Mother Theresa is not so saintly: London Newspaper (Post No. 2643)

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Date: 18 March 2016

 

Post No. 2643

 

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(India has released three postage stamps for Mother Theresa)

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Evening Standard published from London published write up this evening (18th March 2016) about Mother Theresa; it is written by a regular columnist Dan Jones:-

 

Mother Theresa is not so saintly

“The Vatican says the late Mother Theresa will become a saint on September 4. No doubt this gives the catholic faithful great cheer. But not me, the two miracles ascribed to her are totally lame.

Back in the day,

Saints could turn walking sticks into trees (St Patrick),

Caused animals to speak in human voice (St Edmund the Martyr),

Blood from their stigmata (St Francis of Assisi and others),

Flew in the sky (St Joseph of Cuperinto),

Prophesised the future (St Malachy),

Dried wet things off without a towel (St Margaret of Scotland) etc.

 

Mother Theresa has two recognised miracles to her name: healing abdominal disease and a brain tumour. With all due respect, this is not magic, it is Homeopathy”.

 

Evening Standard, London, Page 15, dated 18th March 2016.

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10,000 Saints!

To make one a saint at least two miracles are required.

There are 10,000 saints in Roman Catholic religion. Sometimes they are made saints in bulk. Pope Francis made over 800 people of an Italian city saints at one stroke. They were all beheaded by Muslims when they refused to convert to Islam. Sometimes forty people were made saints. So the number is increasing.

 

Some of the miracles attributed to earlier saints were also challenged by the scientists and the general public.

 

–subham-

 

 

 

Wisdom from Sanskrit couplets! Always Remember Five People! (Post No 2631)

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Date: 14 March 2016

 

Post No. 2631

 

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Mother and Father

You must always remember the following five:-

Janani – Mother

Janmadaataa- Father

Vidyaadaataa – Teacher

Raastra – Motherland

Dharmopadestaa – Teacher of Dharma

 

Janani Janmadata ca suvidyam pradadati yah

Raastram Dharmopadestaa ca pancakam santatam smaret

 

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To attain full Vedic Knowledge, remember the following five:

Gananaatha

Sarasvatii

Ravi

Sukra

Brhaspati

Gananaathasarasvatii ravisukrabrhaspatin

Pancaitani smarennityam vedavanipravruttaye

My comments: Gananatha stands for Siva and Ganesh. All the Vedic prayers start with a hymn on Ganesh: Gananam tva ganapathihum…………

Sarasvati- Goddess of Knowledge

Ravi is Sun, also the symbol for Veda Mata Gayatri.

Sukra (Venus) and Brhaspati (Jupiter) stand for the teachers of Demons and Angels/Devas respectively. Both of them are praised as Two Great Brahmins in Tamil and Sanskrit literature. They were the most famous teachers of ancient Hindu world.

If one remembers all the above five, they derive great inspiration to imbibe more.

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For Digestion of Food

Agastya

Kumbhakarana

Sani

Vadavaanala

Vrkodara (Bhima)

Agastim kumbhakarnam ca sanim ca vadavanalam

Aharaparipapakartam smrami ca vrkodaram

 

Source: Encyclopaedia of Numerals by The Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute, Chennai 600 004

 

My comments:

If you know the mythological stories of these people, then you will understand better the logic behind these five names.

1.Agastya was a short person who travelled from North India to South India at the request of Lord Siva to solve the problem of population explosion in the North. At that time South India was least populated. Moreover he was a great Hindu engineer who diverted the River Kaveri in to the plains of Tamil Nadu and laid a new road route to South India via Vindhya Mountains. He also crossed the Bay of Bengal n a naval expedition to South East Asia and established Hindu empire there. But all these facts are hidden in mythological stories (Please read my previous research papers).

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At that time South India was infested with cannibals. One of the cannibals Ilvala killed lot of seers. He used to ‘cook’ his brother Vatapi and feed the seers. As soon as they ate ‘him’, he used to call his brother Vatapi to come out and he would do it by tearing open the  stomachs of the seers. Ilvala tried the same trick with Agastya. Knowing the cunningness of Ilvala, Agastya ‘ate’ Vatapi dish and said “Vatapi jeerno Bhava”, when Ilvala called him. But he died inside the stomach of Agastya when he said “Let Vatapi get digested” (vatapi jeerna bhava).

 

2.Kumbhakarana used to eat for six months and sleep for the next six months. He was the brother of Ravana, the king and demon of Sri Lanka. Though he was a great eater, he got everything digested. If someone sleeps peacefully like Kumbha karna after a big meal, food will get easily digested. We don’t need to sleep for six months like him. You need a good, long and sound sleep for good digestion.

 

3.Vadavanala is the submarine fire in Hindu mythology. During volcanic eruptions under the ocean, it comes out and make Tsunamis to happen. Tsunamis create mysterious fires and devour lands and other objects on its way. If one could remember it, he would get the confidence of digesting anything.

4.Vrkodara alias Bheema was one of the five Pandava brothers. Bheema would consume anything that comes his way. When a demon called Bakasura who killed villagers, Bheema went all alone, ate the carts load of food sent for him and killed the demon Bakasura as well. So he stands for good appetites, great food and easy digestion.

 

5.Sani graha, planet Saturn, is in charge of longevity, disease and death in Hindu astrology. He is in charge of large intestines and feet. Apart from this, my friend and priest Sri M N Kalyanasundaram of Trichy, living in London, gave me a reasonable explanation to link Sani/Saturn with digestion. According to our Hindu astrology, Sani/Saturn governs the metal IRON. And in our blood vessels, the most important metal is iron. If haemoglobin is less, all problems crop up. So doctors first check our iron (haemoglobin) level as soon as we go into the clinic with some complaints. That way Sani is connected with blood and digestion.

 

So if one wishes that he or she should live for long without any disease, one should know digestion and absorption are essential. Remember the above five great personalities who got digested anything in their way!

 

We know people who eat some tablets for digestion after dinner. But if they give some positive thoughts about the five characters mentioned here, it will improve their digestion. It is more of a psychological treatment rather than a physical treatment.

 

–subham-

 

 

 

‘Women in state affairs are like Monkeys in Glass Shops’ (Post No 2625)

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Date: 12 March 2016

 

Post No. 2625

 

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JNU Ignoramuses burnt Manu Smrti!

 

Show me one ancient book where women are not criticised, where women are not degraded, where women are not presented negatively. There is no book in the world which praised women sky high except the Vedas and Manu Smrti. The Wedding Mantras of the Vedas are more beautiful than the love duets in our romantic films. If one looks at ancient Tamil literature there are hundreds of negative remarks on women. If you look at the proverb book in any world language there are hundreds of anti-women proverbs and sayings. But some idiots at the JNU in Delhi, have printed 40 verses of Manu Smrti and burnt them a few days ago, as reported in all Indian Newspapers. Immediately a professor of JNU said that this is what they teach at JNU. As soon as the students are enrolled, periodical brainwashing starts where all the anti-Hindu materials are distributed by the communist and communalist elements. All Indians know that we don’t use Manu Smrti, but only Ambedkar Smrti, I mean , The Constitution of India.

 

The following Manu slokas/couplets are from my 2013 and 2014 blogs. Then I am going to give you all the anti-women proverbs from English Proverb book. Now I repeat – Show me one ancient book where women are praised like in the Vedas or Manu Smriti. Again I repeat: Show me one ancient book where women are not criticised. The fact of the matter is they criticise women when they act like bitches or prostitutes and they are praised sky high where they act like chaste women or women with motherly affection.

 

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Manu, author of the great law book Manava Dharma Shastra, says,

 

‘’women must be honoured and adorned by their fathers, brothers, husbands and bothers-in-law, who desire their own welfare. Manu 3-55

 

‘’Where women are honoured, there the gods are pleased; but where they are not honoured, no sacred rite yields rewards. Manu 3-56

 

Where the female relations live in grief, the family soon wholly perishes; but that family where they are not unhappy ever prospers. 3—57

 

The houses, on which the female relations, not being duly honoured, pronounce a curse, perish completely, as if destroyed by magic’’ Manu 3-58

 

Hence men, who seek their own welfare, should always honour women on holidays and festivals with gifts of ornaments, clothes and dainty food. 3-59

 

 

“ Yatra naryast pujyante ramante tatra devatah

Yatraitastu na pujyante sarvastatraphalah kriyah”

Manu smriti 3-56, Mahabharata 13-45-5

 

‘Where women are worshipped, there the gods are delighted; but where they are not worshipped, all religious ceremonies become futile’—Manu Smriti.

 

One acharya/Guru excels ten Upadhyayas/teachers in glory; a father excels 100 acharyas/Gurus in glory; but a MOTHER excels even a thousand fathers in glory (Manu 2-145)

 

“Her father protects her in childhood, her husband protects her in youth, and her sons protect her in old age; a woman is never independent”. Manu IX-9 (The meaning is that she is always protected and not left alone without support)

 

And of feminine forms I am fame(Kirti), prosperity (Sri), speech (Vac), memory (Smrti) , intelligence (Medha), firmness(Dhrti) and patience (Kshama).—Bhagavad gita—X-34

 

All good qualities are kept in feminine forms.

 

As a contrast western countries burnt 200,000 women at stakes branding them witches. The most famous woman thus burnt alive was Joan of Arc.

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60+ Anti-Women Proverbs!

 

Anti -Women Proverbs from The Peguin Dictionary of Proverbs, Collection of 6000 proverbs, first published in 1983

 

1.Women are the snares of Satan

2.Women are the Devil’s nets

3.A wicked woman and an evil is three half pence worse than the devil

4.There is no devil so bad as She Devil

5.Women and Dogs set men together by ears.

 

6.No war without a woman.

7.No mischief but a woman or a priest at the bottom of it.

8.Weal and women cannot pan,

But woe and women can (pan means come together)

9.Women’scounsel is cold

10.Take heed of  a young wench, a prophetess and a Latin woman.

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11.A morning sun, and a wine-bred child and a Latin-bred woman seldom end well.

12.Women are like wasps in their anger

13.hell hath no fury like a woman scorned (William Congreve1670-1729)

14.Women in state affairs are like monkeys in glass shops.

 

  1. Women naturally deceive, weep and spin.

 

 

16.Women may blush to hear what they were not ashamed todo.

17.A maid and virgin is not alone.

18.Maidens should be meek till they be married

19.Women are saints in Church, angelsin the street, and devils at home.

20.Trust not a woman when she weeps.

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21.When an ass climbs a ladder, we may find wisdom in women

22.A woman cuts her wisdom teeth when she is dead.

23.A woman’s advice is no great thing, but he who wont take it is a fool.

 

 

24.If a woman were as little as she is good, a pea pod would make her a gown and a hood.

25.Woeful is the household that wants a woman

26.Women are necessary evils.

27.A woman is a weather cock.

 

28.A woman’s mind and a winter wind change oft

29.Women are as wavering as the wind

30.A woman’s thoughts are after thoughts (Indian proverb)

31.A woman either loves or hates in extremes.

32.Women must have their wills while they live, because they make none when they die.

 

33.Swine, women, and bees cannot be turned

34.Forbid a thing, and that women will do.

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35.It is no more pity to a see a woman weep, then to see a goose go barefoot.

36.A woman’s sword is her tongue, and she does not let it rust.

37.Arthur could not tame woman’s tongue (King Arthur).

 

38.A woman’s tongue wags like a lamb’s tail.

39.A woman’s tongue is the last thing about her that dies.

40.One tongue is enough for a woman.

41.Women are great  talkers.

 

42.women, priests, and poultry, have never enough.

43.A ship and a woman are ever repairing.

44.Two daughters and a back door are three arrant thieves ( A reference to the expense of bringing up daughters)

45.Dally not with women or money.

46.A woman and a glass are ever in danger.

47.Who has a woman has an eel by the tail.

48.Women and music should never be dated (age of women should never be asked or disclosed.)

49.Never trust a woman, even if she has borne you seven children (Japanese Proverb)

50.From the evil woman guard yourself and the good one never trust.

 

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51.A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat them the better they be.

52.Tell a woman she is fair, and soon she will turn fool.

53.Maids say No and take it.

54.Saying No a woman shakes her head lengthwise (meaning yes)

55.Women in mischief are wiser than men.

 

56.A woman is flax, man is fire, the devil comes and blows the bellows.

57.Woman is the confusion of man.

58.Men get wealth and women keep it.

59.A clever man will build a city, a clever woman will lay it low (Chinese proverb)

60.A woman is the weaker vessel

61.A man o straw is worth a woman of gold.

62.Man, woman and devil are three degrees of comparison.

63.A bad woman is worse than a bad man

64.The female of the species is more deadly than male (Rudyard Kipling)

65.Deeds are males and words are females

66.A man is as old as he feels, and a woman is as old as she looks.

 

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I have already listed 300 Tamil proverbs on women in three parts. I have given most of the Sanskrit quotes in different articles. I have 150 more Sanskrit quotations on women which I will give separately. No ancient culture is women friendly if you go by the literature. So don’t be foolish to look at some verses in Manu Smrti which is not followed by anyone.

–Subham-

Science in Hinduism! Arti Mantra and the Science behind it! (Post No 2623)

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Date: 12 March 2016

 

Post No. 2623

 

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A mother was talking to her son about the Sun. Her son became curious and wanted to look at the sun. Immediately she lighted a candle and took him outside to show the sun during broad day light. Even that little boy started laughing at his mother’s action. Neighbours watched this with great amusement. The boy asked her, “Mum! Why do you need a candle to show to show me the sun which is million times or billion times brighter than this candle?” (Children are very intelligent nowadays; they watch lot of good and bad things on TV. Actually she wanted to compare the brightness and explain.)

 

There is a beautiful ARTI mantra from the Upanishad which Hindu priests recite at the temples during Deepa Aradhana time (showing lamps to God as a finale) illustrating this Sun- Candle light scene!

Hindu priests recite this Mantra to God showing a little lamp or camphor to God who is billion and billions of time brighter than sun and beg to god not to laugh at him.

न तत्र सूर्यो भाति न चन्द्रतारकं
नेमा विद्युतो भान्ति कुतोऽयमग्निः।
तमेव भान्तमनुभाति सर्वं
तस्य भासा सर्वमिदं विभाति॥१५॥

इति काठकोपनिषदि द्वितीयाध्याये द्वितीया वल्ली॥

 

Na tatra suryo bhati na candra tarakam

nema vidyuto bhanti kutoyam agnihi

tameva bhantam anubhati sarvam

tasya bhasa sarvam idam vibhati

 

Meaning:-

 

There the sun does not shine, nor do the moon and the stars. These streaks of lightning do not shine there either, (so) what to speak of this fire? That, shining, makes all others shine. By virtue of its luminosity, all these (manifestations) are illuminated.

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My friend Kalyana Kurukkal of Trichy, living in London, immediately remindedme of Adi Shankar’s Saundarya lahari sloka:-

Pradhipa-jvalabhir dhivasa-kara-neerajana-vidhih
Sudha-suthes chandropala-jala-lavair arghya-rachana;
Svakiyair ambhobhih salila-nidhi-sauhitya karanam
Tvadiyabhir vagbhis thava janani vacham stutir

 

Meaning:

Oh Goddess who is the source of all words,
This poem which is made of words,
That you only made,
Is like showing the camphor lamp to the Sun,
Is like offering as oblation to the moon,
The water got from the moon stone,
And is like offering water worship, to the sea.

 

What is the science in it?

 

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Our ancestors knew that there are objects with the brightness of billions of suns, but god cannot be compared with even such objects. This is not clearly said in the above lines. But Manikkavasagar, Tirumular and several other  saints have said them in very clear words. Manikavasagar, a Tamil saint compares all the universes to dust particles we see in streaks of sunlight. We took all these scientific facts for granted because science is a pygmy before Hindu religion! Ramakrishna Paramahamsa warns youths with a scientific bent of mind : “Don’t waste your time in counting the number of leaves on a tree!” (search yourself and then the cause of the tree first).

 

Western writers misled the entire world by saying that this person discovered this or that; but if you look at the books written by Russians or Chinese they have given different names from their own countries. But the truth is all these ‘discoveries’ are known to Hindu children from their birth from time immemorial! I will give you just two examples:-

 

1.Our earth is round in shape: all the words for earth in ancient Sanskrit and Tamil literature (Andam, Mandalam etc) say the round earth surrounded by sea in thousands of lines. But westerners take credit for it.

2.Billion Suns: when the westerners were roaming the lands of Europe without clothes or half clad, Hindus were comparing God to million or billion suns. At that time they did not colonise Americas and Australia. They did not even know what is Sun? But Hindu children were praying to God with the brightness of 10 million suns= Surya koti Samparabha. Koti= ten million is one of the small numbers in our Brahmanas literature (1000BCE). At that time Greeks, Tamils, Chinese, Hebrew speakers did not even start writing! Viswa Rupa Darsan of Bhagavad Gita (11-12) explains it beautifully well: Divi Surya Sahasrasya Bhavet!

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Since I have written over 2000 articles on these things, I don’t want to repeat them.

 

–Subham–

How do you select a perfume for your wife? (Post No.2620)

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Date: 11 March 2016

 

Post No. 2620

 

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1.Woman’s Suffrage

 

One evening when Lloyd George was addressing a meeting of hostile suffragettes, one woman, in an ugly mood, rose and said, if you were my husband I would give you poison.”

 

Lloyd George known for his ready wit, snapped back,

 

“My dear lady, if I were your husband I would take the poison.

 

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2.Dog and Perfume

 

The story is told of an ingenious young man who desired to present his sweet heart with a gift. He decided that perfume would be appropriate, but he did not know the name of the brand she used, and was too shy to ask her. He solved the problem by taking her little pet dog for a walk. Snatching the animal into a store , he proceeded to instruct the astonished clerk to wave the stoppers of a large number  of perfumes under the nose of the rather indifferent dog. At last came a perfume which caused the animal to jump up excitedly and wag its tail. On this evidence he bought his gift which turned out to be right.

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3.How to bargain?

 

It happened on one of those downtown Manhattan streets where the cloak and suitors rush out and seize the passerby by the arm. Look, said one of them eagerly to the man he seized

 

A fine suit, the best, nice cut, fine quality materials. To you fifteen dollars.

 

No, said the customer trying to break from him .

Look said the clothier dragging his victim a little closer to the shop, a special cut , with cuffs even ; the last suit. To you a special 12 dollars.

 

“No”, said the man trying to pull free.

 

An opportunity that that shouldn’t be passed up, continued the salesman, look because it is early, to start the day right the first sale 8 dollars.

 

“Nothing doing”, snarled the customer.

 

“My god”, wailed the proprietor, throwing his hands up into the air, such a person. “To make the thing right,to start the day. I started some I should finish it. I am giving it to you for nothing”.

 

“Not without two pairs of pants!”, said the customer

 

—Subham–

 

இந்துமதமும் விஞ்ஞானமும்! அற்புதமான தீபாராதனை மந்திரம்! (Post No 2619)

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Date: 11 March 2016

 

Post No. 2619

 

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ஒருசிறுவனுக்குச் சூரியனைப் பார்க்க ஆசை ஏற்பட்டது. “அம்மா! எனக்கு சூரியனைக் காட்டு” என்றான். அம்மா, ஒரு மெழுகுவர்த்தியை ஏற்றிக்கொண்டு வாசலுக்கு வந்தாள். அதை உயர்த்தி “இதோ பார்! சூரியன்” என்று காட்டினாள். அந்தப் பையனுக்கே சிரிப்பு வந்துவிட்டது. “சூரியனைக் காட்ட, எதற்கம்மா மெழுகுவர்த்தி?” என்றும் கேட்டுவிட்டான். இதை வேடிக்கை பார்த்துக் கொண்டிருந்த பக்கத்து வீட்டுக்காரர்களுக்கும் சிரிப்பு தாங்கவில்லை. இதே கதைதான் தினமும் கோவிலில் நடக்கிறது.

 

கோவில் ஆரத்தியின்போது, ஐயர்கள் பலவிதமான தீபங்களை ஏற்றி சுவாமி சிலைக்கு முன் காட்டுகிறார்கள். ஆனால் இந்த ஐயர்கள் சாதாரணமானவர்கள் இல்லை. அவர்கள் மெத்தப் படித்த மேதைகள். வானியலை நன்கு அறிந்த பரம்பரையில் வந்த விஞ்ஞானிகள் அவர்கள். இன்று வானியல் அறிஞர்கள் பல்லாயிரம் கோடி சூரியன்கள் இருக்கின்றன என்று சொல்லுவதற்கு முன்பே, பல ஆயிரம் சூரிய மண்டலங்கள் இருக்கின்றன என்பதை அறிந்தவர்கள் கோவில் ஐயர்கள்!

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மாணிக்கவாசகர் போன்ற தமிழ்ப் பெரியோர்கள் இதைத் தெள்ளத் தெளிவாகவே பாடி வைத்துள்ளனர். ஆகையால் தீபாராதனை காட்டும் ஐயர்கள், கடோபநிஷத்திலிருந்து ஒரு மந்திரத்தைச் சொல்லி தீப ஆராதனை செய்கின்றனர். இதோ அந்த மந்திரம்:–

 

ந தத்ர சூர்யோ பாதி ந சந்திர தாரகம்

நேமா வித்யுதோ பாதி குதோ அயமக்னி:

தமேவ பாந்தமனுபாதி சர்வம்

தஸ்ய பாசா சர்வமிதம் விபாந்தி

 

“அங்கே சூரியன் பிரகாசிப்பதில்லை, சந்திரனோ, நட்சத்திரங்களோ பிரகாசிப்பதில்லை. மின்னல் கீற்றுகளும் அங்கு ஒளிர்வதில்லை. ஆகையால் நான் காட்டும் இந்த தீபம் எம்மாத்திரம்? உன் ஒளியே எல்லாவற்றுக்கும் ஒளியூட்டுகிறது. அதுதான் ஒளிரும் பொருட்களுக்கெல்லாம் ஒளி தருகிறது.”

 

ஐயர்களுக்கும் புரிகிறது. பல்லாயிரம் கோடி சூர்யப் பிரகாசம் உடைய உனக்கு இந்த சின்ன தீபத்தைக் காட்டியவுடன் என்னைப் பார்த்து சிரித்துவிடாதே. உன்னுடைய அளவற்ற ஒளிக்கு முன்னால் சூரியனோ, சந்திரனோ, நடசத்திரங்களோ பிரகசிக்காது என்பது எனக்கு நன்கு தெரியும். நீயல்லவோ அவைகளுக்கு ஒளியூட்டுகிறாய் என்று சம்ஸ்கிருதத்தில் சொல்லிவிட்டு ஒரு சூட தீபாராதனை காட்டுகிறார். உடனே நாமும் கைகளை உயரத் தூக்கி, கன்னத்தில் போட்டுக் கொண்டு, கடவுள் நாமத்தை உச்சரித்துவிட்டு, பின்னர் தீபாரதனையைக் கண்ணில் ஒத்திக் கொள்கிறோம்.

 

 

மெழுகுவர்த்தி மூலம் சூரியனைக் காட்ட முயன்ற அம்மாவைப் பார்த்து எல்லோரும் சிரித்ததைப் போல என்னைப் பார்த்து சிரித்துவிடாதே; எனக்கு உன் பெருமை தெரியும் என்பது இதில் தொனிக்கிறது

 

இந்துக்களின் வீட்டிலுள்ள சின்னக் குழந்தை கூட, முதலில் சொல்லும் கணபதி துதியில், ‘சூர்ய கோடி சமப்ரபா’ (பத்து மில்லியன் சூரியப் பிரகாசம் உடையவனே!) என்று கடவுளைப் புகழும்.

abdul kalam arati

The President, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam is being traditionally welcomed when he Inaugurated Neo Pherma Indian Collaboration Company at Abu Dhabi on his official visit to UAE

ஒரு 200, 300 ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன்னர், ஐரோப்பியர்களுக்கு ‘டெஸிமல் சிஸ்டமும்’ தெரியாது. பல்லாயிரம் கோடி சூர்யனிருப்பதும் தெரியாது. இப்பொழுதுதான் கண்டுபிடித்தி ருக்கிறார்கள். நாம் அவர்களுக்கு, டெசிமல் சிஸ்டத்தைச் சொல்லித் தந்திராவிடில், கம்ப்யூட்டர், இண்டெர்நெட் – முதலிய எதுவுமே வந்திருக்காது.

 

இனி கோவிலுக்குப் போனால் ஐயர் சொல்லும் அந்த மந்திரத்தை உணர்ந்து கடவுளின் ‘பில்லியன்’ சூரியப் பிரகாசத்தைத் தியானியுங்கள். இவ்வளவு அருமையான, அறிவியல்பூர்வ மந்திரத்தை பல்லாயிரம் ஆண்டுகளாகப் பாதுகாத்துவரும் ஐயர்களுக்கு ஒரு கும்பிடும் போட்டுவிட்டு வாருங்கள்.

 

இதோ மாணிக்கவாசகரின் திருவாசகப் பாடல்:–

அண்டப்குதியின் உண்டைப் பிறக்கம்

அளப்பரும் தன்மை, வளப்பெரும் காட்சி

ஒன்றனுக்கொன்று நின்றெழில் பகரின்

நூற்றொரு கோடியின் மேற்படவிரிந்தன

இல்நுழைகதிரின் துன் அணுப்புரையச்

சிறியவாகப் பெரியோன்

(திருவாசகம்- திருவண்டப் பகுதி)

 

இறைவனோடு ஒப்பிடுகையில், அண்டங்கள்  அனைத்தும் தூசியில் பறக்கும் சிறு துகள்கள் போல ஆகிவிடுகின்றன என்கிறார் அடிகள். அதுமட்டுமல்ல, இதை ‘வளப்பெரும் காட்சி’ என்று வருணிப்பதிலிருந்து, பிரபஞ்சம் பற்றிய அறிவு எல்லோருக்கும் இருந்திருப்பது புலனாகிறது. மாணிக்கவாசகரின் ஒவ்வொரு பாடலும் உபநிஷத உண்மைகளின் தமிழ் வடிவமே என்பதை, சுவாமி சித்பவானந்தரின் திருவாசகப் பேருரையைப் படித்தவர்களுக்குத் தெள்ளிதின் விளங்கும்!

Aarti-at-Balaji-Temple

இதோ சம்ஸ்கிருதத்திலும், ஆங்கிலத்திலும், ஐயர்கள் சொல்லும் உபநிஷத மந்திரம்:–

 

न तत्र सूर्यो भाति न चन्द्रतारकं
नेमा विद्युतो भान्ति कुतोऽयमग्निः।
तमेव भान्तमनुभाति सर्वं
तस्य भासा सर्वमिदं विभाति॥१५॥

इति काठकोपनिषदि द्वितीयाध्याये द्वितीया वल्ली॥

 

Na tatra suryo bhati na candra tarakam

nema vidyuto bhanti kutoyam agnihi

tameva bhantam anubhati sarvam

tasya bhasa sarvam idam vibhati

 

There the sun does not shine, nor do the moon and the stars. These streaks of lightning do not shine there either, (so) what to speak of this fire? That, shining, makes all others shine. By virtue of its luminosity, all these (manifestations) are illuminated.

 

–சுபம்–

 

 

Socialism is 16 cents each! (Post No. 2616)

democratic-socialism

Compiled by london swaminathan

 

Date: 10 March 2016

 

Post No. 2616

 

Time uploaded in London :–  14-27

 

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God of Thieves!

 

Among the Romans, the deity who presided over commerce and banking was Mercury, who, by strange association, was also the god of thieves and of orators. The Romans who looked upon the merchants with contempt, fancied there was a resemblance between theft and merchandising and they easily found a figurative connection between theft and eloquence; hence thieves, merchants and orators were placed under the superintendence of the same deity.

 

 

On the Seventeenth of May, in each year, the merchants held a public festival, and walked in procession to the temple of mercury, for the purpose, the satirist said, of begging pardon of that deity for all the lying and cheating they have found it convenient to practice, in the way of business, during the preceding year.

 

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churchill

Orange Woman

 

One time in Mexico, Carleton Beals had fallen into the habit of buying two oranges from an orange woman near his house. One day, when he was planning to give a party, he undertook to buy her entire stock of four dozen oranges.

 

Severely she said, “Here are your two”, and handed him his usual purchase.

 

“But this time I want to buy all the rest of them”.

 

“Why”, she said outraged, “you can’t; what do you think I would do all the rest of the day with no oranges to sell!”

 

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the-truth-about-socialism

Socialism is 16 cents each!

 

Andrew Carnegie was once visited by a socialist who preached to him eloquently the injustice of one man possessing so much money. He preached a more equitable distribution of wealth. Carnegie cut the matter short by asking his secretary for a generalised statement of his many possessions and holdings, at the same time looking up the figures on world population in his almanac he figured for a moment on his desk pad and then instructed his secretary,

“Give this gentleman 16 cents. That is his share of my wealth.

 

–Subham–

 

 

Rare book on 30 Devadasis of Tamil Nadu (Post No.2614)

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Research Article written by london swaminathan

Date:  9 March, 2016

 

Post No. 2614

 

Time uploaded in London :–  19-21

 

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thiyagarajakoil

 

I came across a very rare TAMIL book on Rudrakanikas or Devadasis of the Tamil Speaking World. It was written by Anjukam of Colombo, capital of Sri Lanka in 1911. I consider this book not only rare but also valuable for future researchers. Devadasis were women dedicated to temples and they devoted their full time to dance and sing at the temple. It is part of daily worship. Dance and music are part of honours offered to God every day. Nowadays devotees do this.

 

There are no books written by Devadasis available now. Miss Anjukam also belongs to the community of Rudrakanikas alias Devadasis. She collected details from Tamil literature starting from Tamil Epics Silappadikaram and Manimegalai to the modern day. Her mother Kamalambikai was also a Rudrakanika serving a Siva temple in Colombo.

 

Old women writers are not recognised. They are completely ignored by the male dominated literary world. I come across a new woman writer every week at the British Library who found no place in the later Tamil writings. Tamils knew only KarIkal Ammaiyar, Andal and Avvaiyar and the later writers were not listed.

 

Rig Veda, the oldest religious book in the world mentioned at least 20 poetesses. Sangam Tamil literature which came 1500 years after the Vedas also had the poems of over 20 poetesses. Several souvenirs released by the popular Tamil magazines and World Tamil Conferences forgot to mention the contribution of 19th and 20th century women writers. Lot of novels and poems were written by them.

 

Anjukam is one of those forgotten writers. She was bold enough to write about a subject which no one else would dare to touch. She was well versed in Saivite literature and knew very well about the Devadasi system that existed in Shiva temples of ancient Tamil Nadu. Anjukam has consulted Saivite scholars and took references from 45 Tamil works. RAJARAJAN, one of the greatest Choza Kings, inscribed the beautiful names of all the 400 Devadasis employed by him n the Big Temple in Thanjavur.

 

Anjukam had collected the profile of 30 temple or Royal dancers and had written in a high style. Stories of Madhavi and Manimegalai are known to many Tamils . She had collected more names who were famous in the regions where they lived. She divided them into two groups of good and bad women. Epic woman Madhavi earned a bad name because she lived with a married man Kovalan. Paravai, wife of the Saivite Saint Sundaramurthy Nayanar and others lead a decent life.

aazhi-ther

 

Several Unknown stories or locally known stories in the book are very interesting to read. One of them is the story of Kondiammal of Tiruvarur. She was a devoted dancing girl attached to the famous Shiva temple there. Tiruvarur chariot (Ther) is one of the biggest chariots in Tamil Nadu. During the Panguni Uttaram festival it will be pulled like the chariots of Puri Jagannath. During Chola period the chariot festival day was celebrated on a grand scale. During one year they met with a problem. In spite of the efforts of thousands of devotees assembled there the chariot did not budge even an inch. The king tried all the tricks but it did not work. He went to bed with the worries and he had a strange dream. God told him that If he called the dancer Kondiammal to honour the god with chowries (Whisk, bushy tail of a Yak) then the chariot would move. As soon as he woke up in the morning, he sent for Kondiammal and she was brought to the chariot with all the Royal honours. She willingly came forward to do the job ordered by the king,  but put a few conditions to the King. The conditions were that she should be cremated on the banks of River Kaveri after her death. She also asked the king to erect one Ganesh temple at every mile from her house to the river banks. Choza king not only accepted her conditions, but also executed them faithfully after her death. Thus Devadasi Kondiammal left her memories for posterity.

 

Short life story the following Devadasis are found in Anjukam’s book:-

 

Anajanakshi, Abirami, Abishekavalli, Amporsilambi, Arunagirinathar’s mother, Kuththaal, Kondiammal, Shanmukavadivu, Chintamaniratnam, Silambi, Sirkazik Kanikai, Somi, Njanavalli, Tiruvaranai Panneerayiravar, Tiruvarunaik kanikai,Paravaiyar, Punkotai, Ponnanaiyar,Manimegalai,Madanasundari, Madanabishekam,Manonmani, Manikkavalli, Her daughter, Manikka Nachiyar, Madhavi, Mananthai, Mohanangi, Vilasavathy, Vellaiyammal, Kamatchi, Kamalambikai, Santhanavalli and Anjukam.

 

–Subham-

Fish and Guests smell in Three Days!(Post No.2608)

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Research article written by london swaminathan

Date: 7 March, 2016

 

Post No. 2608

 

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Hindus consider guests as Gods. ‘Atithi Devo Bhava’ (Treat guest as god)  – is a Vedic dictum. It is in Taittirio Upanishad. Hospitality is a great virtue and Sanskrit and Tamil ethical literature have got lot of couplets and proverbs praising Hospitality. To illustrate their points they have lots of stories as well. But at the same no one is encouraged to abuse it. There are interesting proverbs in Tamil:

1.First day food is served in a big banana leaf (Talai Vaazai Ila)

Second day food is served in your hand (Kaiyila)

Third day food is served on the floor (Taraiyila)

You can note the Tamil rhyme ila, ila, ila at the end of each sentence.

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Long banana leaf called Talai Vaazai Ilai (in laws are given a feast on such leaves)

I am not surprised to see the same thought in an English proverb: Fish and guests smell in three days.

There are more proverbs to emphasize this point:

2.The first day a guest

The second day a guest

The third day a calamity (Indian Proverb)

 

3.Do not wear out your welcome

4.A constant guest is never welcome

 

5.Long visits bring short compliments (Chinese proverb)

6.The guest who outstays his fellow guests loses his overcoat (Chinese proverb)

There are some sayings on uninvited guests:-

7.An unbidden guest knows not where to sit.

8.An unbidden guest must bring his stool with him

9.Who comes uncalled, sits unserved.

 

Indian weddings are held in big halls (Kalyana Manadaps). I myself have seen some people pretend to be from the bride’s side or bridegroom’s side. But when the time for group photos come they simply slip out!

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But in general, guests are most welcome in Hindu culture. In the olden days all the houses in Tamil Nadu, had sitting space (pial) in the front part of the house. The land lord will come out and call for the guests before he sits for dinner. But later it became a fake ritual. There are lot of humorous stories about the pretending land lords/house holders.

Following are the sayings in support of hospitality:

10.If a man receives no guests at home, when abroad he will have no hosts (Chinese proverb).

(This is based on Karma theory. If you do good someone will do you good).

11.Good will and welcome are your best cheer.

12.He that is welcome fares well.

13.Welcome is the best dish.

(It is very true. After cooking the best dishes, if you don’t show respect to the guests, all your work is a waste of time).

14.Such welcome, such fare well

15.It is a sin against hospitality, to open your doors and shut up your countenance.

bananaa leaf meals

Following article was posted in 2014.

Be a Guest in India!

Written by London swaminathan
Post No.1182; Dated 19th July 2014.

If you are a guest in India you will receive special treatment. Hospitality is the hallmark of a good householder. It is one of the Panchayajnas. Of the Pancha/five Yajnas/Duties, Manushya Yanja is one. This means feeding the fellow humans. Whether they are poor or rich, if they knock at your door you must not turn them down. In the olden days people used to go out to the street and look for guests at the lunch time. Then they will go for the dinner or lunch.

Ilango, author of Tamil epic Silappadikaram, says that the heroine Kannagi worried that she was not able to welcome the guests. Sita in Kamba Ramayana, also echoed the same feelings.

Great Tamil poet Tiruvalluvar says,

“The only purpose, of a family life of virtue and wealth,
Is to command the means of extending hospitality to the guests – (Kural 81)

“Even the nectar of immortality is not to be consumed
Without sharing with the guests waiting outside — (Kural 82)

“He who daily entertains the guests who go to him will never be ruined by poverty– (Kural 83)

Story from Mahabharata

A good story that illustrates the greatness of hospitality is in the Mahabharata. When Yudhistra performed the Rajasuya Yajna, thousands of people were fed. When everyone was satisfied there appeared a mongoose and challenged Yudhistra. Half of its body was in golden colour. It rolled on the leftovers of the guests. When Yudhistra asked the reason for it, the mongoose told him a story.

“A hungry man approached a poor man’s house for food. Though the poor man had prepared full meal after a very long time, he readily offered his food to the guest. When the guest was not satisfied, his wife and son offered their shares. When he left the hose I just rolled on the left over food and half of my body turned gold. From then onwards I had been visiting lot of places where food was donated. But my body never turned gold. I am greatly disappointed that even here my body did not turn into gold. This reduced the ego of Yudhistra.

Guests are welcome in any country. But in ancient India, they were considered Gods. This was true from the land’s southern most end Kanyakumari to northern most Kashmir. If anyone wants to be a guest one should be a guest in India — in ancient India! Tamil and Sanskrit literature have got a lot of proverbs or sayings about Atithih/Guest.

Following are the sayings in Sanskrit on the Guests from ‘’Suktisudha’’ (Chinmaya International Foundation Publication):

“A guest, though he be boorish, deserves to be welcomed by the discerning – Valmiki Ramayana 5-1-119

“Hail the guest as God (Atithi Devo Bhava, Taittiriya Upansishad 1-20)

“Even though it be a foe who has come home, appropriate hospitality to him is a must – Hitopadesha 1-50

“Hospitality bears no fruit in the hereafter, but verily in this life itself – Kathasaritsagara

“It is the duty of a householder to honour the guest according to his capacity — Kathasaritsagara

“It is befitting to receive the visitor with due honour — Pratinja Yaugandharayana of Bhasa

“For all, the guest is of paramount importance “– Canakyaniti 6- 45

–Subham–

 

 

Destiny has 4 feet, 8 hands and 16 eyes (Post No.2605)

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compiled by london swaminathan

Date: 6 March, 2016

 

Post No. 2605

 

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Destiny has 4 feet, 8 hands and 16 eyes; how then shall the ill doer with only two of each hope to escape? –Chinese proverb

 

No flying from fate

 

Flee never so fast you cannot flee your fortune

 

Do what you ought, and come what can

 

What must be, must be (che sara, sara in French)

 

Fate leads the willing, but drives the stubborn

He that is born to be hanged, shall never be drowned

Every bullet has its billet.

A man’s destiny is always dark (meaning: nobody knows what fate has in store for him).

She is an old wife that wats (knows) her weird (fortune).

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Tamil Views on Fate (From Tirukkural of Tiruvalluvar)

371.He who is destined to prosper is industrious. Adversity betakes one who is indolent.

372.An adverse destiny blunts a man’s intelligence and makes him lose his wealth.

373.Although one may acquire profound knowledge by study, one’s innate tendencies will preponderate.

374.It is one thing to be wealthy, but to attain wisdom is quite another. This is the two fold nature of this world.

375.Thorough the influence of fate all good means of acquiring wealth may prove disastrous, and all foul means prove helpful

376.Whatever one is not destined to possess would be lost however hard one may safeguard it.

377.Even to those who have acquired immense wealth the enjoyment of it may not be possible except as ordained by the Disposer (God) of all things.

 

378.The poor who have nothing to enjoy would renounce the world if their destiny were to cease to torment them.

379.A man would accept and enjoy the good things of this world vouchsafed  to him y his destiny; why then should he feel disturbed when misfortune befalls him?

380.What is there more potent than fate? It forestalls every expedient one may resort to for averting it.

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Shakespeare on fate:

What Fates impose that men must needs abide,

It boots not to resist both wind and tide.

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There is a Divinity that shapes our ends,

Rough-hew them how we will (Hamlet)

 

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Omar Khayyam on fate:

The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on: nor all your piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash a word of it.

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Homer on fate:

No man or woman born

Coward or brave, can shun his destiny

Marlowe  on fate:

It lies not in our power to love or hate

For Will in us is over ruled by Fate.

 

Koran on Fate:

That which God writes on thy forehead;

Thou wilt come to you (Chapter 7, Rukoo 16)

 

Bible on Fate

The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord (Proverbs 16:13)

 

(There are at least 100 sayings in Sanskrit on Fate and Destiny; I will give them separately)

 

–subham–