Gita

Dear all, Greeting and Best wishes Starting from 10th August I started to mail you one slokam / poem per week along with its crisp purport (bhaavam). These are from our collection – the teachings of great masters of yester years. Please write to me, if you do not want to receive them by any […]

My dear and close hearts, Greetings to you all. This week’s poem is from Saint Kabir’s poetry. Sri Bhakta Kabir lived between 1398-1458. By birth he is born in a humble weaver’s Muslim family, but he preached and practised all religeons as one and firmly advocated this in his teachings. He is an ardent bhakta

Dear All This week’s slokam is from our Srimad Bhagavad Gita from our Great Sage, Sri Veda Vyasa. This message is for all of us – urging us to keep highest standards in all walks of our lives. यद्यदाचरति श्रेष्ठः तत्तदेवेतरो जनःस यत्प्रमाणं कुरुते लोकस्तदनुवर्तते yadyadAcarati zreSThH tattadevetaro janaHsa yatpramANaM kurute lokastadanuvartate యద్యదాచరతి శేష్ఠః తత్తదేవేతరో

Dear all, Greetings and best wishes to you. This week’s slokam is from Sri Adi Sankaracharya. We need no introduction to this all time greatest saint, Adi Sankara, the Genius. No age is too early to start realizing the Real Truth. Let us wait not, until we are old and infirm. These teachings are not

This week’s poem is a sankeertana from Sri Annamacharya. Sri Annamacharya is easily one of the all time great masters. He is a great saint, philosopher, scholar, composer, poet, musician, musicologist and above all a true teacher of human values – all in One. He composed about 30,000 songs of which about 12,000 only are

Dear friends, Vanakkam (Namaskar) Our Tamil pals, need no introduction of the subject given below. For the sake of others, Thirukkural (திருக்குறள்) (తిరుక్కురళ్), also known as the Kural (couplet), is easily one of the best ever written scriptures on human values and ethics, not only for India but for the whole world. Thiruvalluvar (திருவள்ளுவர்) (తిరువళ్ళువర్),

Dear Friends,This week we have the famous Bhajan written in Gujarathi by another all time great master, a Gujarati poet-saint Bhagat Narsinh Mehta of the 15th century (1408-80). Sri Mehta is widely acknowledged as the father of Gujarati poetry. He is a contemporary of Sri Annamacharya of Telugu. Their poetry has many similarities. Sri Mehta’s

Dear Friends,We are now in the ‘Navarathri ‘ festive season. This is called ‘Sharan-Navarathri’ – occurs in October. There is another ‘Vasant-Navarathri’ occurs in spring. (we will see about it when we come to spring season). Now, the first three days from Paadyami of Aaswajuja (lunar) month are to be filled with devotion to goddess

Dear Friends, Best wishes to you all. We have just gone through the ‘Navarathri’ season and we are heading for another most important festival for us, the ‘Deepavali’. Our best wishes to you all for Happy Diwali. In this post, let us see the concept of the Divine Mother as explained by Jagad Guru Sri

Dear Friends, Greetings and Best Wishes to You and Family on the Diwali Occassion. Last week we have seen a post on the concept of the Divine mother from the Soundarya Lahari by Jagad Guru Sri Adi Sankaracharya. Similar expression and echo of the concept is seen here in the poetry of Sri Pothanamathya. Sri