12:00....24:00 As it begins in the end... and a little about hand phone

The time is at dot. 

The big hand hides the small one. 

Is it 12:00?

Or 24:00?

Is it the end? 

Or 

The beginning? 

March is bidding adieu. 

April is born. 

From taxman's parlance 

One Assessment year -

Taxman loves to assess, -

Gives way to a new one. 

For a businessman,

It's end of a Financial year

And the beginning of a new one. 

I'm unusually awake. 

A client called up to help him 

Comply with his tax filing by the 

Time the clock ticks 12:00,

Sorry the day 31st Mar ends. 

Hence did that and to wrap up 

Picked up குமுதம் 

And finished reading Malan's 

This week's writing. 

மாலன் சொல்வதே,  sorry,  

எழுதுவதே ஓர் அழகு. 

Some nuggets from his writing :

Tom Thumb loved to visit India. Didn't have much money to do the travel. Literally walked,  and wherever possible by asking for lifts,  he could reach India. He titled his book this way: "Hand-to-mouth-to-India".

His other book: "Bozo and the story teller ".

He had a startling imagination that one day the mobile phone will have teeth and bite the user's ear. 

Well talking of mobile one, 

Does anyone bother to know who first created this ubiquitous device?  

The debate is not yet over. 

Whether mobile, or hand 

As Americans would love to call it,  

phone is bane or boon? 

Let's first know who it was.

Martin Cooper. 

Let's say a big hai to him. 

On positive side, 

 hand phone indeed is handy. 

Also it's worthwhile to

listen to Cooper on using the device. 

He says, 

"USE THE HAND PHONE, 

BUT DON'T TURN ADDICT 

TO IT. "

Pure Intelligence at work... 24x7

Bhaktha - It is hard to conceive of God, the formless, giving rise to form.

Bhagavan. - Why hard? Does not your mind remain formless when you do not perceive or think, say, in deep sleep, in samadhi, or in a swoon? And does it not create space and relationship when it thinks and impels your body to act? Just as your mind devises and your body executes in one homogeneous, automatic act, so automatic, in fact, that most people are not aware of the process, so does the Divine Intelligence devise and plan and His Energy automatically and spontaneously acts - the thought and the act are one integral whole. This Creative Energy which is implicit in Pure Intelligence is called by various names, one of which is Maya or Shakti, the Creator of forms or images.

(From 'Guru Ramana', Part 2) 

This Bhagavan's answer answers what pulls devotees during His time and beyond from all the corners of the world. 

Couple of days back my classmate called me from Bangalore. 

He said he came to hear about Maharishi since class 8.  During our time at St.  Joseph's we would have discussed a lot.  But never once did he talk to me about Bhagavan.

Until I  had a chance visit to Tiruvannamalai about two decades ago for the first ever time,  I just heard of Ttiruvannamalai only. But never knew there was Bhagavan's ashram. 

Those days there were no milling crowd. 

The shrine inside the ashram was serene. 

Someone murmured it's Mathrubhutheswar's sanctum Sanctorum where Bhagavan's mother was laid to eternal rest. I entered the front part of the shrine.  On the right was Bhagavan's bust size statue. Just a little ahead on the right and on the front wall of the sanctorum, a white cloth screen banner was kept.  In that a long message in English was written. 

First ever time just out of college and still struggling to pick and piece together whatever little grip over this British left over,  I could manage to read from word one to the last of the lengthy message. 

Here is Bhagavan's narrative of His Atma vichara,  questioning Himself of,  "Who am I?".

Though I could manage to read the message, comprehension was far beyond. Yet,  some intuition kept me feeling that there should be some quintessence there in Bhagavan's message. 

Also I didn't know about Girivalam during my first visit. 

It took almost about 5 years later I heard about Girivalam and tried to go as many times as possible. It was only on these repeat visits somehow with Bhagavan's grace I could get a glimpse of Bhagavan's asking of Who am I. 

Yes. 

It's the pure Intelligence of God at work. 

May we All have the fortunes of Bhagavan's blessings. 

Change, inevitable

Yes. 

True. 

Dear Friend Prof. Rajendran is used to greet every morning with a nice good morning message. 

Osho quotes a story. In his book titled "Astrology."  His mischievous tagline to the title : "superstition, blind faith,  or a door to the essential? ".

Mullah Nasruddin was miserable and all in penury.  All his villagers knew his pitiable condition.  

Suddenly one day Nasruddin appeared unusually very cheerful and happy.  Not that his conditions changed for good. 

Villagers were wondering  what in the whole world could have made him happy suddenly. 

Some dared to question Mullah himself for the reason. 

Know what Mullah said?

"I have learned to cooperate with the inevitable.  After many years of struggling,  I have realized something.  I have decided that what must be,  must be.  Now I cooperate with the inevitable,  so there is no reason to be miserable.  Now I am happy."