“Karma is like the salt in the paper of Emery And it is valid only until people are in the wrapper of Memory”

“Karma is like the salt in the paper of Emery
And it is valid only until people are in the wrapper of Memory”

(....Continuation to My Previous article “ Everyone can escape the laws of Karma”)
Today we can see an analysis that whether Memory has something to do with Karma or not. And does it govern the factor of life and death? Shall we analyse?
Let me take an example – Duryodhana in Mahabaratha.
One of the strongest samskara (Subliminal thought impression in the mind) of Duryodhana is that he always wanted to kill Pandavas.
What if I had kidnapped Duryodhana exactly before the starting of the Kurukshetra War. I mean that I kidnap him exactly one day before the war.
And I put him into a lead cell in America. He cannot escape from there. Only food and water are supplied to him. By this way, I am preventing him from participating in the war.
Now, but the war does not stop due to the absence of Duryodhana. The Pandavas and Kauravas fight as usual. The climax of the war is also the same. Yes, the Pandavas win the war by killing all the Kauravas.
They think that Duryodhana has run away somewhere to a far-off place. Years roll on and after 36 years of rule, the Pandavas leave the kingdom to Parikshit and walk to the Himalayas. There, they die one by one.
So, this is the known climax and it has some more versions by other authors.
Now, after 36 years (and after the death of all the Pandavas who are known to Duryodhana), I am opening the lead cell of Duryodhana in America.
I have given him good food and nourishment.
After coming out of the cell, what will be the urge of Duryodhana?
Where will he go?
What will he do?
Will he have the same vengeance on Pandavas even after 36 years?
We will see a two-point analysis.

If yes: Duryodhana should have been longing to kill the Pandavas all the 36 years. So, his mind is full of an urge to kill them. Hence he could be taken as a person of good memory. Hence, he directly comes to India to search the Pandavas. But, he finds all of them dead already in the Himalayas. Now, his Samskaras shall settle down in a slow manner.  Here the Pandavas escape their Sanchita Karma by dying in a natural way. And, Duryodhana’s samskaras to kill the Pandavas is not getting satisfied. But, we should note that Duryodhana’s mind would have gone to a high and low between the time of his release from the lead cell and the time of the truth realisation. This is how the Samskaras play with the Karma of people. Hence Patanjali says “Yoga: Ciddah vriddhi Niroddah”

If No: Duryodhana would have forgotten about Pandavas in those 36 years. When he is released from the cell, he acts numb. He does not know where to go and whom to kill. Now, he is not preparing himself to kill Pandavas. So, Karma is not getting valid here. It is falling out of his memory just like when we rub the salt in the Emery paper. When you lose memory, you forget your enemies. Hence your urge to kill them also reduces and comes to zero.

So, this analysis finds two ways
1.    Either you stop your thought multiplication by “Yoga: Ciddah Vriddhi Niroddah”
2.    Or Just lose your memory of enemies so that, your Sanchita Karmas does not get right validations.

Hence we can say that

“Karma is like the salt in the paper of Emery
And it is valid only until people are in the wrapper of Memory”

---An Article by Bharath Dhanasekaran---

“Everyone can escape the Laws of Karma”

“Everyone can escape the Laws of Karma”

It is not a mandate that we will Reap all that we Sow,

Because we can even go before we reap what we had sown...

And at many places, someone will reap all that we had sown.

So, this is the Title of my next Article, “ Everyone can escape the Laws of Karma”



Aim:

The aim of this article is to explain that everyone can escape the laws of Karma. This is not a joke or fun, it has been already proved by many yogis in our country. That is the aim of Patanjali’s “Yoga Sutras”

Before going detail into the subject, first, we will see as of “What is Karma?”

Karma – means action (simply action)

So, people in our country believe that if we do a good deed, we will be rewarded with a good benefit. At the same time, if we do some bad deed, we may face all sorts of bad happenings in our life.

This is a simple way to explain the concept and hence people believe that “Nobody can escape the laws of Karma”.

But it is not so, there are many ways to explain the laws of Karma. Patanjali wrote his yoga sutras to prove the same. The book starts with entanglement and ends up with liberation.

To understand the concept with some more clarity, we need to know the types of Karma.

There are three types of Karma

1.       Sanchita Karma

2.       Prarabdha Karma

3.       Agami Karma

Sanchita Karma :

                The Sanchita Karma is the resultant of all our past actions. That means these karmas are waiting for a resolution from us. These are very mild, but strong because they will get converted into action in the near future.

Prarabdha Karma :

                The Prarabdha Karma is also a part of the Sanchita Karma. This Prarabdha karma is responsible for the form of our present body, and the same shall be experienced through the present body. (For example, if you have been born as a beautiful young lady, you would have done beautiful deeds in your past life)

Agami Karma :

                This is the resultant of present karma on the future. If you are doing an action now and have a fruit out of it. But after some days you forgot how to make a fruit. Now, you still try to make the same fruit with the remaining knowledge in your mind. Those Future actions are called as Agami Karma.

“ we are bored with the topics of Karma – aren’t we?”

Yes, because we see that sin leads to sin and a good deed reaps a good result.

But I said that “Everone can escape the laws of Karma – isn’t it?”

Let us see some practical and known examples to know how many people escaped the laws of Karma in the past.

1.       Gautama Buddha

He was born in the king’s family and had a beautiful body and a beautiful wife. This means that his ‘Prarabhda Karma’ was to be a King( Destined to be a King). Whereas he deleted all his Prarabhda Karma by becoming a monk and denying the position of a King. From that day till his death, he did not accept the fruits of his Prarabdha karma. Can we say that he had escaped the laws of Karma? – mmm...Yes, but he did not try to escape the laws of Karma. Whereas in the path of the search of the truth, he naturally escaped from his original prarabdha karma.



2.       Sri Ramana Maharishi

He was born as Venkataraman Iyer in the year 1879. His father expired in the year 1892. After some intense experiences with the fear of death, he exited Madurai and reached Tiruvannamalai in the year 1896. He remained there itself for the rest of his life. If he had not boarded the train to Tiruvannamalai, he would have been something else. Here also the same Escape of Prarabdha Karma has happened. But, we do not know, what would have been Ramana’s life, if he had not boarded that train?



3.       Jesus Christ

Here is an alternative analysis for Jesus Christ. Here, he has done good deeds throughout his lifetime. But he was rewarded with a merciless punishment. If his Prarabdha Karma and Sanchita Karma were giving the right results, he would not have been killed in such a way. Those people who wanted Jesus Christ to be dead were not able to withstand the presence of Jesus in their period of rule. So, Here I cannot say that Jesus has escaped his Prarabdha Karma, but I am sure that here too the laws of Karma did not happen the right way. Because, he had done a lot of good deeds, for which he met with a death sentence.

4.       Lord Krishna

  

And, how is that the Person who was responsible for the holy war of Mahabaratha got killed by a small hunter in a forest? Lord Krishna’s death should have been in a big way? Isn’t it? The Lord who was responsible for the huge volume of death – Is getting his death in a simple manner. Yes, he cheats people even in his death and laughs in an eternal manner.

Last but not least,

“The present-day Sannyasins and Aghoris in Kasi, Ujjain and other places in India”

We can see that the present aghoris and Sannyasins in Kasi are none other but men who had run away from their homes. They might have run away due to their own inconveniences with their family life. For many of them, it would have been their wives with whom they were uncomfortable to live with. But, after fifteen or twenty years of Sadhana as Sannyasins, would their wives be able to identify their faces or names at present?

Yes..., there you can assess that all the talks about Karma are just suitable only for some people. Most of the people have escaped the laws of Karma. I am talking not just in thousands, I can say that millions and millions of people have already escaped their Prarabhda karma and living some other lives.

Even the wives of those sannyasins would have gone for a second marriage. This is not a joke, but they have to live their life, so they choose an immediate solution. But our Sannyasins are happy and free from their torturing wives.

Hmm...! But I won’t say that Sannyasin is the only path to escape the laws of Karma. It is one of the ways.

Then you may ask me what are the other ways?

The answer is all in “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”.

There are 196 sutras in the book of Patanjali. For beginners, it will be difficult to go through all the 196 and understand the meaning and act to it upon realisation.

So, I would like to suggest my dear friends only one sutra with which you can do many wonders in this world.

That is the second sutra “Yoga: Ciddha Vriddhi Niroddah” 

Explanation: Many yogis have given the explanation for this sutra in their own ways.

Vivekananda says that” The process of stopping the ciddha from taking various forms is called as Yoga”. That means we need to stop the mind and take it to a tranquil state.

In a simpler way, we say that it is the process of stopping the multiplications of thoughts.

In our ordinary life, we have to move with many people for the purpose of our well being and professional development.

But, on a daily basis, we have lots of opinions created on the people with whom we are moving with.

Hence whenever we are exposed to the outer world and seeing a fellow human being, our thoughts get multiplied in each and every second in the present, based on our past experiences with them. But, this thought multiplication is not going to lead us to a successful life and well being.

Hence, the simple quote which we can say to ourselves is “Stop Thought multiplication” on a daily basis to ourselves (even if we know meditation or not – we can follow this simple process).

We can also say it to ourselves as many times as we can throughout the day, whenever we are free.

Hence by Stopping Thought Multiplication – Everyone can Escape the Laws of Karma (even if you know your karma or don’t know your karma).

Note:

                We are talking about one sutra, but there are many other sutras which can lead you to escape the karmic laws. Hence, for further reading please read the book of “Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”.

-----An Article by Bharath Dhanasekaran------ 

Accident at Iyyappan Temple Junction – Chengalpattu on 01-07-2018

                                   Accident at Iyyappan Temple Junction – Chengalpattu on 01-07-2018

The Ayyappan temple is located at the south-east corner of the Junction where the NH-32 Highway and the State highway SH 58 The Ayyappan temple is located at the south-east corner of the Junction where the NH-32 Highway and the State highway SH 58 meets at Chengalpattu.

                                    The Map indicates the location of the occurrence of the accident.

The junction is provided with an elevated flyover on the NH-32 to give a free traffic flow to the vehicles on the NH-32 which are not required to enter Chengalpattu or to move to Kanchipuram. The Elevated corridor stands by itself solving the junction traffic problems. But still, a deadly accident has occurred on 01-07-2018 at 12.30 p.m. in the afternoon at the vicinity of the junction.

Modus Operandi :
How did the accident occur?
The bus belonged to P.S.B. Polytechnic. The driver was trying to overtake a government bus. While they approached the flyover, the level of intensity of the competition increased. The driver has carelessly applied the brake while negotiating the downward gradient of the flyover. This has caused the bus to hit the side walls of the flyover at its landing portion. The driver lost control and allowed the bus to move the left side and hit the crash barrier of the embankment. The bus hit the crash barrier and opened it up and fell down through the embankment and landed itself below the embankment.
In this process, the bus also hit a person who was riding a bike on the road. The person got dead on the spot.

Four people got dead and 10 people were injured as a result of this accident.

Kallikuppam in Ambattur - Probable questions by Real Estate buyers

An Article on Kallikuppam

Kallikuppam is located in the North east zone of Ambattur. Puzhal lake is adjacent to the northern end of Kallikuppam.

Murugambedu Main road – Adjacent to Puzhal lake in Kallikuppam

The Adjacent Highway – NH 48 at an elevated level.

 The Northern parts of Kallikuppam are near to the Puzhal lake. There are some residential settlements very close to the lake’s periphery.
The recent inquiries for the purpose of flat purchase by customers include the aspect of safety of their property during flood times. Hence an oral inquiry was conducted among the present local residents of the Kallikuppam area regarding their past experiences during the heavy flood conditions.
The following are some of the vital findings
1.       Question: Was there an inflow from the Puzhal into the Kallikuppam residential area during the 2015 December floods?
Answer: No, there was not an inflow from the Puzhal Lake as Kallikuppam was at a higher elevation.
2.       Question: Was the flood level in the residential streets at a higher level?
Answer: Yes, the residential streets had a flood level up to the compound wall height of the local houses in Kallikuppam. But the reason was not the inflow from the Puzhal lake. The local people say that the water was not able to make its way to the lake as there were no proper drainage channels to the lake. Hence, there was an impact of the flood on certain localities, by damaging their household items, food supplies,etc.,

Puzhal Lake adjacent to the Murugambedu Main road

Murugambedu Main road

A Local Resident's feedback on Kallikuppam

Prabanjan Padaippulagam - Book Discussion Program at Sahitya Akademi

The Book Discussion program for the book "Prabanjan Padaippulagam" written by the Author Magaranthan got held at Sahitya Akademi on 14/06/2018 evening at 5.30 p.m.

The Book was appraised by Mr. Durai Seenisami who is a retired professor from Thanjavur Tamil University.

Mr. Durai Seenisami - Retired from Thanjavur Tamil University

Mr. Magaranthan - Author of Prabanjan Padaippulagam, Also the P.R.O. at the Puducherry Government

The discussion program appraised the book, which in turn is itself is an appreciation of some of the notable works of the prominent Tamil Writer Thiru. Prabanjan.

The function also had Thiru Azhagiya Singer of Virutcham Magazine and many prominent writers.

The Book got released through Sahitya Akademi. Mr.Magaranthan shared his experience of publishing his book through Sahitya Akademi. He also expressed his gratitude to Sahitya Akademi for publishing his work.

He also gave an information that the original manuscript was of length 600 pages. The Manuscript got edited and converted to a book of 250 pages.

Some of the other writers also spoke on their views towards Mr. Prabanjan. An authenticated information was that Author Prabanjan got recently honoured by the Tamil nadu government with a cash award of Rs.10 lakhs.

Hence, the authors expressed their happiness that he was given a right recognition.

My experiences @ the Event:

I had a good introduction with some of the writers. Following are the photographs of some of the memorable moments.

With Thiru Magaranthan - Author of the Book

With Thiru Durai Seenisami - Retd. Thanjavur Tamil University

with Thiru Azhagiya Singer and others

------Happy writing and Happy reading my dear friends ----- Bharath Dhanasekaran

Thirumullaivoyal – Easwaran Koil street in worst condition - A Challenge for Real Estate Buyers:

Thirumullaivoyal – Easwaran Koil street in worst condition -  A Challenge for Real Estate Buyers:

The following pictures shows the Easwaran Koil street of Thirumullaivoyal in Chennai.

We can see that the road is filled with broken pieces of hard stones. This gives an irritating experience to the people who pass through this route by their bikes and cars. This road is not maintained for more than 3 years.

The local users’ feedback says that the life of their vehicle tyres are reducing drastically. This road also increases the vehicle operating cost to the users.

The silence of the local bodies and authorities has to be broken in this case. Somebody should take necessary steps to lay a new pavement in good condition. The location map of the same road is shown below.

Thirumullaivoyal – Easwaran Koil Street

This bad road condition also makes a hasty feeling for the real estate buyers in this area as this is one of the entry street to the northern parts of Thirumullaivoyal. Hence many property seekers who inspect the sites of the Thirumullaivoyal properties reject the proposals on seeing this bad road condition. Hence the economics of this location is not able to grow. Concerned authorities are requested to improvise the approach roads as soon as possible so that, the economic growth happens in Thirumullaivoyal.