Thyagaraja Aradhana

Withdrawal of one's attention from five devices of the human system, leads one to Shanthi.

And ferries listeners, to some sense of stillness - the objective of all good music.

'"No shanthi, no well being," sings Telugu composer Thyagaraja.

And has chosen the melodic scale of Saama, for his piece 'Shantamu leka Sowkhyamu ledu.'

- Shri Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Kanchi

Daanam - gifts -

James Prinsep, archaeologist, philologist and official of the East India Company, working with Alexander Cunningham is credited to have completely deciphered the Brahmi script.

James analysed a large number of donatory inscriptions in Sanchi, and noticed that most of them ended with the same two Brahmi characters.

Princep took them as Daanam - gifts -  which allowed him to complete the puzzle, and fully decipher the script.

- Wikipedia - Brahmi Script - Decipherment

Agrahaayana

Dharma is not about worship of a deity, scripture or a person.

Dharma is a thirsting to know.

An individual without thirst for the unknown, lives quite like any animal - within 4 parameters of food, sleep, mating and fear. 

 An ignorant person is contended like a pig. And choice is, to live like a  well nourished pig, or be aflame with discontent.

A discontented human's thirst, to look beyond the known, is called Dharma.

- Wichar Chandrodaya - episode 293

gita jayanti

Lean over, peer into depths of a deep well, to catch a glimpse - is knowledge.


To stand and behold, an expansive waterfront - is knowing.

Battlefield Counsel, Chapter 2 Verse 46

flame of discontent - Devutthana ekadashi

Awakening of intelligence means, having an insight into a human issue.
And insight means observing what is, with a mind that is completely free - and therefore empty.
That emptiness gives you insight.
That insight awakens this intelligence.

Or, having this intelligence, there is this insight - it works both ways.

Most of us, are discontented.
And that very flame of discontent, becomes a great passion.
And that passion is this intelligence.

- Awakening Of  Intelligence And What Is  
Speaking Tree    June 22, 2017    Times Of India

Lakshmi emanates

Sajjana sadhu pujaya welagey

Majjige olagina benney anthe

Bhagyada Lakshmi Baaramma


As butter from churn of buttermilk

You emanate, O fortuitous Lakshmi

When the subdued, distill you in worship

- Purandara Dasa

Turn over in slumber

A religion that is now asserting itself all over the world, is about here, now, the present. There is nowhere to go. And no other time to live - only here and now.

Life has to become very intense in this moment. Happiness means intensity, tremendous depth. Such intensity, that there is no need for future. Then, there is a turning,  a transformation.

The very quality of time changes for you - it becomes eternal.

- Why be hopeful?  - Osho  
The Speaking Tree      Bengaluru,     August 26, 2018.