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> Time management post 3
> 
> Dear sri vaishNava perunthagaiyeer,
> 
> In the time management series of two posts sent, I just postponed the 
> thirumaalai paasuram earlier for want of space. Now we will discuss that 
> wonderful paasuram. Aazhvaar teaches us how we should not spend time saying > 
> ">I am spending my time like this - hey, who read this, do not do like me> "> 
> . Is it really that way he spent his time - is the high point. [If reallyhas 
> spent his time that way, after so many years, perhaps, we will not be 
> discussing this verse here, that too in serious lists of srivaishNavaas] 
> 
> 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
> 
> pOdhu ellaam un ponnadi pOdhu koNdu punaiya maatten - in all the time 
> available at my disposal, I place no flowers at your feet and thereby worship 
> you - means my time management is a waste - for what I am doing is some thing 
> else than what I am expected to do as your servant, oh lord ranga. 
> 
> pOdhu ellaam koNdu theedhu ilaa mozhigaL koNdu un thiruk guNam cheppa maattEn 
> - in all time available at my disposal, I speak no good characters of yours, 
> oh lord ranga - means - again my time management is a waste, for what I am 
> supposed to talk about you - your kalyaaNa guNams - that is not what I am 
> doing. 
> 
> pOdhu ellaam koNdu kaadhalaal nenjam anbu kalandhu ilEn - in all time 
> available at my disposal, I do not mix my heart with the love of you, oh 
> lordranga, - means yet again my time management is a waste - for what I am 
> doing is not what I am expected to do. 
> 
> Oh, I am born - for what use - oh ranga - ranganaathaa - my Krishna - what is 
> the use, why not teach me better time management and guide me to do good 
> things. 
> 
> By wasting my time - doing all these - now I have realized this is NOT the 
> way, I have to manage my time. So why not teach me better time management, 
> for already I realised that 
> *     my life is of 100 years 
> *     out of which 50 is spent in sleep, 
> *     15 is spent in younger days, 
> *     even in rest the time is wasted as fulfilling needs of hunger disease 
> old age etc 
> - so it is better that I do not want this birth itself. [That is the meaning 
> of the verse given below]
> 
> vEdha nool piraayam nooru manisar thaam puguvarElum 
> paadiyum uRangip pOgum ninRadhil padhinaiyaaNdu 
> pEdhai baalaganadhaagum piNi pasi mooppu thunbam 
> aadhalaal piRavi vENden aranga maa nagaruLaanE
> 
> Now see here another verse from another aazhvaar who says how he manages his 
> time.
> yaanE thavam seidhEn Ezh piRappum eppozhudhum
> yaanE thavam udaiyEn emperumaan yaanE
> irum thamizh nanmaalai iNaiyadikkE sonnEn
> perum thamizhan nallEn peridhu. 74 - irandaam thiruvandhaadhi
> 
> There are many persons who claims I am the tamil saviour - but simply 
> aazhvaar says > "> I am that > '> perum thamizhan> '> - for I speak the 
> thamizh nanmaalai to your unparalleled feet oh my lord> '> . How it is?
> *     I manage my time better by doing penance on your feet in this life.
> *     Not only in this life, but, even in my previous seven lives, I have 
> accumulated penance on your feet oh my lord.
> *     I always do penance on your feet by uttering very wonderful thamizh 
> poems.
> *     So I have become good, and also become elated.
> 
> See another aazhvaar now
> sollum thanaiyum thozhumin vizhum udambu
> sellum thanaiyum thirumaalai nal idhazhth
> thaamaththaal vElviyaal thandhiraththaal mandhiraththaal 
> naamaththaal EththudhirEl nanRu -73 mudhal thiruvandhaadhi
> 
> now comes another advise - hey folks [-or bhakthaas - otherwise which general 
> folk is going to listen to this verse], 
> *     instead of talking simply and wasting time, thozhumin - do worship- 
> whoto worship - thirumaalai - that supreme lord krishNa. 
> *     You know pretty well this body is going to go - before that use good 
> flowers and make garlands and place them at his feet. > 
> *     Not only that - carry out yagnaas, 
> *     do some work as service to Him. 
> *     recite manthraas 
> *     if all these not known then at least recite his naamas and spend your 
> life time.  
> 
> Then the time spent is nanRu - well - good. 
> 
> Oh, krishNa, please allow me to spend time usefully in reciting your name- 
> krishNa, krishNa.
> 
> Dhaasan 
> 
> Vasudevan m.g.
> 
> PS: dear bhakthaas thank you for your time - in enjoying that krishNa.
> 




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