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INDIAN CINEMA’S HIGHEST DADASAHEB PALKE AWARD TO K. BALACHANDER
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May 8, 2011 3:45 am
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It gives immense contentment to know that Indian cinema’s highest award is conferred on Mr.K.Balachander. Those who have made this decision have proved that justice is given in Indian cinema even today.
It is appropriate to recall what I wrote about him in 1976.
‘’ if a person involved in his duty has the attitude of seeking self perfection in his own work will help that profession to grow, Self satisfaction and business between these two poles , to bring out a movie as a bridge between these two , these people are responsible”
.#did not succumb to failures
#did not halt his effort due to success
#Talent continues
Such people are very few in Tamil movie industry. These people may have success or failure but that is not important but these people inspire and instill courage in others which is good for cinema.
K.Balachander is a cinema world’s legend
-Cho Ramasamy (Editor,Lawyer, Actor)
(This is a Tamil to English translation by me –Jawahar)
Photo :K.Balachander in the middle with specs with Rajinikanth –dark shirt and Kamalhasan both introduced by him to cinema. Rajinikanth seems to be the highest paid actor in India and Kamalhasan is a world class actor
A song sequence from a Tamil movie”Mundru Mudichu (three knots)” directed by K.Balachander in 1981 with Rajinikanth as villain and Kamalhasan in the lead
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Past thoughts haunts you ?
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Jul 24, 2010 10:15 am
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PAST THOUGHTS HAUNTS YOU ? -2
[Part -1 posted earlier]
As a limited individual, I invoke the lord's help, the Lords grace by an act of prayer. Being based on one's will prayer is an action.
Itis an act invoking grace as well as a simple autosuggestion. As I sit in meditation relaxed, I offer a prayer to the Lord whom I invoke in any given form in any given name.
I pray:
O Lord, may I have the maturity to accept gracefully what I cannot change, May I have the will and effort to change what I can and may I have the wisdom to know the difference between what I can and cannot change.
I cannot change my childhood, my parentage my entire past, what has happended in my life I cannot change. What has happend has happened, I cannot do anything about it .On the basis of what has happend I have nothing to regret. I have no reason to be sad depressed or angry. i drop my anguish for what has happened. I accept gracefully whatever has happend in my life.
There are a lot of things that I can cnange that I can repair . I seek the strength of will and the ability to make proper adequate efforts to change . I do not waste my time trying to change what I cannot change nor do I want to waste my time putting up with unhealthy situation that I can change. The difference between the two ... what I can and cannot change .... is not easy to distingusih. It takes wisdom for which I again invoke your grace.
O lord, may I enjoy ,have, the maturity to accept gracefully what I cannot change, the will and effort to change what I can and the wisdom to know the difference.
I am just awake, alive to what happens at this moment. I lay down my will ,my choice. I am just awake to the moment. Moment to moment , my being aware of the moment does not fluctuate. My being aware of the moment is an abiding lasting ever present fact. My being aware is not in fits and starts.Its a presence which is always present.
what I am aware of at this moment is unique.The object changes even these words are never the same. At this moment, a given word, a sentence a sound or an objecct changes. My being aware of what happens at this moment is not by choice . I am aware because I am an awareful presence . Free from memory, Iam an awareful presence.
Om om om
Swami dayananda
[Reproduced from his book -non commercial reproduction allowed by the publisher]
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BILLION MINUTES GOOD WISHES BANK - NON PROFIT
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Jul 14, 2010 9:11 am
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BILLION MINUTES GOOD WISHES BANK
Good Wishes Bank open from 24th June to 15th Aug 2010
Please click here to DEPOSIT Your minutes of Good wishes
We try several physical ways to make the world a better place. The intention is undoubtedly to improve life in every way for every one, but have we forgotten to use one precious resource? The resource of good wishes. Could it be the missing link?
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Who is a failure ?!
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Jul 11, 2010 1:24 am
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Reading Room - Talks of Swami Dayananda
Pearls of Wisdom : Self-Judgement
Suppose I say, I am a failure, it is a judgement. A lot of people have this problem. Everybody has a judgement somewhere in a corner. I am a failure, I am worthless, I am useless, I am ugly. Even Miss Universe has this problem. You may wonder, how? She is declared by a panel of judges, to be the most beautiful woman. She is crowned also. All the newspapers and T.V. write and talk about Miss Universe. It means the whole world has accepted her as the most beautiful woman. One cannot be more beautiful than that. Humanity has accepted her. Only gods have to declare whether she is beautiful or not. And she has to decide whether she is beautiful or not. We need not bother about gods. In the eyes of gods, everything must be beautiful. Therefore only she has to accept herself that she is beautiful. Hereafter this woman need not prove herself to anybody. So from the next day she can come out in a simple dress. She need not have any make-up. But I tell you, now she has more responsibility. Being a Miss Universe, she spends more time with her cosmetics that she did before. Because after all she is Miss Universe. How can she come out like that? She is not convinced that she is the most beautiful!
Everybody has a self-judgement. That is called ahankara. It is always small. Until you gain Self-knowledge, there is self-judgement. So what is a judgement? A judgement is based on some data and that means it is not knowledge, really. That is why it is called a judgement. All the judges when they judge, purely go by evidence. They have to be as objective as possible, keeping their subjective feeling etc., aside.
That is called a judgement. Knowledge is different. A judgement may be other than what the fact is. If the judgement and fact happen to be identical, it is your luck. But knowledge has to take place. Till then it is a judgement. Therefore if you make a judgement about yourself, instead of realising you are ananda, you are amrta, which is the fact about the Self, you are always going to judge yourself smaller than what you really are. If I am less than infinite, what am I? Finite. And what is the distance between infinite and finite? Infinite. That is the problem. In the absence of knowledge of what you confront or deal with, you have to judge. You cannot avoid judgement. That is the reason why we are always seeking, because there is a judgement which we cannot live happily with. So we seek. That is the original beggarly problem of the human being. We want to prove ourselves better than what we think we are all the time.
The judgement is invariably based firstly upon our body and mind and then upon the body-related and society-related things. Therefore in a society where cows are wealth, you must have, a few cows. Then you are rich. In a society, where power means something, you must have power. Then you are big.
When you say "I am a failure", on what basis you are saying that? "Oh, I started a business and I lost even the capital and a friend too." So, that particular undertaking was a failure.
Then you took up a job. There also you could not do well. That was again a problem. When it happens twice, thrice, your wife and others also start saying that you are a failure and that they knew you would fail even before you started. So people around are not very helpful. They confirm your own opinion.
Now on this basis you say, "I am a failure." This is exactly what is called lumping - putting a lot of things together. We are lumpers really speaking! To say "I am a failure", you should be of a failure all the way, that is, if you wish to lift your leg or hand, you should fail to do it. Then you are a failure. If you eat, you should fail to digest the food. Then you are a failure. But you do carry out hundreds of tasks everyday where you are successful. Only one or two are the tasks you failed in. Even that business which you call failure, is also not a total failure, really speaking. May be you did it for two years during which period, you took money out of it, you lived out of it. Then why not call it an experience, which in fact it is?
There is no failure in life. There are only varieties of experiences. We learn from experiences, not from failure. We become sad by failure, wiser by experience. Memory is meant to serve us, to enable us to remember, not to become a basis to make judgement. If you do not remember what happened, how are you going to judge? "I am a failure" is purely based on memory. Memory is meant not to make judgements about you. Memory is just to help you remember that you already had your lunch; otherwise you will be eating another lunch! It is purely for that purpose. Memory is also a karana, a means. But we make a karta, an agent out of it. There, too, you take a part of it, just blow it out of proportion and then place yourself under that judgement completely and conclude, "I am a failure".
Nobody is a failure. This self-judgement is purely due to non-recognition of the fact that life is a variety of experiences. You learn from them. Nobody every fails.
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What to do?
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May 23, 2010 1:39 am
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" If you don't do, what should be done; You will end up doing, what should not be done" - Sw. Dayananda
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Profile of an endangered Hindu !!
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Feb 17, 2010 2:10 am
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Name : Endangered Hindu
Age : -- left out of 100*
Date of Death : Yama* only knows !
Nationality : Hindustan - called as ''India''
Religion : VEDANTIN*
Caste : Peace*
Mother Tongue : Sanskrit*-Only language 100% phonetic in the world .
Education : Seeking Indian Man making education
Courses undergoing : Patriotism
Likes : Common Civil code
Dislikes : Mosques upon Temples
Pet : Peacock
Wonder of Love : Tajmahal
Want : Passport of Hindustan
Doesn't want : Visa to Hell
Qualities : Too much tolerance
Accomodated : Even Jews*
Sheltered : Refugees of all nations and religions*
Famous guest : Jesus christ*
Crime : Allowed other religions to convert a section of the Hindu's
Awards Won : title of ''Majority''
Awards Given : title of ''Minority''
National Game : Infighting !
Extra curricular activities : Jealousy !
Limitations : I , ME, Myself .
Ambitions : WE , US, OURSELVES.
problem of Population : Lack of continence in Marriage.
Sex Education : Tantra*
Greatest Decipline taught to the world : 1 man:1 woman
Medicinal Wonder : Ayurveda
World's first Astronomer : Arya Bhatta
World's First mathematician : Bhaskara.*
Foreign Beneficiaries : Mohuls - 700 years ;British - 200yrs
Valuables Looted by the Mohuls : Jewels from temples
Valuables Left by the British : Broken Brandy Bottles !!
Want to Imbibe : Western Science, Honesty, Freedom for woman,Equal opportunity& Sports[Positives]
Want to warn about : Western premarital sex, Multiple partners,Gays, Lesbians!
Danger of Extinction : Within 3 generations if western negatives are followed !!-VIvekananda
Values : Best of East and West
Ideal Personality : Medha Patkar , Richard Gere
Greatest Contribution to the world : One World Family philosophy !
Civilization of the world : European's trade with India*
Inspired : All the broad movements of America.- Concord Moverment.*
Sharing now with the world : Vivekananda, Shankara, Ravishankar !
Worlds first spiritual man to get political freedom : M.K.Gandhi !
Anticipating Nobel prize : Sri sri Ravishankar for world peace.
Strength : 5000+ years of history !
Weakness : Lacking self confidence !
Present Contribution : Enriching the West by importing Arms*
Future : Economic Super power in 3 to 4 decades*
Myth : India is a poor country !
Truth : India is a rich country impoverished by selfish people !!
Problem : Bombs in Public places!
Solution : Hindu's Unity !
HEART FELT CONDOLENCES TO THE INNOCENT VICTIMS OF THE PUNE TERRORIST ATTACKS WHICH KILLED 10 innocent civilians ON 15 TH FEBRUARY 2010
-Endangered Hindu , Tamilnadu, India.
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*Vedanta is not a Religion it includes all faiths and does not emphasizes God !Even Atheists can follow it !
*According to Ayurveda a Human being has 100 years on earth.
*Yama is a Hindu god of death !
*Hindu is a name given by persians ! They called people living on the other side of the river ''SINDHU'' as ''HINDHU''
Vivekananda prefers the word ''Vaidika''or ''Vedantin'' !
*Caste in Hinduism is based on Character and Work and not based on Birth,but what is followed now is only a society created caste and not Hinduism!
*Sanskrit alone can be the Indian language,Hindi is spoken in northern india and lacks epics and literatures of its own! English is spreading fast and all the 3 languages ACCEPTED for education !
*Tantra one should read reliable authour on this topic.
*Jews fled to many parts of the world and they were not welcomed ! treated in a hostile manner ! even in the USA !except in India!even a recent study BY Americans reveal this !
*Refugees of all nations and religions were sheltered in India from time to time - ''Chicago addresses'' of Vivekananda
*Jesus christ visited india says a Russian research recently , he went to Benares, Haridwar, rishikesh, then to kashmir !
*Bhaskara found out the modern mathematical numbers starting from Zero [o].
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-20+40 =
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Dec 8, 2009 4:04 am
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Forty year Old is the new ,
Twenty says the research !
Youth of Old age ?
Old for Teenage !
Half bald with some grey hairs!
Able to read tiny letters With specs!
Teenage boy came to chat !
Teenage girl came to chat aswell !
Surprised to find message from them!
Teenagers make most things at random!
Rarely thinking !
During chat they asked my age!
''very Old ''said the boy!
Both the Boy and Girl signed themselves out !!
I cherish my Teenage !
Happy to note some hair growth on my cheeks!
Shaved my face for the first time! 
Imagined of a moustache !
To become a Man!
Went to the barber ,
For a stylish hair cut !
Wore designer shirts!
Enjoyed the naughty gaze of the girls!
Through my narrow window
Watched some girls!
Imagined myself as a movie star!!
I rewind my memory!
when my father Irritated ,
shouted at my mother !
"Carefully play cricket"
Words of my mother !
Including my brother !!
Got admission into college
with ambition!
Someone serious in their studies then !,
Making it big in their profession!
Someone casual struggling even Now!
I cherish the teenage!
Flourish at this age !
Delight in old age ?!
Believe me!
I was also just Twenty !
Twenty years back !!
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Who gets freedom?
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Nov 22, 2009 5:52 am
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You want to change others so that you can be free. But it never works that way. Accept others totally and you are free-Swami Dayananda
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What is the problem ?
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Nov 15, 2009 5:01 am
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Your problem is how to control the thoughts but my problem is how to bring a thought ! - Ramana Maharishi
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