Another Love Story For You, This Time With A Happy Ending!

Dear Venonimiss,

Thanks for the hello, for the visit and for the fb. But I do know you from your other posts. Welcome to my forum.

You have one of the cutest user IDs in IL. I will be thankful if you can explain a bit about it and its link to your real name.

And I loved your tag line very much - to scream is many times better than being silent. Very relevant for these days. A basic lesson in Assertiveness Training.

- Humorous, Wonderful and so True!

thanks.

You have actually put the exact dilemma in my heart about GOD/PRAYERS/VRATHAS etc in words here. That’s the reason I am a rebel and have been like this for a while now. I am not an atheist though. I am devotee - lets say a free spirited devotee who talks with GOD what ever, when ever and whereever I want to. Though I practice the core values of Hinduism, I do it in my own ways. Hope God considers me one among his numerous special devotees J

Anyway, I don’t want to write about myself here. I wanted to compliment you for your wonderful writing and let you know that I am looking forward to read more.

To God every one of us, every human being,every animal, including the lice in our heads, is a special devotee. While we may require the prayers, vrathas as a kind of self-imposed discipline, they do not have absolutely any place in our relationship to God. Why should formality enter into a relationship of pure love? I am fully with you on this. I have been branded a blasphemer, an agnostic or even an atheist at times. But to me God is nothing but love. The purest, softest form of self-less love.


Thanks for the nice words you have about my writing.
love,

Dear Kamla,
When I start writing a post or a reply to fb, so many things overflow in my mind that many times I do not have any control over the length of the post. On many instances I had given a two page reply to a three-line fb. So if this reply is long, please bear with me. And yes please do read every line of it.

Since the story concerns Ramanuja, two statements are equally true. It's a period story. And it's a story. Period. I have read this story at least a hundred times and have told it two hundred times. Still it has not lost its novelty. And for saints like Ramanuja, their life is their first message. And they way they lived and the incidents that happened in their lives are holier than the holiest texts.

Kamla, I know very well, we both think on the same lines as far as relationship with God is concerned. Our religion is far removed from the flower-throwing and camphor-showing religion, though we are not averse to the acts themselves. You remember our exchange in the thread what to pray for? While that has become a book which my editor is crazy about, it is yet to see the light of the day.Only now there is a positive indication that the book will be out before Jan 2009, the next book fair at Chennai.

Yes, I do remember about the small exchange we had in private and how we both rejoiced at the 'coincidence' of this post. I recently read a book Curious Lives by Richard Bach. By the way ILItes, if you are doing any thing very important.... well then, throw it away, let the whole world can wait, go buy that book and start reading it. Right now! Please don't tell me later that I did n't warn you.
In one section of the book the author with his innate spiritual depth explains how the guardian angels who are protecting us 24 by 7, work overtime to create an incident which we can conveniently brush away as co-incidence. One chapter is about writing and writers. It looked as if Bach was sitting by my side holding my hand and telling me what I should do at this point in life.

Kamla, sorry for being mushy; if I could write a book like that before I die... let's see what SHE has in store for me.

This love story is going to have a happy ending; not just ordinary happiness, but the one that surpasses all human understanding. And not only this one, Kamla, my next serial in IL will be a happy-go-lucky love story. Of course there will be knots, there will be problems - but they would be nowhere near SHE or HE.

Can't wait for the next Wednesday....

I also can't. But stories like these are not of the fast food variety; they need to be chewed slowly and methodically in order to enjoy them, to digest them. So we'll have to put up with the waiting. Stay tuned.
love,

Dear Usha,
That's the beauty of God. If only you ask for more love SHE will give you everything you need and everything you want. This can be the case especially when you pray for others.
You know many times I have walked to the Nehru Aalalasundara Vinayakar Temple (Will You Walk With Me Series). Now this temple is famous for its
New Vehicle Puja (Like the Manakkula Vinayagar Koil in Pondicherry) Whenever I see a new vehicle standing near the temple with garland and all, ready for the puja, I used to utter a silent prayer for the owner. And one day it struck me, whether I am right in praying for an unknown person. He could be a bad guy. He could be evil. I was in a dilemma. I could not leave my habit of praying for the unknown owner, one of the very few good deeds in my life.

I placed the problem on His Lotus Feet and started walking back. Then it hit me like a hurricane. Why should I pray for his prosperity, which I don't know whether it will be good or bad. Why can't I pray that his mind be filled more love, more compassion, more understanding.. In that case even if he is Duryodhana or Ravana, I won't be siding the wrong.

From then on whenever anyone asks to pray for him or her, my first prayer is that the person should be blessed with more love.
Sorry, Usha, I am in a mood to go on writing today. Hence the long response.
love,

bonkbonk this is wat you have done to me now.... Im more confused ....Enaku irukirathu konajm brain.. athvum ippa confuse aadichi sir.....
I always agree service to mankind is service to god.... But ithu ellam namam satisfactionkaga thane pannurom... ( hmm onnum puriyala ..so ulara arambichiten ..... i hope it takes many years to attain enough maturity and understand the writings of great pople like you....)

Don't worry about the confusion, Brindha. You are right, we do it for our satisfaction. But what happens over a period of time? Mechanically repeating some slokas or some ceremonious acts like showing camphor or throwing flowers, we take our mind off these activities. The body repeats these activities while the mind thinks about the saree we saw in the shop the previous day, the fight we had picked with our mil a week ago.
Now tell me Brindha, does a person in love, ever do anything mindlessly? Does he repeat his lover's name without applying his mind to it? That's what I wanted to convey.

Hmm Now coming to the LOVE story..

Unique names.. Villi dasan... heard about bharathidasan,kannadasan,haridasan,kaalidasan..... .Villidasan.... please can you tell the meaning of name Villidasan sir... Ponnachi... Lovely name....Started my imagination.... Always Girls with Big Beautiful eyes are Very Gorgeous....

The full name is Pillai Uranga Villidasan. These are good Tamil names given to children in those days. The next part of the story will come sooner than you expect it.
Stay tuned, Brindha. We'll continue the discussion we started here in the next episode.
Love,

Dear Lalitha,

I had to stop the story at that point because that is where we need to mull over the story, chew every incident and every word before we go forward.
I am happy to know that you know the story and I bow to your kindness of not spilling the beans. I love this kind of "build-up" and "suspense" and my only aim is that this story should be known to as many people as possible.

idhu dhan sema nethi adi..........bonkaadi poideyen naan abba enna strong words........ idha ennodu dhkku kattaporein. My thoughts are like this only but it is always the other round with my dear ones. Maybe I cannot express so strongly like you hence I will show this to all............romba romba correct neega sonnadhu

I also can't express so strongly to my dear ones who believe in formal worship. But with my GFs I didn't want to hide anything from them. I didn't deliberately plan these words. When some strong thoughts stay in your mind for a long time, they tend to come out with great force and then thoughts find the correct words for them to travel out.
After writing those words I was a little apprehensive as I might have hurt somebody's feelings. We have regular religious forum, slokas, puja thread in our community and if some of them read this they are likely to be offended. Let me apologise in advance to such souls.
My apology to those people does not make these statements any less true.

Thanks for the words of praise, Lalitha.

Love,

Dear GF,
I like your words Pyar mein Pagalpan. In dhono me koi farak nai. Love towards God is a more intense form of madness. That's why our Azhwars and Nayanmars were crazy most of the time.

IN Oz it is a standard joke that love lasts only during the Induction period that is before marriage. Once the 7 year itch sets in, it vanishes....

True again. But in this case the love was not allowed to vanish. That’s where Ramanuja stepped in and lifted the love to the next higher level.

This story took me back to my childhood. We had a Tamil family living in our Colony. The granny of the house told us this story telling us love is not bad but channelise it to something good.

I am happy that I took you back to your childhood. Was it a very long journey, GF? Just wanting to guess how long is your childhood from now? ha ha ha

BF, I am sure the story will have a beautiful ending (I will not divulge it) & many of our wise ILs would have known this story...

You are right. I thank the ILites who are waiting for the next part of the story. And thank even more those kind souls who know the story but out of consideration for me and other ILites are not divulging it.
Thanks for the fb, GF
Regards,
Your BF

Dear Sridhar Sir,

I am sure u understand this feeling ....of coming to that interesting part of a story and usually it would be my mom asking me to do something...today experienced the same feeling after many years when your story came to a stop...I am eagerly waiting for the next part of the story....feel bad that I seem to be the only one not knowing the ending......my picturisation would be mgr/saroja devi or sivaji/padmini...and good for us sir that u realised at 50 that love makes the world go round...lots of cynicism going on in the real world..so let the world of stories be of love...and please ....with a happy ending......

Mindi

Dear Aruna,
Till last year I was saying that my age was 28. Till that time I could not even writing of love stories. On this 50th b'day, I took a b'day resolution like new year resolution that I will not lie on my age. And that moment of truth saw love gushing in the inner most parts of my being. Love and truth are not just first cousins, but blood-sisters, that if one is there the other will come on her own.
Honestly, Aruna, I don't like God being there in the Puja room. One of my friends I was talking to a few days back, told me that he did not want to give his true opinion on another man, because he was in the Puja room. But why, I asked. He replied that he would have to use vulgar words to describe the other person, which he would not do in the Puja room. Another steel trader I know would never come to his business premises during the Holy month of Ramadan. But Sir, what's the problem, I asked puzzled.
"Sridhar, this is steel business and we lie most of the time and cheat rest of the time. I don't want to do that in this month."
God has to be in our bedroom, in our toilet, in our study and in our reception. When I first studied Gita I took the book to my bedroom. Unless Gita comes out of our Puja rooms, it will not have any relevance for us.

Oh Varalotti couldn't you add one more post of the story.............Story looks interesting, have to wait till wednesday????????????
You narrations are not long we enjoy reading them especially your stories.

I want you all to slowly assimilate the various facets of the story and hence this part by part posting. I stopped at my standard length of 1200 words.
Again if I post a very long story, you might miss out some of it in your fb.
Thanks for the reassuring words about the length of my narration, Aruna.
regards,

Hi Madhu,

Richard Bach once wrote a book entitled Nothing By Chance. He says there is nothing called co-incidence.
Thanks for accepting me as your BF, Madhu. But let me be frank up front. I am no way fit to be a guru or hold any such position. Never would I like to stand above people and tell them what to do and what not to.
We are all travelling together as a huge group on a wide road. Some are able to see some sceneries, while others see some other sceneries. Whatever you see, you tell me. And whatever I see I tell you. After a stage we are our Gurus, our own friends and even our own enemies.

There is no harm in saying that this story reminded you of your teens. Yes it would have any normally healthy person of her teens,of her love and romance.
Thanks for your fb, Madhu.
regards,

Originally Posted by madhumathi1974

Hi sir,

Now i would like to call u my BF because u r really good stuffed person. thank u once again sir, i think my guru had introduced u to me in his absence to tell such stories about great people. pls sir give us the remaining part of story as soon as possible because this waiting cannot be beared for a long time. I shouldnt' say this but ur story is reminding me my olden days when i was in teens. thank u once again and i specially thank my guru for showring his blessing through u to me.

madhumathi

Dear Swetha,

As usual ... amazing piece of work ...

thanks.

You know what ... I have stopped reading novels now ... All that I do is log onto IL and read your work! And who told you that your narrations are too long? We like it to be that way ... descriptive ... and its not boring!

A statement like that coming from a young person, from an aspiring professional like you, has increased my responsibilities ten times over. I will have to work overtime to deliver good, nutritious, wholesome food for your mind and brain. I owe it as a general duty to the society and as a personal duty to your mother, who is my friend.

I specially liked these lines ...

Did we ever tell ourselves, ‘Ok, every morning between 8 AM and 8 30 AM, I will think of my lover.’ Or did we take a vow, ‘Every Saturday I’ll write my lover’s name 108 times.’ Or did we plan, ‘This Friday I am going to throw flowers at my lover exactly 108 times, each time telling her name.’

We would have never dreamt of doing such nonsense, right? We say, we love God. And we precisely do these nonsense to Her. We shut ourselves in our Puja room at the appointed time to tell her name.
We write Her name a prescribed number of times, 108 or 1008, the largeness of the number being directly proportional to the favours we want to steal from her for the time being. We go to Her temple and make the priest throw the flowers or show the burning camphor, mindlessly repeating Her names, while we should be sobbing in our hearts thinking of Her love for us.

What God has for us is love. And what we have for Her is some neurological bull**** which we mistakenly call devotion. Next time when you sit in the Puja room, please remember these lines.

Please tell me ... how do you come up with such lines?
Especially the line " And what we have for Her is some neurological bull**** which we mistakenly call devotion." This is like the punch dialogue in a Rajni Kaanth film! So you are a Superstar ... the superstar of IL!!!

Swetha, there are somethings in life which we are passionate about. If not we may have to develop that passion sometime or other. My passion lies in Accounts, Writing and God. When I write about any of them, it is not as if I have to think of the words. Words start flowing in on their own and I had to just hold back a few words to make the writing a little soft and more presentable.

I would suggest that you identify your passions and start writing about them or talking about them. It would refine your thought process, improve your expression and enhance your communication skills - a sure recipe for success in this competitive world.

Did you see the movie Legally Blonde? The heroine would say that we have to bring passion to even something as mundane as the legal profession. We surely can do that to our Accounting Profession.

P.S.: Please post the next parts soon ... I cant wait to continue reading!

coming soon. This is just a commercial break. ha ha ha
regards,