“சொல்லு !!!ராமா ராமா …சிவ சிவா “….

Source: Email message  from Smt Prema Subramaniam  in….www.perivaa.proboards.com
natarajan
ஆந்த்ராவைச் சேர்ந்த ஒரு சம்ஸ்க்ருத பண்டிட் ஒருவர் பெரியவாளை தர்சனம் பண்ண தஞ்சாவூர் அருகில் ஒரு கிராமத்துக்குப் போனபோது, சந்த்ரமௌலீஸ்வரர் சன்னிதியில் தீப நமஸ்காரம் நடந்து கொண்டிருந்தது. அது முடிந்ததும் அங்கு வந்திருந்த மாணவர்களைப் பார்த்து,

“எல்லாரும் ராம,ராமா…சிவ, சிவா…ன்னு சொல்லுங்கோ!” என்று சொல்லிவிட்டு குறிப்பாக ஒரு பையனைப் பார்த்து,

“சொல்லு! ராம,ராமா….சிவ சிவா!” என்றார். பையன் விழித்தான்! பக்கத்தில் இருந்தவர் பெரியவாளிடம்,

“பெரியவா….அவன் ஊமை…பொறவிலேர்ந்தே !…”

“அதுனால என்ன? அவன் சொல்லட்டும்…சொல்லுடா கொழந்தே! ராம,ராமா…சிவ சிவா….” என்று பரம பாக்யம் செய்த அந்த குழந்தைக்கு பெரியவா திருவாக்கால் நாமோபதேசம் வந்ததும்……

“ராம,ராமா…..சிவ சிவா…..” பிறவி ஊமை அழகாக பகவானின் நாமத்தை சொன்னது!

அதைக்கண்ட சம்ஸ்க்ருத பண்டிதர் “எந்த மஹானை வர்ணிக்க வார்த்தைகளே கிடையாதோ, எந்த மஹானைக் கண்டதும் பிறவி ஊமை பேசும் சக்தியைப் பெறுகிறானோ, அந்த சந்த்ரிகா மௌளீயான என் குருநாதனை நமஸ்கரிக்கிறேன்” என்ற அழகாகப் பொருள்படும் ஸ்லோகத்தை சம்ஸ்க்ருதத்தில் தக்ஷணமே கல்பித்துப் பாடினார். அதுதான் முதன்முதலாக அவர் மனஸில் ஸ்புரித்த ஸ்லோகமாம்!
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“குரு” என்ற ஈரெழுத்து “ராம” நாமத்துக்கு சரி நிகர் சமானம்.குரு என்றால் இருளைப் போக்குபவர் என்ற அர்த்தமெல்லாம் ஒரு பக்கம் இருக்கட்டும். ஆனால் ஆழ்ந்து பார்த்தால், கு, ரு என்ற இரண்டெழுத்துமே எழுதும் போதே மேலே இடது பக்கம் ஆரம்பித்து, வலமாக சுழித்து, கடைசியில் ஆரம்பித்த மேல் ஸ்தானத்துக்கே சென்று முடியும். இது ‘குரு’ என்ற மிக உன்னதமான சொல்லுக்கு தமிழ் செய்த நமஸ்காரம்.

சத்குருவின் திருவடிகளை சிந்திப்பவர், அவ்வளவு ஏன்? சத்குருவின் கடாக்ஷத்தில் விழுந்தவர்கள் மேன்மையைத்தான் அடைவர் என்று உணர்த்துகிறது.

அதே போல், சத்குருவானவர், தன்னுடைய உயர்ந்த ஸ்தானத்திலிருந்து [ஆத்மஸ்வரூபம்] இறங்கி, பொய், புரட்டைத் தவிர எதுவும் தெரியாத அல்லது தெரிந்தும் அலக்ஷியமாக கண்டதே காட்சி, கொண்டதே கோலம் என்று கெக்கே பெக்கே என்று அலையும் நம்மை மாதிரி ஜீவன்களை [ஈ, எறும்பும் இதில் அடங்கும்] யானை தன் தும்பிக்கையால் வழிப்பது போல், ஒரே வழியாக வழித்து, வாரி சுருட்டி எடுத்துக் கொண்டு போய், மேலே தன் ஸ்வரூபத்தில் சேர்த்துக் கொண்டு விடுவார். அல்லது அல்லாக்காகத் தூக்கி பகவானின் சரணத்தில் போட்டு விடுவார். யாருக்கு எப்படித் தோன்றுகிறதோ அப்படி எடுத்துக் கொள்ளலாம். உண்மையில் குருவே தெய்வம்; இதில் நம்முடைய அடம், அஹம்பாவம் எதுவுமே செல்லுபடியாகாது. ஒழுங்காக ஒத்துழைத்தால் [அவர் சொன்னபடி நடந்தால்] நம்முடையது உண்மையான ஸுகஜீவனம்; இல்லாவிட்டாலும் அவர் எப்படியும் நம்மை சுருட்டி இழுத்துக் கொண்டுதான் போகப்போகிறார். அடம் பிடித்தால், நமக்குத்தான் படு கஷ்டம்.

நமக்கு கீழ்வாலக்கமாகப் போகும் குர..ங்கு என்ற வார்த்தை மிகவும் பொருந்தும். கு என்ற எழுத்துக்கு அப்புறம் இரண்டாவது எழுத்தாக ரு அல்லது ர….எதில் சேரப்போகிறோம் நாம்?

“காமாலைக் கண்ணுக்கு காண்பதெல்லாம் மஞ்சள்” என்று சொல்லுவார்கள். நமக்கும் “குரு காமாலை” பீடித்து காண்பதெல்லாம் நம் சத்குருவாகத் தெரிந்துணர நம் குருநாதரை வேண்டித் தொழுவோம்.

Jaya Jaya Shankara, Hara Hara Shankara !

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Evergreen Quotes and Fine Five Facts !!!!

Quotable Quotes ….
1. In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
— John Adams
2. If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do
read the newspaper you are misinformed.
— Mark Twain
3. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of
Congress. But then I repeat myself.
— Mark Twain
4. I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. –Winston Churchill
5. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on
the support of Paul.
— George Bernard Shaw
6. A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man,
which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
— G. Gordon Liddy
7. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
–James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
8. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor
people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
— Douglas Case, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University .
9. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey
and car keys to teenage boys.
— P.J. O’Rourke, Civil Libertarian
10. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody
endeavours to live at the expense of everybody else.
— Frederic Bastiat, French economist(1801-1850)
11. Government’s view of the economy could be summed up
in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps
moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
–Ronald Reagan (1986)
12. I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the
facts. — Will Rogers
13. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you
see what it costs when it’s free!
— P. J. O’Rourke
14. In general, the art of government consists of taking as much
money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to
the other.
–Voltaire (1764)
15. Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean
politics won’t take an interest in you!
— Pericles (430 B.C.)
16. No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the
legislature is in session.
— Mark Twain (1866)
17. Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.
— Anonymous
18. The government is like a baby’s alimentary canal, with a happy
appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
— Ronald Reagan
19. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the
blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing
of misery.
— Winston Churchill
20. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that
the taxidermist leaves the skin.
— Mark Twain
21. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is
to fill the world with fools.
— Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
22. There is no distinctly Native American criminal class, save
Congress.
— Mark Twain
23. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians
–Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
24. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is
strong enough to take everything you have.
— Thomas Jefferson
25. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public
office.
— Aesop
Fine  Five  Facts !!!!
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the
wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the
government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to
work, because the other half is going to take care of them, and
when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work
because somebody else is going to get what they work for,
that is the beginning of the end of any nation!

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

natarajan

 

Amazing Images Of Animal World !!!

Melbourne Zoo's Bolivian squirrel monkey Rodrigo was snapped peering through the lens as his sibling Cruz struck a pose

Melbourne Zoo’s Bolivian squirrel monkey Rodrigo was snapped peering through the lens as his sibling Cruz struck a posePicture: David Caird/Newspix/Rex Features

 

Wildlife photographer Simone Sbaraglia managed to get this close up of an inquisitive lemur on the island of Madagascar

Wildlife photographer Simone Sbaraglia managed to get this close up of an inquisitive lemur on the island of Madagascar

 

Capuchin monkey, Mally, formerly owned by Canadian singer Justin Bieber, plays in his new home the Serengeti-Park in Hodenhagen, northern Germany. The German customs authority confiscated the monkey in March 2013 when Justin Bieber arrived at the Munich airport.

Capuchin monkey, Mally, formerly owned by Canadian singer Justin Bieber, plays in his new home the Serengeti-Park in Hodenhagen, northern Germany. The German customs authority confiscated the monkey in March 2013 when Justin Bieber arrived at the Munich airport.

Cygnets swim next to their mother in Stockholm, Sweden

Cygnets swim next to their mother in Stockholm, Sweden

 

A great crested grebe takes care of his newly hatched chicks in Sihwa Lake in Ansan, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

A great crested grebe takes care of his newly hatched chicks in Sihwa Lake in Ansan, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

 

A mother bear walks with her young cubs in the wilds of Kainuu, Finland

A mother bear walks with her young cubs in the wilds of Kainuu, Finland

 

Tapir calf takes first swim, ZSL London Zoo, London

A tapir calf takes its first swim at London Zoo

 

Nico, the seven week old snow leopard cub, looks up at news photographers in a room at, Tulsa Zoo, Oklahoma

Nico, the seven week old snow leopard cub, looks up at news photographers in his enclosure at Tulsa Zoo, Oklahoma

 

A pair of raccoon babies clinging to a tree in the Rocky Mountains, Montana

A pair of raccoon babies clinging to a tree in the Rocky Mountains, Montana

 

Pictures of the day: 27 June 2013

Dudley Zoo has been showing off the first snow leopard born in 12 years. The Eight-week-old cub has been delighting visitors with its playful antics in the internal den with mother Nanga Since its birth on 2nd May.

 

A vet tends to one of the giant panda twins born to a panda named Haizi at the Wolong Nature Reserve in China's southwest Sichuan province.  They are the first pair of the endangered species to be born in the world this year conservation workers told state media.

A vet tends to one of the giant panda twins born to a panda named Haizi at the Wolong Nature Reserve in China’s southwest Sichuan province. They are the first pair of the endangered species to be born in the world this year conservation workers told state media.

 

new baby rhinoceros hangs out in the barn with his mother, Jeta, at the Montgomery Zoo on June 24, 2013 in Montgomery, Alabama

The new baby rhinoceros hangs out in its enclosure with his mother, Jeta, at the Montgomery Zoo in Montgomery, Alabama

 

A damselfly manages to hitch a ride on a fish - saving energy before shedding its skin and flying off in a river in Indonesia

A damselfly manages to hitch a ride on a fish – saving energy before shedding its skin and flying off in a river in Indonesia

 

shock the giant bird. A group of baby ducklings were swimming with their mother - who thought the huge heron was sailing just a little too close to her babies. The mallard's reaction sparked a quick brawl between the two birds which resulted in the heron trying to spear the mother duck with its beak. Christopher Schlaf travelled to his local lake near his home in Romeo, Michigan, US, and had to be quick to capture this unique moment.

A great blue heron gets into a flap when an angry female mallard trys to protect her ducklings from the big bird in Romeo, Michigan,  

Photographer Bradley Oliver took this photo of a bald eagle catching a fish in Juneau, Alaska just as a seal was about to catch the same fish

Photographer Bradley Oliver took this photo of a bald eagle catching a fish in Juneau, Alaska just as a seal was about to catch the same fish

 

A gorilla at Longleat Safari Park

A gorilla at Longleat Safari Park

 

source::::: The Telegraph UK

natarajan

 

” Cost Cutting ….A Novel Idea ” !!! Will it Work !!!!

A private Indian airline has decided to recruit only female flight attendants in future as its aircraft will burn less fuel carrying them than their heavier male counterparts.

Airbus A320 GoAir

India’s GoAir plans to save fuel by hiring only female flight attendants.

The low cost carrier Go Air maintains that deploying air hostesses, who on average weigh 33-44 lbs less than male stewards, will help it save around Rs30 million ($499,000) per year in fuel costs.

Airline official’s estimate that every extra kilogram (2.2lbs) a commercial aircraft carries costs it an additional Rs3 per flight hour.

Alternatively, an overall reduction in weight results in savings.

“We are looking at all possible ways of cost-cutting to remain profitable” Go Air Chief Executive Officer Giorgio De Roni told the Times of India.

A sharp decline in the value of the Indian rupee-that has dropped 27 per cent against the US dollar since July 2012-had so far cost the airline an additional Rs300 million (£3.33 million), he added.

Operating 15 aircraft, Go Air employs 330 cabin crew members of which 132 are males.

Although none of the cabin stewards will be sacked, all forthcoming recruitment for the 80 additional aircraft Go Air plans on inducting by 2020 will be stewardesses.

Mr Roni told the Times that his airline was constantly engaged in reducing the weight its aircraft carried.

The size of in-flight magazines, for instance, had been reduced and aircraft water tanks were no longer filled to capacity as less than half their volume was normally utilised by passengers.

 

SOURCE:::businessinsider.com

natarajan  …..  Shortly we may expect Few more cost cutting measures such as  Fixing of weight of   Pax too  for allowing them to travel in the low cost airlines !!!!

natarajan

“The Moment A Tiny Leopard Cub Hugged Its Mother ” !!!

Pulling wild faces was just enough for this baby leopard cutie to scare away a pack of ruthless jackals.

Travelling the wilds of the African bush this little leopard family of a mum and two cubs ran into a SPOT of bother in the shape of greedy jackals looking for their next meal.

Mum managed to grab one of her cubs in her mouth leaving its brave but pint-sized sibling to fend for itself while she carried the cub to safety.

But with striking blue eyes and a fierce display of big-cat prowess its mother would be proud of the little lone leopard was able to keep the cowardly jackals at bay until help could arrive – in the shape of one angry mother. The cubs were re-united by mum and they carried on their journey.

Photographers Michel and Christine Denis-Huot, from France, captured the heart-warming moment while travelling through the Masai Mara wildlife reserve in Kenya

Fun times: The leopard cubs had been playing happily before the jackals arrived  Fun times: The leopard cubs had been playing happily before the jackals arrived
The leopard cubs had been playing happily before the jackals arrived

Moving on: But the family were forced to move on when a pair of jackals started paying the tiny cubs too much attention

Moving on: But the family were forced to move on when a pair of jackals started paying the tiny cubs too much attention 

Help: The mother carries one of her cubs as it was struggling to keep up the pace
Help: The mother carries one of her cubs as it was struggling to keep up the pace 

‘We were following a leopard mother with her two young cubs,’ said Christine, 60.

‘The cubs were so cute playing with each other as well as with their mother.

‘As soon as she began to walk the jackals were following her.

‘She managed to take one of the cubs in her mouth and the other one was walking.

‘Sadly the last cub was tired and had to stop in the long grass.

Tracking: The jackals don't let the leopards out of their sight as the mother tries to take her cubs to safety
Tracking: The jackals don’t let the leopards out of their sight as the mother tries to take her cubs to safety

 

Hiding: Unable to keep with the pace, the cub not being carried by it's mother stops to rest and hide int eh long grass, but it's steely blue eyes give it away

Hiding: Unable to keep with the pace, the cub not being carried by it’s mother stops to rest and hide int eh long grass, but it’s steely blue eyes give it away

Confrontation: It's not long before one of the jackals spots the tired cub

Confrontation: It’s not long before one of the jackals spots the tired cub

‘The jackals stopped too and became more and more aggressive.

‘The cub had to fend them off by making as much noise as possible and look aggressive.’

The scene lasted about three minutes before the cub eventually escaped.

Leopards are one of the top predators of the Masai  Mara

Surrounded: The tiny leopard cub makes as much noise as he can showing his tiny teeth at the predators

Surrounded: The tiny leopard cub makes as much noise as he can showing his tiny teeth at the predators

Brave: Even at such a young age the little leopard confronts the jackal and tries to scare it off

Brave: Even at such a young age the little leopard confronts the jackal and tries to scare it off

 

Fearless: The little lone leopard was able to keep the jackals at bay until help from its mother eventually arrived
Fearless: The little lone leopard was able to keep the jackals at bay until help from its mother eventually arrived 

Safe at last: once the lone cub was rescued by its mother the family unit was reunited and could relax again at last
Safe at last: once the lone cub was rescued by its mother the family unit was reunited and could relax again at last 

Heart-stopping: This is the moment a tiny leopard cub hugged it's mother after escaping a scary solo encounter with two hungry jackals
Heart-stopping: This is the moment a tiny leopard cub hugged it’s mother after escaping a scary solo encounter with two hungry jackal!!!!
source:::::mailonline.com UK
natarajan

Images of The Week from BBC ….

SupermoonThe Moon reached its perigee, the closest it gets to Earth during its orbit Here it rises next to the ancient Greek temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion

 

The return capsule of the Shenzhou-10 spacecraft lands in the Inner Mongolia region, completing China’s longest manned space mission.

 

 

Newly hatchedAn Indian cobra hatchling emerges from an egg on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar.

 

Dream homeArgentine artist Leandro Erlich has created an apparently gravity-defying house in a street in east London. Spoiler alert: it works using mirrors.

 

Funny medicineMedical clown David Barashi (DuSH the clown) helps a child receiving care as part of the Dream doctors project at the Hadasa hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.

 

Smoke signalsA woman walks through haze as a forest fire burns in Riau Province, Indonesia. The Sumatra fires have caused record smog levels in Malaysia and Singapore.

 

Moon danceLet’s end with another “supermoon” picture, this one rising behind the Washington Monument.

 

source::::bbc.com

natarajan