Think or sink!

[Visalakshi Ramani]

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A proverb a day to brighten the day!

534a.
Die Ironie der Ratschläge????
Die Person, die am meisten gibt, ist dafür am wenigsten qualifiziert

534b.
The irony of giving advices????
The person who gives them most is least qualified to do so

My father used to tell us this.
"Never give anyone any advice.
The wise man doesn't need it.
and the fool won't take it"

I guess we were NOT yet wise enough so as NOT to need it
and NOT yet foolish enough so as not to take it. So here am I!

footnotes:
Die = The
Ironie = irony
der Ratschläge = of giving advice????
Die = The
Person = person
die = who
gibt = gives
am meisten = most
ist = is
am wenigsten = the least
qualifiziert = qualified
dafür = for doing that

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

A proverb a day to brighten the day!

535a. Feuer und Geld sind sehr gute Diener, aber sehr gefährliche Meister.

535b. Fire and Money are very good servants but very dangerous masters.

A lot depends on who is the controller and who is the one being controlled!
We are always either 'controlling' someone or 'being controlled' by someone.
Remember.... The law of the jungle is "Kill or get killed"

footnotes:
Feuer = Fire
und = and
Geld = money
sind = are
sehr = very
gute = good
Diener = servants
aber = but
sehr = very
gefährliche = dangerous
Meister = masters

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

A proverb a day to brighten the day!

536a. Reichtum ist nutzlos ohne eine gute Gesundheit, um ihn zu genießen.

536b. Wealth is useless without a good health to enjoy it.

footnotes:
Reichtum = Wealth
ist = is
nutzlos = useless
ohne = without
eine = a
gute = good
Gesundheit = health
um zu = (in order) to
ihn genießen = enjoy it.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

A proverb a day to brighten the day!

537a. Was nicht geheilt werden kann muss ertragen werden.

537b. What cannot be cured must be endured.

Was = What
kann nicht = cannot
geheilt werden = be healed
muss = must
werden ertragen = be endured .

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

யாதே3வி ஸர்வபூ4தே ஷு லஜ்ஜா ரூபேணே ஸம்ஸ்தி2தா |
நமஸ்தஸ்யை || நமஸ்தஸ்யை || நமஸ்தஸ்யை நமோ நம: ||

எந்த தேவி எல்லா உயிர்களிடத்திலும் நாணத்தின் வடிவில் உறைகின்றாளோ,
அந்த தேவிக்கு நமஸ்காரம், நமஸ்காரம், நமஸ்காரம்.

லஜ்ஜா = நாணம்
நாணம் = ????

எங்கும் காணோம் இன்று நாணம் !!!
எங்கு காண்போம் மீண்டும் நாணம் ???

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

A proverb a day to brighten the day!

538a. Solange es Leben gibt, gibt es Hoffnung.
538b. As long as there is life, there is a hope.

Does this explain why man wants to live on -
in spite of all the problems he has to put up with?

Everything is progressive in human life.
Everything good/ bad/ ugly either
improve or worsen with the passing time.

Man learns to adjust to, compromise with and tolerate everything!
That is why living is so much more challenging than ending one's own life.

footnotes:
Solange = As long as
es gibt = there is
Leben = Life,
gibt es = there is
Hoffnung = Hope.

Hope is the only thing that makes life go on...
even when it is a just distant spec of flickering light
at the end of a long and dark tunnel!

 

[Aathmavicharam]

Maa Visalakshi,

Bhakthi is not exclusive only to Vaishnavism, however loudly they may claim. The Nayanmars started the Bhakthi movement and were some of the greatest Bhakthas. The Saktha Bhakthi movement of Bengal is well known. Ram Prasad Sen was a great Kali Bhaktha.

I am sorry. I thought I should bring this to your attention.

Very Nice. In another words Bhakthi is nothing but a emotional. If one thinks deeply. This is truth. What is the end of bhakthi...... identifying the deity with your own self. It starts with Dwaitha to end with Adwaitha. If one sees GOD it is true and also false. If one have the darshan of GOD, he sees through his indriyas and it is true. it is falls because the indriyas are not permanent, so it is falls. What is true is who sees the GOD it is nothing but his own reflection.

 

[Aathmavicharam]

Very Nice. In another words Bhakthi is nothing but a emotional. If one thinks deeply. This is truth. What is the end of bhakthi...... identifying the deity with your own self. It starts with Dwaitha to end with Adwaitha. If one sees GOD it is true and also false. If one have the darshan of GOD, he sees through his indriyas and it is true. it is falls because the indriyas are not permanent, so it is falls. What is true is who sees the GOD it is nothing but his own reflection.

Some typo errors. Kindly ignore. It is False and not falls. Sorry

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

I had better NOT get into an argument with anyone named 'Aathmavicharam".

I believe that God is there in everyone of us - whether we accept it or not.

He / She keeps an eye on us like a loving parent over a truant child.

I know that every breath we inhale / exhale is monitored by God.

HE ONLY KNOWS which breath will become our very last and when!

Now I have realised that keeping the karmendriyas free from sin

and the jnanendriyas focused on God is enough for one's salvation.

Whether we 'see God' or 'merge with God' hardly matters to me.

Usually the ones who make the loudest claims are NOT what they claim to be!

Anything that has to be 'proved' and 'established' is often of little or no value!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

A proverb a day to brighten the day!

538a. Eifer ohne Ziel ist ein außer Kontrolle geratenes Pferd

538b. Zeal without an aim is a runaway horse

Dispersed light is good for vision and most of our day to day activities.

But when ordinary light is transformed into a Laser, light can become 'a sharp tool!"
All the light rays are coherent and enhance one another to form a powerful beam of light.

Similarly all the zeal, enthusiasm and hard work of a person must have AN AIM!
Otherwise they get scattered like the diffused sun's rays and go in waste.

footnotes:
Eifer = Zeal
ohne = without
Ziel = aim
ist = is
ein = a
außer = out of
Kontrolle = control
geratenes = runaway
Pferd = horse.

 

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[Visalakshi Ramani]

A proverb a day to brighten the day!

539a. Zeit und Geduld verwandeln die Maulbeerblätter in reiche Seide

539b. Time and patience transform the mulberry leaves into rich silk.

Everything / everyone needs its / his allotted time to bloom and bear fruits.
We can't fast forward real life and real events. Patience always pays back!

footnotes:
Zeit = Time
und = and
Geduld = patience
verwandeln = transform
die = the
Maulbeerblätter = mulberry leaves
in = into
reiche = rich
Seide = silk

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

A proverb a day to brighten the day!

540a. Wenn die Katze weggeht, kommen die Mäuse heraus und spielen

540b. When the cat goes away the mice come out and play.

Sounds very uninteresting right?

Replace the word 'cat' with a husband (or a wife).
Replace the word 'mice' with a wife (or a husband).

Now apply them in the above sentence.
Viola! It has become so much more real-life-like now!

A happy husband:
One who behaves exactly in the same manner whether ot not his wife is around

A happy wife:
One who behaves exactly in the same manner whether or not her husband is around.

Happy children"
Those who behave exactly in the same manner whether or not their parent are around!

footnotes:
Wenn = When
die = the
Katze = cat
weg geht = goes away
die Mäuse = the mice
kommen = come
heraus = out
und = and
spielen = play.

P.S

Once my husband's classmate (80 + ) visited us in out flat in Coimbatore.
Hie wife (70 + ) was trying to find his whereabouts from chennai.

She kept asking him where he was and he kept saying," I am outside the hotel".
I understood the power of the spouse who has mastered the art of remote monitoring!

(How about Fixing chips on the dome of the dear husband and locating him by a GPS?)
(May become a reality in the near future!)

 

[Raji Ram]

The mobile phone could give the location of that dear one! No need to disturb his dome!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

The mobile phone could give the location of that dear one! No need to disturb his dome!

Maybe he is a 80+ years old man who can't afford two ( or even one) smart phone!
Will the GPS show EVEN the house to which he has gone? I wonder!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

A proverb a day to brighten the day!

541a. Wer ein Verbrechen begangen hat, denkt, dass alle darüber reden.

541b. He who has committed a crime thinks that everyone is talking about it.

A guilty conscience needs NO accusers.
It keeps accusing itself non-stop.

footnoyes:
Wer = He who
hat = has
begangen = committed
ein = a
Verbrechen = crime,
denkt = thinks
dass = that
alle = everybody
reden = is talking
darüber = about that.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

A proverb a day to brighten the day!

542a.Wer alles verspricht, verspricht nichts!

542b. He who promises everything promises nothing!

Promises MUST BE different from regular conversation.
But some people 'promise' everything when they speak.

They want to drive home the fact that whatever they say is 100% true.
But it has the revere effect since people STOP believing whatever he says.

footnotes:
Wer = He who
verspricht = promises
alles = everything
verspricht = promises
nichts! = nothing.

We have a funny definition for such people.
"He / She who makes four promises a quarter aNA"

aNa was the older monetary system before naya-paise came in to use.
One rupee = 16 aNAs
One aNa = 12 paise

We use could buy some stuff for every single paise = 1 / 192 rupee!
It was a golden era when gold was sold at < 8 rupees / gram!!!!!

Now even an alm given out can't be < 10 Rs!

 

[Raji Ram]

"முக்கா துட்டுக்கு மூணு சத்தியம்" is what I have heard!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

"முக்கா துட்டுக்கு மூணு சத்தியம்" is what I have heard!

I remember this expression

"காலணாவுக்கு நாலு சத்தியம்"

Is a துட்டு = 1 பைஸா ???