Vedanti
The problem buster!
Have you ever wondered at the hair on eye brows and your eyelids?
The hair on the scalp that is just a few inches above your eyes grows very lengthy but not on our eye brows and eyelids. Eye lashes are very unique!!
How complex our own constitution is as human beings, then how complex it would be for all other creation on this earth. The hunger and need to work hard and be with the group are not taught by any one to a very small ant. What Nano Technology can attain this perfection?
We are wonderful and we live in a wonderful world yet we ignore it and getting carried away by what we think is important. When what we think as routine gets disturbed we cry and make every effort to restore it. Take for instance if earth loses its atmospheric pressure then what would happen? We can not even imagine. Every thing on this plant gets thrown away into the universe and our bodies get blasted off! But this will not happen. In the scheme of the Nature every thing is set with a unique consistency and every thing behaves in a set pattern. How many of us wonder as to why this standardization process of the Nature excluded Human Beings? Why the human behaviour is also not set to reflect the same Unique Consistency of the Nature?
Nature created Human beings with a unique invisible organ called Mind that has the power to comprehend Nature’s Nature. No other creature on this earth possesses this unique power. Unfortunately we mimic all other creatures like indulging in eating, sleeping, mating, crying, enjoying and getting diseases. This is what all that we do with our mind that is just a miscellaneous work and many a times we do this miscellaneous work in a very unnatural way damaging the Nature even. Our Mind needs to guide us to wonder at the Nature, comprehend it, relate with it, leverage it and eventually become one with the Nature (attaining a state of no birth).
Hence the entire Vedic literature focuses on the Mind and train the mind to become one with the Nature. Unfortunately the illusory world created by the Human Mind has become so complex that coming out from this world has become very difficult. It is clear that as per the design of the Nature not all human beings have got the ability to align themselves with the Nature’s nature and hence we see only a few human begins attain Nirvana and become one with the Nature.
Is there a shortcut way?
Is it possible to remove mind?
Is there a way to keep only the Nature’s Unique Consistency in my mind and remove all other aspects of mind?
Is there a possibility to keep only Buddhi that acts in accordance with the Nature’s Unique Consistency otherwise known as Dharma that is embedded in all creation?
Is there a way to make all human beings righteous?
This loud thinking ended with the last question. But the last question haunts the mind of Ravi a professor in Philosophy.
***
Prof. Ravi, the last year number of admissions in to MA (Philosophy) – a full time two year regular course - is quite depressing. No one seems to be interested in taking this course. Just like other Universities, we are forced to stop offering this course from this academic year onwards . Considering your academic background, contributions to the course and your grip on the English Language, we wish to allow you to teach English from the next academic year with a condition that you shall enroll for the MA (English) degree course in our Distance Education scheme immediately. Lets some how send the last batch and offer MA (Philosophy) only as a correspondence course from the next academic year onwards.
Prof. Ravi accepted the offer with no comments and thanked the Governing Council of the University. His mind is filled with the last question. He walked silently towards his room. A week later as he stepped down from the main building, his student Rachana wished him and said: Sir, how sad it is to have our course discontinued from the next academic year onwards. Can we not do some thing about it and market it in a big way?
Rachana is a very brilliant student pleading for inclusion of Yoga, Basic Ayurveda and Meditaton as a part of the syllabus for Philosophy. Her argument is:
That an individual needs training to transcend the three forms of being to apply philosophical thinking in life. For this one should tone up one’s body, mind and intellect. She further argues that people trained as philosophers can be used to Faclitators of Human Development Process. They are the people who can ask the right questions.
That today’s world needs more people who can ask or who can help others ask right questions. Be it in business organizations or in government work processes the need for asking right questions is critical for the success of any plan. The students of this course can work closely with the HR Professionals and add substantial value to the HR processes.
That today we find many companies resolve their problems by resorting to philosophical thinking. Philosophy in business can be seen in the vision, mission and values of any business organization. Therefore I urge that this course be redesigned and offered afresh with proper marketing.
That the think tanks in any organizations are better equipped if they include a student from our course.
Ravi heard Rachana very interestingly and gave a very supporting smile and said: I am proud of you Rachana. I have no regrets for any thing. Lets put all your thoughts in a proper proposal document and submit it to our Dean.
I am sure we can convince them and redesign the course.
The course got redesigned but the UGC and AICTE did not approve the course!! The Dean decided to go the ISB way!! (ISB courses were not recognized by AICTE but the management community in the world recognized it as one of the 10 best business schools in the world).
The advt for the course was released
The faculty was enriched with Yoga Gurus and Ayurvedic Vaidays and Meditation Preceptors. Rachana was taken as one of the faculty.
The first application was from a B.Tech Student of JNTU!!
No. of applications received were 5234!!
The dean requested the faculty to run two batches with a promise to induct new faculty by middle of the year
The faculty declined it after series of discussions and conducted admission test for the students.
The test is very unique and different from the run of the mill type tests.
The batch was restricted to 60.
The first year is coming to an end with in two months. Ravi drafts a letter to be sent to all the business organizations and business schools for placement!!
Placement for the first batch of Master of Philosophy students!!!
Indian School of Business offered 4 positons.
Infosys and Microsoft took 3 each
From MIT there was an offer and the offers were pouring in and exceeded the batch size.
A new era ushered in!!
***
Rachana and Ravi were offered “Independent Director” positions on several Boards of the big business house. This unfolds the quest for righteousness.
***
The new batch – first class by Prof. Ravi (attended by all the faculty)
The faculty intro
The student intro.
The end of first year and the placement process
The discussion among students to choose organizations
The tests that companies put to choose the students
The Love affair between a B.Tech Student (Shashank) and a B.Com student (Vasudha)
How their course helped them take a right decision and convince their parents because they belong to two different casts and states forms the application of the knowledge and insights gained from the course in real life.
How the mushrooming of such courses started. How the faculty of the University was lured and how the vested interest and sheer business purpose started influencing the very purpose of the course forms the rest of the story
How Rachana and Ravi protected the course from commercialization and the depiction of guru-shisya parampara in their relationships adds so much sheen to the storyline.
There is ample scope for creativity, humour and deep reflection…
This can be the best movie a memorable movie ever made on higher education that too on Philosophy whose birth place is India.
The beauty of the title is: It is the title not only for the movie but also for the people watching it participating in the dialogues, arguments, counter arguments, proposals, approvals, non-approvals, etc and etc.
Who is Vendanti?
All those who took birth on this punya bhoomi areVendantis
By Nature’s design every human being is a vendanti.
Bring out the Vendanti the problem buster with in you and solve all our problems.
--
IVNS Raju
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
The Time Sense
It’s high time to check our Time sense!
We welcome every dawn with a hope and the dusk with a relief but their inherent meaning is that it is one more day up or one more day over in our life time. With every dawn and dusk the Sun eats away the life time of all creation on this planet earth. Just ponder over this fact for a while.
The patterns of spending the time in Indian Organisations.
Brand “Punctual”
Many organizations prefer to have their employees following office / factory timings very strictly using the grace period as per the norms. Habitual late coming is considered as a negative attribute of an employee and it also connotes the value for time the employee has. Once the employee falls in the category of “Punctual”, it is very safe for this employee to continue in the employment.
With the shift in the culture from valuing punctuality alone to valuing it along with the performance, it is becoming difficult for the non-performers to take shelter in the category of being always punctual.
There is another tendency that emerges among those who are punctual. They are punctual and equally punctual in whiling away during the office hours. I find in many office complexes people come on time and come out immediately after swiping their cards for having a puff, purchase a chewing masala, etc. Again these employees spend considerable time after lunch time and leave sharp after office hours.
There are employees who find some corners in the office to while away time and have informal chats before starting their day’s work or after logging into their systems and by keeping the working window open.
Brand “Late”
Some come late regularly and never waste time once they are in the office. They are aware of being late and ensure that it is made up in their work. Some come late and still find ways to while away time.
Some pay for their being late by losing several ½ day CLs.
Brand “Bhashan Sessions”
There are bosses who get into the mode of giving lengthy lectures on their past achievements, past glory, etc to their subordinates and use select subordinates for these bhashan sessions regularly. Thus a group of employees indulge in whiling away time in this manner very officially!
Brand “Hard(ly)Working”
Working hard is known obviously only by seeing the employee sitting late after office hours. Some have the habit of postponing every possible work till evening and start working just before the close of office hours. They do it to get late sitting allowance, to get the recognition from the bosses as hard working employees and to do their personal work during the prime office hours.
Brand “Hanging around”
This is a pathetic group of people in some organizations who wait for the call of their bosses after the office hours or who have been told in a subtle way that “leave office only after the boss leaves”. The employees in this group generally consist of those reporting to the big boss directly. Some bosses expect their direct reportees to stay back till they leave or show their displeasure by saying “I had looked for you last evening and came to know that you had left for the day, had you been there we would have finished that work, I do not know when I can give you time again”. This is sufficient to say that you got to be there till the big boss leaves.
These bosses are mostly workholics and suffer from a psychological problem in understanding the value of their own and others’ time. They like sitting in the office than leaving for home for variety of reasons. They like getting the attention and respect as a boss for as much time in the day as possible, they enjoy being in the boss seat and impact the personal time of many and they hate to be at home and have a social life. The leadership of some organizations believe in extracting as much time as possible from the employees ignoring how much time is spent qualitatively and how much value is added by the employees. It is not at all acceptable to them to let people leave immediately after the office hours.
Brand “Timely”
This is a group of bosses who make their subordinates leave after office hours and understand the fact that an individual can give the best and creative output in about 3 hours of productive work in a 8 hour working day. The information era organizations have adopted the working style that demands work to be completed as per the plan and pay no attention to timings of employees coming to going from the office. Even some manufacturing organizations adopted 5 day week so that better productivity is achieved on a sustainable basis.
In Mumbai and other Metros in India employees guard their Saturday and Sundays so that they can work well for five days a week again. The traffic and time taken to reach office and return home compel the employees in metros to do this. Further the Indian employees’ exposure to the American style of working for five days compels and encourages them to opt for five day week norm in India too. Many IT and ITES companies have 5 day week norm.
Brand “Customer Orientation”
The need to design the work processes around the customer needs compelled many banks to shed the old pattern of working. Today many banks work for 12 hours a day six days a week. Same is the case with Malls, Corporate Hospitals and other businesses that consider the favourable time for customer as their business hours. Individual serving these businesses have no other option but to choose scarifying their personal time.
Brand “Government Time”
This is the last but the most significant aspect of abusing time. The government thinks that it is beyond the so called limits of time. Whenever it feels right to do any thing is the right time. Our Indian Political Leaders go live in showing their value for time in places none other than State Assemblies, Municipal council halls, Parliament and all courts of Law. All the government processes pay very less attention to time. The traffic police, the RTA, the Govt Hospital, the Education department and many other departments pay no attention to time. They least bother for the time of the people and rather exercise their right to abuse the time of the people for the sake of making them comply with the govt rules.
The crying need as the conclusion
The time wasted by a Nation now = Time grabbed from the next generation.
The family time eaten by an organization = Time it takes to set its own home right + the time the society in which it operates needs to become more civilized.
The more balanced we are in spending time with the family and the work the more mature Nation we make.
A Nation that recognizes the value of Time is the Best Nation in the world.
We can create India as the Best Nation in the world?.............. am I hearing you saying “Yes”?
--
IVNS Raju
We welcome every dawn with a hope and the dusk with a relief but their inherent meaning is that it is one more day up or one more day over in our life time. With every dawn and dusk the Sun eats away the life time of all creation on this planet earth. Just ponder over this fact for a while.
The patterns of spending the time in Indian Organisations.
Brand “Punctual”
Many organizations prefer to have their employees following office / factory timings very strictly using the grace period as per the norms. Habitual late coming is considered as a negative attribute of an employee and it also connotes the value for time the employee has. Once the employee falls in the category of “Punctual”, it is very safe for this employee to continue in the employment.
With the shift in the culture from valuing punctuality alone to valuing it along with the performance, it is becoming difficult for the non-performers to take shelter in the category of being always punctual.
There is another tendency that emerges among those who are punctual. They are punctual and equally punctual in whiling away during the office hours. I find in many office complexes people come on time and come out immediately after swiping their cards for having a puff, purchase a chewing masala, etc. Again these employees spend considerable time after lunch time and leave sharp after office hours.
There are employees who find some corners in the office to while away time and have informal chats before starting their day’s work or after logging into their systems and by keeping the working window open.
Brand “Late”
Some come late regularly and never waste time once they are in the office. They are aware of being late and ensure that it is made up in their work. Some come late and still find ways to while away time.
Some pay for their being late by losing several ½ day CLs.
Brand “Bhashan Sessions”
There are bosses who get into the mode of giving lengthy lectures on their past achievements, past glory, etc to their subordinates and use select subordinates for these bhashan sessions regularly. Thus a group of employees indulge in whiling away time in this manner very officially!
Brand “Hard(ly)Working”
Working hard is known obviously only by seeing the employee sitting late after office hours. Some have the habit of postponing every possible work till evening and start working just before the close of office hours. They do it to get late sitting allowance, to get the recognition from the bosses as hard working employees and to do their personal work during the prime office hours.
Brand “Hanging around”
This is a pathetic group of people in some organizations who wait for the call of their bosses after the office hours or who have been told in a subtle way that “leave office only after the boss leaves”. The employees in this group generally consist of those reporting to the big boss directly. Some bosses expect their direct reportees to stay back till they leave or show their displeasure by saying “I had looked for you last evening and came to know that you had left for the day, had you been there we would have finished that work, I do not know when I can give you time again”. This is sufficient to say that you got to be there till the big boss leaves.
These bosses are mostly workholics and suffer from a psychological problem in understanding the value of their own and others’ time. They like sitting in the office than leaving for home for variety of reasons. They like getting the attention and respect as a boss for as much time in the day as possible, they enjoy being in the boss seat and impact the personal time of many and they hate to be at home and have a social life. The leadership of some organizations believe in extracting as much time as possible from the employees ignoring how much time is spent qualitatively and how much value is added by the employees. It is not at all acceptable to them to let people leave immediately after the office hours.
Brand “Timely”
This is a group of bosses who make their subordinates leave after office hours and understand the fact that an individual can give the best and creative output in about 3 hours of productive work in a 8 hour working day. The information era organizations have adopted the working style that demands work to be completed as per the plan and pay no attention to timings of employees coming to going from the office. Even some manufacturing organizations adopted 5 day week so that better productivity is achieved on a sustainable basis.
In Mumbai and other Metros in India employees guard their Saturday and Sundays so that they can work well for five days a week again. The traffic and time taken to reach office and return home compel the employees in metros to do this. Further the Indian employees’ exposure to the American style of working for five days compels and encourages them to opt for five day week norm in India too. Many IT and ITES companies have 5 day week norm.
Brand “Customer Orientation”
The need to design the work processes around the customer needs compelled many banks to shed the old pattern of working. Today many banks work for 12 hours a day six days a week. Same is the case with Malls, Corporate Hospitals and other businesses that consider the favourable time for customer as their business hours. Individual serving these businesses have no other option but to choose scarifying their personal time.
Brand “Government Time”
This is the last but the most significant aspect of abusing time. The government thinks that it is beyond the so called limits of time. Whenever it feels right to do any thing is the right time. Our Indian Political Leaders go live in showing their value for time in places none other than State Assemblies, Municipal council halls, Parliament and all courts of Law. All the government processes pay very less attention to time. The traffic police, the RTA, the Govt Hospital, the Education department and many other departments pay no attention to time. They least bother for the time of the people and rather exercise their right to abuse the time of the people for the sake of making them comply with the govt rules.
The crying need as the conclusion
The time wasted by a Nation now = Time grabbed from the next generation.
The family time eaten by an organization = Time it takes to set its own home right + the time the society in which it operates needs to become more civilized.
The more balanced we are in spending time with the family and the work the more mature Nation we make.
A Nation that recognizes the value of Time is the Best Nation in the world.
We can create India as the Best Nation in the world?.............. am I hearing you saying “Yes”?
--
IVNS Raju
Chintamani a unique storyline
The creative twists to the incidents leading to the climax of the movie:
The Chintamani gets in to the hands of Swetha a B.Sc Student from a middle class family. She too gets fascinated by the structure of the Stone. She gets dreams that she could not explain but she sees the face of Bhargava quite often. Similarly, ever since she got the Stone, Bhargava used to get strange dreams and used to see the face of Swetha.
One day they happen to meet with each other in a very unusual way and they recognise each other start conversing and sharing about their dreams. Then the inquisitiveness about the stone gets further increased and they together search all possible sources to know about the unique stones. Before that what they did was something very upright and many miss to do:
Swetha took Bhargava to her home and introduce him as the face she has been seeing in her dreams. Bhargava tells the entire story of how he happened to recover the stone from Srisailam forest area. Then Swetha’s parents call up Bhargava’s parents and invite them to have a meeting on this. Both the families got together and decided to research on the stone. Swetha stopped getting dreams the moment the stone reaches Bhargava. But in the mean time the research on the stone by both Swetha and Bhargava reaches a significant stage – they both found it to be the wish-fulfilling stone!
They decided not to share it with any one including their own families. One day they met at a library and try out with their wishes. Bhargava ask Swetha to tell her wish. Swetha looking at a begging boy wishes that he be picked up by a rich man for adoption. The next moment a car comes in to pick him up. Swetha asks Bhargava to take the turn. Bhargava wishes the neem tree that is well dried up and just beside him to be alive. The tree appears with lush green growth on its dried up branches with a change in its colour.
Now tell me what shall we do with this stone? Asks Swetha
“Just relax” says Bhargava – Intermission (Just Relax!)
A gentle man like looking guy approaches them in his car and seek their help to know the route for Kachiguda Rly station. Then he got down from the car and took out a unique gadget from his pocket and shows them if they are interested in buying it. He asked them to closely look at its top. This happens without giving any time to both. As they looked at the top, he presses the bottom and makes them semi unconscious. Then he took the bag containing the Stone and rushed in the car.
By the time both gain their balance the car is vanished. Bhargava noticed that the bag containing the Stone is missing.
The suspense is whether that guy knew the power of the stone?
The Main Story Line:
The film starts off with a Sloka;
Brahma Srushtyadisakta Sthirmatirahittam Pidito Vighnasandhe Aakranto Bhutirakta Krutiganrajasa Jeevita Tyaktu Mischina Swatmanan Sarvyakta Ganapatimamal Satyachintamaniyam Mukta Cha Stapayant Shtirmatisukhadam Sthavare Dhudhi Midhe
The meaning of this sloka is shared at the end of the movie by the Hero.
The Social Context:
A group of 25 M.Tech (Nano Technology) Students from JNTU were taken to an outbound activity as a part of their curriculum to a forest area near Srisaliam. They started off the activity with a treasure Hunt.
The groups divides into 5 teams and starts its hunt for the treasure. The team that is lead by Bhargava happened to find a pit and starts digging it. Bhargava in the process of removing the soil finds a stone that is unique its shape. He takes it out and shows it to his team.
Oh! This must be the treasure. Shall I blow the whistle…. Asks one
No it can’t be. Let’s try further.
We can as well sell this unique stone to a jewellery shop and share the money equally among us. Then bhargava says, since I find it first I must have a major share. He says this holding the stone in his hand.
Forget it we got to find the real treasure fast, lets move on – the other members yells.
In the meantime they head a blow of a whistle three times indicating that some one had got it. They returned to the camp and celebrated the event well
The treasure is 5 VIP Underwears, 5 use and through razors, 5 banians, 5 handkerchiefs,!!
The teams are back in city.
Bhargava team went to a jewellery shop in kukatpally and tries to sell it. The shop owner quotes a very small amount of Rs.500/-. They took it to Khazana jewellery shop and the manager gives a receipt of the stone and tells them to contact him two days later by then he would have ascertained the real value.
After two days they went and to their surprise got a quote of rs.25000/- bucks for the stone.
One of the team members says “ yaar if we take this to some other bigger shop we might get more money, who knows?” All others say: “who knows we do not get this much money from any shop, why wasting the time, lets make the deal and sell it for Rs.30,000/- bucks. The other team member tells the shop owner: give us Rs.30000/-. Then the shop manager goes in side his cabin and calls up his owner: sir, Fools they asked only for rs.30,000/- as you said. The other side voice said I guessed that these students are smarter and ask for 50,000/- so I told you to go up to rs.50,000/- they are really fools. Go and complete the deal.
The money was paid to Ravi in the team and the team went off to celebrate.
The team went to Imax and on the way stopped at eat street to share the money.
Ravi again said lets spend only 5000 bucks today and share equally the rest thus we get 5000 bucks each that we can spend on our own. Ravi gave 5000 bucks to Bhargava and others. Bhargava put the money in his back pocket and enjoyed the day
As Bhargava reached home he removed his pant and took out the money from the back pocket and finds it to his surprise a big bundle. With so much curiosity he counted the 1000 rupee notes twice to his surprise and found them to be 25 rather than 5.
He remembers very distinctly Ravi counting 5 each and he also remembers he put only 5 in his pocket. How come he got 25/-
He calls up all his friends and discreetly asks whether they got their 5000 bucks.
** here we can show the knack of asking……
In one phone call he says: Yaar I was about to soak my pant then remembered the money I took it out and removed it. I thought you might also do it, so I called up, have you kept the money safely? - the other side voice says: yes I put it in the cash box gifted by my sister.
The wish list:
Bhargava wanted a major share to come to him.
The next day when the students took it a jewellery shop there was no wish by the person who touched it first after the sun rise.
The Khazana shop manager did not touch the next day
The day after the Khazana owner touched it and wished that it should come to him in less than 50,000/- bucks and I can make a good business with it.
***
The Khazana owner sells it to another merchant in Mumbai at Rs.10,000,000/-
The mumbai merchant when he first touches it he feels on that day that it is better for him to have an on the spot death when in sleep in an accident. This merchant lost it in his car accident the driver is from AP. Who happens to survive by jumping off the car in the wee hours in the outskirts of mumbai. The vehicle is hit by a truck and the truck ran away. The Driver goes back to the spot and finds his owner dead and the brief fallen on the road.
He took the brief and runs off, he force opend the brief find two bundles of currency notes and a sack containing the stone.
He returns to Hyderabad by flight
He touches the stone in Hyderabad as he shares it with his family.
He wishes to have another flight to delhi.
***
Bhargava some how got fascinated by the unique structure of the stone. This structure haunts hiim and appears even in his dreams. He discusses it with the HoD of civil engineering. The HoD says: A stone can have a rare structure due to several reasons like it must have been eroded by Lava, Continuous flow of water, Solar heat, etc., Or it must be a part of an asteroid fallen from the sky. Though Bhargav bought the argument of this Professor, his mind still tells him that the stone is some thing unique.
***
The driver was traced by police and in their interrogation he admits that he knows address that his owner frequents in delhi and the owner’s (mumbai) son pleads him to fly to Delhi and show the place. He flies to and from delhi.
The stone was again touched by his sister in law. She wishes to have a flying exeuctive to be her husband.
The next day the owner of the house where she works proposes to her to marry an American and fly to America the next day via delhi.
She agrees to it convinces her family and marries him.
The other day the stone was touched by an old lady who wished to Driver to be picked up police again as he did not give her money for the treatment of the pain in her joints.
The police picks up the driver again the next day and leaves him the day after.
***
Bhargava continues his quest for unique stones. He searches the Net, the central library, consults stone and gems specialists. In his google search he bumps on the world “wish-fulfilling stone”
***
The spiritual fantasy unfolds now:
Lord Shiva gifts to Sage Kapila a rare Mani called Chintamani in recognition of Kapila’s nature for helping the needy whoever comes to his hermitage. With its help the sage used to fulfil the righteous wishes of the needy people. Lord Shiva tells Kapila Muni to protect it well as it would grant all the wishes to whomsover touches it after the sun rise, every day. After the sun-set the Mani loses its power.
King Abhjit & queen Gunavati did penance for several years on advice of sage Vaishampayan & got a son named as Gana. Gana popularly called as Ganaraja.
Ganaraja was as furious as he was brave & valorious. Once after his hunting expedition he came to Kapila Rishi's Ashram for taking rest. Sage Kapila welcomed Ganaraja & invited for lunch along with his sena(army). He fed the entire army with good food. Being impressed by the power of the jewel, greedy Ganaraja asked sage Kapila to give the jewel to him. When sage Kapila refused to give the jewel, Ganaraja took away from him by force.
Sage Kaplia was disappointed as he accepted this Gift to help realize the righteous wishes of the people visiting his hermitage. He meditates on Goddess Durga and she advices e Kapila to worship Lord Ganesha & in boon ask for the Chintamani. Sage kapila meditates on Lord Ganesh and Ganesh grants the boon. A fierced battle between Lord Ganesha & Ganaraja took place. At the end Lord Ganesha killed Ganaraja.
King Abhjit returned the Chintamani to sage Kapila. Sage Kapila says: I know realize the best place to keep this Chintamani and telling this he embeds this into a necklace and prays to Lord Ganesha to have this on his neck. Sage Kapila further prays Lord Ganesh to keep his Idol here as Shri Chintamani Ganesha to grant the humanity in Kaliyuga to fulfill their desires. Lord Ganesh accepts Sage Kapila’s prayer and tells him that He would appear as a Swayambhoo in the same place during Kaliyuga with the Chintamani embedded necklace embedded in it.
Later in Kaliyuga Lord Ganesh appeared as a swyambhoo in a place called Theur with the Chintamani on his neck. From that time Lord Ganesha was also called as Chintamani-Vinayaka. This place is also called as Kadamba Tirtha because the battle between Lord Ganesha & Ganaraja took place near a Kadamba tree.
In the passage of time the Chintamani embedded to His neck was stolen by thieves and they lost it in the process of escaping from a lion. The stone was collected by a tribal person, he later on gifts it to a civilised man who lost it when he was travelling in the forest area near Srisailam. This is an unknown fact to all.
***
Bhargava’s perseverance paid ultimately, he was adviced by a sanyasi to set out to Kumbhamela in progress so that he might meet a sage who can tell you the secret of this Chintamani.
The next day he sets out to Kumbhamela
***
In the mean time the stone in the possession of Driver becomes a toy in the hands of his daughter. She misses it in the bushes nearby.
It was again picked up by a rag picker. She realises all her wishes on that day and gives it to a child in the nomad family on the roadside to play.
***
Bhargava happens to meet an unassuming person in the Kumbhamela. The sanyasi stops near Bhargava and talks in chaste telugu about the preciousness of time – the present moment awareness. How time eats away in the form of morning and evening the life time of human beings. He tells how ever second is a wish-fulfilling stone!
We take several decisions on our own and yet we crib that some one takes some decisions that impacted us badly or that were not favourable to us. Here the focus shifts to that some person and we lose focus on our own selves.
The moment we get focused on our own self we come to know how much we can work with our own self and how much independence we can enjoy and how many decisions we can take on our own for ourselves.
Yad bhaavam tad bhavathi. If we think we have no control on our selves we do not have it. If we think we have, then we would certainly have.
So the thinking is a Mani that fulfills our wish as we like it to do and time is the most precious resource we have. He further says we abuse time and our thinking faculty. If we can think well and use time well the thinking is Chinta and time is Mani, he pauses and tells that is Chintaamani; and walks off past leaving Bhargava in amagement and some sort of thrill.
He comes back and confides this with his girl friend – he confides every thing with her right from the day one of touching this stone.
***
The Mani again changes several hands and eventually drowned in River Godavari at Bhadrachalam.
The Sloka is again played
Brahma Srushtyadisakta Sthirmatirahittam Pidito Vighnasandhe Aakranto Bhutirakta Krutiganrajasa Jeevita Tyaktu Mischina Swatmanan Sarvyakta Ganapatimamal Satyachintamaniyam Mukta Cha Stapayant Shtirmatisukhadam Sthavare Dhudhi Midhe
The following Meaning of the above sloka is shared:
“The one who is in search of happiness, whose mind is wavering like God Brahma who later subdued it through meditation; and whose mind is in the middle of all calamities should go to Sthavar means Theur & worship Shree Chintamani & get rid of all Chintas(worries)”.
So Think well, use the Time well and you will always do well.
The End
The Material I sourced on Chintamani:
Theur is situated at a distance of 25kms from pune in Haveli Taluka of Pune District. Theur is situated at the confluence of the Mula,Mutha,& Bhima rivers. Sugar is cultivated on a large scale in Theur. Theur is the nearest astavinayak from Pune. Chintamani Vinayak relates to the legend of Kapila Muni and the Chintamani gem that he had obtained from Shiva.
Long time back king Abhijeet & his wife queen Gunavati , performed penances for several years on the advice of sage Vaishampayan & got a son called Gana who later on became popular by name 'Ganaraja'. Ganaraja was as furious as he was brave & valourious.Once after his hunting expedition he came to Kapila Rishi's Ashram for taking rest. Sage Kapila fed the entire army with tastiest food from a jewel called Chintamani. The jewel Chintamani was given to him by king of Gods Indra.. Being impressed by the power of jewel, greedy Ganaraja asked Sage Kapila to give the jewel to him. When Kapila refused , Ganaraja took away the Chintamani by force. Sage Kapila was sorely disappointed. Goddess Durga adviced Kapila to worship Lord Ganesh.Being happy with Kapila's worship Lord Ganesh promised him to return back the jewel.Ganesh and Ganaraja had fierced battle near tree Kadamba. Lord Ganesh killed Ganaraja with his axe. Thus Sage Kapila got his Chintamani back. Kapila adorned Ganesh with Chintamani. Since then Lord Ganesh is called Chintamani and as these incidents took place below a Kadamba tree, the village around it was called Kadamba Thirtha.
The idol faces east. It is swayambhu (self emanated) & has a left side trunk. There are carbuncle & diamonds in the eyes of Vinayaka. Theur is in Haveli Taluka of District Pune at a distance of 25 km from Pune City. It is situated on the confluence of the Mula, Mutha & Bhima rivers. Facility of frequent Poona Motor Transport buses makes the approach of this place very easy. Its only at 3 kms of distance from Loni.
Brahma Srushtyadisakta Sthirmatirahittam Pidito Vighnasandhe Aakranto Bhutirakta Krutiganrajasa Jeevita Tyaktu Mischina Swatmanan Sarvyakta Ganapatimamal Satyachintamaniyam Mukta Cha Stapayant Shtirmatisukhadam Sthavare Dhudhi Midhe
God Brahma meditated here to subdue his wavering mind. Theur is the nearest place of Ashtavinayak from Pune.
How to reach Theur
Theur is in Haveli district of Pune. The distance from Pune is about 25 km. Theur is situated on the confluence of Mula, Mutha & Bhima rivers. One can reach Theur by,
1. Regular Pune Motor Transport buses are available from Poolgate bus stand of Pune.
2. On Pune-Sholapur highway after Loni, a road leads to Theur.
Story
King Abhjit & queen Gunavati did penance for several years on advice of sage Vaishampayan & got a son named as Gana. Gana popularly called as Ganaraja.
Ganaraja was as furious as he was brave & valorious. Once after his hunting expedition he came to Kapila Rishi's Ashram for taking rest. Sage Kapila welcomed Ganaraja & invited for lunch along with his sena(army).
King of gods Indra had given sage Kapila a jewel called Chintamani. With its help the sage fed the entire army with good food. Being impressed by the power of the jewel, greedy Ganaraja asked sage Kapila to give the jewel to him. When sage Kapila refused to give the jewel, Ganaraja took away from him by force.
Sage Kaplia was disappointed. Goddess Durga advice Kapila to worship Lord Ganesha & in boon sked for the Chintamani. A fierced battle between Lord Ganesha & Ganaraja took place. At the end Lord Ganesha killed Ganaraja.
King Abhjit returned the Chintamani to sage Kapila. Sage Kapila worshipped Lord Ganesha. From that time Lord Ganesha was also called as Chintamani-Vinayaka. This village is also called as Kadamba Tirtha because the battle between Lord Ganesha & Ganaraja took place near Kadamba tree.
Temple
The main archway of the temple faces North. Madhavarao Peshava had built a concrete road from main gate up to Mula-Mutha river. Temple hall is made up of wood & there is a small fountain made up of black stone in the hall. The courtyard of the temple is big paved with floor. There is small temple of God Shiva in the courtyard of the temple. A big bell can be seen outside the main temple.
The temple was built by Dharanidhar Maharaj Dev from the family of Moraya Gosavi. One hundred years later Madhavarao Peshava built a hall for this temple. Haripant Phadake & other devotees had done timely repairs of the temple.
Idol
Idol facing toward East is self emerged & has a left side trunk. There are diamonds in the eyes of the idol.
Festivals
Two festivals, one in Bhadrapada from Pratipada to Saptami & another in Magh are celebrated in Theur on grand scale. In those days Ganesh idols in the nearby temples are worshipped & offered naivedya. This is called as Dwaryatra. On Sankashti & Angaraki people give food to poor. They have been provided with the utensils to prepare food.
Lord Chintamani was a family God of Madhavarao Peshva. His palace was near the temple & now it is converted into garden. Madhavarao Peshva had stayed in this palace in his last sickness. He renovated the temple & performed various religious programs in the temple. By chanting Gajanan he passed away. Ramabai, wife of Madhavarao Peshva burnt herself with corpse of Madhavarao Peshva on bank of the Mula Mutha river. Sati's vrindavan was built on that place. It was Kartik Vadya Ashtami. Rama Madhav death anniversary is celebrated here on Kartik Vadya Ashtami.
From Wikipedia:
Shri Chintamani
Shri Chintamani, Theur
Ganesha is believed to have got back the precious Chinatamani jewel from the greedy Guna for sage Kapila at this spot. However, after bringing back the jewel, sage Kapila put it in Vinayaka's (Ganesha's) neck. Thus the name Chintamani Vinayak. This happened under the Kadamb tree, therefore Theur is known as Kadambanagar in old times.
The lake behind the temple is called Kadambteertha. The temple entrance is North facing. The outer wooden hall is built by Peshwas. The main temple is supposed to have been built by Dharanidhar Maharaj Dev from the family-lineage of Shri Moraya Gosavi. He must have built this around 100 years before Senior Shrimant Madhavrao Peshwa built the outer wooden hall.
This idol also has a left trunk, with carbuncle and diamonds as its eyes. The idol faces the East side.
The Chintamani gets in to the hands of Swetha a B.Sc Student from a middle class family. She too gets fascinated by the structure of the Stone. She gets dreams that she could not explain but she sees the face of Bhargava quite often. Similarly, ever since she got the Stone, Bhargava used to get strange dreams and used to see the face of Swetha.
One day they happen to meet with each other in a very unusual way and they recognise each other start conversing and sharing about their dreams. Then the inquisitiveness about the stone gets further increased and they together search all possible sources to know about the unique stones. Before that what they did was something very upright and many miss to do:
Swetha took Bhargava to her home and introduce him as the face she has been seeing in her dreams. Bhargava tells the entire story of how he happened to recover the stone from Srisailam forest area. Then Swetha’s parents call up Bhargava’s parents and invite them to have a meeting on this. Both the families got together and decided to research on the stone. Swetha stopped getting dreams the moment the stone reaches Bhargava. But in the mean time the research on the stone by both Swetha and Bhargava reaches a significant stage – they both found it to be the wish-fulfilling stone!
They decided not to share it with any one including their own families. One day they met at a library and try out with their wishes. Bhargava ask Swetha to tell her wish. Swetha looking at a begging boy wishes that he be picked up by a rich man for adoption. The next moment a car comes in to pick him up. Swetha asks Bhargava to take the turn. Bhargava wishes the neem tree that is well dried up and just beside him to be alive. The tree appears with lush green growth on its dried up branches with a change in its colour.
Now tell me what shall we do with this stone? Asks Swetha
“Just relax” says Bhargava – Intermission (Just Relax!)
A gentle man like looking guy approaches them in his car and seek their help to know the route for Kachiguda Rly station. Then he got down from the car and took out a unique gadget from his pocket and shows them if they are interested in buying it. He asked them to closely look at its top. This happens without giving any time to both. As they looked at the top, he presses the bottom and makes them semi unconscious. Then he took the bag containing the Stone and rushed in the car.
By the time both gain their balance the car is vanished. Bhargava noticed that the bag containing the Stone is missing.
The suspense is whether that guy knew the power of the stone?
The Main Story Line:
The film starts off with a Sloka;
Brahma Srushtyadisakta Sthirmatirahittam Pidito Vighnasandhe Aakranto Bhutirakta Krutiganrajasa Jeevita Tyaktu Mischina Swatmanan Sarvyakta Ganapatimamal Satyachintamaniyam Mukta Cha Stapayant Shtirmatisukhadam Sthavare Dhudhi Midhe
The meaning of this sloka is shared at the end of the movie by the Hero.
The Social Context:
A group of 25 M.Tech (Nano Technology) Students from JNTU were taken to an outbound activity as a part of their curriculum to a forest area near Srisaliam. They started off the activity with a treasure Hunt.
The groups divides into 5 teams and starts its hunt for the treasure. The team that is lead by Bhargava happened to find a pit and starts digging it. Bhargava in the process of removing the soil finds a stone that is unique its shape. He takes it out and shows it to his team.
Oh! This must be the treasure. Shall I blow the whistle…. Asks one
No it can’t be. Let’s try further.
We can as well sell this unique stone to a jewellery shop and share the money equally among us. Then bhargava says, since I find it first I must have a major share. He says this holding the stone in his hand.
Forget it we got to find the real treasure fast, lets move on – the other members yells.
In the meantime they head a blow of a whistle three times indicating that some one had got it. They returned to the camp and celebrated the event well
The treasure is 5 VIP Underwears, 5 use and through razors, 5 banians, 5 handkerchiefs,!!
The teams are back in city.
Bhargava team went to a jewellery shop in kukatpally and tries to sell it. The shop owner quotes a very small amount of Rs.500/-. They took it to Khazana jewellery shop and the manager gives a receipt of the stone and tells them to contact him two days later by then he would have ascertained the real value.
After two days they went and to their surprise got a quote of rs.25000/- bucks for the stone.
One of the team members says “ yaar if we take this to some other bigger shop we might get more money, who knows?” All others say: “who knows we do not get this much money from any shop, why wasting the time, lets make the deal and sell it for Rs.30,000/- bucks. The other team member tells the shop owner: give us Rs.30000/-. Then the shop manager goes in side his cabin and calls up his owner: sir, Fools they asked only for rs.30,000/- as you said. The other side voice said I guessed that these students are smarter and ask for 50,000/- so I told you to go up to rs.50,000/- they are really fools. Go and complete the deal.
The money was paid to Ravi in the team and the team went off to celebrate.
The team went to Imax and on the way stopped at eat street to share the money.
Ravi again said lets spend only 5000 bucks today and share equally the rest thus we get 5000 bucks each that we can spend on our own. Ravi gave 5000 bucks to Bhargava and others. Bhargava put the money in his back pocket and enjoyed the day
As Bhargava reached home he removed his pant and took out the money from the back pocket and finds it to his surprise a big bundle. With so much curiosity he counted the 1000 rupee notes twice to his surprise and found them to be 25 rather than 5.
He remembers very distinctly Ravi counting 5 each and he also remembers he put only 5 in his pocket. How come he got 25/-
He calls up all his friends and discreetly asks whether they got their 5000 bucks.
** here we can show the knack of asking……
In one phone call he says: Yaar I was about to soak my pant then remembered the money I took it out and removed it. I thought you might also do it, so I called up, have you kept the money safely? - the other side voice says: yes I put it in the cash box gifted by my sister.
The wish list:
Bhargava wanted a major share to come to him.
The next day when the students took it a jewellery shop there was no wish by the person who touched it first after the sun rise.
The Khazana shop manager did not touch the next day
The day after the Khazana owner touched it and wished that it should come to him in less than 50,000/- bucks and I can make a good business with it.
***
The Khazana owner sells it to another merchant in Mumbai at Rs.10,000,000/-
The mumbai merchant when he first touches it he feels on that day that it is better for him to have an on the spot death when in sleep in an accident. This merchant lost it in his car accident the driver is from AP. Who happens to survive by jumping off the car in the wee hours in the outskirts of mumbai. The vehicle is hit by a truck and the truck ran away. The Driver goes back to the spot and finds his owner dead and the brief fallen on the road.
He took the brief and runs off, he force opend the brief find two bundles of currency notes and a sack containing the stone.
He returns to Hyderabad by flight
He touches the stone in Hyderabad as he shares it with his family.
He wishes to have another flight to delhi.
***
Bhargava some how got fascinated by the unique structure of the stone. This structure haunts hiim and appears even in his dreams. He discusses it with the HoD of civil engineering. The HoD says: A stone can have a rare structure due to several reasons like it must have been eroded by Lava, Continuous flow of water, Solar heat, etc., Or it must be a part of an asteroid fallen from the sky. Though Bhargav bought the argument of this Professor, his mind still tells him that the stone is some thing unique.
***
The driver was traced by police and in their interrogation he admits that he knows address that his owner frequents in delhi and the owner’s (mumbai) son pleads him to fly to Delhi and show the place. He flies to and from delhi.
The stone was again touched by his sister in law. She wishes to have a flying exeuctive to be her husband.
The next day the owner of the house where she works proposes to her to marry an American and fly to America the next day via delhi.
She agrees to it convinces her family and marries him.
The other day the stone was touched by an old lady who wished to Driver to be picked up police again as he did not give her money for the treatment of the pain in her joints.
The police picks up the driver again the next day and leaves him the day after.
***
Bhargava continues his quest for unique stones. He searches the Net, the central library, consults stone and gems specialists. In his google search he bumps on the world “wish-fulfilling stone”
***
The spiritual fantasy unfolds now:
Lord Shiva gifts to Sage Kapila a rare Mani called Chintamani in recognition of Kapila’s nature for helping the needy whoever comes to his hermitage. With its help the sage used to fulfil the righteous wishes of the needy people. Lord Shiva tells Kapila Muni to protect it well as it would grant all the wishes to whomsover touches it after the sun rise, every day. After the sun-set the Mani loses its power.
King Abhjit & queen Gunavati did penance for several years on advice of sage Vaishampayan & got a son named as Gana. Gana popularly called as Ganaraja.
Ganaraja was as furious as he was brave & valorious. Once after his hunting expedition he came to Kapila Rishi's Ashram for taking rest. Sage Kapila welcomed Ganaraja & invited for lunch along with his sena(army). He fed the entire army with good food. Being impressed by the power of the jewel, greedy Ganaraja asked sage Kapila to give the jewel to him. When sage Kapila refused to give the jewel, Ganaraja took away from him by force.
Sage Kaplia was disappointed as he accepted this Gift to help realize the righteous wishes of the people visiting his hermitage. He meditates on Goddess Durga and she advices e Kapila to worship Lord Ganesha & in boon ask for the Chintamani. Sage kapila meditates on Lord Ganesh and Ganesh grants the boon. A fierced battle between Lord Ganesha & Ganaraja took place. At the end Lord Ganesha killed Ganaraja.
King Abhjit returned the Chintamani to sage Kapila. Sage Kapila says: I know realize the best place to keep this Chintamani and telling this he embeds this into a necklace and prays to Lord Ganesha to have this on his neck. Sage Kapila further prays Lord Ganesh to keep his Idol here as Shri Chintamani Ganesha to grant the humanity in Kaliyuga to fulfill their desires. Lord Ganesh accepts Sage Kapila’s prayer and tells him that He would appear as a Swayambhoo in the same place during Kaliyuga with the Chintamani embedded necklace embedded in it.
Later in Kaliyuga Lord Ganesh appeared as a swyambhoo in a place called Theur with the Chintamani on his neck. From that time Lord Ganesha was also called as Chintamani-Vinayaka. This place is also called as Kadamba Tirtha because the battle between Lord Ganesha & Ganaraja took place near a Kadamba tree.
In the passage of time the Chintamani embedded to His neck was stolen by thieves and they lost it in the process of escaping from a lion. The stone was collected by a tribal person, he later on gifts it to a civilised man who lost it when he was travelling in the forest area near Srisailam. This is an unknown fact to all.
***
Bhargava’s perseverance paid ultimately, he was adviced by a sanyasi to set out to Kumbhamela in progress so that he might meet a sage who can tell you the secret of this Chintamani.
The next day he sets out to Kumbhamela
***
In the mean time the stone in the possession of Driver becomes a toy in the hands of his daughter. She misses it in the bushes nearby.
It was again picked up by a rag picker. She realises all her wishes on that day and gives it to a child in the nomad family on the roadside to play.
***
Bhargava happens to meet an unassuming person in the Kumbhamela. The sanyasi stops near Bhargava and talks in chaste telugu about the preciousness of time – the present moment awareness. How time eats away in the form of morning and evening the life time of human beings. He tells how ever second is a wish-fulfilling stone!
We take several decisions on our own and yet we crib that some one takes some decisions that impacted us badly or that were not favourable to us. Here the focus shifts to that some person and we lose focus on our own selves.
The moment we get focused on our own self we come to know how much we can work with our own self and how much independence we can enjoy and how many decisions we can take on our own for ourselves.
Yad bhaavam tad bhavathi. If we think we have no control on our selves we do not have it. If we think we have, then we would certainly have.
So the thinking is a Mani that fulfills our wish as we like it to do and time is the most precious resource we have. He further says we abuse time and our thinking faculty. If we can think well and use time well the thinking is Chinta and time is Mani, he pauses and tells that is Chintaamani; and walks off past leaving Bhargava in amagement and some sort of thrill.
He comes back and confides this with his girl friend – he confides every thing with her right from the day one of touching this stone.
***
The Mani again changes several hands and eventually drowned in River Godavari at Bhadrachalam.
The Sloka is again played
Brahma Srushtyadisakta Sthirmatirahittam Pidito Vighnasandhe Aakranto Bhutirakta Krutiganrajasa Jeevita Tyaktu Mischina Swatmanan Sarvyakta Ganapatimamal Satyachintamaniyam Mukta Cha Stapayant Shtirmatisukhadam Sthavare Dhudhi Midhe
The following Meaning of the above sloka is shared:
“The one who is in search of happiness, whose mind is wavering like God Brahma who later subdued it through meditation; and whose mind is in the middle of all calamities should go to Sthavar means Theur & worship Shree Chintamani & get rid of all Chintas(worries)”.
So Think well, use the Time well and you will always do well.
The End
The Material I sourced on Chintamani:
Theur is situated at a distance of 25kms from pune in Haveli Taluka of Pune District. Theur is situated at the confluence of the Mula,Mutha,& Bhima rivers. Sugar is cultivated on a large scale in Theur. Theur is the nearest astavinayak from Pune. Chintamani Vinayak relates to the legend of Kapila Muni and the Chintamani gem that he had obtained from Shiva.
Long time back king Abhijeet & his wife queen Gunavati , performed penances for several years on the advice of sage Vaishampayan & got a son called Gana who later on became popular by name 'Ganaraja'. Ganaraja was as furious as he was brave & valourious.Once after his hunting expedition he came to Kapila Rishi's Ashram for taking rest. Sage Kapila fed the entire army with tastiest food from a jewel called Chintamani. The jewel Chintamani was given to him by king of Gods Indra.. Being impressed by the power of jewel, greedy Ganaraja asked Sage Kapila to give the jewel to him. When Kapila refused , Ganaraja took away the Chintamani by force. Sage Kapila was sorely disappointed. Goddess Durga adviced Kapila to worship Lord Ganesh.Being happy with Kapila's worship Lord Ganesh promised him to return back the jewel.Ganesh and Ganaraja had fierced battle near tree Kadamba. Lord Ganesh killed Ganaraja with his axe. Thus Sage Kapila got his Chintamani back. Kapila adorned Ganesh with Chintamani. Since then Lord Ganesh is called Chintamani and as these incidents took place below a Kadamba tree, the village around it was called Kadamba Thirtha.
The idol faces east. It is swayambhu (self emanated) & has a left side trunk. There are carbuncle & diamonds in the eyes of Vinayaka. Theur is in Haveli Taluka of District Pune at a distance of 25 km from Pune City. It is situated on the confluence of the Mula, Mutha & Bhima rivers. Facility of frequent Poona Motor Transport buses makes the approach of this place very easy. Its only at 3 kms of distance from Loni.
Brahma Srushtyadisakta Sthirmatirahittam Pidito Vighnasandhe Aakranto Bhutirakta Krutiganrajasa Jeevita Tyaktu Mischina Swatmanan Sarvyakta Ganapatimamal Satyachintamaniyam Mukta Cha Stapayant Shtirmatisukhadam Sthavare Dhudhi Midhe
God Brahma meditated here to subdue his wavering mind. Theur is the nearest place of Ashtavinayak from Pune.
How to reach Theur
Theur is in Haveli district of Pune. The distance from Pune is about 25 km. Theur is situated on the confluence of Mula, Mutha & Bhima rivers. One can reach Theur by,
1. Regular Pune Motor Transport buses are available from Poolgate bus stand of Pune.
2. On Pune-Sholapur highway after Loni, a road leads to Theur.
Story
King Abhjit & queen Gunavati did penance for several years on advice of sage Vaishampayan & got a son named as Gana. Gana popularly called as Ganaraja.
Ganaraja was as furious as he was brave & valorious. Once after his hunting expedition he came to Kapila Rishi's Ashram for taking rest. Sage Kapila welcomed Ganaraja & invited for lunch along with his sena(army).
King of gods Indra had given sage Kapila a jewel called Chintamani. With its help the sage fed the entire army with good food. Being impressed by the power of the jewel, greedy Ganaraja asked sage Kapila to give the jewel to him. When sage Kapila refused to give the jewel, Ganaraja took away from him by force.
Sage Kaplia was disappointed. Goddess Durga advice Kapila to worship Lord Ganesha & in boon sked for the Chintamani. A fierced battle between Lord Ganesha & Ganaraja took place. At the end Lord Ganesha killed Ganaraja.
King Abhjit returned the Chintamani to sage Kapila. Sage Kapila worshipped Lord Ganesha. From that time Lord Ganesha was also called as Chintamani-Vinayaka. This village is also called as Kadamba Tirtha because the battle between Lord Ganesha & Ganaraja took place near Kadamba tree.
Temple
The main archway of the temple faces North. Madhavarao Peshava had built a concrete road from main gate up to Mula-Mutha river. Temple hall is made up of wood & there is a small fountain made up of black stone in the hall. The courtyard of the temple is big paved with floor. There is small temple of God Shiva in the courtyard of the temple. A big bell can be seen outside the main temple.
The temple was built by Dharanidhar Maharaj Dev from the family of Moraya Gosavi. One hundred years later Madhavarao Peshava built a hall for this temple. Haripant Phadake & other devotees had done timely repairs of the temple.
Idol
Idol facing toward East is self emerged & has a left side trunk. There are diamonds in the eyes of the idol.
Festivals
Two festivals, one in Bhadrapada from Pratipada to Saptami & another in Magh are celebrated in Theur on grand scale. In those days Ganesh idols in the nearby temples are worshipped & offered naivedya. This is called as Dwaryatra. On Sankashti & Angaraki people give food to poor. They have been provided with the utensils to prepare food.
Lord Chintamani was a family God of Madhavarao Peshva. His palace was near the temple & now it is converted into garden. Madhavarao Peshva had stayed in this palace in his last sickness. He renovated the temple & performed various religious programs in the temple. By chanting Gajanan he passed away. Ramabai, wife of Madhavarao Peshva burnt herself with corpse of Madhavarao Peshva on bank of the Mula Mutha river. Sati's vrindavan was built on that place. It was Kartik Vadya Ashtami. Rama Madhav death anniversary is celebrated here on Kartik Vadya Ashtami.
From Wikipedia:
Shri Chintamani
Shri Chintamani, Theur
Ganesha is believed to have got back the precious Chinatamani jewel from the greedy Guna for sage Kapila at this spot. However, after bringing back the jewel, sage Kapila put it in Vinayaka's (Ganesha's) neck. Thus the name Chintamani Vinayak. This happened under the Kadamb tree, therefore Theur is known as Kadambanagar in old times.
The lake behind the temple is called Kadambteertha. The temple entrance is North facing. The outer wooden hall is built by Peshwas. The main temple is supposed to have been built by Dharanidhar Maharaj Dev from the family-lineage of Shri Moraya Gosavi. He must have built this around 100 years before Senior Shrimant Madhavrao Peshwa built the outer wooden hall.
This idol also has a left trunk, with carbuncle and diamonds as its eyes. The idol faces the East side.
Inosphere!
IONOSPHERE
Vimal works for Reliance Communications. He is zonal marketing head responsible for the target set for selling Reliance Connections and other products of the company. He is basically an electrical and electronics engineer. As he has been given the responsibility of customer service department of the city, he is exposed to the repair and maintenance of the mobile units even. He got interested in the research and development of new products and eventually joined the R&D wing of LG Mobiles. He joins the team that is researching on tower less telecommuting using much cheaper technology. The instrument itself has the capacity to receive signals and convert them using the Nano Technology. This is different from satellite phone and uses radio technology by leveraging the Ionosphere.
In the laboratory he started conducting several experiments. In one such experiment he accidentally recorded some voices on his hand set. These voices are the words spoken last week in the same place by a group of American Consultants when they were alone taking the food. It was a great surprise for him and he carefully recorded the frequency at which these voices have been captured. He changed the frequency and heard nothing but the noise. He took the handsets that he altered specifically for this purpose and went to his room. He kept the handsets tuned to some other frequency and again he got nothing but the noise. He fiddled with the frequency and eventually heard the voices of a couple so clearly. The next day he enquired with his landlord and found that a newly married couple lived in the same room a year ago.
He found that our voice has its own unique frequency just like our iris! If the instrument is tuned to the voice frequency it can capture the words spoken. The catch is that it captures the voices specific to an area. If the instruments change place, they can not capture the voice.
He conducts an experiment on himself. He records the unique frequency of his own voice and tunes the instrument to it. He heard his own voice spoken in this room right from the day one of his coming to this room in series. It hears some thing like this:
This is good place to stay
I do not know
It has come
I may not return by 9.00 pm
Well you can use my room
15th April, 2008 is the date written on the letter
Some prayers
Some songs
Some shouting etc.
And lastly he hears his own voice: It is going to happen I can capture the voice of the dead people. I can capture the words spoken by people in Dwapara Yuga, Treta Yuga even……. Later he recalls the dream he had had and concludes that the words were nothing but the one he had spoken while dreaming!!.
This is really mind boggling! Yells Vimal
But this throws open another problem. All the words he had spoken so far have been captured but not presented in an order of speking. The next two days he fiddles with his hand sets and finds that by setting the receiving hand set to record according to a gradual intensity of the unique frequency he achieves the order. This has become another discovery that as we age the unique frequency also changes in its intensity. This change is very minute that a very highly sophisticated instrument can only distinguish it. Fortunately the instrument created by Vimal turned out to be a very highly sophisticated one.
***
Vimal finds it intriguing.
He plays the record of his departed granny’s lullaby for him and notes the frequency of it.
He goes to the Public Gardens and tunes is instruments to his Granny’s frequency and finds to his surprise the conversation of his Granny with him. In the conversation his words are missing but each word spoken by his Granny were played chronologically.
This gives him the clue that we got know the frequency of each ones voice and then we can capture the words spoken by them by placing the instruments in the places visited by them.
He yells within him Yahoooooooooo!
He plays with this instrument very secretly and is in a dilemma as to how and whom he should approach to patent this discovery.
He conducts a subtle search for the most dependable senior management guy in LG. In this process he meets Shweta the HR Executive.
He sent an email to LG’s Head - Strategic Business Development, Mr. Goyal, seeking his personal time. He meets him and demonstrates his product. He finds the unique frequency of Mr. Goyal and tunes the instruments to record them. Soon he hears on the other instruments the words he had spoken to his wife over phone – the first call he made after assuming the office.
Goyal got a shock of his life!! He remained silent for a few moments and then tells Vimal not to reveal this to any one and tells him that. Let me get out of this thrill. Tomorrow we are meeting at my place in the evening. I shall send you the vehicle to your place at 8.00 pm. Be ready by then. Vimal makes a small correction saying: I am coming along with my fiancée (Shweta).
***
Goyal his wife, Vimal and Shweta brainstorm on the use of this technology. The result was amazing.
Secrets can be revealed
We can even try find out the unique frequency of living gods like Rama, Krishna, Jesus, Prophet Mohammad, etc.
Whom to sell this technology?
They decided to create a company and become its owners and own the technology.
Shweta further proposes that the techonology is patented and the rights are not sold to any one in the world and thereby Vimal remains its owner.
World’s best companies came to know of it.
Competes to buy the parent rights
Even some Nations like US and Russia tried to persuade Vimal
Vimal also receives threats from within India and abroad
Vimal keeps the prototype with him
How Vimal faces these threats and what eventually he did with the company can be left to the creative twists.
IVNS Raju
The following is the quick research based on which the above theme and the storyline was weaved:
Early interest
American photographer and medium Attila von Szalay was among the first to try recording what he believed to be voices of the dead as a way to augment his investigations in photographing ghosts. He began his attempts in 1941 using a 78 rpm record, but it wasn't until 1956, after switching to a reel-to-reel tape recorder, that he believed he was successful.[6] Working with Raymond Bayless, von Szalay conducted a number of recording sessions with a custom-made apparatus, consisting of a microphone in an insulated cabinet connected to an external recording device and speaker. Szalay reported finding many sounds on the tape that could not be heard on the speaker at the time of recording, some of which were recorded when there was no one in the cabinet. He believed these sounds to be the voices of discarnate spirits. Among the first recordings believed to be spirit voices were such messages as "This is G!", "Hot dog, Art!", and "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all".[6] Von Szalay and Bayless' work was published by the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research in 1959.[7] Bayless later went on to co-author the 1979 book, Phone Calls From the Dead.
In 1959, Swedish painter and film producer Friedrich Jürgenson was recording bird songs. Upon playing the tape later, he heard what he interpreted to be his dead father's voice and then the spirit of his deceased wife calling his name.[6] He went on to make several more recordings, including one that he said contained a message from his late mother.[8]
[edit] Raudive voices
Konstantin Raudive, a Latvian psychologist who had taught at the University of Uppsala, Sweden and who had worked in conjunction with Jürgenson, made over 100,000 recordings which he described as being communications with discarnate people. Some of these recordings were conducted in an RF-screened laboratory and contained words Raudive said were identifiable.[5][3] In an attempt to confirm the content of his collection of recordings, Raudive invited listeners to hear and interpret them.[5][9][10][11][12] He believed that the clarity of the voices heard in his recordings implied that they could not be readily explained by normal means.[5] Raudive published his first book, Breakthrough - An Amazing Experiment in Electronic Communication with the Dead in 1968 and it was translated into English in 1971.[13]
[edit] Spiricom
In 1980, William O'Neil constructed an electronic audio device called "The Spiricom". O'Neil claimed the device was built to specifications which he received psychically from George Mueller, a scientist who had died six years previously.[14][5] At a Washington, DC, press conference on April 6, 1982, O'Neil stated that he was able to hold two-way conversations with spirits through the Spiricom device, and provided the design specifications to researchers for free. However, nobody is known to have replicated O'Neil's results using their own Spiricom devices.[15][16] O'Neil's partner, retired industrialist George Meek, attributed O'Neil's success, and the inability of others to replicate it, to O'Neil's psychic abilities forming part of the loop that made the system work.[14][17]
[edit] Modern era (1980s-present)
In 1982, Sarah Estep founded the American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena (AA-EVP) in Severna Park, Maryland, a nonprofit organization with the purpose of increasing awareness of EVP, and of teaching standardized methods for capturing it. Estep began her exploration of EVP in 1976, and says she has made hundreds of recordings of messages from deceased friends, relatives, and other individuals, including Konstantin Raudive, Beethoven, a lamplighter from 18th century Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and extraterrestrials whom she speculated originated from other planets or dimensions.
In 1997, Imants Barušs, of the Department of Psychology at the University of Western Ontario, conducted a series of experiments using the methods of EVP investigator Konstantin Raudive, and the work of "instrumental transcommunication researcher" Mark Macy, as a guide. A radio was tuned to an empty frequency, and over 81 sessions a total of 60 hours and 11 minutes of recordings were collected. During recordings, a person either sat in silence or attempted to make verbal contact with potential sources of EVP.[14] Barušs stated that he did record several events that sounded like voices, but they were too few and too random to represent viable data and too open to interpretation to be described definitively as EVP. He concluded: "While we did replicate EVP in the weak sense of finding voices on audio tapes, none of the phenomena found in our study was clearly anomalous, let alone attributable to discarnate beings. Hence we have failed to replicate EVP in the strong sense." The findings were published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration in 2001, and include a literature review.[14]
In 2005 the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research published a report by paranormal investigator Alexander MacRae. MacRae conducted recording sessions using a device of his own design that generated EVP.[18] In an attempt to demonstrate that different individuals would interpret EVP in the recordings the same way, MacRae asked seven people to compare some selections to a list of five phrases he provided, and to choose the best match. MacRae said the results of the listening panels indicated that the selections were of paranormal origin.[19][9][20]
Portable digital voice recorders are currently the technology of choice for EVP investigators. Since these devices are very susceptible to Radio Frequency (RF) contamination, EVP enthusiasts sometimes try to record EVP in RF- and sound-screened rooms.[21][22] Nevertheless, in order to record EVP there has to be noise in the audio circuits of the device used to produce the EVP.[23] For this reason, those who attempt to record EVP often use two recorders that have differing quality audio circuitry and rely on noise heard from the poorer quality instrument to generate EVP.[24]
Some EVP enthusiasts describe hearing the words in EVP as an ability, much like learning a new language.[25]
Vimal works for Reliance Communications. He is zonal marketing head responsible for the target set for selling Reliance Connections and other products of the company. He is basically an electrical and electronics engineer. As he has been given the responsibility of customer service department of the city, he is exposed to the repair and maintenance of the mobile units even. He got interested in the research and development of new products and eventually joined the R&D wing of LG Mobiles. He joins the team that is researching on tower less telecommuting using much cheaper technology. The instrument itself has the capacity to receive signals and convert them using the Nano Technology. This is different from satellite phone and uses radio technology by leveraging the Ionosphere.
In the laboratory he started conducting several experiments. In one such experiment he accidentally recorded some voices on his hand set. These voices are the words spoken last week in the same place by a group of American Consultants when they were alone taking the food. It was a great surprise for him and he carefully recorded the frequency at which these voices have been captured. He changed the frequency and heard nothing but the noise. He took the handsets that he altered specifically for this purpose and went to his room. He kept the handsets tuned to some other frequency and again he got nothing but the noise. He fiddled with the frequency and eventually heard the voices of a couple so clearly. The next day he enquired with his landlord and found that a newly married couple lived in the same room a year ago.
He found that our voice has its own unique frequency just like our iris! If the instrument is tuned to the voice frequency it can capture the words spoken. The catch is that it captures the voices specific to an area. If the instruments change place, they can not capture the voice.
He conducts an experiment on himself. He records the unique frequency of his own voice and tunes the instrument to it. He heard his own voice spoken in this room right from the day one of his coming to this room in series. It hears some thing like this:
This is good place to stay
I do not know
It has come
I may not return by 9.00 pm
Well you can use my room
15th April, 2008 is the date written on the letter
Some prayers
Some songs
Some shouting etc.
And lastly he hears his own voice: It is going to happen I can capture the voice of the dead people. I can capture the words spoken by people in Dwapara Yuga, Treta Yuga even……. Later he recalls the dream he had had and concludes that the words were nothing but the one he had spoken while dreaming!!.
This is really mind boggling! Yells Vimal
But this throws open another problem. All the words he had spoken so far have been captured but not presented in an order of speking. The next two days he fiddles with his hand sets and finds that by setting the receiving hand set to record according to a gradual intensity of the unique frequency he achieves the order. This has become another discovery that as we age the unique frequency also changes in its intensity. This change is very minute that a very highly sophisticated instrument can only distinguish it. Fortunately the instrument created by Vimal turned out to be a very highly sophisticated one.
***
Vimal finds it intriguing.
He plays the record of his departed granny’s lullaby for him and notes the frequency of it.
He goes to the Public Gardens and tunes is instruments to his Granny’s frequency and finds to his surprise the conversation of his Granny with him. In the conversation his words are missing but each word spoken by his Granny were played chronologically.
This gives him the clue that we got know the frequency of each ones voice and then we can capture the words spoken by them by placing the instruments in the places visited by them.
He yells within him Yahoooooooooo!
He plays with this instrument very secretly and is in a dilemma as to how and whom he should approach to patent this discovery.
He conducts a subtle search for the most dependable senior management guy in LG. In this process he meets Shweta the HR Executive.
He sent an email to LG’s Head - Strategic Business Development, Mr. Goyal, seeking his personal time. He meets him and demonstrates his product. He finds the unique frequency of Mr. Goyal and tunes the instruments to record them. Soon he hears on the other instruments the words he had spoken to his wife over phone – the first call he made after assuming the office.
Goyal got a shock of his life!! He remained silent for a few moments and then tells Vimal not to reveal this to any one and tells him that. Let me get out of this thrill. Tomorrow we are meeting at my place in the evening. I shall send you the vehicle to your place at 8.00 pm. Be ready by then. Vimal makes a small correction saying: I am coming along with my fiancée (Shweta).
***
Goyal his wife, Vimal and Shweta brainstorm on the use of this technology. The result was amazing.
Secrets can be revealed
We can even try find out the unique frequency of living gods like Rama, Krishna, Jesus, Prophet Mohammad, etc.
Whom to sell this technology?
They decided to create a company and become its owners and own the technology.
Shweta further proposes that the techonology is patented and the rights are not sold to any one in the world and thereby Vimal remains its owner.
World’s best companies came to know of it.
Competes to buy the parent rights
Even some Nations like US and Russia tried to persuade Vimal
Vimal also receives threats from within India and abroad
Vimal keeps the prototype with him
How Vimal faces these threats and what eventually he did with the company can be left to the creative twists.
IVNS Raju
The following is the quick research based on which the above theme and the storyline was weaved:
Early interest
American photographer and medium Attila von Szalay was among the first to try recording what he believed to be voices of the dead as a way to augment his investigations in photographing ghosts. He began his attempts in 1941 using a 78 rpm record, but it wasn't until 1956, after switching to a reel-to-reel tape recorder, that he believed he was successful.[6] Working with Raymond Bayless, von Szalay conducted a number of recording sessions with a custom-made apparatus, consisting of a microphone in an insulated cabinet connected to an external recording device and speaker. Szalay reported finding many sounds on the tape that could not be heard on the speaker at the time of recording, some of which were recorded when there was no one in the cabinet. He believed these sounds to be the voices of discarnate spirits. Among the first recordings believed to be spirit voices were such messages as "This is G!", "Hot dog, Art!", and "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all".[6] Von Szalay and Bayless' work was published by the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research in 1959.[7] Bayless later went on to co-author the 1979 book, Phone Calls From the Dead.
In 1959, Swedish painter and film producer Friedrich Jürgenson was recording bird songs. Upon playing the tape later, he heard what he interpreted to be his dead father's voice and then the spirit of his deceased wife calling his name.[6] He went on to make several more recordings, including one that he said contained a message from his late mother.[8]
[edit] Raudive voices
Konstantin Raudive, a Latvian psychologist who had taught at the University of Uppsala, Sweden and who had worked in conjunction with Jürgenson, made over 100,000 recordings which he described as being communications with discarnate people. Some of these recordings were conducted in an RF-screened laboratory and contained words Raudive said were identifiable.[5][3] In an attempt to confirm the content of his collection of recordings, Raudive invited listeners to hear and interpret them.[5][9][10][11][12] He believed that the clarity of the voices heard in his recordings implied that they could not be readily explained by normal means.[5] Raudive published his first book, Breakthrough - An Amazing Experiment in Electronic Communication with the Dead in 1968 and it was translated into English in 1971.[13]
[edit] Spiricom
In 1980, William O'Neil constructed an electronic audio device called "The Spiricom". O'Neil claimed the device was built to specifications which he received psychically from George Mueller, a scientist who had died six years previously.[14][5] At a Washington, DC, press conference on April 6, 1982, O'Neil stated that he was able to hold two-way conversations with spirits through the Spiricom device, and provided the design specifications to researchers for free. However, nobody is known to have replicated O'Neil's results using their own Spiricom devices.[15][16] O'Neil's partner, retired industrialist George Meek, attributed O'Neil's success, and the inability of others to replicate it, to O'Neil's psychic abilities forming part of the loop that made the system work.[14][17]
[edit] Modern era (1980s-present)
In 1982, Sarah Estep founded the American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena (AA-EVP) in Severna Park, Maryland, a nonprofit organization with the purpose of increasing awareness of EVP, and of teaching standardized methods for capturing it. Estep began her exploration of EVP in 1976, and says she has made hundreds of recordings of messages from deceased friends, relatives, and other individuals, including Konstantin Raudive, Beethoven, a lamplighter from 18th century Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and extraterrestrials whom she speculated originated from other planets or dimensions.
In 1997, Imants Barušs, of the Department of Psychology at the University of Western Ontario, conducted a series of experiments using the methods of EVP investigator Konstantin Raudive, and the work of "instrumental transcommunication researcher" Mark Macy, as a guide. A radio was tuned to an empty frequency, and over 81 sessions a total of 60 hours and 11 minutes of recordings were collected. During recordings, a person either sat in silence or attempted to make verbal contact with potential sources of EVP.[14] Barušs stated that he did record several events that sounded like voices, but they were too few and too random to represent viable data and too open to interpretation to be described definitively as EVP. He concluded: "While we did replicate EVP in the weak sense of finding voices on audio tapes, none of the phenomena found in our study was clearly anomalous, let alone attributable to discarnate beings. Hence we have failed to replicate EVP in the strong sense." The findings were published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration in 2001, and include a literature review.[14]
In 2005 the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research published a report by paranormal investigator Alexander MacRae. MacRae conducted recording sessions using a device of his own design that generated EVP.[18] In an attempt to demonstrate that different individuals would interpret EVP in the recordings the same way, MacRae asked seven people to compare some selections to a list of five phrases he provided, and to choose the best match. MacRae said the results of the listening panels indicated that the selections were of paranormal origin.[19][9][20]
Portable digital voice recorders are currently the technology of choice for EVP investigators. Since these devices are very susceptible to Radio Frequency (RF) contamination, EVP enthusiasts sometimes try to record EVP in RF- and sound-screened rooms.[21][22] Nevertheless, in order to record EVP there has to be noise in the audio circuits of the device used to produce the EVP.[23] For this reason, those who attempt to record EVP often use two recorders that have differing quality audio circuitry and rely on noise heard from the poorer quality instrument to generate EVP.[24]
Some EVP enthusiasts describe hearing the words in EVP as an ability, much like learning a new language.[25]
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
My childhood experiences with Death!
I first witnessed the death of my paternal grand father who was shifted from the verandah of the house to the floor down below, I looked at him. I saw the tears in him. I was helped by my father to pour three small spoons of Tulasi Theertham (water mixed with basil leaves). He stared at me as if he was speaking very seriously with me. He was laid to be there on the floor for some time and later many around us declared him dead. This followed by the loud crying of ladies around.
I saw the death of my maternal grandfather who was fed with rice porridge minutes before his death. He talked to me, smiled at me and later after consuming the food he suffered some sort of suffocation and struggled with it for some time and wide opened his mouth before breathing his last. It appeared as if the Praana (the life force) had gone out of his mouth into the universe
I have experienced nearer-to-death situations. One was in River Godavari near Kondamodalu – a village on the Gadavari river’s course from Bhadrachalam to Rajamundry. I learnt swimming in the Godavari Canal in my Grandparents' place Arulla and wanted to show it to my uncle (husband of my mother’s younger sister). I swam from the shore till the middle of the river and retuned. Due to the powerful flow of the river the point I returned was a bit way from the point I started. At this point the depth was more. Unknowing of this I stopped swimming and tried to reach the ground with my feet. I did not find the ground and found myself drowning. I was gasping for breath as I had already swallowed good quantity of water. To my surprise I found my uncle watching me like a stone without any word or movement. I cried for his help that did not come forth managing to float but again drowned. In the process I moved a few spans away and as I drowned my feet touched a huge rock beneath and I took all my energy to kick it to go a little nearer to the shore. This action helped me reach a place where my feet can touch the ground and walk towards the shore.
My uncle said “good that you have back”. I was astonished at his behaviour and became silent. He never quoted this incident with my parents. During that time he did not have a male child but blessed with two daughters.
With this experience, I again ventured into a deep well dug in the rice field for irrigation purpose. I dived into it and its depth made me gulp water. I lost control on my breathing pattern with this. I started drowning. As I drowned a bit my hand touched the tap root of a big tree adjacent to the well. I held it strongly and started rising along with it. In a few moments my head was out of water and I took a fresh breath. I touched the brim of the well and raised myself with the help of hands and came out.
* * *
I saw the death of my maternal grandfather who was fed with rice porridge minutes before his death. He talked to me, smiled at me and later after consuming the food he suffered some sort of suffocation and struggled with it for some time and wide opened his mouth before breathing his last. It appeared as if the Praana (the life force) had gone out of his mouth into the universe
I have experienced nearer-to-death situations. One was in River Godavari near Kondamodalu – a village on the Gadavari river’s course from Bhadrachalam to Rajamundry. I learnt swimming in the Godavari Canal in my Grandparents' place Arulla and wanted to show it to my uncle (husband of my mother’s younger sister). I swam from the shore till the middle of the river and retuned. Due to the powerful flow of the river the point I returned was a bit way from the point I started. At this point the depth was more. Unknowing of this I stopped swimming and tried to reach the ground with my feet. I did not find the ground and found myself drowning. I was gasping for breath as I had already swallowed good quantity of water. To my surprise I found my uncle watching me like a stone without any word or movement. I cried for his help that did not come forth managing to float but again drowned. In the process I moved a few spans away and as I drowned my feet touched a huge rock beneath and I took all my energy to kick it to go a little nearer to the shore. This action helped me reach a place where my feet can touch the ground and walk towards the shore.
My uncle said “good that you have back”. I was astonished at his behaviour and became silent. He never quoted this incident with my parents. During that time he did not have a male child but blessed with two daughters.
With this experience, I again ventured into a deep well dug in the rice field for irrigation purpose. I dived into it and its depth made me gulp water. I lost control on my breathing pattern with this. I started drowning. As I drowned a bit my hand touched the tap root of a big tree adjacent to the well. I held it strongly and started rising along with it. In a few moments my head was out of water and I took a fresh breath. I touched the brim of the well and raised myself with the help of hands and came out.
* * *
An Experience of a Security Guard
I am on my rounds on the beautiful campus. Today I found the campus as heaven on the earth and my job as the most joyful one as it helps me enjoy interacting with the avenue plantations, lush green lawns, various flower plants, bushes and the breeze that flow through all of them and touches me.
The full moon that shines on the coconut tree leaves made me wonder stuck.
I allowed myself to get wet in the moonlight. I stood motionless gazing at the full moon and allowing the cool breeze to touch me as it wishes. I found in that silence a message of warmth, love and a sense of belonging.
I do not know why there is moisture in my eyes, suddenly. I sat down on the road with no thoughts but with a sense of being together with the Nature. Probably this is how I must have experienced in my early schooling days when my mother hugged me. Yes, nature hugged me as my mother did on the first day of my schooling.
I love this place so much for giving me this wonderful experience. I see my mother - whom I lost untimely to a demon called cancer - in every touch of the breeze, in the moonlight that drenches me with its cools rays and in the moving branches of trees in ecstasy. I called: “Ammaaaaaaa” so silently that it touched the depths of my heart and I felt my mother in every beat of my heart!
Again I said: Thank you Amma for giving me this wonderful birth that enables me remember your every touch, the food that you fed me and the stories that you weaved exclusively for me.
I spent the entire night with this wonderful feeling till the birds started welcoming the day with their musical chirpings.
--
IVNS Raju
(Upon watching a Security Guard who is very silent and very soft spoken works on the NDDB’ Campus at Erode (Tamil Nadu) in a full moon night in March 2004)
The full moon that shines on the coconut tree leaves made me wonder stuck.
I allowed myself to get wet in the moonlight. I stood motionless gazing at the full moon and allowing the cool breeze to touch me as it wishes. I found in that silence a message of warmth, love and a sense of belonging.
I do not know why there is moisture in my eyes, suddenly. I sat down on the road with no thoughts but with a sense of being together with the Nature. Probably this is how I must have experienced in my early schooling days when my mother hugged me. Yes, nature hugged me as my mother did on the first day of my schooling.
I love this place so much for giving me this wonderful experience. I see my mother - whom I lost untimely to a demon called cancer - in every touch of the breeze, in the moonlight that drenches me with its cools rays and in the moving branches of trees in ecstasy. I called: “Ammaaaaaaa” so silently that it touched the depths of my heart and I felt my mother in every beat of my heart!
Again I said: Thank you Amma for giving me this wonderful birth that enables me remember your every touch, the food that you fed me and the stories that you weaved exclusively for me.
I spent the entire night with this wonderful feeling till the birds started welcoming the day with their musical chirpings.
--
IVNS Raju
(Upon watching a Security Guard who is very silent and very soft spoken works on the NDDB’ Campus at Erode (Tamil Nadu) in a full moon night in March 2004)
I saw the God
I saw the God!
Just two weeks ago I found many trees cut
On the NH7 from Moosapet to KPHB in Hyderabad
Why they are cut God only knows
They were like naked starving human beings standing in the middle of the Road
But not begging as Human Beings
So many people watched their helplessness
So many people felt for them
Newspapers reported
Green Activists protested the act of cutting them
Government responded by initiating an enquiring into it.
All this is subsided just like the dust that settles after a powerful wind blew it.
Two weeks later….
I see the life coming out in the form of tender leaves
So many tender and lush green leaves waving Hi at all human beings
What a kindness it is
Trees manifest it the best
Trees try to live and do their job
With whatever little support they have from Mother Earth.
In these two weeks, having chopped them to no entity level
No one watered them
Yet they have the resurgence
They survived the near-death cruelty done to them
Just to do their duty
Their duty is to give greenery
Absorb the toxins in the air
Give fresh air full of life
They do it with the help of Mother Earth
Mother Earth helps them survive
Feed them in Her Lap
Today when I looked at the tender green leaves
That covered these chopped trees
I feel their kindness
Indeed I see the God
In every leaf, in every branch and in every tree
The stream of vehicles fanning poisonous gases on their faces
The persons riding them enjoy in the cozy comforts inside the cars
Looking at the leaves shining in the moonlight-like-sunlight
Appearing through their cooling glass windows
The reality is different and deterrent
The life goes on without appreciating the life cycle of the trees
How selfish we are as human beings
We are the privileged to make many deprived
We write the fate of those who save us
We test Nature in every season
By polluting, cutting, uprooting and destroying
Water, trees, land and air
The mute spectator and the sole witness to this act of unkindness is Sky
All the five elements always in a selfless mode
Operate day and night to save life on earth
We the unique manifestation of these five elements
Operate day and night to consume
When we wake up we wake up our desires
We do not know the time is eating us
In the form of day and night
We do not know when we breathe in whether we can breathe out
Or when we breathe out whether we can breathe in
Either in the day or in the night
The life begins afresh at any moment
The death comes at any moment
So simple is the cycle of life
The trees leant it the best way
They struggle till their last moment
Just to do their natural duties
We struggle till our last moment
Just to satisfy our desires
How un-natural we are
Unfit to live in Nature!!
I see the God saying all this
In the fluttering of the fresh tender leaves
Preparing for the onset of summer
Just to give, give and give
Whatever comfort they can
To those who destroy them
I see the God in all the Trees
- IVNS Raju, Hyderabad, 11 April 2007.
Just two weeks ago I found many trees cut
On the NH7 from Moosapet to KPHB in Hyderabad
Why they are cut God only knows
They were like naked starving human beings standing in the middle of the Road
But not begging as Human Beings
So many people watched their helplessness
So many people felt for them
Newspapers reported
Green Activists protested the act of cutting them
Government responded by initiating an enquiring into it.
All this is subsided just like the dust that settles after a powerful wind blew it.
Two weeks later….
I see the life coming out in the form of tender leaves
So many tender and lush green leaves waving Hi at all human beings
What a kindness it is
Trees manifest it the best
Trees try to live and do their job
With whatever little support they have from Mother Earth.
In these two weeks, having chopped them to no entity level
No one watered them
Yet they have the resurgence
They survived the near-death cruelty done to them
Just to do their duty
Their duty is to give greenery
Absorb the toxins in the air
Give fresh air full of life
They do it with the help of Mother Earth
Mother Earth helps them survive
Feed them in Her Lap
Today when I looked at the tender green leaves
That covered these chopped trees
I feel their kindness
Indeed I see the God
In every leaf, in every branch and in every tree
The stream of vehicles fanning poisonous gases on their faces
The persons riding them enjoy in the cozy comforts inside the cars
Looking at the leaves shining in the moonlight-like-sunlight
Appearing through their cooling glass windows
The reality is different and deterrent
The life goes on without appreciating the life cycle of the trees
How selfish we are as human beings
We are the privileged to make many deprived
We write the fate of those who save us
We test Nature in every season
By polluting, cutting, uprooting and destroying
Water, trees, land and air
The mute spectator and the sole witness to this act of unkindness is Sky
All the five elements always in a selfless mode
Operate day and night to save life on earth
We the unique manifestation of these five elements
Operate day and night to consume
When we wake up we wake up our desires
We do not know the time is eating us
In the form of day and night
We do not know when we breathe in whether we can breathe out
Or when we breathe out whether we can breathe in
Either in the day or in the night
The life begins afresh at any moment
The death comes at any moment
So simple is the cycle of life
The trees leant it the best way
They struggle till their last moment
Just to do their natural duties
We struggle till our last moment
Just to satisfy our desires
How un-natural we are
Unfit to live in Nature!!
I see the God saying all this
In the fluttering of the fresh tender leaves
Preparing for the onset of summer
Just to give, give and give
Whatever comfort they can
To those who destroy them
I see the God in all the Trees
- IVNS Raju, Hyderabad, 11 April 2007.
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