Dear All
Hope you have heard the magical voice of (Late) MS Subbulakshmi singing a wonderful composition which was written by Adi Sankara. Hearing it from the voice of my Guru was another pheonomenal experience particularly the way he sings it with his eyes closed and enjoying himself with the depth of the meaning of this sanskrit verses.....
In fact I learnt the meaning of all the verses at least a decade back just getting lured by the way He prounces each and every word of the song !! Let me just take a sample of one particular verse for today's consumptions......
Well...too much intake of such a wonderful song can really lead to (mental) diarrohea...and I prefer you to take that sweet risk yourselves AFTER reading this one verse...and my own way of handling the interpretation......
Maa Kuru Dhana Jana Youvana Garvam
Harathi nemaashithaath kaalaha sarvam
Mayamayamitham Akhilam hithwaa
Brahmapadham tham pravisha vidhithwaa
The Literal meaning for the above verse is....
Dont get proud about your money, contacts / people and youth
Time will destroy them in a minute !!
Leaving aside the dream like worldly aspects
Better enter into the world of spirituality......
This is one of the verse I like most and keep getting reminded though there are many more such powerful verses which has deep philosophical significance...Please try the rest yourself....
On this particular verse.... please go thru' below....
People seem to recognize the impermanance of money and young age very easily.
The speed at which few Finance Companies (NBFCs) closed down during 1995-2000, IT companies post that period...and the most recent examples of recessions that was cruelly hitting many of the hapless individuals, the neighbours who did not get mangled so badly, clearly realised that money and status is not really in one's hand. Most of us these days are intelligent enough to gather wisdom from other's experiences. I consider this as "positive" comparisons which is a tremendous source of learning......!!
The third part about "youth" or "healthy body" or "beauty" too is seemingly understood by many people. This could particularly hit any individual when he sees losses of lives around him at abnormally young age due to some accident / sickness ..!! Even if are blessed not to get into a road accident ourselves or some thing happening to our near and dears (GOD Forbid), this realization is not out of bound for a person who has a glimpse of the shattered body lying in the road with palms outstretched towards the sky and his two wheeler crippled laying very close to him....(perhaps not powerful enough to take him to his FINAL destination !!). Lets leave out this too....
The middle one which is packed in betweeen these two fascinates me most....!!! YES Jana Garvam is some thing people associate directly towards people - friends and relatives and nod their heads that they understand this too like the earlier two...Not true really !! Jana Garvam is more deeper - its about the psychological advantage of having external support and ability to do many things with the support of a mass of human beings. Have you seen a newly elected MLA / MP walking differently , speaking differently....and get used to few comforts that he was craving for.....!! This is just an example, it happens to all segments of the society including the senior people in the corporate world....It needs lot of clarity to retain the semblance of sanity when we reach some height.
I would even include the good name / reputation too in this definition of JANA...because, some times one's character and reputation brings people around him...and when some disaster happens for these intangible assets, clearly its a disaster for him which will hit very deeply and disastrously. Unfortunately or fortunately, this aspect of JANA Garvam cannot be appreciated by normal people as they have never tasted lime light.
Look at a cinema herione who after proudly announcing that she is going to "quit" acting as she is getting into wedlock with a "businessman".... you find her photo and her wide grin with her "would be (he normally is not EVER BE) in all magazines which also dutifully cover snaps of her grand wedding reception (some times its done so secretive without inviting any body in cine field or press....not sure why they do things in an extreme manner !!), few months later there could be an interview in one of the magazine that she is happily settled with a wonderful person who was created by Lord Brahma just for her....and then couple of years complete silence....and then...she looks for an re-entry in the filmy world again... This craving is nothing but the JANA GARVAM according to me....!!
Same thing happens in politics...and in many areas where the VIPs trying to get back their lost glory- most of them unsuccessful though.....!! Mind you...this is also JG in action....!!
Continuing in the same breath, in spiritual realm some how these people are able to bring back their fold with much ease perhaps because they have a slightly more dedicated market.... than any other "industry".
Now guys, this posting is getting bit longer than what I anticipated but I hope its worth it. The ability to handle the lime light and the power and the associated responsibilities is not the hall mark of leader ship. Its about how we handle ourselves when we find that due to some situation (self created or thrust on us.. in any manner) that differentiates a tough mind from a brittle mind. A leader is supposed to be mentally tough and capable of springing back even if he is crushed by the circumstances in any manner. This can happen only when he handles himself and his power (and the reputation and the rewards of the recognitions...all included) with effortless ease without bragging too much about the same.
Lets keep smiling in adversary situations too....!! Thanks for reading.....
Love // Suren
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Bliss......Boundless......
How to start ? Where to start ? These questions are relatively more important before deciding what to start....and how much to go on isn't it...?
I am sure those tress passers who went thru' one of recent posting on my joy on booking a new FIGO might have felt I dont belong to "them".....!! For such people this posting could too be bit un-inspiring....and bit of yawning experience....For others who have learnt to be empathetic with some "silly" people like me, please stay tuned...!!
At last the D Day arrived....I got my cute FIGO delivered yesterday and needless to say I bunked my night shift office....!! (How can I be so duty conscious on such an important festive day thought it is my employer who is essentially responsible for making me deserve the FIGO... No logical questions please...I am on rampage now......). It must have been really a specially auspicious day because my father was literally beaming over phone on WHAT a day it was....(yeah, it was more a information that reached him...as the day was consulted with my FIL...some times you slip protocols when proximity takes more weight age....right ??). I dutifully informed all those first circle first ones over phone before taking the delivery of the car....AND gave sms to at least 1 dozen of my friends and other relatives who will be really happy....on the way to the show room.
Forgot to tell, I had taken along with me a trustworthy person (a cousin) to don the Driver's role for the next 24 hours who did not fail in my assessment...Rather, he made the day's bliss inch up a notch more....!! We both (of course along with my constant bugs at home - 4 of us !!) left home by around 5.30 PM yesterday in an auto rikshah...and when I write this now after 1 full day (exactly 26 hours), think I had made best out of all my little little dreams.....!!
Really do not want to make this posting as a chronicle of what ever happened (just that I visited most of the people whom we wanted to show the car at their residence itself...as we had an ever faithful and most obliging driver cousin) ...as this day will be etched in my memory until my last breath....(who knows, perhaps I might be given birth to an affluent family in next generation getting access to an automobile from my infancy....!!) BUT just want to say this much....
Like most of you, I did have lot of little little ripples of thoughts on "I want to do this.....when......this happens....!! At the time such ripple of thoughts were formed, you decide on your dreams without really getting serious....but nevertheless, they do have some value when .... when we are able to make them. Starting from the wide grins of the old and frail father, mother...(lucky to visit a father's brother too....I dont know why a lump develops in my throat when I see such people happy....These people's happiness is essentially some thing that could not be a possibility for them when they were like me.....!! Its wonderful for us to make them child like for a while....I mean a happy child....!!), the temple visits and little services of leaving the niece living in Tambaram to her class at Nungambakkam right at the door step ....and able to buy the fruits on the way to Tambaram and carelessly spray it across the back seat as there was too much space available....., able to climb up the bridge in Usman Road and the very long bridge at Meenambakkam in your own automobile, hearing the chosen music with crystal clarity.... the list is woefully inadequate believe me.....!!
Well, realised people talk about life time missions and they announce that they have come only to accomplish them (did you notice this pairing of terminology....?? Goals are normally ACHIEVED while missions are ACCOMPLISHED....)...My own Guru talks about some thing that I am not able to understand fully though it is so enticing.....!! I live in the plank of normal man with full of inconsistencies, incapabilities....and some times incompetency too....!! Its really good inspite of being contradicting at times (thank God, I have not reached a height to become "controversial" in life !!), some how I was able to achieve these petty silly wishes that I have been dreaming quite some time. Well, its not even a dream or a longing.....I should use the word again...there had been just ripple of thoughts ... not carried for long....but still they matter a lot....and particularly matter more when they are achieved....!!
May I know the science of taking up some tangible and sensible goals...and achieving them systematically.....!! Perhaps, I will not mind even if I dont realize the Truth in this birth....its ok for me to have my life fulfilled if only I learn to handle ME and my thought processes. It needs to go very far from what I am being right now.....!!
For those who had patience to go thru' this extempore posting, I crave and pray that what ever your trivial wishes are...how ever impossible for you it is now under current circumstances....and why ever you wish to achieve them.....LET THEM be achieved in due course of time. Folks, lets orient towards our minute goals first yaar.....move to missions bit later.....what do you say ?? So much of life is left, huh ??
With Love
Suren
I am sure those tress passers who went thru' one of recent posting on my joy on booking a new FIGO might have felt I dont belong to "them".....!! For such people this posting could too be bit un-inspiring....and bit of yawning experience....For others who have learnt to be empathetic with some "silly" people like me, please stay tuned...!!
At last the D Day arrived....I got my cute FIGO delivered yesterday and needless to say I bunked my night shift office....!! (How can I be so duty conscious on such an important festive day thought it is my employer who is essentially responsible for making me deserve the FIGO... No logical questions please...I am on rampage now......). It must have been really a specially auspicious day because my father was literally beaming over phone on WHAT a day it was....(yeah, it was more a information that reached him...as the day was consulted with my FIL...some times you slip protocols when proximity takes more weight age....right ??). I dutifully informed all those first circle first ones over phone before taking the delivery of the car....AND gave sms to at least 1 dozen of my friends and other relatives who will be really happy....on the way to the show room.
Forgot to tell, I had taken along with me a trustworthy person (a cousin) to don the Driver's role for the next 24 hours who did not fail in my assessment...Rather, he made the day's bliss inch up a notch more....!! We both (of course along with my constant bugs at home - 4 of us !!) left home by around 5.30 PM yesterday in an auto rikshah...and when I write this now after 1 full day (exactly 26 hours), think I had made best out of all my little little dreams.....!!
Really do not want to make this posting as a chronicle of what ever happened (just that I visited most of the people whom we wanted to show the car at their residence itself...as we had an ever faithful and most obliging driver cousin) ...as this day will be etched in my memory until my last breath....(who knows, perhaps I might be given birth to an affluent family in next generation getting access to an automobile from my infancy....!!) BUT just want to say this much....
Like most of you, I did have lot of little little ripples of thoughts on "I want to do this.....when......this happens....!! At the time such ripple of thoughts were formed, you decide on your dreams without really getting serious....but nevertheless, they do have some value when .... when we are able to make them. Starting from the wide grins of the old and frail father, mother...(lucky to visit a father's brother too....I dont know why a lump develops in my throat when I see such people happy....These people's happiness is essentially some thing that could not be a possibility for them when they were like me.....!! Its wonderful for us to make them child like for a while....I mean a happy child....!!), the temple visits and little services of leaving the niece living in Tambaram to her class at Nungambakkam right at the door step ....and able to buy the fruits on the way to Tambaram and carelessly spray it across the back seat as there was too much space available....., able to climb up the bridge in Usman Road and the very long bridge at Meenambakkam in your own automobile, hearing the chosen music with crystal clarity.... the list is woefully inadequate believe me.....!!
Well, realised people talk about life time missions and they announce that they have come only to accomplish them (did you notice this pairing of terminology....?? Goals are normally ACHIEVED while missions are ACCOMPLISHED....)...My own Guru talks about some thing that I am not able to understand fully though it is so enticing.....!! I live in the plank of normal man with full of inconsistencies, incapabilities....and some times incompetency too....!! Its really good inspite of being contradicting at times (thank God, I have not reached a height to become "controversial" in life !!), some how I was able to achieve these petty silly wishes that I have been dreaming quite some time. Well, its not even a dream or a longing.....I should use the word again...there had been just ripple of thoughts ... not carried for long....but still they matter a lot....and particularly matter more when they are achieved....!!
May I know the science of taking up some tangible and sensible goals...and achieving them systematically.....!! Perhaps, I will not mind even if I dont realize the Truth in this birth....its ok for me to have my life fulfilled if only I learn to handle ME and my thought processes. It needs to go very far from what I am being right now.....!!
For those who had patience to go thru' this extempore posting, I crave and pray that what ever your trivial wishes are...how ever impossible for you it is now under current circumstances....and why ever you wish to achieve them.....LET THEM be achieved in due course of time. Folks, lets orient towards our minute goals first yaar.....move to missions bit later.....what do you say ?? So much of life is left, huh ??
With Love
Suren
Monday, July 5, 2010
Random Musings.....
Dear All
I keep tossing in the bed until now.....and realized that there is no point forcing sleep upon me after sleeping close to 4 hours during day time.....and reached the computer to do some thing instead of sleeping.....!! Trust me....as I sat in front of the monitor and as the system was booting had no clue on what I am going to write.....So in a way the title above is justified....
I went to check the inbox hoping to get the feedback for my latest posted poems from my "followers".... alas, got disappointed again as there was none.....(well, I will get over these little disappointments too in course of time.....perhaps these are Baba's ways of hardening me up !!). In my inbox was lying a mail triggered from one of the websites that I had subscribed for....which keep sending inspirational articles / stories of successful personalities etc.,..... with the below title....."Read only if u want to b successful".....!! Bingo....Got the matter for the musings for the day (or for the night ???)....
Seems that the whole world is trying to forcefully inspire others. This mere title gave me a sense of aversion and I did not bother to peep into the "story" or the "powerpoint presentation" that these guys have dished out today.....as it is bit a sick feeling for me just to glimpse at the catchy subject line ....and a very good description of the person who wrote the article...who is "desperately" trying to draw the readers attention. With too many inspiration articles floating around....and with many of the comrades deciding to "inspire" others without having much materialistic to do.....(do you know this....?? I read some where that after SEX, the max possible literature is about "self development"....not sure if this is true....). People who are not so sure of the originality of the stuff they write will tend to seduce people with these type of titles....Isn't it ??
With so much discovered about management since Peter Drucker's days, its really not a surprising thing to have so many institutions which specialise subjects on people management.... and the latest courses that are available in Human Resources Management (I always feel HR is sometimes IHR...I mean, inhuman resources !! Please do not curse me, these are unbiased opinions formed based on consistent observations over a period of time.....I don't jump to conclusions so easily, you see)......it appears there is so much paucity of leadership today than ever before. Let me go on venting out in the same breath ... please feel free to disagree with me if you want to...but I am sure you will still accept few of my words at least.....!!
With the ever burgeoning population, we should have have had lot more leaders getting systematically generated from our systems (is it too outdated to call "civilization" ? I understand that those times when we use the words are bit obsolete and awkward in this "modern" society) ... There seems to be so much inadequacy of leadership as days go by in every arena....I am surely not talking about politics here.....Even in corporate world where it matters most (or where you should least expect considering the fact it is most needed to generate "profits"). In fact I am very realistic in my expectations...Not really looking for LEADERS but looking for glimpses of what we all recognize universal about "leadership qualities"....which seems to be waning dangerously....and might not be a surprise if the same gets extinct on a fine morning.....!!
Petty thoughts, mental calculations, over smartness, opportunism, undercutting, non-recognising, resentment...... this list can be endless really - seems to the way of smart people who are successful.....!! Very recently, I attended a training program at my office where as a part of self introduction, we were all asked to tell some famous personality who is a role model / inspiration for us.....!! Every one was telling about at least one and I could appreciate their feelings as they spoke. When my chance came, involuntarily, I blurted too many names than what is asked for to the surprise of the trainer (Sachin Tendulkar, Abdul Kalam, Viswanathan Anand, Mother Teresa.....Not really sure of the other names that I was mentioning). I added to explain that I had to list so many names because all of them are bound by a single quality....their humility and the way they handled themselves.....!! I hastened to add to the group on that day (and even now too ... in this musings) that I am not making all simple common men as my heroes.....and there are real good for nothing vegetables in the millions of the nameless common men....BUT the quality of simplicity adds a great value when a VIP lives in that manner....!!
So, the whole point that I was trying to make the other day - though not outwardly said - was about not finding many great stalwarts who can be our role models though they have extra ordinary skills. Whom we rev er as "Mahatma" is not some one who was an extra ordinary person in terms of skill set (I read some where that M.K.Gandhi was a below average Advocate who was specialising in taking adjournment to cases....and was really not a great public speaker or belonged to affluent family like that of Nehrus) but this man had a iron will in his heart and decided to be simple in his approach .... (I am aware that there are many who criticize our father of nation for being bit stubborn and for ending up with some wrong political decisions....In fact Winston Churchil defined our Mahatma as "Extravagant Fakir"...but I beg to differ from these people's views....because...I prefer not to argue. its more a feeling than based on any facts that I recognize him as Mahatma for me too.
So, with this I close....May this world be blessed with wonderful leaders to take the nations to greater heights and lead the people to more happiness. With the replenishable resources fast depleting, life of a common man is going to become tougher and tougher as it goes by.....and I hope we have at least few (one in one lakh...is too much asking ??) with some sense of vision, courage, initiative ...and above all have the ability and charisma to reach out to large masses...guide them, inspire them.....and give them what they want.....
Krishnaarpanam....as always....
Suren
I keep tossing in the bed until now.....and realized that there is no point forcing sleep upon me after sleeping close to 4 hours during day time.....and reached the computer to do some thing instead of sleeping.....!! Trust me....as I sat in front of the monitor and as the system was booting had no clue on what I am going to write.....So in a way the title above is justified....
I went to check the inbox hoping to get the feedback for my latest posted poems from my "followers".... alas, got disappointed again as there was none.....(well, I will get over these little disappointments too in course of time.....perhaps these are Baba's ways of hardening me up !!). In my inbox was lying a mail triggered from one of the websites that I had subscribed for....which keep sending inspirational articles / stories of successful personalities etc.,..... with the below title....."Read only if u want to b successful".....!! Bingo....Got the matter for the musings for the day (or for the night ???)....
Seems that the whole world is trying to forcefully inspire others. This mere title gave me a sense of aversion and I did not bother to peep into the "story" or the "powerpoint presentation" that these guys have dished out today.....as it is bit a sick feeling for me just to glimpse at the catchy subject line ....and a very good description of the person who wrote the article...who is "desperately" trying to draw the readers attention. With too many inspiration articles floating around....and with many of the comrades deciding to "inspire" others without having much materialistic to do.....(do you know this....?? I read some where that after SEX, the max possible literature is about "self development"....not sure if this is true....). People who are not so sure of the originality of the stuff they write will tend to seduce people with these type of titles....Isn't it ??
With so much discovered about management since Peter Drucker's days, its really not a surprising thing to have so many institutions which specialise subjects on people management.... and the latest courses that are available in Human Resources Management (I always feel HR is sometimes IHR...I mean, inhuman resources !! Please do not curse me, these are unbiased opinions formed based on consistent observations over a period of time.....I don't jump to conclusions so easily, you see)......it appears there is so much paucity of leadership today than ever before. Let me go on venting out in the same breath ... please feel free to disagree with me if you want to...but I am sure you will still accept few of my words at least.....!!
With the ever burgeoning population, we should have have had lot more leaders getting systematically generated from our systems (is it too outdated to call "civilization" ? I understand that those times when we use the words are bit obsolete and awkward in this "modern" society) ... There seems to be so much inadequacy of leadership as days go by in every arena....I am surely not talking about politics here.....Even in corporate world where it matters most (or where you should least expect considering the fact it is most needed to generate "profits"). In fact I am very realistic in my expectations...Not really looking for LEADERS but looking for glimpses of what we all recognize universal about "leadership qualities"....which seems to be waning dangerously....and might not be a surprise if the same gets extinct on a fine morning.....!!
Petty thoughts, mental calculations, over smartness, opportunism, undercutting, non-recognising, resentment...... this list can be endless really - seems to the way of smart people who are successful.....!! Very recently, I attended a training program at my office where as a part of self introduction, we were all asked to tell some famous personality who is a role model / inspiration for us.....!! Every one was telling about at least one and I could appreciate their feelings as they spoke. When my chance came, involuntarily, I blurted too many names than what is asked for to the surprise of the trainer (Sachin Tendulkar, Abdul Kalam, Viswanathan Anand, Mother Teresa.....Not really sure of the other names that I was mentioning). I added to explain that I had to list so many names because all of them are bound by a single quality....their humility and the way they handled themselves.....!! I hastened to add to the group on that day (and even now too ... in this musings) that I am not making all simple common men as my heroes.....and there are real good for nothing vegetables in the millions of the nameless common men....BUT the quality of simplicity adds a great value when a VIP lives in that manner....!!
So, the whole point that I was trying to make the other day - though not outwardly said - was about not finding many great stalwarts who can be our role models though they have extra ordinary skills. Whom we rev er as "Mahatma" is not some one who was an extra ordinary person in terms of skill set (I read some where that M.K.Gandhi was a below average Advocate who was specialising in taking adjournment to cases....and was really not a great public speaker or belonged to affluent family like that of Nehrus) but this man had a iron will in his heart and decided to be simple in his approach .... (I am aware that there are many who criticize our father of nation for being bit stubborn and for ending up with some wrong political decisions....In fact Winston Churchil defined our Mahatma as "Extravagant Fakir"...but I beg to differ from these people's views....because...I prefer not to argue. its more a feeling than based on any facts that I recognize him as Mahatma for me too.
So, with this I close....May this world be blessed with wonderful leaders to take the nations to greater heights and lead the people to more happiness. With the replenishable resources fast depleting, life of a common man is going to become tougher and tougher as it goes by.....and I hope we have at least few (one in one lakh...is too much asking ??) with some sense of vision, courage, initiative ...and above all have the ability and charisma to reach out to large masses...guide them, inspire them.....and give them what they want.....
Krishnaarpanam....as always....
Suren
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Shraddha and Saburi
Dear All
Those who are touched by / who touched upon Baba's Life history - the barest minimum visited one of his temples - would have definitely noticed these two words prominently displayed in his regime. These words (not literally) means Belief and Patience; For that matter, I read some where that the sanskrit word Shraddha is too potent that there is no single word in English to get the complete meaning of it...Lets not skip to etymology, now....Eh ??
Well, As I sat in a tranquail mood in one of the Baba temple close by to my home (not the one at my backdoors - this one is around a KM from my home), I was staring these two words which were written on the either sides of the wall of the main shrine where the majestic God Man was sitting and staring back at me. Suddenly my ever wandering mind got activated and I started connecting these two words.......and here is my latest musings......!!
Can there be a quality called patience without a belief ? Do we really wait eagerly about some thing that we dont believe ?? Normally we find Theists far more patient and enduring than their counterparts (let me ignore some extreme cults like Saktham, Shaivam and Bajrang Bali devotion where the God is bit fiery and too hot for soft minds - at least in my perception). Otherwise, at least in our culture, Athiest seem to be bit hot headed and always wanting to prove that there is "no God" (How can they ? poor souls !!) while a typical Theist dutifully goes to his daily chores after his mechanical worship of his chosen diety. He has nothing to prove to the atheist and prefers to keep quiet (some times, few of them reciprocate the animosity...there are always exceptions in practical realm - every where !! we are going bit objective, you see).
Now, let me put the other side of the coin.... Is patience needed when there is belief...? OR let me use a stronger word than what is normally referred as belief....TRUST !! When one trust some thing else in utmost intensity, is there a need to be patient to get it proved ? He is already fully with the object of trust...and there is no need for waiting for any thing which is an intrinsic quality for patience. I really dont mind patient people - all of them - are waiting for some thing - but there seems to be a close nexus between the two terms - at least the way I look at it.
It is now better to close this musing seeing the second aspect of the other side of the coin too. When you have decided to be patient / tolerant / enduring some thing, dont you actually transcend the quality or need of a belief ? To see a practical example, those who marched with Mahatma those days decided to be patient / tolerant to all the physical tortures inflicted by Britishers.....because they actually had trust in some thing else (which is AHIMSA). Do I see some thing too wierd in my thought process ? the point is still crystal clear to me.....YES, there is no need to trust the object which we decide to be patient with.....on the contrary, you are capable of being in this quality when you are trusting some thing else !! Another example could be a kid closing its eyes tight and gets ready for an injection of the Doctor....not because it likes the kiss of the syringe....BUT it knows (or brainwashed !!) that this pain will make the physical body ok.....!!
So that was my revealation today..... I am delighted with this posting which is coming in its fullest flow without any thinking process from my side as I type the words...and the miniscule moments at Baba temple was just a trigger for this posting....and was not a continuous thought process until this moment of posting...
SO, My Beloved Baba talks about two qualities that are needed for any body...which do not compliment each other....but seems to contradict each other. One who clearly understands, appreciates, and imbibes these two qualities with utmost intensity within himself, perhaps can internalise this God Man's message clearer......Hmm....
Suchoo
ps:- In fact my Baba braggings is quite a fun for me....For some one who never had any moorings on Bhakthi and these type of God Man, I am bit amused how much change has happened to me since Apr 2008. Well, Here is a musings that I have posted couple of years back...totally oblivious to what is going to happen to me 2 years since then.....!! Who knows what I will be in 2012 ?? CM of Tamilnadu .......Eh ?? Why note.....Please go thru' below too.......!! Krishnaarpanam as always.....
Sep 21, 2007
Hare Rama Hare Krishnaa
In the mornings, it is very common for us to hear the loud songs of Hare Krishna movement as there is a extremely pious gentle man who has a shop right in front of our flat...the shop is basically sells vehicle number plates & he also has a zerox machine....The shop is never crowded nor is dull...quite contended and modest very much like the owner of the same..He is a brahmin and he wears a very traditional dress - aged around 45 years and is an extremely silent man....The only violent thing about him is the big sound of the tapes / cds of the devotional songs that he plays daily .... most part of the day especially in the morning....When I walk down towards the Railway station, I used to have a glimpse of this gentleman who keeps fanning a big peacock feathered hand fan on the Lord Krishna's idol centrally placed in his shop...Some times, I have observed him sitting with closed eyes with Japa Malaa in his hands when there is no customers to his shop.....I have visited his shop quite often for zeroxing, he always meekly does the job himself (has no helper) and utters literally no word to me....and is all humility when he takes the money from me....Looks like he is a deep Bhaktha who has tasted the silence in utmost depth and intensity and does not want to get disturbed by any one or any thing around....I have great regards for this gentle man and a lump wells up in my throat to see the stage he has attained.....and while typing this, I resolve to myself that I will never do any thing to disturb him or his silence.... What else he expects from me OR from the world around him.....??
Posted by Suchoo at 9:36 PM
Those who are touched by / who touched upon Baba's Life history - the barest minimum visited one of his temples - would have definitely noticed these two words prominently displayed in his regime. These words (not literally) means Belief and Patience; For that matter, I read some where that the sanskrit word Shraddha is too potent that there is no single word in English to get the complete meaning of it...Lets not skip to etymology, now....Eh ??
Well, As I sat in a tranquail mood in one of the Baba temple close by to my home (not the one at my backdoors - this one is around a KM from my home), I was staring these two words which were written on the either sides of the wall of the main shrine where the majestic God Man was sitting and staring back at me. Suddenly my ever wandering mind got activated and I started connecting these two words.......and here is my latest musings......!!
Can there be a quality called patience without a belief ? Do we really wait eagerly about some thing that we dont believe ?? Normally we find Theists far more patient and enduring than their counterparts (let me ignore some extreme cults like Saktham, Shaivam and Bajrang Bali devotion where the God is bit fiery and too hot for soft minds - at least in my perception). Otherwise, at least in our culture, Athiest seem to be bit hot headed and always wanting to prove that there is "no God" (How can they ? poor souls !!) while a typical Theist dutifully goes to his daily chores after his mechanical worship of his chosen diety. He has nothing to prove to the atheist and prefers to keep quiet (some times, few of them reciprocate the animosity...there are always exceptions in practical realm - every where !! we are going bit objective, you see).
Now, let me put the other side of the coin.... Is patience needed when there is belief...? OR let me use a stronger word than what is normally referred as belief....TRUST !! When one trust some thing else in utmost intensity, is there a need to be patient to get it proved ? He is already fully with the object of trust...and there is no need for waiting for any thing which is an intrinsic quality for patience. I really dont mind patient people - all of them - are waiting for some thing - but there seems to be a close nexus between the two terms - at least the way I look at it.
It is now better to close this musing seeing the second aspect of the other side of the coin too. When you have decided to be patient / tolerant / enduring some thing, dont you actually transcend the quality or need of a belief ? To see a practical example, those who marched with Mahatma those days decided to be patient / tolerant to all the physical tortures inflicted by Britishers.....because they actually had trust in some thing else (which is AHIMSA). Do I see some thing too wierd in my thought process ? the point is still crystal clear to me.....YES, there is no need to trust the object which we decide to be patient with.....on the contrary, you are capable of being in this quality when you are trusting some thing else !! Another example could be a kid closing its eyes tight and gets ready for an injection of the Doctor....not because it likes the kiss of the syringe....BUT it knows (or brainwashed !!) that this pain will make the physical body ok.....!!
So that was my revealation today..... I am delighted with this posting which is coming in its fullest flow without any thinking process from my side as I type the words...and the miniscule moments at Baba temple was just a trigger for this posting....and was not a continuous thought process until this moment of posting...
SO, My Beloved Baba talks about two qualities that are needed for any body...which do not compliment each other....but seems to contradict each other. One who clearly understands, appreciates, and imbibes these two qualities with utmost intensity within himself, perhaps can internalise this God Man's message clearer......Hmm....
Suchoo
ps:- In fact my Baba braggings is quite a fun for me....For some one who never had any moorings on Bhakthi and these type of God Man, I am bit amused how much change has happened to me since Apr 2008. Well, Here is a musings that I have posted couple of years back...totally oblivious to what is going to happen to me 2 years since then.....!! Who knows what I will be in 2012 ?? CM of Tamilnadu .......Eh ?? Why note.....Please go thru' below too.......!! Krishnaarpanam as always.....
Sep 21, 2007
Hare Rama Hare Krishnaa
In the mornings, it is very common for us to hear the loud songs of Hare Krishna movement as there is a extremely pious gentle man who has a shop right in front of our flat...the shop is basically sells vehicle number plates & he also has a zerox machine....The shop is never crowded nor is dull...quite contended and modest very much like the owner of the same..He is a brahmin and he wears a very traditional dress - aged around 45 years and is an extremely silent man....The only violent thing about him is the big sound of the tapes / cds of the devotional songs that he plays daily .... most part of the day especially in the morning....When I walk down towards the Railway station, I used to have a glimpse of this gentleman who keeps fanning a big peacock feathered hand fan on the Lord Krishna's idol centrally placed in his shop...Some times, I have observed him sitting with closed eyes with Japa Malaa in his hands when there is no customers to his shop.....I have visited his shop quite often for zeroxing, he always meekly does the job himself (has no helper) and utters literally no word to me....and is all humility when he takes the money from me....Looks like he is a deep Bhaktha who has tasted the silence in utmost depth and intensity and does not want to get disturbed by any one or any thing around....I have great regards for this gentle man and a lump wells up in my throat to see the stage he has attained.....and while typing this, I resolve to myself that I will never do any thing to disturb him or his silence.... What else he expects from me OR from the world around him.....??
Posted by Suchoo at 9:36 PM
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Multiplier Effect
Dear All
As a seasoned depressionist (not sure if such a word exist....let me start off to add to the archives of this great language which keeps growing every day without my contribution too), I have lot of theoritical solutions to come out of depression spell. In fact, if I look bit deeper, it is not that they are all theoritical ones but many of them tested ones too and I have stumbled upon few of them sporadically during some of my depression spells....BUT it is also a cruel fact that I really forget the comprehensive list of such solutions when I am deep into a depression spell....!!
One such wonderful solution was seemlessly tested during last week which I prefer to share with the whole world. I prefer to give a name called "multiplier" effect for this simple and straight tool. Hold your breath.....well, this is no great suspense but never forget to rever a technology that works - rather which has worked for me quite recently.....!!
I was undergoing my inertness syndrome for close to 5 days and it was getting bit too much, I forced myself to visit the houses of near and dear.....quite unexpectedly for them giving me a very positive energy when I saw the brightened faces to see me (of course, guys, you need to take a call to visit those houses where faces get beaming seeing you.....if its a wrong choice of the house, perhaps its you who is wrong , not the "multiplier" technology). I infact consciously created a hype about my visit by exchanging few SMS with my sister whom I visited which is one reason why she was shell shocked (with surprise of course) to see me at her doorstep (my exchanges given at the end of this posting) . Then I went to another sister's house too and reached back to office on the next day fully refreshed and in extremely positive mind set.
Like all negative things that spread like wild fire, positive things too spread - trust me. One conscious step towards some joy results in some genuine happiness for one or few who are intended which inturns sets up the roller coaster impact which I prefer to call as Multiplier Effect. Please make use of it as much as you want....rather as much as you can.....!!
Well, such a simple thing needs a posting using a modern technology ? People who get depressed once a while will clearly understand that this is not a BACKWAS posting and I am sure will be tempted to try it out....AND there is no dearth of such people and there should be no dearth of such trivial postings too....!!
Suchoo
ps:- My sms exchanges with my sister (a bit of intro before you read thru' = She travels to her office via kodambakkam station where I live; Not very long ago, we had an arrangement where by she brought breakfast for me from her home and gave to me thru' the train window during the few seconds when the train stopped at Kodambakkam station where I dutifully went and collected.....Now go on)
@ 6 AM in the morning, 1st July 2010
Me : What Breakfast for me Madam ?
Gayathri : Sorry da. Today I have to attend a poonal kalyanam. Forgot completely...tomorrow ?
Me : No plan of making any breakfast ? At least pazhaiyadhu ?
Gayathri : Idly today. But meeting you will be difficult. Plus I cannot carry every thing to marriage hall. Just one hand bag today...
Me : who dont you try ? Baba can make lot of magic if we are willing ....
Gayathri : Morning function. From there office. No idea about the time. Friends are coming. Sorry da....
After a pause...obviously after reading my above message
Gayathri : Poda !!
Me : SMILEY Some times Silence is golden !!!!
Gayathri : I'll bring som egood item surely tomorrow. Puliyodarai ?
Me : As you wish !! I am like crow which relishes every thing....
Gayathri : SMILEY
As a seasoned depressionist (not sure if such a word exist....let me start off to add to the archives of this great language which keeps growing every day without my contribution too), I have lot of theoritical solutions to come out of depression spell. In fact, if I look bit deeper, it is not that they are all theoritical ones but many of them tested ones too and I have stumbled upon few of them sporadically during some of my depression spells....BUT it is also a cruel fact that I really forget the comprehensive list of such solutions when I am deep into a depression spell....!!
One such wonderful solution was seemlessly tested during last week which I prefer to share with the whole world. I prefer to give a name called "multiplier" effect for this simple and straight tool. Hold your breath.....well, this is no great suspense but never forget to rever a technology that works - rather which has worked for me quite recently.....!!
I was undergoing my inertness syndrome for close to 5 days and it was getting bit too much, I forced myself to visit the houses of near and dear.....quite unexpectedly for them giving me a very positive energy when I saw the brightened faces to see me (of course, guys, you need to take a call to visit those houses where faces get beaming seeing you.....if its a wrong choice of the house, perhaps its you who is wrong , not the "multiplier" technology). I infact consciously created a hype about my visit by exchanging few SMS with my sister whom I visited which is one reason why she was shell shocked (with surprise of course) to see me at her doorstep (my exchanges given at the end of this posting) . Then I went to another sister's house too and reached back to office on the next day fully refreshed and in extremely positive mind set.
Like all negative things that spread like wild fire, positive things too spread - trust me. One conscious step towards some joy results in some genuine happiness for one or few who are intended which inturns sets up the roller coaster impact which I prefer to call as Multiplier Effect. Please make use of it as much as you want....rather as much as you can.....!!
Well, such a simple thing needs a posting using a modern technology ? People who get depressed once a while will clearly understand that this is not a BACKWAS posting and I am sure will be tempted to try it out....AND there is no dearth of such people and there should be no dearth of such trivial postings too....!!
Suchoo
ps:- My sms exchanges with my sister (a bit of intro before you read thru' = She travels to her office via kodambakkam station where I live; Not very long ago, we had an arrangement where by she brought breakfast for me from her home and gave to me thru' the train window during the few seconds when the train stopped at Kodambakkam station where I dutifully went and collected.....Now go on)
@ 6 AM in the morning, 1st July 2010
Me : What Breakfast for me Madam ?
Gayathri : Sorry da. Today I have to attend a poonal kalyanam. Forgot completely...tomorrow ?
Me : No plan of making any breakfast ? At least pazhaiyadhu ?
Gayathri : Idly today. But meeting you will be difficult. Plus I cannot carry every thing to marriage hall. Just one hand bag today...
Me : who dont you try ? Baba can make lot of magic if we are willing ....
Gayathri : Morning function. From there office. No idea about the time. Friends are coming. Sorry da....
After a pause...obviously after reading my above message
Gayathri : Poda !!
Me : SMILEY Some times Silence is golden !!!!
Gayathri : I'll bring som egood item surely tomorrow. Puliyodarai ?
Me : As you wish !! I am like crow which relishes every thing....
Gayathri : SMILEY
Without much of need for futher explanation, since the entire SMS exchange was happening as I was travelling from my office to her home in my office cab, I landed up at her door to see a wide grin in her face.....!!
Hope you can re-live the multiplier effect for yourself.....taking this as a practical proof.....!!
புத்தம் புதிய புத்தன்
விஸ்வரூபமாய் பேரிரைச்சலாய் பொறுமை
மட்டும் கடுகத்தனையாய் மாநகர பேருந்துகள்.....
வாய் நிறைய வசைகளோடு சிரிக்க மறந்த எம்
இனத்தில் மறந்து பிறந்த பேரிள ஓட்டுனர்கள் !!
தன்னிச்சையாய் திரும்பி திடுக்கிட வைக்கும்
மூட்டைப்பூச்சியை நினைவுறுத்தும் ஆட்டோக்கள்....
மனித நேயம் மறந்து போய் முகம் நீண்டுப் போய்
இயந்திரமாகவே மாறிவிட்ட இளைய சாரதிகள் !!
கழுவுற மீன்களில் நழுவுகிற மீன்களாய்
புத்தி சாதுர்யத்தினால் தன்முனைப்பால்
கிடைத்த கோட்டில் தன தனி வழி அமைக்கும்
நாளைய நம்பிக்கை நட்சத்திரங்களின் மிதிவண்டிகள் !!
இரு சக்கர ஊர்தி ஒன்றில் மனம் போன போக்கில்
உல்லாசிகள் எவரும் அறியவில்லை இவர்களை அவ்வளவாக.....
புதுக்கார் வாங்கி மேலும் கடனாளியாகி மடிசஞ்சி அந்தணனாய்
நாடு நடுங்க நரகமான நகரத்தில் பவனி வர ..... புதிதாய் ஒரு புத்தன் ....
ஒவ்வொரு நாளும்.... !!!
மட்டும் கடுகத்தனையாய் மாநகர பேருந்துகள்.....
வாய் நிறைய வசைகளோடு சிரிக்க மறந்த எம்
இனத்தில் மறந்து பிறந்த பேரிள ஓட்டுனர்கள் !!
தன்னிச்சையாய் திரும்பி திடுக்கிட வைக்கும்
மூட்டைப்பூச்சியை நினைவுறுத்தும் ஆட்டோக்கள்....
மனித நேயம் மறந்து போய் முகம் நீண்டுப் போய்
இயந்திரமாகவே மாறிவிட்ட இளைய சாரதிகள் !!
கழுவுற மீன்களில் நழுவுகிற மீன்களாய்
புத்தி சாதுர்யத்தினால் தன்முனைப்பால்
கிடைத்த கோட்டில் தன தனி வழி அமைக்கும்
நாளைய நம்பிக்கை நட்சத்திரங்களின் மிதிவண்டிகள் !!
இரு சக்கர ஊர்தி ஒன்றில் மனம் போன போக்கில்
உல்லாசிகள் எவரும் அறியவில்லை இவர்களை அவ்வளவாக.....
புதுக்கார் வாங்கி மேலும் கடனாளியாகி மடிசஞ்சி அந்தணனாய்
நாடு நடுங்க நரகமான நகரத்தில் பவனி வர ..... புதிதாய் ஒரு புத்தன் ....
ஒவ்வொரு நாளும்.... !!!
ஒவ்வாமை - ஒரு புதிய கவிதை
காணுமிடமெல்லாம் ஒவ்வாமை
ஒவ்வொருவருக்கும் ஒவ்வொன்றில் ..... !!
வழக்கங்கள் பழக்கங்கள் ஒழுக்கங்கள்
ஒழுகுவதில் ..... அடுத்தவர்மேல் திணிப்பதில்....
பெரும் ரசிகர்களுக்கு அவருசிக்கரர்மேல்....
வேதாந்திகளுக்கு வாழ்வில் சிக்குண்டவர்மேல்...
வன்முறை காதல் நகைச்சுவை காட்சிகளில்......
வன்புணர்ச்சி திரைப்படங்கள் ரசிப்பவர்மேல்.....
காய்கறி கனிவகைகள் இருப்பிட வசதிகளில் .....
வாழ்வின் இன்ன பிற மிகச்சிறிய அங்கங்களில் கூட !!
காணுமிடமெல்லாம் ஒவ்வாமை
ஒவ்வொருவருக்கும் ஒவ்வொன்றிலாவது......!!!
எப்போதும் எதன்பொருட்டும் விருப்பு வெறுப்பற்று
வாழத் தலைப்படல் ஞானியர்களுக்கு மட்டும் வசமாமோ ?
ஒவ்வொருவருக்கும் ஒவ்வொன்றில் ..... !!
வழக்கங்கள் பழக்கங்கள் ஒழுக்கங்கள்
ஒழுகுவதில் ..... அடுத்தவர்மேல் திணிப்பதில்....
பெரும் ரசிகர்களுக்கு அவருசிக்கரர்மேல்....
வேதாந்திகளுக்கு வாழ்வில் சிக்குண்டவர்மேல்...
வன்முறை காதல் நகைச்சுவை காட்சிகளில்......
வன்புணர்ச்சி திரைப்படங்கள் ரசிப்பவர்மேல்.....
காய்கறி கனிவகைகள் இருப்பிட வசதிகளில் .....
வாழ்வின் இன்ன பிற மிகச்சிறிய அங்கங்களில் கூட !!
காணுமிடமெல்லாம் ஒவ்வாமை
ஒவ்வொருவருக்கும் ஒவ்வொன்றிலாவது......!!!
எப்போதும் எதன்பொருட்டும் விருப்பு வெறுப்பற்று
வாழத் தலைப்படல் ஞானியர்களுக்கு மட்டும் வசமாமோ ?
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