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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)

 

 

കവിത

ഒരു ഗീതമെന്റെ മനസ്സില്‍ വരുന്നുണ്ടതു , നീ വരാതെങ്ങനെ മുഴുവനാകും.

ഒരു നിറം ചുവരില്‍ വരഞ്ഞു നീ നിറയാതെ, പകരുന്നതെങ്ങനെ ചിത്രമായി.

ഇരുളില്‍ നിന്‍സ്നേഹസുഗന്ധം കലരാതെ, പുതുമകളെങ്ങനെ പുലരിയാകും.

വെറുതെ വെറുതെ നീ കിനാവില്‍ കുളിരാതെ, കതിരുകളെങ്ങനെ പവിഴമാകും.

പ്രണയമേ നിന്‍ ചിലമ്പണിയാതെയെങ്ങനെ, കടലേഴുതിരകളാല്‍ കഥകളാടും.

പ്രിയതമേ നിന്‍സ്പര്‍ശമില്ലാതെയെങ്ങനെന്‍, വ്യഥിതമാം ജീവനിന്നമൃതമാകും.

ഹരിതമാമെന്റെ മനസ്സില്‍ നീ വാസന്ത, സുരഭിയാം തെന്നലായ് വീശിടുമ്പോള്‍

സരളമായൊരുഗാനമാകുമീഭൂമിയാ, മരണവുമതുകേട്ടു നില്‍ക്കുമല്ലോ

ഹൃദയമേ നീ പുണര്‍ന്നീ നിഴല്‍ക്കുത്തിനെ, നിറജീവദീപമായ് ദീപ്തമാക്കൂ.

ഡി. വിനയചന്ദ്രന്‍

യാത്ര

കണ്ണെത്താ ദൂരത്തുവെച്ചീവഴി എങ്ങോ പിരിഞ്ഞു മറഞ്ഞു പോകും

അവിടെപ്പിരിഞ്ഞു നാമിനി രണ്ടുവഴിക്കു നടന്നകലും

ഈ വഴിയമ്പലത്തിലെ ആല്‍മരച്ചോടുകള്‍ സ്നേഹം പകുത്തുവിടെ വിടര്‍ന്നു നില്‍ക്കും, 

കട്ടിക്കരിങ്കല്‍ത്താങ്ങികള്‍ക്കിടയിലെ തൊലിതേഞ്ഞ വേരുകള്‍ ഇനിയും നമുക്കായി കാത്തിരിക്കും

എവിടയൊ പൊകേണ്ട നാമിരുപേര്‍ , കണ്ടാലറിയാത്ത ചിരപരിചിതര്‍

ഈ വഴിയൊഴുകുന്ന ജീവിതയാത്രയിലെ ഒട്ടും പകിട്ടില്ലാ പൊയ്മുഖങ്ങള്‍

ഇവിടെ വന്നെത്തിയീ ആല്‍മരച്ചോട്ടില്‍ , നിയതിതന്‍ പാവക്കൂത്തിലൊരംഗമായി

പൊള്ളുന്ന ഓര്‍മ്മകള്‍ , ജീവിതതൃഷ്ണകള്‍ ചെഞ്ചായം പടര്‍ത്തുമൊരുസന്ധ്യയില്‍

ഇവിടയീ മരത്തണലിലെ പുല്‍മെത്തയില്‍ രാത്രി നിശ്ബ്ദമാമൊരരുവിയാകെ

ജീവിതസമരത്തിന്‍ നിതാന്തവേഗത്തിലൊരു ചെറു കിതപ്പിടവേള തീര്‍ക്കേ

നമ്മുടെ വഴികള്‍തന്‍ പൊടിയും, പ്രകാശവും, അതിരും, അന്തവും നാം പറഞ്ഞു തീര്‍ത്തു

പിരിയുമന്നറിഞ്ഞീട്ടും, എന്തിനൊ നാമിരിവരും ആത്മഗതങ്ങളെ പങ്കുവെച്ചു

കണ്ണെത്താ ദൂരത്തുവെച്ചെല്ലാവഴിയും ഇനിയും പിരിഞ്ഞു മറഞ്ഞു പോകും

അവിടെപ്പിരിഞ്ഞു നടന്നൊരുപക്ഷെ നാം രണ്ടുവഴിക്കു തിരിഞ്ഞുപോകും 

എന്നാലുമെന്നുമീ ആല്‍മരച്ചോടുകള്‍ സ്നേഹം കൊതിച്ചിവിടെ ചിരിച്ചു നില്‍ക്കും, 

കട്ടിക്കരിങ്കല്‍ത്താങ്ങികള്‍ വീണുപോയാലുമീ തൊലിതേഞ്ഞ വേരുകള്‍ കാത്തിരിക്കും

New Year Thoughts

Another year has passed by and like always, we find ourselves at the threshold of new opportunities.  A New year of new possibilities awaits us and in this year let me wish you what every Hindu wishes when he does the daily ritual of Sandhyavandanam* 

Pasyema Saradassatam  
Jeevema Saradassatam, 
Nandaama Saradassatam,
Modama Saradassatam, 
Bhavama Saradassatam
Srunavama Saradassatam, 
Prabravama Saradassatam
Ajeetasyama Saradassatam, 
Jyokcha Suryam drise.//  ( From Suryaupasthanam : Sandhyavandanam)

Which when roughly translated would mean :

By the grace of the ever shining Sun, the celestial Orb of knowledge and Truth, The ever present witness of all our actions, 

May We All See a Hundred Years
May We All Live for a Hundred Years
May All Our Good Relations last a Hundred Years
May We All have Happiness for a Hundred Years
May We All Shine in our Fame for a Hundred Years
May We All Hear Pleasant Things for a Hundred Years
May We All Speak Pleasant Things for a Hundred Years
May We All Remain Undefeated for a Hundred Years
Thus May The Sun Bless Us for a Long Time.


* (Practice of prostrating to Sun at 3 times a day - The Morning -Pratha Sandhya,  The Noon - Madhyahna Sandhya and the Evenining -Sayam Sandhya)

I am never alone

Cold was the feeling, A creeping chill of the moon less night

Dread and exhaustion, was all that was of me

A shell of a human , empty of heart and soul

Life's all but a mirage lingering desolately for miles ahead.

The road I am on, found no end, So many twists,turns and forks

When ever a brief respite of end was sought, it curved another bend

Tired and senseless I walk along,

Deep within, my heart numb and hollow

Winding and turning I trudge on, So many lanes join and split

Not knowing where , what and which lay ahead.

Standing at a fork on this path of misery, I am suddenly scared and all alone  

Tears of sorrow streak my face, as I shudder a look ahead

Heaviness of a long lost hope lay curdling in my brain 

I struggle to put one foot behind the other, A traveler lost on the ways of the World.

A gentle hand lay sweet upon my shoulder,

Not knowing who, I feel hope

I turn to see but feel with my heart 

A brief but soothing breeze, an outstretched arm with a helping hand.........

I thank you God,  for the day you touched me,

And now I smile each time I look upon my way

The road has warmed and all my sorrows are tamed

Within my heart , I now know,  Your friendship and love will always remain.

So be the next bend I travel frightening and new,

I will walk without pain or sorrow

Now that I am at last at peace with my hope

Your Love shines forth on my way, Sure lost I'll never be again

A cheer of warmth holds me now, an embrace of life sweet and warm 

I walk steady by the beats my heart,  

Breaths as light a fluttering feather

Not before, but knowing this now, On all my roads , I am never alone

Arise, Awake and sleep not until goal is reached

ഉണരുക മര്‍ത്യ ....അജ്ഞാനമാം അവിവേകതമസ്സില്‍നിന്നുണരുക
നിന്നിലെ നിന്നെയറിഞ്ഞു നീ ജ്ഞാനസാഗരതീരത്തണയുക, ഉദയസൂര്യനായിത്തീരുക.
ക്ഷുരസ്യധാരയാലുംനിശിതമായ് മനസ്സിനെ അടക്കുക
അഹംകാരധാര്‍ഷ്ട്യത്തെ ഒന്നായ് ജയിച്ചു നീ നിന്നിലേക്കണയുക

പഞ്ചേന്ദ്രിയങ്ങളാല്‍ നീ തന്നെ സൃഷ്ട്ടിച്ചയീ സംസാരമരീചികയെ വെല്ലുക
നിന്നിലടങ്ങുന്ന മായയാണീ ജഗത്തെന്ന മിഥ്യയും, ഞാനെന്ന ഭാവവുമെന്നറിഞ്ഞീടുക
താന്താനിതെല്ലാം മറ്റൊന്നുമില്ല നൂനം സനാതനം എന്നാത്മതത്വത്തെ അറിയുക
ബ്രഹ്മവും തത്വവും അഹമെന്ന സത്യത്തെ മനസ്സാവരിക്കുക

സായന്തനത്തിന്റെ ഓർമ്മക്കുറിപ്പുകൾ

പ്രപഞ്ച സീമകളെ പൊന്നിൽ കുളിപ്പിച്ച്, കത്തിയമർന്ന തീഗോളം കണക്കെ,അസ്തമയസൂര്യൻ കടലലകളുടെ ചെഞ്ചുവപ്പിലേക്കു മറയുകയായി

പലകോടി മാനവജീവിതയാത്രകളും,വിടപറയുന്നൊരീവെളിച്ചത്തിനൊപ്പം അവസാന കനൽ ചിന്തി വിസ്മൃതിയിലേക്കു  കെട്ടടങ്ങുന്നു

പകലിന്റെ ചക്രവാളങ്ങളിലേക്കു ജീവിതാർത്ഥം തേടി പറന്നുപോയ പറവകൾ മിക്കതും പറന്നു തളർന്നു തിരികേ കൂടിന്റെ സുരക്ഷയിലേക്കു ചേക്കേറികഴിഞ്ഞിരിക്കുന്നു

നീലരജനിതൻ അതിരുകളിൽ വീണുടഞ്ഞുയരുന്ന ജീവിതസമരകാഹളമായി ഒരു രാപ്പാടിതൻ അവ്യക്തശോകമധുര ഗാനമെവിടയോ മുറിഞ്ഞില്ലാതാകുന്നു

കയ്യെത്തിപിടിച്ച വിജയത്തിന്റെ മധുരനിമിഷങ്ങളെ ഓർമയുടെ പുഞ്ചിരികളാൽ  താലോലിച്ചും, കൈപാടുദൂരേവെച്ചു  വഴുതിയവയെ നഷ്ടബോധത്തിന്റെ നെടുവീർപ്പുകളാൽ സ്വാന്തനിപ്പിച്ചും, ഒരു പകൽ കൂടി എരിഞ്ഞടങ്ങുന്നു

ജീവിതമെന്ന മഹായാത്രയുടെ അനന്തവീഥിയിലെ ചെറിയൊരിടവേളയവസാനിപ്പിച്ച് കാലം മുമ്പോട്ടു മറ്റൊന്നിലേക്കു തിരിയുന്നു

കഴിഞ്ഞതെല്ലാം ഒരുപിടി ഓർമ്മകളിലൊതുക്കി നിയതിയുടെ പാവക്കൂത്തരങ്ങിൽ മറ്റൊരങ്കം തുടങ്ങുകയായി

ഇന്നിന്റെ തീരാത്ത ജീവിതതൃഷ്ണയുടെ ചിവീടൊച്ചകളും നാളയുടെ അനിശ്ചിതത്വമൗനവും യാമിനിയിൽ അലിഞ്ഞില്ലാതാകുന്നു

നഗരവീഥികളുടെ നിയോൺ കണ്ണുകൾ നിശാസുന്ദരിയുടെ ലാസ്യനടനലഹരിയിലേക്കു ചിമ്മിതുറക്കുകയായി

ഒരു പുതിയ പുലരി, പ്രത്യാശയുടെ,അതിജീവനത്തിന്റെ മാറ്റൊലിയുമായ് നാളെ കിഴക്കു വിടരുമെന്ന് നമുക്കാശ്വസിക്കാം

ഇനി സുഷുപ്തിയുടെ കാണാക്കയങ്ങളിലെ സ്വപ്നനിധികൾ തേടി നമുക്കുളയിടാം, എല്ലാം മറന്നൊന്നുറങ്ങാം ...

AthmabOdhanaam mOkshahEthu (ആത്മബോധനാം മോക്ഷഹേതു)

paThanthu SaasthraaNi yajanthu dEvaan                 പഠന്തു ശാസ്ത്രാണി യജന്തു ദേവാൻ      
kurvvanthu karmmaaNi bhajanthu dEvathaaH          കുർവ്വന്തു കർമ്മാണി ഭജന്തു ദേവതാഃ
aathmaikyabODHEna vinaa vimukthir -                   ആത്മൈക്യബോധേന വിനാ വിമുക്തിർ -
na siddhyathi brahmaSathaantharE//pi                      ന സിദ്ധ്യതി ബ്രഹ്മശതാന്തരേfപി

Vivekachudamani (1:16)
 വിവേകചൂഡാമണി (൧:൧൬)

ശാസ്ത്രങ്ങള്‍ പഠിക്കട്ടെ, ദേവന്മാരേ ഉദ്ദേശിച്ചു യാഗയജ്ഞങ്ങള്‍ ചെയ്യട്ടെ, ധര്‍മ്മ കര്‍മ്മ കലാപങ്ങള്‍ അനുഷ്ഠിക്കട്ടെ, ദേവതകളെ ആരാധിക്കട്ടെ, ഇതും മറ്റെന്തൊക്കെ തന്നെ ചെയ്താലും, ബ്രഹ്മാത്മൈക്യജ്ഞാനം കൂടാതെ നൂറു വിരിഞ്ചന്മാരുടെ ആയുഷ്ക്കാലംകൊണ്ടുപോലും നിരതിശയ സുഖസ്വരൂപമായ മോക്ഷം പ്രാപിക്കാന്‍ സാധ്യമല്ല. നാനത്വബോധമാണ്‌ ബന്ധകാരണം; അതിനു പ്രതിവിധി ആത്മൈക്യബോധമേ ഉള്ളൂ. മറ്റുള്ളവയൊക്കെ സഹകാരി കാരണങ്ങളേ ആകൂ; സാക്ഷാല്‍ ഉപായം അദ്വൈതജ്ഞാനം മാത്രമാകുന്നു.

വ്യാഖ്യാനം : സിദ്ധിനാഥാനന്ദസ്വാമി ((C) ശ്രീരാമകൃഷ്ണമഠം, പുറനാട്ടുകര, തൃശ്ശൂ‌‌‌ര്‍)
 

You may learn countless scriptures and study thousands of theologies, You may do countless Yajnas and holy sacrifices and make offerings to Gods, You may be an atheist and go about doing your daily duties or Karma, You may be an ardent believer and do your daily prayers and worships ,But until and unless you understand and realize that God (Brahman or the omnipresent and omnipotent) and You (Atman or soul) are one and the same, You will never ever attain salvation or freedom from worldly existence (Jeevanmukti or Moksha) even if you try for lifetimes of a hundred Brahmas (*1) ( Creator of life)

(*1) The basic unit of Vedic cyclical time is the day of Brahma,(Creator of Universe) which lasts 4.32 billion years. The day of Brahma (also called a kalpa) is followed by a night of Brahma, also lasting 4.32 billion years. The cycle of days and nights of Brahma toes on for Brahma's lifetime of one hundred years (36,000 nights), equivalent to 311.04 trillion of our human years. During the day of Brahma, life, including human life manifest.s During the night of Brahma, life is not manifest.

The Yuga Cycles

Each yuga cycle is composed of 4 yugas. The first, the Satya-yuga, lasts 4800 years of the devas (demigods) The second, the Treta-yuga, lasts 3600 years of the devas. The third, the Dvapara-yuga, lasts 2400 years of the devas. And the fourth, Kali-yuga, lasts 1200 years of the devas . Since a deva-year is equivalent to 360 human or earth years, the lengths of the yugas in earth years are, acording to standard Vaishnava commentaries, 432,000 years for the Kali-yuga, 864,000 years for the Dvapara-yuga, 1,296,000 years for the Treta-yuga, and 1,728,000 years for the Satya-yuga.

This gives a total of 4,320,000 years for the entire yuga cycle. One thousand of such cycles, lasting 4,320,000 years, comprises one day of Brahma, (the Creator in the Hindu Holy trinity ) whose job is to create this visible and invisible universe and all its dead and alive. inhabitants A day of Brahma is also called a kalpa. Each of Brahma's nights lasts a similar period of time. Life is only manifest on earth during the day of Brahma. With the onset of Brahma's night, the entire universe is devastated and plunged into darkness. When another day of Brahma begins, life again becomes manifest.

Each day of Brahma is divided into 14 manvantara periods, each one lasting 71 yuga cycles. Preceding the first and following each manvantara period is a juncture (sandhya) the length of a Satya-yuga (1,728,000 years). Typically, each manvantara period ends with a partial devastation. According to Puranic accounts, we are now in the twenty-eighth yuga cycle of the seventh manvantara period of the present day of Brahma.

Altogether, 453 yuga cycles have elapsed since this day of Brahma began. Each yuga cycle involves a progression from a golden age of peace and spiritual progress to a final age of violence and spiritual degradation."

from the Srimad Bhagavatam, Canto 3, Chapter 11

This would give the inhabited earth an age of about 2 billion years. Interestingly enough, the oldest undisputed organisms recognized by paleontologists - algae fossils like those from the Gunflint formation in Canada - are just about that old.

(From Stewart, Wilson N. (1983) Paleobotany and the Evolution of Plants. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.)

ORU NOV22-NDE ORMAKKU (To the fond memory of a NOV 22nd )

Aa vandya vayodhika vishwakarmalayathinde cement padavukalilude kalaaminnum
chada-pada shabadathode kettumaranna aa ozhukkode odiyirangi pokunnu...

Aa swarangal... Aa ormakal...Jeevithamenna maha yathrayile edavelakalil sahatha sanchariyayi ee ormakal mathram ...avakku nirangalundu, gandhangalundu......... Dukhathinde, kaivittupoya nalukalude, ariyatha nalayude ariyunna ennalakalakunnu ava... Maraviyude konukalilekku kaalam koriyitta varnna prampancham

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Nashta vasanthangale thirichonnu varumo...

Aa venalkkalamenikkorikkalkoodiyonnu tharumo...

Piriyatha veenayum naadavum pole,

Cheratha nadiyum suryanum pole

Marikkatha innalakalude maaratha sughandhamayi

Parayathha kelkaatha ishtathin nombaramoorum madhuramaayi

Karayatha chirikalude vattathha nanavaayi,

Manassinde konile mayatha mazhavillayi

Veendum tharumo enn ormakalkkullil ne,

Jalakakkonile a cheru velichakkeerine

Kalam thottoru unagatha murivumaayi

kaathu njaan nilppivideyinnum

Sarayuvil amaratha Ramane pole,

panchavadi marakkatha Sitaye pole

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That grand old ‘Vishwakarmalaya” stands head strong, baring its time hardened stony blocks to the elements challenging the mightiest – TIME stands still here head bowed- life still meanders out of its many noisy corridors and time worn steps - down with the same passion and vigor- Along its many corners memory freeze frames to the those old scenes . Those sounds … the smell of fresh “kaavi” paint … chalk powder flowing out from classes... Many a soft whispers making out along the footsteps and tree shades of the ground... the ever inviting ambience remains the same but the “sattwa” is gone. The life flows out on and on...With its unrelenting and sometimes cruel pace “the greatest of the conjurers” draws out schemes after schemes, making and marring destinies ,drawing people far and near, away and close….

O mighty Time I plead to thee,

Please bring me back those days , the days of my lost summer

That being the never separated bell and chime,

That being the ever parted sun and shade

That being the ever alluring scent of yesterday that refuses to die

That being the unsaid, the unheard sweet agony that lingers on

That being the smiling tears, wetting the deep downs of memory

That being the never fading portrait, etched out along the annals of memory

Just give me that splinter of light trickling along the slight window crack

Just once and for once only and I stand waiting

Like “Ram” who was never to be lost in Sarayu,

Like “Sita” who’d never ever forget panchavadi

A Hindu's Views on Hinduism

For one to be a true Hindu he needs to know what Hinduism stands for and according to me it is choice and freedom to practise a belief system of one's own.

We can find a lot of aspects in Hindu ways of life that are contradictory as well as utterly negative and derogatory to popular beliefs. Frequently in scriptures we can find Gods coming in as characters that exhibit all flavours of human tendencies and emotions and many of their actions put to test the very belief of the followers. But again we must consider that Hinduism, unlike any other religion is not organized, hierarchical or structured. It is neither strict nor hard in its beliefs and forms rather a way of living than a religion.

What we must understand is that being a very very flexible religion Hinduism permits a lot of different thoughts and interpretations of its rules and regulations along with the very nature of it's Deities. A lot of literature that may come across as blasphemy is tolerated and even promoted so that people can discuss and relate wordily life with spiritual life. Ultimate aim of Hinduism being the union of man and god or God Realization, it gives a lot of paths for that depending upon the status of mind of each follower. All philosophies are right depending on the level of spiritual growth one has obtained. This is very well elucidated in Bhagvad Gita.

A true Hindu never questions other's faiths and never degrades anyone on the basis of their beliefs . One must discuss , assimilate facts and then think upon it and find out what is right for one , but then one must also make allowance to other's right to be like that too. What is right for one may not be right for other and Hinduism advocates and accepts it unlike many other religions. Other religions have a strict hierarchy and well defined right/wrong concepts which makes them uneasy with the freedom of Hinduism. They are baffled with the outright contradictions in Hindu scriptures and thus cannot digest the facts behind them.

Hinduism provides all but a freedom of choice.. The freedom to choose from a lot of its many scriptural paths, a path of your liking to satisfy your needs and reach the God/Place which you want to ultimately.

Hinduism as a belief system does not advocate what to do and what not - it merely points out the various scenarios and the results and urge the follower to make a choice" An intelligent choice" as there are more than enough instances and examples of each action and its reaction in its multitude of scriptures and literature.

3 Questions

The most important questions that comes up in life are :-

Q1) Which is the perfect time to act ?

The most perfect time to act is NOW!!-- The Present Moment. Why?? Because it's only now that we have any power to act. We cannot predict what will happen in the next moment, but can very well do what we should do, right now!!. Time that's gone is gone for ever and what that will come is a mystery, Only this moment is under our control. .

Q2) Who are the most important people in life?

The most important people in your life are People who are with us right now. As explained earlier we have no control over the past (Which is gone forever) or over the future moment, but can act only in the present moment. So the people whom we are with, are the most important people for us for the present, as we don't have any idea of knowing whether we will meet anyone else or who will remain with us in future.

Q3) What must be most important action?

The most important action is To do good to the people whom we are with. As this being the most important time and whom we are with right now are the most important people, the most important action for us is to do good to them in whatever possible way we can and must. Again we don't know what will happen in next moment, who will be with us then and what results our actions bring, So the Best action for now is to do GOOD , in whatever manner we can, to all those who are with us right now. Doing good is an excellent insurance for future, as by doing so, we can be sure that we have not offended anyone and most importantly there is no guilty feeling.

Bhagvad Gita - What I Learnt

Life is a process of a series of experiences which are mysteriously and inextricably connected with the entire universe in all its planes of existence - Thus when Bhagvad Gita offers solutions to the problems of life and prescribes method of regulating and harmonizing its modes it has to take into account every thing in the universe to which life is related – The greatness of Gita lies in its integrality of its scope the universality of its teachings the all comprehensiveness of its doctrine.

The primary cause of trouble in which man finds himself is the erroneous notion which he has about his relations with the body, the world and virtually with God. The perishable nature of body and the world, and the immortal nature of the conscious soul within are forgotten – Truth and Falsehood of life comes into light when the events and facts are analyzed with pure reason unbiased with objects of sense-perception.

Man cannot cease action. Action is the law of individual life. To act, and not allow the reason to get attached to acts is the essence of Karma yoga. Cessation from physical action is not non-action. Vital, emotional, mental and intellectual action is real action. Through out his life, Man has no freedom to abstain from actions. According to Gita action law or Karma Yoga is action based on the consciousness of the absoluteness of God, the surrender of oneself to God.

The sense of possession is the greatest of deluding factors in human life. Bhagvad Gita talks about this as follows

“What ever that had happened, happened for good
What ever that is happening, is happening for good
What ever that is going to happen is also for good
Why worry about anything that you lost,
For nothing in this world was brought by you when you came in here
And nothing will be taken back by you when you leave this world

Whatever riches you claim to be your own today was some one else’s yesterday
And it will be some one else’s tomorrow for sure.”

So don’t worry about all this but live your life according to the law of Karma.

The Bhagvad Gita may be called “anasakti –Yoga” – The Yoga of non-attachment.

[Actions as Devotion to God, God as supreme, Free form attachment to the fruits of one’s action and equal apathy towards other beings – Marks of one who will reach the final destination – i.e. Brahma sakshathkaram ]

The emotional spirit of the Bhagvad Gita’s teaching, is the continuous consciousness of Absolute while the routine duties of life are discharged without reluctance and with joy of the knowledge of the fact that entire activity of universe is an overflow of the process of divine consciousness

The agent, the goal, the instrument and the process of action is Brahman. Essence of Gita’s ethical philosophy is based on “isavasya Upanishad” where the doctrine of “Nishkama Karma” has been suggested.

The purpose of human life is the recognition of the divine and Gita describes a number of ways and their relative merits, so that each reader is presented freedom of choice – A knowledge powered and intelligent choice..

FAITH ..Thats all everyone has

An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem science has with God, The Almighty.

He asks one of his new students to stand and.....

Prof: So you believe in God?

Student: Absolutely, sir.

Prof : Is God good?

Student: Sure.Prof: Is God all-powerful?

Student : Yes.

Prof: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn't. How is this God good then? Hmm?

(Student is silent.)

Prof: You can't answer, can you? Let's start again, young fella. Is God good?

Student: Yes.

Prof: Is Satan good?

Student : No.

Prof: Where does Satan come from?

Student: From...God...

Prof: That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?

Student: Yes.

Prof: Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything. Correct?

Student: Yes.

Prof: So who created evil?

(Student does not answer.)

Prof: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don't they?

Student: Yes, sir.

Prof: So, who created them?

(Student has no answer.)

Prof: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son...Have you ever seen God?

Student: No, sir.

Prof: Tell us if you have ever heard your God?

Student: No, sir.

Prof: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God? Have you ever had any sensory perception of God for that matter?

Student: No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't.

Prof: Yet you still believe in Him?

Student: Yes.

Prof: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your GOD doesn't exist.What do you say to that, son?

Student: Nothing. I only have my faith.

Prof: Yes. Faith. And that is the problem science has.

Student: Professor, is there such a thing as heat?

Prof: Yes.Student: And is there such a thing as cold?

Prof: Yes.

Student: No sir. There isn't.(The lecture theatre becomes very quiet with this turn of events.)

Student : Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat.But we don't have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can't goany further after that. There is no such thing as cold . Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence ofheat . We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy . Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it .(There is pin-drop silence in the lecture theatre.)

Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?

Prof: Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness?

Student : You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, brightlight, flashing light....But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and it's called darkness, isn't it? In reality, darkness isn't. If it were you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't you?

Prof: So what is the point you are making, young man?

Student: Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.

Prof: Flawed? Can you explain how?

Student: Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it.Now tell me, Professor.Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?

Prof: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.

Student: Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?(The Professor shakes his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument is going.)

Student: Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher? (The class is in uproar.)

Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen theProfessor's brain?(The class breaks out into laughter.)

Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain,sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?(The room is silent. The professor stares at the student, his face unfathomable.)

Prof: I guess you'll have to take them on faith, son.

Student: That is it sir... The link between man & god is FAITH . That is all that keeps things moving & alive.