પ્રેરક પ્રસંગ---તેમની નકારાત્મક બુમો સાંભળશો નહીં.

---પ્રેરક પ્રસંગ---

એક વખત દેડકાંઓની એક હરીફાઈ યોજવામાં આવી હતી. આ હરીફાઈ ઊંચા મિનારાની ઉપર પહોંચવાની હતી. ઘણા દેડકાંઓ આમાં ભાગ લેવા આવેલ હતા. થોડા ઘણા હરીફાઈ જોવા અને મીનારાની બાજુ ઉપર ઊભા રહી આ બૂમો પાડવા અને બધાને ઉશ્કેરવા આવ્યા હતા. એકઠા થયેલ ટોળામાંથી બધાને ખબર હતી કે આ દેડકામાંથી કોઈ મીનારા ઉપર ચઢી શકે તેમ નથી કારણ કે તે ખૂબ ઊંચે છે અને ચઢવો અઘરો છે. કેટલાક બૂમો પાડતા હતા કે મીનારો ખૂબ ઊંચે છે અને કોઈ પહોંચી નહીં શકે, તેથી નાહકનો જાન ગુમાવશો નહીં.

આ સાંભળી હરીફાઈમાં ભાગ લીધેલ ઘણા દેડકાંઓ ગભરાવા લાગ્યા અને ખરેખર તેમને આ જીવ ગુમાવવા જેવું લાગ્યું. તેઓ પાછા વળવા લાગ્યા. થોડા નાના દેડકાંઓ હજુ આગળ વધતા હતા પરંતુ એક પછી એક તેમની સંખ્યા ઓછી થવા લાગી. છેવટે થોડા દેડકાંઓ જ હરીફાઈમાં રહ્યા પરંતુ બહાર અવાજો વધતા જતા હતા. જે છોડી ગયા તે પણ બૂમો પાડતા કે મીનારાના ચઢાણ અઘરા છે, કોઈ નહીં પહોંચી શકે. અને જીવ વહાલો હોય તો પાછા ફરો. અંતે એક વખત એવો આવ્યો કે છેક નજીક સુધી પહોંચેલ બે-ત્રણ દેડકા આ બુમો સાંભળી હરીફાઈમાંથી બહાર નીકળી ગયા. એક દેડકો છેક સુધી ખૂબ મહેનત કરી ગમે તે રીતે મુકામે પહોંચી ગયો અને હરીફાઈ જીતી ગયો. આખી મેદનીમાં હાજર રહેલા બધાને આશ્ચર્ય થયું કે ખરેખર અદ્દભુત કહેવાય કે આટલે ઊંચે એક દેડકો પહોંચી શક્યો જે શક્ય નહોતું લાગતું. બધાએ તે દેડકાને ખૂબ અભિનંદન આપ્યા. કેટલાક પત્રકારોએ તેનો ઈન્ટરવ્યુ લીધો અને તેની સફળતાનું રહસ્ય પૂછતા માલુમ પડ્યું કે તે દેડકો તો જન્મજાત બહેરો હતો. દેડકો બહેરો હતો તે આશીર્વાદરૂપ થઈ પડ્યું.

Moral of the Story

જ્યારે લોકો તમારા સ્વપ્નાઓ પર હસતા હોય અને મોટેથી કહેતા હોય કે તમારા માટે મંજીલ પર પહોંચવાનું અશક્ય છે ત્યારે આ લોકો પુરતા તમે જરૂર બહેરા થઈ જજો.
તેમની નકારાત્મક બુમો સાંભળશો નહીં.
Negativity is poison that kills your DREAMS.

Confidence

Confidence !

The business executive was deep in debt and could see no way out.

Creditors were closing in on him. Suppliers were demanding payment. He sat on the park bench, head in hands, wondering if anything could save his company from bankruptcy.

Suddenly an old man appeared before him. "I can see that something is troubling you," he said.

After listening to the executive's woes, the old man said, "I believe I can help you."

He asked the man his name, wrote out a check, and pushed it into his hand saying, "Take this money. Meet me here exactly one year from today, and you can pay me back at that time."

Then he turned and disappeared as quickly as he had come.

The business executive saw in his hand a check for $500,000, signed by John D. Rockefeller, then one of the richest men in the world!

"I can erase my money worries in an instant!" he realized. But instead, the executive decided to put the uncashed check in his safe. Just knowing it was there might give him the strength to work out a way to save his business, he thought.

With renewed optimism, he negotiated better deals and extended terms of payment. He closed several big sales. Within a few months, he was out of debt and making money once again.

Exactly one year later, he returned to the park with the uncashed check. At the agreed-upon time, the old man appeared. But just as the executive was about to hand back the check and share his success story, a nurse came running up and grabbed the old man.

"I'm so glad I caught him!" she cried. "I hope he hasn't been bothering you.  He's always escaping from the rest home and telling people he's John D. Rockefeller."

And she led the old man away by the arm.

The astonished executive just stood there, stunned. All year long he'd been wheeling and dealing, buying and selling, c onvinced he had half a million dollars behind him.

Suddenly, he realized that it wasn't the money, real or imagined, that had turned his life around. It was his newfound self-confidence that gave him the power to achieve anything he went after.

Ambedkar's first biography in Sanskrit

   

The Hindu: NATIONAL
PUNE, July 10, 2010

Ambedkar's     first biography in Sanskrit

PTI

Battling a visual handicap, an 84-year-old Vedic scholar here has composed "Bhimayanam" , the first ever biography of the architect of Indian constitution
and icon of the underprivileged Dr. B. R. Ambedkar in Sanskrit verse.

The exceptional feat of Prabhakar Joshi, who lost his sight completely while still working on the biography undertaken in 2004, stands as a testimony to
his unflinching determination and will power that saw recent publication of the book containing 1,577 Sanskrit 'slokas' covering the life span of Dr. Ambedkar
unfolded in 160 pages with 21 'Sargas' (chapters).

A victim of glaucoma, Mr. Joshi who has an illustrious background as a teacher of Sanskrit in schools and colleges, was immensely influenced by Dr. Ambedkar's
mission to uplift the downtrodden.

When he started studying Dr. Ambedkar's life, he came across certain facts that inspired him to take up the unique project of his Sanskrit biography titled
" Bhimayanam".

"Not many people know that it was an ardent desire of Ramji, father of Dr. Ambedkar, that his son should learn Sanskrit.

When Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar opted for the subject after being enrolled in the Elphinstone High School in Mumbai, he was in for rude shock as the teachers
there refused to allow him to study Sanskrit because he was a Dalit.

Imparting knowledge of Sanskrit to 'lower caste' students those days was something to be frowned upon", Mr. Joshi said.

After pondering over this episode, Mr. Joshi thought of an "atonement of sorts" by way of versifying in Sanskrit, the life of Ambedkar whom he reverently
calls 'Mahamanav'.

A progressive glaucoma started affecting the vision of the octogenarian even as he persisted with his writing, at times overlapping words as a result of
poor eyesight.

"I was losing my vision fast but my resolve to complete the work was getting firmer notwithstanding the visual handicap.

My wife read the lines I had written and made them legible for further processing. Many times, I got up in the middle of night to write the words that came
to my mind without knowing that ink had dried," Mr. Joshi who has retained all his faculties at the ripe age recalled.

Explaining his method that led to completion of his work, he said "I first summarised important milestones in Ambedkar's life and then got it taped. Then
I kept listening to the audio again and again, pondering over my next verse".

According to Mr. Joshi, who taught Sanskrit at Fergusson College here and was a guide at Pune University for many students doing their doctorates in Sanskrit,
Dr. Ambedkar was a great supporter of the language which he regarded as mother of most of the regional tongues in the country.

Despite his strong opposition to the Brahminical dominance in the society and social discrimination that led him and his followers to embrace Buddhism,
Dr. Ambedkar himself had mastered Sanskrit, which was identified with the upper cast, he said.

"Bhimayanam" was published under "Sharada Gaurav Granthamala" series by Pandit Vasant Gadgil after six years of dedicated work by Mr. Joshi, a recipient
of Maharashtra government's 'Mahakavi Kalidas' award.

Maharashtra Governor Shankarnarayanan is expected to formally release the biography.

As Mr. Joshi spoke, his unseeing eyes stared in a fixed gaze. But the words came gushing lighting up his face as he dealt on the towering personality so
dear to his heart - Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar who bestowed dignity on those who suffered from injustice.

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Jolt to Aryan-Dravidian divide theory- PROF ASKO PARPOLA proves

 

Prof Parpola of Helsinki University drives home his stand at the World Classical Tamil meet
Jolt to Aryan-Dravidian divide theory
M R Venkatesh, Coimbatore, June 25, DH News Service:
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/77496/jolt-aryan-dravidian-divide-theory.html#top The intelligentsia and even the politicians were in for shock at the World Classical Tamil Conference here on Friday, when a Finland-based Indologist turned the spotlight on a Dravidian-Aryan continuum while demolishing the Aryan-Dravidian divide as a myth.
In a landmark presentation that was a complete turnaround from singing paeans to the 86-year-old Dravidian patriarch M Karunanidhi and Tamil culture's glory, renowned Indologist, Prof Asko Parpola, presenting the conclusions of his three decades-long research on 'A Dravidian Solution to the Indus Script Problem', told a stunned gathering that "an opening to the secrets of the Indus Script (which is yet to be deciphered) has been achieved". Prof ASKO PARPOLA Older forms of Tamil, Kannada and other 'Dravidian languages' in his firm opinion hold the key to take forward this finding that the underlying language of the Indus Valley Civilisation "was proto-Dravidian". The best way to "read" the signs in 'thousands of short texts' of the Indus script was through old Tamil, Prof Parpola, of the Helsinki University in Finland, drove home in his breathtaking 90-minute talk. Proof of hypothesis As proof of his hypothesis, Prof Parpola correlated several 'pictograms' found in Indus Valley inscribed with 'Harappan' stoneware bangles with words like 'Muruku' (meaning arm-ring/bangle) from old Tamil literature. "This (old Tamil) is the only ancient Dravidian source not much contaminated by Indo-Aryan languages and traditions," Prof. Parpola, the first recipient of the 'Kalaignar Karunanidhi Classical Tamil Award', argued. Pointing out that 'radiocarbon dating' has fixed the period of the 'mature Harappan phase', when the Indus Script was used to 2600-1900 BCE, he said the 'Indus Civilisation' collapsed many centuries before hymns were composed in 'Vedic Sanskrit' around 1000 BCE. However, the rich religious/cultural heritage in South Asia till now has been preserved both by the speakers of Dravidian languages (predominantly in South India) and the people of North India, Prof. Parpola emphasised, to demolish the myth of a clear Aryan-Dravidian divide. Dr Parpola's work left the top DMK leadership seated in front, nonplussed, kindling them to rethink the Aryan-Dravidian divide issue. Chief Minister, M Karunanidhi, though, had to leave half-way, when the news came in that the Congress Legislature party leader in the Tamil Nadu Assembly, D Sudarshanam, who had come for the WCTC, had been rushed to a private hospital here after he suffered a heart attack.

 

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PURI YATRA - JULY 13, 2010

 

PURI YATRA - JULY 13, 2010

Taking out the Lord in chariot, singing his divine name, is an effective form of sadhana and worship bringing in harmony and fraternity in society.   Pulling the chariots around the temple garbha mandira though found in many of the temples, taking out side the temple for a distance of 4 k.ms is unique in Puri JagannathYatra.  It is said seeing the Lord seated in chariot makes one free from entangling again in the cycle of birth and death. 

Millions of people throng to this small coastal town to touch the 50 metre long rope and to have the glimpse of the Lord seated in the Rath.

The  13.5 m height chariot of Lord Jagannath with 16 wheels comes lost.

The 13.2 m height chariot of Lord Balabhadra  with 14 wheels comes in the middle.

The 12.9 m height chariot of Mother Subhadra with 12 wheels comes in front or sometimes in between the chariots of her two brothers.

Every year these three wooden chariots are made out of sal wood and at the end of Rath Yatra these chariots are dismantled and the pieces of wood are given to devotees as prasad.  Only a particular family of carpenter is given the task of making these 3 chariots.  The work starts on Akshaya Tritiya Day which normally falls 3 months ahead of Rath Yatra Day.

Mother Sarada Devi along with her companions had darshan of Lord Jagannath in 1888. Even now, in the Mahalaxmi shrine of the temple, a small plaque about mother's visit is kept and devotees of Sri Ramakrishna during their visit to this temple spend few moments in this Mahalaxmi shrine for japam and dhyanam.

Though one's scientific temper may doubt the annual recurring of events like the three deities taking bath with 108 pitchers of water and as a result becoming ill for 15 days and then coming out on Rath Yatra occasion, the devotional fervour that is generated during this event can never be under estimated. 

Does this Rath yatra signify the philosophy that our body itself is the chariot?  Each and every one is pulling out his own chariot in the world.  Since the Lord is seated on the chariot, we are supposed to be careful in pulling out the chariot lest it will disturb His travel.  When the journey is over and the chariot is dismantled, we take up new chariot and continue the travel again.  When we are tired in pulling the chariot, we turn back to the Lord, pleading for complete rest.  This turning back towards the Lord seeing his permission to us free is what is expected out of us.  Unless  and until it happens we will be busy in our travels enjoying some times and suffering  some times forgetting the travel is not meant for us but to the One who is seated inside.   

Swami Nishthatmananda

Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama

Muzaffarpur, Bihar

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