An Ordinary Person's Views on Dharma

Sri Mariamman, Punnianallur, near Tanjavur, TN. A shri chakram was consecrated by the Brahma Gnani Sri Sadhasiva Brahmendral in this temple . Devi's saanidyam has manifested in the "putru" (ant - hill) and her murthy is made of earth from that ant-hill. She restored the lost vision of a daughter of Thulajendra Maharaja, a Maratha king Who was ruling Tanjavur at that time. Much later, she took as her ardent devotee, a British officer who was in charge of the town. Jai Ma!! Aadi Velli Greetings! ( Friday/Shukravaaram of Aadi month) Happy Friday! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 Pranam Paamaradharmi

Today is Vyasa Poornima/Guru Poornima. Followers of all sampradayas, Advaita, Vishitadvaita and Dvaita rever Sri Vyasacharya as Adi Guru, who is an avatara of Sriman Narayana himself. Om Sri Gurubhyo namaha. 🙏🏼🙏🏼 Asmath Sri Gurubhyo namaha. 🙏🏼🙏🏼 Om Sarva Gurubhyo namaha. Pranam to my Guru, and also to all the Gurus who lived/are living/will be born in the holy land of Bharatha as  they are an amsa of Sri Vyasacharya himself. Pranam to their supreme karuna that picks up a broken, hopeless human and heals him/her as only a mother can... There's not much we can do to repay that karuna. (Not that they expect it). All we need to do is hold their guiding hands tight and *keep faith.* Happy Tuesday and Guru Poornima! Mangalvar Greetings! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 Pranam Paamaradharmi

Sri As I think of you mother and what makes you the repertoire of all that is beautiful and complete, I come to some conclusions. You are a unique wife and mother. You never leave your husband’s side. You cheerfully walk beside him all the while doing everything you can for the sake of us, your children. You hide your enormous Shakthi behind the façade of a dutiful wife and mother. Looking at you from my angle [which is as flawed as it can get] I feel he, our father has taken you for granted at times. As Rama, he decides to go to the jungle and you follow. A long story follows and you shed a lot of tears. People talk about it till today, from their own less- informed angle. As Krishna when he came, was your lot any better? You were a princess but you left your kingdom and walked away to his land for the sake of love. Then much later, some bhakta does his duties well and your husband decides to pay a visit to that man’s home, uninvited. He...

In their ignorance, they said, they needed milk from a tigress... No one explicitly asked the twelve year old Prince to go and get it, but he volunteered anyway ... What happened afterwards is glorious history. He went in to the jungle all alone, got challenged by the Asuric Mahishi, battled that embodiment of adarma, defeated it and then graced it with satva qualities. Just as his brother Sri Subramanya did after winning against the triad of Asuric forces, Padmasura, Tarakasura and Singamukha. Sri Muruga/Subramanya converted the energy of Asuratva to pure Satva, his eternal dwaja and vahana . The victorious Prince of Panthalam came out of the jungle not with just one tigress or her milk but with a whole band of tigers, all of them acting like affectionate pet cats around him ! What a sight to behold it must have been! All this talk of "style" and "coolness" whenever people talk about human idols only remind me of his  style. His quiet streng...

On this Teacher's day, I remember with gratitude all my teachers and my own parents who were teachers themselves. First, about my mother. My mother worked in a school and touched the lives of many girl students in a positive way. She taught higher secondary level Maths. It was a humbling experience for me to meet one of her students in a new city where I was living with my family at that time. Like me, that former student was a wife and mother then and she recognised my mother. We were on a sight seeing trip in the Hyderabad of that time and it was a wonder that a person who was her student decades ago recognised her. My mother couldn't recognise her, as the young girl she once knew was all grown up now. The woman touched my mother's feet first, introduced herself and proudly introduced her old teacher to her surprised husband. We don't meet people by chance, we meet them by design. That meeting truly proved to me that teaching is the best of all noble ...

"Yashoda's son has brought some grains for me! (Wait till I tell the other birds about this! ) He runs like the wind, and any time now, he may run away from here ... Let me look at his face some more and some more- more- more, the grains can wait."

Hey Krishna, That's a lot of butter you have there. As you know, I have a habit of asking for things I don't deserve even one bit. But still, if you parted with a wee - little bit out of all that butter for me, would your father Sri Nandagopa become poorer? Think it over, please. Your undeserving but ever hopeful child.