Aani Shuklapaksha Ekadasi 2022 - Life ? - what is Roe V. Wade that has shaken US ??

What is life ?  - how to make a living ?? – ever wondered on these ? – is there life outside our Planet earth ??  

The United States Supreme Court on Friday (June 24) overturned by a 6-3 majority ‘Roe v. Wade’, the court’s landmark 1973 judgment – interested in knowing, what was that about !!  

Often we hear about – ‘work-life balance’. Striking the perfect work-life balance is a daunting task for many of us, but it seems residents of Oslo have found the solution. According to a recent survey by software company Kisi, the capital of Norway is the best city in the world for a healthy work-life balance. The city clinched the very top spot from its second-place ranking last year. The list included 100 cities around the world where residents can achieve a healthy work-life balance. The cities on the list were ranked on multiple factors including work intensity, institutional support, legislation, and livability, in the current context of rampant inflation and fallout from the pandemic and Russia-Ukraine War. Under work intensity, factors like remote jobs, overworked population, minimum vacations offered days, vacations taken days, unemployment, multiple jobholders, inflation, and paid parental leave days were also considered.  

Life, is the  condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms.  By some definition, ‘Living species’ are the one that are not  extinct.  

Life is a characteristic that distinguishes physical entities that have biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from those that do not, either because such functions have ceased (they have died) or because they never had such functions and are classified as inanimate.  Biology is the science that studies life.  

More than 15 months after landing in Jezero Crater on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover has finally begun its hunt for ancient life in earnest. On 28 May, Perseverance ground a 5-centimetre-wide circular patch into a rock at the base of what was once a river delta in the crater. This delta formed billions of years ago, when a long-vanished river deposited layers of sediment into Jezero, and it is the main reason that NASA sent the rover there. On Earth, river sediment is usually teeming with life. Way back in Aug 1996, reporters, photographers and television camera operators surged into NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C. The crowd focused not on the row of seated scientists in NASA’s auditorium but on a small, clear plastic box on the table in front of them. Inside the box was a velvet pillow, and nestled on it like a crown jewel was a rock—from Mars. The scientists announced that they’d found signs of life inside the meteorite.  The rock, the researchers explained, had formed 4.5 billion years ago on Mars, where it remained until 16 million years ago, when it was launched into space, probably by the impact of an asteroid.  

Despite Schopf’s note of skepticism, the NASA announcement was trumpeted worldwide. “Mars lived, rock shows Meteorite holds evidence of life on another world,” said the New York Times. “Fossil from the red planet may prove that we are not alone,” declared The Independent of London.   If all goes as planned, a new generation of rovers will arrive on Mars within the next decade. These missions will incorporate cutting-edge biotechnology designed to detect individual molecules made by Martian organisms, either living or long dead.  

Moving away from life in other planets, back in Mother Earth, the  United States Supreme Court on Friday (June 24) overturned by a 6-3 majority ‘Roe v. Wade’, the court’s landmark 1973 judgment that made abortion a constitutional right. The decision — an early draft of which was scooped by ‘Politico’ on May 3 — will transform life for women in America. Near total bans on abortion will come into effect in about half of the country’s states.  The case is sometimes referred to simply as “Roe”, the listed name of the 22-year-old plaintiff, Norma McCorvey. ‘Wade’ was the defendant Henry Wade, the Dallas County (Texas) district attorney at the time. The US Supreme Court on Friday ended the right to abortion in a seismic ruling that shreds half a century of constitutional protections on one of the most divisive and bitterly fought issues in American political life. "The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives," the court said. In the majority opinion, Justice Samuel Alito said "abortion presents a profound moral issue on which Americans hold sharply conflicting views.  The ruling will likely set into motion a cavalcade of new laws in roughly half of the 50 US states that will severely restrict or outright ban and criminalize abortions, forcing women to travel long distances to states that still permit the procedure !!  

ஸ்ரீவைணவன் எப்படி வாழ வேண்டும் ? - உய்வதற்கான வழி யாது ?? - தமிழ் தலைவன் பேயாழ்வாரின் அமுத வரிகளில் மூன்றாம் திருவந்தாதி பாடல் இங்கே  : 

வாழும் வகையறிந்தேன் மைபோல் நெடுவரைவாய்,

தாழும் அருவிபோல் தார்கிடப்ப, – சூழும்

திருமா மணிவண்ணன் செங்கண்மால், எங்கள்

பெருமான் அடிசேரப் பெற்று.  - (மூன்றாந் திருவந்தாதி) 

செந்திறமான ரத்னங்களால் அமைக்கப்பட்ட ஹாரங்கள், எம்பெருமானுடைய கரிய திருமேனியிலே   சாத்தப்பட்டிருப்பதானது அஞ்சனகிரியிலே அருவிகள் தாழ விழிந்தாற்போலே  இருக்கின்றனவாம்.  அற்புதமான திருமலையிலே,  இருபக்கமும் தாழ விழிந்து பாய்கின்ற  அருவிபோலே, சாற்றப்பட்டு இருக்கும் மணமிக்க மாலைகளால் ஈர்க்கப்பட்டு, ஒருக்ஷணமும் விட்டுப்பிரியாமல் வளைத்துக் கொண்டிருக்கிற பெரியபிராட்டியை உடையவனும், நீலமணிபோன்ற நிறத்தையுடையவனும்,  செந்தாமரை போன்ற திருக்கண்களையுடைய பெரியோனுமான எங்கள் பெருமான் திருவடிகளை அடையப்பெற்றதே, தமக்கு   உஜ்ஜீவிக்கும் வழி  என தெரிந்தவனானேன் என்றுரைக்கின்றார் நம் பேயாழ்வார். . 

அழகான மலர்மாலைகள், நீளமேகம், துரா சந்திர பதக்கங்கள், திருமார்விலே லக்ஷ்மி பதக்கங்கள், காசுமாலை, மயிற்பீலி போன்ற பற்பல திருவாபரணங்களுடன் ஸ்ரீபார்த்தசாரதி பெருமாள் அற்புத சேவை சாதித்தார்.  கருங்கண் தோகை மயிற்பீலி அணிந்த ஆயர் பெருமான் -  ஸ்ரீபார்த்தசாரதி இன்று (24.6.2022)  ஆனி மாச கிருஷ்ண பக்ஷ ஏகாதசி புறப்பாட்டில் சேவை !  

adiyen Srinivasadhasan
Mamandur veeravalli Srinivasan Sampathkumar
24^th    June 2022.   

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