MUSIC PRODUCES A KIND OF PLEASURE WHICH HUMAN CANNOT DO WITHOUT
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Wow! a great discounse by visaka harijiIt actually gives us the way towards bhakthi deeply. We heard the discourses repeatedly and attained the feel of God in the discourse.
When I look back at the end of this year I have no regrets. குறையொன்றும் இல்லை. I have only positive thoughts and positive notes. This year, my blog, gave me lot of friends, which I consider, as the greatest asset I have gained this year. What more I need !
Man was made to live happily on Earth. But he is not? Why? Because he wants something or other - all the time! And he is unhappybecause he compares himself with what others possess andwhat he does not have, (or is unable to have) – such things as others' physical appearance (tall, handsome, etc; rich, has an expensive car, large mansion, etc. "I am short, dark, cannot afford to buy a car, live in a small house, etc).
It is COMPARING and thinkng of what OTHERS HAVE and what I DO NOT HAVE - and WANTING those things - that rouse envy, jealousy, frustration, dissatisfaction, hatred, anger, and so on - cause UNHAPPINESS!
A simple fact is forgotten viz: There are no two things in the whole of Creation that are exactly alike - in every way! (It is even said that no two leaves on the same tree are "alike"; "no two snow flakes are alike"!)
Therefore, no two human beings are exactly alike! Not even twin children! THERE IS NO ONE EXACTLY LIKE YOU IN THE WHOLE UNIVERSE! YOU ARE UNIQUE!
Let us say that a man goes to the attic of his house. It is cluttered with all sorts of articles. He finds an old steel trunk. It is his grandfather's box. He opens it and finds all sorts of items which his grandfather had accumulated - photos, papers, items of clothing, etc. Among the pile of letters, he comes across a postage stamp. Kaalana! (say one paise/penny, a least valued coin those days)) 1890 ! .
What do you think will be the result if he sticks that (unused) stamp on his letter and mails it? It will end up in the "Dead Letter Office"!
Why? Because that stamp can no longer be used!
Ah! But what will happen if he places an advertisement in the papers to advertise that he has an 1890 kaalana/penny stamp? He will be swamped with telephone calls, telegrams and a queue of philatelists (stamp collector fanatics) at his front door, each trying to out-bid the others, with sums running into tens of thousands of Rupees, Dollars or Pounds Sterling for that (one inch square) piece of paper!
WHY? Because there is no other stamp like that in existence now! It is UNIQUE (So rare that there might not be another like it in existence!).
So are you ! UNIQUE! If that scrap of paper is worth tens of thousand of Rupees, Dollars/Pounds, what price are you putting on yourself?Why are you “selling yourself short”?. You are priceless! You can stand erect, tall and look the world in the eye and say to yourself: “There is no one like me in the whole of Creation!NOBODY! Nature made me unique! Why should I feel inferior to anybody in this world? Hooray!
I shall stop envying others who possess things that I don’t have, because they do not have many of the things that I am blessed with.
A Tip To Boost Your Spirits: Make a list of all the things that you do have – which many others do not have:
1. Born without any deformity; 2. with intelligence; 3. with loving parents and siblings; 4. a happy, cosy home; 5. good health; 6. education; 7. a good job; a loving wife & children; a happy home; “I can save some money every month; I have no debts”; etc! the list can go on and on!
I can bet you that, by the time you get to about number seven or so on your list, you are going to have tears of gratitude to God who has blessed you with so much above the hordes of unfortunate people in this world! You will fall on your knees and thank God for giving you so much to be happy about! And never again to think poorly of yourself!
Remember! You are unique! There is no one else like you in this whole Universe! Blessed are you!
Let me end this year with Visakha Hari's "Kuchelopakyanam" which is a story symbolic to good friendship and prosperity when there is faith.
Universal Truth! Fantastic work! "A farmer dies every half an hour in India. Not out of disease or accident, but, suicide. The reason is debt." Above 17,000 farmers in 2009 year alone have committed suicide. I thank God for not making my life such tragic and I also pray him to give me strength to save vulnerable farmers from such tragedies. Happy New Year 2011
Dear Sir, A wonderful way to end the year that has gone by and welcome the next year. Thanks a lot for sharing such wonderful matters which we can pass on to posterity. Wish you, your family and all the readers a VERY HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS AND HEALTHY NEW YEAR. Regards
December 31, 2010 10:50 PM
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When I look back at the end of this year I have no regrets. குறையொன்றும் இல்லை. I have only positive thoughts and positive notes. This year, my blog, gave me lot of friends, which I consider, as the greatest asset I have gained this year. What more I need !
Man was made to live happily on Earth. But he is not? Why? Because he wants something or other - all the time! And he is unhappybecause he compares himself with what others possess andwhat he does not have, (or is unable to have) – such things as others' physical appearance (tall, handsome, etc; rich, has an expensive car, large mansion, etc. "I am short, dark, cannot afford to buy a car, live in a small house, etc).
It is COMPARING and thinkng of what OTHERS HAVE and what I DO NOT HAVE - and WANTING those things - that rouse envy, jealousy, frustration, dissatisfaction, hatred, anger, and so on - cause UNHAPPINESS! A simple fact is forgotten viz: There are no two things in the whole of Creation that are exactly alike - in every way! (It is even said that no two leaves on the same tree are "alike"; "no two snow flakes are alike"!) Therefore, no two human beings are exactly alike! Not even twin children! THERE IS NO ONE EXACTLY LIKE YOU IN THE WHOLE UNIVERSE! YOU ARE UNIQUE! Let us say that a man goes to the attic of his house. It is cluttered with all sorts of articles. He finds an old steel trunk. It is his grandfather's box. He opens it and finds all sorts of items which his grandfather had accumulated - photos, papers, items of clothing, etc. Among the pile of letters, he comes across a postage stamp. Kaalana! (say one paise/penny, a least valued coin those days)) 1890 ! . What do you think will be the result if he sticks that (unused) stamp on his letter and mails it? It will end up in the "Dead Letter Office"! Why? Because that stamp can no longer be used! Ah! But what will happen if he places an advertisement in the papers to advertise that he has an 1890 kaalana/penny stamp? He will be swamped with telephone calls, telegrams and a queue of philatelists (stamp collector fanatics) at his front door, each trying to out-bid the others, with sums running into tens of thousands of Rupees, Dollars or Pounds Sterling for that (one inch square) piece of paper!WHY? Because there is no other stamp like that in existence now! It is UNIQUE (So rare that there might not be another like it in existence!).So are you ! UNIQUE! If that scrap of paper is worth tens of thousand of Rupees, Dollars/Pounds, what price are you putting on yourself?Why are you “selling yourself short”?. You are priceless! You can stand erect, tall and look the world in the eye and say to yourself: “There is no one like me in the whole of Creation!NOBODY! Nature made me unique! Why should I feel inferior to anybody in this world? Hooray!I shall stop envying others who possess things that I don’t have, because they do not have many of the things that I am blessed with.A Tip To Boost Your Spirits: Make a list of all the things that you do have – which many others do not have:1. Born without any deformity; 2. with intelligence; 3. with loving parents and siblings; 4. a happy, cosy home; 5. good health; 6. education; 7. a good job; a loving wife & children; a happy home; “I can save some money every month; I have no debts”; etc! the list can go on and on!I can bet you that, by the time you get to about number seven or so on your list, you are going to have tears of gratitude to God who has blessed you with so much above the hordes of unfortunate people in this world! You will fall on your knees and thank God for giving you so much to be happy about! And never again to think poorly of yourself!Remember! You are unique! There is no one else like you in this whole Universe! Blessed are you! Let me end this year with Visakha Hari's "Kuchelopakyanam" which is a story symbolic to good friendship and prosperity when there is faith. I am sure you will enjoy it.
Melasevel group said...
I really appreciate your gesture to declare that during the Year 2010, you were able to acquire more friends through your portal. Friends are more than brothers and I strongly believe in this and proved so in my life. I like your portal and appreciate the initiative you have taken to create and maintain it
Dear Sir Vaithinathan Hariharan
What a way to say good bye to the year 2010. I understand that the Sir has acquired many friends in 2010. I am happy to say that I am also permitted to be his friend. The friendship between Krihshna and Kuchela is beyond description. To quote Nammalwar “the two were not attracted by Manam Seiyum Gnanangal’’ Our lives are full of Manam Sei Gnanam only.
On the music front the Sir has once again displayed his excellence. I have read that on the passing away of Mukesh, Raj Kapoor lamented “I have lost my voice”. Lata and Mukesh from SHOR, ROTI KAPTA MAKKAN, AAWARA and others—Wow what a collection. I pray almighty that the year 2011 will also be as successful, promising and enterprising as 2010 for Sir. I declare emphatically that Sir will be scaling new heights in 2011.
With warm regards
ravi
December 31, 2010 10:33 PM
Anonymous said...
Dear Sir Sri Vaithinathan Hariharan
In continuation of my previous message today, 31st Dec 2010, I submit a request. On the 1st of January 2011 please provide me the song "Velane Sentamil Viththaka---Mayilerum Vadivelane" by KBS from the tamil movie Avvaiyar. I will only be too happy to start the year hearing that song.Please bear with me. I can visualise the annoyance .Please Sir. Kindly forgive me for troubling your esteemed self
With warm reggards
ravi
Dear Shri Ravi,
As you desired I have send the link for the song you wanted to hear on new year day to you personally by mail.
Start the year with your desire fulfilled and I wish all your desires may/will be fulfilled
On January 1, 2010, I didn't imagine Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would be fighting a political battle to save his famed credibility. I didn't imagine he would have to prove that as the chief guardian of the people's interest he did everything possible to stop A Raja, then telecommunications minister, from adopting wily methods -- while allotting 2G spectrum to favour companies -- that would result in monumental financial loss to the exchequer.
In the last 12 months, Dr Singh has lost something intangible -- an aura that defies description. He was the face of India's liberalisation and economic reforms. He was, it was claimed and is still being claimed, an honest man and an honest prime minister of a corrupt country.
But, his statement as the year drew to a close, claiming that Caesar's wife should be above suspicion, is shocking. It sounds like he is telling the people: 'I am not stealing money from your pocket. Like Caesar's wife, I should be above suspicion.'
Things coming to such a pass suggest a tragedy in Dr Singh's political career this year. The 2G spectrum controversy betrays the thinking Indians' faith in liberalisation.
We wanted the license raj to go. So came liberalisation, where government babus lost some of their clout. With it came the 'open' policy where spectrum was sold for a price to private players by the government -- because airwaves that allow mobile telephony are public property.
Why this corruption, then, Mr Prime Minister? Why did you allow under-invoicing? Why didn't you stop it before it happened? Where is my money? Is this corruption or blatant loot?
The issue is so simple that there is hardly anything to investigate.
Sadly even in this year, the reputation of the country's media was destroyed. The Niira Radia tapes -- that exposed a power broker's ugly universe in New Delhi -- were evidences that journalists who are supposed to confront, investigate and expose power brokers and their money-hungry clients' activities in the corridors of power are stringing them along. Why?
Because it's the short cut -- the laziest way -- to get inside information, which is difficult to get these days. You see, we don't get time to read, study and analyse the issues these days. The politicians in India know that the illiterate media needs many Radias.
The Radia tapes, released by Open and Outlook magazines, should be part of the syllabus for political scientists and students of mass communication. They are a guidebook of what happens behind closed doors in the pursuit of power and money in India today.
This controversy has made me look at the need to re-draw the lines much more carefully, Barkha Dutt has said It shows how cozy Barkha Dutt, a youth icon, editor and shareholder of the news channel NDTV, was with power-broker Radia.
When the year began, nobody ever thought Dutt would be grilled in a television studio, and that she would have to confess that the way she dealt with Radia was an error of judgment.
She was forced to declare -- on the same prime time television slot that she had ruled -- that 'in 16 years of my career, no one has cast a doubt on my reputation.'
Uncanny, the similarity of her defence to that of Prime Minister Singh's -- 'But, you know me! I am not corrupt!' In her evident embarrassment is hidden our own shame.
Many of today's senior journalists and editors came up in the post-Emergency years and enjoyed the fruits of post-1992 economic reforms.
Now, we have Blackberries, iPads and swanky cars. Some like Dutt and other iconic editors drive SUVs too. All this was unthinkable before Dutt's generation, a generation that boasts of a drive for success and the guts to scorch the fast lane of breaking -- and making -- news.
Dutt was a leader in the pack of the urban clan -- including media activists, the NGO brigade and television-supported celebrities -- that is very much part of the new India that has emerged out of Manmohan Singh's envisaged economy. It is also ironic that Dutt, Singh and this government have been tainted by the mobile telephone -- perhaps the best metaphor for a new India. When the social history of mobile phones is written, the Radia tapes of 2010 should be mentioned.
After the Radia tapes, there are allegations against Dutt that she was playing middle-woman between Radia's client Kanimozhi, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagham leader from Tamil Nadu, and top Congress leaders to get Raja the telecom portfolio.
Dutt has repeatedly and aggressively denied that and has explained why she was talking to someone like Radia so cozily.
Her defence: 'Unless we believe in only press-conference driven journalism, the need to tap into what's happening behind-the-scenes in the corridors of power involves dealing with a multitude of voices, and yes, we cannot always vouchsafe for the integrity of all those we use as news sources. We concern ourselves primarily with the accuracy of the information This controversy has made me look at the need to re-draw the lines much more carefully.'
Dutt continues working at NDTV; maybe she is redrawing the line that she has promised to. But, the Dutt-Radia conversation has thrown up a crucial question: Why have we, New Delhi-based journalists, abandoned the traditional role of questioning the establishment? How can the fundamental watchdog-role of the media be made to look dull and old-fashioned by the new breed of media icons?
Why do we need Radia in the first place to elicit information, as Dutt claims? Why don't we treat the Radias and her ilk around Parliament with the contempt they deserve?
Why doesn't our blood boil at such exploiters of the system who render our economy vulnerable, who loot the money that should go to tackle India's terrible poverty?
Dutt thinks there was nothing wrong in her attempt to get information about the process of Cabinet formation from Radia. Which implies that the road to get 'exclusives' and 'breaking news' is through the gutter of 'fixers' in the system. We will get information, but we will have to wade through the slime.
Dutt and Radia's relationship -- exposed to the public through the tapes that were legally recorded by the government and illegally leaked to the media -- reminds us about all that we are doing wrong while reporting Parliament so shabbily.
This country deserves better editors and reporters. If you don't have severe allergy to the Radias of this world, you should not be a journalist. Let us learn that, again.
Historian Ramchandra Guha put it bluntly to me: Editors in New Delhi are so close to power that they seem to be losing their sense of proportion. I want to remember 2010 for my own career's sake.
I want to thank the person who leaked the Radia tapes. It is the loudest wake up call for Indian journalists, who lust for exclusives and breaking news without bothering to read -- even one insightful article a day, or a good book a year -- on current affairs. courtesy: Sheela Bhatt (rediff)
Just wondering was there any nexus between Burga Dutt/KGB and DMK in Kushboos LIve in Relationship case?(which went in favour of Kushboo) and subsequently her joining in DMK
Being from the old generation, I believe only in The Hindu! We do not have public spirited journalists any more, only ad mongerers. When I open Hindusthan Times every day, I see that more than half the paper is filled up with full page government ads and tender announcements. How can anyone expect such a journal to function with independence and autonomy, when it is so dependent on government handouts?
Dear Mr. Vishwa. rishikesh, I am surprised to know, that you still believe THE HINDU, whereas many persons are losing their faith and confidence in it also. Do you still believe it is impartial?
There is no question of losing their faith, they have already lost faith in THE HINDU, for me , how much I will get by sell it to waste paper by its weight. There were days I use to pick up fight when someone speak about The Hindu and comparing it with TOI when TOI was launched in Chennai -Hmmmm
Dear Arvind's Dad, We all know that anyone who is anti-Hinduism is exalted as secular by this very Bark-ha Dutt. This just vindicated my belief that she is just another minion of the Italian woman who is destroying India, crore by crore, scam by scam. And though I've been an avid reader of The Hindu since I was 6 years old, I've lost my faith in their impartiality. They too, have adopted the stance that being anti-Hinduism makes one a great person. Add to that their relationships with the DMK, I wonder why I have not yet stopped subscribing to them. Maybe it is because that the other papers stoop even lower to get readership. - Salvadesswaran Srinivasan http://twitter.com/salvachn
December 31, 2010 5:09 PM
The Kid said...
Great post! You have poured your hearts out. I have the same feelings.
Along the same lines, I am working on a project which requires neither a middleman journalist who choose/soft/edit news. But a true people's medium.
My project is called zeole.com. It is a social blog where people of different places come together to create a blog. Take a look at zeole.com/india and zeole.com/chennai
Dear Shri hariharan, Nice to see an outline of the phases through which our current currency system is evolved. I wonder on seeing the currency of Rs. 10,000 issued during the British Rule. RBI is yet to issue such a huge denomination. Regards, Vinod N N
Dear Mr. Vinod, You should be happy. That way you should thank RBI to keep even the black money in circulation. If they release Rs.10000/- denomination, our politicians will stack them in their lockers.
December 28, 2010 8:46 PM
Anonymous said...
Dear Mr Hariharan & Mr Vinod,
The RBI had in the past issued banknotes with denominations of Rs 1000, Rs 5000 and Rs 10,000
All these notes were demonetised in the year 1977.
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