Compiled by London Swaminathan
Date: 25 DECEMBER 2017
Time uploaded in London- 7-06 am
Post No. 4543
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January 2018 Good Thoughts Calendar
Festival Days :- January 1 New Year, 2 Arudra Darsanam, 13-Bogi Pandikai, 14 -Makara Sankaranti/Pongal, 24- Ratha Sapthami, 26- Republic Day, 30 -Gandhi’s death anniversary, 31- Thai Pusam, LUNAR ECLIPSE (Chandra Grahanam)
31 Golden Sayings from Tamil Poetess Avvaiyar’s books Muthurai and Nalvazi are given in this month’s calendar.
New Moon/Amavasai –16
Full Moon/Purnima– 2, 31+Lunar Eclipse
Ekadasi Fasting Days– 12, 27/28
January 1 Monday
Coconut tree sucks water from the ground and gives sweet water (at top) in tender coconut (fruit). If one does good to another, he would get in return something good – Muthurai 1
January 2 Tuesday
Gift given to good will be like a carving on a stone; Good done to ungrateful will vanish like writing on the water – Muthurai verse 2
January 3 Wednesday
Painful is adversity in youth and painful is prosperity in old age like the tree blossoming out of season and beautiful woman without a partner- Muthurai 3
January 4 Thursday
Though the conch shell is burnt, it remains white; though the milk is boiled it is tasty; Even when good people have difficulties they remain noble. verse 4
January 5 Friday
All the towering trees do not bear fruits but in due season; One’s tireless efforts won’t be successful until the time of fortune arrives- Verse 5
January 6 Saturday
Water lily grows as long as the water level is; one’s intelligence is up to the level of their studies. One’s accession of wealth depends upon the good deeds one did in previous births – verse 7
January 7 Sunday
To see good people is good; to listen to good words is good; to speak the virtues of good people is good; to associate with them is also good- verse 8
January 8 Monday
To see the bad people is bad; to listen to the rude words is wicked; to speak about the bad people is evil; to associate with them is sinful- verse 9
January 9 Tuesday
The water fed to the paddy fields benefits the grass in those fields as well; In the same way even if one person is on earth it rains benefitting all- verse 10
January 10 Wednesday
The screw pine has large leaves and has no scent; the Mahila has small petals but has got good smell; the sea is large but the water is not usable; though a spring is small it serves all- verse 12
January 11 Thursday
Good trees are not that grow in the forest; men who stand in the assembly and unable to read or interpret are the trees (wooden logs)- verse 13
January 12 Friday
The turkey, on seeing the peacock spreading its wings and dance, is spreading its ugly wings thinking it can do it; it is like men of ignorance showing off- verse 14
January 13 Saturday
A healer fell a victim to the tiger he tried to save; so is the help rendered to the ignoble; it breaks like a pot that fell on a rock – verse 15
January 14 Sunday
Don’t think that the patient people are ignoramuses; they are like the stork which waits for the right fish to come and fall in the trap- verse 16
January 15 Monday
Those who forsake you in crises are not relations; they are like the water birds that desert when the tank is dry; relations are the ones who stick to you even at the time of distress like the edible root and flowering plants that stick to the tank in dry season. – verse 17
January 16 Tuesday
Though a gold pot breaks it is still gold; what would be the worth of a mud pot that breaks? Great people are like the gold pots even when they are fallen – verse 18
January 17 Wednesday
Though you dip a measure in the deep sea water, it wont take four measures; though you get riches and husband , the happiness depends on destiny or fate – verse 19
January 18 Thursday
congenital diseases can kill though they are born with you; but herbs growing in far off mountains can heal the sick; don’t depend on people who are born with you; there are people like the medicinal plants somewhere- verse 20
January 19 Friday
When there is a good wife, the house has everything; if the wife is not good it’s like a tiger infested forest- verse 21
January 20 Saturday
Action follows fate or pre -written; Nothing happens as one wish for. Even Kalpaka tress will give you bitter nox vomica due to past karma- verse 22
January 21 Sunday
The wrathful vulgar are un weldable like the split or broken stones; but the good ones join like broken golden pots; the anger of righteous people disappear like the cut in water made by an arrow- verse 23
January 22 Monday
The learned are enamoured by the society of scholars. They are like the swans that swim together in a tank; the illiterates are like the crow that feasts on the dead bodies in the cremation ground- verse 24
January 23 Tuesday
Poisonous cobras hide in the holes fearing human beings; non-poisonous water snakes lie in the open field; they don’t fear an attack from humans. Those who are cunning at heart keep themselves aloof; those with open heart will never skulk- verse 25
January 24 Wednesday
A king is respected in his own country only; a learned man is respected wherever he goes; so, a scholar commands more respect than a monarch- Muthurai verse 26
January 25 Thursday
To a plantain tree, its own baby plant does harm; the woman who does not behave is a yama/god of death to her own husband- verse 27
January 26 Friday
With the Lady of Fortune comes wealth, great beauty and noble birth to us; they will vanish when she goes out- Muthurai verse 29
January 27 Saturday
Shun evil, Do good- all religions preach- Nalvazi verse 1
January 28 Sunday
There only two castes in the world; those who give are great; those who don’t give are base born- Nalvazi verse 2
January 29 Monday
This body is a bag of miseries; don’t take this false body as real; if you do charity you attain liberation- Nalvazi verse 3
January 30 Tuesday
It is hard to do anything good unless the past merits favour it; it is like a blind man using his walking stick to get down fruits from a mango tree; unless the right time comes it is a futile action- Nalvazi verse 4.
January 31 Wednesday
The life of sages is like water on lotus leaf. water is on the leaf but aloof, never wets it; the sages are in the world and out of it at once – Nalvazi verse 7
–subham–
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