tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-157125102024-03-14T15:13:19.447+05:30Manathirku Varuvathellamமனதிற்கு வருவதெல்லாம்Read this only if you have nothing else to do but note down the angle subtended by the sun (or the moon) at your eye every two minutes.<br><br>
<i>This blog has no copyright. So, with respect to anything you find here, you are free to reproduce, distribute, interpret, misinterpret, distort, garble, do what you like, even claim authorship, without my consent or the permission of anybody.</i>Parthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07498458236201233375noreply@blogger.comBlogger1219125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15712510.post-83245787209830310882015-12-13T11:36:00.000+05:302015-12-13T11:36:06.929+05:30What next?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
When,<br />
pleasures titillate no more<br />
goals motivate no more<br />
relationships bind no more<br />
fears threaten no more<br />
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The mind seeks<br />
where is the next escape?<br />
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Parthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07498458236201233375noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15712510.post-53304100524975546292015-06-18T10:26:00.001+05:302015-06-18T10:26:30.082+05:30You stop time<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Parthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07498458236201233375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15712510.post-23326978496606371652015-06-08T22:47:00.002+05:302015-06-08T22:47:37.507+05:30Life can be a song<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
When the digestive fire is strong,<br /> and the breath long,<br /> life can be a song!<br /> If not, things will be wrong!<br />
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Parthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07498458236201233375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15712510.post-3849004938599003222015-06-08T22:46:00.002+05:302015-06-08T22:46:45.893+05:30அரங்கமா நகருளானே<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
மாற்றத்தாலும் தாபத்தாலும் <br /> மற்றும் அஞான பழக்கங்களாலும்<br /> துக்கம் விடாமல் நித்தியம் துரத்துவதாலும் <br />
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இவ்விரெண்டும் இல்லையெனில் <br /> வாழ்வே இல்லையென ஆனதாலும் <br /> இன்றைக்கும் என்றைக்கும் <br /> பிறவி வேண்டேன் <br /> அரங்கமா நகருளானே!<br />
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Parthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07498458236201233375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15712510.post-46761109753863249862015-05-24T13:05:00.002+05:302015-05-24T13:05:27.340+05:30Abhinivesa<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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An interesting insight after todays online yoga sutra! Kindly excuse if this is too yoga sutra technical<u><i> </i></u>:)</div>
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Prayatnam (effort), when used to unseat abhinivesa (one of the five
klesas) will also empower the processes that keep abhinivesa in place!
So, one will need more effort and this will empower it further. As the
heat increases on both sides, there is a tremendous increase in rajas
everywhere in the being. Obviously, they will leak via places in the
being that are not strong enough to hold the rajas. This will lead to
tremendous imbalances. </div>
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A more nuanced approach is clearly needed
to deal with abhinivesa which is a bit like vali - the more you fight
it, the more you empower it!</div>
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Parthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07498458236201233375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15712510.post-89224351939884040542015-05-24T12:49:00.003+05:302015-05-24T12:49:25.321+05:30Extraordinary Insight <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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At a moment of extraordinary insight into oneself, there is clear
serenity in the mind. Neither is there agitation with respect to the
troublesome contents revealed, nor is there excitement that unknown
components of oneself has been known. Such a clear seeing has
co-dependent arisal (samgatana) with that extraordinary insight into
oneself!</div>
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Parthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07498458236201233375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15712510.post-89029335367138024902015-05-24T12:41:00.002+05:302015-05-24T12:41:48.155+05:30முயற்சி<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
முயற்சி திருவினை ஆக்கும் அளவுக்கு <br />மிஞ்சினால் எதிர்வினை நிறையும்<br /></div>
Parthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07498458236201233375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15712510.post-18903109277464177502015-05-20T20:00:00.002+05:302015-05-20T20:00:12.714+05:30Satori and Samana<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
If you have satori, let it be seen in your samana vayu!<br />
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Parthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07498458236201233375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15712510.post-45573776359086613962015-05-17T21:04:00.003+05:302015-05-17T21:04:40.893+05:30Your body and Ahimsa<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i><b>अहिंसाप्रतिष्ठायं तत्सन्निधौ वैरत्याघः<br /> ahiṁsā-pratiṣṭhāyaṁ tat-sannidhau vairatyāghaḥ ||Yoga Sutra 2.35||<br />
</b></i>When ones relationship with another being is based on ahimsa, the other
being drops all resistance in the relationship and all cooperation will
be effortlessly forthcoming!<br />
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This is a great guide for ones
relationship with ones body. Consequently if ones relationship with ones
body is based on ahimsa (perfect understanding of the body's grammar
and all interactions being b<span class="text_exposed_show">ased on
that), then the body's cooperation will be received! If one has not
practiced ahimsa with ones own body, ahimsa in other relationships will
be hard.</span><br />
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Correct asana and pranyama practice will let one discover the body's grammar.<br />
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Parthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07498458236201233375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15712510.post-9356517840865981722015-05-15T22:07:00.002+05:302015-05-15T22:07:44.907+05:30Can you not be hurt sir<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"Can you not be hurt sir. Can you develop yourself to be that way?", the
speaker in a talk I attended today paraphrased JK and as she said that,
looked directly into my eyes. Had a profound effect. Thanks!</div>
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Parthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07498458236201233375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15712510.post-50579843339918336302015-04-11T13:15:00.002+05:302015-04-13T09:22:07.341+05:30Trikāla Drishti<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The following is one of the famous soliloquies by Shakespeare that appears in the play Macbeth</div>
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To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,<br />
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,<br />
To the last syllable of recorded time;<br />
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools<br />
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!</blockquote>
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The
above soliloquy appears towards the end of the play Macbeth and is
spoken by Macbeth when he hears about the death of his wife. He is
lamenting how time gradually takes people towards the end (death) of
(most often) confusing lives. This way of experiencing time (as an
entity that continuously flows from past to future creating history in
its flow) is the default way most humans experience time. The common
term used is linear time and this is the first drishti (way of seeing)
time. A similar sentiment is also expressed by Thiruvalluvar</div>
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நாளென ஒன்றுபோற் காட்டி உயிரீரும்<br />
வாள துணர்வார்ப் பெறின். (குறள் எண்: 334)<br />
Appears like a day, but the wise see it as a sword<br />
that is cutting through ones life! (Kural 334)</blockquote>
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One experiences this continuous flow of time by the changes that we see
in the world around us. These changes affect us and give us both pain
and pleasure. Consequently, anything that gives us the ability to
influence these changes so as to maximize pleasure and minimize pain is
keenly sought after. Naturally then, money, power and skill are keenly
sought after entities for people operating with this view. This breeds
competition and forces the individual to experience oneself as a
completely separate entity from other human beings and the biosphere.<br />
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As
young adults live life more and more out of the first drishti mentioned
above, a sense of dreariness usually sets in (despite expensive foreign
vacations and the like). Though many different jobs may be taken,
essentially one may be doing the same thing of earning more money so as
to spend them in increasingly more avenues! When the same patterns in
life start repeating, one starts to suspect may be one is missing
somethings. That's usually when the wise statements made by rishis and
munis of India starts to make sense. If this second drishti never dawns,
the dreariness of life will hit one as is exhibited by Macbeth.<br />
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Then,
one starts to see the cyclical patterns of behavior all around - that
pleasure and pain keep coming and going in waves. The jains describe
this using the ideas of <b>utsarpini</b> and <b>avasarpini</b>! In other
places, it is called the kalachakra, or the cycle of time. This is the
second drishti of time - wherein one sees patterns of repeated behavior.
Only then, one starts to understand the natural processes. Natural
processes are completely dependent on periodic behavior. The zen masters
say, <b>'Spring comes, grass grows!'</b><br />
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Traditionally in India,
there were more people who were strongly rooted in the cyclical drishti
of time. This does not preclude the first drishti. But, this shapes it
such that the first drishti does not violate many key understandings
that arise out of the cyclical drishti. Unfortunately, today the
situation is not the same. The world (sadly including India) is
dominated by people who look for market share and do not worry about <i>externalities</i>.
Naturally, it has lead to utter destruction of the biosphere, severe
poverty, intolerance and violence all over. People rooted in this
cyclical drishti will naturally try to eschew violence as they know that
violence will only cyclically breed violence. They will also be able to
see clearly that though one may get short term profit by reducing a
mountain to rubble, the price of loss of biosphere has to be paid
subsequently.</div>
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Whole of life was seen as a cyclical pattern leading to ideas such as
rebirth in India. Bhaja Govindam, the famous work by Adi Sankara, says<br />
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<b>पुनरपि जनानां पुनरपि मरणं</b><br />
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Again and again one is born<br />
Again and again one dies</blockquote>
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Valluvar also opines the same<br />
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<b>உறங்குவது போலுஞ் சாக்கா டுறங்கி</b><br />
<b>விழிப்பது போலும் பிறப்பு. (குறள் எண்: 339)</b><br />
Life and death are like sleeping and waking up (Kural 339)</blockquote>
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The
above assertions by our revered ancestors may appear like childish
assertions to the modern educated mind. Unfortunately the modern mind,
relentlessly chased by to death by the physicists entropy increasing
arrow of time, is not psychologically free to analyze these statements.
IMHO, Indian civilization does not ask people to accept these
assertions. Instead, the invitation is to be free from ones biases and
to explore these with respect. These are deep assertions coming from
beings deeply immersed in the cyclical nature of time and the third and
even more elusive drishti of time. In the cyclical drishti, while one
also experiences oneself as a separate entity, one also sees oneself as a
part of continuum of various natural processes that have been going on
from time immemorial.<br />
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The cyclical sense of time gives rise to
ideas of equilibrium. Indians, IMHO, discovered ayurveda simply because
of this view of time. Ayurveda is all about equilibrium. Health is
understood as equilibrium and disease as the absence of the same. Hence,
all intervention is about reinstating the equilibrium. This is starkly
in contrast with allopathy that goes in hunt of the cause. Clearly,
allopathy is rooted in linear time of cause and effect. Ayurveda does
not denounce cause and effect - that is also accepted. Just that, IMO,
it subsumes cause and effect as minor parameters of the cyclical sense
of time. Restorative justice, unlike criminal justice, tries to
reinstate lost balance in society also stems from this view of time. <br />
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This
idea of cyclical time gives rise to the idea of a central equilibrium
around which things move. The movement causes some disturbance but
eventually things subside back into the center and then may be they will
move in the other direction. This idea is also seen clearly in Indian
art forms that talk about the <b>sthayi</b> (unchanging centre) and the <b>sanchari</b> (that which moves around the centre). <br />
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Lesser
said, the better about the third drishti of time - the timeless sense
of time. It cannot be communicated by words. It can only be communicated
from one heart to another via silence of the mind. The great rishis of
India have been doing the same for many thousands of years. Invitation
is for one to explore their lives and anchor oneself at their feet (this
again may cause discomfort to modern educated people who may find this
idea obnoxious). For the linear sense of time is immensely powerful and
will keep dragging one all over the place. All genuine practitioners of
Yoga who try to anchor themselves in the cyclical sense of the same
would attest for the same. Only anchoring oneselves in the immovable,
the ultimate, will help one maintain the cyclical sense of time as ones
home. For this anchoring oneself with the masters who have manifested
the timeless in them becomes essential.</div>
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<i><span class="photo "><span class="caption"><b>Ramana:</b></span></span><span class="photo "><span class="caption"> </span></span></i><span class="photo "><span class="caption">What is time?</span></span> </div>
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All details about timeless are ultimately futile to someone who has
not even tried to discover the cyclical sense of time! Only when one has put
in sufficient effort by oneself to stay there, one will start to seek
out the help of these timeless masters and cultivate the same in
oneself. The great masters say ones separate sense of identity is
completely dissolved into the ultimate in this view. One has to explore
this to figure out the details of this drishti.<br />
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The yogis are those who are equally at ease in all <b>three drishtis of time - linear, cyclical and the timeless!</b>
India, and the world at large, is in serious shortage of such people.
IMHO, only such people will have the needed ability to redirect the
movement of humanity away from self destruction. Skilled in linear time,
rooted in cyclical time and with a profound acknowledgement of the
timeless, they will have the potential to impact the world in positive
ways.<br />
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IMHO, the human breath is an entity that possesses a nature
that is similar to the mystical nature of time. It is also linear,
cyclical and timeless. Regular training of the same will make it deep
and subtle. Such a breath will help the individual move between the
various drishtis of time at will! Patanjali says in the sadhana pada of
yoga sutras,</div>
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<b>प्रयत्नशैथिल्यानन्तसमापत्तिभ्याम्</b><br />
prayatna-śaithilya-ananta-samāpatti-bhyām ||2.47||</blockquote>
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When the right effort becomes effortless, the individual becomes one with endless!</blockquote>
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Parthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07498458236201233375noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15712510.post-84584436758513268862015-03-14T20:37:00.003+05:302015-03-14T20:37:39.081+05:30 காரடையார் நோன்பு நன்றி<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
பஞ்சவரின் கீர்த்திக்கும் பார்த்தனின் கேள்விக்கும் <br /> ஆதி பாஞ்சாலியின் வேள்வி<br />
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Parthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07498458236201233375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15712510.post-52919102371451809232015-02-22T07:45:00.001+05:302015-02-22T07:45:42.287+05:30மனையாள்<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
மனையாள் இல்லார்க்கில்லை இவ்வுலகம்<br />
அவளிடம் யோகம் இல்லையெனில் இல்லை அவ்வுலகம்!<br />
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Parthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07498458236201233375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15712510.post-27919496327895118342015-02-22T06:34:00.000+05:302015-02-22T06:37:21.981+05:30Ancestral identity<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>संस्कारसाक्षात्करणात् पूर्वजातिज्ञानम्</b><br />saṁskāra-sākṣātkaraṇāt pūrva-jāti-jñānam ||3.18||<br /><br />As one pays deep attention to ones habit patterns, ones identity as a separate entity begins to segue into an entirely different identity where one experiences oneself as the present state of a continuum that goes back to ones ancestors!<br />
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Parthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07498458236201233375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15712510.post-5167772301118603172015-02-02T21:04:00.004+05:302015-02-02T21:04:45.763+05:30Samyama<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A small note after that talk on the relationship between sthayi and
sanchari by Jyotsna. For those who missed it, sthayi is the unchanging
centre around which the sanchari flows and weaves a story.</div>
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Just
felt a lot of sutras in the third chapter of the yoga sutra are an
application of this simple logic. Samyama on the sthayi leads to
understanding of the sanchari and vice versa.</div>
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<li><span class="text_exposed_show"> Samyama on the navel (sthayi) leads to understanding of the body (sanchari)</span></li>
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<li><span class="text_exposed_show">Samyama on the habit patterns (sanchari) leads to understanding of prior jati (sthayi)</span></li>
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The connections are amazing!</div>
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Parthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07498458236201233375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15712510.post-54806363910071057242015-02-02T21:01:00.000+05:302015-02-02T21:01:03.006+05:30Locus of control<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
"Shift the locus of control from the ego to the breath." - Great piece
of guideline on the core of the daily yoga practice from Saras!<br />
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Parthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07498458236201233375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15712510.post-83803478420125644352015-02-02T21:00:00.001+05:302015-02-02T21:00:11.149+05:30First word<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Interesting discussion about the first word usage in some of the key books in Indian thought in a workshop at YogaNidhi<br />
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1. Bhagawad gita stats with<br /> <i><b>"dharma-ksetre kuru-ksetre ..."</b></i><br /> First word is dharma (complex questions on decision making in life) indicating what to expect from the Bhagawad gita.<br />
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2. Ramayana starts with<br /><i><b> "tapaH svaadhyaaya nirataam tapasvii..."</b></i><br /> First word is tapah (cleansing of personal impurities) indicating what to expect from Ramayana.<br />
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3. Yoga sutras start with<br /><i><b> "atha yoganusasanam"</b></i><br /> First word is atha (engaging with ones life afresh this / each / every moment) indicating what to expect from Yoga sutras.<br />
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Parthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07498458236201233375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15712510.post-74582220418507244302015-02-02T20:59:00.000+05:302015-02-02T20:59:02.263+05:30அகக் கடல்<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
ஆழ் கடலே அமைதி கொண்டிருக்க<br /> அகக் கடல் மட்டும் கொந்தளிப்பதேனோ?<br />
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Parthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07498458236201233375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15712510.post-63098988830626993462015-02-02T20:58:00.002+05:302015-02-02T20:58:31.704+05:30Yoga<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
योगः विपर्यय उत्कर्षः<br /> Yoga is the steady and progressive improvement of ones perception of reality!<br />
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Parthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07498458236201233375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15712510.post-65572535564190076492014-11-24T17:40:00.001+05:302014-11-24T17:40:22.397+05:30Schools these days!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>1.</b> Saw an ad of a school which showed a parent saying - 'I am filled
with pride when other parents in my apartment look at my child with envy
as he goes to XYZ school'.<br />
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Yoga sutras talk about five key
impurities - ignorance, false identity, desire, hatred and desire for
perpetuity! Seeing all five of them in this ad and that too of an
educational institute.<br />
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<b>2.</b> Was reading the notes section of a school diary. It had tips for teenagers. One of them said - 'Make friends with stu<span class="text_exposed_show">dious companions'.</span><br />
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Good way to normalize the whole class into a batch of clerks huh!!<br />
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Parthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07498458236201233375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15712510.post-3539709647280749292014-11-24T17:39:00.002+05:302014-11-24T17:39:30.871+05:30Nakula<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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doing some self-reflective sessions in my yoga class at a ladies
college. We were discussing what does it mean to be 'inspiring' for
each one of us and giving examples of the same. Of the girls, 5 said
they found their dads to be inspiring. 5 others said some other random
person. Only 1 girl found her mom to be inspiring.<br />
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The general
socio-economic profile is that of girls from upper middle class families
were the dad has worked his way up the society. The mom for sure had to
ensure lot of things fell in place at home but, as usual, did not get
noted. This too when all the respondents were young women!<br />
Poor old Nakulas - the healer amongst the pandavas who takes care of everything but never gets credit!<br />
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Parthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07498458236201233375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15712510.post-88242751625011039382014-11-03T21:13:00.003+05:302014-11-03T21:13:32.515+05:30Awesome and apt dialogues<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Awesome and apt dialogues! To be reflected regularly <br />
<br /> கிருஷ்ணன்<br /> -------------- <span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> என்ன இருக்தாலும் உன் பண்பும் என் மேல் இருக்கம் அன்பும் அளவிடகூடியதா என்ன?</span><br />
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சகுனி <br /> -------<br /> எனக்கும் உனக்கம் நல குறைவு எது கிருஷ்ணா?<br />
கிருஷ்ணன்<br /> --------------<br /> தோல்வி மனிதனுக்கு வெறியூட்டும் <br /> வெறியில் மதி மாறும் <br /> எதிரி அது சமயம் இடம் கண்டு இடிப்பான் <br /> வெறி மேலும் வீம்பும் <br /> நெறி கேட்டு அறம் விட்டு தடம் மாறி படு குழியில் விழுவான் <br /> இல்லை. எதிரி விழ வைப்பான்<br />
<br /> குந்தி: சரி, இனிமேல் என்ன முடிவு <br /> கிருஷ்ணன்: உன் மக்கள், உன் முடிவு. முடிவு செய்ய வேண்டியது நீ <br />
<br /> கிருஷ்ணன் <br /> -------------<br /> சண்டையை தடுக்கும் பொருட்டு நீ குடிசையிலும் வாழ சம்மதிப்பாய் என்று நினைத்தேன் <br /> ஆனால் ஆசை யாரை விட்டது<br />
<br /> கிருஷ்ணன் <br /> -------------<br /> பாவ காரியங்கள் என்றும் அழிந்துவிடாது அத்தை<br /> அது எப்புடியோ வெளியே வந்துவிடும்<br />
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Parthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07498458236201233375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15712510.post-1313344876137255822014-10-21T18:46:00.002+05:302014-10-21T18:46:45.891+05:30Stability<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
When the connection of ones mind with ones breath is stronger than the pull of any external stimulus, stability is experienced.<br />
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Parthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07498458236201233375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15712510.post-7593975997230960502014-10-11T10:34:00.002+05:302014-10-11T10:34:21.068+05:30Bheeshma<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hey! Bheeshma! Leave that Partha alone!<br />
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Parthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07498458236201233375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15712510.post-52535117809836570922014-10-04T13:11:00.004+05:302014-10-04T13:11:42.635+05:30Yoga sutras and Thirukural<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Inhale - Yoga sutras (Darsanam), Exhale - Thirukural (Dharmam)<br /> Inhale - Thirukural (Dharmam), Exhale - Yoga sutras (Darsanam)<br />
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My nadi sodana :)<br />
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