thiruvannamalai(abode of siddhars)

thiruvannamalai(abode of siddhars)

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

SABAI ENADHULLAM -VALLALAR

vadalur sabai have two important concepts 1) food for the stomach 2) food for thought. the food for stomach is served in dharmasalai which still successfully going on mainly by the villagers surroundings and few noble souls cntributions. during the season time the sadhus in sabai will in bullack carts to collect firewoods, so far as i observed people atleast put few firewoods into the cart. and the cart never went empty. thats why vallalar calls the contributors as the "salai sambanthi" means equal to exchange of bridegrooms. he gives such a intimacy to the contributors of dharmasalai. without any grandness villagers just put sacks of rice into the "thombai" (grain storage made of woods) they get sacred ash from the accountant and they leave the place with prayers. once kamal hassan told in villages there are many enlightened souls roaming but we are not noticing them. they is absolutely true in terms of sabai. just a man in 50's with a simple white dhoti sung a song "oh my god that was not only soul strring but very dept in meanins". thats why this is my favourite place in earth.



u can find the corridor here. it has got important place in my prayer. during my stay in home state every monthly poosam i used to attend. very painful period i underwent so my prayer towards vallalar was" ayya i dont believe in my parents neither my relatives and i cant take refugee anywhere as a failed boy, so if anything goes wrong as shame i will simply come with polydol(pesticide) drink here and i will sleep in your corridor":) that was my true prayer.











no mathras , no coconut, no offerings. prayers are mainly through telepathy.












one amma used to sing before opening the door ... vallalae kadavai thira







































here when they open we could sense the smell of holy ash.
































here sandal smel










when periyar( E.V Ramasamy nayakar) came to sabai, he never entered into the sabai, he stood out and gazed at the doors. when he was asked to come in , he pointed the above phrase which says" those who left killing even in eating(non-veg) can enter" he told " i eat non veg."

























this oven was lit by vallalar himself it cntinues withut any putoff. everyday after finishing cooking they put few firewoods into the oven and it maintains the fire, next day they start cook with the same fire.





the flag for sanmarga community . yellow and white














vallalar never passed out from any world class intitutions :) the whole temple planning was done by vallalar himself. it is an octognal structre and it resembles the head part. the two sabai (silver colour and golden colour) resembles two eyes and the holy light is in puruva mathi(centre of the forehead).
NO EATBLE SHOPS ,NO AMUSEMENT PARKS NEARBY BUT STILL WE CAN FEEL SOMETHING WHEN WE ROAM AROUND THE CAMPUS.


arutperum jothi


taniperum karunai.





































Friday, July 22, 2011

TIBET AUTONOMY : FACTS & A THREE TIER MODEL




tibet and dalailama was introduced to me by a tibetan friends tsering tenzing and jigme. tsering had his rosary tied in his hand and made me ask questions about tibet and his holiness. my understanding became wider when i read a book "awekening the mind and lightening the heart " by his holiness. so i started to follow news about tibet. which gave me some understanding about tibet. the tibetan youths that i found in 2003 and 2011 has drastic change in their behaviour and dressings. jeans is the very common dress for both boys and girls(probably foreign funding). whatever it is, a man living in foreign land for his whole life with everyday expectation of dawn is something ponderable.
HARD FACT TIBET HAS TO UNDERTSAND:

1) china is emerging as an invincible power in internatinal platform, though its not playing direct role. china is the major financial supporter of america.

2) so america hands are tied when it deals with chinese affairs.

3)china's third world policies are so strong that makes china to be even stronger in UN.

4)india can only give motherly affection to tibet but only china can give fatherly concession to china.

5) tibet has to follow the policy of "meet the lion in its den" towards china. because most of the west trying to have share with chinese econmic boom. so without any third person ,tibet has to intiate conversations with china.

6)since tibet became strategically and natural resources point of view became important for china, we cant expect complete expulsion of china from tibet.

7)through out the history china suffers with "xenophobia" so avoid using foreiners as a leaverage for talk, definitely that will irritate them, now they are super power too.

8)any political conclusion must be arrived soon within the life tenure of hisholiness

9)change the slogan of free tibet to tibet autonomy

10) tibetans should put their own views instead of someone's else.

WHAT IS LACKING?

too much of foreign funds and foreign aids made the youths blend, they seem to be least reactive when we talk abut tibet. may be because of their religion and culture too, they are not soo reactive. so the burden for hishliness is doubled.

THREE TIER MODEL: HIS HOLINESS , CHINA and the PRIME MINISTER OF TIBET

seperating the state and church is good but completely vanishing of his hliness image in the politics will bring down the morale of tibetans. because his holiness is the religious and cultural sign of tibet. so his mere presence is important. we should not see china as a thorn in the flesh instead see him as a strict brother. in the coming future the role of prime minister will be inevitable. so what tibet can ask to china is that,

his holiness will continue to be an ornamental head of the state (autonmus state). the political and the security issues will be with the china whereas the china will not have any direct presence in tibet but in lasha administrative wing there coould be the chinese representative who will monitor the prime minister activites. the chinese repsentative will not have any cntrol over the spiritual and cultural affairs of tibet.

no changes in tibetan political administration could bring withut the knwledge of UNO and india.becuase the succeding politico of china might try to reverse the history. tibet has to accept the chinese soverignity over tibet.
so basically it is of sharing of powers. the spiritual and cultural affairs will be with the dalailama,

the political and security power might exist with china but invisibly. tibet could accept the socialist form of administration but the prime minister of tibet will be governing the state.
if china and tibet accepts in these views then autonomy will be achieved in win-win situation.








Tuesday, July 5, 2011

RUE SUFFREN






me, pondicherry, french, alliance francaise, mother ashram, vinayagar temple and bsnl office :), this was the usual milestone i could see after 4:30pm during my stay in pondicherry. i enroled in alliance francaise to study french. first day of french class i couldnt able to attend becuase of gandhian seminare in the department. so i missed the ice breaking session in the french class. on the secnd day i went to class. days were moving, i never bther abut what others are thinking abt me, i just stay in the comfortable position. so i was least bother abut who is sitting where.

one day prof asked the students to ask questions to other stdents who we like. along with me a student from PEC(pondicherry engineering college) basically from arunachal pradesh, he was super cute. so when my turn came, i raised my head and opp to me a girl was sitting her name was christi ,so suddenly i asked her the question abt the pet dog. the class was silent, i dntknow why. then the turn was moving and prf called a girl swt it's ur turn. first time i saw that girl.

wow, not that poisnus beautiful but hmely round face with two jadai(spliting the hair into two and tieing). she turned towards us. me and that pec guy. and she asked question to that pec guy :). i dont know what and what went,i suddenly bowed my head down and took more than a minute to cme again, i was unaware whether others watched me or not. this pec guy was so happy and he was chatting all along in the bus till his college, but i was thinking abt what actually went wrong with me... horrible

weekend passed and on mnday we had film screening. everyone was waiting on the corridor, since i was ging from university usually i reach AF(alliance francaise) by 5:30 or 5:45 pm. that day also i went at 5:30 and on the corner i was gazing at the mango tree. suddenly a thought came to see where she's standing. when i turned my body and head to my surprise she was standing behind me. when i saw her, she was turning her head aside,then with hesitation,i said hai, she also said hai. thats it. we went for movie screening. on that day pec guy was not talking much.he also changed the place. but what a perfect girl she was. probably migrant telugu settled in tamilnadu. becuase she called her dad as naina.

days were moving we reached to the level of sitting next to each other( that is the big thing in our society) for six month i never had french book, i took notes in the note and shared her book. every level we had break of one month. after finishing the exams i ask the last question to her will u cme to next level? she used say ,i dont know i have to ask my father. untill i see her in the class my pulse rate goes till 110 :). i think it was third level she was not in the class. when i stood out. didero (very decent guy) told me" monseiur she is in the next class 6th room" i dnt know how to react to him so i smiled. interesting fact about her was she was becoming more and more beautiful and i could able see good external changes in her body.

the sad part was on the summer. with great fight and difficulties she joined in the summer.her father started to suspect and they got disturbed abut our relatinship. one day when she came from school i spoke to her. suddenly she asked me "why ur coming with me?" she never asked like that. but she didnt spoke anything again. i was also walking silently with her, suddenly from a shed three people approaching toards us, i coldnt able to understand anything. the lady who came took her and the man asked me "hey what u want ,who are u ,come lets go to police station" then i understood. i am trapped. those two were her parents and another one was to threaten me(gunda like :) . thousands of thouhts running in my mind. particularly what will be my parents reactions, how culd i call him. she was seeing me as helpless. i understood the meaning of her earlier pharse, she was trying to send me in the half way.

when we reached near to plice station, this gunda like person told ther father, that he look like good guy and also a student so we will slve this problem, he was a native pondicherrian. then they took me too two wheeler shed and her father was jumping up and down. the third person was contrling him, i stood silently. then this gunda like persn entered talking, he told if this continues i will smash u r face( moonchi kozhapicum). then i got angry, i tld them if u dare enough do it now. "let see what is happening. frm the first u both are treating me like a culprit. what u want to do ,u can do now",her father took two step back. arguments was btwn me and other. in the aruments nowhere i took her in, because to that extend she impressed me. finally i accepted it was my mistake to walk with ur daughter on the road. and her father got my email id, phone number, my home address and hstel address. everything was over by 6:15pm started started aroud 5:15pm.

what i admire about her is she was dare enough to love me irrespective of all thse prblems in that small age. then my astrlogical cnfiurations doesnt support at all for love at that time. but still she shwn me what is true love. thats the power of virginity. see, if sun is good position, u can kiss ur lover in the corner of bathroom, or there might be power cut where u both sitting. sun is known for hidden pleasures. but i was in the punishment period, where the star was aiting to punish me. there also she shared my pain. thats her greatness, loving in the difficult time and in difficult situations. cute brillaint girl must be in good collage some where. best part was we never touched each other thats wwhy we culd able to escape frm the bad situation, actually she helped me to overcome that horrible time.





getting a place in anyone's heart is not easy