Penning my thoughts

My experiments with photography

2008-03-18T05:03:00.001-07:00

This picture was my first click during the sunset. It was taken from my balcony.
My friend Krishna's say on the picture: "its just not a tree, rather its the embodiment of gratitude , for that birth , place and water you provided him, making him to stop even sun shine not to fall on your baby, even though he knows, it burns his hands and new born fingers!!"

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"Stay hungry, Stay foolish"

2007-03-03T01:06:00.000-08:00

The title of this post "Stay hungry, Stay foolish" is a farewell message by Steve Jobs who delivered a speech on June 12, 2005 in Stanford University.

The lessons I learnt from his speech were :

1. You have to trust that dots (learnings in the past) will somehow connect in future. You have to trust something - Your guts, your destiny, life, karma, whatever.

2. You have got to fine what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

3. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Learnings from "The Power of Your Subconscious Mind" - Part I

2007-02-02T06:55:00.000-08:00

1. The treasure house is within you. Look within for the answer to your heart's desire.
2. The great secret possessed by the great men of all ages was their ability to contact and release the powers of their subconscious mind. Anybody can do the same.
3. The subconscious mind has the answer to all problems. If we suggest the subconscious mind "I want to get up at 6:00 AM" it will awaken at that exact time.
4. Our subconscious mind is the builder of our body and can heal us. Lull yourself to sleep every night the ideas of perfect health, and your subconscious mind, being your faithful servant will obey you.
5. Every thought is a cause, and every condition is an effect.
6. If you want to write a book, write a wonderful play, give a better talk to your audience, convey the idea lovingly and feelingly to your subconscious mind and it will respond accordingly.
7. You are like a captain navigating the ship. He or she must give the right orders, or the ship is wrecked. In the same way you must give the right orders(thoughts and images) to your subconscious mind, which controls and governs all your experiences.
8. Never use such expressions as "I can't afford it" or "I can't do this". Your subconscious mind takes you at your word. It sees to it that you do not have the money or the ability to do what you want to do. Affirm, "I can do all things through the power of my subconscious mind. "
9. The law of life is the law of belief. A belief is a thought in your mind. Do not believe in things that will harm or hurt you. Believe in the power of your subconscious mind to heal, inspire, strengthen and prosper you. According to your belief it is done unto you.
10. Change your thoughts and you change your destiny.

Mysteries of the Sacred Universe

2007-01-08T22:33:00.000-08:00


The Cosmology of the Bhagavata Purana. Explains the ancient Indian cosmology and relates its relevance to the modern cosmology. Srimad Bhagavatam. It is indeed an excellant video.

India Srilanka Bridge

2006-10-29T21:57:00.000-08:00

Google earth software has unearthed recently the bridge that connects India and Sri Lanka. The satellite view of the bridge is amazing. Space images taken by NASA reveal a mysterious ancient bridge in the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka. The recently discovered bridge currently named as Adam's Bridge is made of chain of shoals, c.18 mi (30 km) long.The bridge's unique curvature and composition by age reveals that it is man made. The legends as well as Archeological studies reveal that the first signs of human inhabitants in Sri Lanka date back to the primitive age, about 1,750,000 years ago and the bridge's age is also almost equivalent. This bridge is considered to be constructed by Lord Rama to reach Lanka during the Tretayuga which is 1,700,000 years ago.

Kurai Onrum Illai

2006-09-30T11:56:00.000-07:00

Tears fell down when I heard the song "Kurai Onrum Illai" composed by the great C. Rajagopalachari, dearly called as"Rajaji." C. Rajagopalachari, the first and only Indian to be the Governor General of India, was an ardent patriot, a pioneering social reformer, incisive thinker, profound scholar and author. Me being a common man, what can I talk about the great Rajaji.

My introduction to Rajaji was done by my father who has read all of his philosopical books like Ramayana, Mahabharata, Upanishads, Puranas, etc,.during my high school days he used to talk about his scholarly knowledge in hinduism. I was very much attracted to his speeches related to Baja Govindam.

The gist of the song is rendered here.

"I have no grievances at all absolutely, vEdha nayakA! kaNNA! Youare not seen by mt eyes; Even though You are not seen by my naked eyes, Ihave no grievances! (implies; I have, because I am not able to see you)

Whatever I wish, You are able to give me, Then, whatelse do I need? (exceptYou); Hence, I have no grievances; maNivaNNA! malai appA! GovindhA!
You are standing behind the curtain (imples stage; You are a soothradhaari); Only vEdic scholars and gnAnis can see You; Even then, I have no grievances (implies, I have because I am not able to see You);

During these "kali" yugam, You have come and entered and stayed as an arch A form at TirumalA, kEsavA! No one can deny Your Existence, GovindhA! When the Merciful, Goddess stays in Your chest all the time, why should Ihave any "kuRai"? GovindhA!"

No words can be used to describe Dr. Rajaji, for his composition of song "Kurai Onrum Illai" and sung by of course the well known devotional singer M.S Subbulakshmi in United Nations concert.

The song can be heard here http://www.switzerinstrument.com/Rajaji-Original/kurai.htm
The song renders the total submission of the human soul to The Lord.

Rajaji's Gems:

1. It needs three things to make a truly great man - a man's brain, a woman's heart and a child's freshness of outlook

2. We make ourselves by our own thoughts and actions, and it is the character that we hammer out in this life that the soul carries With it at the start of its next journey.

Life@Subramanyanagara

2006-06-28T10:51:00.000-07:00

What I found in "My Experiments with Truth"

2006-05-11T08:24:00.000-07:00

When I was reading the book on "My Experiments with Truth" written by M.K.Gandhi, I found certain things very enthralling and the thoughts of M.K.Gandhi were really little extraordinary. Here are certain excerpts.
1> I know nothing is impossible for pure love. God ultimately svaes him whose motive is pure. Shyness can be one of the reasosn for aloofness. Bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.
2> A scientific knowledge of one language makes a knowledge of other languages comparatively easy.
3> A Reformer cannot affort to have close intimacy with him whom he seeks to reform. True friendship is an identity of souls rarely to be found in this world. Only between like natures acan friendship be altogether worthy and enduring. Friends react to one another. Hence in friendship there is very little scope for reform.
4> All exclusive intimacies are to be avoided, for man takes in vice far more readily than virtue. And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend.
5> A servant wrongly suspected may throw up his job, a son in the same case may leave his fathers roof, and a friend may put an end to the friendship. The wife if she suspects her husband, will keep quiet, but if the husband suspects her she is ruined. A hindu wife has no remedy in Law.

My Quotes Bundle

2006-05-10T09:39:00.000-07:00

Goodness is not merely a beautiful thing, but by far the most beautiful thing in the whole world; so that nothing is to be compared for value with goodness that riches honor, power, pleasure, learning the whole world and all in it, are not worth having in comparison with being good; and the utterly best thing for a man is to be good, even though were never to be rewarded for it.
-- Charles Kingsley

A thing of beauty is a joy forever, its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness.
-- John Keats

There are no ugly women, there are only women who do not know how to look pretty. There is no cosmetic for the beauty like happiness.
-- William James

Imagination disposes of everything, it creates beauty, justice and happiness which is everything in this world
-- Pascal

Give me the beauty in the inward soul and may the inner and the outer be at one. May I consider wisdom to be wealth, and let me have only as much gold as a temperate man and only he can bear and carry. This prayer, I think is enough for me.
-- Socrates

The most consummately beautiful thing in the universe is the rightly fashioned life of a good person.
-- George Herbert Palmer

My first poem

2006-05-10T00:16:00.000-07:00

I'm going to try to speak the words
that my heart wants you to know
I want you to see what you mean to me
and why I love you so.

Nobody else can know my thoughts
and touch my soul like you can
No one can melt my heart like you
do simply by holding my hand.

With a loving glance or a tender kiss
you make my cares disappear
Warm thoughts of you surround me
and always keep you near.

I need nothing more from you than this-
to know that you'll always be mine
And the promise of your love
in my life- until the end of time.

Favorite Poetry Collections from High School

2006-05-09T11:43:00.000-07:00

Jane Austen:

Success is counted sweetest
By those who never succeed
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.

Not one of all the purple host
Who took the flag today
Can tell the definition
So clear of victory.

As he defeated dying
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Burst agonized and clear!
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Will there really be a "morning"?
Is there such a thing as "day"
Could I see it from the mountaines
If I were as tall as they?

Has it feed like water lilies?
Has it feathres like a bird?
Is it brought from famous countries.
Of which I have never heard?

Oh Some scholar! Oh Some sailor?
Oh some wise man from the skies!
Please to tell a little pilgrim
Where the place called "morning" lies.
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And so of larger - Darkness
Those evenings of the brian
When not a Moon disclose a sign
Or star come out within

The bravest grope a little
And sometimes hit a tree
Directly in the forehead
But as they learn to see

Either the darkness alters
Or something in the sight
Adjusts itself to midnight
And life steps almost straight
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My Friend Came !

Lost in the path of misery and sorrow
I could no more go wheeling through my life
Hatred, distrust, sorrow... was I in
when time was so unkind, life was cruel

An unexpected thing happened
A persone came into my life
who brought life back into me
who kept her arms open.

Ram I into her arms and unburdened my heart
She laughed with me, cried with me
Born through the winds of time a bond

A bond which was unexpected
A strong bond between her and me
A strong bond of friendship.

Laughter, happiness, courage she instilled in me
And we became best friends you see
She is the best friend I will treasure
And for sure ever and ever...
And the only one she will always be.

Gist of Bhagavad Gita

2006-05-09T11:00:00.000-07:00

My first posting to start with the Bhagavad Gita,

"Whatever has happened is for good.
Whatever is happening is going on well.
Whatever will happen that will also be good.
Why you are repenting for whatever you have lost?
Have you brought anything with you which you have lost?
Have you produced anything with you which you have lost?
Whatever you have gained you obtained from here.
Whatever you gave you have given here.
Whatever belongs to you today yesterday belongs to someone else.
It may belonged to someone day after. "

"CHANGE IS THE RULE OF NATURE".