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கொலு சிறக்க…….

October 11, 2015Natarajan1 Comment

அம்பாளுக்கு உரிய ஒன்பது சிறப்பு நாட்கள், நவராத்திரி. இந்நாட்களில், அம்பாளை பிரார்த்தனை செய்தால் கிடைக்கும் பலன் போன்று, வேறு எப்போது பிரார்த்தனை செய்தாலும் கிட்டாது. கலை, பொருள் மற்றும் சக்தியின் அம்சமான அம்பாளை, இந்த ஒன்பது நாட்களும் பிரார்த்தனை, பாராயணம் செய்தால், மேற்கூறிய பலன்களையும் நமக்கு நல்குவாள். உலகில் உயிர் வாழ, இந்த சக்திகளும் இன்றியமையாதவை. வரும் நவராத்திரி கொலுவை வித்தியாசமாக கொண்டாட சில, ‘டிப்ஸ்’ இதோ…
* கொலு ஷாப்பிங் செல்பவர்கள், புத்தக கடைகளுக்கு சென்று, ‘ராமகிருஷ்ண பரமஹம்சரின் பொன்மொழிகள், விவேகானந்தர், ரமண மகரிஷி மற்றும் காஞ்சி பெரியவரின் உபதேசங்கள், ‘வாழ்வில் சிறக்க’ மற்றும் ‘மனஅமைதி பெற என்ன செய்யலாம்’ இப்படி பல குட்டி புத்தகங்கள் பத்து ரூபாய்க்கு கிடைக்கின்றன. இவற்றை கொலுவிற்கு வருவோருக்கு தரலாம். 50 ரூபாய் பிளவுஸ் பிட்டில் கிடைக்கும் திருப்தி, இப்புத்தகத்திலும் கிடைக்கும்.
* குழந்தைகளுக்கு நம் நாட்டு கலாசாரம், பண்பாடு மற்றும் இதிகாச புராணங்களை தெரிய வைக்க, நவராத்திரி பண்டிகை நல்ல சந்தர்ப்பம். கொலுவில், ராமாயணம் மற்றும் மகாபாரத கதைகளின் முக்கிய நிகழ்வுகளை, ‘தீமாக’ அமைக்கலாம். அத்துடன், ஹாரிபார்ட்டர் கதைகள் மற்றும் டோரா புஜ்ஜி போன்றவற்றை கூட அமைக்கலாம். இது, பழமைக்கும், புதுமைக்கும் பாலம் அமைத்து, இந்த நவராத்திரியை களை கட்ட வைக்கும்.
* உங்கள் பிள்ளைகளை, கரும் பலகையில், நவராத்திரி பற்றிய விஷயங்களை தினம் ஒன்று எழுதச் சொல்லி, கொலுவில் வைக்கலாம். நவராத்திரி கலச தத்துவம், நவராத்திரி நாயகியரின் நாமங்கள், ஸ்ரீசக்ரம் பற்றிய விளக்கம், அபிராமி அந்தாதி என, அம்பிகையை பற்றிய விஷயங்கள் அனைவரையும் கவரும்.
* நவராத்திரியின்,ஒன்பது நாட்களிலும், ஏழைகளுக்கு அன்னதானம் செய்து, பெண்களுக்கும், குழந்தைகளுக்கும் தாம்பூலம் மற்றும் இனிப்புகள் வழங்கி உற்றார், உறவினர்களுடன் உணவருந்தி மகிழலாம்; உறவுகளுக்குள் நல்ல இணக்கம் ஏற்படும்.
* குழந்தைகளுக்கு, ‘க்விஸ்’ போட்டிகள் வைத்து, அவர்களுக்கு பயன்படும் கலர் பென்சில், ஸ்கேல், பென்சில் பாக்ஸ் போன்றவற்றை பரிசளிக்கலாம். குழந்தைகள் குதூகலமாகக் கலந்து கொள்வர்; அவர்களது தயக்கமும் மறையும்.
* நவராத்திரியில் பிளவுஸ் பிட் கொடுப்பது விசேஷம் தான். ஆனால், அது, அதிகம் பயன்படாமல் கை மாறிக் கொண்டே இருக்கும். அதனால், சுமங்கலிகளுக்கு நவதான்ய பிள்ளையார், குபேர விளக்கு, மூங்கில் பூக்கூடை போன்றவற்றை கொடுக்கலாம்.

* கொலு பார்க்க வருவோருக்கு தாம்பூலத்துடன் ஒரு பூந்தொட்டியை தந்து, ‘பூமி வெப்பமடைவதை தடுக்க, வீட்டுக்கு ஒரு மரம் வளர்ப்போம்; முடியாதவர்கள் இந்த பூச்செடியையாவது வளர்ப்போம்…’ என்று சொல்லி, இயற்கையை வாழ்விப்போம்.
* ஒரு நாளும் எந்த கொலுவையும், மற்றவர் வீட்டு கொலுவோடு ஒப்பிட்டு பேசாதீர்கள். சின்ன கொலுவாக இருந்தாலும், அதில், ஏதாவது ஒரு சிறப்பம்சம் இருக்கும். அதை சிலாகித்து பேசுங்களேன். ஆக்கபூர்வமாக உங்களுக்கு ஏதாவது யோசனை தோன்றினால், புதிதாக கொலு வைக்கும் இளசுகளுக்கு இதமாக சொல்லுங்கள்.
கொலு வைக்கும் பழக்கமில்லாதவர்கள் இந்நாளில் தோழிகள் மற்றும் உறவினர்களை அழைத்து, வெற்றிலை, பாக்கு கொடுக்கலாம்.

Source….www.dinamalar.com

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Message for the Day…” Understand who Could be dearest and nearest to HIM …”

October 10, 2015NatarajanLeave a comment

One important verse in the Gita (Ch 12 Verse 20) states: Those who revere the dharmic way to immortality, and completely engage themselves making Me as their ultimate goal with all faith, are exceedingly dear to Me. What a grand idea this verse conveys! The Lord has clearly declared therein that those who have these qualities, that is, those who trust Him as the only ultimate goal and are attached to Him single-mindedly — they are dearest and nearest to Him. Note the expression, ‘righteous way to immortality’ (dharmya-amritham)used here. Ponder over it and draw inspiration from it. The nectar of the Lord’s grace is deserved only by those who adhere to the Lord’sdharma. Simple folks believe they have devotion toward the Lord, but they do not pause to inquire whether the Lord has love towards them. People who pine to discover the Lord’s love are rather rare. That is really the true measure of spiritual success.

Sathya Sai Baba

Once a Daily Wage Earner, Sanjay Latthe Receives Prestigious Award for Research on Nanoparticles …

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From being a daily wage earner, to winning a distinguished grant for his research project – this is Sanjay Latthe, the man who never let financial constraints come in the way of his education.

30-year-old Sanjay Latthe was once a daily wage earner in his hometown Sangola, located in Solapur district of Maharashtra. Today, has been selected for the prestigious INSPIRE award by the Centre’s Department of Science and Technology.

As part of the award, Sanjay will receive a Rs. 35 lakh research grant and a monthly stipend of Rs. 80,000, to take his research project forward.

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According to the department’s website, “Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) is an innovative programme sponsored and managed by the Department of Science & Technology for attraction of talent to science. The basic objective of INSPIRE is to communicate to the youth of the country the excitements of creative pursuit of science, attract talent to the study of science at an early age and thus build the required critical human resource pool for strengthening and expanding the Science & Technology system and R&D base.” The program includes students in the age group 10-32 years.

An alumnus of Shivaji University in Kolhapur, Sanjay has been granted the award for his research on optically-transparent and durable nanoparticles. He has been working on this research project for the past 8 years.

“It can achieve a breakthrough in the way we interact with basic things. For example, we have automobiles with wipers on their windshields. However, if we are able to use nano-particle coating on the glass, it will become water repellent and we will not need wipers. If iron objects receive super-hydrophobic coatings, they will not rust at all,” said Sanjay while explaining his project to The Times of India.

As of now, he is working on increasing the durability of the nanoparticle coating. While he has achieved durability of 30-50 days, he is aiming for permanent durability, for which more research is required. Sanjay has published 44 international research papers on this topic, and has also presented it at 15 research seminars across the world.

After losing his father at a very young age, Sanjay and his family – his mother, two elder sisters and one elder brother, had to work hard to make ends meet. Having very few sources of income, everyone in the family had to earn. His mother used to do some embroidery work. But Sanjay never let monetary constraints come in the way of his education.

He joined SUK in 2005 for his MSc, and in 2007 he also enrolled for a Ph.D. After this he got a chance to work as a post-doctoral research fellow in Istanbul, Turkey, and a research professor at Korea University in South Korea. He is currently working as an assistant professor at the department of technology in Savitribai Phule Pune University. –

Source….Tanaya Singh…www.thebetterindia.com

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Meet 18 Year old Raman…The world’s Youngest Chartered Accountant…!!!

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Ramkumar Raman, an 18-year-old Indian boy from Dubai, became the youngest CA in the world to be affiliated with ACCA. He completed the tough course in just three years and now wants to pursue an MBA.

While most students start their degree courses at the age of 18, this young boy not only finished his Chartered Accountant course, but also became the youngest CA in the world.

Meet Ramkumar Raman, the 18-year-old Indian boy from The Indian High School in Dubai.

Raman has been recognised by Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), the global professional accounting body in the Gulf, as the youngest affiliate ever registered with them.

Raman, who is originally from Chennai, India, started his CA education in December 2012 and finished the course in three years in June 2015 by clearing 14 papers in the first attempt in Dubai. Initially, he decided to study for ACCA because he wanted to gain more knowledge in the field of accounting and finance. But he did not know that he would end up clearing it so fast.

According to Khaliji Times, Raman, hailing from a family of chartered accountants, used to get up at 6:00 am every day to study – even on holidays!

And to make sure his luck follows him to the examination hall, this superstitious boy wore the same shirt, pant, vest, socks and shoes and ate the same type of curries and rice, with potatoes, on all exam days.

Raman managed his CA studies along with his school and college studies. He usually took an average of 3.5 months to study for each exam which is held every June and December.

Many students fail to clear this hard-to-crack exam even after repetitive attempts, but Raman managed to pass all of his papers in the first attempt itself. He will now be working for three years as a CA to become a full-fledged ACCA member.

The London-headquartered ACCA has over 1,78,000 members and 4,55,000 students in 180 countries. While most of the ACCA candidates only start their journeys at 18 years of age, Raman has shown exceptional performance in the field.

He wants to obtain an MBA degree from the US, and eventually wants to follow a career in the field of investment banking.

All pics: Raman Facebook

Source…..Shreya Pareek….www.thebetterindia.com

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11 Common Beliefs About Food That Are Actually Not True….

October 10, 2015October 10, 2015Natarajan1 Comment

Let’s face it – we are all foodies. Some of you are complete gluttons, like me, and some might keep what they eat in check, but we all love to eat. Then again, none of us like any added problems like, obesity or cholesterol that come with eating (overeating, in my case), right!

That is the reason why we often vow to eat healthy, and try to follow certain diets that celebrities apparently follow, to get in shape. What we fail to realize is that more often than not, we end up believing in myths circulated by companies trying to sell stuff or know-it-all self-claimed diet experts. Take these 11 myths about food for example, that I used to think were true, until now.

1. Artificial sweeteners are better than sugar

Not really. Though using artificial sweetener can decrease the calorie intake and help with your weight control, on the other hand, it might contribute to diabetes and other health troubles!

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2. You need to eat meat to get enough protein

Nature is rich in nutrients, luckily, and you can very well get your required amount of protein without having to eat meat. Quinoa, avocado, peas etc are also quite rich in proteins.

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3. Fats are bad for you

Actually, some fats are essential for health, like monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats, along with omega-3 fatty acids; these are normally found in nuts, seeds, olive oil, etc. They protect us from heart diseases and cancer.

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4. Fresh vegetables are more nutritious than frozen ones

Rather than ‘fresh’ vegetable kept for long, frozen vegetables are generally frozen when they are their most fresh, with most of the nutrition value remaining intact!

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5. Fried food is always too fatty

Though fried food is always considered one of the biggest culprits creating heart troubles and such, they are kind of wrongly accused. The health risk often depends on the kind of oil used, and how fried the stuff is, along with what stuff is being fried; just because it’s fried, doesn’t mean it’s bad.

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6. All saturated fats increase cholesterol

Nope. In fact, polyunsaturated fats, generally found in corn oil or sunflower oil, help to reduce harmful LDL cholesterol, and improve the cholesterol profile of our body.

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7. Eating eggs is not exactly excellent for your health

On the contrary, eggs are rich in several nutrients like betaine and choline that contribute towards keeping your heart healthy. Eggs are also a great source of healthy proteins.

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8. Added sugar is always bad for health

No way. We need sugar to function properly, as it supplies ready energy to fuel our muscles, and also helps to keep our brains active. Though I wouldn’t suggest you to binge on sugar, a little bit of it won’t hurt, really.

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9. Organic food has better nutrition value

There is not much extra health benefit of organic food over conventional food, a team of Stanford scientists have found after an extensive study.

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10. Carbohydrates are fattening

Carbs are not always your worst nightmare, despite all the diets asking you to cut it down. Rather, cutting carbs down can affect your metabolism, increase stress hormones, and decrease thyroid function.

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11. Calories we eat at night stick to our body more than when taken during the day

Your weight gain depends on the amount of calorie you are taking in, not on when you are taking it in.

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Folks, don’t just give in to excessive advertisements or slimming diets claiming to thin you down in a few days. Eat well, live well.

Source…. Anwesha Maiti…www.storypick.com

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Finding Indian food in ‘alien’ land….

October 9, 2015NatarajanLeave a comment

Long vacations in the UK, US and south-east Asia no longer involve the culinary nightmares of 20 years ago for Indian tourists. When they tire of bland local fare, there’s no dearth of Indian restaurants, run by the vast Indian diaspora and reasonably authentic, to get a taste of home.

The news, though, is that these destinations are becoming passé. Increasingly, it’s to countries in Indo-China, the Balkans, West Asia (the parts that are still peaceful, that is) and South America to which rich and upper middle-class Indians are heading to spend the generous forex allowance the Indian government now permits.

But as a Vietnamese restaurateur once told me, “Indians no eat all foods; velly big ploblem”. True enough, Indians with their many particularities of diet can find mealtimes a chore in many countries off the regular tourist beat. Yet where many Indians go boldly, can Indian restaurants be far behind?
As the listing here shows, there are Indian options available in cities from Dubrovnik to Peru for tourists who are so inclined. The names can be misleading, however: Oh Calcutta in Auckland, an award-winning restaurant, bears no resemblance to the well-known Bengali restaurant chain in India.

The restaurant, run by a chef called Meena Anand, has the standard north Indian/Mughlai fare. This, sadly, is true of almost all the menus on offer — the infinite varieties of the Indian sub-continent are largely absent. In Luang Prabang, the stunning UN heritage town in Laos, Nisha restaurant will give you an authentic dhaba experience: it offers, among other things, aloo ghobi, aloo mutter, “Dhal Fry” and rotis. It could be a comforting break from a bewildering local menu that may contain: dog, frog and, yes, even beef!

A gourmet itinerary

Vietnam

Mumtaz Restaurant

Ho Chi Minh City

Foodshop 45

Hanoi

Laos

Nisha Restaurant

Luang Prabang

Taj Mahal Restaurant

Vientiane

Cambodia

Dosa Corner

Phnom Penh

Taste Budz

Phnom Penh

Samsara

Siem Reap

Croatia

Royal Indian Restaurant

Zagreb

Incredible India Cuisine

Dubrovnik

Iran

Taj Mahal

Tehran

Jordan

Tandoori Oven

Amman

Peru

Guru Kebab & Curry

Lima

Brazil

Taj Bar

Iguasu

Gopala Hari

Sao Paulo

Veggie Govinda

Rio

Mexico

El Tandoor

Mexico City

New Zealand

Oh Calcutta

Auckland

Chilis Bistro and Tandoor

Wellington

Maharaja Indian Restaurant

Christchurch

The Spice Room

Christchurch

China

Masala Art

Shanghai

Punjabi Indian Restaurant

Beijing

South Africa

Royal Punjab

Johannesburg

Bukhara

Cape Town

Portugal

Passage to India

Lisbon

Data courtesy: Ashish Chadha, group managing partner, Leisure Ways, New Delhi

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Message for the Day….” What is the True Divine Offering …’ ?

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How amazing is this! You can get sacrifices of the highest order performed by yourself or through scholars versed in Vedic ritual. You can visit and praise the holiness of diverse shrines and inspire others to journey thereto. Similarly you can master the highest scriptures and teach them to many and make them experts. But how many of you have succeeded in mastering your own bodies, senses and wayward minds, and turned them inward to gain perpetual and unchanging equanimity? You embark upon an undertaking with a purpose, goal, or an end in view. But the endeavour is sublimated into a yajna (sacrificial rite) only if the purpose, goal or end is the glorification of God. God is the yajna,for He is the Goal. His grace is the reward. His creation is used to propitiate Him; He is the performer as well as the receiver. Every act, where the ego of the doer does not surface, becomes a Divine offering.

Sathya Sai Baba

Meet This Man who had an opportunity to own Rs 10 Million …Yet He Denied it …

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Read why Sudhakaran, who barely earns Rs.10,000 every month working hard in his small shop, once gave away the opportunity to pocket Rs. 1 crore. Not only this, he also once found a gold chain in a train which he returned to the police. Know more about the amazing man who has restored our faith in humanity.

Today was a specially blessed day for me—I met a truly blessed man this morning. I first heard about him some months ago, and when I recently discovered that he worked in the town where I’ve been staying for the last month or so, I decided I just had to meet him.

45 year-old K. Sudhakaran runs a little shop, selling sweets, juice, cold-drinks and lottery tickets, in a market in Kanhangad, a town in northern Kerala. This soft-spoken, unassuming man shot into the news last year when he did something truly remarkable. One morning, P. Ashokan, a regular customer of his, called him up and asked him to set aside ten lottery tickets for him. Later that day, Sudharakan learned that one of those tickets had won the first prize—a whopping ten million rupees!

Sudhakaran rang up his father at once. “Call up Ashokan right away and give him the news!” his father told him. Sudhakaran did as his father instructed. Ashokan could hardly believe his ears when he learnt what had happened!

Ashokan had not paid for the tickets. Nor had Sudhakaran told him the ticket numbers. And so, Sudhakaran didn’t have to tell him that one of the tickets that he had set aside for him had won the bumper prize. He could easily have pocketed the money had he wanted to—that wouldn’t have been considered illegal. Had he wished, he could have bagged the ten million rupee prize for himself.

What was it, I asked Sudhakaran, that had led him to choose the course that he did.

Lottery tickets for sale.

“My father always told me that if you need to, you can even beg, but you must never snatch other people’s rights,” he replied.

Did he at all hesitate to call Ashokan? Did he think twice about what his father had told him to do? Was he, at least for a moment, tempted to claim the money for himself?

“No, not at all! I knew that what my father had said was perfectly right,” Sudhakaran said as he drew out a passport-size picture of his father from a note-book and handed it to me to see. “My parents taught me to be honest, to do what is right, to consider everyone, rich and poor, as equal,” he continued. “My mother and all my other relatives were all very happy with what I had done. They all said that I had done the right thing.”

A couple of months ago, Sudhakaran was back in the news—and for a similar reason. He had found a gold chain while travelling in a train and handed it to the police, who managed to trace its owner!

Sudhakaran’s little shop—which he’s taken on rent—is the sole means of livelihood for his family of six, including a daughter who is physically-challenged. Sudhakaran manages to earn around Rs. 10,000 a month from it, and it’s demanding work. He is up every morning, at around 4:30, and takes the train from his village to Kanhangad—a journey of more than two hours each way. He works seven days a week, taking a day off only once in a while.

This man could have been a millionaire had he not listened to his heart and his father and kept the prize-winning lottery ticket for himself instead. But he has no regrets at all about his decision. “I know what I did was just what I should have,” he says unhesitatingly.

“Try to do as much good as possible and to refrain from doing bad—that way, you can lead a happy, meaningful life,” Sudhakaran tells me as he hands me a lemonade and gets back to work.

I slowly sip the lemonade as I watch this amazing man dealing with his customers. I’ve never seen anyone like him before. I know I am truly blessed to have met him—and I’m sure you agree!

– Roshan Shah

Source….www.the betterindia.com

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Daddy’s Little Girl Interrupts Military Ceremony to Welcome Him Home…..

October 9, 2015October 9, 2015NatarajanLeave a comment

Screengrab taken from video posted on Facebook by KKTV 11 News

Military protocol be damned, this two-year-old hasn’t seen her daddy in a long time and isn’t going to wait a second longer to give him a proper welcome.

In a video that’s now touching a million hearts, little Karis Oglesby, dressed in an ensemble inspired by the US flag with sparkling gold boots to match, can be seen darting towards her dad Lt Daniel Ogelsby at the formal homecoming ceremony in Fort Carson, Colorado. With outstretched arms (and not a care in the world), she rushes to daddy to give him a warm hug. Cue in the aaawwws now…

Lt Ogelsby was among 300 Fort Carson soldiers who were welcomed back home after a nine-month deployment in the Middle East, according to The Gazette. US military protocol dictates that homecoming soldiers have to be given a formal welcome by their commander. After that they are allowed to meet their families.

“She was excited. She spotted me from a couple rows back and she couldn’t contain herself. I wasn’t gonna tell her no,” the happy father told KKTV 11 News.

Luckily for us, the adorable moment was captured on camera for posterity.

Source….www.ndtv.com

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மனிதனை உயர்த்தும் கொலுப் படிகள்….

October 9, 2015NatarajanLeave a comment

நவராத்திரிப் பண்டிகை என்று ஒன்பது நாட்களைக் குறிக்கும் இப்பண்டிகையைக் கொலுப் பண்டிகை என்ற பெயரிலும் பொருத்தமாக அழைப்பது இப்பண்டிகைக்கே உள்ள தனிச்சிறப்பு.

நவராத்திரி பண்டிகையின் நோக்கமே இக, பர வாழ்வின் உயர்வுதான். அந்த உயர்வினைப் படிகள் மூலம் விளக்குவதே கொலுவின் முக்கிய அம்சம். இந்தப் படிகள் ஒன்று, மூன்று, ஐந்து, ஏழு, ஒன்பது என ஒன்றைப்படையில் அமைந்திருக்க வேண்டும். அவரவர் இடம், பொருள் ஆகியவற்றின் வசதியைப் பொறுத்து இந்த எண்ணிக்கைகளில் படிகளைத் தேர்ந்தெடுத்துக்கொள்ளலாம். ஆனால் பொம்மைகளின் வைப்பு முறையில் இயன்றவரை ஒன்பது படிக்கான முறையைப் பின்பற்ற வேண்டும்.

உயிரினங்கள் ஓருயிரி முதல் ஆறறிவு மனிதன்வரை வளர்ச்சி அடைவதையே இவை நினைவுபடுத்துகின்றன. பின்னர் மனிதன் தன் எண்ணம், செயல்களால் மேலும் உயர்ந்து இறை நிலையை அடைய வேண்டும் என்பதையும் நினைவுறுத்துகின்றன. இதற்காக சக்தியின் அம்சங்களை எண்ணிப் பூஜித்தால் வாழ்வின் அனைத்து வளங்களையும் பெறலாம் என்பது ஐதிகம்.

நவராத்திரி கொலுவின் கதை

மகாராஜா சுரதா, எதிரிகளை வெல்வதற்குத் தனது குருவான சுமதாவிடம் ஆலோசனை கேட்டார். அதன்படி சுத்தமான ஆற்று மணலைக் கொண்டு காளிரூபத்தைச் சிலையாக வடிக்கிறான். அதை அலங்காரம் செய்து உண்ணா நோன்பிருந்து மனமுருக வேண்டுகிறான். காளி அவனது பூஜையால் மகிழ்வுற்று அம்மன்னனின் பகைவர்களை அழித்து ஒரு புது யுகத்தினை உருவாக்கி அளிக்கிறாள். தன் ரூபத்தை மண்ணால் செய்து பூஜித்தால் சகல சுகங்களும், செளபாக்கியங்களும் பெறலாம் என்று அம்பிகையான தேவி அருளுகிறாள்.

தேவி மகாத்மியம்

ஆதிபராசக்தியான தேவி அசுரர்களை அழித்து தேவர்களையும், பாபங்களை அழித்து மனிதர்களையும் காப்பவள். இவள் கொண்டிருக்கும் ரூபங்கள் மூன்று: தடைகளை நீக்கும் துர்க்கை, ஐஸ்வர்யங்களை அருளும் லஷ்மி, கல்வியையும், ஞானத்தையும் அருளும் சரஸ்வதி.

அசுரர்கள் தேவர்களுக்குத் துன்பம் இழைக்கும் வழக்கத்தைக் கொண்டவர்கள். அவர்கள் வரம் கேட்கும்பொழுதே, பெண்கள் வலிமையற்றவர்கள் என்று நினைத்து, தாங்கள் எந்த ஆணாலும் கொல்லப்படக் கூடாது என்றே வரம் கேட்பார்கள். அதுபோன்ற வரங்களைக் கேட்ட அசுரர்கள் சண்டமுண்டன், ரக்த பீஜன், சும்ப நிசும்பன், மகிஷாசுரன். இவர்களை தேவி அழித்த நிகழ்வுகளே தேவி பாகவதம்.

முப்பத்து முக்கோடி தேவர்களும் தங்கள் சக்தியினைத் திரட்டி அம்பாள் போர் புரியச் செல்லும்பொழுது உதவுகிறார்கள். சக்தி அனைத்தையும் கொடுத்துவிட்டதால், பொம்மை போல் ஆகிவிடுகிறார்கள். அதுவே கொலு என்ற ஐதீகமும் உண்டு.

ஓரறிவு உயிர்களான புல், செடி, கொடி போன்ற தாவரங்களின் பொம்மைகளைப் படி ஒன்றில் வைக்க வேண்டும். இது தவிரப் பொதுவாகக் கொலு வைக்கும் இல்லங்களில் பூங்கா அமைப்பது உண்டு.

ஈரறிவு கொண்ட நத்தை, சங்கு போன்ற பொம்மைகள். அந்தக் காலத்தில் திண்ணைகளில் அமர்ந்து சோழி உருட்டி விளையாடுவது வழக்கம். இந்தச் சோழிகளையும், சோழிகளால் செய்யப்பட்ட பொம்மைகளையும் இந்தப் படியில் வைக்கலாம்.

மூன்றறிவு உயிர்களான கரையான், எறும்பு, சிறு பூச்சிகள், மண் புழு ஆகியவற்றின் பொம்மைகள்.

நான்கறிவு உயிர்களை விளக்கும் நண்டு, வண்டு, பட்டாம்பூச்சி ஆகியவற்றின் பொம்மைகள்.

ஐந்தறிவு உள்ள மிருகங்கள், பறவைகள் ஆகியவற்றின் பொம்மைகளை அழகுற வைக்கலாம்.

ஆறறிவு மனிதர்களின் பொம்மைகளை வைக்க வேண்டும். சாதனையாளர்கள், உலகத் தலைவர்கள் ஆகியவற்றை வைத்தால், இல்லத்திற்கு வரும் விருந்தாளிகள் அச்சிலையில் உள்ளவர்களின் சாதனைகளை நினைவுகூர முடியும்.

மனித நிலையிலிருந்து உயர்நிலையை அடைந்த சித்தர்கள், ரிஷிகள், மகரிஷிகள் ராமகிருஷ்ண பரமஹம்சர், விவேகானந்தர், ரமணர், வள்ளலார் முதலானோரின் பொம்மைகளை வைக்க வேண்டும்.

தேவர்கள், அஷ்டதிக் பாலர்கள், நவக்கிரக அதிபதிகள், இந்திரன், சந்திரன் ஆகிய தெய்வ உருவங்களை மண் பொம்மைகளாக வைக்கலாம்.

பிரம்மா, விஷ்ணு, சிவன் ஆகியோரின் சிலையுடன் அவ்வவர்களின் தேவியருடன் அமைந்திருக்குமாறு இந்த மேல் உச்சிப்படியில் வைக்க வேண்டும். இவற்றின் நடுவில் ஆதி பராசக்தி இருக்குமாறு அமைக்க வேண்டும்.

Source….விக்னேஷ் ஜி….www.tamil.thehindu.com

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