Emotions

The flowers wither when its time The sun disappears in the horizon People known bid goodbye Objects held dearly deteriorate What then sustains This thing called life A burden to carry Alive yet dying The questions pour forth Creating a turbulence in my mind Disturbed I faint and accept madness Overcome by these torrent of thoughts Suddenly the flowers bloom within As the spirit brightens the mind People populate with love And play with the objects that arise Ye mind! You are a wonder Constantly changing and playful Your games I see now Wonderstruck I bow down and pray May this realization last forever Asato ma sat gamaya Tamaso ma jyotir gamaya Mrtyor ma amritam gamaya Om Shanthi Shanthi Shanthihi

Live in the world! Seems such a paradox as my only aspiration so far in this life has been to leave this world and go to a better place. Live in this moment! Well, as always I have wanted a better moment with conditions of my choice around me. These 2 statements I have always heard but have not given enough heed. Maybe this is the time this is the place. And this is the happiness knowing fully well that this is my potential. I am limited in all ways. I am not perfect. I am not good. I also understand then that there is something that is. And that is the Universe. Continuously living, breathing and taking all the beatings(in my frail understanding) the Universe is what it is with me in it. And I am a part of that Universe whether I like it or not. SO how could I be imperfect if I am part of this Universe. Something then is wrong with my understanding as I am a part of this beautiful Universe. I Invoke Thee mighty Universe, show me the role I play as a part of You. I submit myself to the...

Suddenly in a flash I realized that I have been looking at Rama and Krishna as super Gods. With astras and divine powers they could surmount all challenges and be the Gods that they always were ... But this is a latter view. Our Ramayana and Mahabharatha are called Itihaasa - As They Happened and the little I know about these voluminous books was that neither book look at these personalities as Gods ... Rama was pushed away from His throne to lose His wife and roam around for Her. Close to death several times He overcame His troubles ... Even at the instance of His fight with Raavan He is over come with doubt as to killing Raavan and has to be taught by Sage Agastya to focus on His energies for the fight. Even before going with Vishwamitra Rama had to be coached by Sage Vasishta on the principles of Truth to dispel the self doubt of Ram. Krishna on the other hand though aware of the Truth did not have a cake walk. He was constanlty on the run in His childhood and had to fight hard from...

Fool am I to search for You You who I thought were outside In the temples in the places holy In places of worship Fool am I to think I can.. I can.. I could .. What illusion How can I.. Where can I Oh what a joke I have been Slowly but steadily oh Lord Slowly in my reference slowly You have draged this fool All the way to Yourself Oh Lord my world has withdrawn My thoughts have withdrawn My foolishness so far has become apparent Oh Lord I am mad in Your Love Oh Lord You have been my father My Mother My brother sister My All Oh Lord You have been me All along Oh Lord You have been me Your Love Oh Bhagavan has withstood This foolishness of mine As I wretchedly searched for You In the gutters of my senses Oh Lord You have made me withdraw. In Your presemce I dwell now Your Light now ebbs out of every pore Of my being, a mad obssessed lowly lover of Thine Oh Lord Your presence is now clear to me Your beauty today flows through my mind Constantly questioning my habits Calling them to merge ...

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha Aakaashaval-lepavidooragoham aadityavad-bhaasya- vilakshanoham . Ahaaryavan-nitya- vinishchaloham ambhodivat paara-vivarjitoham .. (From Adi Sankara's Vivekachoodamani) "Like space, I can never be tainted by anything. Like sun (which reveals all objects but is revealed by its own brilliance), I am distinct from the things illumined (I shine in my own luster). Like mountain, I am ever unshakable. Like the ocean, I am unbounded." THIS IS YOUR DIMENSION! The other dimensions are those of your body which your mother delivered. The body is yours, it is not you! With this Soul-dimension, you can sink, sink and sink – into the unfathomable depth within, or you can expand, expand and expand – encountering, receiving, assimilating and outliving anything coming from the wide world. All external inputs, in the form of interactions with places, persons or situations, will bring nourishment for growth of your mind and intelligence...

Oh Krishna I call you so Pleading and yearning You have no heed You behave as though You dont care Who do You think You are Where do You think You can escape Just like a theif who cannot escape his Dharma You cannot escape my Love Oh Krishna how long can You hide How long can You run How long can this go on Oh deceiver Krishna When my parents (Guru) Meet You asking for Thy hand How will You hide Oh Lover Where will You hide This Love of mine a moral And human Love for Thee I can show... for my ignorance Matches that of a stone Nay I dont deserve Thee For my mind is not Yours yet As I stray on the roads Only to seek Thee in difficulty Oh Lord Thy agreement with My parents so Divine I hold so precious For You wait for me For me to finish my desires Roaming in Thy maze of Love games Oh Lord is it time now I ask... You smile and stay so serene Thy presence so soothing I feel I ask for Thee to marry me You stay silent Oh Lord Fool am I to ask Thee For You have already agreed In my mind I h...

Now i know why You are called the thief Oh Deceiver of hearts Lovely face of Thine I behold Oh Krishna, like a child You steal the butter The result of a days toil For Your enjoyment and mirth Divine Lover You are Stealing and laughing From far away with Love As we search for the butter of toil We fail to see Thee in action In every effort of ours And hold the result to our hearts To forget Thy grace in our results Your loving grace we see When You lovingly steal away What we thought was ours Only to prove that All are Yours Thy praise I cant sing For You stole my tongue My words my thoughts Even my Will is Yours Yet Your action seem to me That You have stolen what belongs to me Knowing full well that All belong to You May Your Love ever last May Your grace ever shower Oh Lover Keshava Madhava Govinda I proclaim For whenever I say Your name More and more of what I believed was mine Seem to be Yours and in place of my greed I see now Your Love and I enjoy Thy grace I pray Oh Lord that i...

Holding on to His arms Pressing His shoulders on mine Locked in His hold Forgetting everything else I indulge in this passion In His presence I dwell Thinking only of His breath on mine Warm and powerful, I lose control Whirling in His arms Stepping to the sounds of drums Arms around Him I lose sense of direction As the world loses its grip on us In a lovers embrace I shamefully hold Him In a world that recognizes lust as Love I only want for His safety, a babe His appearance as a babe in my arms, Krishna Oh what joy, this dance brings Where thoughts merge into an intense longing To only feel His presence and nothing else Where He dominates in His Love and I a mad lover Will this end I think and there disappears the Love And in its place a world appears with thoughts That spills over with greed and want for things And there I lose His grip to fall with a painful force Oh Krishna, may I pray for Your embrace again May I be in Thy presence that even Lovers shy away As I shamelessly clutc...

Strange that it seems to me To judge a moment a person A thought, a word with no knowledge of what it means Strange it seems that I think I know a lot of things yet in reality I know nothing To judge anything, anyone Strange it seems that I dont Think twice before the thought emerges from somewhere inside, deep within Where words originate as though I authored them Strange it seems that I keep saying I, strange on what basis do I say I who am just a bunch of memories A feeble electric pulse in a network of dirt Strange, yet I see the beauty in flowers The strike of a note in a guitar The beat of a drum in rhythm The joy in the synchrony of instruments Oh for that moment I stop judging I just am ... suspended in joy An acceptance par explanation Words fail and I return And try to judge it And I can only exclaim What an experience! I just cant judge 'cause I cant hold it, I can't control it I can't possibly say how it will go on I just accept it as it is! Strange, cause I f...

Moments of sorrow these Moments where every possibility seems impossible Moments that hold me in the grip of fear These moments my own creation of greed Have I done so wrong Have I let my people down Have I taken the wrong path I have never thought this far These thoughts now seem to hide Not even do they come out to engage Where from these thoughts came from I have always wanted to figure Now these thoughts are held In a potential known as terror In a suspended state of lack For every chance seems to be unknown I have never been in such a state Of indecision .. of fear The unknown is not death The unknown is not pain This is the fear where words fail Where promises made falter Where effort falls into waste Where plans lead to failure Yet, there is a voice inside which says in whisper... wait And I hope against all odds That this voice is right This voice is true, not my imagination I have nothing else to cling to As the world around me falls Into a futureless pit of loss I hope. I wai...

Suddenly I see you today in a flash Shanka Chakra Gada and Lotus in hand Glowing brighter than a thousand suns And all I can make out is Your Divine Smile Let there be words and words that come to me That praise You Oh Luminous One Let there be thoughts and feeling that emanate The Joy out of which I remember You Let there be You in all I can do and get That bring out the devotion to You Let there be shamelessness in my praise to You Oh beautiful One as I feel the Love grow inside Your Love envelops all this, has and what shall be Your presence substantiates rather makes existant All that has been and shall be Yet I have not seen You caressingly holding me and showing the way Your Love oh Lord has cleared this mud pool Bringing out the Love that shaines from within As a reflection in a muddied water body Only to close in again due to the habits I have developed Oh Lord I seek Thee in the thoughts I think In the words I say In the actsI do And results I yearn, The feelings that Bring me...

I long for that day I sing your praise I wait for those few moments of exertion I long for those minutes of ecstacy Singing out your name amidst your devotees Oh Lord Your name gives so much joy My twisted mind just stops and cries When I hear Your name Oh Lord Yet I know I am so lowly to reach You Is there any pleasure Oh Lord that Brings out the pinnacle of emotions Is there a word Oh Lord That breaks free the shackled thoughts of Love Oh Lord thy name is That I think As I long again and again to sing of Yet I neither have the voice nor the knowledge Of singing Your praise Oh Shiva Thy feet They tap the rhythms with Thy gait Thy anklets the snakes hiss in ecstacy Thy dumuru They evoke life from slumbering ignorance Thy primordial fire burns up the lust and thoughts of Thy devotess I seek Thee for freedom I seek Thee for Joy I plead Thy name shamelessly Oh Lover Oh Destroyer of ALL Sarvam Shivamayam Jagat Isha vasyam Idam Sarvam As You burn Me I become Thee Aham Brahmasmi... Om Tat Sa...

The gap between You and i does not exist. It is but a notion of distance as distance is space and space - Akasha is You. This notion is but a lack of understanding. There is a notional faith in You. Faith is there when You and i are different. When space is You, then Sarvam - All is You. Distance is You, hence there is NO distance. What is far is near as Akasha is You. Hence where is the question of Faith. There MUST be ONLY LOVE. It is only possible to see SARVAM as LOVE. When distance - Akasha - Space is but ONE where is the OTHER. There is nothing else to compare with; nothing else with which to be judged; nothing but one infinite presence conscious of nothing but itself...Sat- Chit- Ananda Show me LOVE. Let this ONENESS seep into every pore of my being that this notional difference disappear. Let me realize and BE the TRUTH THAT i seek. That which I seek cannot be other than me as I cannot be OTHER than Thee. There cannot be infinity minus me. I am THEE - Aham Brahmasmi.... Let the...

Measuring myself by that standard I must exclaim with Surdas : Where is there a wretch So wicked and loathsome as I ? I have forsaken my Maker, So faithless have I been. For it is an unbroken torture to me that I am still so far from Him, who, as I fully know, governs every breath of my life, and whose offspring I am. I know that it is the evil passions within that keep me so far from Him, and yet I cannot get away from them. The Story of My Experiments with Truth M. K. Gandhi The Ashram, Sabarmati, Ahmedabad. 26th November, 1925

Is there something called Love That is separate from who we are Is there moments that are seen Where we disconnect with Love Has there been any occasion Where Love turned her eyes away In every instance, in every act There can be no event Without the Touch of Love Every act that has, Is and shall be Is filled with Love to the brim That, one gets immersed in the act Only to realize later that Love was around Only held back by our greed Only strained by thoughts of lust Only touched by the sin of ignorance And Love strikes back as tears As a force unparalleled Unchageable and unique Only realized when thoughts withdraw into who we are.. Never can there be a moment ,An act that lies unconnected to Love As Love is He, Love Is who we are.. Om Tat Sat

As the mind expands towards the Infinite including everything good, bad, tall, short, clean, unclean, big and small, there envelops a peace so serene that Divinity manifests in every thought. Purnatvam - Fulness takes shape as a concept - first and subsequently a meaning and finally as reality. This all inclusiveness brings about an acceptance of all that was, is and shall be. Time, space and matter resolves into the here and now as the percieved. The entire Universe appears as a projection on the screen of consciousness. Like a dream the Universe merges with the Infinite on the realization of Onself as Awareness. Eternal peace is all that remains. Purnatvam I am .. Om Tat Sat

Thoughts are the best creators in humanity. Matter and energy are insentient. Thoughts, the flame of sentience, are far above both. They have the power to live through generations and still be vibrant and overwhelming. Swamiji - Narayanashrama Tapovanam

His glance, His gait, His control His poise His deeds, His play His Love His Grace Evokes in me this desire To hold on and praise His power over me And His Divine embrace I am aware of You around me Your enveloping presence around this body This ever brilliant experience I forget And dwell in the finite fleeting moments Thy playfullness I seldom see And complain on fate and past deeds Forgetting to notice Thy Loving sport I recogonize not Thy presence in those My love for Thee is divided Part spiritual, part for greed Pray, these thoughts other than Thee Make them melt in Your loving heat Oh Lover, shower me Thy grace Let me be ever aware of Thy embrace Radhe Krishna Gopalakrishna Radhe Krishna Gopalakrishna Om Tat Sat

As He dances eternally Spiralling time and matter His matted locks spinning Catching up ... His Divine dance breathtaking Fire blazing on His sides Snakes whirling around his frame Shiva! Oh Divine Father Without You even Om loses its meaning Pray dont stop Dont stop this Vision Your dances is this life Let there be nothing else Let there be Love Let there be Peace The Earth, She spins This Sun, He spins This Universe spins All, Sarvam ...spins As you spin Oh Lord All this is an extension of Your dance There is no sound There is no life But for Your Dance Oh Lord Nataraja Om Shanthih Shathih Shanthihi

Why did I forget to dream? Still why this lamentation. Klybhyam ma sma gamah Partha. Where from this eunuch like nature? You need to know where you are going. Why the doubt? I gave up my dreams. I burnt my dreams in the fire of prayathna-effort. I took whatever I held as thoughts and threw them out of my being. Why? They were not in tune. Tune to what - Tune to my being. I needed to know emptiness. I needed to know if there was emptiness when I removed all. I needed to know if I would get dissolved if I did not think at all. I needed to know if there was salvation if the mind was stopped. In the process I somehow did not channelize this unique gift; the ability to dream. Here now in my vision is Lord Narayana lying down on His serpent Adishesha. His eyes half open as though in a dream. On His feet Sri Lakshmi. Through His navel Brahma emerges and is seated on a lotus. His right hand touching a Linga. His Divine feet - Grace. The Shanka - Conch and Chakra - Disc on His sides. And on His...

I wonder which is more difficult. To have a dream, to sustain a dream or to realize a dream. I am stuck at a point in my mind where I find it difficult to dream. Silly! I ask myself this. What does it cost to dream. What is the validity of a dream. Where is the necessity to prove or disprove any dream. Etc etc. And to all these questions, I answer them logically and fail. A dream is but a dream. A fantasy with no reality other than a visualization of time and space in my mind to entertain, captivate and develop a desire to make the multi sensory imagination come to life so that it can be shared with loved ones and those yet to be loved in the 'real' world. What a pathetic way to try and define what a dream is. This brings me to the thought, 'Why dream?' Questions questions rumbling in my head yet I find it so difficult to just dream. Man... I miss being a child. To look at something and just superimpose your thoughts and imagine rockets, ...

I thought I needed to share this thought as I have been trying to get around it and avoid it for long. This has sort of suppressed my real intention, my passions and driving force for me doing what I am doing. I have always been drawn towards spirituality. I have always been drawn to the sanctum sanctorum of any temple. I have always found that path leaving out of the temple painful and an intense pain in moving away from the gopurams. I have always wanted to become an ascetic - a Sanyasi. I still have this intense feeling and I sort of desire it. Thats where the problem begins. I shall dwell upon this later, but this is where my current life began. This where thoughts fell in place. This recognition of this desire as a desire - Kama. A whole new set of thoughts poured in. As these thoughts took shape my mother land loomed large before me and I was in a place distant and alone. Alone to the onset of thoughts of guilt. Thoughts of shame. Why? Lack of direction. Two very powerful forces....

Ye Mind! Soar higher To highest pinnacle of joy To the abundance in the Infinite Rooted to the Oneness of Truth Where from this wretchedness Where from this meekness of thought You are the Infinite You are the power that created life Soar higher into the realms of Bliss Where thought created Life Where laughter pervades on Joy In the realization of this Truth You are the world You are the people You are the nations You are the Truth Tat Vam Asi - Soar.. Soar higher Dhiyo yonah Prachodayath Om Tat Sat

These thoughts Divine.... Nurture them, see them as beads on a string of Dreams and work to realize this wonderful garland of events in time as experiences. And we find ourselves saying 'I've been here before, as though in a dream - Deja Vu' These experiences are the Divine Thoughts manifesting in the Eternal Existence that You are Tat Vam Asi Om Tat Sat

As told by a student .... There is no difference between life and death On one side we see people who eke death out of their very being with their thoughts that cause so much fear that others would rather die than be around such people. On the other hand we have great visionaries and leaders who though are not anymore but still bring out such inspiration and courage by the Divine acts of Love, that even after 'Death' their being still enlivens so many to live the Life Divine

The vision of paradise in Heaven as opposed to the 'reality' that exists in front of our eyes is not an apparition. That vision of heaven is THE REALITY waiting to be discovered. Etch this vision of heaven on earth out of efforts of Love and Nurturing I wonder at this mind so Divine! Om Tat Sat

Mathematics, Music and Divinity are the three sides of an equilateral triangle

My Father and Mother Thou shall become Oh Lord Shiva! If Parameshwara (Parama-Greatest Ishwara-Lord) is taken as the Father and Parvathi (daughter of the Mountains, Lord Shivas Wife) is taken as the Mother.... My mistakes oh Lord become Your joy As You see Your child faltering trying to crawl, hold onto supports trying to walk and then falling And Lord Your smile is the Joy of the Father seeing Your child learning that which looks effortless to You We are children Oh Lord, Your children posing as You, as adults Pray, make us children again So that all experiences 'good' or 'bad' may become exciting all over again played in front of You Oh Father and Mother in confidence and Love Om Tat Sat

Re-discovering childhood unlocks the barriers that we have 'created' in terms of social & intellectual norms. Mistakes and learning from mistakes is part of childhood; but for an adult it is considered different. An adult mentions these mistakes as ill-luck, or feels depressed about the turn of events. He even finds it difficult to approach someone for help. Seeking, for an adult is mostly looked down upon or even with suspicion instead of an understanding that this process of pondering actually strengthens his resolve, roots him to his understanding and evolves his outlooks and helps him grow. The very lack of self-confidence in seeking help is a barrier to evolution. If we accept that learning is continuous then retaining the child in an adult is imperative to help him/her learn. ----------------x--------------- The process of unlearning continuously is as important as learning continuously

There is no creation! Whatever is to be created is always already there.... hence there is ONLY 'Discovery' Creativity is a keen observation of what IS and applying your individuality to what is already available to be discovered. The sculptor has the image of his creation in his mind. This image is a sequence of events or his interpretations of certain events recreated to tell a story or vision in stone. But his experience is but a recreation of events that already IS. His interpretation ... if dwelt upon with all possible alternatives and logic ... an understanding of what already IS. This interpretation hence is 'Discovered' not created. The Discovery takes place as a thought which on subsequent nurturing 'develops' as an image in the mental space/plane. This vision of the image hence before taking shape in the sculpture becomes something that already IS. The process of sculpture hence becomes the orientation of work to bring alive the vision, the interpretat...

Even the worst person (you may think!) has the Thought and can choose to act on the thought. Divinity IS and is the only thing that IS! Oh Shiva, Great is Your mind Great is your thought Great is Your vision. Oh Lord! All Greatness is Yours alone Let Your thoughts inspire me Let Your vision be mine Let my mind dwell in You Let this pseudo identity merge Oh Lord! Great are You Oh Shiva, Oh Shiva Om Tat Sat The Divine is Universal The Divine thoughts continuously rise likes the waves of the sea in the stillness of the mind Yet we are too busy too preoccupied with our own false expectations and in-correctable memories Yet the Divine Will, The Divine Love showers forth His Omnipresence in acts of kindness The worst of individuals in their craving for sadistic yearnings do unconsciously carry out these unexpected deeds The deeds are the extensions of the Divine continuously showering forth inspirations Hence even the vilest of beings as we see them have their Divine role in carrying out con...

The origination of thought is Divine. This thought is not profit driven. No greed, no desire, not material. It is just a Will; a push from the Divine. To move, to act. He propels this thought. He directs the thought. He makes sure the circumstances are conducive. He hones in on the result. JUST ACT Dont stand in the way. You are the witness. Your free will is to be free. You are free to act and also not to act. To act is Divine. To not act is to hoard. You are the propeller of this thought. You are He Tat Vam Asi - Love I am - Om Tat Sat

Thought - The power, the spirit, the creative energy, the life, the actions and the results are all Divine IF THIS thought is nurtured by Dharma, Love and Bliss Om Tat Sat

This intense emotion Longing yet so attainable Sad yet in Bliss Distant yet so near.. As I fade away into this Stream of thoughts That burst forth in vigor To create a display of ideas A directionless state of being Neither in the material Nor in the spiritual I hang to whatever is left of sanity A presence that redefines lucidity That is clear as daylight Yet that vanishes with a single longing When tried to be defined What more is there to want for When this presence, this energy that bursts forth takes control And dissolves this duality of me and mine Suddenly Love another unknown emotion takes shape inside this being Tearing apart anything that society has defined inside the framework of right and wrong I fail here to continue any further As my words stop short, falters Loses meaning in a blitzkrieg of emotions So real yet so far that doesn't fall in the realms of definition

by TRS Iyengar This article is on one of the practices widely used by Indian Brahmins all over using a Holy Grass named Dharbham or Dharbai. In all functions, auspicious or inauspicious, a performing person needs to wear a ring made of this Dharbham. But many have lost the reason of why it is to be used in the first place . What I learnt from my father is proved to be accurately correct by a Medicine Practitioner. A Doctor named Sadhashiv Rao, once visited my home. When the topic turned to many subjects, I needed to tell him about the Holy Grass named Dharbham. When I told him about the usage and the values, he could not just believe my words. So, he took out a bunch of the Dharbham from me, went straight to the clinic to take an x-ray of his palm, by covering his hand with the Dharbham. To his utter surprise, he found that the grass absorbed about 60% of the radiation! When the so powerful X-ray radiation can be absorbed by the Holy Grass, why can ...

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http://www.karnatik.com/c3348.shtml Song: raamacandram raajeevaaksham (note) rAmachandram rAjIvakSham raagam: shankaraabharaNam 29 dheera shankaraabharaNam mela Aa: S R2 G3 M1 P D2 N3 S Av: S N3 D2 P M1 G3 R2 S taaLam: catushra Eka Composer: Muttuswaami Dikshitar Language: Sanskrit rAmacandram rAjIvakSam shyAmaLAngam shAshvata kIrtim kOmaLahastam kOshalarAjam mAmaka hrtkamalAkaram mArutiyuktam dHimantam mAnita bhaktam shrImantam kaumAravaram guruguha mitram kAruNyanidhim dasharatha putram bhUmisutAbham bhUpati rUpam kOmala pallava pAdam mOdam kAmagurum sitArAmam kaustubhabhUSam vandEham If someone has the meaning please post it

http://www.karnatik.com/c1265.shtml Song: eppaDi paaDinarO eppaDi pADinarO raagam: karnaaTaka dEvagaandhaari 28 harikaambhOji janya Aa: S G3 M1 P N2 S Av: S N2 D2 P M1 G3 R2 S taaLam: aadi Composer: Suddhaananda Bhaarati Language: Tamil pallavi eppaDi pADinarO tiruvadiyAr appaDi pADa nAn Ashai koNDEn shivanE (eppaDi) anupallavi apparum sundararum ALuDai piLLaiyum aruL maNi vAcakarum poruLuNarnDu unnaiyE (eppaDi) caraNam gurumaNi shankararum arumai tAyumAnArum aruNagirinAtharum arutjyOti vaLLalum karuNaikkaDal perugi kAdalinAl urugi kanittamizh sollinAl inidunai anudinam (eppaDi) Meaning: pallavi: I desire to sing of you, oh Lord Shiva, as your devotees (aDiyaar) sang! anupallavi: As the saints Appar, Sundararar, Aaludaippillai and Manivaasagar (MaaNikkavaasagar, a great Tamil poet) sang of you with knowledge (also of the Truth of Brahman) and understanding. caraNam: As the great teacher Sankara (not a Tamil poet), dear Thaayumaanavar, Arunagirinathar and ArulJyoti Vallal (a reference t...

I wondered what it would be To worry about Him, His deeds His safety, His life Him I always thought all powerful All knowing, all Vishwan He is to protect me the helpless I was told that His Bhaktas the Azhwars worried for Him, Cared for Him, Waited for Him, For they feared His safety out of Love I wondered how, how this is possible How could one even in ultimate Love fear for the Lord Fear Him they can, but fear for(?) I could not believe, understand I wondered how In He walked today, in guise In His 80s slow and careful Held by His disciples Clad in saffron, a simple man I fell at His feet And He recognized me Asked about me and I was happy, joyed, in bliss Oh what luck, what Divine event My flight was delayed, so was His And He took me to His lounge Held my hands and laughed like He was a 2 year old Like my daughter carefree, lovely Wanting nothing, just joy And He said laughing That His sugar level qwent to 65 and He almost fainted Still laughing, still carefree Still holding my ha...

An interpretation or a critical analysis of a book is a series of logic based thought with respect to the “understanding of the given book in the light of the knowledge acquired or that already present”. Hence it is to be understood that the readers choice in interpreting or criticizing a book is subject to change depending on the circumstance and instance of “when” the book is read. What are the Vedas and why interpretation or critical analysis of the Vedas is useless!! “Vedas” is derived from “Vid”. “Vid” literally means “to know”. “Veda” means “knowledge”. The Vedas are a collection of fourteen books or parts and they are also called as “Chaturdasa Vidya”. The main purpose of the Vedas is to establish happiness or to remove sorrow by acquiring knowledge of the TRUTH. Hence the Vedas is also called as “Shoka Nivritti Shastra”. Every man searches for a means to stay happy. Happiness drove the rishis (ascetics) to seek the basis of happiness and we have what we call the Vedas – the e...

The interpretation of the Vedas is very difficult before coming to a full & complete understanding of the Vedas themselves. Hence it becomes necessary to learn it from a Guru – a jnani who has come to understand the Truth. What should be ones attitude while learning? It becomes a trade off to begin with for some. But it is necessary to have a full faith in the Vedas. How to come about to this stage? The wise have said that the first stage is to have an “Ishta Devata”- a personal God by the seeker and to devote himself to this Devata by “Naama Samkeertanam” – chanting the name of the Lord and by reading the stories of the Lord in the Puranas. The trust in the Lord should be equal to the trust that Arjuna has on his friend Sri Krishna. Life is always quoted as a roller coaster ride. Ups and Downs, joys and sorrow, thrills and fear. If the attitude of the person riding the roller coaster is of courage and cheerfulness, the working of the roller coaster known to him and there is a t...

The joy experienced by the child when he holds a toy can be understood by the child best. The mother watching the child “reflects” on the happiness and enjoys. If one analysis the happiness of both it will be seen that the child enjoys the toy “ignorant” of what it is and what the world is. The mother with all her experiences enjoys the happiness that the child is excited with a toy which has no value beyond a certain age. Hence by mere reflection and understanding of the use of the toy the mother enjoys the scene in front of her. When I read the interpretations of my Guru and I try to understand them, the acts which I perform everyday appear as a running movie which I enjoy like the mother watching her child with an understanding of what the child is doing. My own actions amuse me though I myself am doing them with these hands. As a child I play with the toys of daily life which we call necessities and also which hold no significance beyond their limited use. As a mother watching her...

As seen in the chart the unchanging Supreme Truth, the “Para Prakriti” is the Atman, The Lord and also termed as Sivatattva. The changing existence, the “As though” Supreme Truth, “Apara Prakriti” or Maya is the inherent strength of the Lord also known as the Shakti Tattva. The Shrishti – creation (used for now) of the Lord is said to be like that of the spider weaving its net. The spider “designs” the web using its “intelligence” and “makes” the web using its saliva. The intelligence and instrument of making and the material for the same is inherent in the spider itself. Similarly, the Lord, the EXISTENT (Sat) cause, is the intelligent cause, the instrumental cause and the material cause for the universe. He employs His inherent strength the Maya Shakti for “Shrishti” and “Pralaya”. Shrishti is “projection” NOT CREATION. It is called projection because it comes from Himself. Pralaya is “withdrawal” or “dissolution” NOT DESTRUCTION as the projection from Himself is withdrawn INTO Hi...

The method employed by one person to abstract from one perspective to another may not be appreciated or understood by another. Hence it is necessary to study under a Guru so that one does not get lost in irrational logic trying to disprove another perspective. This is a personal experience. There are just too many distractions and philosophies that exist in each realm of abstraction. One needs to keep in mind that this study is of the Vedas and the goal is that of the Vedas that is being pursued. One should not dream about being rich businessman while his duty is only to study. This is a waste of time and intellectual capacity. Concentration should be focused on the achievement of the Goal as much as the Goal itself. Necessity of a Guru: The study of the Vedas is also seen as a dry philosophy and confusing logic. This study has to be coupled with devotion and motivation and a constant prodding necessary to keep the goal in mind When each realm is being studied, one may come to feel...

Abstraction – A perspective: When solving a problem the method employed is a “decision made conditioned by the understanding in the light of the knowledge acquired”. Hence the emphasis here is “on the problem to be solved”. The focus is on the current moment, on an object external to the person solving the problem. Now, if the focus is shifted from the problem to be solved into the “conditioned understanding” of the problem, it is an abstraction. The shift in focus is from a “physical realm” external to the problem solver to an “emotional realm” that is inherent in the person himself. The understanding of the problem is termed as “emotional” because the problem solver brings into play his likes and dislikes in solving the given problem. This is one stage of abstraction. The second stage of abstraction is the shift in focus from the “emotional realm” to an “intellectual realm” which is the knowledge factor used by the person in understanding the problem. Abstraction and the Vedas: T...

Any problem given today to be solved involves three principles to reach a conclusion on how to carry on. Firstly, on reading the problem we try to think whether we have had a similar case in the past. If yes, we have “knowledge” of the case in another circumstance under different conditions. If no, then we refer other sources of to find out about the “knowledge” of a similar problem in the past. Now that we have the knowledge of a similar problem, we try to “understand” the given problem IN THE LIGHT OF the knowledge acquired. With THIS UNDERSTANDING we analyze the problem to be solved and we come to a conclusion on what is to be done. Hence the given problem is solved or is tried to be solved by coming to a “decision” [DECISION MAKING] CONDITIONED BY an UNDERSTANDING BASED ON PAST KNOWLEDGE. If the solution and the result obtained after solving the problem is desirable, then the approach has paid off. If the result is not fulfilled what went wrong? One can come up with hundreds of r...