Tsunami of love, grace and compassion - Maha Periyavaa

There is a wonderful post about a devotee's (Prof. Sundaraman's) personal experience which is available at http://mahaperiyavaa.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/i-lived-with-god-absolutely-a-must-read/

Humbly suggest all friends to not start reading without either a box of tissues or a big towel handy. Also, please don't start reading if you have to attend to wordly things in the next 30 minutes. Believe me, your heart will not want to move away from the divine experience and return to mundane worldly matters. There is no escape from the tears of bliss on reading this most moving, heart warming experience. I strongly believe this experience of Prof. Sundaraman needs to be cherished and read and reread and reread.

Anytime in life when one is feeling low, feeling life to be an insurmountable series of obstacles and challenges,  take a few minutes of time and read Prof. Sundaraman's experiences with Periyavaa. Your faith in GOD will be restored and you will get all the confidence you will ever need to go back and tackle the world. When you have Paramcharya in your corner, can any opponent dare to even think of fighting you? 

Place your heart,   mind and soul at his lotus feet, put all the burden on his physically frail but divinely magnificent shoulders, sit back, relax and savor the magical ride that life will become. 

There are a few places in the narrative (I don't want to spoil the reading pleasure by providing highlights) that demonstrate Paramacharya's compassion for his bhaktas so strongly, so emphatically, that it is impossible to ever again worry about anything in life as long as the mind and heart rest at Paramacharya's divine feet. 

Bhagwan Ramana always used to ask all the devotees visiting him, "where is your gamanam now"? I wish everybody in this world that their gamanam always be to the lotus feet of our dear beloved Periyavaa. This is my way of wishing "sarve jana sukhinobhavanthu"

Nailed it!! Saatej rocks the school anniversary with his moves

Saatej was selected from his kindergarten class for a dance show during the anniversary function held in Vijayawada, AP on Feb 18th, 2013. 

It was the culmination of about two weeks worth of practice sessions for the kids. The kids were starting to get bored with the practice sessions, the parents were nervous, tense, excited, slightly scared and proud at the same time. The teachers were dog tired after corralling 10 hyper active dancing kids everyday for two weeks.

The main event started at around 6:30 PM under clear blue skies with a magnificent turn out of all the school kids and their excited, happy families. The dance show started at around 7:30 PM. Saatej's mother was as tense as she was on the day of our marriage ;-) wondering how my son was going to perform. I have to tell her to pace herself as she has at least 15 more years to go before she can hand off Saatej to his girlfriend.

I was cool and calm thinking that this is nothing but a kindergarten dance show. Who will watch and care for this show other than probably the kids in the show, their parents and the teachers who put this all together. Boy, was I ever so wrong? The crowd really was watching the entire dance show with keen interest. I guess everybody enjoys cute, all dressed up kids moving to great music.

Long story short, to end the suspense, my son nailed the performance. My wife, usually a tough nut to please, was beaming from ear to ear after the show. 

My son, well, he couldn't care less for how his performance turned out to be or how the audience received it. He really enjoys moving to the rhythm of good music. But he was smart enough to leverage all the congratulations from his mom and his uncles, aunts and grand father for probably a months supply of candy, gifts and surprises ( in his words). Smart boy, has the potential to go far in either Wall St or New Delhi's corridors of politics. 

A sincere thanks to his class teacher who selected him and encouraged him, his dance teachers who taught him and to all his friends in the dance group for enjoying themselves and providing everybody with a jolly good show yesterday. 

Keep rocking kids!! All of you are destined for great things in life!

Actual video to follow in another post shortly.

Why is the fan regulator limited to a max number of 5?

Saatej is currently in India. Yesterday evening, he was drenched in sweat after a very engrossing session of  play time with his friends.

He came home and tried to cool down with butter milk given by his mom. He switched on the fan in the bedroom. Then his mom came to check on him and the status of the buttermilk. He was still sweating and his question to his mom was: "why do the fan regulators stop at no. 5?"

What is Hanuman's surname?

Saatej got a new geometry box as a gift for standing first in his half yearly exams. He was filling out the label and wrote his name as N. Saatej.

Then he wanted to add the name of his favorite God Hanuman next to his name. 

His question to his mom was: "what is Hanuman's surname?

More such questions to follow. Stay tuned.