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[Visalakshi Ramani]

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Laws are like cobwebs,

which may catch small flies, :nod:

but the wasps and hornets break through. :ballchain:

Jonathan Swift.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Truly your good health is in your HANDS!!!

Acupressure points of the various organs present in the palms.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

I HOPE these images do not disappear overnight!!!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Does anyone still wonder about the wonderful benefits of walking???
No wonder people had better health when they HAD to walk as much as they could!!!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Hold the phone near your LEFTear.

Do not drink coffee TWICE a day.

Do not take pills with COOL water.

Do not have HUGE meals after 5pm.

Reduce the amount of OILY food you consume.

Drink more WATERin the morning, less at night.

Keep your distance from hand phone CHARGERS.

Do not use headphones / earphone for LONG periods of time.

Best sleeping time is from 10pm at night to 6am in the morning.

Do not lie down immediately after taking medicine .

When battery is down to the LAST grid/bar, do not answer the phone as the radiation is 1000 times.

Forward this to those whom you CARE about!

From a forwarded mail.

 

[Raji Ram]

....The blogs are serene and undisturbed by other ads and replies ...........

Undisturbed? Hmmmmmmmmm.

Suppose your friends and fans stop posting replies in your threads?? out:

 

[renuka]

Dear VR,

Where are the images?? I can't see any?

:Cry::Cry::Cry::Cry:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

So the images did disappear as I feared!

 

[Raghy]

Dear Raghy,

4 other members wished me Happy Raksha Bandan(Bala sir,Gurvayur sir, Mano sir and Brahin).

In my reply post to all of them..all I wrote is Thank You.

For your post..I wrote a longer reply with quotes from Geeta.

Actually a brother sister relationship is still very much human.

In my reply to you I took the relationship one step higher by talking about the same Atma that pervades all of us and we being clones of Paramatma and also quoting the Geeta.

I feel in this world there is no relationship greater to Jeevatma Paramatma bond.

Seeing everyone of us as the same is the ultimate dream of any Jeevatma.

So the best Rakhee is the one we Jeevas tie on Paramatma cos no matter what He never abandons us.

Sowbagyavathy Renuka, Greetings.

Yeah, Yeah...... All I asked for was a 'Raksha Bandhan!' Here she goes writing all sorts of things like 'வெண்டைக்காய் கூட்டு!' ( vendaikkai koottu!). Summa ratchi kattinamo, gift vaanginamonnu illama....

It is good I am not seeing you in person! Possibly I would have beaten you with a Geetha book! LOL!

I feel in this world there is no relationship greater to Jeevatma Paramatma bond.

Seeing everyone of us as the same is the ultimate dream of any Jeevatma.

Romba kashtam! Young lady, there is no bond between Paramatma and Jeevatma.. there are one and the same! I already saw everyone as the same at one time. How many have you managed to see " as the same" so far at the same time? Well, i would have managed about five to six hundred when I was 20 years old. All I had to do was hang out near the bus stop outside the girls college near by at the end of the day.... I saw all of them as the same... as the same as my girl friends. Possibly they did too! For this, ultimate dream indeed! ஒரு ராக்கி கேட்டா சொம்மா கட்டுமே! ( oru rakki kettasomma kattume!) ரொம்பத்தான் கிராக்கி பண்ணிக்கிரையே! ( rombathaan kirakki pannikiraye!).

Cheers!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Undisturbed? Hmmmmmmmmm.

Suppose your friends and fans stop posting replies in your threads?? out:

I think they have ALREADY done so!

especially in my poem thread!!!

 

[nannilam_balasubramanian]

Many may say that Cell Phone has advantages, but it has so many disadvantages.

If one sees from the angle of accessibility, it has good accessibility. One will never
be out of reach. I have seen some using the Cell phone in the toilet too, just like
some reading the paper. Potential disadvantage could be, at times, Privacy.

Negative Health Effects - Analysis of WHO - It can cause cancer, infertility in men,
birth defects and a host of other physical problems.

Distraction - People become oblivious to their surrounding. Not knowing as to what
is happening in the surrounding. Face to face communication is now established, but
yet it has some disadvantages.

Efficiency - More efficient because of instant communication anywhere in the World
including internet access including rubbish and nonsense things appearing - being
utilised by youngsters in a wrong way. Of late some errand boys take the photographs
of the Girls while taking bath and black mail them, resulting in suicidal deaths, which
one can read in Media of late quite often.

Social interaction - Help only youngsters More.

Balasubramanian
Ambattur

 

[renuka]

I really dislike people taking photographs of each and everything with their handphones.

Sometimes I really hate it when patients even want to video record me scanning their wives.

I tell such patients that I can not appear in their personal video per my medical ethics.

It is getting hard to see patients these days cos they might not really listen to you.

I have seen some who keep the recording on while I examine them.
For such patients I talk very softly or hardly talk.

It is very hard to tell a patient to off their handphones here..they shout back at you(here a doctor is like a Dog and not God).

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Those people will learn to respect doctors better if they are treated the way we are in India.

Here the doctor is the God and the patients are the cattle.

The doctors will take away your wallet with all its contents,

make you wait in queues for indefinite periods of time,

and will be watching their wrist watches-

when finally you get a minute or less to speak to them!

I really dislike people taking photographs of each and everything with their handphones.

Sometimes I really hate it when patients even want to video record me scanning their wives.

I tell such patients that I can not appear in their personal video per my medical ethics.

It is getting hard to see patients these days cos they might not really listen to you.

I have seen some who keep the recording on while I examine them.
For such patients I talk very softly or hardly talk.

It is very hard to tell a patient to off their handphones here..they shout back at you(here a doctor is like a Dog and not God).

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

There is but one law for all, namely,

that law which governs all law,

the law of our Creator,

the law of humanity, justice, equity,

the law of nature and of nations.

Edmund Burke.

 

[renuka]

Those people will learn to respect doctors better if they are treated the way we are in India.

Here the doctor is the God and the patients are the cattle.

The doctors will take away your wallet with all its contents,

make you wait in queues for indefinite periods of time,

and will be watching their wrist watches-

when finally you get a minute or less to speak to them!

Out here..even when they have left the room..patients will keep calling the clinic and still keep asking questions.

Once a patient complained to the Medical Ethics Board that a doctor whom she had consulted earlier refused to answer her questions when she saw him having his lunch at a restaurant.

He told her it was his lunch time and would talk to her later and patient got mad with that.

Out here patients can be a pain in the neck.
Like last week I told a patient to come for a blood test the next day and she calls me up and tells me to come to her house and take the blood.

I told her.."I do not do house calls..kindly come to the clinic"

Out here it is not worth doing house calls..firstly it is unsafe and secondly many people refuse to pay after you have seen them.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

The best policy is that followed by the priests and pundits.

Even before they start the Aush homam we have to pay them the entire dakshina.opcorn:

 

[manoharkumar]

Dear VR Maam,

I have to polietly refute your comments on priests/ pundits. Every time we do some function or thithi or any other activity where in pundit (sastri) is required we immidiately start commenting on them using mobile, driving bikes, and ultimately on the dakshina. I personally feel that TN sastris are the most commented upon guys visavis the dakshina part.

Please think of the condition of these poor souls entirely dependent on us for their livelyhood. They have nowwhere to go and ask for. How many functions do we do in a year. Max five or six...for tharpanams etc we do it reading the books and dont call them.. for every pooja there is books and where will they go?. If we do not support our sastri who will. Ok accepted a fews are greedy, but why generalise everybody and penalise the sastrigal community.
வருடதிற்க்கு ஒரு முறை வரும் வருஷாப்திகம் செய்ய நாம் யோசிக்கிறோம். சாஸ்த்ரிகள் எப்படியெல்லாம் சம்பாதிக்கிறார் என்றும் பேசுகிறோம். நாம் பிராம்ணர்களாய் பிற்ந்ததால் நாம் வேதங்களை ரக்ஷிக்கவேண்டிய கட்டாயத்தில் இருக்கிறோம். ஸாஸ்த்ரிகளூக்கும் நம்மை விட்டால் வேறு யார் இருக்கிறார்கள்? யோசித்துப்பார்க்கவேண்டும்.

He spends great deal of his younger days in reading the vedas away from his family and does so many sacrifices and still they are not respected by our own community people. Why should people be jealous of the pundit earning in the temple. We see him daily in temple irrespective of the festival days and does so much walking inside the temple moving from one saanidhi to another climbing steps 100's of times and if he get Rs.10/- in his plate from the devotee people comment look how much he is earning!!

We dont mind paying other professionals huge amount for their services, why do we hesitate to pay sastrigal. He is also unique and his services are also unique and natrually his demands should also be met the same way. I dont aknow about others i would prefer paying the sastrigal Rs/100 than put the same in the hundi for the temple management to spend it.. I am sorry for the long one and also sorry if this hurts any one...

Cheers.

 

[kk4646]

Dear VR Maam,

I have to polietly refute your comments on priests/ pundits. Every time we do some function or thithi or any other activity where in pundit (sastri) is required we immidiately start commenting on them using mobile, driving bikes, and ultimately on the dakshina. I personally feel that TN sastris are the most commented upon guys visavis the dakshina part.

Please think of the condition of these poor souls entirely dependent on us for their livelyhood. They have nowwhere to go and ask for. How many functions do we do in a year. Max five or six...for tharpanams etc we do it reading the books and dont call them.. for every pooja there is books and where will they go?. If we do not support our sastri who will. Ok accepted a fews are greedy, but why generalise everybody and penalise the sastrigal community.
வருடதிற்க்கு ஒரு முறை வரும் வருஷாப்திகம் செய்ய நாம் யோசிக்கிறோம். சாஸ்த்ரிகள் எப்படியெல்லாம் சம்பாதிக்கிறார் என்றும் பேசுகிறோம். நாம் பிராம்ணர்களாய் பிற்ந்ததால் நாம் வேதங்களை ரக்ஷிக்கவேண்டிய கட்டாயத்தில் இருக்கிறோம். ஸாஸ்த்ரிகளூக்கும் நம்மை விட்டால் வேறு யார் இருக்கிறார்கள்? யோசித்துப்பார்க்கவேண்டும்.

He spends great deal of his younger days in reading the vedas away from his family and does so many sacrifices and still they are not respected by our own community people. Why should people be jealous of the pundit earning in the temple. We see him daily in temple irrespective of the festival days and does so much walking inside the temple moving from one saanidhi to another climbing steps 100's of times and if he get Rs.10/- in his plate from the devotee people comment look how much he is earning!!

We dont mind paying other professionals huge amount for their services, why do we hesitate to pay sastrigal. He is also unique and his services are also unique and natrually his demands should also be met the same way. I dont aknow about others i would prefer paying the sastrigal Rs/100 than put the same in the hundi for the temple management to spend it.. I am sorry for the long one and also sorry if this hurts any one...

Cheers.

I concur with you Sir....Except a few all Sastrigal are good ...

TVK

 

[renuka]

Out here sometimes if you get to know a priest well sometimes they end up SMS you for donation for some pooja or the other regularly.

I knew one priest from India who used to SMS me his bank account number and expected a monthly "donation" from time to time for some pooja or the other he was doing.

After a while I refused to put money into his account cos he was getting too money minded and was bugging me non stop to do a Sudharshan Homa at my house.

I am not really into rituals and this guy just could not accept no for an answer so I stopped answering all his calls and SMS.

 

[guruvayurappan]

post 2942#
dear manokar kumar !
very nice post and made the points to be remembered . many of us knows all these facts .still due to some exceptional act of few sastrical ,these comments are uttered.
your points are mentioned by our own sastricals
how many functions you conduct ?
are we getting any monthly salary ?
are we covered by pension and pf benefits?
compare the mandapam,catering ,decoration etc.spend for marriage and the dakshinai to vathiyars?

even though those valid questions , we do not want those question from them .
hence sastricals also collect the dakshinai in advance like any other contractors
every thing is business like .
guruvayurappan

 

[Raghy]

Sri. Manohar Kumar, Greetings.

I refer to your message in post #2942. I quite agree with your views. After all, Sastrigal is offering a service; we are obliged to pay the fees. The Sastrigal has the responsibility to perform the task with full dedication. He should not be whiling away the time by talking in his cell phone, discussing his next business with the next customer in your time etc. He should be prepared to accomadate the yegaman's wishes; should not stay rigid and tell the yegaman to accomadate him. Also Sastrigal knows all the consumables that are required to peform the event; shouldn't expect the yegaman to source them ... when yegaman says he can't get them, then shouldn't charge yegaman with a 'rip off price'. Importantly Satrigal should not increase the fees in the middle of the event. Sometimes it is ridiculous for the Sastrigal to increase the fees for accomadating yegaman's wishes - it may seem that Satrigal may do anything for a fees. Only when the Sastrigal do any and all of these thibgs, thay become quite unpopular.

Cheers!

 

[manoharkumar]

Dear Raghy Sir,Guruvayurappan Sir,

totally agree with your views. There are some in every trade bent upon making that extra something which they right royally feel they have to have. You will not believe when i say that there was a sastrigal in our street who have been living in a one room ( kitchen cum bedroon cum living room) near our house and he has bee staying in that house for 40 years, and the building owner wanted them to move out, and without information disconnected the electricity to the room.
This person who was very poor due to no constant income was aged 92,when he did the upanayanam of my son, few years back , used to come to our house for using the toilet . You can listen to his rendering of rudram, and samavedam all the day!! he died in pittance.

So if we over look a few such fleecing our community sastriigals can have a little bit more comfortable life. thats what i want to bring out. Sorry if it look like i am taking up sides in spite of so much inputs from your side on the unnecessary demands fleecing by them.
Cheers.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Our grandchildren are in USA.
Yet we wanted to do the Ayush Homam in our house
leaving the Skype on for them to watch it.
The moment the sastrigal enters he demands the entire dakshina.
Four sathrigal were supposed to come and do the homam.
BUT only one turned up at 11-45 A.m!
He was hungry and in a great hurry. He took the fees in full but the other three sasthrigal never turned up. Everything was cut short and we were not happy the way the Ayush homam was done. The net result...?
We had planned to perform the homam for all the grandchildren every year.
But changed our plan we do elaborate abhishekham in the temples instead.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Leadership.

They be blind leaders of the blind.
And if the blind lead the blind,
both shall fall into the ditch. :sad:
Matthew 13:14.

No person can be a great leader unless :thumb:
he takes genuine joy in the success of those under him.eace:
W. A. Nance.

 

[prasad1]

Our grandchildren are in USA.
Yet we wanted to do the Ayush Homam in our house
leaving the Skype on for them to watch it.
The moment the sastrigal enters he demands the entire dakshina.
Four sathrigal were supposed to come and do the homam.
BUT only one turned up at 11-45 A.m!
He was hungry and in a great hurry. He took the fees in full but the other three sasthrigal never turned up. Everything was cut short and we were not happy the way the Ayush homam was done. The net result...?
We had planned to perform the homam for all the grandchildren every year.
But changed our plan we do elaborate abhishekham in the temples instead.

I am sorry for your experience. In USA it has become a racket
The pujari's main business is fleecing the gullible public.
Your idea of service at the temple is admirable.