Bhagavad-gita As It Is Chapter 5 Verse 12

 

தமிழில் படிக்க மேலே கிளிக் செய்யவும்

BG 5.12

TEXT 12

yuktaḥ karma-phalaṁ tyaktvā

śāntim āpnoti naiṣṭhikīm

ayuktaḥ kāma-kāreṇa

phale sakto nibadhyate

SYNONYMS

yuktaḥ—one who is engaged in devotional service; karma-phalam—the results of all activities; tyaktvā—giving up; śāntim—perfect peace; āpnoti—achieves; naiṣṭhikīm—unflinching; ayuktaḥ—one who is not in Kṛṣṇa consciousness; kāma-kāreṇa—for enjoying the result of work; phale—in the result; saktaḥ—attached; nibadhyate—becomes entangled.

TRANSLATION

The steadily devoted soul attains unadulterated peace because he offers the result of all activities to Me; whereas a person who is not in union with the Divine, who is greedy for the fruits of his labor, becomes entangled.

PURPORT

The difference between a person in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and a person in bodily consciousness is that the former is attached to Kṛṣṇa, whereas the latter is attached to the results of his activities. The person who is attached to Kṛṣṇa and works for Him only is certainly a liberated person, and he is not anxious for fruitive rewards. In the Bhāgavatam, the cause of anxiety over the result of an activity is explained as being due to one's functioning in the conception of duality, that is, without knowledge of the Absolute Truth. Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead. In Kṛṣṇa consciousness, there is no duality. All that exists is a product of Kṛṣṇa's energy, and Kṛṣṇa is all good. Therefore, activities in Kṛṣṇa consciousness are on the absolute plane; they are transcendental and have no material effect. One is, therefore, filled with peace in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. One who is, however, entangled in profit calculation for sense gratification cannot have that peace. This is the secret of Kṛṣṇa consciousness-realization that there is no existence besides Kṛṣṇa is the platform of peace and fearlessness.

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Happy New Year 2011

Nights are Dark but Days are Light,
Wish your Life will always be Bright.
So my Dear don't get Fear Coz,

God Gift us a "BRAND NEW YEAR"

Ten Great Tips For 2011

1. Stay out of Trouble.
2. Aim for Greater Heights.
3. Stay Focused on your Job.
4. Exercise to Maintain Good Health.
5. Practice Team Work.
6. Rely on your Trusted Partner to Watch your Back. Take your Time Trusting Others.
7. Save for Rainy Days.
8. Rest and Relax.
9. Always Take Time to Smile.
AND
10. Realize That Nothing is Impossible.

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is Chapter 4 Verse 22

தமிழில் படிக்க மேலே கிளிக் செய்யவும்

BG 4.22

TEXT 22

TEXT

yadṛcchā-lābha-santuṣṭo

dvandvātīto vimatsaraḥ

samaḥ siddhāv asiddhau ca

kṛtvāpi na nibadhyate

SYNONYMS

yadṛcchā—out of its own accord; lābha—gain; santuṣṭaḥ—satisfied; dvandva—duality; atītaḥ—surpassed; vimatsaraḥ—free from envy; samaḥ—steady; siddhau—in success; asiddhau—failure; ca—also; kṛtvā—doing; api—although; na—never; nibadhyate—is affected.

TRANSLATION

He who is satisfied with gain which comes of its own accord, who is free from duality and does not envy, who is steady both in success and failure, is never entangled, although performing actions.

PURPORT

A Kṛṣṇa conscious person does not make much endeavor even to maintain his body. He is satisfied with gains which are obtained of their own accord. He neither begs nor borrows, but he labors honestly as far as is in his power, and is satisfied with whatever is obtained by his own honest labor. He is therefore independant in his livelihood. He does not allow anyone's service to hamper his own service in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. However, for the service of the Lord he can participate in any kind of action without being disturbed by the duality of the material world. The duality of the material world is felt in terms of heat and cold, or misery and happiness. A Kṛṣṇa conscious person is above duality because he does not hesitate to act in any way for the satisfaction of Kṛṣṇa. Therefore he is steady both in success and in failure. These signs are visible when one is fully in transcendental knowledge.

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Excellence…

Excellence...
A German once visited a temple under construction where he saw a sculptor making an idol of God. Suddenly he noticed a similar idol lying nearby.

Surprised, he asked the sculptor, "Do you need two statues of the same idol?" "No," said the sculptor without looking up, "We need only one, but the first one got damaged at the last stage."
The gentleman examined the idol and found no apparent damage. "Where is the damage?" he asked. "There is a scratch on the nose of the idol." said the sculptor, still busy with his work. "Where are you going to install the idol?"
The sculptor replied that it would be installed on a pillar twenty feet high. "If the idol is that far, who is going to know that there is a scratch on the nose?" the gentleman asked. The sculptor stopped his work, looked up at the gentleman, smiled and said, "I will know it."
The desire to excel is exclusive of the fact whether someone else appreciates it or not. "Excellence" is a drive from inside, not outside. Excellence is not for someone else to notice but for your own satisfaction and satisfaction of God.

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Warmth in human relationships

Warmth in human relationships

A boy was born to a couple after eleven years of marriage. They were a loving couple and the boy was the gem of their eyes. When the boy was around two years old, one morning the husband saw a medicine bottle open.
He was late for office so he asked his wife to cap the bottle and keep it in the cupboard. His wife, preoccupied in the kitchen totally forgot the matter. The boy saw the bottle and playfully went to the bottle fascinated by its color and drank it all. It happened to be a poisonous medicine meant for adults in small dosages. When the child collapsed the mother hurried him to the hospital, where he died. The mother was stunned. She was terrified how to face her husband.
When the distraught father came to the hospital and saw the dead child he looked at his wife and uttered just four words.
The husband just said, "I am with you."
The husband's totally unexpected reaction is a proactive behavior. The child is dead. He can never be brought back to life. There is no point in finding fault with the mother. Besides, if only he had taken time to keep the bottle away, this would not have happened.
No one is to be blamed. She had also lost her only child. What she needed at that moment was consolation and sympathy from the husband. That is what he gave her.
If everyone can look at life with this kind of perspective, there would be much fewer problems in the world. Take off all your jealousies, un-forgiveness, selfishness, and fears. And you will find things are actually not as difficult as you think. Sometimes we spend time in asking who is responsible or whom to blame, whether in a relationship, in a job or with the people we know. By this way we miss out some warmth in human relationship.

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is Chapter 14 Verse 16

 

Bg

தமிழில் படிக்க மேலே கிளிக் செய்யவும்

BG 14.16

TEXT 16

TEXT

karmaṇaḥ sukṛtasyāhuḥ

sāttvikaṁ nirmalaṁ phalam

rajasas tu phalaṁ duḥkham

ajñānaṁ tamasaḥ phalam

SYNONYMS

karmaṇaḥ—of work; sukṛtasya—in the mode of goodness; āhuḥ—said; sāttvikam—mode of goodness; nirmalam—purified; phalam—result; rajasaḥ—of the mode of passion; tu—but; phalam—result; duḥkham—misery; ajñānam—nonsense; tamasaḥ—of the mode of ignorance; phalam—result.

TRANSLATION

By acting in the mode of goodness, one becomes purified. Works done in the mode of passion result in distress, and actions performed in the mode of ignorance result in foolishness.

PURPORT

By pious activities in the mode of goodness one is purified; therefore the sages, who are free from all illusion, are situated in happiness. Similarly, activities in the mode of passion are simply miserable. Any activity for material happiness is bound to be defeated. If, for example, one wants to have a skyscraper, so much human misery has to be undergone before a big skyscraper can be built. The financier has to take much trouble to earn a mass of wealth, and those who are slaving to construct the building have to render physical toil. The miseries are there. Thus Bhagavad-gītā says that in any activity performed under the spell of the mode of passion, there is definitely great misery. There may be a little so-called mental happiness-"I have this house or this money"-but this is not actual happiness. As far as the mode of ignorance is concerned, the performer is without knowledge, and therefore all his activities result in present misery, and afterwards he will go on toward animal life. Animal life is always miserable, although, under the spell of the illusory energy, māyā, the animals do not understand this. Slaughtering poor animals is also due to the mode of ignorance.

The animal killers do not know that in the future the animal will have a body suitable to kill them. That is the law of nature. In human society, if one kills a man he has to be hanged. That is the law of the state. Because of ignorance, people do not perceive that there is a complete state controlled by the Supreme Lord. Every living creature is the son of the Supreme Lord, and He does not tolerate even an ant's being killed. One has to pay for it. So, indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance. A human being has no need to kill animals because God has supplied so many nice things. If one indulges in meat-eating anyway, it is to be understood that he is acting in ignorance and is making his future very dark. Of all kinds of animal killing, the killing of cows is most vicious because the cow gives us all kinds of pleasure by supplying milk. Cow slaughter is an act of the grossest type of ignorance. In the Vedic literature the words gobhiḥ prīṇita-matsaram indicate that one who, being fully satisfied by milk, is desirous of killing the cow, is in the grossest ignorance. There is also a prayer in the Vedic literature that states:

namo brahmaṇya-devāya go-brāhmaṇa-hitāya ca
jagaddhitāya kṛṣṇāya govindāya namo namaḥ.

"My Lord, You are the well-wisher of the cows and the brāhmaṇas, and You are the well-wisher of the entire human society and world." The purport is that special mention is given in that prayer for the protection of the cows and the brāhmaṇas. Brāhmaṇas are the symbol of spiritual education, and cows are the symbol of the most valuable food; these two living creatures, the brāhmaṇas and the cows, must be given all protection-that is real advancement of civilization. In modern human society, spiritual knowledge is neglected, and cow killing is encouraged. It is to be understood, then, that human society is advancing in the wrong direction and is clearing the path to its own condemnation. A civilization which guides the citizens to become animals in their next lives is certainly not a human civilization. The present human civilization is, of course, grossly misled by the modes of passion and ignorance. It is a very dangerous age, and all nations should take care to provide the easiest process, Kṛṣṇa consciousness, to save humanity from the greatest danger.

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is Chapter 3 Verse 40

தமிழில் படிக்க மேலே கிளிக் செய்யவும்

Bg 3.40

TEXT 40

TEXT

indriyāṇi mano buddhir

asyādhiṣṭhānam ucyate

etair vimohayaty eṣa

jñānam āvṛtya dehinam

indriyāṇi—the senses; manaḥ—the mind; buddhiḥ—the intelligence; asya—of the lust; adhiṣṭhānam—sitting place; ucyate—called; etaiḥ—by all these; vimohayati—bewilders; eṣaḥ—of this; jñānam—knowledge; āvṛtya—covering; dehinam—the embodied.

TRANSLATION

The senses, the mind and the intelligence are the sitting places of this lust, which veils the real knowledge of the living entity and bewilders him.

PURPORT

The enemy has captured different strategic positions in the body of the conditioned soul, and therefore Lord Kṛṣṇa is giving hints of those places, so that one who wants to conquer the enemy may know where he can be found. Mind is the center of all the activities of the senses, and thus the mind is the reservoir of all ideas of sense gratification; and, as a result, the mind and the senses become the repositories of lust. Next, the intelligence department becomes the capital of such lustful propensities. Intelligence is the immediate next-door neighbor of the spirit soul. Lusty intelligence influences the spirit soul to acquire the false ego and identify itself with matter, and thus with the mind and senses. The spirit soul becomes addicted to enjoying the material senses and mistakes this as true happiness. This false identification of the spirit soul is very nicely explained in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam:

yasyātma-buddhiḥ kuṇāpe tri-dhātuke
sva-dhīḥ kalatrādiṣu bhauma idyadhīḥ
yat-tīrtha-buddhiḥ salite na karhicij
janeṣv abhijñeṣu sa eva gokharaḥ.

"A human being who identifies this body made of three elements with his self, who considers the by-products of the body to be his kinsmen, who considers the land of birth as worshipable, and who goes to the place of pilgrimage simply to take a bath rather than meet men of transcendental knowledge there, is to be considered as an ass or a cow."

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சமையல் குறிப்பு - பாதுஷா

ருசியான பாதுஷா என்றதும் நாக்கில் எச்சில் ஊறுகிறதா?

அது செய்வது எப்ப‍டி என்று இப்போது பார்க்க‍லாம்.

தேவையான பொருட்கள்

மைதா 1/2 கிலோ

டால்டா 1/4 கிலோ

சர்க்க‍ரை 1/2 கிலோ

ரீபைண்டு எண்ணெய் 1/‌4 கிலோ

தேங்காய்ப் பூ  1/‌4 பேக்க‍ட்

பேக்கிங் பவுடர் சிறிதளவு

செய்முறை

முதலில் மைதா மாவை சலித்துக்கொள்ள‍வும், வாய் அகன்ற பேசின் போன்ற ஒரு பாத்திரத்தில் டால்டாவை போட்டு கையினால் நன்கு குழையவும். இப்பொழுது டால்டா உருகிய நெய் பதத்தில் வரும்பொழுது மைதா மாவு சிறிதளவு பேக்கிங் பவுடர், 4 ஸ்பூன் சர்க்க‍ரை சேர்த்து நன்கு மிருதுவாக பூரி மாவு பிசைவது போல பிசைய வேண்டும்.

பின்ன‍ர் பூரிமாவிற்கு செய்வதுபோல சிறுசிறு உருண்டைகளாக செய்து ஒவ்வொரு உருண்டைகளையும் உள்ள‍ங்கையில் வைத்து மற்றொரு கையினால் அதாவது மணிக்கட்டுக்கருகில் உள்ள‍ மேடான சதைப் பகுதியில் வைத்து அழுத்திடவும் தற்போது பாதுஷா உருண்டையின் நடுவில் சிறு பள்ள‍ம் போன்று காணப்படும். ஸ்டவ்வை பற்ற‍ வைத்து கடாயினை ஸ்டவ்வின்மேல் வைக்க‍வும், பாத்திரம் சூடானதும் எண்ணெயை ஊற்ற‍வும் எண்ணெய் காய்ந்த்தும் நான்கு அல்ல‍து ஐந்து பாதுஷாக்களை போட்டு பொன்னிறமாக வந்ததும் எண்ணெயினை வடித்து எடுத்து வைத்துக்கொள்ள‍வும் மற்றொரு ஸ்டவ்வில் ஒரு அகலமான பாத்திரத்தை வைத்து அதில் சர்க்க‍ரையை போட்டு             1 1/2 டம்ளர் தண்ணீர் விடவும். சர்க்க‍ரை நன்கு கரைந்து கொத்தித்து பாகு பதத்தில் ஜீரா தயாராகும். இப்பொழுது பொறித்தெடுத்த‍ பாதுஷாக்களை போட்டு சிறுதி நேரம் ஊறவிட்டு பின்ன‍ர் ஒரு தட்டில் எடுத்து ஒன்றுக்கொன்று இடைவெளி விட்டு அடுக்கி வைக்க‍வும். பாதுஷாவின் நடுவில் தேங்காய்ப் பூ கெஸ்பரை (தேங்காய் பூ ஒரே பாக்கெட்டில் பல கலர்கள் இருக்கும்)வினை சிறிது வைக்க‍வும் நன்கு ஆறியபின் எடுத்து சாப்பிடுங்கள் அந்த பார்ப்ப‍தற்க்கு அழகாகவும் ருசிப்ப‍தற்கு இருக்கும்.

சமையல் குறிப்பு போடுவதற்காண புதிய முயற்சி இந்த பாதுஷாவில் இருந்து ஆரம்பம். எனென்றால் திகட்டாமல் விரும்பி சுவைக்கும் இனிப்பு இதுவே எனது சர்வேயில்.

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"MAHATMA GANDHI" - in his childhood Photos

"MAHATMA GANDHI"
Gandhi in his childhood

Gandhi in his teens

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in South Africa in 1895

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi as Lawyer

Gandhi in Videshi outfit at 19 years of age

Young and handsome Gandhi

Gandhi with his wife Kasturba after returning from South Africa

Gandhi with his collegues in South Africa

Mohandas Gandhi with his friends in South Africa

Gandhi and his wife Kasturba

Gandhi preaching a group of people

Gandhi interacting with his followers sitting in a train

Gandhi in Downing Street, England

Gandhi in Downing Street , London , UK

Gandhi giving speech to his followers

Gandhi on Salt March

Gandhi on Dandi March

Gandhiji lifting the salt

Mahatma Gandhi with a facial expression of peace

Gandhi with his supporters in the train

Gandhiji with two women Manu and Abha

Gandhiji on a walk with Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

The two women Manu and Abha as his walking sticks

Gandhi-Nehru on a happy mood

Gandhiji and Nehruji on serious discussions for attaining independence to India

Gandhiji addressing the huge gatherings pertaining to Salt Satyagraha

Gandhiji with Jinnah in 1944

Gandhiji popularly known as Bapu with a sweet smile

Gandhiji along with his followers for Salt Satyagraha

A young boy leads Gandhiji for a walk

Gandhiji spinning the wheel

Bapu reading newspaper

Gandhi and Kasturba in their old age

Gandhiji on fast

Bapu's last walk for his prayer on January 30, 1948

Mahatma Gandhi – The Father of India (1869-1948)

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Keep yourself healthy - physically and emotionally

Many times people say things like, “I don’t have time to exercise,” what they really should be saying is, “I don’t have time not to exercise.”
If you lose your health and sense of well-being, you won’t make it to work at all. In the long run, it takes far less time to take care of yourself than it does to lose your ability to function well.
One should eat well, exercise, get plenty of rest, have regular physical checkups, and partake in other healthy habits. In addition to the obvious problems associated with ignoring these commonsense health habits, you can see that it’s also a horrible waste of time in the long run. Each cold or flu costs you days of productive work time. Who knows how many years of time you will save by simple taking care of yourself?
Take care of yourself – physically and emotionally. You can let go of your fear that you’ll fall behind because, in fact, you’ll be more productive and have a longer, happier life. So keep yourself healthy – physically and emotionally.

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அப்பா பாசம்

அப்பா...

எப்படி எப்படி
எல்லாமோ
தன் பாசம்
உணர்த்துவாள் அம்மா
ஒரேயொரு
கைஅழுத்தத்தில்
எல்லாமே
உணர்த்துவார்
அப்பா...

முன்னால்
சொன்னதில்லை
பிறர் சொல்லித்தான்
கேட்டிருக்கிறேன்
என்னைப்
பற்றி பெருமையாக
அப்பா
பேசிக்கொண்டிருந்ததை...

அம்மா
எத்தனையோ முறை
திட்டினாலும்
உறைத்ததில்லை
உடனே
உறைத்திருக்கிறது
என்றேனும்
அப்பா
முகம் வாடும் போது

உன் அப்பா
எவ்வளவு உற்சாகமாக
இருக்கிறார் தெரியுமா
என என் நண்பர்கள்
என்னிடமே சொல்லும்
போதுதான் எனக்குத்
தெரிந்தது
எத்தனை பேருக்குக்
கிடைக்காத தந்தை
எனக்கு மட்டும் என...

கேட்ட உடனே
கொடுப்பதற்கு
முடியாததால் தான்
அப்பாவை அனுப்பி
இருக்கிறாரோ
கடவுள்..?

சிறுவயதில்
என் கைப்பிடித்து
நடைபயில
சொல்லிக்கொடுத்த
அப்பா
என் கரம் பிடித்து
நடந்த போது
என்ன நினைத்திருப்பார்..?

லேசாக என் கால்
தடுமாறினாலும்
பதறும் அப்பா
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