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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.
> 
> 



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Yours Affectionately

Kitcha & Vedham

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