Sunday, November 07, 2004

A heroic act

Following is one of the real heroic acts that we could see in day to day life. I really appreciate the person who did this act. I sincerely believe this author has paid one of the 5 debts of a man, that of ‘Nr Rin’ (the debt of a man to build a progressive and healthy society). Its time we pay our debts back.

 

Kudos to Karthik.

 

Rising up to evil

 

regards,

Ramesh

 

"There is no use in learning, if we do not worship the good feet of the one who is in the form of pure knowledge."

- Thiruvalluvar

 

Sunday, October 17, 2004

My Great Nation -The quest for Saraswati

It’s a very good read about the discovery of the great ancient river of Bharatvarsha, on the banks of which the Indian civilization developed. It has been mentioned in our scriptures that it is in the banks of Saraswathi that the humans learned the art of speech, writing and other skills. It clearly tells us that we are the continuation of the ancient ones of this world. At least, it makes us proud that we are very indigenous in our own and not a result of any cultural invasions. Let god be with us to save the dharma of this holy land.

 

http://www.hindunet.org/saraswati/riversearch1.htm

 

Saturday, September 25, 2004

Floating stones in Rameshwaram

Not got much details about it. Seems to be the ones used by the Lord and his aides.

 

http://www.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=39237&cat=India

 

Ramayana - Fact or Fiction

Following is my opinion I made in one of the discussion forums.

 

I would like to bring to your attention the following details. My native town is in the southernmost part of India. I would like to mention some of the places near my native town.

1) Ramanoothu (the spring of Rama): It is said that when Rama led his army to Lanka, he brought a spring to life here by piercing the earth with his arrow for his tired army.

2) Vanaramutti: When 'Kumbakarna' attacked, the Vanara or monkey army got freightened and made a fleeting escapt. It's been said that only in this place, Jambhavan, Hanuman and others were able to convince the monkey army to regain courage and fight.

We cannot say there are not convincing evidences to prove that these events happened etc.

3) Muthumalaiamman temple:
Once a washerman was doing his duty in the river, when he saw a pearl necklace dropped from the sky from a flying object. To get hold of the necklace without the knowledge of the others, he placed a big metal bucket over the necklace and went home. When he returned to collect the necklace, he could not lift the bucket off. It is said that monkey fetched the necklace. The legend is that the necklace is of Sita devi, who dropped her ornaments along the way to Lanka for Rama to identify.

These kind of incidents/evidences are mixed with People and their lives throughout India. If you cannot count them as evidences then what else can. How could these stories exactly match with what we read from the epics? It would be foolish to say that the people constructed such stories after reading the epics. Such kind of efforts would not be this long lasting. Noreover, it needs a wide collboration of people all over India to 'create' evidences that are so widespread, so common and so accurate.

It is to be noted here that most of the ancient knowledege were passed to us orally because those happened aeons before where writing was not developed. You cannot look for written proof for everything and ruins for every building when we talk about such ancient past. Got it.

 

Sunday, August 22, 2004

My Great Nation

Atomic war in Mahabharatha

 

The following quote from Mahabharatha does seems so.

 

“..(the weapon was) a single projectile charged with all the power of the Universe. An incandescent column of smoke and flame as bright as the thousand suns rose in all its splendor... An iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death, which reduced to ashes the entire race of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas.... the corpses were so burned as to be unrecognizable. The hair and nails fell out; pottery broke without apparent cause, and the birds turned white.... after a few hours all foodstuffs were infected.... to escape from this fire, the soldiers threw themselves in streams to wash themselves and their equipment...”

 

regards,

Ramesh