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Remembering Dr.Balamurali Krishna
Sri Balamurali Krishna gave his first public concert when he was hardly eight. Before he was 15, he had composed songs in all the 72, sampoorna melakartha ragas. This continued uninterruptedly and now to his credit numerous compositions, which include varnams, kritis, Javalis, devotional songs and tillanas.
Right Job at the Right place at the Right Time in he Right manner is called Discipline.
Have a place for every thing and
Have every thing in its place is Place Discipline.
Have a time for every thing and
Have every thing in its timings is Time Discipline.
—- Dr.K.Subramanyam.
Purity in Action
The good external help confers is wordly gain;
by action good men every needed gift obtain.
From action evermore itself restrain,
of glory and of good that yeilds no gain.
Who tell themselves that nobler things shall yet be won,
All deeds that dim the light of glory must they shun.
Though troubles press,no shameful deed they do,
Whose eyes the ever-during vision view.
Do nought that soul repenting must deplore,
if thou hast sinned, tis well if thou dost sin no more.
—- Thiruvalluvar
–Translation by REV. G.U.pope.
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but it is greatness.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
That Some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
PLEASE WAIT
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. Please wait. All great achievements require time.
MEDICINE – PRESCRIBED BY THIRUVALLUVAR –
English Translation REV. G.U.Pope
As any one prevail or fail, twill cause disease.
2. No need of medicine to heal your body’s pain,
if, what you ate before digested well, you eat again.
3. Who has a body gained may long the gift retain,
if, food digested well, in measure due he eat again.
4. Knowing the food digested well, when hungry prompteth thee,
With constant care, the viands choose that well agree.
5. With self-denial take the well-selected meal;
so shall try frame no sudden sickness feel.
6. On modest temperance as pleasures pure.
So pain attends the greedy epicure.
7. Who largely fees, nor measure of the fire within maintains.
That thoughtless man shall feel unmeasured pains.
8. Disease, its cause, what may abate the ill;
Let each examine these, then use his skill.
9. The habitudes of patient and disease, the crises of the ill;
These must the learned leech think over well, then use his skill.
10. For patient, leech and remedies, and him who waits by patient’s side.
The art of medicine must fourfold code of laws provide.
| Veeramanunivar – Birth date: 8th November
Born at Castiglione in the Venetian Republic, 8th November 1680 He entered the Society of Jesus in 1698 nearly forty years of apostolic life proving himself a worthy successor of the founder of the Mandura Mission, the celebrated Roberto de’ Nobili. he is better known as one of the classical writers of Tamil literature. No sooner had he arrived in India than he began the study of Sanskrit, Telugu, and especially of Tamil. he mastered the Tamil grammar in five years, and for the next twenty years made so thorough a study of the whole field of Tamil literature. He composed a grammar of High Tamil, and was the first to write a grammar of Low Tamil (the common dialect) which still remains the foundation of scientific Tamil philology. He is also the compiler of several Tamil dictionaries, among them the quadruple lexicon containing words, synonyms, categories of words, and rhymes; a Tamil-Latin and Latin-Tamil-Portuguese dictionary. His greatest poetical work is the “Tembavani” (The Unfading Garland), one of the Tamil classics. In a poem of 1100 stanzas, “Kittêri ammalle saritiram” he sings the praises of the martyr St. Quiteria In 1744, he was rector of the mission of Manapar, where he died (1746). His memory lives to this day in the form of his works especially Tembavani in Southern India. |
TO REMOVE OBSTACLES IN THE WAY OF PROGRESS
The practice of Yoga is the commitment to become established in the state of freedom. The practice of Yoga will be firmly rooted when it is maintained consistently and with dedication over a long period.
Freedom is that sate of consciousness which is beyond the influence of desire.
Supreme freedom is that complete liberation from the world of change which comes of knowing the unbounded SELF.
The Settled mind is known as SAMADHI.
After the repeated experience of the settling and ceasing of mental activity, comes another Samadhi.
It can also come from complete surrender to the ALMIGHTY LORD.
NOW WHO IS LORD?
The Lord is a unique being who exists beyond all suffering, unblemished by action. HE is free from both its cause and its effects.
In HIM lies the finest seed of all knowledge.
Being beyond Time, HE is the Teacher of even the most ancient tradition of teachers.
He is expressed through the sound of the sacred syllable OM.
OM should be repeated and its essence realized. Then the mind will turn inwards and the obstacles which stand in the way of progress will disappear.
THIRU MURUGA KRIPANANDA VARIYAR SWAMIGAL MUKTI DATE: (7.11.1993)
Thiru Muruga Kirupananda Variyar, was born at Kangeyanallur, a small village on the bank of river Palar.
When he was three years old, his father started teaching him the basic lessons of language, literature and spirituality. When he reached the age of eight he started composing and singing. Kripananda Variyar became well versed in Tevaram, Thirupugazh, Thiru Arutpa, Kanda Puranam, Kamba Ramayanan, Villi Bharatam and knew more than 10,000 songs by heart.
He was endowed with good memory power and he recalled events from Purana with remarkable ease.
Variyar Swamigal had studied the doctrine of Saiva Siddantham in detail and lived a like a Saivite Saint. He was an erudite Scholar and an eloquent speaker. When he spoke, words just flowed freely like Holy River Ganga and people appreciated the pearly of wisdom that emanated from his discourse.
Once, a person asked Variyar, “Why should we worship God?” “Even animals live by eating and breeding their race,” Variyar replied. Man is endowed with the power of discrimination. He should elevate himself high, live as a perfect human, rendering help to all the needy and attaining the divine status.
In November 1993, he returned by a flight bound for Bombay and from there to Madras. Unfortunately, by the time his flight reached Madras, Variyar Swamigal had attained the lotus feet of Lord Muruga on 7th November 1993.
Thiru Muruga Kripananda Variyar is present everywhere in the form of various books on Thiruppugazh he has written.
Vetri Vel Muruganukku Haraharohara.
Uruvai aruvai uladhai ilathai……… varuvai guhane……….
Yoga described the Ultimate Reality as the twofold aspects of Purusha, the Self and the Prakriti, the world of matter, inert and insentient.
The conjuction of Purusha and Prakriti, of spirit and matter creates individuality and multiplicity. The creative process by which the world comes into being is the evolution and involution of Prakriti.
Patanjali’s eightfold path of raja yoga :
Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence.
When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded consciousness.
Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind.
There are five types of mental activity. they may or may not cause suffering.
They are:
Now let know each one clearly:
These five types of mental activity are settled through the practice of yoga and the freedom it bestows.
