Rama wedding Guruvayur 26-4-10

Hi all,
I give below the link to the photoes I took at the wedding of Uma's sister Rama at Guruvayur on 26 April2010.

-Ramakrishnan.

http://picasaweb.google.com/pcramki/RAMAAWEDDING?authkey=Gv1sRgCODPyrjItcDhiwE&feat=directlink

From Ramu

1. Best wishes to NGS on his birthday. Many happy returns of the day.
2. Gayathri, whom do you mean as Periathatha?
It is good that you and TSS returned without any trouble because of the valcano.
We shall also pray for TSS's eye surgery.
Ramu

I was thinking of the same thing, Ramu chittappa - when the sastras talk about the stages that a 'man' goes through, what about the woman then? During Grihastasrama, ok, she is the 'saha dharma chari' - assisting the husband to perform his duties. During Vaana (or vana) prastham, who knows who will go first? Is there sanyasam for the woman too?
I remember Peria thatha took aapat sanyasam just before he died. Am I right?
I think basically, the older generation should lessen their expectations & needs, be contented that they have had their life, & follow 'simple living, high thinking' - I guess this is what the Sastras ecpect us to do. (Easier said than done, hehe).

Well, God saved S & me from the Iceland volcano's vagaries - we reached Germany before it rumbled, & left after things returned to normalcy. Will post the pics soon.
One night after we went to bed, I could not sleep. That was when we had seen on TV the volcanic eruption. With bad weather forecast for the next few days. We were wondering if we would have to remain cooped up in the hotel room!
And Siddhar Swami came in my mind & told me to keep photo copies of our passports & not to keep all the money & travellers cheques in one place. This sort of jolted me.
Normally we always keep copies of the passport. We had not done it this time, as I got my passport only on the day we left. And I was keeping the passports & all the money in my handbag. Next morning, we took copies of the pp & also spread out the money in our backpack & with S. I was on the watch out that whole day - thank God nothing untoward happened.
Today S underwent the health check at Shankara Nethralaya. The eyelid correction surgery is fixed for 2pm tomorrow. Hopefully it should go without any hitch.
Gayathri

From Ramu

1. FROM "ENGE BRAHMANAN OF 28/04" : It has become common these days that retired, aged parents and their sons/daughters find it difficult to accept each others' views & elders get a feeling that they are not given their due respect / importance. For this reason only, it is given in our Texts that once elders are finished with their duties, they should take up Vaanaprastham and go out with wife to complete their religious duties. Once that is also over, the man takes up Sanyasam ( what about the wife!!).
2. These days, most companies keep the basic salary of employees low and pay the balance as Variable allowances ( HRA, medical, etc..). I suggest that one such allowance should be Parents Allowance which should be directly paid to the parents!!!( hi hi ).
3. The picture of Maha Periava blessing Vimala manni is very very interesting. I was looking at it for a long time.
4. Happy birthday to Divya. Many happy returns of the day.
Ramu

Vivek's Ooty photoes

Hi all,

Vivek and his parents with a friend visited Ooty for a day on 25/26th April and Vivek took some photoes mainly of flowers and flower gardens. I am trying to give you the link to his web album below:

Ramakrishnan.

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday, Divya. Many happy returns!

Vimala and Jayaraman

May we all be blessed!

This picture was taken from a book containing a collection of pictures of the Paramacharya. It was taken in 1959, when Vimala was on a visit to Chennai.

Pappa's date of birth

In PSC's notebook, which Rukku has, Pappa's date of birth is given as April 24 (Chithirai, Uthiradom).

Downloading the music uploaded by Jayaraman requires Adobe Flash Player, says my computer and it refuses to have that!

KN

From Ramu

1. Best wishes to Papa on her 72nd birthday today. Praying for her good health, happiness and peace in the days &years to come. Many happy returns of the day.
2. Also, best wishes to Chandru athimbare - Mythily who celebrated their wedding day a few days back. Many many happy returns of the day.
3. We are fine and things go as a routine. I hope everyone in PSC family is fine.
Ramu Sarada

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday, Papa. Many happy returns!

Vimala and Jayaraman

TEDxMumbai - Dhanashree Pandit-Rai - 04/03/10

Indian music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXnV5HzS7nA

Do watch the video clip posted above. Dhanashri Pandit Rai holds you captivated.

Jayaraman

Wedding anniversary

Best wishes to Mythili and Chandru on their wedding anniversary today, 18 April.
Many happy returns.
Vimala and Jayaraman

From Ramu

1. Birthday wishes and many happy returns to Ramesh and Kiran.
2. Janga manni`s habbit was to talk to the picture of Lord Krishna in the "saappaadu koodam" for atleast ten minutes, as soon as she gets up in the morning. I do not know who is having that Picture now. I saw Papa also doing that . I feel it is a very good habbit and I am sure God will be hearing everything.
3. One of Vaishnavi`s friend ( 5 years old ) asked a lady ( of 29 years ) with a child in her hands:
" Auntie. Is this a boy or girl".
" This is a boy".
" Auntie. This boy looks just like my father. Is it not?..... Is it not auntie........."
The auntie slowly walked off.
Ramu

Happy birthday!

Best wishes to Ketan on his birthday, 15th April. Many happy returns. Kumar, if you ssee this, could you please send me recent snapshots of Kiran, Ketan, Kristin and yourself? As I had told you on an earlier occasion, the pictures sent by your earlier (when your dad and mom were visiting you) do not open any more. And, in any case, they are also dated now!

Talking of speaking to people on the TV screen (as Vaishnavi does) reminds me of what Jangamanni used to do. She would speak to the gods in the pictures hung at home. I am sure God heard her and brought her some peace of mind when she was troubled.

Power shutdowns

Chennai residents are lucky in the matter of power supply. For us in Thondamuthur, 9 to 5 shutdown once a month is a regular event. Daily there is a scheduled shutdown for three hours, and unscheduled for any length of time. In Brindavan we have been advised not to use the AC between 9.30 and 11.30 p.m. to avoid blowouts in the transformer. We have been assured that this will be set right within a week with an additional distribution board. This is tough in the oppressive weather.

2. Ketan's birthday is April 15, not 14.

3. Thanks for all the wedding anniversary good wishes

KN

Kids!!!

Just thought I'd share something very funny that Vaishnavi did recently:

Vaishnavi loves to watch Airtel Supersinger junior that comes in Vijay TV. And one the participants - Srikanth is her favourite. One day, he apparently won Rs. 1 Lakh. In the next episode the regular judges were back (Singers Mano, Chitra and Shuba). They were not the judges when this boy won the amount. So, Vaishnavi was extremely thrilled to see them back. It seems she was happily talking to Mano and saying "Mano uncle, do you know, Srikanth won 1 lakh yesterday"!!!! Mohan was puzzled what she was doing and then realized that she thinks people who come in TV can see us and can hear us!!!

Happy birthday!

Birthday greetings to Ramesh (13 April). Many happy returns!
Vimala and Jayaraman

From Ramu

1. Best wishes to KN and Rukku on their wedding day. Many happy returns of the day.
2. There was a power cut yesterday 09th April in our area, from 09 AM to 06.30 PM. I was very happy that it was an oppartunity for me to remember our Texts " Be satisfied with what you have. Look at those who do not have even that .........". I was thinking of the people in Coimbatore and Trichy who have 4 hours power cut daily. I was also remembering our Mannargudi thaathaa who used to have a hand-fan always.
Ramu

Happy anniversary!

Best wishes on your wedding anniversary (9th April). Many happy returns.
Vimala and Jayaraman

FROM RAMU

Gayathri, yes. It is quite a tricky and difficult situation for your Prayas, medical centre now, in view of the( expired and spurious )drugs scam. It is really sad to note how poor people are affected now!! Even the wealthy, what will they do if the medicines are spurious!! I feel the news paper reports are only limited and there are so many things in this issue, not coming to open. Only God can help us!!
Ramu

Yes -its steaming hot here - we are swimming in our own pool (of sweat).
Seems to be cataract time in the family now - today we had an appointment at Shankara Nethralaya for S - both his eyes show beginning signs of cataract!
We mainly went to consult about his in growing eyelashes & recurring eye infection - the lashes have to be corrected surgically. The lash specialist will see him tomorrow & tell us what & when.
The recent expired medicine scam has put our med centre in a spot & we have stopped giving free medicines to the poor. We have been holding a series of meetings as to how we can handle this if an inspection takes place. We are above board, but we never know how the authorities will choose to harass us. In fact we have a meeting of the Trustees tomorrow with the legal dept people at the office.
Our once buzzing med centre looks forlorn as few patients turn up now, as they can't afford to buy medicines that are prescribed. We are hopiong this phase will pass & we are able to get back to srious good work.
Gayathri

From Ramu

Jayaramanna, wish you a speedy recovery.
It is very hot in Chennai . The heat increases year after year. How we are going to manage the April, May , June, July!!!!!!!
Ramu