if a person uses deceit or treachery in the use of words, then he is the burgler

 

वाच्यर्था नियता सर्वे वाङ्मूला सुविनिःसृताः।

तान्तु स्तेन्यद्वाचं स सर्वस्तेनकृन्नरः॥

मनुस्मृत्यां २-२५६ २५७

vācyarthā niyatā sarve vāṅmūlā suviniḥsṛtāḥ|

tāntu stenyadvācaṁ sa sarvastenakṛnnaraḥ||

manusmṛtyāṁ 2-256 257

All the transactions and activities of human beings are entirely dependent on words, right usage of words. Words are the vehicles through which ideas and ideals are getting conveyed properly from one human being to another. Therefore if a person uses deceit or treachery in the use of words, then he is the burgler and destroyer of everything.

Through using wrong words, through using words in the wrong way at the wrong time one incurs the sins attributable to a burglar according to Manusmriti.

It is actually not merely a sin, use of wrong words is toxic to the society altogether.

Neither the darkness nor the sun would ever take rest

 

जगतोऽप्यपकृत्युपकृतौ खल सत्पुरुषौ न तृप्तिं आयातः।

ग्रसते हि तमो भुवनं सविता अपि सदा प्रकाशयति॥

ravigupta   

jagato'pyapakṛtyupakṛtau khala satpuruṣau na tṛptiṁ āyātaḥ|

grasate hi tamo bhuvanaṁ savitā api sadā prakāśayati||

Lokasamvyavahaarapravritti of Ravi Gupta

In the matter of creating disadvantages or providing benefits to the world, neither the evil minded fellows nor thegreat people with spontaneous goodwill for one and all get entirely satisfied. ( The evil people never would think that the harm they cause is sufficient and the great souls would never be satisfied with the noble activities they engage themselves in with the aim to spread happiness everywhere). See, the darkness always covers the whole earth, and would never stop doing it. At the same time the Sun would continue to shed bright light over the surface of the earth for every and ever. Neither the darkness nor the sun would ever take rest.

जगतः to this world, अपकृति disadvantages, misdeeds उपकृतौ helping, giving advantges,अपि too खल people of nasty and evil mind सत्पुरुषौ great people तृप्तिं न आयातः never get satisfied

तमः the darkness भुवनं the earth ग्रसते covers हिindeed सविता the sun अपि too सदा always प्रकाशयति gives light, brighens us the earth

ജഗതോഽപ്യപകൃത്യുപകൃതൌ ഖല സത്പുരുഷൌ ന തൃപ്തിം ആയാതഃ|

ഗ്രസതേ ഹി തമോ ഭുവനം സവിതാ അപി സദാ പ്രകാശയതി||

ലോകസംവ്യവഹാരപ്രവൃത്തി - രവി ഗുപ്തന്‍

ലോകത്തിലുള്ള മനുഷ്യര്‍ക്ക് ദോഷം ചെയ്യുന്ന കാര്യത്തിലായാലും ലോകത്തെ നന്മ നിറഞ്ഞ സേവനങ്ങള്‍ കൊണ്ട് നിറയ്ക്കുന്ന കാര്യത്തിലായാലും അതാതു വിഷയങ്ങളില്‍ ഏര്‍പ്പെട്ടിരിക്കുന്ന ദുഷ്ടന്മാര്‍ക്കോ നന്മ നിറഞ്ഞ സജ്ജനങ്ങല്‍ക്കോ ഒരു വിധത്തിലും തൃപ്തി ഉണ്ടാവാറില്ല. ദുഷ്ടന് എത്ര ദോഷം ചെയ്താലും തൃപ്തി വരില്ല. കൂടുതല്‍ അപകടങ്ങള്‍ എങ്ങിനെ ഉണ്ടാക്കാമെന്ന കാര്യത്തിലായിരിക്കും അയാളുടെ നോട്ടം. സജ്ജനങ്ങലാവട്ടെ എത്ര നല്ല കാര്യങ്ങള്‍ ചെയ്തു കഴിഞ്ഞാലും അതിലൊന്നും തൃപ്തി വരാതെ കൂടുതല്‍ നന്മ ചെയ്യുവാന്‍ എന്നും ജാഗരൂകരായി നില്‍ക്കും.

ഇരുട്ടിനെ ശ്രദ്ധിക്കൂ. അത് എത്ര ഇല്ലാതാക്കാന്‍ ശ്രമിച്ചാലും തരാം കിട്ടിയാല്‍ പിന്നെയും പിന്നെയും കടന്നു വന്നു അന്ധകാരം പരത്തും. അതേ സമയം സൂര്യന്‍ ആവട്ടെ, ഒരിക്കലും തളരാതെ ഭൂമിയില്‍ എല്ലായിടത്തും പ്രകാശം പരത്തിക്കൊണ്ടേയിരിക്കും. ഇരുട്ടിനും തൃപ്തിയോ വിശ്രമമോ ഉണ്ടാവില്ല. സൂര്യനും തൃപ്തിയും വിശ്രമവും ഒരിക്കലും ഉണ്ടാവില്ല.

We have to persist with the process of stabilization of mind too with diligence

 

It would appear that the human mind is a rough uneven and perhaps ungenial terrain.

Diligent and purposeful cleaning and even forced polishing and grinding for protracted periods may render the surface somewhat level and plain for some limited periods.

However, the mind would revert to its odd and even quixotic ways.

We can opt to subject our minds too to such cleaning process at regular intervals and remain sane at least for some short periods.

Nevertheless, the distortion sets in soon, the muck returns and we may have to use the scrubber and soap again.

It is like the police officer chasing the thief.

The police officer succeeds sometimes and the thief too escapes at other times.

The process is without end.

We never stop taking bath or brushing the teeth as long as we are alive and sane.

We have to persist with the process of stabilization of mind too with the same diligence.

where there is a walk, there is a fall

 

I feel utterly miserable, thoroughly dissatisfied and filled with a nagging feel of inadequacy and self-doubt every time I read back what I have written.

The same feeling of remorse overtakes me when I ponder over most of the activities undertaken by me.

Many errors of commission and omission could have been avoided with a wee bit more of alertness.

Excessive sense of self-importance, self-assuredness coupled with laziness and lethargy has played the spoilsport.

A sort of arrogant but baseless feeling that most of the people around are not at all smart or at least are not smart enough, had prodded me, lulled me into sure shot pitfalls.

Yes, every review, every revision, makes me feel ashamed, contemptuous of myself, my own actions.

Anyway, will that feeling of revulsion about my own ineptness stop me from committing further follies?

No, I trudge ahead, with more  follies, falls, fractures, fall again, repeatedly.

Why sould I give suggestions and directions to Him, when I do not really know what I am and what is good for me?

 

Some thoughts disturb me.

Is making a prayer to the Supreme One, or the one we presume as Suprme Controller of every mometnt, every action, and every thought in our existence necessary, relevant, or effective.?

Of course to have belifef or faith in the existence of such a power lies beyond the radar of verification by human intellect..we simply do not have any evidence about such power, either positively or negatively.

Even if we agree to believe the existnce of such a power how can we be sure that the such being is benevolent and means only good for all of us? In addition, if that power is genuinely all powerful and has the will and determination to regulate the universe with laser-sharp precision how can we convince ourselves that such power will deem it fit to relax its ways merely because some weak being cries out. In fact, even minor deviations in the wide canvas of its/His activities covering the past, present ad future can have ripple effects upsetting very huge schemes.

Yes, making prayers to that Being is a very selfish act. We are causing disturbance to Him. In addition, we are asking for many favours without even knowing whether such entreaties are right,proper and beneficial for ourselves and others too.

These questions bother me endlessly.

I am a believer.

Therefore I will not challenge the existence of that great power. However I feel, I should not make any prayers or entreaties because such pleadings would casue ditrurbance and stress to Him. Besides He may not answer my prayer too.

Of course I can choose to chant the Divine name, in whatever manner I know it, I can focus my thoughts on that Being in whatever form I can conceive and simply leave the course of events to His sweet will and pleasure.

Why sould I give suggestions and directions to Him, when I do not really know what I am and what is good for me?

breaking the law-- Kakka Raman and Vishnu Pattar

Kakka Raman and Vishnu Pattar Break the law.

Kaakka Rama Iyer had a very close friend by name Ananthakrishna Iyer.. Some say that Ananthakrishna Iyer had been in Ceylon for sometime and there was another school of thought that he was a peon in a British company which did business in slaughtering animals and exporting the flesh. Whatever it may be the man had become very pious when he landed up in our agraharam, but he had no place to live. So Rama Iyer gracefully volunteered to offer the Iyer number two the privilege of occupying the open thinnai of Kakkais house as a dwelling place. Ananthankrishna Iyer sported a very huge oordhwapundram (naammam) and in the performing his make up operation was a sight to see. The village urchins would crowd around him while he deftly pasted namakkatti on his palm and drew and big U on hide wide forehead, followed by a long red line in the internal bisecting area using thirummannu.. And one the makeup was finished, he looked just like Mahavishnu and hence the village people always called him Vishnu Pattar when he was not present within earshot.

Kakkai and Vishnu were a professional pair. They always went together for partaking in Sraadhams or getting Dakshina or dhaanam on good or bad occasions.

One day they went for Sraadham in Pallipuram village. It was almost five miles from our village. You must remember it was almost 45 years ago and there were not many buses and the Laurel and Hardy could not afford to pay the busfare also. They had to cross an open railway line near palakkad town railway station and the successfully negotiated Lakshman Rekha in the morning during their onward Journed. But while returning after sraadhdham, they again crossed the railway line and was accosted by a railway policeman. The innocent Brahmins did not know that crossing the railway track and making the railway premises as a thoroughfare was a punishable offence. Had they told the policeman that they did not know the law and apologized, he would have left them go. However in their innocent haughtiness, they told him to mind his business and that they were not afraid of any police, especially railway police. The enraged policeman booked a case against them for trespassing and gave a summons directing them to attend the sub-magistrates court one week later and let them go. The poor Brahmins could have given some wrong names abd address and got away with it but they were too innocent.

On the day of the great trial the duo, clad in soman and uthareeyam, Mr Vishnu sporting naamam and Mr Raman filling his forehead with three broad white lines of Viboothy, presented themselves in the Court very early in the morning. The magistrate arrived in due course and seeing two Brahmins standing in the courtyard (the magistrate was also an Iyer), said that there was no sraadham or tarpanam being conducted in the court. The Brahmins said they had been booked by railway police and there was a case against them.

Finally the case was called, and R and V presented themselves in the dock. The magistrate asked them whether they had committed any offence for which they stated in union that they had done nothing but had only crossed the railway line. Even at this stage they were not aware that this was an offence. The magistrate could have let them free had they sought partdon. But they would not do it because they could not dream of any crime being committed by them. Ultimately the Magistrate reluctantly fined them eight anna each.

And once the fine was ordered, the two poor Brahmins could leave the court only after paying the fine and eight anna each was far beyond their capacity to pay. They were pleading with everybody requesting that they be allowed to go. Nothing worked.

Finally the magistrate came to know of it and he did a very wonderful thing. He took a one rupee coin from his own pocket and asked the court clerk to issue the receipt for the fine to Mr Kakkai and Mr Vishnu. May be Vishnu rode the Kaakkai vahanam on that day.--

।श्रीकृष्णो रक्षतु।

|śrīkṛṣṇo rakṣatu|

Have a nice and happy day

with profound respect and warm regards

K V Ananthanarayanan

blog   http://kanfusion.blogspot.com/

कृष्णात् परं किमपि तत्वं अहं न जाने"

All the penance accumulated in a lifetime just get destroyed by indulging in worldly carnal desires even for a few moments

 

यदर्जितं वै वयसाऽखिलेन ध्यानं तपो ज्ञानमुखं च सत्यम्।

क्षणेन सर्वं प्रदहत्यहो तद् कामो बली प्राप्य छलं यतीनाम्॥

हृदय प्रदीप

yadarjitaṁ vai vayasā'khilena dhyānaṁ tapo jñānamukhaṁ ca satyam|

kṣaṇena sarvaṁ pradahatyaho tad kāmo balī prāpya chalaṁ yatīnām||

hṛdaya pradīpa

The sacred wealth of penance, the results of deep contemplation, the truthfulness which is the hallmark of great knowledge and erudition, all these great virtues earned by great sages through sincere pursuit through the whole lifetime , would be destroyed as if burned to ashes by the evil working of the virtually irresistible Kama who makes his deceptive appearance as a benevolent person and instigates base longing for worldly carnal pleasure .

All the penance accumulated in a lifetime just get destroyed by indulging in worldly carnal desires even for a few moments.

अखिलेन in the course of a whole वयसा lifetime अर्जितं वै indeed earned, accumulated यतीनां belonging to great saints, तपः penance ध्यानं meditation ज्ञानमुखं सत्यं truthfulness which is the mouthpiece of knowledge च सर्वं all put together बली the powerful, formidable, irresisiticble कामः the yearning after worldly pleasures, kaama the instigagor of the base tendencies च्छलं प्राप्य reaching out, attacking from the back क्षणेन in a split second अहो प्रदहति alas destroys, burns off

യദര്‍ജിതം വൈ വയസാഽഖിലേന ധ്യാനം തപോ ജ്ഞാനമുഖം ച സത്യം|

ക്ഷണേന സര്‍വ്വം പ്രദഹത്യഹോ തദ് കാമോ ബലീ പ്രാപ്യ ഛലം യതീനാം||

ഹൃദയ പ്രദീപ

യതികളും യോഗികളും മഹര്ഷികളും അവരുടെ ജീവിതകാലം മുഴുവനുള്ള അശ്രാന്ത പരിശ്രമത്തിലൂടെ സ്വരൂപിച്ചു കൂട്ടിയ പാവനമായ തപസ്സും, ധ്യാനത്തിന്റെ ശക്തിയും സത്യം മുഖമുദ്രയാക്കിയ ജ്ഞാനവും എല്ലാം ശക്തനായ കാമന്‍ എന്ന ചങ്ങാത്തം നടിച്ചു പ്രത്യക്ഷപ്പെടുന്ന വഞ്ചകന്‍ , മനസ്സില്‍ കാമവും ആസക്തിയും ആക്രാന്തവും എല്ലാം കുത്തിത്തിരുകി ചിന്തകളെ വഴിതെറ്റിക്കുന്നവന്‍, അവന്‍റെ നീചമായ പ്രേരണയും പ്രവര്‍ത്തനവും കൊണ്ട് , അത് വളരെ കുറച്ചു നിമിഷങ്ങള്‍ക്ക് മാത്രമായാല്‍ പോലും, ഇല്ലാതാക്കി, ചുട്ടു ചാമ്പലാക്കി അത്തരം മഹത്തുക്കളെ പോലും അധഃപതനത്തിന്‍റെ പാതയില്‍ തള്ളിവിടാറുണ്ട്

കാമം വിഷയാസക്തി എന്നീ ചാപല്യങ്ങളുടെ നിമിഷങ്ങള്‍ മാത്രമുള്ള പ്രവര്‍ത്തനം പലപ്പോഴും ഒരു ജീവിതകാലം മുഴുവന്‍ നല്ല നിലയില്‍ പ്രവര്‍ത്തിച്ചു നേടിയെടുത്ത നന്മയും പുണ്യവും എല്ലാം തീരേ ഇല്ലാതാക്കും.

Relevance of Bagavat Gita in the modern era

 Relevance of Bagavat Gita  in the modern era

Bagvat gita, is a text of eternal value even if its authorship by the JagatGuru Sri Krishna is not consedered for a momemt.

The greatest warrior of the generation, on whose individual prowess the entire fate of the honour of Pandavas and redeeming of the self respect of the tragic victim of all sorts of humiliations that could be heaped on a female, Draupadi, hinges, the incomparable Arjuna develops a sort of psychological and physical burnout at the vital moment when he is required to perform… and where failure of this one person would herald annihilation to his own brothers, wife and kinsmen and the eternal fame he had accumulated over a lifetime. He is suddenly on the verge of collapse, shorn off all bravado and dropping his divine bow and perspiring profusely, he just collapsed on the floor of his chariot like a lame duck cut on its throat by a butcher. His alter ego, Krishna, the most valorous fighter of all times even though his role is limited to a charioteer wielding the whip handle is now willy nilly forced to set right everything . For this he has to muster all his multifarious capabilities, that of a friend, psychologist, adept in scriptures, adept in lifestyle studies

( yogas) and ultimately revelation of the divine fountainhead. How Krishna managed it and how he transformed Arjuna and persuaded and prompted him to declare repeatedly’ “ my mental indecisiveness and physical debilities have vanished, my intellect is rejuvenated, and I am standing before you eagerly awaiting your orders which I am bound to execute”.

How LORD KRISHNA achieved this, is a matter of relevance not only to the storyline of the epic Mahaharatha, but to the healthy existence of the human race in all its sanity till this day and for the days to come. This is the relevance of Gita to modern man.

There are many quintessential statements by the Lord, Arjuna and others which stand out and indicate the real import of the philosophy of Geetha.

Let us see this verse uttered by Sanjaya:-

Yatra yogeswarah krishnah yatra paartho dhanurdharah

Tatra sreer vijayo boothir dhruvaaneethir mahtirmamama

यत्र योगेश्वरः कृष्णो यत्र पार्थो धनुर्धरः।

तत्र श्रीर्विजयो भूतिर्ध्रुवानीतिर् मतिर्मम॥

Where the Yogswara that is Krishna and Arjuna wielding ganadeeva are present, there will not be any paucity for virtuous plentitude, victory self-satisfaction and righteousness.

One can see the raw power in the allegory of Arjuna, wielding weapons. If he is in full swing, what will happen? All enemies will be annihilates and all their terrestrial wealth would be confiscated. Raw power in action..

But in the presence of Geethacharya the Krishna, the indiscriminate application of power is impossible. The billion to the power of billion megatons of energy available in the tip of arjunas weapon can be triggered into action only with the implicit permission of the yogeswara Krishna. The meaning of the word yoga is too wide to be described in a few words. It will be elucidated in due course. But the usual simple meaning of yoga can be taken as the process of judicious mixture. The yogeswara Krishna brings in such admixture, neither too soft nor too punishing..

I am not quoting any managerial jargons here as I believe that people understand management if the jargons are avoided. If the lord had willed that gita should be full of clichés and jargons, he would have definitely done the needful.

Possession power with the wisdom to exercise it only when it is inevitable is one of the greatest principle of human life, life management or whatever it is called.

One has to record with regret that such a magnificent duo like Krishna and Arjuna were never again born. Krishna said “ Sambavaami Yugey, yugey” but he should come every time with his friend Arjuna the dynamite

even a person who is not really smart, would not venture to proceed with such activities

 

यस्मिन् कृते कर्मणि सौख्यलेशो दुःखानुबन्धस्य तथाऽस्ति नान्तः।

मनोऽभितापो मरणं हि यावत् मूर्खोऽपि कुर्याति खलु तन्न कर्म॥

हृदय प्रदीप

yasmin kṛte karmaṇi saukhyaleśo duḥkhānubandhasya tathā'sti nāntaḥ|

mano'bhitāpo maraṇaṁ hi yāvat mūrkho'pi kuryāti khalu tanna karma||

hṛdaya pradīpa

Some activities are like this. It would seem favourable to a small extent in the beginning. But in the long run there would be a lot of unfavourable consequences without end attached to such action. Often that action could cause pain and misery till our death. Even an idiot, even a person who is not really smart, would not venture to proceed with such activities. He should never engage in such acivities.

From the Jain Text Hrudaya Pradeepa

यस्मिन् in which कर्मंणि action, work कृते havingdone सौख्य लेशः a small, a wee little comfort, benfit तथा then दुःखानुबन्धस्य the attached misery अन्तः end नास्ति not मरणं हि तावत् till death मनो to the mind अभितापः utter disturbance, extremen misery एव प्रवर्तते only happens तं that कर्म work मूर्खः अपि even an idiot न कुर्याति would never venture into, should never venture

യസ്മിന്‍ കൃതേ കര്‍മണി സൌഖ്യലേശോ ദുഃഖാനുബന്ധസ്യ തഥാഽസ്തി നാന്തഃ।

മനോഽഭിതാപോ മരണം ഹി യാവത് മൂര്‍ഖോഽപി കുര്യാതി ഖലു തന്ന കര്‍മ॥

ഹൃദയ പ്രദീപ

ചില പ്രവൃത്തികൾ അങ്ങിനെയാണ്.

തുടങ്ങുമ്പോൾ, തുടങ്ങാൻ പരിപാടിയിടുമ്പോൾ കുറെയൊക്കെ ലാഭമോ നേട്ടമോ എല്ലാം കിട്ടി,കിട്ടും എന്നൊക്കെ തോന്നും.

പക്ഷെ ഒന്ന് ഇരുത്തി ചിന്തിച്ചാൽ മനസ്സിലാവും, തുടക്കത്തിലുള്ള നേട്ടങ്ങൾക്കു ശേഷം പിന്നീട് അതേ പ്രവൃത്തിയുടെ പരിണിതഫലമായി നീണ്ടകാലം നിലനിൽക്കുന്ന ദുഃഖങ്ങളുടെ ഒരു നീണ്ട നിര തന്നെ അഭിമുഖീകരിക്കേണ്ടി വന്നേക്കാം എന്ന്.

മരണം വരെ നമ്മെ വേട്ടയാടുന്ന, നമുക്ക് വേദനയും കഷ്ടങ്ങളും മാത്രം സമ്മാനിക്കുന്ന തിക്തഫലങ്ങൾ ഉണ്ടായേക്കാം .

ഇത് അറിഞ്ഞുകൊണ്ട് വലിയ സാമർഥ്യം ഇല്ലാത്ത മൂഡന്മാർ പോലും അത്തരം കാര്യങ്ങൾക്കായി ഇറങ്ങി പുറപ്പെടാറില്ല.

ഇറങ്ങി പുറപ്പെടരുത്.

ഹൃദയ പ്രദീപം എന്ന ജൈന ഗ്രന്ഥത്തില്‍ നിന്ന്.