” இந்த பொன்னாடையால் என்ன பயன் ? “

காஞ்சி முனிவரின் ஜெயந்தி விழா நடந்து கொண்டிருந்தது அயோத்யா மண்டபத்தில்.

ரொம்பப் பிரமாதமாகவும் உருக்கமாகவும் பேசினார் அந்தப் பிரமுகர். கேட்டுக் கொண்டிருந்த அத்தனை பேருக்கும் வியப்பு.

பரமாச்சார்யார் மேல் இவருக்கு இத்தனை மதிப்பா ?!

அவருக்குப் பொன்னாடை போர்த்த வந்தபோது, “இந்தப் பொன்னாடையால் என்ன பயன் ? பெரியவரின் ‘தெய்வத்தின் குரல்‘ நூலை அன்பளிப்பாக அளித்தால் எவ்வளவோ உபயோகம் அல்லவா ?” என்று கூறினார்.

இதைக் கேட்ட இன்னொரு வி.ஐ.பி. நெகிழ்ந்து போய், தனிப்பட்ட முறையில் ‘தெய்வத்தின் குரல்‘ ஆறு பாகங்களையும் வாங்கி அவருக்கு அனுப்பி வைத்தார்!

அனுப்பியவர் பத்மா சுப்பிரமணியம்.

யாருக்குத் தெரியுமா ?

அப்துஸ் சமது!

source:::::www.periva.proboards.com

natarajan

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God on IVRS Call !!! …. Just For Laugh !!!!

What will happen when Gods have Computer!!!! !!!!!!

Over the past several years, we have all learned to live with IVRS – ‘Inter-active Voice Response System’ as a necessary part of modern life.. I was just wondering what would happen if God decides to go hi-tech and installs voicemail? I gave it a lot of thought and came up with various scenarios:

Let us imagine a scenario. You dialled God’s number.

‘Hi! Thank you for calling God. Please select one of the following:

If you are Christian, dial 1
All Hindus, dial 2
All Muslims, dial 3
All others, dial 0.’

So, lets say you are a Hindu and you dialled 2. Here is what you hear:

Press 1 for Requests
Press 2 for Thank you messages for God
Press 3 for Complaints about unfulfilled promises
Press 4 for All other inquiries.
If your prayers are still not answered, dial ‘0’ and ask for Naradmuni.’

Or, if all Gods were busy, you might hear this:

‘We are sorry, all our Gods are busy helping other Bhaktas and Sinners.
However, your prayer is important to us and will be answered in the order it was received.
Please stay on line. One of the Gods will be with you soon.’

Or, it could even go this way when you start praying:

‘If you know your God’s extension, dial it now.’

Or, you might hear this:

‘If you would like to speak to Ganeshji, Press 1.
For Lord Hanuman, Press 2.
For Lord Krishna, Press 3.
To confess your sins, press 4.
To ask for favours, Press 5.’

Or, you might even hear this:

‘You have reached Lord Krishna’s extension. I am going to be away to conduct a special yuddha to save the humanity and will be away until the year 2015 . If this is something urgent and cannot wait until then, call Shankara at GB +44 779000020000 Call. If you want to speak to someone else, for other gods’ directory, Press 6 now.’

Or you might even hear something like this if you call toward the end of your life cycle:

‘If you think you have reservations at our Heavenly Resort, please provide your name, social security number and be ready to provide the proof of your eligibility. If you do not have the proof of eligibility, please dial 420-HELL and ask for General Manager Asura , who will be happy to help you.’

Or, depending on the purpose of your call, you might hear this:

‘If you are calling to find out if a loved one has been assigned to Heaven, Press 5, enter his or her ‘mantra’ number, then press the 0 key. If you get a negative response, try area code 420-HELL.’

For all you know in this day and age of quotas and all, you might even get a response like this:

‘Our computer records show that you have already prayed once today. Please hang up and try again tomorrow.’

Or you might even here this if you call on the wrong day:

‘This Main Office of Heaven is closed for DIWALI holidays. If this is an emergency, you may try our Himalayan Retreat in the mean time by dialling 6000-31,000. ‘

source :::::input from a friend of mine

natarajan

Message For The Day…God Is Love …HE Can be Seen only thro Love !!!

In the dark night, the Moon can be seen through its own light only. The Lord is all Love, so He can be seen only through Love. He is Sathyam and Nithyam (Truth and Eternal), and is beyond all falsehood (Mithya). When the dust settles upon the glass of the lantern, it dims its light. Attachment to sensual objects and to the pleasure they give (Vyamoha) is the soot that dims the light of love in your heart. Remove the delusion and the fact that you have become old or diseased, or that you are weak and debilitated. Do not count the years and grieve over advancing age and shudder like cowards afraid of death. Remember, despondency is hell, elation is heaven. Have always some work to do and do it so well that it grants you joy!

 

Sathya Sai Baba

In India …Outside India …Perceptions Vary !!!

Relatives- and their perceptions

Relation

In India

Outside India

Mother-in-law

A woman capable of making your life miserable.

A woman you never fight with, because where else you will find such a dedicated baby sitter for free ?

Husband

A boring human species, who listens more to his mother than you, and orders you around to serve him, his parents and siblings.

Still boring, but now a useful human species that comes in handy when the house needs to be vacuumed.

Friend

A person whose house you can drop into any time of the day or night and you’ll always be welcome.

A person whom you have to call first to check and make sure he is not busy.

Wife

A woman who gives you your underwear and towel when you go to take a shower.

A woman who yells at you not to leave tub dirty when you go to take bath.

Son

A teenager, who without asking will carry your grocery bags from the market.

A teenager, who suddenly remembers he has lot of homework when you start mowing the lawn.

Daughter

A lovely doll, who brings tears to your eyes during her marriage.

A lovely doll, who brings you to tears long before her marriage.

Father

A person you are afraid of, and who is never to be disobeyed .

A person to whom you pretend to obey, after all he is the one paying your college tuition.

Indian Engineer

A person with a respectable job and earning lots.

A person without a secure job, who always dreams one day he will be rich.

Doctor

A respectable person with OK income.

A money making machine, who has a money spending machine at home called ‘doctor’s wife’.

Bhangra

A vigorous Punjabi festival dance.

A dance you do, when you don’t know how to dance.

Software Engineer

A high-tech guy, always speaks in American accent, always anxious to queue in the consulate visa line.

The same hi-tech guy, who does Ganapati Puja everyday, and says ‘This is my last year in the US (or whenever)’every year.

A Green Card holder bachelor

the guy can’t speak Hindi, parents of good looking girls are dying to hook him, wears jacket in summer, says he has a BMW back there.

the guy can’t speak proper English, wears jacket all the time, works in a Candy store at Manhattan, dreams of owning a BMW

 

source:::::unknown….input from a friend of mine

natarajan

When Telegrams Saved Lives …

Telegrams are usually associated with the dreaded death messages. But in Madurai, telegrams had also saved lives.

“I could not recall the year exactly. A death convict was about to be taken to the gallows in the Central prison here. But his death sentence was reduced in the last moment and the verdict was sent through a telegram. We rushed to the prison and handed over the message to prison authorities saving the life of the prisoner,” said S Mayandi, a telegram messenger.

“Not only that. We were the vital link during disasters like cyclones. Alert messages and flood warning were sent through telegrams till telephone was introduced. During the cyclone in 1964 at Dhanushkodi telegrams were the primary tool of communication,” recalled Nammalvar, who retired in 2001 as chief telegraph master.

Nammalvar says that they used to get weather reports from Kodaikanal observatory and send them to Chennai regularly based on which disaster management plans would be devised. “I remember even many journalists sending their reports to their offices through telegram,” he said.

Mayandi said that they used to deliver up to 500 telegrams everyday between 1980 and 1990, the peak period in telegram usage in Madurai. “During wedding season we would even get 1,000 telegrams,” he recalls. Besides death and “keep body” messages informing to postpone cremation till a close relative arrives, messages on child births, transfers, extension of leave were also sent. “We used to cycle for miles in the dark of night to deliver the messages,” says Pandian, a telegraphist. “Money was also transferred through telegrams,” he added.

“The ‘kat kada’ sound of the morse code machine used to reverberate round-the-clock in the telegraph office until teleprinters came. Sending messages using morse code is itself a great skill,” said M Periayasamy. He said that they had to undergo an eight month-long course to learn the code.

Even as the employees reminisce the past, there seems to be a sense of melancholy as the days of telegraph has come to an end. “Telegraph is a service. Government should not look at it as a business venture and shut it down as there is no profit,” sais S Sooryan, district secretary of BSNL Employees Union.

source::::::Times of India

natarajan

R I P….Dear Telegram ….

The 163-year old telegram service in the country — the harbinger of good and bad news for generations of Indians — is dead.

Once the fastest means of communication for millions of people, the humble telegram was on Sunday buried without any requiem but for the promise of preserving the last telegram as a museum piece.

Nudged out by technology — SMS, emails, mobile phones — the iconic service gradually faded into oblivion with less and less people taking recourse to it.

Started in 1850 on an experimental basis between Kolkata and DiamondHarbour, it was opened for use by the British East India Company the following year.

In 1854, the service was made available to the public.

It was such an important mode of communication in those days that revolutionaries fighting for the country’s independence used to cut the telegram lines to stop the British from communicating.

Old timers recall that receiving a telegram would be an event itself and the messages were normally opened with a sense of trepidation as people feared for the welfare of their near and dear ones.

For jawans and armed forces seeking leave or waiting for transfer or joining reports, it was a quick and handy mode of communication.

Lawyers vouched for the telegrams as they were registered under the Indian Evidence Act and known for their credibility when presented in court.


Bollywood was not to be left behind and immortalised the service with many sudden turns in films being announced by the advent of the taar.

Pockets of rural India still use the service but with the advent of technology and newer means of communication , the Telegram found itself edged out.

“The service will start at 8 am and close by 9 pm on Sunday  JULY 14 night,” BSNL CMD R K Upadhyay told PTI.

“The service will not be available from Monday.”   JULY 15

State-run telecom firm BSNL had decided to discontinue telegrams following a huge shortfall in revenue.

The service generated about Rs 75 lakh annually, compared with the cost of over Rs 100 crore to run and manage it.

Telecom and IT Minister Kapil Sibal had said last month that

“We will bid it a very warm farewell and may be the last telegram sent should be a museum piece. That’s the way in which we can bid it a warm farewell.”

There are about 75 telegram centres in the country, with less than 1,000 employees to manage them.

BSNL will absorb these employees and deploy them to manage mobile services, landline telephony and broadband services.

source:::::rediff.com

natarajan

 


 

 

 

 

Message For The Day….”You Must Care More for the Cleanliness of Your Mind…”

A thirsty passenger asked the water carrier at an up-country railway station in India whether the leather bag in which they were serving water was clean. The reply the passenger received was, “As regards cleanliness, all I can say is that the bag which contains the water is cleaner than the bag which takes it in!” This statement conveys an important lesson. You must care more for the cleanliness of your mind and intellect than that of the external body. Instead of criticising others and finding fault with the actions of others, subject yourself to vigilant scrutiny. Understand your motives and actions in a deep manner and invest time in correcting your own faults. Do not be like the dancer who blamed the drummer for the wrong steps.
– Divine Discourse, Aug 19, 1964

 

Sathya Sai Baba

Message For The Day….Never Condemn Yourself As Inferior ….

The whole world is very agitated and full of discontent, anxiety and fear; filled with petty faction and hatred. In order to calm and silence it, you must have enthusiasm and courage. When defeat and disappointment stare you in the face, you must not give way to weakness or despondency. Never condemn yourself as inferior or useless. Analyze the defeat and find out the reasons in order to avoid it the next time. You are not zeroes, you must become Heroes! You should have the muscles of iron and nerves of steel. Then your resolution itself will generate the necessary confidence and you will win over the opposition. For the crop of life, courage and confidence are the best pesticides and manure. Be like lions in the spiritual field, rule over the forest of senses and roam fearlessly with full faith in victory.

 

Sathya Sai Baba