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കണ്ണെത്താദൂരത്തൊരിടത്തുവെച്ചീവഴി എങ്ങോ പിരിഞ്ഞു മറഞ്ഞു പോകും
അവിടെപ്പിരിഞ്ഞു നാമിനി രണ്ടുവഴിക്കായി നടന്നകലും
ഈ വഴിയമ്പലത്തിലെ ആല്‍മരച്ചോടുകള്‍ സ്നേഹം പകുത്തന്നും വിടര്‍ന്നു നില്‍ക്കും,
കട്ടിക്കരിങ്കല്‍ത്താങ്ങികള്‍ക്കിടയിലെ തൊലിതേഞ്ഞ വേരുകള്‍ നമുക്കായെന്നും കാത്തിരിക്കും

എവിടയൊ പോകേണ്ട നാമിരുപേര്‍ , വീണ്ടും കണ്ടാലറിയാത്ത ചിരപരിചിതര്‍
ഈ വഴിയൊഴുകുന്ന ജീവിതയാത്രയിലെ ഒട്ടും പകിട്ടില്ലാ പൊയ്മുഖങ്ങള്‍
ഇവിടെ വന്നെത്തിയീ ആല്‍മരച്ചോട്ടില്‍ , നിയതിതന്‍ പാവക്കൂത്തിലൊരുരംഗമായി
പൊള്ളുന്ന ഓര്‍മ്മകള്‍ , ജീവിതതൃഷ്ണകള്‍ ചെഞ്ചായം പടര്‍ത്തുമൊരിരുൾസന്ധ്യയില്‍

ഇവിടയീ മരത്തണലിലെ മൺമെത്തയില്‍ പകലിൻ്റെയാടകൾ അഴിഞ്ഞുവീഴ്കേ
ജീവിതസമരത്തിന്‍ നിതാന്തവേഗത്തിലൊരു ചെറു കിതപ്പിടവേളയൊന്നു തീര്‍ക്കേ
നമ്മുടെ വഴികള്‍തന്‍ പൊടിയും, പ്രകാശവും, അതിരും, തിരക്കും നാമറിഞ്ഞു തീര്‍ത്തു
പിരിയുമന്നറിഞ്ഞീട്ടും, എന്തിനൊ നാമിരിവരും ആത്മദാഹങ്ങളെ പങ്കുവെച്ചു

കണ്ണെത്താദൂരത്തുവെച്ചെല്ലാവഴിയും ഇനിയും പിരിഞ്ഞു മറഞ്ഞു പോകും
അവിടെപ്പിരിഞ്ഞു നടന്നൊരുപക്ഷെ നാം രണ്ടുവഴിക്കു തിരിഞ്ഞുപോകും
എന്നാലുമെന്നുമീ ആല്‍മരച്ചോടുകള്‍ സ്നേഹം കൊതിച്ചിവിടെ നിറഞ്ഞു നില്‍ക്കും,
കട്ടിക്കരിങ്കല്‍ത്താങ്ങികള്‍ വീണുപോയാലുമീ തൊലിതേഞ്ഞ വേരുകള്‍ കാത്തിരിക്കും

Project Gratitude

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Project Gratitude : Day 1 - September 25, 2014

So Deepa Iyer has nominated me for 7 day Project Gratitude, wherein you put up two things you are grateful for and two nominations. 

There are a lot many things for which I am deeply grateful and indebted to so many people. Few of them can never be said or understood , few are past telling and few have been paid in kind. To make a list is tough , but here is an attempt.

In chronologically order of acquaintance

1. Thank you Mom - No explanations needed here. Even the great Gods needed mothers when they chose to come to Earth, what more can a mere mortal say.

2. Thank you Dad - Again why waste words trying to explain the in-explainable. I'll be blessed if I can become at least tenth of a person you are.

Rest for tomorrow.

I would like to nominate Naveen K Vijayan and Anirban Chakraborty to put in their list.

Project Gratitude : Day 2 - September 26, 2014

The two people I would like to tell my thanks would be :

My Grandmother (Mom's Mom) - For being my support and guide during my formative years. The childhood I spent with you are some of the best times I ever had in my life. Though not a story telling granny , she was God's gift to gourmands and to little monsters with big mouths and bigger bellies.

My Paternal uncle Anujan Nambidi, who is no more with us. A tutor by profession, he was my first teacher, and I've never met another teacher like him till date. By a mere gesture and a ready story he can turn the bulliest of the bullies into attentive pupils , and the way he can imprint concepts into your mind without you even realizing was pure magic. I am still searching for words to re-tell his stories the way he said them. He taught me that the root cause of all our fears is just ignorance and it was his influence that seeded the Eternal curiosity about things unknown in me,

It was the combined power of these two doyens turned the hurricane gale force that was me into a manageable book munching human kid.

I now request Nick 'Che' Ameer and Sinoy John V to put in their lists

Project Gratitude : Day 3 & 4 - September 28, 2014. 

Couldn't post one yesterday so combining the list for two days.

The first set of people I would like to say thanks today are all those I am fortunate enough to count as friends. Thanks each and everyone of you for accepting me as a friend , for helping and guiding me through different phases of my life. Without you I would not have been where and what I am today.You guys make this life worth living.

Next I would like to express my gratitude to my dear brothers and sisters, my dear aunts and uncles and all the other sweet members of our extended family. I deeply cherish all the great fun filled family reunions we had every time and always look forward to coming back to them.

I am nominating Nisha Chechi and Harish to put in their project gratitude list. Idea is simple, It's a 7 day Project, wherein you put up two things you are grateful for and two nominations for each day

Project Gratitude : Day 5 & 6 - September 30, 2014 .

Once again I'm forced to combine two days as yesterday I did not get enough time to update my status. So here is my list for the day

I'd like to start off by thanking all my teachers, classmates and seniors right from the my first school - the Nandipulam Church Pallikkoodam ( Less trouble to Mom  ) , then Don Bosco Pudukkad (KG to 4th Std), Holy Angels Boys High School Ollur (5th -6th) , Hari Sri Vidya Nidhi School Punkunnam (7th-12th), Combined College Thrissur (Engineering Entrance Examination Coaching), and finally Government Engineering College Thrissur (B.Tech) . It's from them that I learned the first lessons of life, the difference of existing and living and the joy of sharing and giving. Thank you each one of you for invaluable lessons that contributed immensely to my character and growth as an individual.

Next I must thank each and every person I've met , interacted and worked with at the following work places in my brief career so far - My first work place at Jet Airways (I) Ltd, to Wipro Mumbai and Delhi and now Ramco Systems. I've had the privilege of working with some of the best minds of the Aviation and IT industry whose work ethics, commitment and professionalism has been inspirational and same time inimitable. Thank you all for accepting me, grooming me and enriching my professional experience.

Please understand that I'm consciously steering clear of mentioning any names here because once I start mentioning names, there is not a single name I can leave out from my acquaintance list except mine. Such is my indebtedness to each one of you because everyone of you reading this has touched my life in one way or the other making it better in someway real, imaginable or unimaginable and I'm grateful that it has been so.

I'm nominating my dear friend Tomy AC ( whom I know from my KG classes) and Jino Jayaram for this 7 day Project Gratitude. Each day please put up two things that you are grateful for along with two nominations (only if you feel like and u can!!!)

Project Gratitude : Day 7 - October 2, 2014 

This project was indeed a challenging exercise, did ask for some soulful introspection and thus all the more fun to do . Deepa Ma'm - Thank you once again for nominating me for this. This idea is so lofty and a task so vast that this small attempt that I've made is indeed meager.

It's humanely impossible , at least in my case, to express my gratitude to each and every person for all the things I am grateful for , known or unknown. Hence let me thank God , that which for me personifies the finest of all human faculties - the capacity to love unconditionally and the selfless acts of kindness. Every moment I live on this earth is a blessing I cherish and for that I'm grateful to God. Since this kindness is a in-exhaustive resource given freely irrespective of gratitude expressed or not, I will not sully it anymore with hollow words.

Finally let me thank my dear wife Anju Vinod for putting up with my eccentricities and suffering me - a thing which she has gladly accepted for a life term . Hats off to your courage girl, love you for letting me be me 

So that ends the Project for me and so my final nominations for this would be Renjith Rajan and Anupama Jagan. Be sporting guys and do this exercise .. It's fun once you make up your mind. So put in your 2 things for which you're grateful for , for next 7 days with 2 nominations .

Bhagvad Gita - What I Learnt (Continuation)

[Continuation of the previous post here]

The purpose of Bhagavad Gita is to provide an ethical orientation to the Vedic thought . It bridges theory with practise, metaphysics with ethics, contemplation with action making them complete and meaningful. Gita thus lays foundation to knowledge and its application.

Task in front of the originator of Bhagavad Gita, immaterial of whether it's divine or not, was so enormous - expounding the ethical implications in the absolute metaphysics of Vedic thoughts - a task that needed erudition to utmost degree. But it's curious to note that the authority of Vedas are neither been negated ,challenged or accepted in toto by the Bhagavad Gita.

Bhagavad Gita delineates that material happiness should not be made the summum bonum of life. Actions must be performed with out any expectation attached to its result. The sense of duty prescribed in Gita, is not barren like the Kantian doctrine "Duty for Duty's sake".

Its pointed out many a times that without any motive there cannot spring any action, and Gita does not by any means repudiate this psychological fact. In fact the motive Gita enunciates is much more powerful but which is neither intelligible nor a worthwhile vocation for any average empiricists and those who according to Plato, lead the life of senses.

A person seeking perfection must necessarily develop an equanimous attitude. The equanimity and apathy towards worldly possessions, actions and more over on their results are a psychological result of the attention on things beyond the world of senses. For a person seeking perfection both moral and intellectual , it is the higher realizations that matter, which goes beyond any worldly riches or power. Gita

According to the Bhagavad Gita, even if one falter is the pursuit of divine purpose the act will not be devoid of any moral value. (Any act towards Self-Completeness is moral) and thus on this philosophy Bhagavad Gita reconciles the secular or semi spiritual goal of human welfare with the purely spiritual goal of Moksha.

Gita therefore while accepting the Vedic Cult of pursuing worldly happiness by propitiating to Gods, exhorts each of its readers to rise above sensual involvements , that gives nothing but a fleeting or momentary illusion of happiness and proceed on the path of selfless action, ultimately reaching limitless joy.

Bhagavad Gita for me, is therefore essentially a philosophy of action.

[ Reference: 1) The Yoga of Bhagavad Gita - Swami Krishnananda, 2) Gita - A Philosophy of Action - Dr. A.S. Pillai ]

മംഗ്ലീഷ് മലയാളമാക്കുക

ഇംഗ്ലീഷില്‍ ടൈപ് ചെയ്ത് മലയാളമാക്കാനുള്ള സംവിധാനം താഴെ കൊടുത്തിരിക്കുന്നു. ദയവായി ഉപയോഗിക്കുക

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മഴ

കാറ്റിന്റെ ശക്തിയില്‍ ജനവാതിലുകള്‍ തുറന്നടയുന്ന ശബ്ദം

പുറത്തു മഴ പെയ്യുന്ന തിരക്കിലാണെന്നു തോനുന്നു,

അതെ,

ഇടവപ്പാതിയുടെ മഴ, രൗദ്രമാണു ഭാവം

വീശിയടിക്കുന്ന കാറ്റും,കൂടെ ഇടിയും, മിന്നലും,

നിന്നനില്പ്പിലങ്ങു രാത്രി വന്നതു പോലെ.

ആകെ ചാരനിറമാര്‍ന്നാകാശം നാലുപാടും നനഞ്ഞൊലിക്കുന്നു

വിടര്‍ന്നു പൊട്ടിമറയുന്ന നീര്‍ക്കുമിളകളില്‍ മഴ താളം പിടിക്കുന്നു, 

തണുപ്പിന്‍ കൈ വിടര്‍ത്തി മഴക്കുചുറ്റിനും കാറ്റു ചൂളംവിളിച്ചോടുന്നു

ഈ മഴയോടെനിക്കേറെയിഷ്ട്ടം തോനുന്നു 

ഈ പെയ്യുന്നോരോ തുള്ളിയും ഇന്നെനിക്കേറെ പ്രിയപ്പെട്ടതായ് തോനുന്നു,

കാരണം നിന്നെ പരിചയപെട്ടശേഷമുള്ള ആദ്യത്തെ മഴയാണിത്‌,

അതിനെന്തൊ പുതുമ കൂടുതലുള്ള പോലെ...

നോക്കി നില്ക്കുംതോറും മഴകൂടി വരുന്നു.

നനയാനുള്ളതാണു മഴ.അതെനിക്കറിയാം,

എന്നാലുമീ പുതുമഴ ഞാന്‍ നനയില്ല,

ഇനി നീ കൂടെയില്ലാതെയെങ്ങിനെ....

Shadow Wars

Large populous of this world, the majority who are sane, who lead normal lives, who go about minding their own businesses are in reality neither pious nor evil. They are never completely in the subservient black domain of eternal darkness or in the self-effacing, eternally pure domain of light. But all of them have in their souls, deep shades of grey. The great Ones, the High Overlord of Darkness and the Brother of Eternal Light, therefore preys on these chained souls.

Normal people are all always born with varying degrees of light and darkness straining their will and thus each one is a potential warrior of darkness or a harbinger of light. Each of these minds are thus precious targets for the minions of great Ones, who will then try to bend them for their masters, using them as pawns in the eternal struggle of dark and light to dominate. These wars, slowly devour the very essence of their victim's life and no matter whether it's the evil or the goodness that ultimately roots in, both would, like an unchecked cancerous growth, spread wild, ultimately killing the free spirit of its host, making it forever a zombie servant of the great Ones.

In response to the unrelenting chaos that light and dark created in the mortal world there emerged in the world a new creation that was neither dark nor light, but beings of Shadow. Formed with a core of darkness eternally bound in a thin frame of light, a shadow by its nature was equally at home in light and dark. A shadow's presence is always there in the world, even where light shine in its brightest form, it hides right under the very feet, and it takes shape even in the greatest of the great darkness when a careless speck of light accidently flashed on it or when one of its nooks turns a shade deeper. For the Shadow becomes strong when both light and dark are strong and it thus became the greatest force that stemmed the great Ones might, holding them off from destroying the world.

These shadow forces were scourge of the land, forged by it to fight tirelessly hard and to bring down forever the lofty towers of the brother hood of light and eternally seal the hellish dukedom pits of darkness.

                                       

- Shadow Wars , Book 2- The introduction.

Nature of God : ഈശ്വര സങ്കൽപം

ചിദംശം വിഭും നിർമലം നിർവികൽപം, നിരീഹം  നിരാകാരമോങ്കാരഗമ്യം 

ഗുണാതീതമവ്യക്തമേകം തുരീയം, പരംബ്രഹ്മ യം വേദ തസ്മൈ നമോസ്തു

 

चिदंशं विभुं निर्मलं निर्विकल्पं ,निरीहं निराकारमोङ्कारगम्यम् |
गुणातीतमव्यक्तमेकं तुरीयं ,परं ब्रह्म यं वेद तस्मै नमस्ते || १||

Chidamsam vibhum nirmalam nirvikalpam, Nireeham nirakaramongara gamyam,

Gunatheetha mavyakthamekam thureeyam, Parambrahma yamveda thasmainamosthu

• chidamsam = chit amsam= part of chit = part of the inner constitution
• vibhum = one who encompasses
• malam => blemish; Nirmalam = No Blemishes
• vikalpam => alternative, variant thought or conception ; Nirvikalpam = that which is not distinct
• iham = that which is there, in thought; Niriham = that which cannot be conceived in thought
• aakaram=> Form; niraakaram = formless
• Omkaragamyam = Comes out as the sound of Omkara
• guNaathitham = Transcends the gunaas (Nature or quality of living beings)
• vyaktham => Clear ; Avyaktham = Not clear; not distinctly perceived through senses
• ekam = Single, One
• thuriiyam= the fourth state of consciousness; pure blissfulness
• parambrahma =That which transcends Brahma; That which is the ultimate attainment
• yam veda =  says Veda
• thasmai namosthu = salutations to thee.

 

Salutations to that God who is termed beyond by Vedas,
Who exists as the inner part of every being and life, who is blemishless, who is indisticnt,
Who cannot be concieved in thought, who does not have form, who is known in “Om”,
Who is beyond qualities of life, who is not clear, who is One and who is attained in thureeya.

 

( Vishnu Bhujanga prayata stotram : Verse 1)