All mother’s are casteless

All  mother’s  are casteless

Rewritten by

P.R.Ramachander

(Some one send me an English tranbslation of this  from Marathi.  I put it in my own words.

Simply superb   thought process .I dedicate this  to all casteless  mothers.Thanks  to my daughter  who is a mother  for sending it)

A caste  survey was  being taken,

And a women was  asked by the surveyor,

What  caste  do   you belong?

She  laughed and asked “as mother or as a woman”

He was perplexed    and   asked her  ,

“Are  they  different?’  and she  again laughed,

“AS a woman , the  caste  of  my family,

And as a  mother, I am caste  less.”

“ As a mother  , I clean the poo,

Urine  And  vomit of my  child”

And I thoughtCleaning was done by shudhras,

And because  of that , I am a Shudra”

AS a mother  , I  protect my child,,

From all evil beings and influences,

And I Though  is a job of Kshatriya to protect,

And Because  of that  , I am a Kshatriya”

As a mother  , when child grows  up,

I teach him all  god things  including religion,

An I thought , it is the job of Brahmin to teach,

And because of that, I am  a Brahmin”

As a mother, when  my child  starts spending money,

I teach them, how wisely to spend and save monry,

And I thought, money management  is a job of Vaisya.

And because   of that, I  am  a Vaisya  too.

Old age- A hindi poem

बुढापा  Old age

Hindi poem

Translated by

P.R.Ramachander

(The  text of hindi poem below my translation.)

In the early morning,

Some body knocked at my door,

I suddenly got  up and went,

And opened   the door,

And there  old age was standing

And from coming   inside,

It stood there  adamantly

I said,

“No brother,

Not now

After all   what is my age now”

He laughed  and told

Do not  make  an unnecessary effort,

Stopping  me   is not agreeable

I told ,

Now   allow me some more time,

Till now,

I have lived for myself,

Now cleverness  has come,

So for some time  ,

For   sake of others  ,

Allow  me live with my friends”

Old age  laughed   and told,

“If that  is the matter,

Do not get worried,

Your   age   will keep on increasing,

But old age   will not come

As long as you live for sake of others,

Along with your   friends,

You will   receive   youth

“So friends from today  onwards,

Do not   get worried about  increasing age

Start   living   from today ,

To others   as well as your friends,

And make   your old age  in to youth”

Provide   help to others,

And   arrange  entertainments    to your friends

As long  as  you live  ,

Live  as a young man

FOREVER

YOUNG & HAPPY

बुढापा   old age

 ——-

सुबह सुबह किसी ने

 द्वार खटखटाया

मैं लपककर आया

जैसे ही दरवाजा खोला

तो सामने बुढ़ापा खड़ा था

भीतर आने के लिए

 जिद पर अड़ा था..

मैंने कहा

"नहीं भाई!

अभी नहीं

अभी तो मेरी उमर ही कया है..''

वह  हँसा और बोला

बेकार कि कोशिश ना कर

मुजे रोकना ना मुमकिन है

मैंने कहा

".. अभी तो कुछ दिन रहने दे,

अभी तक

 अपने ही लिए जीया हूँ ..

अब अकल आई है

तो कुछ दिन

दूसरों के लिए और

दोस्तों के साथ भी जीने दे..''

बुढ़ापा हस कर बोला

"अगर ऐसी बात है

तो चिंता मत कर..

उम्र भले ही तेरी बढ़ेगी

मगर बुढ़ापा नहीं आएगा,

तू जब तक दूसरों के लिए और

दोस्तों के साथ जीएगा

खुद को जवान ही पाएगा..''

तो दोस्तों चलो आजसे ही

बढ़ती उम्र का लुत्फ़ उठाइये

दूसरों और दोस्तों के लिए

जीना सुरु करे

और अपने बुढ़ापे को

जवान बनाए

दुसरो को सहायता करे और

दोस्तों की महेफिल सजाते रहे

जब तक ज़िंदा रहे

जवान रहे

A new way of looking at marriage of God Vishnu and Goddess Lakshmi

A new  way of looking  at  marriage  of God Vishnu  and  Goddess  Lakshmi

By

P,R.Ramachander

       All of us know  that Goddess  Lakshmi  came out of the ocean of milk  and Lord Vishnu  claimed her   as his., In the Bhajana Padathi  , the  marriage is celebrated as if it is Brahmin  marriage

      About ten days back   I started  translation of  a great Kannada prayer  called  “Lakshmi  Snobhane”.This also  deals  with marriage  of Lakshmi  with Lord Vishnu .Here  after   coming out of the ocean of milk, she holds  a SWayamvara, rejects  all Gods  for various reasons  and decides to marry lord Vishnu

   Her father (the god of ocean Varuna )  celebrates  in a great  manner. After   the marriage Lord Vishnu   takes  the form of Mohini to  solve the dispute   between Asuras  and devas.

    Goddess Lakshmi  happens to  Lord Vishnu  in a form of mohini and says  “You are  much prettier than me  .Why did you marry me?”

I have never heard   about this incident between Goddess Lakshmi and Mohini

Hammer not key opens lock easily

Hammer not key  opens lock easily

By

P.R.Ramachander

(based on whatsapp message in tamil.Thanks to original author)

A wife  gave  a cup of coffee  to her husband ,

And he saw  an ant  floating  in the coffee,

He became very angry   , called his wife,

And poured  the hot coffee  over her head,

The   wife got angry  , they shouted at each other,

And both were  sad  and upset  all the day.

Another  wife  gave  a cup of coffee  to her husband,

And he also saw an ant  floating in the coffee,

He called wife and told  “Your coffee  appears to  be great ,

See  an ant attracted by it , fell on it to  drink it and committed suicide,

The wife realized , her mistake and rushed to make another coffee,

And took  all care  to avoid ants in  sugar and both were  greatly happy.

Joy or sorrow   of life depends  on how   we handle  life,

Please never think   you only can get angry   and,

Know that   anger and shout  spoils your life.

But If you find an error, if you jocularly  point it  out to her,

That error  will never be committed by her  again.

The hammer  asked   the key  , “I am stonger than you,

But I am not able to open the lock easily   but you do it in a jiffy.

And the key replied,”To open the lock  you hit on its head,

But I  touch   the heart  of the lock  with softness  and care”

And further he   told the lock ”love and humour not anger  rules the world.”

To cheat God is a difficult job

To cheat  God is a  difficult job

Translated by

P.R.Ramachnder

One man was standing in a queue  to visit a temple,

There was money box on their way to drop contributions

This man had a torn ten rupee  note   in his hand,

And he thought,if I put  it, even god  cannot find out

AS he neared  the box some one  behind  gave him,

A two thousand rupee note and thinking it wasthat man’s,

Contribution to God  , he put it in contribution box

And when he came  out of the temple  , he saw that man.

He told him, “Sir you are  really great  to put  two  thousand ,

As your contribution “ and  that ma said,”It was your money,

And it fell down from your pocket    and I  only gave it to you”

He heard God laughing and saying “trying to deceive me?”

Story of a very intelligent king

Story  of a very intelligent  king

Translated  by

P.R.Ramachander

There  was a kingdom  on a huge  river shore

 In  which  any one  wanting  to become   a king  can become ,

A king for  five years  and later   they  would,

Be left to the  other  shore  of  the  river.

The other shore   was a huge , thick forest,

Which was  full of very dangerous   wild animals,

With no human beings living there,

And all kings will cry horribly while going there.

It was time for  one king to go  to the other shore,

 He boarded the royal boat with lot of joy,

And was  cracking  jokes   with all and the boat man,

Asked him, “don’t you know you will die within a day?”

He  told , “first year  I sent thousand  hunters   to hunt,

And kill   all the animals there and they killed all animals,

Nexrt year I send thousand expert  farmers  , next year,

Thousand   expert builders   who made a great town.

Last year  I transferred  two thousand  government servants,

With double salary, with  needed  labour and  ,

They have made it in to a great town, and I am going there,

To be the king of the town   for ever   and ever.

The boatmen understood   and along with  the king,

Settled  in the new town   with double  the salary.            

My recollection of the people of my village 70 years back

My recollection of  the people of my village  70 years back

By

P.R.Ramachander  of Chelakkara

Through my write up about Pulakkottu  madam  , I renewed my contacts with some  of the people of  Pulakkottu  madams

   Then I thought , why not I write  about the people  my village  Gramam(Agraharam) .There was a problem with that  , In my 80 years of life , I have  stayed  in my village  only for 3-4 years. I have forgotten most  of the mamas(70 years back ) of my village. Then I thought  , recollect some  of the prominent ones

    There  were nearly 120  houses in the village . (when some auspicious function takes place in any house , they will break 108 coconuts before Ganapathy  and distribute one coconut per home in my village. We used to get 2 or 3 coconuts free per month) Two of the families  had migrated  from Ayilur (Chami  Vadhyar  and station Master) Two families had migrated  from Puthucode(Mine and that  of Anantha rama sastrigal).There was one family   from Pazhambalacode. AS I had mentioned in my earlier write up about 5-6 families  had settled  there from Pulacode  Many teachers who retired  from the local  Government  school  as well as government servants   who retired  in chelakkara preferred to settle there. I remember PRP meshu, Venkidachala iyer , Uruli mesh  , Yettan mesh, viswanatha iyer , Revenue  inspector, anchal  meshu, station meshu , Vaidhyan Narasimha iyer  from Kuzhal mannam   etc. one Ayyan satrigal  who was a Sanskrit teacher(I do not know his original village) had settled there. His  home was in the shore of our kulam.His home was called Kulangara  madam., There was one family  who had migrated from Kambangudi. The peculiarity of these families  were   that they  did not have  relations  in chelakkara.  

    There were  few who were not tamil Brahmins  .Embranthiri, Psharodi  , Pappada karan, Chelkkan  etc were   some oif them

     Before 80 years  the number  of educated  families were very few. Most interestingly   two  were graduates  but preferred  to run a shop in chelakkara. Some of them were   school teachers  in local  village schools. There were two astrologer families, I remember  few families who  had come back after  retirement  .One of  them was  Kasi viicha Vaitha mama  .Most of the  of the venkam pattar family, the  vaidhyanathan konthai family  the Yettayakottu   family and  Mruga vaidhyan family  were educated even at that time

  Two brahmins were running  grocery shops  in the village one  kada Rasa and another  Venkatraman(he was an iyengar  and went away) I knew  6 people who had shops in Angadi  ,There was  a vaidhyan  Krishnan from gramam  who was practicing  in Angadi . His younger brother was running a typewriting short hand institute. There was a stationary shop owner who was agent for Hindu, a cloth merchant , vessel merchant., a coffee powder shop owner who later  started  a pickles factory  in the village, Strangely there was a Mama who built a Pukkah  building Cinema theatre  in the gramam.There  were two professional cooks and one retired nurse.

   Most  of the chelakkara  families were vadamas   but there  were few Brihathcharanam also.There was a person called  Kutti Krishnan Karnor(I do not know much about him)  and there  was a person called  Kanakezhuthu  Shivaraman who used to keep accounts  in another Brahmin house .

  Large amount of migration took place from Chelaklkara .There is a Chelakkara  Welfare  association in Mumbai   who rent a marriage hall one day in every year and all members  with their family spend 24 hours there. There is a chelakkara  Friends  Association in Palghat,The descendents of Chami  Vadhyar family are running thefamous Thangam Pickles in Palghat

  My googfle search revealed that there  was famous artist from chelalakkara  in a  cheriya gramam , Chelakara .I neither recollect cheriya gramam   nor any artist  in Chelakkara  (  http://wikimapia.org/17736941/Artist-Anantharama-Iyer )