Monday, April 18, 2022

Greatness of Mundu(Veshti without borders)

 

Greatness  of Mundu(Veshti without borders)

 

Translated BY

P.R.Ramachander

 


(I always felt that I had translated two poems on greatness of Sari and has not written any thing about Mundu/Veshti/Dhothi. I found this pretty poem posted in face book)

 

It Can be tied   immediately , it can be untied  immediately

We can wear  it, we can invert it   and  then wear it

We can wipe, we can spread, we can cover  ourselves, we  can lie on it

We can tie it on our head also, we can climb on a tree

On the lap  we can keep small things

WE can  insert small things on hip fold

We can give it as gift  , we can   reduce our sins

We can act as if we have  humility, we can keep it  to reserve places

Minister can wear it, priest can wear it

We can wear it as dhothi, we  can wear it as  soman

WE can carry things on it  , we can tie  luggage with it

We can give it to wife   and get her love(In kerala  Ladies also wear it)

We can wear it in field, we can erect a  tent with it

We can make various type of flags with it

If we dip it in ochre colour  , we can go to benares

If we make it black , we can go to sabarimala

Those with broken legs and hands can wear the torn one

If we crop of our hair, we can  prevent  hair falling on us

If we get in to sorrow  , we can make it a black flag

Those who are curios   can make it loin cloth

We can wear it below  our dress and also wear it on our hips

For  sharing fire   we can make wicks  out of it

We can use it like a hand fan, we  can clean our wounds

Once it is old we can wipe  our floors also

If we leave our body, we can cover our body with it also

For the people who cook , they can filter coconut milk with  it

If we tie a swing we can make  baby sleep with us

If it becomes shattered,  , we can use it for making fire torch

If the carat  is less  , we can make it an alternative

If it further reduces, we can make  many things out of it

For Christian women, they can tie it  with folds

If we take out its thread , we can also make a sacred thread

WE need not  cut it  , we need not stitch it, we  need not sew  it  

If we cut it in to pieces , we can make it in to kerchiefs

There is no need  to have belt to tie  it

If we give  it relative we do a blessed  deed

Different , different type of Mundu hail, hail

Hail hail till stars and moon exist

 

🙏മുണ്ട് മാഹാത്മ്യം🙏

ഉടനടിയുടുക്കാം ഉടനടിയഴിക്കാം

ഉടുക്കാം മറിച്ചുമുടുക്കാം

തുടക്കാം വിരിക്കാം പുതക്കാം കിടക്കാം

തലയിലും കെട്ടാം തരുവതിൽ കേറാം.

മടിയിലോ ചെറിയ ചില സാധനം വയ്ക്കാം

എളിയിലോ ചെറിയ ചില സാധനം തിരു കാം.

ദാനം കൊടുക്കാം പാപം കുറയ്ക്കാം

വിനയം നടിയ്ക്കാം സ്ഥാനം പിടിക്കാം.

മന്ത്രിക്കുടുക്കാം തന്ത്രിക്കുടുക്കാം

തറ്റുമുടുക്കാം താറു മുടുക്കാം.

ഭാരം വഹിക്കാം ഭാണ്ഡമതു കെട്ടാം

ഭാര്യക്കു നൽകി സ്നേഹവും നേടാം

പാടത്തുടുക്കാം പന്തലുകെട്ടാം

പല തരക്കാർക്കുള്ള കൊടിയുമുണ്ടാക്കാം.

കാവിയാക്കീടുകിൽ കാശിക്കുപോകാം

കരിനിറമാക്കുകിൽ കരിമലയിലേറാം.

കൈകാൽ മുറിഞ്ഞാൽ കീറിയതു കെട്ടാം

കേശം വെട്ടുകിൽ ക്ലേശം കുറക്കാം.

കദനമതു വന്നാൽ കരിംകൊടിയാക്കാം

കൗതുകമായൊരു കൗപീനമാക്കാം

അടിയിലുമുടുക്കാം അരയിലും കെട്ടാം

അഗ്നി പകരുവാൻ തിരിയും തെറുക്കാം.

കാറ്റിനതുവീശാം കായം തുടയ്ക്കാം

കാലം കഴിഞ്ഞാൽ നിലവും തുടയ്ക്കാം.

ദേഹി വെടിഞ്ഞാൽ ദേഹവും മൂടാം

ദേഹണ്ഡക്കാർക്കഹോ പാലുമരിക്കാം.

തൊട്ടിലുകെട്ടിയാൽ കുട്ട്യേക്കിടത്താം

തവിടുപൊടിയായാൽ തീവെട്ടിയാക്കാം

"മാറ്റു" കുറയുകിൽ "മാറ്റ" തുമാക്കാം

വീണ്ടും കുറഞ്ഞാൽ മറ്റു പലതുമാക്കാം.

നസ്രാണി സ്ത്രീക്ക് ഞൊറിഞ്ഞു മൃടുക്കാം

നൂലങ്ങെടുത്താൽ പൂണൂലുമാക്കാം.

വെട്ടേണ്ട തയ്ക്കേണ്ട ബട്ടണും തയ്ക്കേണ്ട

വെട്ടിയെടുത്താൽ കൈലേസുമാക്കാം.

ബന്ധിച്ചു നിർത്താൻ "ബെൽട്ട"തുംവേണ്ട

ബന്ധു ജനങ്ങൾക്കു നൽകിയാൽ പുണ്യം

പല പല വിധമുള്ള മുണ്ടേ ജയ ജയ

ആചന്ദ്രതാരം ജയ ജയ ജയ ജയ.

...കടപ്പാട്...

Thursday, March 24, 2022

dead is precious not one alive

 

dead is precious not one alive

 

Translated from a hindi poem

By

P.R.Ramachander

 



If a mouse  is made of  stone, all people worship it,

But if it is alive , till  they kill it, they   are not peaceful

If the snake is  made of stone,  all people worship it,

But it is alive , they see that  it is immediately killed

If their  mother  and father  are in photo, they worship it,

But if they alive  , no one understands  their value,

 

It   is very   difficult    to understand  ,

Why if some thing is alive   , why we hate it

And why there  is so much love  towards stone.

 

Just like people consider  it a great virtue   ,

If they give a   support ing shoulder to a dead body,

If they think  that   supporting a live person is equally  great virtue

Then  life would become easy

 

Please   think about it once

Thursday, January 20, 2022

Mother vs Father

 Mother vs Father

 

This malayalam write up  brought tears in my eyes, Please read

 

Translated  by

P.R.Ramachander

 


One grown  up son asked  his mother”To bring us up like this , who did more sacrifice-You or father?

 

Mother told  “you should have asked  this to your father because, compared  to his sacrifice ,

I have almost done nothing,When we married  each other, your father  was not at all like this.

He has his own interests and   desires, But then on for my sake   and for the sake of you,

Children, he started running.We needed food cloth and medicines  ,You needed  monety for education

If we are like this, it is 100% his sweat”

 

The son then went to his father   and asked the same   question. Father’s answer was  different.

“I do not know how much sacrifice  she did?, Yo bring you up , to make you big , What  she underwent

She never told me  , nor do I know.It is her patience   and spirit of bearing   any thing, that  made  us,

Reach this stage,She said no to all her desires and dreams   for that, for the sake of us,

She undersood my income and spent   accordingly,She never asked me what  she needed but only those ,

she cannot manage  .She was fighting with life  along with me

My sacrifice compared to hers  is nothing’

 

That son told his siblings , “we are the most lucky persons in this world.WE have a mother who recognizes

 the sacrifice of father and a father  who recognizes her sacrifice

We do have a father and mother  , but two feathers  on our golden crown>?

Thursday, December 30, 2021

Raja Thatha's on line stock taking of his contributions

 Raja Thatha's on line stock taking of his contributions

May God bless all of you with a very great 2022



Dear Friends,

I am so happy to inform you that I took a stock taking of all the work done by me on line and found that more than one crore  people have visited my blog spots as well as web sites from the year 2008 till the end of 2021. I hope you would agree with me that it is an achievement since what I write is mostly about Hindu religion. Apart from this I have web sites dedicated to stories , poems , Upanishad translations etc whose number of visitors I do not know. Most of my work is also reflected n Celextel .org from 2000, Hindupedia.org from 2005 , Sai baba bother hood from 2005 and I do not know the number of visitors.

Most of these  in form of typed pages  is available   as pdf files  in http://www.hindupedia.com/en/User:P.R.Ramachander

1.http://stotrarathna.blogspot.in/ -contains translation of more than 1800 stotras written in Sanskrit, Tamil , Malayalam and HindiINcludes translation of Bhagwad Gita, Sri Krishna Karnamrutham, Jnanapana , Devi Mahathmyam etc - 3139697 visitors so far

2. http://translationsofsomesongsofcarnticmusic.blogspot.in/ -Contains translations of about 2000 carnatic Krithis written in Sanskrit, Telugu , Kannada , Hindi and Malayalam, contains the English translation of all known Thyagaraja Krithis- 2747176 visitors so far

3. http://brahminrituals.blogspot.in/- Contains translation in to English of Samkepa Dharma Sastra , Rules of behavior for Brahmins , manthras of Sandhyavandana , Tharpana , upakarma for all the three Vedas -2204228 visitors so far.

4. http://rajathathablog.blogspot.in/- Thoughts of Raja Thatha and includes several write ups including translation of Thirukural- 959564 visitors so far

5. http://villagegods.blogspot.in/ - Description of 119 village Gods of Tamil Nadu .Sri Jayaraman has translated each of them in to Tamil and put them as comments-532689 visitors so far .

6. http://rajathathaskeralatemples.blogspot.in/- Description of 118 temples in Kerala- 131719 visitors so far

7. http://vikramadhithya.blogspot.in/ -First English translation on line of The entire Vikramadithya stories-180462 visitors so far

8. http://rajathathas.blogspot.in/- First english transcription and translation of Thunjathu Ezhuthachan’s Adhyatma Ramayana verse by verse.-191219 visitors so far

9. http://narayaneeyamtrans.blogspot.in/- Verse by verse translation of Meppathur Bhattathiri’s Narayaneeyam- 244914 visitors so far.

10. http://srimadbhajanamrutham.blogspot.in/- Some BHajans of Dakshina sampradaya Bhajan75460 visitors so far

11. http://nuranisasthapreethi.blogspot.in/ -First English transliteration and translation of the songs sung during Nurani Sastha preethi-68460 visitors so far

12. http://englishvalmikiramayanam.blogspot.in/ -Verse by verse translation of Valmiki Ramayanam-75925visitors so far

13. http://englishkambaramayanam.blogspot.in/ -Verse by verse translation of the Kamba Ramayanam from Tamil-104770 visitors so far.

14.  http://rajathathas.blogspot.com/- Verse by verse  translation of Malayalsm Adhyathma  Ramayanam from Malayalam 191317 visitors so far

14. http://kannadasanspirituallyrics.blogspot.in/ -English translation of 100 spiritual songs of Kaviarasu Kannadasan- 127667visitors so far .

15. http://devinarayaneeyam.blogspot.in English translation of Devi Narayaneeyam a summary of Devi BHagawatham -43014 visitors so far

15. http://raja-thatha-corner.bizhat.com/Stories.html -Contains very large number of stories , very many new rhymes suitable to India , information about several great people , translations of slokas for recitation of children

16. http://poetrypoem.com/cgi-bin/index.pl… -30 poems and poem translations by P.R. Ramachander

17. https://uni5.co/index.php/en/proverbs.html - more than 100 Malayalam proverbs and several Tamil proverbs illustrated by stories.

18, http://www.hinduwebsite.com/upanishadindex.asp -Translations of 23 rare Upanishads in to English

Also many of these materials are also included in

http://www.celextel.org/                                                   

http://stotraratna.sathyasaibababrotherhood.org/

http://www.hindupedia.com/en/Main_Page

I am nearing 82  and I am not very sure how long God would want me to continue what I do under his orders and guidance .

My blessings to all my friends who are younger to me and Sashtanga Namaskarams to all those who elder to me by age and knowledge .May God continue to bless all of you in this new year  2022

P.R.Ramachander  aka Raja  Thatha

Thursday, October 21, 2021

Ramu the affectionate Mumbaikar

 Ramu  the affectionate Mumbaikar


By

Raja Thatha


We  met  Ramu the mumbaikar   in his marriage,

To our little  , pretty  , ever smiling Raji  junior.


Next  time  our usual  Mumbai  trip  came ,

And in  the  Dadar  Platform    was standing,

Our new Mumbai  son in law   to receive  us ,

And both  of us  were  taken to his   home


Over years  we  came   to  know him better,

AS a   sterling  man , whose life was reserved

To  provide  joy  and   happiness  to  all others,

And  that to him   every  body  was  his  very own


We are  sure   , God   who had  sent him to Mumbai,

Long time back  missed  him and called  him back in a hurry,

So that  he  had   some one   who  does   all his jobs,

But Oh God  , did you  ever think of all of  us   who will miss him

Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Effect of guru peyarchi from Makara rasi to Kumbha rasi on 14th november 2021

Effect of guru peyarchi  from Makara rasi  to Kumbha rasi on 14th november  2021

 

       This is just for one year.If Guru is strong in your horoscope(Meena rasi Dhanu rasi and kadaka rasi , you will have only good during any movement of Guru

 

Collected  by

P.R,Ramachander

 


Planet  Guru moved from Makara Rassi to Kumbha Rasi  on 14th  of October

You must have  very detailed  reports about how it will  affect you .Here is a short write up about that

 

To those born in

 

Mesha rasi(Aswathi, Bharani, Krithigai I padam) 11th  position

 

Desires would be  fulfilled, You may get a job abroad  , get married

 

Rishabha Rasi(krithigai2, 3,4  padam, Rohini, Mageeram 1,2 padam)10th position

 

Loosing of your position, loss of wealth, problems  in completing the job

 

 

Mithuna Rasi(Mageeram 3, 4  , Thiruvadira, Punartham 1,2,3) 9th position

 

For this  rasi, there  is ashtamathil sani till middle of 2022 which is a bad period but Guru in 9th position  would  bring relief in earning of money, living with family happily  , living with son, positive response  in getting job.

 

Kadaka rasi(Punartham 4th padam, Poosam, Ayilyam)8th position

 

 Sorrow, disease, frequent  travel etc are the result .,This will get worsened in 2022  middle with movement of sani to  Kumbha rasi which will be Ashtamathil sani .Be prepared for a bad period

 

Simha rasi(Makam, pooram, Uthram I paam   7th position

 

 All round success, getting good marks and seats, getting more income  and rejoining with wife, getting married

 

Kanya Rasi(uthram 2,3,4 padam, Hastham, Chithra 1,2 padam) 6th position

 

Even if yu have many luxuries, you may not be   able to enjoy them

 

THula rasi(Chithra 3,4, Swathi, Visakam1,2,3 padam)5th position

 

 Buying of assets and home ,Buying of assets, getting promotion, getting children, buying house

 

Vrschika rasi(vishakam 4th padam, Anusham, Kettai) , 4th house

 

No happiness  any where ,problems to relatives

 

Dhanu rasi(Moolam, Pooradam , Uthradam I padam ) 3rd house

 

   Problems to job   and business, loss etc are result. But you will be getting rid  of Ezhara sani next year middle.Slight improvement in life, going abroad, may result from middle of next year

 

Makara  Rasi(uthradam 2,3,4, Thiruonam and avittam I padam)  2nd house

 Lot of wealth getting married and children after  middle of 2022 ,Till then, the janma sani  which is an extremely bad period would dominate,

 

Kumbha rasi( Avittam 2,3,4 , Chadayam, Pororattathi 1 padam) same house

 Loss of wealth , job, quarrel  etc and the bad period will  get intensified after middle of 2022 , when Sani  moves  to your own rasi

 

Meena rasi(pororattathi, 2,3,4 padam , Uthrattathi revathi)2nd house

 

  Bad period   problems in job , and great sorrow , quarrels in family and  .this will be intensified with start of ezhara sani in middle of 2022.

Friday, October 15, 2021

Me and Devi Mahathmyam

Me and Devi Mahathmyam

 

By

P.R.Ramachander




 



  AS a young boy  of 16, I received  a Devi Mahathmyam book  in Malayalam from my father.I was trying to chant it.

 

    It was  at this time , I got admission in Annamalai  university. My eldest mama(periya Mama)/Sri A.P.Naganathan)  was running a hotel  in Vridhachalam which was nearby .

 

  I used  to visit Vridhalachalam often as  I liked  both my  short tempered  Mama  and sweet Mami  very much.

 

   Mama was very devout man and was taught “devi Mahathmyam” by his father  in law   Rama Sastrigal  and used  to chant  it often.He gave me a book and also asked me to join him in chanting Devi Mahathmya. I learned  to chant it extremely well from him.

 

   Later I used to chant it alone in my hostel rooms  and I went to Calcutta  and I came to know that  the book was well known in Bengal  and was called  “Chandi”>along with Nyasa it would take three  hours  to chant  the book  complely

 

  Over years I became  fond of that  book. I Came to know that it could solve any problem in human life.Another peculiarity  of the book is that  there  is a provision  in the book, that it can be chanted  for some one else to solve his problem.It was one of the first  book translated by  me .I did not know at that time  how to make a book of the several  pages I had translated  .A  german devotee  helped  me do it in year 2002

 

   This time  during Navarathri  I chanted   the entire book  ten times remembering my great  Mama

 

  I am sure  Goddess  Chamundi  and my Mama in heaven   would have blessed  me