Respected U.Ve. Sudarshan Swami: I am deeply hurt by your accidental bone problem and te touched by your story. I don,t understand the "thiruvidaiyadal" of Bhagavan.It is long time since I paticipated in this group discusion. I have been diagnonoised with "burket Lymphomo cancer" and I am undergoing keemo therapy and radiaology therapy for the the past three months and able to withstand the treatment. Although I am 70 yrs old doctors say I have 50 yr old physical body because I have been performing yoga for an hour daily for the past 40 years. The reason I wanted to reply because I have a similar situation. Because of the excessive medication and radio thereapy steroids, I did not have "bowel movement" for 4 days and on the fouth day I felt like a 'struglling worm' to die, and atlast I folded my hands like Drowpathi and said either you take my life and releive from the killing pain. At last testing my patience he helped me. Your dscription that the physical pain is a sort of tapasis sbsolutely correct. Your posting is an eye opener for the people who are suffering from the pain and only "sahasra nama" is the ultimate solution. After waking up n hospital I repeat "satrumurai" and "sahasranamam". Now the four words you quoted makes sense. Thank you for sharing your painful experience and the solution you found. May Poorvacharyas, and Lord of Seven Hills bless you with ealy recovery. --- Sudarshan K Madabushi <mksudarshan2002@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > --- In tiruvenkatam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Sudarshan K > Madabushi" > <mksudarshan2002@xxxx> wrote: > > Dear members and friends, > > In the "Sri Vishnu Sahasranamam" there are Sanskrit > "nAmAs" for the > Almighty so euphonious, merely listening to their > beautiful sounds > is feast enough for both the ear and soul. When you > listen to them > you don't really even want to know their meaning. > Their mere sound > is enough. (My own favourites ones are "pradAna- > purushEshwarah:", "pushpa-hAsah:" and > "devaki-nandana"). > > There are some "nAmAs" whose sounds are rather > intriguing to the ear > and mind. They make you wonder what they really > mean. They are > fascinating to contemplate upon. They make you want > to reach > immediately for a commentary, either traditional or > contemporary, on > the Sahasranama. The "nAmAs" soon enough become > 'earworms' i.e. they > keep ringing in the ears and just won't go away > until you have > whetted your curiosity about what Sri Sankara > BhagavathpAda may have > had to say about the "nAmA" or how Sri Parashara > Bhattar interpreted > it in his famous Sahasranama "bhAshya", the treatise > > titled "bhagavath-guna-darpana". > > Due to poor grounding in the Sanskrit language or > inadequate > understanding of our ancient scriptures, you may not > entirely > comprehend the full significance of a "nAmA" through > mere study of > the various commentaries ? the "vyAkhyAna" or > "bhAshya-granthA-s" -- > on the Sahasranama. Yet the sweet "nAmA" itself will > go on haunting > you even as you go about your daily life and > routine. Such is its > power of attraction that it can make part of your > mind go "offline" > to silently work away, seeking at least some sort of > intuitive if > not intellectual understanding of its real intent. > Not just the > superficial, dictionary sense of the term (which any > Sanskrit > lexicon such as the "amarakOsam" can provide), but, > more > importantly, its underlying truth and substance, > without grasping > which one may never relate the beauty of the Vishnu > Sahasranama with > one's own personal experience and appreciation in > life > ('svAnubhava'). > > ************* > > A couple of months ago I met with a rather strange > but nasty > accident. I fractured a small bone in my back. I was > changing seats > inside my car when I plonked down very heavily on > the hard metal > buckle in the seat-belt contraption. > > For weeks thereafter I became a semi-invalid. Waves > and waves of > stabbing pain, like some malevolent tsunami, kept > lashing my back. > Unable to move normally, sit or sleep in normal > postures, I found > myself virtually crawling about the house like some > giant amoeba in > distress. The doctor, a specialist called an > orthopaedician, looked > closely at my condition. After studying test-reports > (which > consisted principally of a "digitally created > high-resolution X-ray > image" of my posterior), he diagnosed my problem to > be a > fractured "coccyx bone". I had so little idea of > human anatomy to > imagine I actually possessed a bone with such a > distinguished > sounding name. And so I asked the "ortho" what it > really was. > > "You should consider yourself lucky", he said to me > gravely, "that > you did not damage your sacrum, your spinal column. > The coccyx is > only a small "tail bone" at the southern extremity > of the column. > It's what you may call a "biological left-over", a > bony remnant of > man's evolution, a tiny reminder of his earliest > biological > origins", he said. > > I do not generally care much for or comprehend > medical-speak very > well, but I quickly understood the specialist's > words to mean, lest > I forget, I had actually evolved as a species from > the monkey and it > was my "coccyx" that was proof of that irrefutably > Darwinian fact. > > "Don't worry", the doctor went on to reassure me, > "In a few weeks > the fracture will heal by itself and the coccyx will > reset. There is > really no clinical cure for fractures of this kind. > Only complete > rest, complete absence of strain or stress for a few > straight weeks > can set things right. Go home now and rest. Trust > your body and in > the deep and unseen powers of self-healing it > possesses". > > ********************* > > I left the doctor's clinic that evening with deep > misgivings -- not > to mention a duly stamped receipt for a hefty sum of > money paid > towards "doctor consulting fees". First, the > bone-specialist had > added insult to my injury by reminding me of my > simian ancestry. > Next, he had also left me clinically high and dry: > abandoned me to > the mercy of such airy, mysterious things in life > that he had > called "self-healing powers of the body". > > I went home that afternoon severely distressed in > body and mind. I > was in abject pain; I had no idea of the cure; I had > no reasonable > basis on which to expect I'd be alright again. I > feared I'd just > been made victim of an elaborate fraud by modern > medicine: instead > of clinically treating me, my pain, my misery? my > whole medical case > instead had just been nonchalantly turned over to > some great, > invisible and anonymous "faith healer" believed to > be residing > within me and who had curative powers far greater, > far more > miraculous than any known to man or medical science! > > > ************* > > Physical illness is frustrating life-experience > especially when it > lays you low, down and bed-ridden for prolonged > periods of time. But > the abject passivity it imposes upon you can at > times be a disguised > blessing. It urges the patient's mind, even if only > very briefly, to > turn to spiritual or religious contemplation. In > this narrow > respect, illness can indeed be said to be a sort of > "tapas", a very > special and Vedantic form of meditative penance. The > inertia of > lying in bed with a broken back ? a broken "coccyx" > to be more > accurate ? and being unable to do anything for a > whole fortnight, > made me reach for my favourite bedside scriptural > book, the Sri > Vishnu-Sahasranamam. > > Desperate to ward off boredom and creeping > depression, I kept > silently repeating in bed the sacred "sahasranAmAs" > when, all of a > sudden out of the blue, four specific "nAmAs" that > seemed > particularly appropriate to my distraught physical > condition, === message truncated === __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Has someone you know been affected by illness or disease? 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