Adiyen dasan Ramanuja very glad to see yr mail accidentally or is it divine intervention, about the need to spend a few minutes on Sandyavandana. It has been my cherished desire to teach Sandya at leat to 4/6 brahmacharin a year in Chennai. So far I have been able to achieve this only in a small way. I have a cd demonstrating Sandyavndana with brief explanation of the asana, pranayam and mudras involved in the upasana. I am in USA presently in LA and will touring Houston-Atlanta-Checago-New York-San Francisco in two months. Any group willing to learn Sandya in these places may get in touch with me. I am beginning the tour on 12 Apr-23Apr-30Apr-May10-Jun1 following the schedule above. I can be reached on lakshmibashyam@xxxx Lakshmibashyam@xxxx With pranams and greetings Bashyam --- "M.G.Vasudevan" <mgv@xxxx> wrote: > Dear sri vaishNava perunthagaiyeer, > > Many a times in the office as well outside, we say > 'I do not have time to do that, I can not do this > for I do not have time etc'. But what we do is to > waste the time in doing certain useless things > besides a host of good and useful things. > Particularly when it comes to do sandhyaa vandhanam > for 10 minutes in the evening, we offer this excuse, > I am tired, I do not have time, I have to attend to > that this etc. Perhaps that '10 minutes time' we > waste in seeing a TV serial or some such thing. > > On the other side, when it comes to doing certain > important things, we are under pressure to do these > things within a certain time frame. Thereby this > working under pressure leads to physical plus mental > stress. Then for we are forced to do the same work > within certain limits. That leads to inefficiency, > less productivity etc further adding to the stress > and pressure. > > This wasting of time on one side and then doing > things under pressure both are ruining the mind and > creates lot of stress on the physical body. Once > this stress builds up other ways for relieving that > is being resorted to. This is the urban scenario. > > On the other hand the rural or semi-urban scenario > is, people have lot of time to do things and there > are not enough things to do. So they resort to > playing cards, thaayam, pallanguzhi etc, watching > TV, which is not offering any kind of physical > exercise but a simple time killer. > > That is why a 'management topic - viz. TIME > MANAGEMENT, is introduced and lots of people are > trained in classrooms, workshops, seminars. It is > also a fashion nowadays that such management topics > are being conducted by many a 'swamys' whose names > end in aanandhaas, having 'kaashaayam' robes. > [Please do not be surprised, for I have physically > and mentally attended one such series in Ahmedabad, > and now I get regular invitation from that place] > > Finally when it comes to the results, what they > teach in these 'hifi' workshops is to > * form simple habits [it is taught - managing your > time is also a habit, not managing your time is also > a habit] > * prioritize your immediate tasks on hand for the > day > * note all tasks what all you have to do in a day > and then check back at the end of the day whether > all are done or something is remaining > * for each task assign a time and see that you > finish that within that allocated time > * have some cushion of time for unexpected things > cropping up during the day etc. > > Dear bhakthaas, please do not think whether I am, > also, conducting a Time management workshop through > the list. I do no think this is big vEdhaantha to be > taught by a swamy named --- aanandhaa. > > Now read an aazhvaar saying how he manages his time. > > thariththu irunthEn aagavE thaaraa gaNap pOr > viriththu uraiththa ven naagaththu unnai - > theriththu ezhudhi > vaasiththum kEttum vaNangi vazhipattum > poosiththum pOkkinEn pOdhu. - 63 - naanmugan > thiruvandhaathi > > pOdhu - time > [this word pOdhu also has meanings of a flower bud, > come > * pOdhu means a bud about to blossom, > * come - vaa - Eval vinai in tamil] > > pOkkinEn pOdhu - I spent time > how > act no. 1 - unnai theriththu - learnt about you > act no. 2 - ezhudhi - started writing about you > act no. 3.- vaasiththu +um - reading about you > [please note here the um - means additionally, also > - besides doing the above two additionally this > reading also] > act no. 4 - kEttu + um - hearing about you - after > doing above three, this also > act no. 5 - vaNangi - bowing to you > act no. 6 - vazhipattu + um - doing many prostration > - added to the list above this also. > act no. 7 - poosiththu + um - doing poojaas - > continuously chanting your sthuthi, sthOthrams, > slOkams, and naamaas etc [after doing all these > above six]. > > Now dear bhakthaas, just think whether any time will > be left out in the day or will be sparable by this > person who does all these. Now you also check > whether this person who does all these manages his > time properly. > > For the words used here are 'pOkkinEn pOdhu' - > sounds as though time is spent just like that - or > wasted. Is it really wasted? For, in general, when > this 'pOkkinEn' word is used in that sense of > 'wasting' or spending without any result - with an > aluppu - an in-built fatigue in whatever is said as > next kaaryam - work. > > But when aazhvaar is doing THE RIGHT thing, can it > be said 'pOkkinEn pOdhu' - perhaps it implies, that, > this is the way you have to spend the time, and not > with that usual 'aluppu'. On the other side see > another aazhvaar saying on the same pOdhu - time. > > pOdhellaam pOdhu koNdu un ponnadi punaiya maattEn > theedu ilaa mozhigaL koNdu un thirugguNam seppa > maattEn > kaadhalaal nenjam anbu kalandhilEn adhu thannaalE > EdhilEn arangarkku, ellE, en seivaan, thOnRinEnE. > --- 26 thirumaalai > > My dear ranganathaa, oh my lord, I will not do in > 'time' whatever the other aazhvaar said he is doing > in 'time', even though I also have same available > time - pOdhu ellaam koNdu - as he has - any how I am > also born. What I will not do is a big list. > [that we will see translated in next post] > > See what a 'contrast' in managing the time. Is it > really? We will see more points on these two verses > in next. > > Dhasan > > Vasudevan m.g. > > ===== Yours Affectionately Kitcha & Vedham __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/
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