இன்று 28.01.2022 - தை வெள்ளிக்கிழமை - கேட்டை நக்ஷத்திரம், ஏகாதசி !
இந்தியாவில் பல்வேறு மாநிலங்களில் பணிபுரியும் ஐ.ஏ.எஸ், ஐ.பி.எஸ் உள்ளிட்ட ஆட்சிப் பணி அதிகாரிகள், இந்திய அரசின் வேண்டுகோளுக்கு ஏற்ப மத்தியப் பணிகளுக்குச் செல்வது வழக்கம். இவ்வாறு உள்ள நடைமுறையை மாற்றி 1954 ஆம் ஆண்டு ஆட்சிப் பணி விதி 6ல் புதிய திருத்தம் ஒன்றை மத்திய அரசு கொண்டு வரவுள்ளது. . இது குறித்து சிலர் சர்ச்சை செய்து வருகின்றனர்.
"பணி" என்ற பெயர்ச்சொல்லுக்கு : பாம்பு, வேலை, சேவை, செயல், தொழில், தொண்டு, நுகர்பொருள், அணிகலன், வேலைப்பாடு, கட்டளை, என பல்வேறு அர்த்தங்கள் உண்டு. "பணி" என்ற வினைச்சொல்லுக்கு - பணிதல், எதிர்ப்புத் தெரிவிக்காமல் சொன்னவாறு நடத்தல் என பொருள். பணிந்தால், பிணி போகும் !! ஸ்வாமி நம்மாழ்வார் நமக்கு அளித்துள்ள அற்புத கோட்பாடு!
We have seen remarkable changes happening in one scene in movies – within a song, child would turn adult, hero and take revenge on those who did bad ! - something akin happened in life .. Jan & Feb of 2020 were normal, though we were reading some news of a new virus affecting people in China – none imagined that it would turn a global disease and threaten humanity. For the past 2 years, humanity has lived in constant fear, fear of uncertain future !! – we are afraid of affliction, new variants and .. .. .. fear !!
Statistically, Covid is playing havoc globally. Confirmed cases of COVID-19 have passed 362.5 million globally, according to Johns Hopkins University. The number of confirmed deaths has now passed 5.62 million. More than 9.98 billion vaccination doses have been administered globally, according to Our World in Data. Moderna has announced a mid-stage study to test a booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine specifically designed to target the Omicron variant. The news comes a day after Pfizer and BioNTech announced a trial of their own Omicron-specific jab.
Numerous countries around Europe have reported record daily COVID-19 cases. Germany crossed the 200,000 mark for the first time, with 203,136 confirmed infections in the previous 24 hours. This represents 69,600 more cases than the same day a week before. Countries across Eastern Europe also set records, with Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania all reporting their highest confirmed COVID-19 cases of the pandemic on Wednesday.
Today read an article in National Geographic on how most powerful Xrays revealed Corona damage to body .. .. When Paul Tafforeau saw his first experimental scans of a COVID-19 victim’s lung, he thought he had failed. A paleontologist by training, Tafforeau had been laboring with a team strewn across Europe for months to turn a particle accelerator in the French Alps into a revolutionary medical scanning tool. It was the end of May 2020, and scientists were anxious for a better view of the ways human organs were being ravaged by COVID-19. Tafforeau had been tasked with developing a technique that could make use of the powerful x-rays generated at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France. He’d pushed boundaries on high-resolution x-rays of rock-hard fossils and desiccated mummies as an ESRF staff scientist. Now, he was dismayed by a lump of soft, squishy tissue. But when his colleagues caught their first glimpse of the lung scans, they felt something else: awe.
The images presented them with richer detail than any medical CT scan they’d seen before, allowing them to bridge a stubborn gap in how scientists and doctors can visualize—and make sense of—human organs. Ackermann and Jonigk suspected that SARS-CoV-2 was somehow attacking the lungs’ blood vessels. As the disease spread through Germany in March 2020, the duo began conducting autopsies of COVID-19 victims. They soon tested their blood-vessel hypothesis by injecting tissue samples with resin and then dissolving the tissues in acid, which left behind faithful casts of the original vasculature. “If you go through the human body and you take all the blood vessels in one line, you come up with [60,000] to 70,000 miles, double the distance around the Equator,” says Ackermann, who is also a pathologist at Wuppertal, Germany’s HELIO Clinics. If just one percent of these blood vessels gets attacked by a virus, he adds, the blood’s flow and ability to absorb oxygen can be impaired, with potentially devastating consequences across entire organs.
Jonigk and Ackermann needed the unprecedented: a series of x-rays, all done on the same organ, that would let researchers zoom into portions of the organ down to the cellular scale. The team published its first full description of the HiP-CT method in November 2021, and the researchers also have published a detailed look at how COVID-19 affects certain kinds of blood circulation in the lungs. The scans also yielded an unanticipated bonus: helping the researchers convince friends and relatives to get vaccinated. In severe COVID-19 cases, many of the lungs’ blood vessels look dilated and bloated, and at smaller scales, abnormal bundles of tiny blood vessels form.
Back home, the Home ministry extended validity of its order for compliance of evidence-based Covid containment measures until February 28, home secretary Ajay Bhalla on Thursday wrote to all the state and UT administrations saying that the current positivity rate of over 10% in 407 districts across 34 states and UTs was a matter of concern and required exercise of caution and vigilance. Advising all the states and UTs to continue taking all precautions and not let the guard down, the Ministry asked the local or district administration should continue to take prompt and appropriate containment measures.
The TN Govt notification of 27.1.2022 has done away with most stringent guidelines, Multiplex / cinema theatres can have 50% of their capacity .. .. sports and other activities at indoor auditoriums can happen with 50% of capacity; so also entertainment and amusement parks - for marriages only 100 persons are allowed !
Schools for 1st to 12th standard are set to open from 1st of Feb 2022 – the night time curfew presently vogue is removed effective 28.1.22; no lockdown on Sunday 30.1.2022 – other than the stated restrictions, rest are removed and that infers that there would be no restriction in Temples. Would that pave way for Thiruveethi purappadu remains to be seen.
பணி
நெஞ்சே, நாளும் பரம பரம்பரனை,
பிணி
ஒன்றும் சாரா, பிறவி கெடுத்து ஆளும்
மணி
நின்ற சோதி, மதுசூதன், என் அம்மான்,
அணி நின்ற செம்பொன் அடல் ஆழியானே.
நீலமணிபோன்ற சுடர்வீசும் எம்பெருமான், மதுசூதனன், என் அம்மான், அழகிய, சிவந்த பொன் போன்ற, போர் ஆற்றல் மிகுந்த சக்ராயுதத்தை ஏந்திய பெருமானை வணங்கினால் நோய்கள் வாராது, பிறவித்துயரத்தைக் கெடுத்து அருள்வான் அவன், ஆகவே, நெஞ்சே, உயர்ந்த பரம்பரனாகிய எம்பெருமானைத் தினந்தோறும் பணிவாயாக.
Today being Ekadasi, there would have been periya mada veethi
purappadu – hopefully, sooner we would be able to have darshan of Emperuman
purappadu at Thiruvallikkeni and other
divyadesams. Reminiscing the glorious
past and praying Emperuman that situation turns normal sooner, here are some
photos of Thai Ekadasi purappadu of Sri Parthasarathi Perumal at
Thiruvallikkeni divyadesam in Feb 2018.
Nice write up Swami. Curtain raised.
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B Venkatakrishnan
ThiruvallikkeNi
Very Nice.
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