Think it over!

[Visalakshi Ramani]

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Enakku therinthatai potten. You are absolutely correct. After all you
are a Poetess, where I am!!

Balasubramanian
Ambattur

Actually the ideal name will be
Bottle brush crested crane.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Vaazhaip pazha somberi???

I am not too fond of using garlic and onions in my cooking not becos I do not like the taste but becos I am too lazy to peel onions and garlic.But if someone else peels it for me..I will use it in my cooking.
Ginger is easy to cut,just crush it in the pestle.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Garlic Pearls.


It is said, “Garlic everyday keeps every body away!” It keeps not only everybody away but also every disease away! Want to know how?

Garlic had been used through ages as a charm to ward of all evil spirits. It had been a popular remedy for many complaints ranging from dog-bites, constipation, asthma, pimples to athlete’s foot. Its medical properties have been well documented and it has been mentioned even in The Holy Bible.

In 1900s, garlic was recommended by some doctors as a cure for Tuberculosis. During World War I, it was used to cure dysentery. In World War II, it was widely used on the war wounds to prevent septic poisonings and gangrenes.

Albert Schweitzer had used garlic to cure cholera and typhus. In Russia it was fondly called as “The Russian Penicillin” and is used to treat colds and flu. In China, garlic had been used to for many centuries, treat high blood pressure.

Many doctors were skeptic with regard to the many medical qualities attributed to garlic. But scientific evidence supports its curative power as an anti-biotic, a fungicide, a laxative, a diuretic and as an anti-coagulant.

As early as 1858, Louis Pasteur observed that garlic could destroy small bacteria. In 1985, tests have proved that garlic is effective against, Influenza B and Herpes Simplex.

It has been proved that garlic lowers blood cholesterol, increases the absorption of vitamin B, benefiting the nervous system. Garlic can inhibit blood clotting. Even half a clove of raw garlic pearl is tremendously beneficial to fight blood clotting.

In its raw crushed state, garlic contains amino acids, rich in sulphur. This protects against heart diseases. The precise explanation for the medical properties of garlic is not known. But this does not diminish the greatness or the curative properties of garlic in any which way!

Visalakshi Ramani.
Source : My blog of 200 English articles <visalakshiramani.wordpress.com>

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

My son and D.I.L love to grow not one "Cabbages" but also "Roses"!

I will get all their lovely flowers posted by them in this thread.

Here the people soak in enough sunshine, when it is available, for the entire year.

They walk, jog, bicycle, skate, use roller blades, skate boards and indulge every imaginable outdoor

activity. The men folk strip down to their waist. I am sure I will NOT be able to recognize them if they

come fully dressed or formally dressed!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Children are Nibblers and prefer to have small frequent feeds.

That keeps their energy level high all during the day.

We the grown up become Gobblers and stuff the food in less number of feeds.

We feel sleepy since the blood gets diverted from the head to the tummy

so that digestion can take place.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Kids go to sleep early and wake up early like the LARKS.

As we grow grow up, we stay up late and get up late .

We change from LARKS and become OWLS!!!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Children NEVER give up easily.

Words like "washing machine", "Should not shout!", "dish washer"

can become real tongue twisters to the kids.

But they never up until they can say the words perfectly and fluently.

Their spirit leads to success. :clap2:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Here everyone KNOWS about Lord Ganesh and also LOVE HIM dearly.

I remember how my son's professor's eyes lit up when we gave him a small statue of Ganesh.

My little grandson loves Ganesh. He sings "Gajamukhane Ganapathiye" a Kannada song with an
enchanting pronunciation. :ear:

I sang the bhajan "Jai Ganesha" and he made me go over it at least 100 times on that day! :sing:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Knowledge

Knowledge is the great sum of the firmament. :thumb:
Life and power are scattered with all its beams.
Daniel Webster.

The greatest clerks be not the wisest men. eace:
Geoffrey Chaucer.

Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers. :decision:
Alfred Lord Tennyson.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

I thought that "peek a boo" was the game children play.

Apparently we adults also never grow out of it!!!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

I got properly scared after watching the movie Wall E two years ago!

We bring into the world our children and we have to leave for them a world free of junk and garbage.

The mindless littering on the earth's surface HAS to curtailed and curbed.

Here is an awe inspiring information from a forwarded mail, on how long the different materials take to decompose completely!

HOW LONG DOES THEY TAKE TO GET DECOMPOSED

Paper Towel .... 2-4 weeks

Banana Peel .....3-4 weeks

Paper Bag .........1 month

Newspaper ........1.5 months

Apple Core .........2 months

Cardboard ..........2 months

Cotton Glove ......3 months

Orange peels ..... 6 months

Plywood ..............1-3 years

Wool Sock ...........1-5 years

Milk Cartons ........5 years

Cigarette Butts ... 10-12 years

Leather shoes ......25-40 years

Tinned Steel Can ......... 50 years

Foamed Plastic Cups... 50 years

Rubber-Boot Sole........ 50-80 years

Plastic containers ....... 50-80 years

Aluminum Can ............. 200-500 years

Plastic Bottles ...............450 years

Disposable Diapers - 550 years

Mono filament Fishing Line - 600 years

Plastic Bags - 200-1000 years


How many tons of plastic bags will get accumulated in those 1000 years!!! :scared:

How many tons of disposable diaper will get accumulated considering the number

of children in the world and the number of years the diaper takes to get

decomposed!!! :faint:

 

[Raghy]

cookery - NO Please



Good Tamil Food (without Garlic) is the food to die for. Not all cooking is better than kissing. From some people I have the kiss than their food. Actually I want nothing from some people (no Kiss no cooking).

The produce is mouthwatering.

Tell me when you are dropping in Brisbane. Mostly I don't use garlic or onion in my cooking. Mostly iyengar style cooking including satramadhu. ( But I do cook non-vegitarian food like an expert too).

Cheers!

 

[renuka]

I was just reading the about Dasa Danam (10 items for donation)

It was listed as:

1)Cow
2)Land
3)Til seeds
4)Gold
5)Ghee/butter
6)Garments
7)Grains
8)Sugar
9)Silver
10)Salt.


I was just thinking that these are basically for sustenance in this world.
Lots of such donations are also done during funerals(but I wonder who gives land and cows these days) ..so technically speaking do any rites and rituals of the funerals have to be as complicated as they are right now?

I was just thinking...that many tribals too have simple funeral rights and they are happy with it.
Other religions too have quite simple rites and no problems are faced too.

Do we really need all complicated rites and rituals??

 

[Raghy]

I was just reading the about Dasa Danam (10 items for donation)

It was listed as:

1)Cow
2)Land
3)Til seeds
4)Gold
5)Ghee/butter
6)Garments
7)Grains
8)Sugar
9)Silver
10)Salt.


I was just thinking that these are basically for sustenance in this world.
Lots of such donations are also done during funerals(but I wonder who gives land and cows these days) ..so technically speaking do any rites and rituals of the funerals have to be as complicated as they are right now?

I was just thinking...that many tribals too have simple funeral rights and they are happy with it.
Other religions too have quite simple rites and no problems are faced too.

Do we really need all complicated rites and rituals??

I don't know about funeral rites; so I am not getting in that.

Yes, cow danam is done presently too. In most places, instead of a cow, cash is accepted to certain extend to the value of the cow. Don't know about land though.

Cheers!

 

[renuka]

I don't know about funeral rites; so I am not getting in that.

Yes, cow danam is done presently too. In most places, instead of a cow, cash is accepted to certain extend to the value of the cow. Don't know about land though.

Cheers!

I was just discussing this with my mother and she said that it all depends on the mind set of the individual.
Those who feel and think that all complicated rites and rituals are necessary will surely desire it upon death and it will help them go across in their "eyes"

But for those of us who can see the logic behind it as it is not 100% essential and accept death as a transition can do away with any complicated rites and rituals and just focus of trying to keep God in our mind all the while with the hope that God will be our very last thought too.

My mother is a very practical person..I feel she has a very valid point here.

 

[Raji Ram]

............. Do we really need all complicated rites and rituals??

Dear Renu,

The ten 'danam's are given during a man's 60th and 80th birthday celebrations. There are six more 'danam'

items added to these ten, during the rituals following a person's demise. I remember four of them - umbrella,

'maNai palagai' (now plastic maNais are demanded), slippers, lamp.

Real 'gO danam' and land danam are given only by very rich persons. It is replaced by money kept over a 'mattai thEngai'.


In Sing. Chennai, there are packages for these rituals costing between Rs. 60,000 to 1.5 lakhs. A lady from our close circle of
relatives, opted to go for Arya samAj type funeral ceremony, when she got fed up with these demands!! opcorn:

 

[renuka]

Dear Renu,

The ten 'danam's are given during a man's 60th and 80th birthday celebrations. There are six more 'danam'

items added to these ten, during the rituals following a person's demise. I remember four of them - umbrella,

'maNai palagai' (now plastic maNais are demanded), slippers, lamp.

Real 'gO danam' and land danam are given only by very rich persons. It is replaced by money kept over a 'mattai thEngai'.


In Sing. Chennai, there are packages for these rituals costing between Rs. 60,000 to 1.5 lakhs. A lady from our close circle of
relatives, opted to go for Arya samAj type funeral ceremony, when she got fed up with these demands!! opcorn:

Dear RR Ji,

Go danam(in the form of cash)Hiranya/Swarna danam and Rajat danam I had done once before for my late MIL.
But what I was not too happy was the priest took the cash without even reciting the line for Go,Hiranya/Swarna and Rajat.

I never heard those 3 words at all being mentioned.

Further more the priest told me that he will buy the silver patram and I just have to give him cash.

When he brought the silver patram..I saw that it was dented and had some stains on it as if it had been used before.
It looked like some old patram.
So he was really smart guy...recycling his old patram and taking money for it.

But I still paid the money even though he did not produce a receipt.
I did not want to ask him cos I didn't want any problems for him or for me.

And after that...the priest kind of hinted that he was looking for a plot of land to build a temple!

I told him for that you will have to ask a King!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Tell me when you are dropping in Brisbane. Mostly I don't use garlic or onion in my cooking. Mostly iyengar style cooking including satramadhu. ( But I do cook non-vegitarian food like an expert too).

Cheers!

Don't tell me you also eat that food!!! :shocked;

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Miracles DO happen in real lives.

If you still do not believe in them just read on.

Colorado shooting victim

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

I know of one couple who did a major malpractice and cheated the lawful heirs of a rich man of their shares of land.

They did parihaaram by donating a small piece of land to poor brahmin.

Bad apples and bad gifts taste bad! Right??

The recipient of the piece of land has gone off his rocker and is raving around like mad man. :rant:

I guess when the awesome couple gifted the land, they passed on their sin as a free attachment / bonus. :evil:

 

[DR.C.NARAYANI]

Hello very good morning VR Mam .very well said your post 2620.which is 100% true. Inspite of knowing the bad effects ,just to safe guard /get rid off it and doing such things can be an eye wash ,ATMA THIRUPTHY.BOTH GOOD KARMIC EFFECT AND BAD KARMIC EFFECT WILL NEVER TALLY.both are different account.I just remember KASAIKU POONALUM KARMAM POOGADHU. so one has to be careful in the things involving.WHAT WE SOW ,WE REAP.

 

[Raghy]

I was just discussing this with my mother and she said that it all depends on the mind set of the individual.
Those who feel and think that all complicated rites and rituals are necessary will surely desire it upon death and it will help them go across in their "eyes"

But for those of us who can see the logic behind it as it is not 100% essential and accept death as a transition can do away with any complicated rites and rituals and just focus of trying to keep God in our mind all the while with the hope that God will be our very last thought too.

My mother is a very practical person..I feel she has a very valid point here.

Sowbagyavathy Renuka,

Not all the persons consider death as a transition. Most of them listen to all sorts of discourses, read all sorts of religious books; but don't realise death in its true sense. Some of them really believe all those rites must be conducted as prescribed for them to get across where ever. Day in and day out I say I have no faith in God; but i observed lot of people conduct all sorts of poojas, vist all sorts of temples, chant Baghavan Nama at every step but still don't really believe in God. Just think about it; if they really think all their sins are washed away in riiver Ganges, then why would they worry about any rites and rituals after that? Truth is, none of them have any faith ' a dip in river Ganges' would wash away their sins.

I agree with your mother too. It's all in the mind set. But, for most persons, the mind set is not quite developed though.

Cheers!

 

[Raghy]

Sowbagyavathy VR, Greetings.

I guess when the awesome couple gifted the land, they passed on their sin as a free attachment / bonus.

The guy who received the land as 'dakshina' knew it was ill gotten property. Possibly he could not live with that guilty feeling. He became psychologically disturbed due to that. If he did not know when he recieved it, then he should have returned it once he realised it; or should not have accepted it at the first instance when he knew about that land. Greed.... But guilty feeling is quite bad. I think I know about that feeling.

Cheers!

 

[Raji Ram]

Dear Renu,

In Sing. Chennai, no one shows even an old vessel. Everything is replaced by vitamin M = Money!!

One poor brahmin got a cow as danam but could not maintain it! He sold it to my brother in law, now

living in his village, after retirement. BIL has added one more servant to maintain the cow and milk it.

During our visit to the village in September, we will get degree coffee prepared with fresh milk - home made!!

 

[Raji Ram]

I read an interesting post in another forum! The question asked is this: When we believe that the soul which departs from this

world will enter the next body soon, why do we perform 'sraddham' every year for the soul which is already living on earth?

Any thoughts? :decision:

P.S:

My maternal grandma passed away soon after she gave birth to my fourth uncle. Her 'sraddham' is performed for the past 82 years!!

Wonder how many births her soul would have taken meanwhile!! :dizzy: