As It Strikes Me

TO MY LOVELY SATSANG FAMILY

Radhe Radhe!!

May this New Year bring in bountiful goodness and prosperity your way!

The Kalpatharu Day Mass Prayer took place in a very grand and festive manner at the Kotai Mariamman Temple Ground at Dindigul, Tamil Nadu. More than 10,000 devotees took part in this grand gathering. As the entire audience raised their hands and clapped blissfully to the tunes of the melodious and sweet Mahamantra, it was a sight to behold! It was as sweet as honey to the ears and my heart was overjoyed.

500 years back, Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu said, ‘He is indeed the most fortunate, who chants the Mahamantra even once in his lifetime.’ He said ‘Nama is the only way’. There are many suffering till date without understanding the truth in these words. We are extremely blessed and fortunate that we are treading this path.

My kith and kin in all parts of the world, have risen early every Margazhi dawn, and chanted Mahamantra in the streets of their cities and villages, gathering and motivating everyone in their neighbourhood, with the sole intent of making me happy and pleased. My blessings to each and everyone of you!!

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INDULGENCE AND DISPASSION- THE NEVER ENDING CHAIN

Let us take a person, who loves halwa (a sweet dish) very much, so much so that whenever he chances to see it somewhere, he would completely indulge in it. Even for such a person, when he over-eats halwa, he gets an aversion to halwa due to satiation. Even though his stomach may have not filled, he
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WORD OF AUTHORITY

In Sanathana Dharma if there is any difference of opinion between a Stotra(hymn of praise) and a Kavya(literary treatise), Kavya takes precedence; if there is a difference between Kavya and Purana, Purana(Srimad Bhagavatam and the like) takes precedence, likewise the following are progressively
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PEACE OF MIND

In Tirupati, as soon as the ‘Dolotsav’ (a daily routine to put the Lord to sleep) is performed to the Lord, the devotees come out of the sanctum sanctorum. But one can notice that, immediately after the ‘Dolotsav’, ‘Suprabhat’ (waking up the Lord) is performed. If the crowd is huge,
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THE HOLY VEDAS

Today, it is being said that only a small portion of the Vedas is available to us. Why is it not possible to preserve and retain the Vedas for eternity? Once Saint Thiyagaraja meditated on Bhagavan Sri Narada. Sri Narada appeared before him and presented to him a text by the name
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PURANA FOR WOMEN

According to the Shastras, there may be so many reasons for the Vedas being restricted to men alone and not being allowed for women. We also find that the Puranas like Bhagavatam and Ramayana have been advocated for women. I feel that there is a very beautiful reason for the same. Let us take
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MAKE HAY WHILE THE SUN SHINES

King Parikshit came to the banks of the Ganges seeking a way to liberation. By his good fortune, he came across Sage Suka, a Jivan Mukta. Sage Vishwamitra was able to create a heaven for Trishanku. Sage Agasthya could contain the mighty ocean in no time. If Parikshit wanted to escape death and had
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QUALITIES OF A BELIEVER

In this world there are people who believe in the existence of God and there are those who do not. However, we find that there is no real difference between the two – the believer and the atheist. The Atheist simply refuses to accept the existence of God and carries on with his life. The
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THE SUPREME VERDICT

A person has committed an offense. He runs from pillar to post to get opinion from people around him to know if he is guilty or not. He gets a different opinion from each one. Eventually, in the court of law, the judge himself gives him a clean chit and acquits him. Is it not a big relief for
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DIVINE AND DEVILISH

Visualize the battlefield in Mahabharata when the war was at its climax. On one side is the valorous Karna with Salya as his charioteer and the rest of the Kuru clan. On the other side is the Pandavas especially Arjuna with verily Bhagavan Sri Krishna as his charioteer. We see Karna bubbling with
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WHOSE COMPANY DO I DETEST ?

Ramalinga Vallalar says ‘Ul onru vaithu puram onru pesuvaar uravu kalavaamai vendum’ The literal meaning of this verse is “Let me not have the company of those whose words and thoughts do not go together.” To me, it seems that Vallalar conveys a more profound meaning
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