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1. Take a news sabbatical. Listening to the news can be downright depressing. All bad news all of the time can drag you down and keep you there. Give yourself permission to stop listening to the news, especially before bed time.
2. Use your influence to do good where you live. Shift your focus from what is happening in other parts of the world to your community. Get involved in making a positive change or contribution.
3. Focus on what is working in your life. Choose one thing that you are grateful for and focus on it for the rest of the day.
4. Express your appreciation to others. You can create a positive world one person at a time by saying thank you every chance you get to everyone you interact with ? from the person who holds open a door for you to your child who does a chore to a cherished friend or loved one
5. Focus on what you can change, let go of what you can't change. When faced with a distressing situation ask yourself if you can control over the events. If you do, change what you can. If you don't, learn to let it go and move on.
2. Don't die with your music still in you.
3. You can't give away what you don't have.
4. Embrace Silence.
5. Give up your personal history.
6. You can't solve a problem with the same mind that created it.
7. There are no justified resentments.
8. Treat yourself as if you already are what you would like to be.
9. Treasure your Divinity.
10. Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you.
Time, words & Opportunity
Three things in life that may never be lost -
Peace, Hope & Honesty
Three things in life that are most valuable -
Love, Self-confidence & Friends
Three things in life that are never certain -
Dreams, Success & Fortune
Three things that make a man -
Hard work, Sincerity & Commitment
Three things in life that can destroy a man -
Woman, Gold, Land, Wine, Pride & Anger
Ayurveda ---> Came from the churning of the Milky Ocean (Parkadal Amritham)Sushruta ---> Sushruta Samhita (सुश्रुतसंहिता), Father of Surgery
Charaka ---> Charaka Samhita, Father of Anatomy
Ayurveda (Devanāgarī: आयुर्वेद, the 'science of life') is a system of traditional medicine native to the Indian Subcontinent. The earliest literature of Ayurveda appeared during the Vedic period in India.
Children are crying
Fighting for food
Holding their heads
Breaking their bread with a stone
All along the roadside
people are standing
watching the sun
shielding their eyes
Brushing the flies from their face
Tell me, what can you say
Tell me, who do you blame
Like a mirror you see yourself
These people each have a name
All around the township
Young men are dying
(of) hunger and thirst
The well has run dry
The tears from her eye feeds her son
Tell me...
You can say you're pulling back
We see the pictures everywhere
But what we don't see is what's
Going on behind the closed doors
And you don't seem to care
Do you expect me to believe you
How can you really think
You can take your horse down to the water
Hold a gun at his head
And make him drink
No matter what you say, it never gets any better
No matter what you do, we never see any change
People living without rights
Without their dignity
How loud does one man have to shout
To earn his right to be free
You can keep your toy soldiers
To segregate the black and white
But when the dust settles
And the blood stops running
How do you sleep at night?
No matter what you say...
What makes you so high and mighty
What makes you so qualified
You can sit there and say
How many have their freedom
But how many more have died
You decide to sit in judgement
Trying to play God yourself
Someday soon the buck is gonna stop
Stop with you and noone else
No matter..
Walking from Tibet to Bodh Gaya
Rendering the Message
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Keep the Chariot Stable - The Soul (Atma) will be Fine
Drive on a Stable Path - The Body will be Fine
The Charioteer drives steady and is stable - The Indriyaas will be Fine
The Rope held to the Chariot is strong and steady - The Mind will be Fine
DHYAYATO VISHAYAN PUMSAH
SANGAS TESUPAJAYATE
SANGAT SANJAYATE KAMAH
(From this I came to know about SATSANGH / SATSANGHAM means SAT=GOOD and SANGAM=COMPANY)
KAMAH KRODHOBHIJAYATE
---An sudden revelation while waiting for my train back from office
Dhyatho Vishayan Pumshaha
Sangasthesupajayate
Have a desire out of happiness NOT for Happiness
My handwritten Notes on this famous Book with select sentences which affected me most and touched my heart in all walks of my life….
MY EXPERIMENTS WITH TRUTH - M.K.Gandhi and other books on Gandhi by J.Nehru and an English Author
Transcribed the Noted from the borrowed book at
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For I had learned to carry out the orders of elders, not to scan their actions.
I had to learn that all happiness and pleasure should be sacrificed in devoted service to my parents.
'Renunciation of Objects, without the renunciation of desires is short lived, however hard you may try'
My Ambition was to make her live a pure life, learn what I have learnt, and identify her life and thought with mine
Let Every Young man and woman be warned by my example, and understand that good handwriting is a necessary part of education.
Hypocrisy, pride and lying were opposed to me.
I must undergo personal cleansing
I must become a fitter Instrument able to register the slightest variation in the moral atmosphere about me.
My prayers must have deeper truth and humility about them than they evidence. Also for me there is nothing so helpful and cleansing as a fast accompanied by the necessary mental cooperation.
Silent suffering undergone with dignity and humility speaks with an unrivalled eloquence.
No Act of mine is done without a prayer.
Mine is a struggling, striving, erring imperfect soul.
He took to long walks - partly in search of a vegetarian restaurant, partly because he had convinced himself that exercise would not only help keep up his strength but help him take his mind off sex.
Thereafter for most of his adult years, he read from the Gita daily, regarding it as his truth book and drawing from its verses the strength to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow.
Renunciation was the highest form of religion when he felt himself being overwhelmed he desperately wanted to get away.
WESTERN CIVILIZATION
Gandhiji's Words:
By Western Civilization I mean the ideals, which people in the west have embraced in modern times and the pursuits based on these ideals
The Supremacy of brute force, worshipping Money as God, spending most of one's time in seeking worldly happiness, breathtaking risks in pursuits of worldly enjoyments of all kinds, the expenditure of limitless mental energy on efforts to multiply the power of machinery, the expenditure of crores on the inventory of means of destruction, the moral righteousness which looks down upon people outside our world, that is western civilization. This civilization deserves to be altogether rejected
I make an effort to be and to remain pure; I am full of error but ever ready to correct myself. There is nothing in my life, which I wish to conceal. Whatever I think I speak out immediately.
But being one who takes most careful thought before doing anything, I do not easily abandon my view. I listen even to children and have learnt so much from them. There is a great deal, indeed I have learnt from poor and simple people.
When a Man wants to make up with his maker, he does not consult a third party. He ought not to. If he has any doubt about it he certainly must.
But I had no doubt in my mind about the necessity of my step.
Friends would deem it their duty to prevent me from undertaking the fast. Such things are not matters for consultation or argument. They are matters of feeling.
When Rama decided to fulfil his obligation he did not swerve from his resolve either by the weepings and wailings of his dear mother or on the advice of his preceptors, or the entreaty of his people, or even the certainty of his fathers death if he carried out his resolve. These things are momentary.
Truly speaking, death is God's eternal blessing. The body, which is used up falls and the bird within, flies away. So long as the bird does not die, the question of grief does not arise.
My wife has never hindered me in my progress towards my ideals
Her sense of wifely devotion, she has renounced so far as the world knows earthly possessions longing for them still persisted.
I am an incorrigible optimist.
I cannot tell how much money I have wasted on furniture. But I do not remember having ever felt a wrench in the heart in all these wild adventures. I felt lighter every time and was convinced that was God's will and the change was for my good.
Sincerity may sometimes appear cruel. You should not shrink from appearing to be cruel. Be sincere at any cost. Do not act immaturely even for a minute.
Please understand the meaning of the word 'kritim' here. It does not mean 'making false show' but means 'unnatural'. Do what your conscience bids you to. That will be your good and through that you will prosper in the end.
Fearless: That required only faith in God. Who are we? A mere imaginary point such as cannot be drawn on a board. He is the only reality and is all that exists. Doesn't the Gita say, "Sarvata Eva Sarva"? Why shouldn't we, then, form all kinds of plans in our minds? We should do, to the best of our understanding the task that lies at hand and live with our hearts forever light.
But it is impossible for us to realize perfect truth so long as we are imprisoned in this mortal frame he can only visualize it in our imagination. We cannot through the instrumentality of this ephemeral body see face-to-face truth, which is eternal. That is why in the last resort we must depend on faith.
We should learn how to distinguish between what is our duty and what is not. Our pride melts away and we become humble.
Our wordly attachments diminish and likewise the evil within us diminishes from day to day.
The law that to live, man must work first came home to me upon reading Tolstoy's reading on bread and labour.
Hence our dharma is to swallow our anger abide by the settlement and carry out our duty.
In fact food for the body is not so necessary as prayer for the soul.
Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something into which nothing can be compared.
The words, which I pen or speak, come to me unsought. Only such words have truth in them, for they are living words.
I must have said only what I felt but you might have felt a sting in my words. " One must speak the truth in words which are agreeable", is not a maxim of practical wisdom but is a moral principle.
The habit of a lifetime persists, and I allow it to be said that I pray to an outside power. I am part of that infinite and yet such an infinitesimal part that I feel outside it. Though I give you the intellectual explanation, I feel, without identification with the divinity, so small that I am nothing. Immediately I begin to say I do this thing and that thing, I begin to feel my unworthiness and nothingness, and felt that someone else, some higher power, has to help me.
You are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher. You must be humble enough to see that inspite of your greatness and gigantic intellect you are but a speck in the universe. A merely intellectual conception of the things in life is not enough. It is the spiritual conception, which eludes the intellect and which alone, can give you satisfaction. Even monied men have critical period in their lives, though they are surrounded by everything that money can buy and affection can give, they find (themselves) at certain moments in their lives utterly distracted. It is in these moments that we have a glimpse of God, a vision of him who is guiding every one of our steps in life. It is prayer.
Sankaracharya has likened the process to the attempt to empty the sea by means of a drainer small as the point of a blade of grass. This process thus necessarily is endless being carried through birth after birth.
Brahmacharya is that thought and practice which puts you in touch with the infinite and takes you to his presence.
I have not become modern at all in the same sense you seem to mean. I am as ancient as can be imagined and hope to remain so to the end of my life. If this displeases you, I cannot help it. Let me appear to you and others as naked as I am.
Gandhi to Maganlal K. Gandhi
- I very often put him in embarrassing situations and he silently bore with them. He regarded no work as too mean.
- He took his wife along with him in his struggle to perceive the beauty and the necessity of the practice of brahmacharya by patient argument instead of imposing views on her.
- The three streams of knowledge, devotion and action continuously flowed within Maganlal and by offering his knowledge and his devotion in the yagna of action, he demonstrated before everyone their true form.
We absorb the assumptions of the time and place without knowing it, and find ourselves equipped with weapons we never bought. It takes years to learn how to throw them all away and go, defenceless and undefending, toward whatever the truth maybe.
The most conspicuous follower of the karma yoga in modern times, perhaps in all times, was Mahatma Gandhi, who relied heavily upon the other systems - prayer, devotional exercise, love , meditation - to help him on his way.
Person Inside the Chariot (Atma) is sitting (and this is always stable)
The Actual Chariot (Body) Kept Stable by the Charioteer which is the Intellect
Intellect (Charioteer) holds the Sense Organs in Check and kept on course on an intended Path by controlling them and making sure they are on the Road and guiding them without each of them breaking away in different directions.
IF THERE IS NO CONTROL THE FOLLOWING WILL HAPPEN:
These 5 Horses going in different directions and the goal will not be reached
- Horses will go in different directions (EYE, EAR, NOSE, MOUTH, MIND)
- Charioteer is disconnected (INTELLECT)
- Chariot will break down (BODY)
- Entity inside the chariot will not be known at all (ATMA)
To be told per day 7 times x 21 days
THE ESSENCE OF THE GITA
The Past was Pleasant
The Present is undoubtedly sweet
And the Future will definitely be splendid
You have lost nothing of yours
And why do you lament?
You have brought nothing so there is no loss
You have created nothing and hence no wastage
What you have taken is taken from here
What you have given, is given from here only
What is yours today will belong to others tomorrow
And the next day it will pass on to others
The inevitable change is the law of the universe
The same thing is happening in India as well. In India though there were atleast the cooperatives that protected the farmers produce and groups of produce from the local farms would end up in cooperatives and thus the farmer could get some money. But nowadays the local markets are disappearing fast and the farmers are slowly dwindling and their livelihood severely affected due to the growing pace of the Supermarkets. Further the fast paced lifestyle is propelling people to seek out ways and means of cheap and fast food and the rush towards Mcdonald types such as burgers and what not is reducing the number of people claiming farm produce in markets. Supermarkets are also very good at showcasing the produce with lots of great logos and health tips that can lure people to them. The per capita income of the present day man is high and therefore he doesnt mind buying the neatly packaged produce in the supermarket compared to the farm produce he used to buy earlier from roadside produce stored in gunny sacks. The mobility is another parameter to be considered. As people started to have cars and move in their own transport, the trend is towards parking at parking lots of the supermarkets and one-stop shops which are luring more and more people towards the supermarkets. Consequently the poor farmer is no longer in the picture anymore and the new generation would not even know where the produce originates. Nowadays kids see packaged items brought out to them and dont even feel the produce with their hands anymore as we used to do in our younger days.
Why there are no Navagraha temples inside Vishnu Temples. The simple reason is that if there are no other dieties, the concentration will be diverted and we will not have poorna bhakthi. Thats why no other dieties. ut in Madurai Tirumoghur temple there is a Navagraham. Also in Koodal Azhagar Temple there is one.
THE MIND PARASITES
An Immense Pessimism descends on the human race which is reflected in its art,music etc, what is more important is that man seems to have lost his power of self renewal. A Man Who is overworked has got himself into a habit of tension and he cannot break the habit by merely willing. A Glass of whisky or cigarette will reach down into his motor levels and release tension.
Through millions of years of evolution, Man has developed all kinds of habits for survival. If any of these habits go out of control, the result is mental illness. For Example, Man has got a habit of being prepared for enemies,but if he allows it to dominate his life he becomes a paranoic. Man has to learn to relax or he becomes overwrought and dangerous. He must learn to contact his own deepest levels in order to re-energize his conciousness.
HABIT: Psychologists have been telling us for years that the human being is largely a machine. Lord Leicester compared human beings to grandfather clocks driven by watch springs.
Man's mind is like some vast electronic brain capable of the most extraordinary feats. And yet, unfortunately Man does not know how to operate it. Every Morning when he wakes up, Man comes to the control panel of that vast brain and proceeds to turn the knobs and press buttons. And yet this is the absurdity;with the immense machine at his disposal he only knows how to make it do the simplest things, to deal with the most everyday problems. It is true that there are certain men whom we call men of genius who can make it do far more exciting things, write symphonies and poems,discover mathematical laws. And then there are few men who are perhaps the most important of all, Men who use this machine to find out what they can do with this machine. And this electronic brain is the greatest of all mysteries for to know its secret could turn Man into a God.
- A single traumatic experience in childhood could be the foundation of life long memories. One or two happy experiences in early childhood can make a man an optimist for life.
Once you have the knack of using your mind properly, everything follows easily. It is a matter of breaking a habit that human beings have acquired over millions of years of giving all their attention to the outside world and thinking of 'imagination' as kind of an escapism, instead of recognizing it as a brief excursion into the great unknown countries of the mind, not just your 'mind' in the ordinary sense but your feelings and perceptions as well. I look at a man and I 'see' him i.e., oobjective. A child looks at him and says 'Ooh! What a horrid Man'?, the child feels about him and we say i.e., subjective. In a sense the childs feeling is also a perception. But in a far more important sense our 'seeing' is also a feeling.
Think for a moment what happens when you are trying to adjust a pair of binoculars. You turn the little wheel and everything is in a blur. Suddenly a single extra turn makes everything become clear and sharp. Now think what happens when someone says to you 'Old so-and-so died last night'. Usually your mind is so full of other things that you don't feel anything at all, or rather your feeling is indistinct,blurred as if the binoculars are out of focus. Perhaps weeks later you are sitting quietly in your room reading when something suddenly reminds you of old-so-and-so who died and suddenly you feel an acute grief for a moment. The feeling has come to focus. What more is necessary to convince us that feeling and perception are basically the same thing. A meaning happens when we compare two lots of experiences and suddenly understand them both. To take an extremely simple example a baby's first experience of fire may give it the impression that the fire is wholly delightful, warm and bright and interesting. If he then tries putting his finger into the fire he learns something new about it - that it burns. But he does not therefore decide that fire is wholly unpleasant;not unless he is exceptionally timid and neurotic. He superimposes the 2 experience one upon the other like 2 star maps and marks down that one property of fire must be clearly separated from the ohers. This process is called 'learning'. Wordsworth looking down upon the thames saw for a moment human life from above like an eagle instead of from the usual worm's eye view. And whenever a Man sees life in this way- whether he is a poet or a scientist or a statesman - the result is tremendous feeling of power and courage, a glimpse of what life is all about - of meaning of human evolution. Instead of being at the mercy of moods and feelings we control them exactly as we control movement of our hands;the result can be hardly described to anyone who has not experienced it.
Human beings get so used to things 'happening' to them. They vatch 'cold'; feel depressed;pick something up and drop it, experience boredom. But once they turn their attention to their own mind, things such as the above cease to exist and we can control them.
Psychokinesis: If mind encounters that of another being it is possible to exert mental control over it. Ex: Steering a Mosquito away from its course.
Human beings had known about psychokinesis for a long time, for over half a century . Psychokinesis is defined as a phenomenon in which the individual experiences (produces an effect of some object in his environment without the use of his own motor system). Direct action of mind upon matter is called Psychokinesis. Human being have always possessed PK powers to a minor degree. The business of mapping the mental realms (exploring) is a very exciting and rewarding thing. Man is so used to their mental limitations that they take them for granted. They are like sick men who have forgotten the meaning of health. The brain has bout a dozen major pleasure circuits, the most familiar among them being sexual, the emotional and the social. There is also an intellectual pleasure circuit and a higher [intellectual] circuit connected with Man's powers of self control and self conquest. Finally there are 5 circuits that are almost entirely underdeveloped in human beings connected with energies that we call political, religious or mystical.
Animals are very nearly machines, they live on reflex and habit. Human beings are also vey largely machines but we also possess a degree of consciousness which means, in essence a freedom from habit, the ability to do something new and original. The mistaken feeling that something was overlooking was one of the thousands of habit that we still take for granted. Struggling for greater control of conciousness made us overlook some deep rooted habits standing in the way of real control. The greatest human problem is that we are all tied to the present. This is because we are all machines and our own free will is almost infinitesimal. Our body is an elaborate machine just like a motor car or perhaps a better simile would be those 'powered' artificial limbs won by people with their almost indestructible power units who have lost an arm or leg and are as responsive as our real arms and legs and I am told that a Man who has worn them for years can totally forget that they aren't real limbs. But if the power unit should break down he quickly realizes that that his limb is only a machine that has his own will power playing a very small part in its movements. Well, this is true of all of us. We have far less will power than we believe. This means that we almost have no real freedom. This hardly matters most of the time because the machine our bodies and brains - is doing what we want anyway - eating, drinking and excreting and sleeping and making love and the rest. But poets and mystics have moments of freedom when they suddenly realize that they want the machine to do something far more interesting. They want the mind to be able to detach itself at a moments notice from the world and float above it, our attention is normally fixed upon minute particulars, actual objects around us like a car in gear. Then in certain moments the car goes into 'neutral', the mind ceases to be engaged with trivial particulars and finds itself free. Instead of being ied to the dull reality of the present it is free to choose which reality it prefers to contemplate. When your mind is in gear you can use your memory to recall yesterday as to create a picture of a place on the other note of the world. But picture remains dim, like a candle in the sunlight as a mere ghost. In poetic moments the moments of freedom yesterday becomes as real as new. If we could learn the trick of putting in and out of gear,man could have the secret of godhead .But no luck is more difficult to learn. We are ruled by habit.Our bodies are robots that insist on doing what theyhave been doing for the past million years - eating,drinking, excreting, making love - and attending to the present. Split/dual personality occurs for example - a timid man who possesses a strong sexual urge which he tries to suppress, wakes up one day to find that he has committed a sexual assault. He tries to excuse himself by saying that it was as if 'another being' took over his body and committed the assault. But that 'other being' was really himself - a part of himself that he was too cowardly to recognize. If we consider life as a kind of electrical force that inhabits a human body as Magnetism inhibits a magnet then we could say that the bruised flesh is no longer capable of carrying the same magnetic current as the rest. It slips to a lower level and proceeds to develop on its own kind, a kind of split personality.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Men are often too harsh with women they love or have loved; women with men. And yet this harshness is tenderness itself when compared with the universal harshness out of which they grow; the harshness of the position towards the temperament of the means, towards the ruins of today, towards yesterday, or afterwards.
So do flux and reflux - the rhythm of change - alternate and persist in everything under the sky
Tess: Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence and why should she have been punished so severely
Neither saw the difference between local truth and universal truth, that what the inner world said in their clerical and academic hearing was quite a different thing from what the outer world was thinking.
No Man can always be cynic and live
When Angel Clare was in Brazil: He thought that they wanted readjusting.
"Who was the moral man? Still more pertinently, who was the moral woman?" The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievement but in its aims and impulses; its true history, lay, not among things done, but among things willed"
Let the truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits and again look about them with an interested eye. "While there's life, there's hope" is a conviction not entirely unknown to the betrayed (Tess) as some amicable theorists would have let us believe.
Angel - He was surprised that this young woman - though a milkmaid had just that touch of rarity about her. The perception arrested him less when he reflected that what are called advanced ideas are really in great part but the latest fashion in definition - a more accurate expression, by words in logy and ism, of sensations which men and women have vaguely grasped for centuries.
Angel Clare rises out of the past not altogether as a distinct figure but as an appreciative voice, a long regard of fixed abstract eyes, and a mobility of mouth somewhat too small and delicately lined for a Man's, though with an unexpectedly firm close of the lower lip now and then, enough to do away with any inference of indecision.
Nevertheless, something preoccupied, nebulous, vague in his bearing and regard, marked him as one who had no very definite aim or concern about his material future, yet as a lad people had said of him that he was one who might do anything if he tried.
Angel Says, "How can I think of reading it! Its I who ordered the book. Why - It's a system of Philosophy - there is no more moral or even religious work published". My whole instinct in matters of religion is towards reconstruction; to quote your favorite epistle to the Hebrews"
The Removal of things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that these things, which cannot be shaken, may remain.
He began to evince considerable indifference to social forms and observances. The material distinctions of rank and wealth he increasingly despised.
Distinction does not consist in the faulty use of a contemptible set of conventions, but in being numbered among those who are true, and honest, and just, and pure and of good report.
Angel began to comfort and reassure her thinking to himself truly enough what a creature of moods she was, and how careful he would have to be of her when she depended for her happiness entirely on him. "Ah - Why did'nt I stay!" he said "That us just what I feel. If only I had known!
When sorrow ceases to be speculative, sleep sees her opportunity
The Host and his household : Angel : He had been disintegrated into a number of varied fellow Creatures being of many minds, being infinite in difference, some happy, many serene, few depressed, one here and there bright even to genius, some stupid, others wanton, others austere, some mutely Miltonic, some potentially cromwellian into men who had private views of each other, as he had of his friends who could applaud or condemn each other, amuse or sadden themselves by the contemplation of each other foibles or vices, men everyone of whom walked in his own individual way "the road to dusty death"
He made close acquaintance with phenomena he had known before but darkly - the seasons in their moods, morning and evening, night and noon, winds, waters and mists, shades and silences and voices of inanimate things.
*** He held that education has as yet but little affected the beats of emotion and impulse on which domestic happiness depends. It was probable that in the lapse of ages, improved systems of moral and intellectual training would appreciably, perhaps, considerably elevate the involuntary and even the unconscious instincts of human nature; but up to the present day culture as far as he could see might be said to have affected the mental epiderm of those lives which had been brought under its influence. This belief was confirmed by his experience of women which, having latterly been extended from the cultivated middle class into the rural community, had taught him how much less was the intrinsic difference between the good and wise woman of one social stratum and class and the good and the wise woman of another, than between the good and the bad, the wise and the foolish, of the same stratum and class.
His affection itself was less fire than radiance, and , with regards to the other sex, when he ceased to believe, he ceased to follow, contrasting in this with many impressionable natures who remain seriously infatuated with what they intellectually despise.
Moreover when two people are once parted - have abandoned a common domicile and a common environment - new growths insensibly bud upward to fill each other's vacant place; unforeseen accidents hinder intentions and old plans are forgotten.
Propensities, tendencies, habits were as dead leaves upon the tyrannous wind of his imaginative ascendancy' "How unexpected were the attacks of destiny"
To Angel - "Nevertheless humanity stood before him no longer in the pensive sweetness of Italian art but in the staring and ghastly attitude of a wieltz museum and with the leer of a study by Van Beers.
To Tess - "No Prophet had told him, that essentially this young wife of his was as deserving of the praise of King Lemuel as any other woman endowed with the same dislike of evil, her moral value having to be reckoned not by achievement but by tendency. Moreover the figure near at hand suffers on such occasions, because it shows up its sorriness without shade, while vague figures far off are honored, in that their distance makes artistic virtues of their stains. In considering of what Tess was not, he overlooked what she was, and forgot that the defective can be more than the entire.
As yet "And probably the half unconscious rhapsody was a fetichistic utterance in a Monotheistic setting; women whose chief compassions are the forms and forces of outdoor nature, retain in their souls far more of the pagan fantasy of their remote forefathers than of the systematized religion taught their race at a later date"
"By Experience, says Roger Ascham,"we find a short way by a long wandering". Seldom that long wandering unfits us for further travel, and of what use is our experience to us then?
At last Tess had learned what to do, but who would now accept her doing?
Almost at a leap Tess thus changed from a simple girl to a complex woman.
From 'The Return Of The Native' - Thomas Hardy
"To Sorrow I bade good morrow, and thought to leave her far away behind;
But cheerily, cheerily, she loves me dearly;
She is so constant to me, and so kind,
I would deceive her
And so leave her,
But Ah! She is so constant and so kind"
Twilight combined with the scenery of Edgon Heath to evolve a thing majestic with severity impressive without showiness, emphatic in its admonitions, grand with simplicity
Fair prospects wed with fair times, but alas, if times be not fair
Men have often suffered from the mockery of a place too smiling for their reason than from the repression of surroundings over sadly tinged.
Not encouraging, I own," said Fairway "Get out of my sight, you slack twisted, slim looking maphrotight fool,' is rather a sad way of saying No.
A Bend in The Ganges - Manohar Malgonkar
Gian thought he must give up cigarettes during the holidays because of his brother Hari. Not that hari would have minded, he was quite certain of that; Hari never seemed to mind what Gian did. He would only have laughed indulgently and tried to lead with Ajit that any college boy in his senior year was bound to take to smoking because it helped concentration. Hari had made do with 3 dhotis a year, wore patched chaplis and had not bought a warm coat for himself as long as he could remember so that Gian should be able to go to college and live there as other boys did. Not that Hari could ever have any idea of how some of the other boys did live at college - at least not those who really mattered. They played tennis, they spoke familiarly of dance bands and of expensive restaurants and of shopping at whiteways and the army and Navy stores, they wore flannels of silk and sharkskin, they went out with girls, they were rich flashy and self assured.
Being at college was not just a matter of studying for your degree, learning was only part of what college had to offer, and not a very important part at that. Somehow to absorb all that college had to offer, it was important to be part of that glittering inner circle the rich, sporting set. Most of the time you looked at the circle only from outside, like going into the window of whiteways. And yet, under the surface they were all 'rather nice people', and not at all unfriendly or moody. If they kept to themselves it was because they were self-sufficient, conscious that they constituted the higher order, when they spoke to you, they did so with a heartwarming lightness and lack of condescension.
Translated in Tamil - Therinda Puranam Theriyadaha Kathaigal
Ramayana - Kaikeyi decides to send Rama off to the forest. But Kaikeyi loves Rama more than anybody else but why she does this? There is this sutle point from the curse from the Munikumaran. (When Dasaratha kills the Munikumaran with an arrow and then takes the pitcher of water to his old aged parents and when they come to know of Dasaratha's sinful deed, they actually curse Dasaratha that he should experience the same). Now Kaikeyi knowing fully well that due to the curse Rama may die and Dasaratha will live reverses this by her action of sending Rama to the forest. This is one of the sukshma from the Kathaikal.
Was told to me by my grandmother in Kollam..
Passing away of 91, the good and bad
Reminds us of the happy times we had
Emerging once again into '92 with high fidelity
Exhilarating thoughts and levity
Treading the path of truth in every way
Harmony and Peace will never be away
In making this place a happier place everyday
Beaming with happiness and festivity
Hunting for laddus and sweets with dexterity
Uproar and Confusion with laughter and joy
Very much will make you enjoy
Another Special Diwali
No One is wished more happily
As nicely and heartily
Seeing You
Under the Shadowcast light
Jokes are all I think is just right
Although I find by Insight
That you laugh very bright
How much I wish it would be
Always in your character to highlight
From 'The Return Of The Native' - Thomas Hardy
"To Sorrow I bade good morrow, and thought to leave her far away behind;
But cheerily, cheerily, she loves me dearly;
She is so constant to me, and so kind,
I would deceive her
And so leave her,
But Ah! She is so constant and so kind"
Twilight combined with the scenery of Edgon Heath to evolve a thing majestic with severity impressive without showiness, emphatic in its admonitions, grand with simplicity
Fair prospects wed with fair times, but alas, if times be not fair
Men have often suffered from the mockery of a place too smiling for their reason than from the repression of surroundings over sadly tinged.
Not encouraging, I own," said Fairway "Get out of my sight, you slack twisted, slim looking maphrotight fool,' is rather a sad way of saying No.
Life is defined by the systematic and random;
By moments of action and inaction and by
Opportunities and Obstructions.
We negotiate our path through these variations and interventions, responses which are more often than
Not, prescribed by convention
Traditionally,
Smarthas Pray = Dieties in temples with Navagraha
Vaishnativites Pray = Perumal Only
*** "By Experience, says Roger Ascham,"we find a short way by a long wandering". Seldom that long wandering unfits us for further travel, and of what use is our experience to us then?
*** Distinction does not consist in the faulty use of a contemptible set of conventions, but in being numbered among those who are true, and honest, and just, and pure and of good report.
*** When sorrow ceases to be speculative, sleep sees her opportunity
*** Moreover when two people are once parted - have abandoned a common domicile and a common environment - new growths insensibly bud upward to fill each other's vacant place; unforeseen accidents hinder intentions and old plans are forgotten.
Notes From Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Other Good Points to Ponder
Posted by Anand S"Who was the moral man? Still more pertinently, who was the moral woman?" The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievement but in its aims and impulses; its true history, lay, not among things done, but among things willed"
Men are often too harsh with women they love or have loved; women with men. And yet this harshness is tenderness itself when compared with the universal harshness out of which they grow; the harshness of the position towards the temperament of the means, towards the ruins of today, towards yesterday, or afterwards.
He made close acquaintance with phenomena he had known before but darkly - the seasons in their moods, morning and evening, night and noon, winds, waters and mists, shades and silences and voices of inanimate things.
So do flux and reflux - the rhythm of change - alternate and persist in everything under the sky
Tess: Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence and why should she have been punished so severely
Neither saw the difference between local truth and universal truth, that what the inner world said in their clerical and academic hearing was quite a different thing from what the outer world was thinking.
No Man can always be cynic and live
When Angel Clare was in Brazil: He thought that they wanted readjusting.
"Who was the moral man? Still more pertinently, who was the moral woman?" The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievement but in its aims and impulses; its true history, lay, not among things done, but among things willed"
Let the truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits and again look about them with an interested eye. "While there's life, there's hope" is a conviction not entirely unknown to the betrayed (Tess) as some amicable theorists would have let us believe.
Angel - He was surprised that this young woman - though a milkmaid had just that touch of rarity about her. The perception arrested him less when he reflected that what are called advanced ideas are really in great part but the latest fashion in definition - a more accurate expression, by words in logy and ism, of sensations which men and women have vaguely grasped for centuries.
Angel Clare rises out of the past not altogether as a distinct figure but as an appreciative voice, a long regard of fixed abstract eyes, and a mobility of mouth somewhat too small and delicately lined for a Man's, though with an unexpectedly firm close of the lower lip now and then, enough to do away with any inference of indecision.
Nevertheless, something preoccupied, nebulous, vague in his bearing and regard, marked him as one who had no very definite aim or concern about his material future, yet as a lad people had said of him that he was one who might do anything if he tried.
Angel Says, "How can I think of reading it! Its I who ordered the book. Why - It's a system of Philosophy - there is no more moral or even religious work published". My whole instinct in matters of religion is towards reconstruction; to quote your favorite epistle to the Hebrews"
The Removal of things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that these things, which cannot be shaken, may remain.
He began to evince considerable indifference to social forms and observances. The material distinctions of rank and wealth he increasingly despised.
Distinction does not consist in the faulty use of a contemptible set of conventions, but in being numbered among those who are true, and honest, and just, and pure and of good report.
Angel began to comfort and reassure her thinking to himself truly enough what a creature of moods she was, and how careful he would have to be of her when she depended for her happiness entirely on him. "Ah - Why did'nt I stay!" he said "That us just what I feel. If only I had known!
When sorrow ceases to be speculative, sleep sees her opportunity
The Host and his household : Angel : He had been disintegrated into a number of varied fellow Creatures being of many minds, being infinite in difference, some happy, many serene, few depressed, one here and there bright even to genius, some stupid, others wanton, others austere, some mutely Miltonic, some potentially cromwellian into men who had private views of each other, as he had of his friends who could applaud or condemn each other, amuse or sadden themselves by the contemplation of each other foibles or vices, men everyone of whom walked in his own individual way "the road to dusty death"
His affection itself was less fire than radiance, and , with regards to the other sex, when he ceased to believe, he ceased to follow, contrasting in this with many impressionable natures who remain seriously infatuated with what they intellectually despise.
Moreover when two people are once parted - have abandoned a common domicile and a common environment - new growths insensibly bud upward to fill each other's vacant place; unforeseen accidents hinder intentions and old plans are forgotten.
Propensities, tendencies, habits were as dead leaves upon the tyrannous wind of his imaginative ascendancy' "How unexpected were the attacks of destiny"
To Angel - "Nevertheless humanity stood before him no longer in the pensive sweetness of Italian art but in the staring and ghastly attitude of a wieltz museum and with the leer of a study by Van Beers.
To Tess - "No Prophet had told him, that essentially this young wife of his was as deserving of the praise of King Lemuel as any other woman endowed with the same dislike of evil, her moral value having to be reckoned not by achievement but by tendency. Moreover the figure near at hand suffers on such occasions, because it shows up its sorriness without shade, while vague figures far off are honored, in that their distance makes artistic virtues of their stains. In considering of what Tess was not, he overlooked what she was, and forgot that the defective can be more than the entire.
As yet "And probably the half unconscious rhapsody was a fetichistic utterance in a Monotheistic setting; women whose chief compassions are the forms and forces of outdoor nature, retain in their souls far more of the pagan fantasy of their remote forefathers than of the systematized religion taught their race at a later date"
"By Experience, says Roger Ascham,"we find a short way by a long wandering". Seldom that long wandering unfits us for further travel, and of what use is our experience to us then?
At last Tess had learned what to do, but who would now accept her doing?
Almost at a leap Tess thus changed from a simple girl to a complex woman
From the Bhajagovindam
Bhagavad Gita Kinchitha deetha
"Read a bit of Bhagavadgita and drink ganges water"
Ganges water as pure as ever after even ages of preservation
Alexander the great after conquering almost all of the world while on his deathbed is quoted saying, `when you bury me in the coffin drill 2 holes in the coffin so that my 2 hands show out.`
This he said to show that after all he had nothing in his hands, to others that to learn that nothing comes with you after death.
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When going over the sea, Bhagvathas cant perform Sandhayavandahana, it has to be performed on land.
Karma Bhumi - all Karmas should be performed in Bharat India which is Karma bhoomi, other nations are Bhoga bhoomi whereas India is Karma Bhoomi
Avani Rohini Nakshatram
Athi Eva Achalu Janmat
krishna Janmam - Ramanuja