Thursday 3 May 2012

[www.keralites.net] FEELING BEHIND THE ACT

 

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Abdullah was sleeping in a corner of a mosque in Mecca, when he was awakened by the conversation of two angels above his head. They were preparing a list of the Blessed and one angel was telling the other that a certain Mahbub of Sikandar City deserved to be ranked first, even though he has not come on pilgrimage to the Holy City.

Hearing this, Abdullah went to Sikandar City and found out that he was a cobbler, repairing the shoes of people. He was famished and poor; for, his earnings barely sufficed to keep flesh and bone together. He had by severe sacrifice piled up a few coppers during the course of years; one day, he spent the entire treasure to prepare a special dish, which he proposed to place before his enceinte wife as a surprise gift.


When he was proceeding home with the gift he heard the cry of a starving beggar who seemed to be in the throes of extreme hunger. Mahbub could not proceed further; he gave the pot containing the costly delicacy to the man and sat by his side, enjoying the blossoming of satisfaction on his haggard face.

The act gave him a place of honour in the register of the Blessed, a place which pilgrims to Mecca who had spent millions of Dinars in charity could not secure. The lord cares for the feeling behind the act, not the fanfare and the fuss.


There is an ancient saying in India that goes like this: Anna daanam maha daanam; Vidya daanam mahattaram. Annena kshanika trupthihi Yaavajjeevanthu vidyaya.

It means that giving food to a hungry person is indeed a great donation, but the greatest donation of all is to give a person education. Food gives but a momentary satisfaction whereas education empowers the person for his entire life.

The Sanskrit word Annadanam literally means the offering or sharing (danam) of food (annam).In sanskrit the word "Annam" means food and "Daanam" means to donate. Thus "Annadanam" means feeding the hungry and needy.Taittiriya Upanishad declares, All life force comes from food. (annam vai pranah) and Let food be produced in plenty (annam bahu kurveet). In Bhagavad Gita, Sri Krishna declares, From food all beings are evolved (annad bhavanti bhutani).Even in Vedas, Upanishad, Ramayana, or Mahabharata during all these periods feeding a hungry person was treated as a greatest service to man kind. ANNA DAANAM MAHAA DAANAM [offering food is the best gift in the world.]is a very popular Sanskrit verse which has motivated millions of Indians to perform this divine act and in ancient India in most of the temple premises there were annadana centers.

Annam Para Brahma Swarupam. Food only can support the body to attain Dharma, Artha, Kama, Moksha. The person, who participate in this sacred Annadanam, will be blessed by divine Gods. Creatures cannot live without food, hence the donors of Annadanam are also considered as donors of pranadanam. Pranadanam means to offer all things as donation, accordingly they are blessed. Annadanam is a sacred activity. It is said that the sacred works done by the people with the energy acquired by food bestows half of its effect to the donor of food and the rest is to that person. Many positive results like this can acquire from the Annadanam.

Manu Dharma Sastra declares, regard the guest as a deity (atdhithi devo bhava) plainly expresses this worldwide tradition among ancient societies that deities may move upon the earth in human guise, and that one should therefore regard them with the utmost courtesy and respect and hospitalityincluding the offering of food items. Annadanams are conducted with this very principle in mind, for among the hungry crowd there may also be the anonymous genuine devotee, saint or even a deva or deity. Indeed, each and every poor person is regarded in this way, as expressed in the Sanskrit saying Daridra Narayana (God dwells in the poor person).

Service to human is service to God. Serving food to the hungry is equal to effect of performing ritual yagna. Human beings can only be satisfied with food but not with gold, dress and other things, as they desire to have them more and more. But in case of food a man wholeheartedly says that the food is enough for him. It is said that glory, strength and fame will be acquired in Trilokas by Annadanam.


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[www.keralites.net] നരസിംഹ മൂര്‍ത്തി ജയന്തി

 

നരസിംഹ മൂര്‍ത്തി ജയന്തി
"കുട്ടി ആയിരക്കുമ്പോള്‍ തന്നെ പ്രഹളാദന്‍ ശ്രീ .വിഷ്ണു ഭക്തനായി അതിനു കാരാണം നിഷകളങ്ക ഭക്തിയാണ് .
വരും ജന്മങ്ങളിലെല്ലാം നമുക്ക് പ്രഹളാദനെ പോലെ നിഷ്കളങ്ക ഭക്തനായി തീര്‍ന്നീടുവാന്‍ ശ്രീ ഹരി യോട് പ്രാര്‍ത്ഥിക്കാം

ദശാവതാരങ്ങളിലെ നാലാമത്തെ അവതാരമാണ് നരസിം‌ഹം. സഹോദരനായ ഹിരണ്യാക്ഷന്റെ വധത്തെ തുടർന്ന് ഹിരണ്യകശിപു ക്രോധാവിഷ്ടനായി. ബ്രഹ്മാവിനെ തപസ്സ് ചെയ്ത് താഴെ പറയുന്ന മട്ടിലേ തന്റെ മരണം ആകാവൂ എന്ന വരം വാങ്ങി.

മനുഷ്യനോ മൃഗമോ തന്നെ കൊല്ലരുത്
ആയുധങ്ങൾ കൊണ്ട് തന്നെ കൊല്ലരുത്
രാവോ പകലോ തന്നെ കൊല്ലരുത്
ഭൂമിയിലോ ആകാശത്തോ പാതാളത്തോ വെച്ച് തന്നെ കൊല്ലരുത്

ഹിരണ്യകശിപുവിന് പരമവിഷ്ണുഭക്തനായ പുത്രൻ ജനിച്ചു. വിഷ്ണുഭക്തിയിൽ നിന്നും തന്റെ പുത്രനായ പ്രഹ്ലാദനെ പിന്തിരിപ്പിയ്ക്കാൻ ഹിരണ്യകശിപു ശ്രമിച്ചെങ്കിലും പരാജയപ്പെട്ടു. ഹിരണ്യകശിപു പ്രഹ്ലാദനെ വധിയ്ക്കാൻ പല മാർഗ്ഗങ്ങളും സ്വീകരിച്ചു. പരാജിതനായ ഹിരണ്യകശിപു ക്രോധം പൂണ്ട് പ്രഹ്ലാദനോട് വിഷ്ണുവിനെ കാട്ടിത്തരാൻ ആവശ്യപ്പെട്ടു. തൂണിലും തുരുമ്പിലും വിഷ്ണു വസിയ്ക്കുന്നുണ്ടെന്ന് പ്രഹ്ലാദൻ അറിയിയ്ക്കുകയും അനന്തരം തൂൺ പിളർന്ന് മഹാവിഷ്ണു നരസിം‌ഹമൂർത്തിയായി അവതരിച്ചു. സന്ധ്യക്ക് തന്റെ മടിയിൽ കിടത്തി നഖങ്ങൾ കൊണ്ട് മനുഷ്യനോ മൃഗമോ അല്ലാത്ത നരസിംഹം ഹിരണ്യകശിപു വധം നടത്തി. ശേഷം ശാന്തനായ നരസിം‌ഹമൂർത്തി പ്രഹ്ലാദനെ അനുഗ്രഹിച്ച് അപ്രത്യക്ഷനായി.


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[www.keralites.net] When Math's Teacher Writes Love Letter

 

 

My Dear Sweetheart,

Yesterday, I was passing by your rectangular house in trigonometric lane.

There I saw you with our cute circular face, conical nose and spherical eyes, standing in your triangular garden.

Before seeing you my heart was a null set, but when a vector of magnitude (likeness) from your eyes at a deviation of theta radians made a tangent to my heart, it differentiated.

My love for you is a quadratic equation with real roots, which only you can solve by making good binary relation with me.

The cosine of my love for you extends to infinity.

I promise that I should not resolve you into partial functions but if I do so, you can integrate me by applying the limits from zero to infinity.

You are as essential to me as an element to a set.

The geometry of my life revolves around your acute personality

 

My love if you don't meet me at parabola restaurant on date 10 at sun set when the sun is making an angle of 160 degrees my heart would be like a solved polynomial of degree 10

 

With love your higher order derivatives of maxima and minima of an unknown function

 

 


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[www.keralites.net] FIGHT FOR YOUR HAPPINESS

 

The reason why some people
find it so difficult to be happy
is because they are always judging
that past was better ,
that the present is worse
and that future will be better than.
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The pleasure of the great men
is the ability to make others happy.
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Happiness is hard to achieve,
because only achieved by making others happy.
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We are never so unhappy as we suppose,
not as happy as we had expected.
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There are people who have everything to be happy,
except the happiness.
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The past is a glass curtain.
Blessed are those who observe the past
in order to walk in the future.
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Friends...
Fight for your happiness.


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