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கடவுளிடம் கேட்கக் கூடாத கேள்வி! (Post No.3870)

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Date: 2 May 2017

 

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Post No.3870

 

 

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கடவுளும் மனிதனும்

 

கடவுளிடம் கேட்கக் கூடாத கேள்வி!

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உலக பிரசித்தி பெற்ற விம்பிள்டன் நட்சத்திர விளையாட்டு வீரர் ஆர்தர் ஆஷ் எய்ட்ஸ் நோயினால் பீடிக்கப்பட்டார். 1983ஆம் ஆண்டு அவருக்குச் செய்யப்பட்ட இதய அறுவை சிகிச்சையின் போது எய்ட்ஸ் தொற்று பிடித்த ரத்தத்தைச் செலுத்தியதால் அவருக்கு வந்தது இந்த எய்ட்ஸ் நோய்.

 

 

உலகெங்கிலுமிலிருந்து அவரது விசிறிகளிடமிருந்து ஏராளமான கடிதங்கள் அவருக்கு வந்து குவிந்த வண்ணம் இருந்தன. அதில் அவரது விசிறி ஒருவர் தனது கடிதத்தில், “ கட்வுள் இந்த மோசமான நோயைத் தருவதற்கு உங்களை ஏன் தேர்ந்தெடுக்க வேண்டும்?” என்று கேட்டிருந்தார். “உங்களுக்கு ஏன் இந்த வியாதியைக் கடவுள் தர வே” என்ற அன்பரின் ஆதங்கம் ஆஷுக்குப் புரிந்தது.

 

 

அந்த விசிறிக்கு ஆஷ் இப்படி பதிலை அனுப்பினார்:

“உலகெங்குமிலிருந்து 5 கோடி குழந்தைகள் டென்னிஸ் விளையாட ஆரம்பிக்கின்றனர்.  அதில் 50 லட்சம் பேர்கள் டென்னிஸை எப்படி விளையாடுவது என்று கற்கின்றனர். அதில் ஐந்து லட்சம் பேர்கள் உண்மையாக தொழில் ரீதியாக அதை விளையாடக் கற்கின்றனர். அதில் ஐம்பதினாயிரம் பேர் உள் வளையத்திற்குள் வருகின்ற்னர். அதில் ஐந்தாயிரம் பேர்கள் க்ராண்ட் ஸ்லாம் விளையாட வருகின்றனர். அதில் ஐம்பது பேர் விம்பிள்டனுக்கு வருகின்றனர். அதில் நான்கு பேர்கள் அரை-இறுதிக்கு வருகின்றனர். அதில் இரண்டு பேர் இறுதிப் போட்டிக்கு வருகின்றனர். அதில் ஒருவர் விம்பிள்டன் கோப்பையை வெல்கிறார். விம்பிள்டன் கோப்பையை நான் கையில் பிடித்திருந்த போது கடவுளிடம் ‘என்னை மட்டும் ஏன் இதற்குத் தேர்ந்தெடுத்தீர்க்ள்?” என்று நான் கேட்கவில்லை. ஆகவே வ்லியில் துடிக்கும் இப்போது மட்டும் நான் கடவுளிட்ம், எதற்காக இது எனக்கு? என்று கேட்கக் கூடாதல்லவா!”

 

 

என்ன அற்புதமான பதில். இறைவனின் உள்ளப் பாங்கை அறிந்த ஒரு பக்குவி ஆர்த்ர் ஆஷ் என்பது தெரிகிறதல்லவா?

ஆதாரம் : கொல்கொத்தாவிலிருந்து வெளி வரும் ஆங்கில வார இதழ் TRUTH – 28-4-2017 இதழ்

தமிழ் ஆக்கம் ச.நாகராஜன்

 

இதன் ஆங்கில மூலம் கீழே தரப்படுகிறது;

One Paragraph That Explains Life !

 

Arthur Ashe, the legendary Wimbledon player was dying of AIDS caused by infected blood he received during a heart surgery in 1983.

 

From the world over, he received letters from his fans, one of which conveyed: “Why does God have to select you for such a bad disease”.

 

To this, Arthur Ashe replied: The world over fifty million children start playing tennis, five million learn to play tennis, five lakhs learn professional tennis, fifty thousand come to the circuit, five thousand reach the grand slam, fifty reach Wimbledon, four get to the semi-final and two to the finals. When I was holding the Wimbledon Cup, I never asked God, “Why me?” So, today in pain I should not be asking God: “Why me?”

 

நன்றி: TRUTH WEEKLY 28-4-2017 ISSUE

 

 

 

 

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Courage and Cowardice Anecdotes (Post No.3863)

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Date: 29 APRIL 2017

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Post No. 3863

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I don’t want to Run

An Athenian , who was lame in one foot , was laughed at by the soldiers on account of his lameness.

“I am here to fight, said he, not to run”, said the Athenian.

 

Xxx

Fighters deserve Liberty!

Brasidass, the famous Lacedemonian general caught a mouse. It bit him, and by that means made its escape.

“Oh!” Said he,

“What creature so contemptible but may have its liberty if it will fight for it.”

 

Xxx

 

As Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley, the English reformers were led to the stake, Latimer said to Ridley

“We shall this day light such a candle, by god’s grace , in England as I trust shall never be put out.”

 

Xxxx

Cowardice Anecdotes

 

A French colonel had one day punished a young officer, just arrived from Saint Cyr, for showing fear during his first battle. Marshal Foch to whose notice it came severely reprimanded the disciplinarian.

“Colonel”, said he, “none but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear”.

 

Xxx

I will Die but Once!

When Caeser was advised by his friends to be more cautious as to the security of his person , and not to walk among the people without arms or anyone to protect him, he replied,

“He who lives in the fear of death, every moment feels its tortures ; I will die but once”.

Xxx

Assassinating! Not that bold!

When a certain politician was spoken of as capable of assassinating anyone, Talleyrand remarked,

“Assassinating, no! Poisoning, yes.”

 

Xxx

Lame Excuse!

The evening before a battle an officer came to ask Marshal Toiras for permission to go and see his father who was at the point of death.

“Go”, said the general who saw through his pretext ,

“Honour thy father and thy mother, and thy days may be long on earth”.

 

Xxx

Cowards Run!

 

Lincoln was often the despair of his generals because of his lenient treatment of cases where soldiers were absent without leave.

“If the good Lord has given a man a cowardly pair of legs”,

Lincoln reasoned, “it is hard to keep them from running away with him”.

 

Xxxx SUBHAM xxx

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31 more Quotations from the Pancha Tantra (Post No.3859)

Written by London swaminathan

Date: 28 APRIL 2017

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Post No. 3859

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Good Thoughts Calendar, May, 2017

 

Festival Days: 1 May-May Day; 10 Chitra Purnima, Buddha Purnima

Full Moon-10

New Moon-25

Ekadasi-6,21

Auspicious Days- May 7, 12, 17, 18, 29

In the March and April calendars I have given over 60 quotes from the Book of Pancha Tantra; here are 31 more quotes:

1 May Monday

Intelligence and Perseverance

What is impossible if you have intelligence?

What is unachievable if your will is firm?

Who will not fall prey to sweet and smooth tongue?

What is unattainable if you persevere?

 

2 May Tuesday

Fort

Not a thousand elephants,

and not 10,000 horses

can furnish kings with power

that a single fortress can.

 

3 May Wednesday

Impatience

To rush headlong in rash impatience

before measuring one’s own strength and power

against the other’s is to court disaster

like the moth that plunges into a blazing fire

 

4 May Thursday

Fate

Fortune is surely his who constantly strives

it is cowards who wail, O,my fate, it is my fate.

 

5 May Friday

Effort

When men are determined, gods come through for them

as Vishnu, his discus and his divine mount

came at the weaver’s call to help him in his fight (Panchatantra story)

6 May Saturday

Beauty and Virtue

Where beauty is, there virtues dwell

so poets say, neither true, nor well.

 

7 May Sunday

Happiness

Those lost in themselves – they never find happiness

blest are they who desire the happiness of others

 

8 May Monday

Friend

He is friend whom you can trust

as you can trust your mother

what are others but mere acquaintances

 

9 May Tuesday

Grief and Relief

The man who discloses his grief

to a faithful wife, a loyal servant,

a sincere friend, or sensitive master

is bound to find relief

 

10 May Wednesday

Daughter

A daughter is born- start of world of worries

Find the fittest bridegroom – the biggest problem of all;

once wed, will she be happy, or will she weep

Father of a girl – just another name for grief.

11 May Thursday

Daughters- Disasters

No sooner born than her mother’s heart she steals;

growing up she brings pain to loving hearts

given in marriage, she can still bring dishonour

Daughters! Unavoidable disasters

 

12 May Friday

Love for Body

Who in the world does not love his body

however tainted by defects it might be;

once dear, a person remains always dear,

no matter what offences he is guilty of

 

13 May Saturday

Sage and Scoundrel

Does a scoundrel require provocation to fly into a great rage?

Or a saint need kindness to make him calm?

Isn’t it just the same with lime and sugarcane?

it is inherent nature of each

to produce its own flavour distinctive

 

14 May Sunday

Dog’s Tail

Try your very best to honour a rogue

he will still remain true to his nature

You may have a dog sweated,

or rubbed with musk if you choose,

his tail still remains curled

 

15 May Monday

Favours

Even small favours shown to men

richly blessed with a wealth of merits, look great;

The moon’s rays are enhanced, indeed

when they shine over the peaks of Snow Mountain

 

16 May Tuesday

Fools and Dull witted

Lost are a hundred kindness shown to the base;

Lost are a hundred wise maxims spoken to fools

Lost are a hundred words of advice on the incorrigible

Lost are a sage observations on the dull-witted

 

17 May Wednesday

Don’t Talk to fools

A cry in the wilderness

rubbing perfume on a corpse;

planting lotuses on dry ground

incessant rain over salt marshes

adorning the faces of the blind

like these is speaking good sense to fools

 

18 May Thursday

Ungrateful

The slayer of a Brahmana, a drunkard

an impotent man, a breaker of vows

a traitor- for all these the wise prescribe

rites of atonement – for the ungrateful none.

 

19 May Friday

Guests are welcome

Fire is most revered by Brahmnas

Brahmanas are the most revered of all classes

the husband is the only one revered by women

a guest is most revered by the whole world

 

20 May Saturday

Deliberation

 

he who has no time and palace

and of what is right and proper;

who does not know a thing beyond himself

who acts without deliberation

he is fool who reaps no reward.

 

21 May Sunday

Asylum

However angry, we must not spurn

one who has fallen at our feet;

in so doing we scorn all these gods

Brahma, Vishnu, Siva

 

22 May Monday

Living Death

Five endure living death

so sage Vyasa declares;

poor man, sick man, fool, exile and he

who  in perpetuity serves king

 

23 May Tuesday

Right Time, Right Place

Is it right time? is it right place?

Who are friends? what is he cost, and what’s the gain?

And what am I? And what my power and strength?

Time and again, one should ponder over these.

 

24 May Wednesday

How can one not dread a villain’s fierce hate

manifest; like a deadly snake’s venom,

it constantly drips from his lips as words

vicious, beyond all human endurance

 

25 May Thursday

Virtuous

The best of men endowed with virtue

whose rectitude remains unbroken

bear in mind only acts good and well done

and forgets offences and oversight

 

 

26 May Friday

Friendship

I need your friendship; and right now and here;

with great reverence cultivate it I shall

Even what is sullied gains purity

when it touches Ganga’s holy waters

 

27 May Saturday

Bad Friend

A man should shun the friend

who slanders him behind his back

while flattering him to his face;

for he is a jar of poison with milk on top

 

28 May Sunday

Marriage

Where wealth matches wealth and lineage is equal

there marriage or friendship works well

 

29 May Monday

Qualities-Foes

The branches of the great lords of the forest

bend low from the wealth of fruit they bear;

the peacock’s gait is slow and indolent

from the proudly swelling plumage he trails;

in persons endowed with qualities most admirable

most often, those qualities themselves become their worst foes

 

30 May Tuesday

Safety of Life-Asylum

No gift of cows, no gift of land,

nor any gift of food holds pre-eminence;

of all the gifts in the world, say the wise,

the foremost is the gift of safety of life.

 

31 May Wednesday

Forbidden Food

As the breath of life struggles in the throat

even then the wise refrain from forbidden food

and what a trifling mouthful too at that –

for fear of losing both the worlds.

 

–Subham–

 

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Curiosity and Cynicism Anecdotes (Post No.3856)

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Post No. 3856

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What made the deepest impression upon you? inquired a friend one day, of Abraham Lincoln, when you stood in the presence of the falls of  Niagara, the greatest of natural wonders?

“The thing that struck me most forcibly when I saw the Falls”, Lincoln responded with characteristic deliberation, “was where in the world did all that water come from?”

 

Xxx

 

Cynisim anecdotes 

Dr Johnson was told that a certain cynic of his acquaintance maintained that there was no distinction between virtue and vice.

“If he does really think there is no distinction between virtue and vice, answered Dr Johnson,

“Why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons”.

Xxx

 

Civilization

 

Someone once asked the former Prince of Wales

“What is your idea of civilisation?”

“It is a good idea”, replied the prince

“Somebody ought to start it”.

 

Xxx

When it was remarked that Fouche, an associate of Talleyrand under Napoleon, had a profound contempt for human nature,Talleyrand replied, “To be sure; he has made a careful study of himself .”

 

Xxx

 

Gibbet

In one of his travels Mungo Park, the African explorer, traversed a wide extent of uncultivated regions, but at last he chanced upon a gibbet,

“The sight of which, said he, gave me infinite pleasure, as it proved that I was in a civilised society”.

 

Xxx

No Steps Backwards

 

When the motto of Hanover club of Gottingen, to which as a student he had belonged, was quoted to him as applicable to his own life, Bismarck reflected, “Yes, no steps backwards, but a good many zig-zags”  .

 

Xxxxx

 

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Cheerfulness Anecdotes (Post No.3854)

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Post No. 3854

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Cheerfulness and Philosopher

 

When they reached Bolt Court, Edwards said to Dr Samuel Johnson,

“You are a philosopher, Dr Johnson. I have tried too, in my time, to be a philosopher; but I don’t know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.

Xxx

Dealing with Inevitable!

“Uncle Joe, said Albert Edward Wiggam , the author, meeting an old Negro who was always cheerful in spite of having had more than his share of life’s troubles,

“How have you managed to remain so cheerful and calm?”

“Well, I will tell you, replied uncle joe. I have just learned to cooperate with the inevitable.”

 

Xxx

 

Dying Easier

When Thomas Hart Benton’s house in Washington was burned Benton left Congress and came to the ruin of his house. As he looked at it,he said, “It makes dying easier. There is so much less to leave.”

Xxxx

Conscience Anecdotes 

There is a tradition to the effect that Noel Coward once sent identical notes to the twenty most prominent men in London, saying,

“All is discovered. Escape while you can.

All twenty abruptly left the town”.

Xxxx

 

Many Consciences

To a friend who defended the behaviour of his upper chamber saying

“At least you find consciences there. Talleyrand replied.

Ah, yes, many, many consciences.  Semonville, for example, has at least two”.

 

Xxxx

 

Carelessness Anecdote

Hey wood Brown was noted for the general carelessness and disarray of his dress and personal appearance. One story has it, that on the occasion when Broun and a number of other war correspondents were presented to General Pershing, the general eyed the journalist with some concern and said, “Have you fallen down, Mr Broun?”

Xxxx

 

 

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God is Wild Fire, Guru is a Lamp! (Post No.3852)

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Date: 26 APRIL 2017

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Post No. 3852

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Why do we need a Guru? A spiritual teacher. Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and an anonymous Tamil poets give different answers.

 

An anonymous Tamil poet in the Tamil didactic work Neethi Venpa says:

God is like wild fire and Guru is like a lamp. When we need heat, and fire we don’t go to wild fire. We just use the lamp to drive darkness or light another lamp or to get fire to light the oven or gas stove. God’s grace is everywhere, but not all of us can use it. A little lamp can be used by every one. Gurus are like the lamps, easily accessible and usable.

Chess Game and Guru

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa says,

At a game of chess, the on-lookers ca tell what the correct move is, better than the players themselves. Men of the world think that they are very clever, but they are attached to the things of the world – money, honours sense pleasures etc. As they are actually engaged in the play, it is hard for them to hit upon the right move.

 

Holy men who have given up the world are not attached to worldly objects. They are like the on-lookers at a game of chess.  They see things in their true light and can judge men better than the men of the world. Hence, in living the holy life, one must put faith only in the words of those who meditate upon god and who have realised Him. If you seek legal advice, will you not consult lawyers who are in the profession? Surely you will not take the advice of the man in the street.

 

Single Guru is a Must:

What is the necessity of calling a particular man our Guru instead of  calling everyone who teaches us something by that designation? When going to a strange country, one must abide by the  directions of the guide who knows the way. Taking the advice of many would lead to utter confusion. So in trying to reach God one must implicitly follow the advice of one single guru who knows the way to God.

 

24 Upa Gurus!

The Guru is only one but Upa Gurus (subsidiary teachers) may be many. He is an Upa guru from anything whatsoever is learned. The Great Avadhuta, (an ascetic of a high order in the Bhagavata) had 24 such upa gurus.

 

–Subham —

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Modesty is the Ornament of the Wise! (Post No.3827)

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Date: 17 APRIL 2017

 

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Post No. 3827

 

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Two great poets of India Kalidasa and Tiruvalluvar say that Modesty is the ornament of the wise. Valluvar used ten couplets in Tamil to emphasise modesty and Kalidasa mentioned it in Sanskrit  at least  in three places in his work Raghuvamsa.

 

Tiru Valluvar says,

Is not Modesty (sense of shame) an ornament to the wise? If not present, a stately strut is a disease (Kural 1014)

 

Food, Clothing and the like are common to all men; but modesty is the chief feature of the good (1012)

 

In blessed modesty the worthy find a tower of strength. For such a rare jewel, they hold the world well lost. (1016)

Kalidasa in his Kavya Raghuvasa says,

 

तस्य संस्तूयमानस्य चरितार्थैस्तपस्विभिः।
शुशुभे विक्रमोदग्रम् व्रीडयावनतम् शिरः॥ १५-२७

tasya saṁstūyamānasya caritārthaistapasvibhiḥ |
śuśubhe vikramodagram vrīḍayāvanatam śiraḥ|| 15-27

 

He (King Shatrughna) gracefully held his head high by his heroic deed; when the object-accomplished hermits eulogised him he modestly bent it down; even then it looked more graceful. [15-27]

 

 

`स्तूयमानः स जिह्राय स्तुत्यमेव समाचरन्।
तथापि ववृधे तस्य तत्कारिद्वेषिणो यशः॥ १७-७३

stūyamānaḥ sa jihrāya stutyameva samācaran |
tathāpi vavṛdhe tasya tatkāridveṣiṇo yaśaḥ|| 17-73

 

He (King Atithi)  who did what was but praiseworthy became suffused with shame when praised for it; however, the reputation of him as the hater of those who praised him only increased his fame. [17-73]

 

तस्याभवत्सूनुरुदारशीलः शिलः
शिलापट्टविशालवक्षाः।
जितारिपक्षोऽपि शिलीमुखैर्यः
शालीनतामव्रजदीड्यमानः॥ १८-१७

tasyābhavatsūnurudāraśīlaḥ śilaḥ
śilāpaṭṭaviśālavakṣāḥ |
jitāripakṣo’pi śilīmukhairyaḥ
śālīnatāmavrajadīḍyamānaḥ || 18-17

 

King Pariyatra had a son named Shila possessing a generous disposition, and having a broad chest like a slab of stone; although he had vanquished divisions of the enemies’ armies by his arrows still he was abashed when he heard himself praised. [18-17]

Parimel Azakar, the most famous commentator of Tirukkural, quotes a Sanskrit saying about modesty:- Gunadyasya satah pumsah stutau ajjaiva Bhushanam.

A virtuous person becomes abashed when he is praised and it is an ornament for him.

 

Virtuous people feel shy when they are praised; even though their heads bow down, their fame go sky high!

 

Raghuvamsa slokas are from sanskritdocuments.com; thanks.

 

–Subham–

 

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More Honesty Anecdotes (Post No.3817)

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Date: 14 APRIL 2017

 

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Post No. 3817

 

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“Little Matter”

One day George W Norris sat taking stock of the situation and puffing cigar. A visitor came in looking rather smug. He had called because Norris was on the committee on public buildings and grounds. Washington was still in the mushroom stage with land developments in progress. The man wanted to see him about a “little matter “. Norris jumped up and grabbed him, vigorously pushing him out of the room.

 

Xxxx

 

President Wilson

President Wilson was scrupulous to the degree of fanaticism on the point of avoiding any personal or family favouritism in appointments or awarding of war contracts.

A caller at the White House quite casually mentioned that a firm headed by a distant relative of the President had received a building contract . Although it might have been readily accepted as a legitimate and a purely coincidental transaction, the president said in a great agitation , ” it must be stopped at once”.

The nation could well have used, in his successors administration, so high a degree of integrity, yet the action, created a family breach that was never healed.

 

Xxxx

 

Frederick William

While visiting his prison at Potsdam , Frederic William I listened to a number of pleas for pardon from prisoners who had grievances against the law’s injustice.  All said they had imprisonment on account of prejudiced judges, perjured witnesses, unscrupulous lawyers. From cell to cell the wronged innocence continued, until the king stopped at the door of one cell inhabited by a surly inmate who said nothing. Surprised at his slime Frederic said jocosely,

“Well, I suppose you are innocent too”

No, Your Majesty, was the startling response, “I am guilty and richly deserve all that I get”.

Here, turn key, thundered Frederic ;”Come and get rid of this rascal before he corrupts this fine lot of innocent people that you are responsible for”.

xxx

 

Abraham Lincoln

All clients knew that, with old Abe as lawyer, they would win their case- if it was fair; if not that it was a waste of time to take it to him. After listening some time one day to a would-be client s statement with his eyes on the ceiling, he swung around in his chair and exclaimed ,

“Well, you have a pretty good case in technical law, but a pretty bad one in equity and justice. You will have to get some other fellow to win this case for you. I couldn’t do it. All the time while standing taking to that jury I would be thinking, “Lincoln,you are a liar”, and I believe I should forget myself and say it out loud.

 

Xxxxx

Helpfulness Anecdote

There is a story that tells of a rabbit being chased by a dog and the people following and telling the rabbit to run hard and escape.

“Thank you for your kind encouragement”, said the rabbit, “but for goodness sake shoot the dog”.

Xxxx

 

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Gentlemen Anecdotes (Post No.3812)

 

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Date: 12 APRIL 2017

 

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Post No. 3812

 

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Sir Walter Raleigh

Sir Walter Raleigh would have devised different techniques had he lived today. An authentic descendant of his turned up in Philadelphia as told in the story of the three girls who were marooned on the curb, after a violent cloud burst had left a deep puddle in the poorly drained street stretching nearly all the way between themselves and the car which they wished to board. Two of them had jumped for it only to go in over their ankles. The third was still standing in despair when a sedan rolled up and stopped directly in front of her. With a flourish its driver opened the rear door on her side ,then opened the other. Catching the idea, the young lady proceeded to walk through the car and on to the trolley. Tipping his hat, the driver closed his doors and proceeded to drive way.

 

Xxx

 

Theodore Roosvelt

One night a Negro was walking along forty second street in New York, from the terminal to the hotel, carrying a heavy suitcase and a heavier valise. Suddenly a hand took hold of the valise and a pleasant voice said, “Pretty heavy, brother! Suppose you let me take one. I am going your way”.

The Negro resisted, but finally allowed the young white man to assist him in carrying his burden , and for several blocks they walked along, chatting like old cronies.

And that, said Booker T. Washington years afterward, was the first time I ever saw Theodore Roosevelt.

 

Xxxx

Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb once said,

“Don’t introduce me to that man!

I want to go on hating him, and I can’t hate a man whom I know.”

 

Xxx

 

Taxi! Taxi!

It was late at night and the young lady was taking a taxi home. Checking in her hand bag she was mildly horrified to discover that she would not have enough money for the full fare. When the metre had reached the full sum which she had, she called to the driver and told him to let her out,cexplaining the situation.

“Listen, lady, said he, money isn’t everything”.

“There’s still what you call chivalry. You just sit still”.

 

Xxxx

 

General Lafayette

In 1803 the American Congress granted to General Lafayette, 11520 acres of land, in what was then called the Territory of Orleans; but by some inadvertency, a portion of the same land was afterwards granted to the Corporation of New Orleans. Lafayette was advised to bring forward his claim; and eminent lawyers assured him it was perfectly legal. To which the gallant French man replied,

“I can’t consent even to inquire into the validity of my title. It was gratuitously bestowed by Congress, and it is for them to say what was given. I can’t for a moment think of entering into litigation with any public body in the United States.

Xxx

 

Edmund Walter

Edmund Walter had a tremendous, international reputation for wit, in spite of his, obstinate sobriety.  Being shown the Duchess of New castles verses on the death of a stag, he declared that he would give all his compositions to have written them; and being charged with the exorbitance of his adulation answered that nothing was , too much to be given, that a lady might be saved from the disgrace of such a vile performance.

 

Xxxxx

 

 

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Water in the Oldest Scripture in the World- Rig Veda (Post No.3805)

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Date: 10 APRIL 2017

 

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Hindus praised water as God. All the rivers in India are worshipped as goddesses (except Brahmaputra river which has a masculine name). From the Rig Veda to the latest Bharati, every one praised water or rain.

 

Following is the oldest hymn on water:

To Apas (water)

Rig Veda ( 10-9)

Metre: various including Gayatri metre

Rishi Sindhudvipa (Indus Valley King)

Son of Ambarisha, Indus Valley Civilization Emperor

(also called Trisiras or Tvastri)

Waters! you who are health-giving

give us energy, so that

we may look on great delight (1)

Give us a share of your most

beneficent sapidity/ strong pleasant flavour

like mothers longing with love (2)

 

So, gladly do we go with you

to the home for which you make us live,

Waters! Give us progeny (3)

 

Gracious be divine Waters for

our protection, be they for our drink,

and stream on us bliss and happiness (4)

 

Sovereigns over precious things,

and Rulers over men, Waters!

we seek healing balm of you. (5)

 

Within Waters – so Soma has

told me – are all healing balms,

and Agni, benign to all (6)

Waters, come filled with healing balm

for the shielding of my body,

so, may I long see the sun (7)

Wash away, Waters, whatever

sin is in me, what wrong I have done,

what imprecation I have uttered,

and what untruth I have spoken (8)

Today I have sought the Waters,

we have mingled with their essence;

approach me, Agni, with thy power,

and fill me, as such, with brilliance (9)

 

(Date :– Herman Jacobi dates it to 4500 BCE; Max Muller dates it to a date before 1200 BCE up to 5000 BCE)

 

This is an amazing hymn on Waters. The Vedic people knew the healing properties of the water; the words healing-giving, beneficent sapidity and healing balm show that the Vedic people recognised the hygienic and curative powers of water.

 

Soma ,here, means personification of the juice

Agni, here, referring particularly to the heat in water.

 

Hindus had the science of changing water into  a powerful weapon by some magic spells like the one above; they were able to curse or give boons with water. They used Fire(agni) as a witness to all treaties or agreements and they used Water (Apas) for all the curses, boons and giving donations. We couldn’t see such a thing anywhere in the world. In Sangam Tamil literature, we have lot of references to using water for giving donations; but we have very few references to curses in Post Sangam literature. By that time Hindus forgot the magical powers of waters.

Water is Law: Satapata Brahmana (850 BCE):

 

The Satapata Brahmana, which the foreigners dated 850 BCE, says

“The waters, they are law; that is why when the earth receives waters regularly, everything is in accord with the law. But when the rain fails, the strong victimise the weak, for the waters, they are law.”

 

Tamil Veda Tirukkural also emphasized this:

“Even as life on earth cannot sustain without water, virtue too depends ultimately on rain”- Kural 20

 

The life on earth cannot sustain without water – is said by Kapilar earlier in Natrinai (verse 1) which is at least 2000 old.

 

Hindus used water as similes and in the proverbs.

If something is not reliable and not permanent they say, “It is written on water”. If something is written and preserved in tact they it is written on written on stone.”

The life’s impermanence is compared to the bubble in the water.

 

Manu Smrti, the oldest Law book in the world, mention God created water first and the life from it. The word for god is Narayana, one who has water as his abode. (Neer is Indo European and and Found in Nereids in Greek. Neer is also found in tail as Tamil and Sanskrit evolved from the same source according to my research.)

Manu says about water:

A man who gives (gifts) water obtains satisfaction/contentment; a giver of food boundless happiness; a bestower of sesame seeds progeny; and a giver of a lamp, excellent eye sight (Manu 4-229)

When it comes to division of property, they say that a piece of clothing, a carriage, jewellery, cooked food, water women, the means of security and a pasture should not be divided (Manu 9-219)

One should not urinate in water, on roads, on ant hill, on the ruins of a temple, a cowpen or a mound of the dead;one should never emit excrement in water (4-45/46/48)

 

One should not throw urine, excrement, poison, saliva or impurities in water (4-56)

a man should not shed his semen in water (11-174)

A Brahmin should throw his worn out thread water pot, staff, small animal skin bit, belt into water reciting Vedas (2-64)

A Priest is purified Bywater that reaches up to his heart, a king by water up to his neck, a Vaisya by the water swallowed and a Shudra by water touched on the tip of his lips (2-62)

 

Manu also speaks of the punishment for stealing or diverting irrigation water in chapters (3 and 9)

 

–Subham–

 

 

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