As It Strikes Me

Though there are 63 ‘Nayanmars’ and innumerable great devotees of Lord Shiva, 4 of them namely, Appar, Sundarar, Sambandar and Manikavasagar are singled out and are accorded special status. What can be the reason for this? The work done by these four constitutes ‘complete seva to
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The throat of a snake is only as thick as a needle. So when it catches a prey, it takes a tremendously long time to ingest it. The snake does not use its tongue to kill its prey. This is because the venom present in its tongue could prove detrimental to itself. So it only crushes the prey and
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The Devas go to the Ocean of Milk (‘Ksheerabdi’) for relief from distress! Humans go to the salty ocean (the seashore) for relief from stress! It is the ocean which gives relief in both
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The world has produced famous people who have been the best in their niches, be it art forms like music and dance or virtues like truthfulness and honesty. But that does not mean that there is no one else in the world superior to them in their own fields. There is so much latent talent that goes
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In the Bhagavatam we come across the incident of curse by the ‘Sanakadiis’ who were Jnanis. The guards at the gate of Vaikunta — Jaya-Vijaya stopped them and the Sanakadiis cursed the two to be born on the earth. This led to the birth of Hirayaksha-Hiranyakasippu,
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A child, who is out to play, plays for a while. Then it suddenly wants to know if its mother is in the house or not. So it gets back home on some pretext like drinking water to see if its mother is present there. After seeing its mother, it goes out to play again. Again after a while, it gets back
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Generally, a person is blessed with the Darshan or association of a Mahatma, soon after he performs some virtuous deed. But, in the case of Parikshit, one might wonder how he got the association of Sri Suka despite placing a dead snake around Sage Sameeka’s neck! But, the fact is that, Sage
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The most compassionate mother is Bhoomadevi(Mother Earth). Every mother begets a child who is separated from her after a certain point in time. However, the plants that Mother Earth begets is inseparable from her throughout their lives and any attempt to do so proves to be
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Human mind is never still. Like the flowing water it moves steadily and endlessly from one thought to another. The mouth likes to talk, the tongue craves to taste, the eyes long to see, the legs desire to move. Every sense organ looks outward to seek pleasure. How is mind control achieved? The
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