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A few elders in Brindavan who revelled in scandalizing Krishna set an ordeal for Radha to test her virtue. Radha was asked to fetch water in a pot from Yamuna to home. Radha, with full faith in Krishna, was immersed in the consciousness of the Lord, that she never bothered to know the condition of the pot. The mud pot she was given had a hundred holes. She immersed it in the river, repeating the name of Krishna as usual, with every intake of the breath and every exhalation. Every time the name Krishna was uttered, a hole was covered, so that by the time the pot was full, it was whole! That was the measure of her faith. Faith can affect even inanimate objects. |
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எம்மதமும் எம் மதமே !!!….
மூலம் : மஹாபெரியவாள் தரிசன அனுபவங்கள் – ஐந்தாம் பகுதி
நினைவு கூர்ந்தவர்: ஸ்ரீமடம் பாலு
பக்கம் : 93,94,95
மௌனம் நா அசைத்தது
வட பாரதத்தின் வடமேற்கு மாநிலங்களைச் சேர்ந்த எட்டு முஸ்லிம்கள், பெரியவாள் தரிசனத்துக்கு வந்தார்கள். அவர்கள் எல்லோரும் செல்வந்தர்கள் என்ற நினைப்பை ஏற்படுத்தினாலும், எளிய உடை (வேஷ்டி, குல்லாய்) அணிந்திருந்தார்கள்.
“பெரிய பெரிய தேசியத் தலைவர்கள் எல்லாம் இந்த மஹந்திடம் ஆசிபெற்றுச் சென்றிருக்கிறார்கள் என்று கேள்விப்பட்டோம். அத்தகைய மஹந்தை (மகானை) தரிசனம் செய்ய வந்திருக்கிறோம்.”
பெரியவாள் அன்றைய தினம் காஷ்டமௌனம்! ஒரு ஜாடை, கண் அசைப்பு கூடக் கிடையாது, ஏதேனும் சொன்னால் கேட்டுக் கொண்டிருப்பார்களே தவிர, முகத்தில் எவ்விதச் சலனமும் இருக்காது.
முஸ்லிம்கள், வெகு தூரத்திலிருந்து, மிகவும் பக்தியோடு வந்திருக்கிறார்கள்.
“இன்று பெரியவாள் பேசமாட்டார்கள்” என்று சொல்லி, ஏமாற்றத்துடன் அவர்களை அனுப்பி வைப்பது, மகா அநியாயம். ஆனால், பெரியவாளிடம் யார் போய்ச் சொல்வது?
பாணாம்பட்டு கண்ணன் என்று ஒரு தொண்டர். நியாயமான துணிச்சல்காரர். ‘வடக்கேயிருந்து எட்டு முஸ்லிம்கள் வந்திருக்கிறார்கள். சமயப் பற்றுடையவர்கள் மாதிரி இருக்கு. ரொம்பவும் சாந்தமா இருக்கா… பெரியவாளிடம் ஆசீர்வாதம் வாங்கணும்னு ரொம்ப எதிர்பார்ப்போடு வந்திருக்கா…”
இரண்டு நிமிஷம் கழித்துப் பெரியவாள் வெளியே வந்தார்கள். “ஆயியே… ஆயியே..” என்று அவர்களை அழைத்து உட்காரச் சொல்லிவிட்டு, ஹிந்தியில் ஒவ்வொருவரிடமும் உரையாடினார்கள்.
வந்தவர்கள், “நாங்கள் ஒரு பெரிய பிரச்சினையில் சிக்கியிருக்கிறோம். பெரியவா அனுக்ரஹம் வேணும்” என்று பிரார்த்தித்துக் கொண்டார்கள்.
பெரியவாள் சொன்னார்கள்:
“நீங்கள் எல்லோரும் நல்ல பக்தர்கள். தினமும் ஐந்து வேளை தொழுகை செய்யுங்கள். இது ரம்லான் மாதம். உபவாசம் இருந்து என்னைப் பார்க்க வந்திருக்கிறீர்கள். அதனாலேதான், உங்களிடம் மட்டும் பேசுவதற்காக மௌனத்தை சிறிதுநேரம் விட்டுவிட்டேன்! உங்கள் கஷ்டங்கள் நீங்கும். ஆண்டவர் காப்பாற்றுவார்…”
அந்த எண்மரில், முதியவரான ஒருவருக்கு ஒரு பச்சை நிறச் சால்வையும், மற்றவர்களுக்குப் பழமும் கொடுத்தார்கள்.
அவர்கள் ஆனந்தம் பொங்கத் திரும்பிச் சென்றார்கள்.
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Natarajan
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Thought For The Day….Persistence is the Iron Quality of Success !!!
Your ability to persist in the face of adversities, setbacks and disappointments is the measure of your belief in yourself.
-Brian Tracy: Law of Persistence
Thrilling Facts…. Determination and Persistence
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This is a real life story of an engineer who build the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, USA. In 1883, a creative engineer named John Roebling was inspired by an idea to build a spectacular bridge connecting New York with the Long Island. However bridge building experts throughout the world thought that this was an impossible feat and told Roebling to forget the idea. It just could not be done. It was not practical. It had never been done before. Roebling could not ignore the vision he had in his mind of this bridge. He thought about it all the time and he knew deep in his heart that it could be done. He just had to share the dream with someone else. After much discussion and persuasion he managed to convince his son Washington, an upcoming engineer, that the bridge in fact could be built. Working together for the first time, the father and son developed concepts of how it could be accomplished and how the obstacles could be overcome. With great excitement and inspiration, and the headiness of a wild challenge before them, they hired their crew and began to build their dream bridge.
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“People thought.” “Crazy men and their crazy dreams.” “It’s foolish to chase wild visions.”
Everyone had a negative comment to make and felt that the project should be scrapped since the Roebling’s were the only ones who knew how the bridge could be built. In spite of his handicap Washington was never discouraged and still had a burning desire to complete the bridge and his mind was still as sharp as ever. He tried to inspire and pass on his enthusiasm to some of his friends, but they were too daunted by the task.
As he lay on his bed in his hospital room, with the sunlight streaming through the windows, a gentle breeze blew the flimsy white curtains apart and he was able to see the sky and the tops of the trees outside for just a moment. It seemed that there was a message for him not to give up. Suddenly an idea hit him. All he could do was move one finger and he decided to make the best use of it. By moving this, he slowly developed a code of communication with his wife. He touched his wife’s arm with that finger, indicating to her that he wanted her to call the engineers again. Then he used the same method of tapping her arm to tell the engineers what to do. It seemed foolish but the project was under way again. For 13 years Washington tapped out his instructions with his finger on his wife’s arm, until the bridge was finally completed. Today the spectacular Brooklyn Bridge stands in all its glory as a tribute to the triumph of one man’s indomitable spirit and his determination not to be defeated by circumstances. It is also a tribute to the engineers and their team work, and to their faith in a man who was considered mad by half the world. It stands too as a tangible monument to the love and devotion of his wife who for 13 long years patiently decoded the messages of her husband and told the engineers what to do. The Brooklyn Bridge shows us that dreams that seem impossible can be realized with determination and persistence, no matter what the odds are. Often when we face obstacles in our day-to-day life, our hurdles seem very small in comparison to what many others have to face.
Concluding thought: Persistence is the iron quality of success; if you persist long enough you must eventually succeed where no handicap can keep you from achieving your goal.
source::::: input from a friend of mine…
Natarajan
Message For The Day…Let us Open Our Eyes ….
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Message For The Day…Be Affectionate and compassionate Towards Others…
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How to Distinguish Between Confidence and Ego ?!!!
Self Confidence Vs Ego
There is a thin line dividing confidence and ego. Most of the time we get confused and fail to decide whether we are on the right track or our ego is dominating in the guise of confidence. When ego dominates every success turns into failure. One has to be very careful about it. How to distinguish between confidence and ego?-
A man of confidence says that he can do the work and others can also do it; where as a man of ego says that he alone can do it and nobody else can.
A man of confidence always try to encourage and help others in building their confidence, whereas a man of ego tries to curb and discourage others when they try to come up in life.
A man of confidence always attracts people. Even the weak feel confident and elevated in his company. Where as an egoistic person creates repulsion in the minds of people who try to avoid him because of his boastful nature.
A man of confidence appreciates the success of others and shares happiness with them. Whereas a man of ego discourages and humiliates others and feels jealous of the success of others.
There is a joy in working with people of confidence because they are always cheerful and can mix with everybody. In the presence of egoistic people even the man of confidence feel an inferiority complex. They feel nervous to work them.
A man of confidence always commands love and respect whereas a man of ego always demands and expects love and respect.
Confident people are always successful in every field of life because they can conquer the hearts of all by putting their faith and confidence in others and receive all help and cooperation from colleagues and friends. A man of ego always suffers setbacks and failures loosing men and power because of his arrogant approach which adds only to his worries and tensions.
In one word a man of self confidence puts his faith in the inner most Divine self, the source of all power and energy and also feels presence of Divine in everyone while dealing with them whereas the ego-centric person puts his faith only in his mental and intellectual abilities and skills, forgetting the Divine, which operates through mind and intellect out of ignorance. He applies the same standards while dealing with others. He is only aware of the weaknesses and drawbacks and never realizes that the perfect Divine is hidden behind these superficial appearances, which can be awakened by constant training and positive approach.
Source: Dr.E.S.Maheswar & A.V.Ramanatahan
Message For The Day….Lesson Narada Learnt From Gopikas !!!!
Narada, the celestial sage, was once so shocked at the ignorance of the Gopikas, that he volunteered to put them through some spiritual lessons. After coming to Brindavan, he noticed that these cowherd girls who were selling milk or curds were calling, “Govinda, Narayana,” instead of the wares they were selling; so immersed were they in God-consciousness. They did not know that they had sold off all the milk; they still wandered on, calling out the names of the Lord. They had novishayavasana, that is, no wish for sensual objects; and so they had no ajnana (ignorance). Narada concluded that they had no need for his lessons instead he prayed to them to teach him the means of getting that yearning and that vision of the all-pervading Krishna. To conquer egoism, no rigorous system of exercise, breath control or complicated scholarship is necessary! The simple Gopikas, have demonstrated this truth.
Perfectly Balanced Stones!!!!
He balances them and they balance him right back. That is relationship that has formed between Michael Grabb and his special art pieces. Grabb makes most of his statues in the streams of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. His is a Sisyphean work of piling and balancing the stones one on top of another.
This activity, he says, balances the material world with the spiritual one.On the one hand is the material nature that rocks symbolize, on the other, the perfect harmony and balance that comes from the spiritual world, as well as the connection to the natural world. The results are fantastic and creative, when we see his implausible creations.
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Natarajan
Message For The Day….Be Ever Alert Against Temptations….
The temptation to ignore Dharma grows from egoism and the acceptance of false values. The wish to satisfy the lower desire is the root of adharma (unrighteousness). This wish takes hold of you slyly, pretending to be a comrade come to save you, or like a servant come to attend on you, or like a counsellor come to warn you. Wickedness has a thousand tricks to capture your heart. You must be ever alert against the temptation; you often remind others of Dharma when you desire to squeeze some advantage from them. You must remember not only the rights that Dharma confers but also the duties it imposes.
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Message for The Day…Humble Service to Society is Service to God….
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