Think or sink!

[Visalakshi Ramani]

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My servant maid refused to wash the bathroom floors when she joined for work.

( Thanks to the salt depoits from the borewell water every where!)

I might have done the same things too! Or probably I was already neglecting it, fearing the amunt of scrubbing it needed.

After the acid wash and other minor repairs and painting the bath rooms look as good as new. But they have to maintained on daily basis to remain that way.

NOW the same maid has agreed to clean the wash basins and the floors of the bathroom for an additional payment.

This will be another beneficial circle in the long run!

After all the bathrooms and the kitchen declare how tidy and clean we really are!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Quotes 1661 to 1670



#1661. பொருளாதாரத்தின் ஆதாரம் வியாபாரம்.
#1661b. Everyone lives by selling something.

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#1662a. வாணிபத்தை நன்றாக நடத்து!
அது உன் குடும்பத்தை நன்றாக நடத்தும்
#1662b. Keep thee thy shop. Thy shop will keep thee!

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#1663a. சந்தை: ஒருவரை ஒருவர் ஏமாற்றும் இடம்
#1663b. Market: The place marked for men to cheat one another.

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#1664a. எதை நோக்கி நீ சிரிக்கின்றாயோ அதுவே உன் தராதரம்.
#1664b. A man is what he laughs at.

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#1665a. பழக்க வழக்கம் குணமாக மாறிவிடும்.
#1665b. Character is the continuation of habits.

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1666a. நீ யாராக இருக்கின்றாயோ அதுவே முக்கியம்;
நீ யாராக எண்ணப் படுகின்றயோ அதுவல்ல!
#1666b. What you are matters more than what you are thought to be.

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#1667a. விளம்பரத்துக்காக உதவுபவன் இருட்டில் உதவ மாட்டான்.
#1667b. He that gives to be seen will help none in the dark.

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#1668a. உடனே தந்தவன் இருமுறை தந்தவன்.
#1668b. He gives twice who gives in a trice.

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#1669a. கவனம்! பிள்ளைகளின் காதுகளும், நாவும் பெரியவை!
#1669b. Beware! Children have wide ears and long tongues!

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#1670a. பிள்ளைகள் வளர வளரத் தொல்லைகளும் வளரும்!
#1670b. Our worries grow as our children grow.

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[Visalakshi Ramani]

Everybody wants to buy a plot either square shaped or rectangular in shape.
If you possess a trapezium then you are done.
It will be easier to sell if the extension in one side be given to the neighbor free of cost. We are stuck up with one such plot.
But just as "peNNin kONal ponnil nimirum"
if offered dirt cheap, people are eager to buy
the same trapezium happily!
All the fault-finding is only to bring down the price!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Swami Dayananda Saraswati quoted this example in one of his lectures.

A cow may have horns pointing in two different directions-
one at right angle to the other.

(He would also show the horns with his hands)

The cow doses not mind it. The other cows do not mind it.

It is the owner of the cow who minds the crossed horn and wants to get rid of the cow by selling it to next to nothing!

Moral:

So the beauty and value of everything lies in human mind and not in those objects themselves!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

As children we used to have summit meetings to make important decisions.
Here is one example.
We used to address our parents in singular and say "Nee" , "Vaa", "Po" etc.
During one of those summit meetings we decided that
"Hence forth we will address our parents with respect."
The resolution was implimented with immediate effect.
My parents were pleasantly surprised and pleased
when we suddenly started addressing them as "neenga"!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Our paternal father was very close to all of us.

He could do anysum in mind and would teach us easy ways of doing

any problem - be it multiplication or additon or even subtraction.

He would teach us how to guess the square root of large numbers.

He dinned English grammaer in our heads.

He was our very first guru in Carnatic music.

He was a great composer and set raagaas and thaaLaas for all his compositions.

We haven't played our part well in popularizing his songs!

He was a cotemprorary of Sri Papanasam Sivan but lacked the i

nfluential contacts Sri Sivan had - through the media of movies!
AND he was the greatest story teller in the whole world! :clap2:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Some peole love gardening and would spend hours in the garden.

Somehow I would rather cultivate my mind and brain than any external thing.

It so happened that I never had a chance to do gardening.

And I don't regret it!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Telepathy works!!! :thumb:

The friend from USA, in double dhothi worn folded double and with Texas boots visited us today!

I sm sure the telepathy worked and made him return here as before -
making us greet him with the usual "Long time! No see!!" :welcome:

 

[renuka]

I hope the weather here improves..in the day times its hot as hell and by evening it rains like hell too till there are flash floods and trees are up rooted cos of strong winds.

Last week when I went out on Saturday evening to have my dinner I had to wade thru slightly below knee deep water to get to my car!

No choice cos the water was rising too fast and I had to drive my car fast to make sure water does not sink it.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

I hope the weather here improves..in the day times its hot as hell and by evening it rains like hell too till there are flash floods and trees are up rooted cos of strong winds.

Last week when I went out on Saturday evening to have my dinner I had to wade thru slightly below knee deep water to get to my car!

No choice cos the water was rising too fast and I had to drive my car fast to make sure water does not sink it.

dear Renu,
The heat as well as the rain can be real head aches by themselves but their alternating will be even worse.
I always doubt whether the car will float or sink!
One day we wanted to to the railway station.
It was raining cats and dogs.
When the driver opened the back door
water rushed out from inside the car!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

The COLD did it!!!
I churn the cream of the milk to get a little butter out of it.
I shake it in a bottle till the butter emerges.
But IF the cream is too much to be shaken I churn.
It would take an hour for the butter to emerge.
Since I will be chanting names of Gods
I wouldn't mind the time wasted in this
marathon churning of the milk ocean.
Yesterday the cream emerged in less than 5 minutes.
I realized that the cream had been left outside the fridge from the morning.
So the cold was holding on to the butter in the cream
and not allowing it to emerge and rise up!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

The HEAT did it. :flame:
There is a popular joke where the dosa is served along with the tava and
the person is asked to peel it off the tava before eating it.
Today it really happened.
None of the dosas wanted to part company with the tava.
I thunk and thunk and found out the reason.
I have left he tava under the burner of the gas stove by oversight.
It had got super heated and became a sticking tava from a non sticking tava.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Humor must be subtle and spontaneous!
The harder we try to make people laugh,
the harder it becomes for them even to smile!
Humor must be subtle, sparkling and intelligent.
The dog fights shown as comedy scenes give me a head ache.
The general rule seems to be that everyone should shout
at the top of their voices at the same time.
This forceful comedy/humor is nothing more than a farce.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

I found one person in the forum for whom humor came
very naturally, spontaneously and intelligently.
But he is not to be seen around now.
Being an amphibian he has submerged out of sight.
Will he or won't he make a come back??? :noidea:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

One of my uncles has an unusual imagination.
We all know the story of catching a crane using butter.
He went one step further and elaborated on
catching an ant or rather killing an ant!
We have to catch hold of an ant.
It must be tickled pink
after laying him on his back.
When he laughs we must put
a sand particle in his open mouth.
The sand will make the ant die!
Can anybody compete with this
unusual imaginative power???
Where do we the mere mortals stand
in comparison with a genius him??? :first:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Q: Why is a dosai called a dosai???

A: When the dough is poured on the tava it makes a noise "choi!"

When the thing is flipped and put on the other side it makes one more "choi!"

Two sounds of "choi" or "do choi" became dosai.

You guessed it right! :thumb:

Who else by my genius uncle could have given this explanation!!! :clap2:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Quotes 1671 to 1680

#1671a. குழந்தைகள் இல்லாத இடத்தில் சுவர்க்கமும் இராது.
#1671b. Where children are not, heaven is not!

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#1672a. குழந்தைகளுக்குத் தேவை வழிகாட்டிகள், விமர்சிப்பவர்கள் அல்ல.
#1672. Children need models more than critics!

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#1673a. தந்தை அழுவதை விடக் குழந்தை அழுவதே மேல்.
#1673b. Better that the child cries rather than its father.

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#1674a. பொல்லாத பிள்ளைகள் பக்கத்து வீட்டுப் பிள்ளைகள். நல்ல பிள்ளைகள் நம் வீட்டுப் பிள்ளைகள்!
#1674b. The worst children are our neighbor’s children.
The best children are our own children!

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#1675a. வாணிபம் நாகரீகம் வளர்க்கும்.
#17675b. Commerce is a great civilizer.

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#1676a. யாதும் ஊரே! யாவரும் கேளிர்!
#1676b. A merchant has no country.

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#1677a. சிறிய மனிதர்களுக்குக் கடவுளின் அரிய பரிசு தற்பெருமை.
#1677b. Conceit is God’s gift to little men.

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#1678a. தன்னால் தன்னை நிறைத்துக் கொள்பவனிடம் வேறு எதுவும் இராது!
#1678b. He – who is so full of himself – is usually empty.

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#1679a. தற்பெருமை கொள்ளலாம் – வெற்றி அடையும் வரையில்!
#1679b. Every man has a right to be conceited – until he becomes successful.

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#1680a. குடிசைகளில் நிலவும் திருப்தி; அரண்மனைகளில் அல்ல.
#1680b. Content lodges in cottages oftener than in palaces.

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[Visalakshi Ramani]

Oops! I forgot to give the moral of the posts #15162 and #15163.

There is only one right way of doing a thing right.

Hence the old adage in Tamil

aadaRa maattaai aadik kaRakkaNam
paadarRa maattaip paadik kaRakkaNam!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

When the modern D.I.Ls or those livng abroad
are not going to wear or use our collection of saris
what is the best way to see it being used / worn???

Elementary!

Distribute them among the relatives, servants, other ladies
depending upon their closeness and richness.

When we give away a thing with our hands it becomes special rather let one person take off everything when we are no more.

In the house one of my acquaintances, trouble brew up when one of the D.I.L was not involved when the M.I.L's saris were taken possession by the other D.I.Ls.

It was the used saris but the audacity of ignoring her that was the cause of the trouble.

 

[renuka]

When the modern D.I.Ls or those livng abroad
are not going to wear or use our collection of saris
what is the best way to see it being used / worn???

dear VR ji,

Why would anyone make a DIL wear used clothes?

Further more the design would be different and the DIL could have a different taste from her MIL.

I dont even wear my mother's sarees cos our taste differs.

 

[sarang]

Old saris with decent jarigai even with tears are taken by some big shops (radha silk emporium) and exchange coupons given after valuation. Long ago I have seen silver extracted from borders by burning.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

dear VR ji,

Why would anyone make a DIL wear used clothes?

Further more the design would be different and the DIL could have a different taste from her MIL.

I dont even wear my mother's sarees cos our taste differs.

dear Renu,
Some designs never grow old! More over the same fashion return once in every few decades. The Zebra saris were famous in the late 1960s. Thy must have come back in fashion twice already.
Mother's saris have sentimental value besides! We have seen small children hugging on to the mother's sari - when she is not available for hugging.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Old saris with decent jarigai even with tears are taken by some big shops (radha silk emporium) and exchange coupons given after valuation. Long ago I have seen silver extracted from borders by burning.

Dear Mr. Sarang,
Once upon a a time the saris had real gold zari.
Then it became pure silver brocade work.
Now it is anything but these noble metals.
I saw a board near the crowded Ukkadam bus station
saying that any sari in any condition will be accepted.
That means they will buy from us and sell them for a higher price.
I didn't want to make money out of my old saris.
Institutions like Uthavum Karangal accept any donation in any form.
So it is the other option for giving away saris.
But we won't know who will be wearing them, when and where.
I felt happy to see my maid servant coming to work in my rust colored sari.
It looked so grand on her! She a matching blouse already!
My mother had giving away her saris since long ago.
I think all her saris have been given away already except her silk saris.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

The non stick tava is still cross with me and
won't part with the dosa after it gets done!

May be I have to cure it by applying oil liberally
and leaving it unused for some days!

Even inanimate things demand from us
buttering/ oiling / soaping / pampering.

 

[renuka]

dear Renu,

Mother's saris have sentimental value besides!

Dear VR ji,

My mother always complains that I do not have sentimental value for anything!LOL

I think it is true..cos I do not have any sentimental value for things.


For example I totally dislike my mums collection of gold jewelery and my mum gets mad when I tell her I would not want to inherit it.

So she has given quite a lot of her jewels to my sister in law.

And she said she would keep some for my sons future wife and my mum said she hopes my son will marry a person who will have sentimental value!

I dont know why I dont have sentimental value for anything besides my collection of books!LOL