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Think or sink!

There is a girl who was always being punished by her very strict mother - until I suggested that the 'next attack' on this girl by her mom will precipitate the use of the helpline for child abuse!

Thereafter the mother started treating the girl well and they both became my good friends.

Tables have turned later - after the girl has reached puberty.

It is now her turn turn to punish her parents - not the mother but the puny, fumbling, henpecked father. She would shout at him criticize him as if he were her (non existing) younger brother and would make sure that the whole neighborhood could hear her.

She got very good result in the music exams she took and came to me to give the good news. I would not let a golden opportunity like that to slip through my fingers.

I asked her whether she had thanked her father - who had paid through his nose the fee for her music lessons and exam.

She had not thanked him.

I asked whether she ever wondered why her dad uses to get up even before she did, to take her to the tuition class at 5 A.M.

She had never thought about it either.

I told her, "He does everything for you, buys you everything you need, pay for all the classes you attned and what are giving him back in return?'

She had never before thought in this line!

I told her, "The minimum you can give him for all that he does for you is your respect and obedience."

I haven't heard the girls shout at her dad ever since!

Today I saw them both during the morning walk. They both greeted with a smile.

The father must have noticed the change in the behavior of his teenage daughter-though he may never become aware of the reason behind it!

The girl remembers my advice and will behave well with others also in the future - instead of avenging for her mother's child abuse.

I am happy that peace prevails in the neighborhood - allowing me to work in peace on the poems of Thirumanthiram. :)

Basically all people are good. If anyone misbehaves do not hesitate to point it out to him/her . Otherwise they may not be aware of what they are doing, in the eyes of the others!
 
Deft Definitions

#25. History

A (modified) record of the events - which had better not taken place in the first place!

#26. Honesty

The perpetual fear of getting caught red handed!

#27. The Jury

A group of people given the task of deciding which of the lawyers argue better.
 
[h=1]கனியாத பக்தி.[/h]

“ஹரியும் சிவனும் ஒண்ணு ; இதை
அறியாதவன் வாயில் மண்ணு !”
என்று கூறுவார் முன்னோர்கள்;
என்றாலும் சிலர் கேட்பதில்லை.

கனியாத பக்தி உடைய ஒருவன்,
தனியாக சிவபிரானை மட்டுமே
கனிவோடு தொழுது வந்ததான்;
பணியான் வேறொரு கடவுளை.

ஒரு நாள் சிவனே நேரில் தோன்றி
“ஒன்றே தெய்வம் என்றறியாயோ?”
என்ற போதிலும் மீண்டும் அவன்
எந்தக் கடவுளையும் வணங்கவில்லை.

சங்கர நாராயணனாய் வந்தபோதும்,
சங்கரனை மட்டுமே வணங்கினான்;
ஹரியை விடுத்து விட்டான் அவன்;
ஹரனாலும் மாற்ற முடியவில்லை.

தீவிர பக்தியும், மாறாத வெறுப்பும்,
தூண்டிவிட்டது மற்றவர்களையும்!
“விஷ்ணு! விஷ்ணு!” என்ற நாமத்தை
வெறுப்பேற்ற வேண்டிக் கூறலாயினர்.

காதில் அப்பெயர் விழாமல் இருக்க,
காதில் இரண்டு மணிகளை அணிந்து,
காதுகளை ஆட்டிச் சப்தம் செய்தவன்,
கண்டா கர்ணன் எனப் பெயர் பெற்றான்.

கண்டா கர்ணனைப் போன்றே பல
கண்மூடித்தனமான வேறு பக்தர்களும்
இறைவனிடம் காட்டும் வினோத பக்தியில்,
வெறுப்பே விருப்பையும்விட அதிகம்!

வாழ்க வளமுடன்,
விசாலாக்ஷி ரமணி.
 
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UNRIPE BHAKTI.

A man worshiped only SivA and hated the very name of VishnU. SivA himself told the man that both He and Hari are one and the same God. The man did not listen even to SivA.

Then SivA appeared as SankaranArAynA. Even then the man worshiped only the half that was sankarA and ignored the half that was nArAyanA.

His vinoda bhakti amused everyone. Just to irritate him people kept calling out the name of VishnU. He wore two bells on his ears and kept ringing them so that he would not hear the name of VishnU.

His name now got changed to GantA Karnan.

There are many people in whose bkakti, hatred predominates the love for God. This kind of vinOda bhakti is unripe bhakti!
 
I had the good fortune (misfortune???) of meeting a set of GaNtA karNas recently.

During a ritual, while taking the sankalpam, the karthaa said "paramEswara preethyartham" and immediately the GaNta karNAs raised their hoods and turned red in color.

The karthaa was corrected and made to say "NArAyaNa preethyartham". This was not the end.

In the end of the ceremony while chanting

"ananyathA saranam nAsti thvamEva saranam mama..."

the karthaa said "....raksha raksha mahEswara" and was again

corrected to say "... raksha raksh JanArdhana"

If a priest can hate the name of a God so much... how much

can he hate a Man in real flesh and blood??? :shocked:
 
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Deft Definitions

28. Kitchen

The tiny room in the house where food from the cans get transferred to the

plates/ bowls / trays to be passed through the microwave oven

before they are passed on to the persons with a growling tummy.

29. A lawyer

A Zika mosquito turned into a human being!

30. A great Orator

One who readily offers to sacrifice the lives of all the other citizens for the sake of his country.
 
We think that we train the animals and pets to suit our needs.

But they may be thinking they are training us to suit their needs!

Two dolphins were conversing in their language.

The new comer told the old timer,

"It is so easy to train the man hovering around us.

Every time I jump up, I make him give me a fat fish!" :rolleyes:
 
"Different strokes for different folks" is true not just for the folks but for everyone!

The big brother refused to use potty.

And he is extremely fond of gummy bears.

So he was given this offer by his parents!

Every time he used the potty, he would get a gummy bear.

Soon he was using the potty - whenever he felt like chewing a gummy bear! :)

His little brother does not care for the gummy bears one bit.

The parents were trying to toilet train him - since it was time he starting going to the play school.

Eureka! This little fellow seemed to be fond of the colorful Cadbury's gems.

So he is getting a gem for every visit to the potty.

I am not sure that he is not using it JUST to get a gem! :)

The point is that different incentives work for different people.

Food is the best incentive followed by money.

Other gifts cost far too much to be given on daily basis! Right?:)
 
I met a DINK couple recently.

The have two huge Labradors in their house.

The combined weight of the two dogs is almost equal to my weight!

The male dog eats omelettes made of two eggs twice daily.

The female does not care for the eggs in any form.

The male dog polishes off the dog food served in his blue bowl in a jiffy and starts licking water from his blue bowl kept on a blue rug.

The female is better mannered but needs constant pampering and coaxing to eat her food. She would not eat from the pink bowl and needs a S.S. Plate like we do.

She needs to served a little at a time until she finished her quota. She would not eat if the entire thing is served on her plate in one go!

The male sleeps on the floor but the female sleeps ONLY on her own sofa set.

The collar of the male is plain and the collar of the female has flower designs.

So tell me honestly now.. who is training whom to suit his/her needs??? :decision:
 
Deft Definitions:

#31. Pedestrian

The father of children old enough to drive a car and young enough not to own one!

#32. An Optimist

One who see ONLY the silver lining of the black cloud looming above.

#33. A Pessimist

One who sees ONLY the back cloud looming above.
 
Part (1)

A disciple asked his guru. "Can I walk when I meditate?'

The guru said, " No! Meditation must not involve any physical

movement!"

The disciple was undaunted and put forward his next question.

"Can I chant the name of my favorite God when I walk?"

The guru brightened and said, "You may chant the names of

God anywhere and at anytime."

Part (2)

So that is what I am doing after stopping the deep meditation

done rooted to a spot. I find very little difference between

these two. In meditation I used to concentrate on each part of

the God from foot to head or head to foot.

Now only the name is remembered - not the beautiful eyes nor

the lips, nor any other beautiful body parts of the God.

I am sure this hour-long, silent-chanting of the names of God

during the morning-walk can add a new spiritual dimension to

any person - even if not the visible aura!

proof...???

Perfect strangers have started falling at the feet asking to be blessed! :wacko:

It is not very difficult to bless "pathinARum petRu peru vAzhvu vAzhga"

or just my usual message " VAzhga valamudan!" :)

part (3) P.S

I remember the Sherlock Holmes story in which he says that,

though typing and playing piano affect the finger tips in the

same way, playing music adds to the spirituality of a person.

He can't be more correct! Music and meditation do work

wonders on any person :thumb:
 
Now the sad part of the story!

While perfect strangers are drawn closer by some inexplicable enigma,

those who have known me ever since I was born or they were born

have decided and started to keep a loooooooong distance of late!

Well! Distance is a relative term - a matter of the mind.

So here also "Those who mind do not matter!"

and "Those who matter do not mind!" :moony:
 
Deft Definitions:

#34. A philanthropist

A generous, good man who publicly donates a part of what he had privately hoarded!

#35. Philosopher.

Instead of crying over the spilled milk he consoles himself saying, "Most of it was water anyway!"

#36. Ukulele

A musical instrument forming a bridge between music and noise.
 
nija roopa darisanam

Nija roopa darisanam in certain temples is a very special day.

In Simhachalam the deity looks like a sivalingam made of sandal paste.

The god is so ugram that he is completely covered with sandal paste. One day in a year the paste is removed and devotees are allowed to have the nija roopa darisanam. The sandal paste is given away as the special prasadam to the devotees.

But the nija rooppa darisanam I see during my morning walk is very scary.

'viri chadai' looks good on Lord Siva doing his cosmic dance but not on the ladies who go to the milk booth - plodding along still half asleep.

The 'virichadai' is accompanied by the other saamudrika lakshNams like 'kodai vaai; 'peeLaik kaNN' and a nightie worn without any undergarments.

Nijaroopa darisanam is not always a welcome sight! :fear:
 
Today I saw the jet black seenivaasan sleeping in the ocean of milk.

Not just one seenivaasan but many hundreds of seenivaasans.

Confused???

I saw a bowl of milk laid out for the cats by a compassionate milkman

in which hundreds cheenivaasans (= black ants who live in sugar) were floating! :rolleyes:
 
Today during my morning walk I met a happy child who declared to me that it is his birthday.

I told him it is my birthday too! He was duly surprised by this statement.

Then we shook hand and wished each other "Many more happy returns of the day!" :)

Think of two people living in the same building and sharing the same date of birth!

You may assume that this not possible unless there are 367 people living in the block!

But you are completely mistake.

We need far less number of persons to share the same D.O.B!!!
 
In probability theory, the birthday problem or birthday paradox[SUP][1][/SUP] concerns the probability that, in a set of n {\displaystyle n} randomly chosen people, some pair of them will have the same birthday.

By the pigeonhole principle, the probability reaches 100% when the number of people reaches 367 (since there are only 366 possible birthdays, including February 29).

However, 99.9% probability is reached with just 70 people, and 50% probability with 23 people. These conclusions are based on the assumption that each day of the year (except February 29) is equally probable for a birthday.

This logic has applications, for example a cryptographic attack called the birthday attack, which uses this probabilistic model to reduce the complexity of finding a collision for a hash function.

The history of the problem is obscure. W. W. Rouse Ball indicated (without citation) that it was first discussed by Harold Davenport.[SUP][2][/SUP] However, Richard von Mises proposed an earlier version of what is considered today to be the birthday problem.[SUP][3]
[/SUP]


A graph showing the computed probability of at least two people sharing a birthday amongst a certain number of people.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem


 
It is nice feeling to be loved by our loved ones.
The online purchasers have bought a beautiful peacock brooch for me.
The online greeting included an action song of Happy Birthday to you!
The singers were Juju and her little bro!
My eyes welled up with tears of joy!
Surely life is worth living after all! :party:
 
Deft Definitions

#37. Vegetarian

Only who does not eat any living things visible to the naked eye.

#38. Ventriloquist

One who HAS to talk to himself in the public in order to make a honest living.

#39. War

The fight between two nations which determines NOT who will be right BUT who will be left.


 
When the deficit of sleep piles up and becomes large enough it will cause a tidal wave submerging the person into slumber or end up in a migraine - if forced to keep awake, resisting the tidal wave.

Migraine lasts for more than a day while the tidal wave lasts for very few hours. So today's morning walk has to be sacrificed to keep at bay a migraine looming overhead alarmingly!
 
Why do we have to try in Kahzini style to sign in to the forum? :ballchain:

It takes ( or feels as if it takes) seventeen attempts to sign in! :(

Any short cut methods/ favorable time to enter the forum??? :welcome:

Some body please speak up and help everyone here - including me!!! :hail:
 
Deft definitions

#40. Water

The colorless, odorless, tasteless liquid which takes on a color, an odor and a taste when used by man.

#41. Willpower

The ability to stop after eating just one peanut/ cashew!

#42. Winter

The time of the year when the house is maintained at the same temperature - :smow:

which everyone had kept complaining about all through the summer. :flame:
 
The phases in a person's life!

1. We don care for anything but toys. :baby:

2. We want to buy everything we see. :popcorn:

3. We want to dispose everything we have bought. :hand:

Most people stay in the second phase all their lives! :roll:

(They build more rooms or move to a bigger house). :rolleyes:

As for me I am reached the third phase long long ago! :hand:
 

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