My Story In Dinamalar - Vaaramalar

Dear varalotty sir,
thanks a lot for explaining the two types of saranagathi and pointing ou which is right. I haven't known this before. thanks a lot...

sir, i learnt that you are varalotti rangaswamy and now it comes to my mind that your name is very familiar to me...and i have ready your works already...

Oh great! and i am very happy to get this opportunity to talk to you through indusladies site.

regards,
geeth

Dear Sir,
Really a touching story. Just like my husband always says " Only pray to him.,Pay obesance to Him.Dont place demands before Him. He who loves all His creations gives what is due to you." But he is always wary of so called godmen or gurujis.
Nowadays how does one identify a real Guru? Only time , he says, he prostrated before a swamigal was on spontaniety at a road side when he happened to see Paramacharya passing by. He is still wondering what made him do that. Though he has been to many ashrams he says he does not feel godliness there, though he appreciates some of the services rendered by them. Sometimes he is asking himself whether he is guilty of harbouring such thoughts.
Lakshmi

Dear Aishwarya,
Nice to hear about your determination to cut down weight. It's a good move and I could see that you are very focussed. Once you are successful in your mission, I'll learn the techniques from you. Thanks for not trying to guess my weight, ha ha ha.

I am absolutely against even associating a trace of fear with God. It is ok for a three year old to believe "umachi kanna kuthirum" But if someone who is 30 believes that, then he needs professional help.

And having seen, felt and observed these two emotions, love and fear, I am now convinced they are not not different emotions, but the same but only the scale varies. At the lowest level it is pure fear. As it climbs slowly the evolutionary ladder, love comes in gradually and at the highest level it is the purest love; there is no scope for fear at all. We are somewhere in between. When love is more than the fear we have a happy day. When it is the other way round, we have a troubled or sad day.

Next time when I want to go to Thirupathi, I know who should I go with. To be with God's favoured child while waiting for His Dharshan, is in itself half the worship.

For us God is more like the computer service engineer, to be called when the computer called our life goes haywire. Otherwise God has no business to be invited.
If God is loving us in spite of this cheap mentality of us, how loving should He be?
And do we deserve His love? definitely not."

I am happy you liked the quote. In another angle, we use God as an inverter. When we have the regular power, meaning, when our life goes well, we don't give a damn to the inverter. But the power is not there, then and only then, we lean heavily on the Inverter, I mean God.
In another angle that is true also. The other day we lost power in the midst of the night. We were blissfully unaware of the fact because our Inverter had silently and seamlessly taken over. But with God, all the power, regular, inverter, standby and battery power, everything is just a miniscule reflection of His power and glory.
Sorry for boring you with a long post. But this is a subject where I cannot stop writing.

regards,

Dear Geeth,
happy to know that you liked that explanation about sharanagathi.

sir, i learnt that you are varalotti rangaswamy and now it comes to my mind that your name is very familiar to me...and i have ready your works already...

Oh great! and i am very happy to get this opportunity to talk to you through indusladies site.

These statements made me very happy and for a moment I also started believing that I am popular. ha ha ha.
Honestly, geeth, my happiness in talking to you is no less.
regards,

Dear Lakshmi,
(You can call me sridhar. No need for sir or madam, which will make the discussion formal)
God knows our wants, needs, demands, and desires, ambitions and even greed. Better still She knows what to give, when to give and even what not to give and when not to.
Whatever I have been writing here on God and prayer I have written in the form of a book which is waiting for its time to come out. And the essence of all these things I wrote in two poems:

1) My Dear GFs, Please Forgive Me! I Lied!

2) my love and hers

About Swamijis I don't feel like prostrating before any of them. And these are all pure personal beliefs. Some are fortunate enough to get a personal guru like the hero Raghavan in the story. But many just go behind fakes and lose themselves. If your husband does not feel like that then let him not prostrate before any one.
If somebody does a service then let's appreciate them. If possible, help them. But prostration, let it be confined to God, our parents and elderly figures in the family whom we adore and respect.

thanks for the fb, lakshmi.
regards,

Dear Sridhar,


Wheneveri pray to god i will be asking something to him. After reading your story i understood that god knows what to give and when to give-----so now i am praying god but not asking anything. Thankyou for that (enlightment?)

Dear Padma,
thanks.
When we have a problem or a pain, or some discomfort, we can surely tell God. Suppose we have a close friend. Don't we share everything with her?
Let's say you have a very rich friend but who loves you with all her heart. Will you be asking money from her. Will that not be the end of friendship?
But with God there is no such risk, but always asking for something only demeans the relationship.
I am happy that the story influenced you.
thanks for the post once again.
regards,

Originally Posted by padmaramani

Dear Sridhar,


Wheneveri pray to god i will be asking something to him. After reading your story i understood that god knows what to give and when to give-----so now i am praying god but not asking anything. Thankyou for that (enlightment?)

dear sridhar sir,
what u have said is absolutely right...we should submit and surrender without any expectations....without banking on his assurances..."naa paleshu..."
the charama slokam is of course the essence of all bakthi,all faith...all that one needs to know...
thanks for the lovely paasuram sir...
When we offer our hearts in surrender to Him, He showers his love ,which is more than that of a mother, as Thirumangai alwar says "Petrathaayinum Aayina seyyum..."..."naarayana enum naamam"....

Originally Posted by varalotti

in the 18th chapter of Gita. The Lord says, "sarva dharmaan paridhyadyaja maam eka sharanam vraja."
In the next line he gives an assurance that he will liberate us from all our sins and asks not to grieve. (Aham thva sarva paaphebyo mokshayishyami maa shuchaha)
But we should go beyond this too, sowparnika. Even if God were not to give such assurance, even if we know for sure, that taking refuge in him, our sufferings and sorrows would remain the same, even then we should take refuge in Him? Do we have any other option in this?
Even if God refuses what we need, even if we refuses to give us the air to breathe or the food to eat, even then our devotion should not waver a bit.

regards,

dear sowparnika,
thanks for the reply post and thanks again for quoting Thirumangai Azhwar.
This charama slokam is from Mahabaratham. There is another from Ramayanam. Vibeeshanan, the brother of Ramas enemy is asking for refuge. Rama's war generals all condemn V and advise him not to accept him. The statement made my Rama then is again a powerful charama slokam.
sakrutheva prapannaya thavaasmithi cha yaachathe
abhayam sarva budheybo dhadami ethad vratham mama

The great Lord who is nothing but Love himself says,
Whosover comes to me and begs, 'I am yours" I shall protect him from all. That is my vow. My vratham.

regards,

Originally Posted by sowparnika

dear sridhar sir,
what u have said is absolutely right...we should submit and surrender without any expectations....without banking on his assurances..."naa paleshu..."
the charama slokam is of course the essence of all bakthi,all faith...all that one needs to know...
thanks for the lovely paasuram sir...
When we offer our hearts in surrender to Him, He showers his love ,which is more than that of a mother, as Thirumangai alwar says "Petrathaayinum Aayina seyyum..."..."naarayana enum naamam"....

thanks sir for this slokam...
though familiar with the Vibeeshana sharanagati story, never knew the slokam...thanks for sharing this...really a very powerful one...simply gives a protective feeling even as you say it...

Originally Posted by varalotti

dear sowparnika,
thanks for the reply post and thanks again for quoting Thirumangai Azhwar.
This charama slokam is from Mahabaratham. There is another from Ramayanam. Vibeeshanan, the brother of Ramas enemy is asking for refuge. Rama's war generals all condemn V and advise him not to accept him. The statement made my Rama then is again a powerful charama slokam.
sakrutheva prapannaya thavaasmithi cha yaachathe
abhayam sarva budheybo dhadami ethad vratham mama

The great Lord who is nothing but Love himself says,
Whosover comes to me and begs, 'I am yours" I shall protect him from all. That is my vow. My vratham.

regards,