You should never undertake to discuss the good and bad in others. If you entertain bad qualities in your mind, it will lead you to a bad path and you will surely fall. People who entertain bad ideas will certainly be destroyed in course of time despite any amount of wealth or knowledge that they may possess. An individual, who endeavours to keep away the bad in oneself and attempts to promote the good, will make real progress. If you use a thousand eyes for locating the faults in others and spend all your time in this process, your heart will get impure and will develop bad ideas. Our heart is like a camera lens. The object on which we concentrate our attention gets imprinted on the mind. Youth and elders alike should try to see that qualities like jealousy, hatred and lack of forbearance never enters their minds.
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Message for the Day…”Need for harmony between our thoughts, words, and action …”
On a platform we parrot words like Truth, Love and Nonviolence, but in our daily life we do not have faith in Truth, we do not practice Non-violence, and we don’t follow the path of Discrimination (buddhi). Young people today must learn to put these values into practice sincerely. Your lives depend upon three things — your words, thoughts, and deeds. Whatever desires you get, you will exhibit them and take them to your mind. For getting a thought, mind is the basis. The thought that comes to your mind will be exposed to the world as words through your mouth. Once you utter words from your mouth and expose the thought that has come to your mind, now to put that into practice, you take action. It is only when there is a harmony between your thoughts, words and action that you will be able to recognise your own true nature.
Message for the Day…” Difference between Selfish and selfish-selfless…”
There are four categories of intelligence — selfish, the selfish-selfless, the purely selfless and Soul (Atma) based. The first category is always thinking of what is good for one’s own self and makes decisions. It is like the intelligence of a crow. This is very common today in the world. The second category will think of one’s own good along with the good of others. This appears as the ordinary way of life. The third, always thinks that others must get the same kind of happiness one wishes for oneself. In that context, realising that the human body is given for the sake of causing benefit to others; this third category of persons will always try to do good to others. The fourth category — the Atma Buddhi is always concerned with the aspect of dharma and the necessity for safeguarding it. They consider themselves as messengers of God; and forgetting their own selfish interests, always think of sacrifice and do good to the rest of the world.
Message for the Day….” “Anyone who claims to keep the body sacred should make an attempt to indulge only in good actions, good thoughts, and good deeds..”.
In the Gita, our body is described as the Kshetra and the Lord who resides in it is called the Kshetragna. Devotees who have a sacred heart and who entertain sacred thoughts go on pilgrimage to sacred places (also called Kshetras). They are undertaking a pilgrimage to such centres only because they believe those places to be sacred. If they are not sacred, there is no need for them to undertake such a pilgrimage at such expense of money and energy. As in this analogy, because the human body is sacred people establish connections between each other. If truly the body of an individual does not undertake a sacred task and lead a sacred life, no one will want to have any relationship with it. Therefore anyone who claims to keep the body sacred should make an attempt to indulge only in good actions, good thoughts, and good deeds.
Message for the Day….” Ways to get elevate oneself to the position of a realised Sage …”
A prescribed quality is exhibited or worn as a cloak by every entity in creation. This quality is also called its dharma. Just as a student in a particular class can be promoted to a higher class by effort, an individual by promoting one’s own natural dharma, and giving attention to something higher and nobler, can earn promotion to a higher level. A piece of iron is worth only a few pennies, but by making suitable changes to it, you produce a watch worth a thousand rupees. Observe here that it is the Samskara, or the change that we give to the substance, that brings the value to it and not the inherent value of the untreated material. Even an ordinary person can get an opportunity to elevate oneself to the position of a realised sage (Paramahamsa), by seeking the company of elevated beings.
Message for the Day…” Significance of sacrifice in one’s life….”
The Vedas advocate us to sacrifice everything, and through sacrifice we would be able to have vision of the Divine within. The creation and its maintenance depends only on sacrifice. If there is no sacrifice, there will be no life, and the society will not remain intact. Even from a worldly perspective, if we do not give out the breath that we take in, we cannot live. If blood is not constantly flowing from one place to another every instant, we cannot live. Unless the clouds give up the water they have gathered, they cannot remain as clouds. That is why it is said, what you cannot get by your knowledge and effort can be got by sacrifice. If we think that something is good and welcome it, some bad too may come in the process. That which gives you happiness when it comes will also cause sorrow when it goes away from you. Whether it is the good or the bad, we have to sacrifice continuously.
Message for the Day….” Being Humane is the natural Quality of a Human being…”
Children without good qualities, education without character building as its objective, and life which has no morality, are purposeless. An individual without peace of mind and the world which has no moon shining in it are similar. Every item of creation in this world has some distinctive feature and a character of its own. If any item gives up this distinctive aspect, it will destroy itself. For example, fire has the ability and quality to burn. Water has the ability to flow. Man has got the quality of human nature, and an animal has the quality of being brutal. When the ability to burn disappears, you cannot call it fire. When the ability to flow disappears, you cannot call it water. Similarly when the inner vision or the basic human nature disappears in an individual, you cannot call him a human being. Being humane is the natural quality of a human being.
படித்து ரசித்த கவிதை …” இவைகளும் குருவாகலாம் …” !!!
இவைகளும் குருவாகலாம்!
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பசிய இலைகள் பழுத்துப் போவதும்
முதிர்ந்த இலைகள் உதிர்ந்து போவதும்
புதிய தளிர்கள் முளைத்து வருவதும்
இயற்கையின் நியதி என்பதைக் காட்டுவதால்
மரம் கூட குருவாகலாம்!
அழுக்கு துணிகளைச் சுமந்து
ஆற்றுக்கு போவதில் வருத்தமுமில்லை
வெளுத்த துணிகளைச் சுமந்து
வீட்டுக்கு வருவதால் மகிழ்ச்சியுமில்லை
கடமையைச் செய்வதில் மட்டும்
கவனம் காட்டுவதால்
கழுதை கூட குருவாகலாம்!
வேண்டுதல் வேண்டாமை இல்லாமல்
வெறுப்பு, விருப்பு காட்டாமல்
ஆளுக்கு ஏற்றார்போல் ஆட்டம் போடாமல்
தன்முன் நிற்பவரின் தன்மையை
அப்படியே காட்டும் நேர்மையால்
கண்ணாடி கூட குருவாகலாம்!
எரியும் ஒளி விளக்கை
எப்படி சாய்த்தாலும்
கவிழ்த்தாலும்
ஒளிச்சுடர் மட்டும்
உயரப் பார்த்தே எரியும்
உன்னத லட்சியத்தை சொல்வதால்
விளக்கு கூட குருவாகலாம்!
தன்னைக் கரைத்து
சுற்றி இருப்பவர்களுக்கு
உன்னத ஒளி தந்து
ஒப்பற்ற தியாகம் செய்வதால்
மெழுகுவர்த்தி கூட குருவாகலாம்!
காற்றின் அலைக்கழிப்பில்
கலைந்து போனாலும்
மீண்டும் மீண்டும் முயற்சி செய்து
வலை பின்னும் கலையினால்
சிலந்தி கூட குருவாகலாம்!
உற்றுக் கவனிக்கிற
உயர்ந்த குணம் இருந்தால்
கற்றுக் கொள்ள நிறைய உண்டு
பெற்றுக் கொள்ள உங்களுக்கு
பிரியமுண்டா சொல்லுங்கள்!
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— இளசை சுந்தரம், மதுரை. in http://www.dinamalar.com
Natarajan
Message for the Day…” Our Culture teaches that one must never lose Hope …”
Bharatiyas lead lives of hope. The Bharatiya culture teaches that one must never lose hope. To suffer from lack of faith and to lose hope is not only losing all the strength within, but it also amounts to demeaning the human birth. Utsaham (Enthusiasm) and Shraddha(earnestness and interest) are things which will show the way for the progress of man. Every individual having such Utsaham andShraddha is sure to achieve success and attain glory in any kind of work undertaken. It is also said that one who possesses thisShraddha will attain wisdom too (Shraddhavan Labhate Jnanam). So we should make an attempt to go through the journey of our life with interest and enthusiasm.
Never Forget the Intrinsic value of Grandparents to their Grandchildren…!!!
I’ve always had a strong bond with my grandchildren, but I didn’t quite realize just how valuable that bond really is – particularly to them – until I came across a body of research that has observed the causes and effects of the beautiful relationships between grandparents and their grandchildren.
While the love of a parent for their child is something that cannot be eclipsed, a grandparent’s love is likely to be just as strong, yet different. For instance, a grandparent does not have to deal with the daily pressure of parenting, thus the bond that they forge with a grandchild is both very close and very strong. Read on to learn more about the significance of these relationships:
The New Study
Researchers at Brigham Young University in the US examined the role of grandparents in child development. The research sample consisted of 408 fifth-graders, who were asked a series of questions about the relationship they have with their grandparents. Examples of the questions included whether they sought important advice from their grandparents when they needed it, or whether they felt comfortable discussing important problems with them. The same questions were posed to the fifth-graders one year after the initial question and answer sessions.
One of the conclusions that the study came to was that the emotional relationship between grandparents and their grandchildren had a significant impact on their academic, psychological and social development. Participating children who had grandparents that were highly-engaged in their lives were found to be more sociable, engaged at school and showed more compassion and kindness than those who didn’t have a close relationship with their grandparents.
Another conclusion arrived at by the researchers was that children with more affectionate grandparents tended to have a higher level of self-confidence, which had a long-term positive impact on their lives.
Demographic considerations were shown to have little significance in the study. Strong grandparent-grandchild relationships were found regardless of whether the child lived in a single or two-parent household. Income differences were also shown to have a negligible impact on the strength of the relationships. In fact, grandparents that lived in separate households to their grandchildren were found to have the best relationship of all.
Furthermore, the researchers were emboldened enough by the study’s findings to propose that grandparent-grandchild relationships are even more important than parent-child relationships. This is because children having regular contact with their grandparents meant that they were more likely to have developed the ability to think beyond themselves, and their immediate circumstances.
Grandparents as Protectors – A Specific Example
A particular instance in which the value of a strong grandparent-grandchild relationship can be observed is when the grandchild or grandchildren are exposed to high-risk situations, such as experiencing poverty or going through a traumatic family event.
An article published in the University of Florida’s Family, Youth and Consumer Sciences newsletter back in 2007, explored the impact of the grandparent-grandchild relationship on the negative effects that maternal depression can have on a child.
Depressed mothers and behaviors associated with being in that state were found to inhibit cognitive development in their children, especially with regard to teenagers. Furthermore, school-aged children and teenagers were shown as far more likely to be depressed as adults.
A further study in this specific subject area, conducted by Silverstein & Ruiz and published in Family Relations in 2006, found that children who had strong grandparent-grandchild relationships in their lives were less likely to suffer the ill effects of having a depressed mother once they reached adulthood. This is a clear indication of the positive effects that a strong grandparent-grandchild relationship can have on a child that’s going through a difficult time at home.
Never Forget: The Intrinsic Value of Grandparents to Their Grandchildren
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Natarajan
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