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The flower of ‘compassion to all living beings’ (Sarvabhute Daya Pushpam) is very dear to God. From the seed of Divinity grows the tree of creation. In this tree, the fruits are human beings who are Jeevatma. In each of these human fruits, Divinity is present as a seed. In Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna said, “Beejam Maam Sarva Bhutanam” (I am the seed in all living beings in the form of Atma, the soul). Recognising the truth that God is present in the form of Atma in all living beings, being compassionate to all is what God expects from you everyday. God loves the flower of forbearance (Kshama) very much. It is truly the highest quality of a human being. Often you develop narrow ideas, thinking of ‘I’, ‘my family’, and treat others as different from ‘me’. When you truly love, you develop patience and forbearance. Expand your love to encompass all living beings, that will fructify as forbearance.

 

_மஹா *பெரியவாளின் கருணை* கலந்த ஹாஸ்யம்_ !!

காஞ்சி மடத்தில் ஒருநாள் மதியம் மஹா பெரியவா சாப்பிட்டுக் கொண்டிருந்தார். அவரை யாரோ குறுகுறுவென பார்ப்பது போலிருக்க நிமிர்ந்தார். ஜன்னலைப் பிடித்தவாறே குட்டிக் குரங்கு ஒன்று நின்று இருந்தது. அதற்கு வாழைப்பழம் தருமாறு பணித்தார். ஆனால், வாங்க மறுத்துவிட்டது. அதற்கு கொஞ்சம் சாதம் கொடுக்க ஏற்பாடு செய்தார். கண் மூடி திறப்பதற்குள் வேகமாக சாப்பிட்டு விட்டு, மரத்தில் ஏறி மறைந்தது.

அதன்பிறகு, இதுவே தினமும் வாடிக்கையாகி விட்டது. அதற்கு “கோவிந்தா’ என்று பெயரிட்டு அழைத்தார் மஹா பெரியவா.

ஒருநாள் அந்த குரங்கு நீண்டநேரமாகியும் சாப்பிட வரவில்லை. சாப்பிட மனமின்றி, மஹா பெரியவா காத்திருந்தார். அன்று, மடம் அருகில் இருந்த நாராயண அய்யர் வீட்டிற்குள் குரங்கு நுழைந்திருக்கிறது. அதைக் கவனிக்காத அய்யர், கதவைப் பூட்டி விட்டு மடத்திற்கு வந்து விட்டார்.

தான் புதிதாக வாங்கிய நிலத்தின் பத்திரத்தை, பெரியவாளிடம் கொடுத்து ஆசி பெறுவது அவரின் நோக்கம். பெரியவாளிடம் பத்திரத்தைக் கொடுப்பதற்காக பைக்குள் கையை விட்டார் நாராயண அய்யர்.

ஆனால், பத்திரத்தைக் காணவில்லை. அவர் திகைத்தார்.
“”நாராயண அய்யரே! என்ன தேடறீர்…. நான் குரங்கைத் தேடறேன். நீர் பத்திரத்தைத் தேடறீரோ…. என்ற பெரியவா,” “போங்கோ… போங்கோ…. ஆத்துல போய் தேடிப் பாருங்கோ…. நான் தேடுறது மட்டுமில்லாமல், நீங்க தேடுறதும் கெடைக்கும்….” என்றார்.

விறுவிறு என வீட்டுக்கு வந்த அய்யர் கதவைத் திறக்க, சரலேன குரங்கு ஒரு பையுடன் ஓடுவதைக் கண்டார். அந்த பையைப் பார்த்ததும் தான், அதில் பத்திரத்தை வைத்தது நினைவிற்கு வந்தது. குரங்கைத் துரத்தியபடி அவரும் பின்தொடர்ந்தார்.

தெருவிலுள்ள எல்லாரும் வேடிக்கை பார்த்தனர்.
ஓடிய குரங்கு மடத்திற்குள் நுழைந்தது.

பெரியவா அதனிடம் அன்புடன், “”கோவிந்தா ….. உனக்கு பசிக்கலையா… எங்கே போயிட்ட….” என்று கேட்க, அய்யரும் “”ஐயோ குரங்கு … பத்திரம்…. பத்திரம்….” என பதட்டத்துடன் ஓடி வந்தார்.

மஹா பெரியவா அவரிடம்,””பயப்படாதீங்கோ…. குரங்கும் பத்திரமா இருக்கு! அதன் கையில் பத்திரமும் பத்திரமாத் தான் இருக்கு” என்று சொல்ல அங்கே ஒரே சிரிப்பு வெடி… அதன் பின், தன் முன் குரங்கு போட்ட பத்திரத்தை எடுத்த மஹா பெரியவா, அய்யரிடம் வழங்கி ஆசியளித்தார். பெரியவா சரணம்.

“குரங்குகள் போன்ற மிருகங்களுக்கு கூட ஒரு discipline இருக்கு! லீடர் குரங்கு சொல்கிறபடி நடக்கின்றன”

பெரியவாள் பக்தர்களுக்கு தரிசனம் கொடுத்துக் கொண்டிருந்தார்கள்.

எதிரே, ஒரு பெரிய மரம். தடினமான குரங்கு ஒன்று வந்து மரத்தில் ஏறியது. பின், இருபது – முப்பது குரங்குகள் அந்த லீடர் குரங்கை தொடர்ந்து மரத்தில் ஏறின.

பெரியவாள், ஒரு கூடை மாம்பழத்தை மரத்தடியில் போட சொன்னார்கள்.

லீடர் குரங்கு என்ன உத்தரவு எப்படி போட்டதோ தெரியவில்லை! ஆனால், மற்ற குரங்குகள் ஒவ்வொன்றாக வந்து பழத்தை எடுத்து கொண்டு மேலே சென்றன. லீடர் குரங்கு மட்டும் ஒரு பழத்தை கூட தொடவில்லை!

பெரியவாள் சொன்னார்கள்:
“குரங்குகள் போன்ற மிருகங்களுக்கு கூட ஒரு discipline இருக்கு! லீடர் குரங்கு சொல்கிறபடி நடக்கின்றன.”

“காட்டில், யானைகளுக்கு ஒரு தலைமை யானை இருக்கும். அந்த லீடர் யானையை follow பண்ணித்தான் மற்ற யானைகள் செல்லும்.”

“ஒரு கட்டெறும்பு செத்துபோனால், மற்ற கட்டெறும்புகள் அதை இழுத்துச் செல்லும்.”

“ஒரு காக்கை இறந்து போனால், மற்ற காக்கைகள் மரத்தில் உட்கார்ந்துகொண்டு துக்கமாய் கதறும்.”

“ஆனால், ஆறறிவு படைத்த மனிதர்கள் தான் குரு சொல்கிறபடி நடப்பதில்லை. என்னை பார்த்து, நீங்களெல்லாம் ஆசார்யாள். பெரியவாள் என்றெல்லாம் சொல்கிறீர்கள். ஆனால், நான் சொல்வதை உங்களால் செய்ய முடிகிறதில்லை!”

கவனமாக கேட்டு கொண்டிருந்த பக்தர்கள், ஒரே குரலாக, “பெரியவா என்ன உத்தரவு போட்டாலும் செய்கிறோம்” என்று பக்தியோடு பதிலளித்தார்கள்.

“சரி, காலையில் இரண்டு நிமிஷம், சாயங்காலம் இரண்டு நிமிஷம், எனக்காக ஒதுக்குங்கள். இருபத்திநான்கு மணி நேரத்தில், நாலு நிமிஷம் தான் கேட்கிறேன்.”

“காலையில், இரண்டு நிமிஷம் “ராம, ராம” என்று சொலுங்கோ; சாயங்காலம் இரண்டு நிமிஷம் “சிவ, சிவ”ன்னு சொலுங்கோ…”

“அப்படியே செய்கிறோம்” என்று சுமார் நூறு பேர்கள் தெரிவித்து கொண்டார்கள்.

அமளி அடங்கியதும், பெரியவாள் அருகிலிருந்த தொண்டர்களிடம், “பத்து பன்னிரண்டு பேர்களாவது, சொன்ன சொல்லை காப்பாத்துவா” என்றார்கள்.

அந்த, யாரோ பத்து பன்னிரண்டு புண்ணியாத்மாக்களை உருவாக்குவதற்காகத்தான், ஆழமான கருத்துடன், அரைமணி lecture!

குரங்கு, காட்டு யானை, கட்டெறும்பு, காக்கை – நமக்கு நல்ல வழிகாட்டிகள்; “ஆச்சார்யர்கள்”.

அவர்களை (அவைகளை) யாவது follow பண்ணலாம் தானே?

ஹர ஹர சங்கர ஜெய ஜெய சங்கர !!
ஹர ஹர சங்கர ஜெய ஜெய சங்கர !!

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Natarajan

 

 

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When you go to a temple, you see the idol, and very soon, your thoughts are with your footwear you left outside at the gate! This simple thought reveals the depth of concentration you have achieved. Unless you take care of every single aspect, you cannot experience the benefits from your spiritual practices (sadhana)! A water-filled-pot with one, a few or many holes is useless for carrying or storing water, isn’t it? Hence, you cannot achieve liberation by merely going to sacred places, or seeing, touching and conversing with great souls. You must put in your full and complete effort to follow the instructions and their directions. Following the path of Radha, Meera, Gouranga and Thukaram, you must feel an inseparable affinity with the Lord, as inseparable as the sea and the wave. Remember, you are really of the same essence, the same taste, the same quality as the sea, though you have the name and form of the wave.

 

Alexander Graham Bell is best remembered for inventing the telephone, but the great Scottish inventor’s interests weren’t limited to just one field. Aside from his priceless contributions in the field of acoustics and telegraphy, Bell is also credited with the invention of the metal detector, the audiometer (an instrument used to detect hearing problems), and a device to locate icebergs. Bell and his associates investigated the possibility of impressing a magnetic field on a physical device as a means of recording sound—the basic principle behind tape recorder and hard disc—but could not develop a workable prototype. Bell also had a great passion for aeronautics.

Bell became obsessed with flight and began studying the possibility of building a kite large and stable enough to carry a man. His first innovation was the box kite, which he built by joining the sides of several triangular kites together to create a box-like structure. Bell realized that by sharing joints and spars, he was able to greatly increase the surface area of his kites with little increase in weight. Then he combined several box-like cells to create large pyramidal structure with three triangular sides and a triangular base. This geometric form, known as a tetrahedral, is one of nature’s most stable structures. Although it looks pretty complicated, tetrahedral kites are very easy to fly.

Bell believed that the future of flight lied in kites and not in airplanes, which the Wright brothers had demonstrated. He was convinced that his tetrahedral cell structure was more stable than the Wright brothers’ machine.

In 1907, Bell collected a group of a young men interested in aviation and established the Aerial Experimental Association (AEA), whose purpose was to build a practical powered airplane. The same year, the AEA built the largest tetrahedral kite, named the Cygnet, meaning “little swan” in French. It was composed of over 3,393 cells, was 40 feet long and weighed 91 kg. It successfully flew carrying a human passenger 168 feet above water when towed behind a steamship. Unfortunately, it crashed and tore to pieces on landing.

In the meantime, Bell’s own colleagues—the other members of the AEA— became more interested in producing conventional aircraft, and subsequently a series of airplanes were designed. One of these planes, named the “June Bug”, won the Scientific American Trophy in an exhibition in 1908. Its pilot, Glenn Curtiss, who would later  establish a large and successful aeronautical manufacturing company, flew 5,360 feet in just under 2 minutes. By the end of that year, the AEA flew over 150 flights without mishap.

The AEA was financed entirely by Alexander Graham Bell’s wife, Mabel Bell. When the funds ran out, the association was disbanded. In less than two years of its existence, the AEA made many innovative contribution to airplane design such as cockpit enclosures and tail rudders. One of Bell’s invention was the aileron, that is now a standard component on all aircraft.

Despite the gradual disinterest in kites and the growing success of the American brothers’ airplanes, Bell made two more massive tetrahedral kites, named Cygnet II, and III, but neither one was successful. His Cygnet III with a 70-horsepower motor was reported to have flown only one foot. Bell eventually abandoned his experiments in 1912.

1904. Bell poses with some of his tetrahedral kites.

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Natarajan

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Broadening your heart and making it bigger and bigger, you should make it as big as God Himself. A balloon, in its initial stage, is tiny. If you go on blowing air into it, it becomes bigger and bigger and later explodes. Though beginning with the ideas of ‘I’ and ‘mine’, if you ultimately move on to the place that, “all are mine and all are one”, gradually you will become broader in your vision, and then you burst and merge into God who is omnipresent. You should recognise the truth that your life should consist of making the journey from the position of ‘I’ to the position of ‘We’. If all the time you simply stay in the place of ‘I’, you will remain where you are. This creation is like the bridge which connects man with God. ‘I’ is one hill. ‘God’ is another hill. The bridge between the two is the aspect of creation. If you break and destroy the bridge, you can never reach the destination. I am hoping that you plunge into society and do service, and thereby use the bridge to reach God.

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Offer the flower of non-violence (ahimsa) to God. We regard ahimsa to mean not to cause harm and hurt to other living beings. The true meaning of ‘Ahimsa’ is to not cause hurt and harm through thoughts, words or deeds. The control of your sense organs is another flower that must be offered to God. Our senses run without any control. If running horses are not controlled, they pose a danger. God has created each organ of the human body for a specific purpose. It is only when we use these sensory organs along the right path for which they have been created will we be entitled to God’s grace. Our inner strength will decrease rapidly with agitation or unnecessary sorrow; body also suffers illness due to mental agitations and distractions. One ages very quickly through excitement and sorrow. The reason for your not preserving this sacred instrument in sound condition is lack of control over these sensory organs. Hence the second flower of sensory control should be used for worshipping God.

In the early 1970s, Russian architect Evgeny Stamo and engineer Alexander Markelov came up with plans for an unusual house in the capital city Moscow. The house was to be shaped like a ring, about 150 meters across, enclosing a large inner courtyard with playgrounds and green spaces. The building was to have over nine hundred apartments, and all the necessary services and facilities, including shops, a pharmacy, a laundry room, a studio, post office, and so on. When completed in 1972, the authorities were so impressed that plans for more such house across Moscow were drawn up.

At that time, the Summer Olympic Games of 1980, which was to be hosted by the Soviet Union, was approaching, and the city decided to build five similar ring-shaped houses to symbolize the event. However, by the time the second ring house went up in 1979, on Dovzhenko street, the project was already shelved. The Soviet Union was on the brink of an economic collapse, and the buildings, it was realized, were too expensive to maintain. They are also bulky and inconvenient.

Besides, the proposed location of the buildings were spaced too far apart to provide any meaningful association with the five Olympic rings. Even if it did, a pedestrian could never see the rings from the street level or appreciate the composition.

Today, both buildings are still used as apartments. Each building has nine floors and over twenty entrances. Some say that finding the right entrance and locating the correct apartment is extremely difficult.

Locals affectionately call them the “bagel house”.

Source….kaushik in http://www.amusingplanet.com

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In temples or homes, you may have seen people breaking coconuts to offer to God. If you try to break the nut just as it fell from the tree, will it break? No! The fibrous outer cover must be removed to first expose the shell. The fibre protects the shell and lets it grow, preventing blows from the environment. Liberation results from breaking the mind filled with vagaries and wishes. But how can you break it when the fibrous armour of sensual desires encompasses it? So, carefully and persistently, remove them and dedicate your mind to God! Smash it open in His presence. At that very moment, you are set free! The toughest fibre is anger; it is indeed the stickiest dirt! When you get angry, you forget everything and quickly descend to the lowest depth. You lose all discrimination during the agitation. Be Aware! Cultivate virtues assiduously. Virtue is your life-breath, character is the backbone.

 

At many places across South Tyrol, in northern Italy, one can see a peculiar geological formation called “earth pyramids”. They consist of tall cone-shaped pillars made of clay, with a boulder resting on top.

These unusual structures started forming from moraine clay soil left behind after the last Ice Age when the glaciers melted away. In dry condition the soil is hard as stone, but as soon as it rains, it turns into a soft muddy mass, starts sliding, and forms large slopes 10 to 15 meters steep. When the rainy season starts, these slopes erode away. But when there are rocks in the mud, the clay soil underneath these rocks stays protected from the rain. So, while the surrounding material is continually carried off with the rain, the protected pillars rise out of the ground to form majestic earth pyramids. It can take hundreds to thousands of years for these pyramids to form.

The pillars continue to erode, but more slowly then the rest of the terrain. At some point in the future, the columns will lose the strength to hold the large rock overhead. Once the boulder falls from the peak, the column will erode away rapidly.

Earth pyramids are unique to South Tyrol, but fairly widespread. The best ones are located on the Ritten, a plateau not far from Bozen in northern Italy. Earth pyramids are also found at Platten near Percha in the Puster Valley.

Source….Kaushik in http://www.amusingplanet.com

Natarajan

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The world around is full of sorrow and strife; you are trying to avoid them and derive a little joy and peace somehow, overlooking the grief and disappointment. Your efforts are like digging a well in a sand heap. The deeper you dig, the faster it caves in, and then, you begin the whole process at a slightly different place! When piles of sensual desires overwhelm you and drag you down to grief, you think of a way out! The only way to get everlasting joy is through Bhakti (devotion); that is the best among the yuktis (the paths dictated by intelligence). That alone gives the shakti (the strength). The seed of devotion grows only in a well-prepared ground. The method of preparation is given in the Vedas. It clearly articulates the code of conduct, the method of living and the ideals to be followed. Adhere to the code of conduct. Even if you have not been able to study the Vedas, listen to the words of those who follow its teachings and have been overcome by the joy of that experience!