Vidura and Sanjaya were on either side of the procession. The citizens of Hastinapura wept like orphans as the procession came out of the main gate of the city, but Dhritarastra and Gandhari and others walked on unmoved.

ALL BURNT ALIVE IN BIG FOREST FIRE

In the Himalayas, they spent a few more years till they were burnt alive by a conflagration which had enveloped that part of the forest in which they lived. . confronted by it they showed remarkable courage and fortitude. They refused to escape from the fire; on the other hand, they sat down on the ground with calmness and in a spirit of resignation welcoming the approach of the fire.

On the day of her passing away from the earth, Gandhari’s eyes were still bandaged, and she made the supreme sacrifice  with unflinching loyalty to her ideals. She exemplifies the best ideals of Indian womanhood through the ages from the days of Mababharata , and remains immortal  in the minds of millions of Indians  who derive their inspiration from the Great Epic.

Source book – Great Women of India, Advaita Ashrama, Almora, Himalayas, 1953

–subham–

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அதிசய நாடு மங்கோலியா! (Post No.7403)

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Post No.7403

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மங்கோலியா என்னும் நாடு சீனாவுக்கும் ரஷ்யாவுக்கும் இடையே சிக்கி இருக்கும் நாடு.

உலகில் அதிகம் மாற்றம் அடையாத பழங்கால நாடு. புத்தமதமும் ஸம்ஸ்க்ருதமும் பெரும் தாக்கத்தை ஏற்படுத்திய பிரதேசம்.

 இது நான் தினமணியில் 15-3-1992ல் எழுதிய கட்டுரை. மங்கோலியாவில் சம்ஸ்க்ருத மொழியின் தாக்கம் பற்றித் தனியே தருகிறேன் .

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முஸ்லீம் தலைகளை பந்தாடிய வீரப் பெண்மணி (Post No.7402)

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கேரளத்தில் வடக்கு மலபாரில் உன்னியர்ச்சா என்ற பெயரை அறியாதோர் எவருமிலர். “வடக்கில் பாட்டுங்கள்” என்ற நாட்டுப்புறப் பாடல்களில்

போற்றப்படும் வீராங்கனை அவர். சுமார் 300 ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன்னர் மலபார் பிரதேசத்தில் சோனகர் என்னும் முஸ்லிம்களின் அட்டூழியம் தலை விரித்தாடியது. இந்துப் பெண்களைக் கடத்தி செல்லுவதும், கற்பழிப்பதும் அவர்களின் அன்றாட வாடிக்கை .

இந்த சூழ்நிலையில் வாழ்ந்த பேரழகி உன்னியர்ச்சா. அவளை குன்னிராமன் என்பவருக்கு மணம் முடித்தனர் . அவர் சரியான தொடை நடுங்கி. ஆனால் இவளோ

வாள்  சுழற்றும் வீராங்கனை. அவளுடைய சகோதரர் அரோமல் சேவகர் கத்திச் சண்டை வீரன்.

ஒரு நாள், உன்னியர்ச்சா , அய்யப்பன் கோவிலுக்குச் செல்ல விரும்பினாள் .  பேரழகி என்பதால்  வெறிபிடித்த முஸ்லீம் காமுகர்கள் இவளைத்

தூக்கிச் சென்று கற்பழிப்பர் என்பது அவளுடைய மாமியாருக்குத் தெரியும். அவள் மகனுக்குக் காப்பாற்றும் சக்தி இல்லை, அவன் ஒரு கோழை என்பதும் தெரியும். ஆகையால் அவள் கோவிலுக்குச செல்லக் கூடாதென்று தடை போட்டாள் .

ஆனால் மருமகளோ இன்றோடு முஸ்லிம் காமுகர்களின் தலைவிரி ஆட்டத்திற்கு முடிவு கட்டுவேன் என்று வீர சபதம் செய்து கணவனுடன் கோவிலுக்குப் புறப்பட்டாள். எதிர்பார்த்தது நடந்தது.

வெறிபிடித்த முஸ்லிம் தலைவன் அந்தப் பெண்ணைக் கடத்தி வாருங்கள் என்று, அலாவுதீன் கில்ஜி உத்தரவு போட்டது போல, கட்டளையிட்டான். அந்தத் தலைவனின் வெறிக்கும்பல் அவளை நெருங்கியது. எடுத்தாள் மறைத்து வைத்திருந்த வாளை . வாழைக் குலையை சீவுவது போல தலைகளை வெட்டிப்

பந்தாடினாள் .தப்பிப்  பிழைத்தோர் குதிங்கால் பிடரியில் அடிக்க தலைவனிடம் ஓடினர் .மேல்மூச்சு கீழ்மூச்சு வாங்க நடந்த விஷயத்தைச் சொன்னார்கள் . உடனே அந்த வெறியன் நானே அவளைக் கடத்தி வருகிறேன் என்று விரைந்து வந்தான்.

அவன் அவளைக் கண்டவுடன் திடுக்கிட்டுப் பின்வாங்கினான். ஏனெனில் தனக்கு வாட்சண்டை சொல்லித்தரும் ஆசிரியரின் சகோதரி அவள் என்பது தெரிந்தது. பெரிய கும்பிடு போட்டுவிட்டு மன்னிப்புக் கேட்டான் . ஆனால் அவள் விடவில்லை.

என் மானத்தைக் காக்க மட்டும் நான் வரவில்லை. உங்கள் வெறித்தனத்துக்குச்  சாவுமணி அடித்து இந்துப் பெண்களைக் காப்பாற்றவே நான் வந்திருக்கிறேன்.

இன்று உங்களுக்கு முடிவு கட்டுவேன் என்று கர்ஜித்தாள் . எல்லோரும் ஓடிப் போய்

ஊர்த் தலைவனைக் கூட்டுப்பிட்டுக் கொண்டு வந்து சமாதானம் பேசினர் . அவர் முதலில் உடைவாளை கீழே போடு தாயே என்று மன்றாடினார். நான் போடுகிறேன். ஆனால் இன்று முதல் ஒரு முஸ்லீம் காம வெறியனும் இந்து மதப் பெண்களைத் தொட

மாட்டோம் என்று சத்தியம் செய்யுங்கள் என்றாள் . அவர்களும் உறுதி மொழி கொடுக்கவே

காட்சி இனிதே முடிந்தது. இந்த சம்பவத்துக்குப் பின்னர் அந்தப் பிரதேசம் முழுதும் இந்துப் பெண்கள் தலை  நிமிர்ந்து கோவில் குளங்களுக்குச்  சென்று வந்தனர்.

இந்த வீராங்கனை பற்றி திரைப்படங்களும் டெலிவிஷன் தொடர்களும் வந்துள்ளன.

ஆனால் வழக்கம் போல, அலாவுதீன் – பதமினி கதைகளைத் திரித்தது போல காமா சோமா என்று உளறிக்கொட்டி கிளறி மூடி இருக்கின்றனர் என்று கேள்வி.

இன்றுவரை மலையாளிகள் அந்த வீரப்  பெண்ணின் வரலாற்றைப் பாடிப் பரவி வருகின்றனர் .

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THINKING FOR RESULTS உதவிக் குறிப்புகள்! – 3 (Post No.7401)

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Post No.7401

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ச.நாகராஜன்

கடந்த நாற்பது வருடங்களுக்கும் மேலாக நான் படித்து வந்த பல நல்ல புத்தகங்களில் முக்கிய பகுதிகளை ஒரு நோட்புக்கில் தனியே எழுதி வைத்துக் கொள்வது என் பழக்கம். அவற்றில் சில குறிப்புகளை இங்கே தொடர்ந்து பார்க்கலாம்.

HELPFUL HINTS

குறிப்பு எண் 4 :

From the book : Thinking For Results

By Christian D.Larson  (1912)

P 1 First Para

That man can change himself, improve himself, recreate himself, control his environment and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought in constructive action. In fact, it is the conviction of all such minds that man can do practically anything within the possibilities of the human domain when he knows how to think, and that he can secure almost any result desired when he learns how to think for results.

P 11

To think according to the laws of growth and to think for a definite purpose – this is the foundation of scientific thinking.

P 15

Peace of mind comes most quickly when we do not try to be peaceful, but simply permit ourselves to be normal. To relax mind and body at frequent intervals will also aid remarkably, but the most important of all is the attainment of the consciousness of peace.

P 16

There is an absolute still centre in your own mind, and you can become conscious of that centre by turning your attention gently and frequently upon the serene within. This should be done several times a day and no matter how peaceful we may feel we should daily seek a still finer realization of this consciousness of peace. The result will be more power because peace conserves more energy.

P 20

The best way to cultivate the mental state of harmony is to adapt yourself consciously to everything and everybody that you meet. Never resist or antagonize anything nor hold yourself aloof from anybody. Wherever you are aim to look for the agreeable side of things and try to act with everything while in that attitude. After a while you will find it an easy matter to meet all things and all persons in their world, and when you can do this you can unite with them in securing results that neither side could have secured alone.

P 23

Adapt yourself to everything and everybody with a view of securing united action for greater good. You will thus continue in perfect harmony, and you will cause every action that may result from your efforts in work directly for the production of the results you have in view.

எனது குறிப்பு :

கிறிஸ்டியன் டி லார்ஸன் (1866 – 1955) அமெரிக்காவில் நியூ தாட் (New Thought) என்ற இயக்கத்தின் நிறுவனர் மற்றும் தலைவர். பல இடங்களிலும் தொடர்ந்து சொற்பொழிவுகளை ஆற்றியவர். நூறு வருடங்கள் கழிந்த பின்னும் இன்றும் இவரது புத்தகங்கள் அச்சிடப்படுகின்றனர்.

இவரது புத்தகங்கள் படிக்கப்பட வேண்டியவை : புத்தகப் பட்டியல் இதோ:

  • The Great Within (1907)
  • Mastery of Fate (1907)
  • How To Stay Young (1908)
  • On the Heights (1908)
  • The Ideal Made Real or Applied Metaphysics for Beginners (1909)
  • Perfect Health (1910)
  • Your Forces and How to Use Them (1910)
  • Demons (A short dramatic monologue)(1911)
  • Business Psychology (1912)
  • How to remain well (1912)
  • Just be Glad” (1912)
  • Mastery of Self (1912)
  • The Mind Cure” (1912)
  • Thinking for Results” (1912)
  • What is Truth” (1912)
  • How the mind works” (1912)
  • The Pathway of Roses (1913)
  • Brains and How to Get Them (1913)
  • Nothing Succeeds Like Success (1916)
  • What Right Thinking Will Do (1916)
  • Healing Yourself(1918)
  • Concentration(1920)
  • Arthur Dimmesdale

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Malayalee Heroine who chopped the Heads of Muslim Molesters (Post No.7400)

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Date – 30 th December 2019

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Unniyarcha

The old ballads of North Malabar – Vadakkil paattungal – contain a tale of a brave girl (early seventeenth century ) who saved the women of her village from being forcibly kidnapped, and in the end brough about communal harmony.

Mulsims used to molest beautiful Hindu girls in North Malabar. No one dared to challenge the rapists.

Unniyarcha , sister of Aaromal Chevakar, a doughty warrior, was married to a coward named Kunnirhaman. One day she wanted to visit a temple of Ayyappan , a few miles from her village, but her mother in law refused to permit her to leave the house even in the company of her husband.  She new what would happen to her from the Muslim Chonakas.

Nothing daunted, the girl took her favourite sword, and with her husband proceeded in the direction of the temple .The headman of the Chonakas (Muslims) – who happened to see her on the way, was enamoured of her beauty and sent his men to carry her away by force. Unniyarcha drew her sword and killed some of them. Their chopped heads rolled on the ground like foot ball. The rest fled and brought their headman himself to the scene, who soon realised that she was the sister of his fencing master. He appealed to both sister and brother to pardon him, but Unniyarcha was inexorable and challenged him and his men to a fight. The chief of the place persuaded the girl to sheath her sword, which she did on headman promising that no woman in the place will be molested in future . Then Muslim rapes stopped in Malabar. One heroic Hindu heroine saved the honour of millions of Hindu women.

Films and TV serials on her were made but with distorted stories.

Source book – Great Women of India, Advaita Ashrama, Almora, Himalayas, 1953

KANNADA HEROINE

Akkadevi

In the list of the famous heroines and administrators of Karnataka  the name of Akkadevi 1010-1064 CE, stands very high. She was a Chalukyan princess who ruled over various divisions of the Chalukyan dominions such as Banavasi , Kisukadu, and Masavadi for nearly half a century.

A few days ago I wrote about Rudramba who ruled for 33 years and her sister Ganapamba who ruled for 40 years. But Rudramba was a full fledged queen where as others are not. Here is a Kannada woman who ruled for half a century. Unlike European rubber stamp queens, Hindu queens and princesses were real rulers and fighters.

Akkadevi  was the daughter of Dashavarman and Bhaagaladevi and was the sister of vikramaditya v and Jayasimha ii, both Chalukyan emperors of Kalyana.  She is described in inscriptions as fierce in battle  and as having subjugated a large number of enemies. She laid a siege to Gokhaje, probably to quell some insurrection.

She is also described as a marvel of virtual qualities and unswerving in her promises.  The seat of her government was VIkramapura ,modern Arashibidi near Bijapur .

She married the Kadamba prince Mayuravarman, who along with her ruled Banavasi in 1037 CE. They had a son named Toyimadeva , who ruled the Banavasi region as a feudatory of the Chalukyan emperor Someshwara in 1064 CE.

MAP OF WESTERN CHALUKYAN EMPIRE

TEMPLE BUILDER

Her name is associated with the foundation of a number of temples.  She also evinced great interest in promoting education.  An inscription of 1021 CE says that she made a large gift of land to feed and clothe 500 students and provided them with free quarters. The fact that she reigned not only in conjunction with her husband but also independently in an indication that she was a personage of considerable reputation and importance in her time  and no less than three Chalukyan emperors had confidence in her administrative ability.

All Indian girls must study the history of Hindu queens and princesses. This must be made a compulsory subject in schools.

Source book – Great Women of India, Advaita Ashrama, Almora, Himalayas, 1953

(Akka Mahadevi, Kannada devotional poetess of 12th century  is different from this Akkadevi)

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புத்தர் பற்றிய ஐந்து அதிசய விஷயங்கள் ! (Post No.7399)

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மஹரிஷி காத்யாயனர்! (Post No.7398)

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Date – 30 December 2019

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Christian Blood Miracle கிறிஸ்தவ ரத்த அதிசயம் (Post No.7397)

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Date – 29th December 2019

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1992 மார்ச் 15 தினமணியில் நான் எழுதிய இத்தாலி நாட்டு நேப்பிள்ஸ் நகர கத்தோலிக்க சாமியாரின் ரத்த அதிசயம் பற்றிய  கட்டுரையை இத்துடன் இணைத்துள்ளேன் . 2019 செப்டம்பரில் ரத்தம் இளகிய செய்தி கத்தோலிக்க பத்திரிகைகளில் வெளியானது. அதாவது ஆண்டு தோறும் அதிசயம் நிகழ்கிறது .

The blood was shown to have liquefied shortly after 10 a.m. during Mass in the Naples’ Cathedral (19 September 2019).

The miracle of the liquefiction of the blood of early Church martyr St. Januarius took place Thursday in Naples.

The blood was shown to have liquefied shortly after 10 a.m. during Mass in the Naples’ Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary.

The Mass was celebrated by Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Archbishop of Naples, who in his homily, strongly criticized the violent crime of Neapolitan streets.

Despite the city’s recurring miracle, “the evil that the hateful and violent killers commit in Naples is limitless,” he said.” In effect they try to kill at birth just the possibility of making a future…”

This, he noted, generates fear and insecurity, and goes against the common good.

“We must ask ourselves: does Naples still have a great and sincere heart? Us citizens of today’s Naples have to answer this question with truth, therefore, with realism, with honesty and courageously, without letting ourselves be taken by a false nostalgia of the times we once had,” he stated.

St. Januarius, or San Gennaro in Italian, the patron of Naples, was a bishop of the city in the third century, whose bones and blood are preserved in the cathedral as relics. He is believed to have been martyred during Diocletian persecution.

The reputed miracle is locally known and accepted, though has not been the subject of official Church recognition. The liquefaction usually happens at least three times a year: September 19, the saint’s feast day, the Saturday before the first Sunday of May, and December 16, the anniversary of the 1631 eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

During the miracle, the dried, red-colored mass confined to one side of the reliquary becomes blood that covers the entire glass. In local lore, the failure of the blood to liquefy signals war, famine, disease or other disaster.

The blood did not liquefy in December 2016, but Monsignor Vincenzo De Gregorio, abbot of the Chapel of the Treasure of San Gennaro, said it was a sign that Catholics should pray rather than worry about what the lack of miracle could mean.

“We must not think of disasters and calamities. We are men of faith and we must pray,” he said at the time.

The vial has sometimes changed upon the visit of a pope.

On March 21, 2015, Pope Francis met with priests, religious and seminarians at the cathedral and gave a blessing with the relic.

Sepe then received the vial back from the pope and noted that the blood had partially liquefied.

The last time blood liquefied in the presence of a pope was in 1848 when Bl. Pius IX visited. The phenomenon didn’t happen when St. John Paul II visited the city in October 1979, or when Benedict XVI visited in October 2007.

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QUOTATIONS ON RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY FROM DR S RADHAKRISHNAN’S BOOKS (Post No.7396)

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JANUARY 2020 CALENDAR

MORE QUOTATIONS ARE GIVEN BELOW FROM THE BOOKS OF SARVEPALLI RADHAKRISHNAN (1888-1975) GREAT PHILOSOPHER AND EX PRESIDENT OF INDIA. HIS BIRTHDAY SEPTEMBER 5 IS TEACHERS DAY IN INDIA.

AUSPICIOUS DAYS IN JANUARY 2020- 20,27, 30

FESTIVAL DAYS -JAN.1 NEW YEAR DAY; 6 VAIKUNDA EKADASI; 10 ARUDRA DARSAN IN SHIVA TEMPLES; 14- BOGI/ BONFIRE DAY; 15 PONGAL/ MAKARA SANKRANTI; 16- KANU/RICE PUDDING FOR CATTLE DAY, TAMIL POET THIRUVALLUVAR DAY; 17  FARMERS DAY IN TAMIL NADU; 24 THAI AMAVASAI/ DAY FOR DEPARTED SOULS; 26 REPUBLIC DAY OF INDIA; 30- GANDHIJI DEATH ANNIVERSARY

NEWMOON/AMAVASYAI- 24; FULLMOON/PAURNAMI-10;

HINDU FASTING DAYS EKADASI- JANUARY 6, 20/21

JANUARY 1 WEDNESDAY

True religion is born of spirit, not of flesh and blood, not of codes and customs, not of races and nations. The life of spirit consists precisely in being free from these things and in penetrating into true being.

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JANUARY  2 THURSDAY

Dogmas and codes are not an absolute embodiment of religious truth. They express particular stages in man’s spiritual development. What is revealed is distorted and assimilated according to the make up and spiritual development of the persons receiving them.

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JANUARY  3 FRIDAY

A man’s religion must be his own and not simply accepted on trust or imposed by authority. While trust and authority may put him on his way, it is his own independent search that will take him to the goal.

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 JANUARY 4 SATURDAY

 Creative power of the spirit has not been seen in its widest scope. It has not yet achieved its full stature. Civilization is in its infancy and religion yet in the making. Human progress is to be defined as the progress by which society is transformed increasingly in a  spiritual way.

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JANUARY 5 SUNDAY

So long as man has to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow, he will spend his energies in the pursuit of food, but if society is organised with courage and vision so as to secure  for all members food , clothing and shelter, the individuals will be freed for the pursuit of higher things of mind and spirit.

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JANUARY  6 MONDAY

It is not enough to change outward forms and institutions. We must transform the passions and feelings of men. We require not a revolution in opinion, but a revolution in behaviour.

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 JANUARY 7 TUESDAY

In Greek thought Plato and Aristotle conceived the Divine being as self sufficient in His own perfection and undisturbed by any changes in the world. Plato sets up a hierarchy of ideas with the Idea of Good at its apex. For Aristotle God is the unmoved mover, a thought thinking itself, self enclosed operative only by the appeal of its own perfection.

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JANUARY 8 WEDNESDAY

The God of the Hebrews is of a different type. He is personal and active in history and interested in the changes and chances of this developing world. He is a being who holds communication with us

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JANUARY  9 THURSDAY

Christianity represents a blend of the Hebrew and the Greek traditions, though it has not yet succeeded in reconciling them.

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Arudhra day in Shiva Temple; from Lalgudi Veda

JANUARY  10 FRIDAY

The Hindu is aware of this fundamental problem and as early as the period of Upanishads we find attempts to reconcile the doctrine of the changeless perfection of the Absolute with the conviction that God is also responsible for this changing world.

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JANUARY  11 SATURDAY

God is the timeless spirit attempting to realise realise timeless values on the plane of time. God is the definitisation of the Absolute in reference to the vales of the world.

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JANUARY 12  SUNDAY

Life grows to some end and the end is the growth of the spirit. A universe that has produced man cannot be indifferent to his highest good.

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JANUARY  13 MONDAY

Religious geniuses are devotees of the ideal of universal brotherhood, based on the conception of the sanctity of the human person.

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JANUARY 14 TUESDAY

Plato in his Seventh Epistle declares, his intention of publishing nothing on his Idea of the Good “There is no writing of mine n this subject and nor  shall be. It is not capable of expression like other branches of study  but as the long intercourse and common life spent upon the  thing, a light  is suddenly kindled as from a leaping spark, and when it has reached the soul, it thenceforward finds nourishment for itself”.

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JANUARY 15 WEDNESDAY

Religion is, in essence, experience of or living in contact with ultimate reality. It is not a subjective phenomenon, not mere cultivation of the inner life, but the apprehension of something that stands over against the individual.

Pongal is Makara Sankranti

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JANUARY  16 THURSDAY

we cannot prove the reality of god in the same way in which we prove the existence of a chair or a table. For god is not an object like other objects in nature. God is spirit which is indistinct from the knowing subject or the known object. All proofs for the existence of god fail because they conceive of god as an objective reality. The divine is manifested in spiritual life or experience.

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JANUARY 17 FRIDAY

Spiritual geniuses possess the highest that man can possess, constant contact with the creative principle of life which is the manifestation, co incidence with the divine will, serene calm, inward peace which no passion can disturb, no persecution can dismay.

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JANUARY 18 SATURDAY

 If art initiates us into truth, if the object of poetry is “truth which is its own testimony” (Wordsworth), it may be well that even religious experience makes a real contribution to the understanding of  the world, and possess a profound metaphysical significance.

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 JANUARY 19 SUNDAY

Simply because there are persons to whom religious experience is unknown, we cannot say  that it is either unreal or impossible. Our limited experience is not the standard for all.

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JANUARY  20 MONDAY

There are many for whom beauty is a word and music only a noise, but that does not mean that there is no reality in the artist’s experience. Again religious experience is exceptional only in the sense all genius is exceptional.

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JANUARY 21 TUESDAY

The sceptics dismiss the experience of saints and mystics as due to unsoundness of mind or psychological tricks. They are perhaps justified by the history of religious experience where it has often been confused with emotional thrills and edifying  feelings. This fact only reminds us of the need for careful scrutiny and examination of what  claims to be religious experience.

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JANUARY  22  WEDNESDAY

Simply because religion has often been mistaken for what it is not and got mixed up with fantastic notions  and wanton cruelties, we cannot disregard the entire field of religious experience as baseless; we are nowadays reverent even to the experience of ghosts.

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JANUARY  23 THURSDAY

Most of us are slaves of impulse and emotion, habit and automatism. We are not normally aware of the large influence of automatic thinking, of mental habit and the great hold which our past experience has on our present outlook and decisions.

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 JANUARY  24 FRIDAY

We eat and drink, play and work, attend to business and adopt hobbies not because we have chosen these activities for ourselves but because the environment in which we grew up indicates them for us. We accord to society what it expects from us, fulfil the duties which our station assigns to us. This is passive acquiescence and not active creation. We do not live our lives but in a sense are lived by our conditions. this cannot go for long.

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JANUARY 25 SATURDAY

Society makes large demands on our life and adaptation to them is not always easy. Sometimes we may feel that we are acting as traitors to humanity, by obeying the rules which our narrow groups impose on us. Often personal relationships happen to be unfulfilled

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JANUARY 26 SUNDAY

Science can dissolve the physical world into electrons and bombard the atom but cannot account for  the genius who can do all these things, for the noble human countenance , for the expression of its eyes and the affections that shine through them.

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JANUARY  27 MONDAY

A great writer on aesthetics Theodar Lipps, regards artistic intuition as an act of empathy (Einfuhlung) on the analogy of sympathy. If sympathy means feeling with empathy means feeling into. When we contemplate an object , we project ourselves into it and feel its inward rhythm.

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JANUARY  28 TUESDAY

If a work of art fails it is due to lack of empathy. In a Sanskrit drama Malavikagnimitram (ii-2) where the picture fails to bring out the beauty of the original, the failure is attributed to imperfect concentration of the painter.

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JANUARY 29 WEDNESDAY

Act of pure contemplation is possible only for perfectly free minds which look at the objects with utter humility and reverence. This freedom is as rare as that purity of heart which is the condition of seeing god. It is a state in which all our energies are heightened, taunted and sublimated. We draw or paint not with our brains but with our whole blood and being.

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JANUARY  30 THURSDAY

Art is the utterance of life. It is the expression of soul’s vision and is not wholly rational. It oversteps the limits of the rational and has, in Bacon’s phrase , something strange in its proportion.

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 JANUARY  31 FRIDAY

Mathew Arnold said that when Wordsworth and Byron were really inspired,

Nature took the pen from their hands and wrote for them.

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