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God is for the Humble (Post No. 2367)

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Date: 27 November 2015

Post No. 2367

 

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Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa was a humble devotee of Mother Kali. He was childlike in all his talks, actions and ways of life. Once Keshab Chandra Sen went to see him.  He heard about the fame of Sri Ramakrishna. In the course of his talk, Keshab Chandra Sen said he had recently enacted a religious drama in which he took the chief part. Sri Ramakrishna quietly listened. A disciple of Keshab Chandra Sen said that Keshab played his part very well and everybody applauded him they were planning to enact another drama. Keshab Chandra Sen jokingly asked Sri Ramakrishna if he would like to take part in it and if so what role. Without a moment’s hesitation, Sri Ramakrishna replied, “I shall take the part of the dust of your feet.”

 

What was the result of his reply? Sudden stillness and silence. By humbling themselves, saints humble others. When we reduce ourselves to dust, we realise the glory of the Spirit within.

 

–Swami Ramdas of Anandashram narrated this anecdote.

 

 

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DECEMBER 2015 ‘GOOD THOUGHTS’ CALENDAR (Post No. 2361)

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Date: 25 November 2015

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Sanskrit Proverbs and sayings are taken from Suuktisudhaa, Publication of Chinmaya International Foundation.

Festival days: December 11- Poet Bharati’s Birth Day, 21 Vaikunda Ekadasi, 24- Miladi Nabhi, 25 Christmas, 26 Arudra Darsan.

Full moon – 25

New moon-11

Ekadasi: 7, 21 (Vaikunda Ekadasi)

Auspicious days: 6,7.

 

SRIRANGAM WITH TREES

DECEMBER 1 TUESDAY

The words of a powerful orator are in vain if he is hazy about the task at hand – Sisupalavadha 2-27

 

DECEMBER 2 WEDNESDAY

Words loaded with meaning can achieve all sorts of wealth — Subhasitaratna khandamanjuusaaa

 

DECEMBER 3 THURSDAY

Though insignificant, words spoken at the right time are indeed valuable — Subhasita ratna bhaandaagaara 3-758

 

DECEMBER 4 FRIDAY

The one whose speech is brief yet bewitching is alone a true orator –Subhasita ratna bhaandaagaara 2-8

 

DECEMBER 5 SATURDAY

The voice of the crowd – be they true or false – can tarnish one’s glory- Sanskrit Proverb

 

DECEMBER 6 SUNDAY

Avoid unpleasant arguments. So what if one is wicked?

 

DECEMBER 7 MONDAY

 

To the noble hearted, abuses are more astringent than arrows –Kahavatratnakar

 

DECEMBER 8 TUESDAY

Generally people are carried away by mere flowery eloquence Bharat Manjari 2-9-199

 

DECEMBER 9 WEDNESDAY

Sages maintain that the speech of the deluded and the arrogant are barbaric – Uttama Rama Carita

 

DECEMBER 10 THURSDAY

Soft speech is more cooling than even sandalwood and moonlight- Sanskrit Proverb

 

 

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DECEMBER 11 FRIDAY

Language identifies the region (desamaahyaati bhaasanam) Canakya Neeti 3-34

DECEMBER 12 SATURDAY

Of what use is the spoken after everything is put in black and white word? –Sisupalavadha 2-70

 

DECEMBER 13 SUNDAY

Competence and integrity are gleaned from the conversation – Hitopadesa 1-99 , SRB 3-452

 

DECEMBER 14 MONDAY

Prosperity and downfall are writ on one’s tongue (jihvaayattau vrddhi vinaasau)—Sanskrit Proverb

 

DECEMBER 15 TUESDAY

Well-wishers should be wary of provocative language –Kahavatratnakar

 

DECEMBER 16 WEDNESDAY

Words – minimal and meaningful – constitute eloquence –Kahavatratnakar and Naidadiyacarita

 

DECEMBER 17 THURSDAY

Words once ejected from one’s mouth spread rapidly everywhere – Kahavatratnakar

 

DECEMBER 18 FRIDAY

Use your words, only where they are honoured – Pancatantra

 

DECEMBER 19 SATURDAY

Who indeed is wretched when the veritable Goddess of Speech resides on one’s tongue?  –Subhasita ratna bhaandaagaara  (SRB)2-15

DECEMBER 20 SUNDAY

Eloquence makes for excellence (Vaagmitaa sreyasii mataa)—Sanskrit Proverb

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DECEMBER 21 MONDAY

Who indeed can block the fluency of the eloquent? – Raja Tarangini 4-261

 

DECEMBER 22 TUESDAY

Who is not scorched by the painful hostility born of verbal duels? Katha Sarit Sagara

 

DECEMBER 23 WEDNESDAY

Embellished speech is the best ornament ever (Satatam Vaagbhuusanam bhuusanam) – Niti Sataka 16

 

DECEMBER 24 THURSDAY

It is considered that all ties originate in talks –Ragu Vamsa 2-58

 

DECEMBER 25 FRIDAY

Respect or disrespect is accorded according to one’s speech –Kahavatratnakar

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DECEMBER 26 SATURDAY

Rare is that speech that appeals to one and all (sudurlabhaa sarva manoramaa girah)–  Kiratarjuniiya 14-5

 

DECEMBER 27 SUNDAY

Few syllabled pithy statements are supreme – Kahavatratnakar

 

DECEMBER 28 MONDAY

Rare is speech which is both salutary and charming – Kiratarjuniiya 1-4

 

DECEMBER 29 TUESDAY

Engaging, effortless conversation is the best travel snack – Brhat katha manajari

 

DECEMBER 30 WEDNESDAY

Utter not words of melancholy (maa bruuhi diinam vacah)—Sanskrit Proverb

 

DECEMBER 31 THURSDAY

Honey is in the tongue of bad people, but their heart is full of poison – Hitopadesam

 

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JANUARY 1 FRIDAY (2016)

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR.

 

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Honour and Hypocrisy Anecdotes (Post No. 2358)

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Date: 24 November 2015

Post No. 2358

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French and Swiss

“Why is it”, asked a Frenchman of a Swiss, “that you Swiss always fight for money, while we French only fight for honour?”

“I suppose,” said the Swiss, “that each fight for what they most lack.”

 

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German, French and the British!

A German officer, talking to a senior member of British embassy in Berlin in 1933 the made the odd remark that the British are gentlemen, but the French are not.

 

Asked what he meant, he explained: “One day in 1920, some of the military control commission under a French and British officer, came to the barracks of which I had charge. They said that they had reason to believe that I had a store of rifles concealed behind a brick wall, contrary to the terms of the Peace Treaty. I denied this. ‘I give you my word of honour as a German officer,’ I said, ‘that I have no rifles concealed in the barracks’.

 

“Well, your British officer was a gentle man. He accepted my word of honour and went away. But the French officer was not a gentleman. He would not accept my word of honour. He pulled down the brick wall. And he took away my rifles.”

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Informer

An officious informer came to tell Cardinal Richelieu of certain free expressions that some persons had used in speaking of him. “Why how now!” said the cardinal, “do you dare to come and call me all these names to my face, under the pretence of their having been said by honest gentlemen?”

 

Ringing his bell, he said to the page in waiting, “Kick that fellow down the stairs.”

 

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Room for more Hypocrites

The Bishop of Hertford was once being patronised by a great lord who talked very insolently.

“I never go to church,” boasted the lord. “Perhaps you have noticed that, Bishop?”

“Yes, I have noticed it” answered the Bishop gravely.

 

“Well, the reason I don’t go is that there are so many hypocrites there.

“Oh, you don’t let that keep you away”, said the Bishop smiling blandly. “There is always room for one more, you know.”

 

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Am  I a Brute?

Julius Streicher, Hitler’s No.1 Jew persecutor, complained recently to foreign correspondents about the way the foreign press portrays him as a depraved brute. “Of course”, he explained, “I do fight the Jews in every way I can, but in private life I am far from heartless. For example, I have two pet canaries, and whenever I am late coming home I stumble around in the dark rather than turn on the light on and wake them up.”

 

–From an old Encyclopaedia of Anecdotes.

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U S President Anecdotes (Post No. 2355)

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Date: 23 November 2015

 

Post No. 2355

 

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When Abraham Lincoln was criticized by a deputation sent to call on him he said,

“Gentlemen, suppose all the property you were worth in gold, and you had put it in the hands of Blondin to carry across Niagara River on a rope. Would you shake the cable and keep shouting – Blondin stoop a little more – go little faster—lean a little more to the north — lean a little more to the south? No, you would hold your breath as well as your tongue, and keep your hands off until he was safe over. The Government is carrying an immense weight. Untold treasures are in our hands. We are doing the very best we can. Don’t badger us. Keep quiet, and we will get you safe across”.

 

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Proud Peacock

A newspaper correspondent visited Coolidge at Plymouth, watched the automobiles rolling by, and said:

 

“It must make you proud to see all these people coming by here, merely to see you sitting on the porch. It shows although you are an ex-President you are not forgotten. Just look at the number of those cars.”

 

“Not as many as yesterday,” replied Mr Coolidge. “There were 163 then.”

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Mrs Coolidge became Mrs Lincoln

When Mrs Calvin Coolidge went abroad after her husband’s death she feared there would be an unnecessary fuss made over the wife of an ex-President. But the friend with whom she was travelling said, “Don’t worry. In the little places where we will be stopping they don’t know one President of the United States from another. People won’t bother you.”

And no one did – until in a small Italian town they received word that reservations had been made for them in the next town. This sounded ominous. When they reached the hotel in question they were pompously by the manager. Bowing profoundly, he said, “We are proud to welcome the wife of the Great President of the United States. Will you register, Mrs Lincoln?”

 

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Not for the Senators, but for the country

When Everett Hale was chaplain of the Senate (US), someone asked him, “Do you pray for the Senators, Dr.Hale?”

“No, I look at the Senators and pray for the country”, he replied

–Subham–

 

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Father Anecdotes (Post No.2349)

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Date: 21 November 2015

Post No.2349

 

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From an old Encyclopaedia of Anecdotes:–

Tit for tat!

Paul Bourget: life can never become entirely dull to an American. When he has nothing else to do he can always spend a few years trying to discover who his garn father was.

Mark Twain: Right, your Excellency, But I reckon a Frenchman has got his little standby for a dull time too; he can turn in and see if he can find out who his father was!

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Too many Questions, No Answer!

A father was walking with his young son. The

boy said, “Daddy, what is electricity?”

“Well, now, I don’t really know”, said the father. “I never knew much about electricity. All I know about it is that it makes things run.”

A little farther on, the boy said, “Daddy, how does the gasoline make the automobiles go?”

The father replied, “Well, I don’t know. I don’t know much about motors.”

Several more questions followed with much the same result; until at last, the boy said, “Gee, I hope you don’t mind my asking so many questions?”

“Not at all son”, said his father, you go right ahead and ask. How else will you ever learn anything?”

 

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Are you the father of my children?

Getting on a trolley car, a kindergarten teacher sat down next to s man who appeared familiar to her. Smiling pleasantly, she turned as if to speak to him. Noticing his lack of response, she realized her error, and said, “Oh, excuse me. I mistook you for someone else.  I thought you were the father of two of my children.”

He got out at next corner.

 

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Girl and Home

We are told a story of a girl of the roaring 20’s who said to a real estate agent when he wanted to sell her a house:

“A home? Why do I need a home? I was born in a hospital, educated in a college, courted in an automobile, and married in a church. I live out of the delicatessen and paper bags. I spend my mornings on the golf course, my afternoons at the bridge-table, and my evenings at the movies. And when I die I am going to be buried at the undertaker’s. All I need is a garage.”

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30th Wedding Anniversary invitations

No Quarrel for 30 years in the family!

In course of his pastoral visitations, Rev. Dr. Chalmers called upon a worthy shoe maker who, in recounting his blessings, said that he and his family had lived happily together for thirty years without a single quarrel. This was too much for the doctor, who struck his cane on the floor and exclaimed

“Terribly monotonous man! Terribly monotonous!”

 

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–subham–

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Story of Broken Candle: Grace for all alike

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Date: 13 November 2015

POST No. 2326

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A priest was preaching a sermon in the church. Hundreds of people formed the congregation in which there were some diseased, poor and crippled persons. The priest told the people that God doesn’t make any difference between the rich and the poor, the diseased and the healthy, the able bodied and the crippled. His grace pours on all alike, whatever their external conditions

In the course of the sermon, the priest’s eye lighted upon a broken candle lying on the floor. He got down from the pulpit, took the candle, and holding it before the congregation, lit it up with a match and it gave light. The candle though crushed and crumpled burnt bright by the touch of the flame. The match did not deny its fire to the candle because it was broken, and the candle gave full light inspire of its broken condition. This example struck Ramdas as unique. Really, God is all compassion and mercy. He pours his grace on any person who opens his heart to receive it.

Story told by Swami Ramdas of Anandhasram

–Subham–

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Swami Ramdas Story: Is there an Ego?

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Date: 12 November 2015

POST No. 2324

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Once a man invited son in law, who was living far away, to stay with him during holidays. When the letter was received by the son in law, there was an adventurer in his place, who knows the contents of the letter. This man thought it was a nice occasion for him to make the best of. When the son in law got into the train, he also boarded the same train, and at the destination both got down. The son in law was greeted by his brother in law who had come to the railway station in a car to receive him. When the son in law got into the car, the adventurer also got into the car. The son in law thought that this man might be some friend of his father in law’s family His brother in law thought that that he might be a friend of the son in law. They all reached the father in laws house and the guests were received with great honour and given nice rooms to stay, and they were all quite happy.

At the time of meals, this impostor would go and sit first, and before the others he would begin eating. Sometimes he even went into the kitchen to demand certain kinds of food he liked. Though this was noticed by the father in law, he did not tell him anything lest he should wound the feelings of his son in law. The imposter was also freely going to the son in law s room and using his shirts ties shoes and so on, without asking him. Though the son in law got annoyed at this, he did not complain as he took him to be a member or friend of his father in law s family. Thus from both sides this imposter was allowed full Liberty and was having a fine time.

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Things went on like this, but a time came when both the father in law and the son in law were fed up with the fellow s behaviour. They did not know how to deal with him as each thought that he was the friend of the other. At last when the father in law could not tolerate him anymore he decided to go to his son in law and ask why he had brought such a man with him. At the very moment, his son in law also wanted to ask the father in law “What a pest you have here! Where from he has come? He doesn’t seem to be a member of the family. He comes to my room and uses freely whatever I have in my room. All my clean shirts have been put on and soiled by him”. When the father in law and the son in law met together in a room to discuss privately about this imposter, the imposter found out they were making enquiries about him, and suddenly disappeared by the back door.

So in the case of the ego, a mere enquiry makes this imposter to also to disappear. In fact you will discover there was no imposter ego at all. Ego is an illusion caused by your ignorance. The ignorance is removed by Atmavichar or Self enquiry. But you do not want to make the enquiry. You are so much obsessed by him that you allow him to dance to his tune. He brings nothing but misery for you.

Story told by Swami Ramdas of Anandhasram

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7 Interesting Classroom Anecdotes!

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Date: 7 November 2015

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1).Faithful Student:

A young woman named Murphy was the teacher of kindergarten grade in Massachusetts school (USA). She had taught her class to repeat together the 23rd Psalm (In the Bible). As the little voices chorused out, she seemed somewhere to detect a false note. She heard the children one by one, until at last she came across one little boy who was concluding the Psalm with the words,

“Surely good Miss Murphy shall follow me all the days of my life.”

(Actual line in the Psalm: “Surely Goodness and Mercy shall follow me all the days in my life.”)

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2).Lucidity of Description

For sheer lucidity of expression, it is difficult to match the young lady who wrote on her examination paper the following in reply to the question, “What is a bolt and what is a nut?”

“A bolt is a thing like a stick of hard metal, such as iron, with a square bunch on one end and a lot of scratches going round and round the other end. A nut is similar to the bolt only just the opposite, being a hole in a little square of iron sawed off short with rings also around the inside of the hole.”

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3).Eyes for…………….

What are your eyes for? The little child in the kindergarten was asked.

To see with

And your nose?

To smell with.

And what are your ears for? Was the last question.

To keep clean, the child replied.

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4).Five years wasted!

After a lecture by the late Francis Wayland Parker, great Chicago (US) educator, a woman asked:

How early can I begin the education of my child?

When will your child be born?

Born? she gasped. Why?  He is already five years old!

My goodness, woman, he cried, don’t stand here talking to me – hurry home; already you have lost the best five years.

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5).Above Average Student!

A certain mother wished to enter her five year old daughter in a kindergarten, the age requirement of which was six. To the disapproving teacher the mother explained,

She can easily pass the six year old test.

Say some words, the teacher said rather sceptically to the child.

The little girl surveyed the teacher with dignity, and turning to her mother, asked,

Purely irrelevant words?

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6).We saw Dead Circus!

As a special treat the teacher took her class to visit the museum of natural history. The children returned home excitedly, and rushing into his house, one of the little boys greeted his mother exuberantly, saying,

What do you think we did today, mother! The teacher took us to a dead circus.

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7).Chairman of Udder Committee!

A little girl who was attending a progressive school had a cold one morning and her mother suggested that she remain home from school.

But, I can’t mother, the child insisted, this is the day when we start to make clay model of a cow and I am chairman of the udder committee.

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–Subham–

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Hiring and Firing Anecdotes

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Date: 5 November 2015

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Demand for Typists (During World War)

So great has been the demand for typists in the many war bureaus of Washington, that the legend has come to existence that the following test is now the standard by which applicants for such positions are hired:

The girl is shown into a room containing three objects: a washing machine, a typewriter and a machine gun; if she can identify the typewriter, she is hired.

Mark Twain: Idle and Fool!

Mark Twain was always impressed by the story of an industrious boy who became a millionaire. One of the things which remained in his mind was the fact that the boy had gotten his big chance by being noticed by a big business man while in the act of picking up a pin from the sidewalk.

When Mark Twain went to look for a job, he deliberately went to the street in front of an office window and began to pick up some pins which he had surreptiously strewn about. After a while he did succeed in attracting the attention of one of the men in the office. He came out into the street and, instead of the expected praise at such industry, Twain was astonished to hear the man say, “Here you, haven’t you anything better to do than pick up pins in the street? You must be an utterly idle and worthless fool.”

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Authority !!

In Tamil there is a proverb that says, “If you give power/authority to a scorpion it keeps on stinging.”

The Irish foreman on the construction job was new to his post of dignity. One of his first acts was discharge of one of his erstwhile fellow-workers. Asked why he had fired the man, he said, “I fired him not because I had anything against him, but I had the authority.”

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Little Work!

A personnel manager found himself confronted with a real problem. He had explained to the applicant that he could not place him because the firm was overstaffed. “That is alright,” said the job seeker. “The little bit of work I would do wouldn’t be noticed.”

–Subham–

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5 Funny Stories behind Tamil Proverbs!

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Date: 4 November 2015

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1).The pestle which the mother-in-law used and her gold necklace should go to the eldest daughter –in- law.

A certain daughter in law hated her mother in law, and one day being alone with her in the house struck her on the breast with the pestle, so that she fell down speechless. The other women were called in, and the mother in law pointed to the wicked daughter in law, to the pestle (rice pounder) and to her own breast. The women asked the murderess for an explanation of these signs, and she said: Being the eldest of you all, I am to have the pestle and the golden necklace on her breast!

2).Weep for the whole at once and be done!

A bridegroom was found to be lame. During the marriage ceremony many of the close relatives of the bride wept on account of the defect in him. Seeing this, the bridegroom threw off his clothes, exposed all his other defects and shouted, “Now, weep for all the defects at one go”.

This proverb is used by someone who knows all about a third person’s faults to another person who is gradually finding them out.

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3).Prasava vairagya, Smasana Vairagya, Purana vairagya

Three types of temporary vows are ridiculed by true ascetics. The renunciation (vow) of sexual intercourse is made by a woman when suffering the pains of child birth; it is called Prasava Vairagya. The renunciation (vow) of worldly things made after studying the sacred books is called Purana vairagya. The renunciation of worldly things made after seeing the corpses burned in the crematorium is called Smasana vairagya. All the three vows are just reactions to some sufferings and so not true renunciation. When the pain or suffering fades away, they resume their normal activities!

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4).“Like handing over a pestle to another person at Srirangam”

Srirangam is a famous Vaishnavite shrine town in Tamil Nadu. At Srirangam women pound rice for the temple for wages. Those who so must work the whole day and there is a man to se that the work is done. If one of these women, hearing her children crying, persuades a by-stander or a passer-by to take her place for a while to enable her to look after her children, and does not return. The substitute is obliged to stay in her place till the sun sets. The proverb is therefore said of one who undertakes responsibilities which involve more than he expected.

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5).Work like a Tirupati Barber!

Tiruppati is the holiest Vaishnavite Shrine in South India. Devotees go there and offer their hair to the god. Since thousands of people come to shave off their head at the same time during festival season, the barbers call every one as if they are free of work. When they rush to him, he takes money from every one of them and shave some hair and go to the next place to get more money through more customers. The people who were half shaven could not leave that place, because people would laugh at them seeing the half shaven head.

So this phrase is used to any half finished job, particularly when a person seeks more money.

Proverbs in Tamil:

1.தான் ஆண்ட உலக்கையும், தங்கப் பூஞ்சரடும் தலை மருமகளுக்கு

2.எல்லாத்துக்கும் சேர்த்து ஒரே அழுகையாய் அழுதுடுங்க

3.சீரங்கதில் உலக்கை கொடுத்தது போல

4.பிரசவ வைராக்கியம், புராண வைராக்கியம், ஸ்மசான வைராக்கியம்

5.இது திருப்பதி அம்பட்டன் கதை போல இருக்கு

Source : Tamil Proverbs, year 1897

–Subham–

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