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Think or sink!

I had been to Datta Anjaneyar Temple,Aluva,Kerala recently.Managed by a private body,clean and neat temple,crowded a bit but still the Darshan was blissful.After Archana and Deepaaraadhana devotees were waiting their turn to receive the Prasaadam.The priest was calling the names with nakshathras(Parvathy,Makam...like that)in a mumbled voice which just didnt reach those at a distance.Naturally a number of them could not report to the Nada.The Priest was very angry..shouted LOUDLY now.."COME QUICK WHEN I CALL.I WONT REPEAT.'...this was in English too!!!
 
It will be an unpleasant contrast to be called and scolded loudly in a mixed crowd - just after having a blissful darshan.

People nearer to God (physically ) must also be more kind and understanding. The priest can opt for chordless mike and call the names without getting angry!
 
My personal experiences in all the famous temples have been upleasant. As a little girl I got lost in the Guruvaayoor crowd of devotees while doing pradakshinam.

It was mountainous half naked bodies - sweating and wet -
all around me. I could not locate me parents and was pushed along by the merciless crowd.

Later when I visited the same temple it happened to be the Vaikaasi Visaakam Day. We stood in the serpentine queue for many hours.

Just as we went near to have a dharshan, the main priest stood up covering the diety with his broad V shaped body.

It was "nadakku! nadakku!" all around me and I came out without getting a glimpse of the God.

In Tirupati my sister was pushed back violently by a rude man who dared to palce hsi filthy hand right in the middle of her chest.

I blew a fuse and scolded him in chaste Telugu- to make sure that he understood me.

He told us,"You people must have done a lot of papam to come and pray like this."

I retorted and told him," Our papam will be wahed away by our prayer. But your paapam will never get washed away."

It is better that now the have women to control the crowd. Gents will be happy to get pushed along and ladies will not complain!

I get better anubhooti in the kutti temple we have inside our colony and when I sit and sing NArAyaneeyam or Abhiraami Andaadi or Soundharya Lahari in my own swaami room.

When God is already with us why should go chasing Him all over the world and get ill treated and insulted??
 
Dear VR ji,

Can you imagine this?

Last night my mobile phone rang and it was some unknown number and it was male voice asking to speak to a Miss So and So.

It was a wrong number and I told him "sorry you have dialed the wrong number"

Then again he asked to speak to Miss So and So and again I said its the wrong number.

Then he said "Ok since its the wrong number what is your name and what race are you?"

Then I still told him "I think you do not need to know this becos as I said..its a wrong number"

Again he asked "what race are you?"

Then I was getting pissed and told him "This does not concern you" and cut the call.

He called back again and said "I want to know why you are angry? I have the right to know"

This time I was real pissed and said 'Do I even know you? Why do I even need to answer your questions" and I cut the call again.

Believe me..that idiot went on calling a good 20 times and each time I just cut the call without answering.

I did not know that we are NOT supposed to get angry when a stranger calls us and asks us questions that too a wrong number!LOL
 
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Today early in the morning it was drizzling very lightly.

Not wishing to appear like the bridegroom on his Kaasi Yaatra (with an umbrella and a wallking stick)
I just went off to the temple with my stick (compulsary for me) but without the umbrella (Optional for me)

After the pooja the rain became heavier.

I live farthest from the temple. I can't run ( even if I want to) and if I try to walk fast I may slip and have a bad fall on the wet tiles.

I just stood there and wondered "Muruga! How am I going to reach me house in this rain?"

Lo and behold! The automam Pazhaniswaami drove in through the colony gate, saw me staning near the temple and offered me a free lift to my home.

I will not have anything free - especially when he was good enough to offer me a ride to escape the rain. I blessed him to have a good day and gave him a new tenner. He was ginnmig from ear to ear.

Just call out and God will appear in any form you need him to! It never fails! :hail:
 
renuka said:
Dear VR ji,

Can you imagine this?

Last night my mobile phone rang and it was some unknown number and it was male voice asking to speak to a Miss So and So.

It was a wrong number and I told him "sorry you have dialed the wrong number"

Then again he asked to speak to Miss So and So and again I said its the wrong number.

Then he said "Ok since its the wrong number what is your name and what race are you?"

Then I still told him "I think you do not need to know this becos as I said..its a wrong number"

Again he said "what race are you?"

Then I was getting pissed and told him "This does not concern you" and cut the call.

He called back again and said "I want to know why you are angry? I have the right to know"

This time I was real pissed and said 'Do I even know you? Why do I even need to answer your questions" and I cut the call again.

Believe me..that idiot went on calling a good 20 times and each time I just cut the call without answering.

I did not know that we are NOT supposed to get angry when a stranger calls us and asks us questions that too a wrong number!LOL
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Dear Renu,
Hope it is not the ghost which crossed your street the day before yesterday.
Next time when some person asks about your race just tell him, "I belong to human race and not your race!"
I think that should be enough to put off even the bothersome ghosts!
Thank God he did not start singing on the phone something like
"Hello my dear wrong number!" :rolleyes:
 
Voice on the phone can send shivers through the spine
or cause ecstacy by its sheer sweetness or
mesmerize by its husky silky tone
( as my younger son's voice does).
Singers have a very pleasant voice on the phone and
even the wrong persons may not want to hang up the phone
but go on talking to the unknown cuckoo voiced person. :)
 
Visalakshi Ramani said:


Dear Renu,
Hope it is not the ghost which crossed your street the day before yesterday.
Next time when some person asks about your race just tell him, "I belong to human race and not your race!"
I think that should be enough to put off even the bothersome ghosts!
Thank God he did not start singing on the phone something like
"Hello my dear wrong number!" :rolleyes:
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Dear VR ji,

If he had sung some song it would have been still be Ok but this guy sounded like some foreigner..surely a not a Msian citizen.....had a strange accent..sounded like some Middle Eastern and he seemed to demand why I am angry and expected me to answer his question what race person he was speaking too.

If he calls again I am planning to use proper Punjabi Ghalis! He better not call me anymore!LOL
 
renuka said:
Dear VR ji,

If he had sung some song it would have been still be Ok but this guy sounded like some foreigner..surely a not a Msian citizen.....had a strange accent..sounded like some Middle Eastern and he seemed to demand why I am angry and expected me to answer his question what race person he was speaking too.

If he calls again I am planning to use proper Punjabi Ghalis! He better not call me anymore!LOL
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Good choice dear Renu!
All the things associated with Punjab are robust and bursting with energy! :thumb:
 
Positive thinking: a story to learn from this New Year

Here is a message from Pujya Bhaishri Rameshbhai Oza,
I would like to share on the eve of New Year 2015.
Regards,
Brahmanyan,
Bangalore.


Positive thinking: a story to learn from this New Year

It was a very dark night. It was pitch black with no moon or stars in the sky. A young man needed to travel for some urgent work to the next village but was unable to see anything in the dark. Thus, he stood there puzzled on how to get to the next village.

A noble saint passing by saw the puzzled young man and asked,” What’s the problem my dear?” The young man replied, “I need to go to the next village urgently, but how will I get there? I can’t see anything!”

The saint lit a lamp and gave it to the man saying, “Here, if darkness is the issue then light is the solution. Now start walking.”

The man looked at the lamp, then around him and once again disappointingly said, “Sir, this lamp only spreads light up to ten feet and the darkness continues after that. This lamp will not help."

The saint replied, “You start walking, the brightness will walk with you”.

What does this story teach us?

Firstly, we need to understand the aim of our life from a great person or saint. What do I want to be? Which direction do I need to take? It is necessary to implement great thoughts and teachings in our life. It is important to receive one such inspirational thought from a great person that will spread brightness in our life.

But, the most important point is, do we have that intense desire to progress in our path?

Now that we know the aim and have the desire, we will achieve nothing by merely concentrating on the darkness instead of the lamp. This is where positive thinking and implementation is vital.

During my travels to America, I read this in a book which touched my heart, “Ten minutes of positive thinking has the power to balance out a whole day’s negativity”. This is why our scriptures advise us to pray three times in a day, known as trikal sandhya. If one prays early in the morning, remembers God in the afternoon and constantly recollects that God is with me, then one will always live in motivation and hope. Then, the day ends with remembering God; this way ten minutes of positive thinking will remove the whole day’s negativity.

When these ten minutes of positive thinking slowly increase with time, then how positive can one fully become!

This New Year, let us all understand the aim of our life and begin to walk with positivity and motivation.

A Happy 2015 to all of you!
 
Visalakshi Ramani said:
Today early in the morning it was drizzling very lightly.

Not wishing to appear like the bridegroom on his Kaasi Yaatra (with an umbrella and a wallking stick)
I just went off to the temple with my stick (compulsary for me) but without the umbrella (Optional for me)

After the pooja the rain became heavier.

I live farthest from the temple. I can't run ( even if I want to) and if I try to walk fast I may slip and have a bad fall on the wet tiles.

I just stood there and wondered "Muruga! How am I going to reach me house in this rain?"

Lo and behold! The automam Pazhaniswaami drove in through the colony gate, saw me staning near the temple and offered me a free lift to my home.

I will not have anything free - especially when he was good enough to offer me a ride to escape the rain. I blessed him to have a good day and gave him a new tenner. He was ginnmig from ear to ear.

Just call out and God will appear in any form you need him to! It never fails! :hail:


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This is in other words called "DEIVAM MANUSHYA RUPAENAE'
 
Think or sink

renuka said:
Dear Brahmanyan ji,

Thank you for the lovely post...but honestly..do you agree with it?

Why does one need to over emphasize the need for positiveness?

Wont that make us indirectly concentrate on negativity?

Becos to keep propelling ourselves with positive thoughts..doesnt that actually create a kick back of negativity..that is there is some hidden fear within that one need to move forward to prevent being snared by negativity. Its like creating a Devil phenomenon..Be positive or else! In fact the article keeps saying about removing negativity.

To me I feel the post above might be suitable for students to help them study better but for the rest of us who have crossed certain age my 2015 should make me a leaf to just move about in the wind..tossed along the breeze and travel where the wind takes me.
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Dear Doctor,

Wise words. Agreed, that is a nice way of looking at life.

Well, Do I agree Pujya Bhaishri's" message? Honestly I should confide that in all such messages,as a free thinker, I for one, take what ever is suited to me.

Personal experience tells me that,Life does not go as we expect or plan. (Rather most of the results of our actions are predetermined in life!) Thus it is wise to think positive and adjust our momentum according to the direction of the "breeze" as you have nicely put it. For a thinking person, fear, hidden or otherwise, is always there in all ventures that he/she has no experience. Hence we have to depend on guidance (to some extent) of other learned persons who had traveled in the path.

Incidentally, This morning my little grand daughter, (who is on a holiday trip in and around Delhi with her parents now) complained to me that all the photos taken on her trip this morning to Fatehpur Sikri have come out poorly due to heavy fog. I replied to her that she should take things positively and feel happy that she could get unique view of Akbar's Capital on foggy morning.

Warm Regards,
Brahmanyan,
Bangalore.
 
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Dear Sir,
Namsate! :pray2:

Thank you for the wonderful New Year's measage and
the power of positive thinking much needed by us now.

My favorite song in the choir of which I was also a part
during my college days was this:

Lead, Kindly Light
​

"Lead, Kindly Light, amidst th'encircling gloom,
Lead Thou me on!

The night is dark, and I am far from home,
Lead Thou me on!

Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see
The distant scene; one step enough for me.

The best lines that appealed to me were the highlighted ones.
We DO NOT need to know the entire life's ups and downs.

In fact the prospect itself is very scary for me.

All we need is the guidance for the next one step - always.

If we keep moving, everything is automatically taken care of.

If we live right today (everyday) we
need not repent about yesterday
nor fear and worry about tomorrow.

HAPPY NEW YEAR DEAR FOLKS

TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU HERE!
 
Brahmanyan said:
Dear Doctor,

Wise words. Agreed, that is a nice way of looking at life.

Well, honestly I should confide that in all such messages,as a free thinker, I for one, take what ever is suited to me.

Personal experience tells me that,Life does not go as we expect or plan. (Rather most of the results of our actions are predetermined in life!) Thus it is wise to think positive and adjust our momentum according to the direction of the "breeze" as you have nicely put it. For a thinking person, fear, hidden or otherwise, is always there in all ventures that he/she has no experience. Hence we have to depend on guidance (to some extent) of other learned persons who had traveled in the path.

Incidentally, This morning my little grand daughter, (who is on a holiday trip in and around Delhi with her parents now) complained to me that all the photos taken on her trip this morning to Fatehpur Sikri have come out poorly due to heavy fog. I replied to her that she should take things positively and feel happy that she could get unique view of Akbar's Capital on foggy morning.

Warm Regards,
Brahmanyan,
Bangalore.
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dear Brahmanyan ji,

I had just deleted my post becos I was thinking that may be its not suitable for a new year and just at the same time I see your reply.I was deleting the post the same time as you were replying me.

Agreed sir...that we need guidance by others who has traveled a path unknown to us but are all roads the same condition?just kidding.

Yes about the fog..a friend of mine who stays in Delhi told me that yesterday he could not even see the road while driving and had to pull over to the side of the road cos visibility was almost nil.
 
DEAR RENU!
We are already being tossed like dry leaves in a storm or kati pathangs!
We need somthing/ someone to hold on to- in order to stay put.
So the prayer "Keep thou my feet" is the right thing to ask for. :pray:
 
renuka said:
dear Brahmanyan ji,

I had just deleted my post becos I was thinking that may be its not suitable for a new year and just at the same time I see your reply.I was deleting the post the same time as you were replying me.

Agreed sir...that we need guidance by others who has traveled a path unknown to us but are all roads the same condition?just kidding.

Yes about the fog..a friend of mine who stays in Delhi told me that yesterday he could not even see the road while driving and had to pull over to the side of the road cos visibility was almost nil.
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Dear Renu,
Your post was destined NOT to be deleted and I am really happy about it! :)
Views belong to people but views are not people.
So disagreeing to a view DOES NOT mean defying that person!
But for many people both of these appear to be one and the same.
THAT is what causes the misunderstandings and the ego clashes!!! :(

 
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May Lord Krishna fill our hearts with

Love, Goodness and Tolerance.

Be Good ! Be Happy !! Be safe !!!
 
Visalakshi Ramani said:


Just call out and God will appear in any form you need him to! It never fails! :hail:
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Dear Mrs. Visalakshi Ramani,

Namasthe,

Sure God appeared to the needy, when they called.
"God I do not know you, but I know you are always by my side, in me and watching me."

Nice of you to have reminded the Wonderful message by Cardinal Newman, this poem was in my English lesson
in those days.

Warm Regards,
Brahmanyan,
Bangalore.
 
Think or sink

renuka said:
dear Brahmanyan ji,

I had just deleted my post becos I was thinking that may be its not suitable for a new year and just at the same time I see your reply.I was deleting the post the same time as you were replying me.

Agreed sir...that we need guidance by others who has traveled a path unknown to us but are all roads the same condition?just kidding.

Yes about the fog..a friend of mine who stays in Delhi told me that yesterday he could not even see the road while driving and had to pull over to the side of the road cos visibility was almost nil.
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Dear Doctor,

I agree with Mrs Visalakshi Ramani.
You need not have deleted your reply to my post. There was nothing offensive in your message.

Best wishes,
Brahmanyan,
Bangalore.
 
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Haunted is a story about ghost Haunted - Radiolab
How a group of paranormal investigators made one man realize what it really means for a house, or a man, to be haunted.

Please read the comments too.
 
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Think or sink

Rahim Doha

Abdul Rahim Khan-e-Khana (circa1556-1627) was one of the Navratnas , nine jewels, of Mughal emperor Akbar's court. He was popularly known as Rahim or Rahim Das. A Muslim by birth, Rahim was also a devotee of Lord Krishna and wrote poetry dedicated to him. His couplets are the glittering gems of wisdom and moral.

Here are couple of gems from that treasure chest:

Samay Paay Phal Hot Hai, Samay Paay Jhari Jaat |
Sada Rahai Nahi Ek See, Kaa Rahim Pachhitat ||

Why are you worried dear? Not all times are same. There is a season when trees are loaded with fruits and leaves and there are no fruits and leaves in fall.

Nij Kar Kriya Rahim Kahi, Sidhi Bhaavi Ke Haath |
Paasa Apne Haath Me, Daav Na Apne Haath ||

We can do work but we don’t have any control over it’s outcome.
A dicer can throw his dice but can’t control the game.

Brahmanyan,
Bangalore.
 

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