I was travelling to Tiruchi recently and happened to meet some one who is a reliable source for DMK Family news.
Hotel Saravana Bhavan Bought by SUn Network?
Casually he remarked that the Sun Network has bought the Chennai based Saravana Bhavan Group of Hotels,
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On checking up the web I came to know that there was indeed a rumor to this effect triggered by a Tweet ans even the IT Department found it credible enough to think of a raid in the Saravana Bhavan Premises.
It seems that the rumor is untrue.
As my source is normally reliable, as has been proved in many a case before, and the fact that the information is the latest, only 2 G Knows!
Story:
CHENNAI: It had all the makings of a viral tweet. It mentioned a “rumour” about Kalanithi Maran‘s Sun Groupbuying the home-grown restaurant chain Hotel Saravana Bhavan. That too, for a jaw-dropping sum. Yet, this Mondaytweet by Bangalore-based techie RB Suseendran received a tepid response, at best.
It would have died a natural death if journalists hadn’t seen this tweet. They did. And on Monday journalists scurried for confirmation from both parties…
This, even as journalists wondered why Maran would buy into the food business, however yummy (Saravana Bhavan has daily footfalls of some 80,000 across its 32 Indian outlets; there are 46 more overseas), when he is yet struggling with this 2010 acquisition of carrier SpiceJet.
Both parties denied it vehemently on Monday. A Sun TV spokesperson called it “hilariously funny” while another thought it was “rubbish.” A spokesperson for Saravana Bhavan denied it too.
The episode seemed to have ended then and there, without a story. But it hadn’t.
On Tuesday, the Income Tax Department got alerted. An official called up Saravana Bhavan to see this tweet indeed was true. Taxmen had raided the hotel just a few months back.
When ET contacted Suseendran over phone, he said he merely picked up the new from the Facebook page of one Anbalagan Veerappan.
The hotel, not so savvy in the ways of social media, was left wondering where it all came from.”
There is nothing serious behind these happenings, Scientists say.
This is due to Weather Phenomenon.
Sun dogs, or parhelia, are little back-up suns that appear on either side of the sun. They are the Pips to the sun’s Gladys, the Lion and the Witch to the sun’s Wardrobe, and they look way cooler than rainbows.
What is it that makes these parhelia possible? Only the most badass shape in the whole world: the hexagon. It’s the geometric shape that rhymes with sex and means ‘an evil spell.’ It’s balanced, edgy. It’s got an angle on everything. It’s what the pentagon would have been if the government hadn’t been too cheap to add that last wall. There’s nothing that the hexagon can’t do. When it gets cold enough, hexagons fall from the sky. Literally.
When water freezes it forms hexagonal crystals. Sometimes the crystals are long, pencil-shaped objects, but much of the time they are flat disks. When they fall, the flat side turns parallel to the earth, due to Io9’s old friend,the Bernoulli Effect. When the disk tilts so that an edge pushes out, the air around it rushes past faster. This creates a low pressure zone and pulls the crystal’s edges out harder, until it is flat-side-down.
This leaves the hexagonal shape of the crystal open to exploitation by miscreant sun beams. Most of us know that certain substances, including ice, can bend light. It’s difficult to understand, though, how this would make duplicate suns appear.
There was a question in Quora as to ‘Why There is Injustice in the world,
Every day, almost 25,000 people starve to death—and only after long, horrible agony. This is not limited to physical pain, but includes psychological and mental anguish of parents often having their children die in their arms. Starvation is so awful death can be longed for.
If possible, I’d prefer if you don’t resort to rebirth theory, some alternative explanation will be appreciated.
News has just come in that the accused in the Rajiv Gandhi case,Santhan,Perarivalan and other’s Death sentence has been overturned by the Supreme Court.
For them it is justice, and to the most who believe that they deserve the sentence the Death Sentence.
The other side says that Rajiv deserved to be killed for sending the IPKF to Sri Lanka.
LTTE became a killing machine because of ill-treatment of Tamils,
Tamils were ill-treated because, from the Sinhalese point of view, were usurping Sinhalese’s Rights and Lands.
Tamils counter that Sri Lanka was Tamils’ and it was developed by them!
The list is endless.
The point I am trying to make is that Justice or Injustice are relative terms and have no absolute term of reference.
It depends on the ever-changing circumstances and the individuals’ perceptions of them.
So is suffering.
For the poor absence of Money is the cause of suffering.
For the Rich the presence of it , is the cause of suffering.
At the individual level what caused me suffering once ,no longer causes it .
As also Pleasure.
So these judgments a are variable and are not themselves the cause of Suffering.
As such things by themselves do not cause any suffering.
It is our reaction to and our capacity to handle them is the cause of sufferings.
Sufferings are,
1.Mental
2.Emotional and
3 .Physical.
Mental sufferings are those that occur in our mind because of our inability to cope up with things that happen which are beyond our scope.
Emotional sufferings are because of our inability to control our desires and attachments,
We take things to be permanent and yearns for them.
Like Love, Relationships.
All things come to an end in death ,if not earlier.
So sufferings per se are not real and are our making.
People may ask,
Take for example ,the Genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka or the Holocaust inflicted by Hitler upon the Jews.
As said earlier the reason lies in the perspective of the people.
At the Universal Level there is no such thing as Good or Evil.
They are all Illusions pertaining to this Temporal World.
They do not affect the Self, the Atman.
It is beyond these.
Look at you self.
You have suffered.
Have you been suffering all through your Life?
People think only of sufferings and never recollect their Happier times.
Worse still is that they do not realize they are Happy when they are Happy.
So Happiness or suffering is the attitude of the Mind.
Some years back I had an occasion to ask of a Mason, whose job was over in one of the construction sites I was handling.
He just a job.
He whistling and I knew he had no money.
I asked him as to how he can be happy under the circumstances.
He replied,
‘Sir, I am 40, I do not bother about these things.I am happy now. I know my job.I know some body will give me a job to-morrow the day after.Why should I suffer now thinking about it?’
What an attitude!
Now as to the physical suffering part, there is no concrete answer apart from the faith in Fate and Karma Theory.
No other Theory can explain these other than the Karma Theory.
It is the best explanation not only for suffering but also the Evolution of world.
Quantum is veering round to this view.
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Meaning: 4.1: Neither am I bound by Merits nor Sins, neither by Worldly Joys nor by Sorrows, 4.2: Neither am I bound by Sacred Hymns nor by Sacred Places, neither by Sacred Scriptures nor by Sacrifies, 4.3: I am Neither Enjoyment (Experience), nor an object to be Enjoyed (Experienced), nor the Enjoyer (Experiencer), 4.4: I am the Ever Pure Blissful Consciousness; I am Shiva, I am Shiva, The Ever Pure Blissful Consciousness.
While looking for the evidence proving the Ramayana, I was also looking from the angles of Ravana’s Legacy, Sri Lanka sites referred to by Valmiki in The Ramayana.
I have found historical sites in Sri Lanka corroborating the Ramayana, the places have Sinhalese Names with Ramayana background.
I have posted an article on the places where Sita was shifted by Ravana after being kidnapped by him.
In this article i have posted information on what food was offered to Sita,Ravana’s Pushpak Vimana Service Centre, the place Sita rearranged her hair and the secret Tunnel network of Ravana.
More information may be had at the link provided in the Post.
Place where Lord Ram sent the Brahmastra to Kill RavanaPushpaka Vimana Repair Centre
Gurulu Potha,Lankapura:
There was an aircraft repair center in the capital city. This place is known as Gurulupotha. In Valmiki’s depiction King Ravana‘s Vimana resembled a huge peacock. The Vimana in Sinhala language means Dhandu Monara which is known as ‘flying peacock’, and hence the name Gurulupotha, which means ‘parts of birds’.
Where Sita Threw Rice balls around
Kondakalai.
Kondakalai like many other cities and villages in Sri Lanka also derives its name from the Ramayana, when King Ravana took Sitadevi in a chariot to Ashoka Vatika her hairs got deranged because of the speed of the chariot. Konda kalai in tamil means deranging of hair. Till date the villagers live with legacy of this event.
When King Ravana carried Sitadevi on his chariot to Ashoka Vatika, he provided her with vitaminised rice balls for refreshment. But Sitadevi who did not want to consume anything provided by King Ravana, scattered the rice balls all over the place during her journey, and they are found till date along the chariot track. The local people call these rice balls Sita Gooli and they prescribe them for their children as a cure for stomach disorders and headaches. The farmers too keep them in their cash boxes or grain pots for prosperity. It is claimed that carbon dated testing has been done in Tokyo and Delhi on these rice balls and ascertained to be more than five thousand years old.
Sentry Point of Ravana
Laggala.
The cartels behind the Dunuvila lake are called Laggala. Laggala is derived form the Sinhala term Elakke Gala, which when translated into English gives us the meaning Target Rock. Laggala served as a sentry point to the King Ravana’s army and it was from this rock the first Glimpse of Lord Rama’s army was sighted and informed to King Ravana. This hill is geographically the highest part of the northern region of King Ravana’s city and on a clear day the north east side that is Thiru Koneshwaran and north west side that is Talai mannar could be seen even today. King Ravana is believed to have done meditation on this rock and prayed Lord shiva at Thiru Koneshwaran from this point.
It is here that King Ravana was killed by Lord Rama’s Brahmaastharam. The top of Laggala is flat and is believed to have been hit by the Brahmaastharam.
The largest congregation of Women in a single place at one time was witnessed in Attukallu BhagavathyAmman Temple, Kerala,India.
Attukkal Bhagavathy Temple, Attukkal
The Legend.
A few centuries ago, the head of Mulluveettil family was met with a young girl who asked him to help her cross the Killi river in which he was performing his ritualistic prayers. The Karanavar (family head) knew it was no ordinary girl, because of her charm and charisma. He bowed before her and willingly took her to the other side of the river. He invited her to his home nearby and the whole family was preparing to receive this girl. However, they couldn’t find her as she had disappeared by the time Mulluveettil family was ready to receive her.
The Karanavar and his family were a little puzzled. The Karanavar saw the girl once again in his dream, in the same day as he saw the little girl. The girl appeared as an icon and told him to give her an abode in the nearby Kavu (a grove where shrubs and wild animals including snakes are left undisturbed). She told him that he would see three lines at a specific point in the kavu and she wanted her abode erected there.
With joy, the old man reached the Kavu and to his surprise, he found three lines marked on the ground. He knew it was a sacred spot and he wasted no time erecting a temple. The temple became the abode of the goddess, who later came to be known as Attukal Devi (Attukal Amma). Local devotees offered their prayers in this temple and soon the fame of this temple spread far and wide.
The people also offered to renovate the temple and a bigger temple with a new icon was installed. The goddess was represented as a woman with four arms, each bearing a spear, sword, skull and shield. The then high priest of Badarinath Temple led the consecration ceremony.
The girl that appeared before the Karanavar of Mulluveettil family is known to be Kannagi (Kannaki). Kannagi is the famous heroine of Chipathikaram, a Tamil epic written by Elenkovadikal. She is the incarnation of Sree Parvathy, the consort of Lord Siva
Attukal Pongala (Attukal Ponkala) is the most reputed festival of this temple, which attracts devotees from all parts of India. Tens of hundreds of women devotees throng together on the day of Pongala with their offerings to the Goddess and to seek blessings. The festival commences on Karthika day of Malayalam month Makaram-Kumbham (February-March).
Attukal Pongala
Pongala festival is a ten-day long festival and on the 9th day of the festival is the famous Pongala. On that day, tens of hundreds of women throng to the temple to offer pongala in earthen pots. Pongala is a rice porridge, which boils over. The rush of women is so intense that the Pongala ground spreads outside the temple premises and into the public roads, and the courtyards of houses, government offices, bus and train station, etc…
Women offer pongala in a radius of about 7 Km, essentially turning the whole of Thiruvananthapuram City into the holy grounds for the women to offer Pongala. All the transport buses plying from the city are reserved for women on Pongala day. No number of words can do justice to frenzy of the day’s festivities, which wholly belongs to women devotees.
The Attukal Pongala festival also reached Guinness Book of World Records of largest annual gathering of women, when 1.5 million (15 Lakhs) women offered pongala in February 23, 1997 and its achieved by 2.5 million (25 Lakhs) women offered pongala on March 10, 2009. It is estimated that about 3.7 million (37 Lakhs) women offered pongala in February 26, 2013. The number of women devotees reaching this place increases every year.
How to Reach.
Attukal Bhagavathy Temple is just 2 Km from the main city of Trivandrum (Thiruvananthapuram) and is located at a rural-looking area, although the surroundings are highly urbanized.
By Road : Trivandrum Central Bus Station located at Thampanoor is about 2 Km from the shrine and the City Bus Station located at EastFort is about 1.5 Km form the shrine.
By Air : The nearest airport is Thiruvananthapuram International Airport, located at Valiyathura is about 7 Km from the shrine. Many international air carriers operate daily international flights to Middle East, Male and Sri Lanka from Thiruvananthapuram.
Considered the biggest congregation of women in the world, Attukal Pongala is popularly referred to as the Sabrimala of women. While the Attukal temple is overflowing with devotees, women across the city can also be found with their makeshift brick stoves and earthen pots, cooking their offerings. A sweet dish called “payasam” with rice, jaggery and banana are part of the offerings.
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