Karthigai Hastham 2024 - Varadhar purappadu

Who created this Universe ? – how did humans evolve ? – what is good for them, what is bad ?  -  how is life energized ???? Do you know that territories are sold & bought too ??

 

Back in 1867   Alaska was sold by the Russian Empire to the United States for a sum of $7.2 million.  On May 15 of that year, the United States Senate ratified a bilateral treaty and American sovereignty became legally effective across the territory on October 18.  Alaska, now   is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America. Part of the Western United States region, it is one of the two non-contiguous U.S. states, alongside Hawaii. Alaska is also considered to be the northernmost, westernmost, and easternmost (the Aleutian Islands cross the 180th meridian into the eastern hemisphere) state in the United States.   

Indigenous people have lived in Alaska for thousands of years, and it is widely believed that the region served as the entry point for the initial settlement of North America by way of the Bering land bridge. The Russian Empire was the first to actively colonize the area beginning in the 18th century, eventually establishing Russian America, which spanned most of the current state and promoted and maintained a native Alaskan Creole population. The area went through several administrative changes before becoming organized as a territory in 1912 & was admitted as the 49th state of the U.S. on January 3, 1959.  

Long long ago, even before the days of the animals & people, the world was only a great ocean wherein was no land nor any living thing except a great Bird. The Bird, after a long, long time, flew down to the surface of the water and dipped his great black wings into the flood. The earth arose out of the waters. So began the creation.  !!!!  

In another era, there was the time, when there were no people on earth plain. The first man for four days lay coiled up in the pod of the beach pea. On the fifth day he stretched out his feet and burst the pod. He fell to the ground and when he stood up he was a full-grown man. Man looked all around him and then at himself. He moved his hands and arms, his neck and legs. When he looked back he saw, still hanging to the vine, the pod of the beach pea, with a hole in the lower end out of which he had dropped. When he looked about him again, he saw that he was getting farther from his starting place. The ground seemed to move up and down under his feet, and it was very soft. After a while he had a strange feeling in his stomach, so he stooped down to drink some water from a small pool at his feet. Then he felt better.   

When Man looked up again he saw coming toward him, with a fluttering motion, something dark. He watched the dark thing until it stopped just in front of him. It was Raven.  Raven began to create the animals. Raven said one day to Man, “ You are lonely by yourself. I will make you a companion.” He went to some white clay at a spot distant from the clay of which he had made animals, and made of the clay a figure al most like Man. Raven kept looking at Man while he shaped the figure. Then he took fine water grass from the creek and fastened it on the back of the head for hair. When the clay was shaped, Raven drew down his beak-mask and waved his wings over it. The clay became a beautiful girl. The girl was white and fair because Raven let the clay dry entirely before he waved his wings over it. Raven took the girl to Man. “There is a companion for you,” he said.  

Now in the days of the first people on the earth plain, there were no mountains far or near. No rain ever fell and there were no winds. The sun shone always very brightly. Then Raven showed the first people on the earth plain how to sleep warmly in the dry moss when they were tired. Raven himself drew down his beak-mask and went to sleep like a bird. 

Every human having learnt some modern Science would question such myths but what we have learnt and what we call as knowledge too, may become redundant with fresh Scientific findings !  The above ‘in colour’  is extracted from a 1911 book – ‘Myths and legends of Alaska’ edited by Katharine Berry Judson.  Don’t let negative thoughts kill you and don’t dwell much on such myths – our theology is different,  we live worshipping supreme Lord Sriman Narayana.

 

தமிழ் தலைவன் என்ற புகழ் பெற்ற ஸ்ரீபேயாழ்வார் நமக்கு உரைக்கும் பாசுரம்.  ஏ, உலகத்தார்களே !  .. ..   ‘எது நல்லது, எது தீயது‘ என சஞ்சலத்துடன் விவாதித்துக்கொண்டே  வாழ்க்கையை வீணாக்காதீர் !!  எம்பெருமானிடத்தில் ஈடுபடுவது நன்று !  ஸம்ஸாரத்தில் ஆசை கொண்டிருப்பது தீது' என அறிந்து எம்பெருமானின் தாள் பணியுங்கொள் என உரைக்கின்றார் பேயாழ்வார்.  இதோ இங்கே மூன்றாம் திருவந்தாதியில் இருந்து ஒரு பாசுரம் : 

அதுநன்று  இதுதீதென்று   அய்யப்படாதே,

மதுநின்ற தண்டுழாய் மார்வன், - பொதுநின்ற

பொன்னங்கழலே தொழுமின், முழுவினைகள்

முன்னங் கழலும் முடிந்து.  

அது நல்லதோ? இது கெட்டதோ? - எது சரியானது, என சந்தேகத்துடன் விவாதங்கள் செய்து, மனத் தெளிவு இல்லமால், கவலைப்படுவதை நிறுத்திவிட்டு,  தேன்நிறைந்த தண்டுழாய் மாலையைத் திருமார்பிலணிந்த  எம்பிரான் ஸ்ரீமந்நாரணனின் ஸர்வஜந ஸாதாரணமான விரும்பத்தக்க அழகிய திருவடிகளையே  வணங்குவீராக !  அப்படி வணங்குபவர்க்கு,  எம்பெருமானின், திருப்பாத கமலங்களை நினைத்த க்ஷணமே, முழு வினைகளும், செய்த பல பாவங்களும், உருமாய்ந்து  ஒடி சென்று நம்மை விட்டு அகலும்.  

இன்று 26.11.2024 கார்த்திகை ஹஸ்தம் .. .. ..  .     இங்கே  திருவல்லிக்கேணியில் ஸ்ரீவரதராஜர் சிறிய மாட வீதி புறப்பாடு கண்டருளிய படங்கள் சில. அருளிச்செயல் கோஷ்டி மட்டும் 2016 வருஷத்தியது. 

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