education of nature.

I marvel how Nature could ever find space 
For so many strange contrasts in one human face: 
There's thought and no thought, and there's paleness and bloom 
And bustle and sluggishness, pleasure and gloom. 

There's weakness, and strength both redundant and vain; 
Such strength as, if ever affliction and pain 
Could pierce through a temper that's soft to disease, 
Would be rational peace--a philosopher's ease. 

There's indifference, alike when he fails or succeeds, 
And attention full ten times as much as there needs; 
Pride where there's no envy, there's so much of joy; 
And mildness, and spirit both forward and coy. 

There's freedom, and sometimes a diffident stare 
Of shame scarcely seeming to know that she's there, 
There's virtue, the title it surely may claim, 
Yet wants heaven knows what to be worthy the name. 

This picture from nature may seem to depart, 
Yet the Man would at once run away with your heart; 
And I for five centuries right gladly would be 
Such an odd such a kind happy creature as he. 
W W.

PANTARHEI

We cannot reproduce an experience. Something will always be different. In the words of Heraclitus: "Change alone is unchanging."

For us, Panta Rhei means having to reinvent ourselves over and over again..

This is the motto underlying all of our investments, innovation and creativity activities. To some extent all innovation projects are similar in that we always look for a competitive edge, growth and business leverage. But at the same time each project is very different in its specifics.

Those who are engaged in innovation wake up every morning with the notion that yesterday's success and breakthrough cannot be repeated.. inventors must reinvent themselves time and time again..

 

• There's a new sun each day
• If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.
• Big results require big ambitions.
• Panta Rhei means everything flows in ancient Greek. It follows a saying of Heraclitus; a Greek philosopher: "No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."
  
  H eraclitus believed in the unity of opposites. Opposites are the two sides of the same thing. One cannot know something without knowing its opposite. There is no meaning for light without darkness, and no meaning for happiness without sadness.
  Methodical Inventive Thinking pays a lot of attention to opposites in the Inversion tool and to unity in the Unification tool. We conceive something by attributes, emotions and sensations of the item itself together with its opposites.
  
  

Bhaktha Vatsala Perumal.

The Majestic Moolavar is 14ft. tall standing facing east, and is known as Perumpurak kadal. The Moolavar goddess is known as Tirukkanna Mangai, the utsavar goddess is known as Abisheka valli, utpala vimanam, god appeared to Varuna and Markandeya rishi. Mention of this temple is in Skanda puranam. that's how old this temple is. This temple has all the seven features a temple must have. i.e. kshetra, theertha,mandapam,vimanam, natuul(river)aranyam Sapta muratha kshetram. seven nectars. 
Odampoki river and Viruddha kaveri run on both sides to north and south of the temple encircaling it so to say.
God is said to have celebrated his Panigrahanam with goddess Lakshmi here. Hence this kshetram is called Sri Krishna Mangala kshetram. and goddess abhisheka valli.
There are no inner walls,Hence the various scluptures around the sanctum can be seen Markandeya rishi and Varuna are seen in a  one knee bent pose with folded hands on the walls surrounding all the gods who came to witness the wedding, the sapta rishi and Lord siva are seen. The Garudar here is Vara prasadar Garudar and very important. there is a very big bee hive near the thayar sannidhi which has been there for generations. it is said the devas and rishis wanted to witness the divine wedding and became bees. daily prayers are offered to the bee hive too and not a single pilgrim has been stung by a  bee ever.
There are beautiful sculptures in the temple of Kalinga nathan, Lakshmi Narasimha, Vamana, Parusurama, Hiranyasamhara Murthi, Balarama,Kothandaramar, Venugopalan, Brahma, Paramapadanathan seated on Adhishesha , Gajedra varadhan, saraswathi, Boovaraha, Navaneetha krishnan. 

One of the Pancha Krishna Kshetram.

One of the Pancha Krishna Kshetram. (Thirukkannapuram, Thirukkannangudi, Thirukkannamangai, Kapisthalam and ) Therezhundur = ther + Ezhundur = ratham destroyed.
The sthala purana connects this place to a King by name Uparisaravasu, he prayed to Lord Brahma and was conffered a boon that none could defeat him even his chariot would be supreme and there could be no hurdle even to his chariot irrespective of whether it travelled on earth or sky. The now arrogant king thought he was invincible. once when he was riding in the sky his queen saw a beautiful temple and expressed her desire to offer prayers at the temple of Aamaruviappan. the king in his arrogance denying the request also said that on whoever the shadow of the chariot fell should be destroyed. this happened to include a no of cattle grazing on the ground which were destroyed. Perumal saw all this and decided to teach the king a lesson. Garudalwar who was near him just pressed his toes on the shadow of the chariot and as a consequence the ratha got pulled and fell into the pushkarini throwing the royal couple into the tank. when they were rescued from the tank they saw Agastiyar rishi praying on the banks of the pushkarini. agastiyar rishi however guided them to approach the perumal in the temple and the King when he went to the temple saw in the place a small cow heard boy with the traditional turban in normal clothes with other small children around him. he wondered how the small children could help bring his ratha submerged in the puskarini out. any way he put in his request. The cow heard boy who had a losely tied turban round his head smiled and said in return he wanted 1000 pots of freshly churned butter. the king thought that was so small a request and consented. how ever he was able to procure only 999 pots of butter. he thought he would trick the children and filled the last pot with water. When this was offered to the cowherd boy the boy first inspected that pot which was filled with water. the king was suprised to see that that same pot now held butter. and all the other 999 pots when inspected held water. He immediately realised this was no ordinary child. he fell at the child's feet and sought forgiveness. the Lord appeared before him in all his glory. In this temple you can see the idol of a cow and calf along with Krishna's idol. The Moolavar is known as Devadirajan, he is seen in the standing posture facing east.  to his left are Garuda and Kaveri thai in a semi kneeling pose. to the lords right  is the idol of Prahaladha. the moolavar holds in his right had a mace which rests on the ground. the utsavar known as Amaruviappan along with Rukmini and Satyabhama and also a cow and calf. another unique feature here Krishna is seen with four hands. The goddess is Sengamalavalli, the puskarini is darasana puskarini, garuda vimanam god appeared to King Uparisaravasu, Kaveri and Agastiyar. a couple of other stories too are associated with this temple of interesting vigrahams. a story of Siva and ?Vishnu playing dice and Parvathy favouring Vishnu too is interesting but the turn the story takes is difficult to digest.

Word Twisters.

The tree words described in each group are composed of the same four letters. find one then twist the letters around to find the other two.
1.a) A benediction
b) An appellation
c) Long hair of a horse.

Ans. Amen Name Mane.

2. a) Small body of water
b) a game
c) Doubling of rope

Ans.Pool, polo. loop.

3. a) a cock hen or chicken.
b) Glide as a stream
c) an animal.

Ans. Fowl, flow, wolf..

4. a) To challenge.
b) beloved
c) To peruse.

Ans. Dare, dear, read.

5.a) Crippled
b) one of sexes
c) A repast

Ans. Lame, male, meal.

6.a) to spring over
b) Sound as of a bell
c) Wan, colourless

Ans. Leap, peal, pale.

7. a)A fruit.
b) to cut covering of
c) to harvest.

Ans. Pear, pare, reap.

8.a) a measure of land
b) Contest of speed
c) To be fond of

Ans. Acre, race, care.

9.a) Chair or bench
b) Point of the compass
c) Satisfy appetite of

Ans. Seat, east, sate.

10 a)Domesticated
b) Set of players
c)Flesh of animals.

Ans. Tame, team, meat.

Q A painter required three days to paint a room. How long would it take him, working at the same rate to paint a room twice as long, twice as broad and twice as high?

12 days as the walls would be four times as big.

Q Express 100 by using same figure six times.
99 and 99/99
100.

Six lessons on Raja Yoga.

Raja Yoga is as much a science as any in the world. It is the analysis of the mind, gathering the facts of the super sensuous world and so building up the spiritual world. all the spiritual leaders known to the world have said I see I know so they claim to have actual perception of the spiritual truth they taught. This perception is obtained in Yoga.
Neither memory nor consciousness can be the limitation of existence, thus there is a superconscious state. the super consciousness and the unconsciousness state are sensationless, but they have a vast difference between them this is the difference between knowledge and ignorance. Here Raja yoga is an appeal to reason as a science.
concentration of the mind is the source of all knowledge. Yoga teaches us to make matter our slave as it ought to be. Yoga means to yoke or join. i.e. join the soul of man with the supreme soul of God.
mind acts in and under consciousness. what we call consciousness is only one link in the infinite chain that is our nature.
This I of ours covers just a little consciousness and a vast amount of unconsciousness, while over it and mostly unknown to it, is the subconscious plane.
through faithful practice layer after layer of mind opens before us, revealing new facts to us. we see it as new worlds created before us. we assume new powers but we have to keep our goal in mind always and not get dazzled by these beads of glass we have to achieve the diamond.we have to long for them as a drowning man longs for breadth.
the training involves  to restrain the mind from going outward,  restraining the senses,  turning the mind inwards, not getting disturbed by things happening around you, fastening the mind on one single goal, always thinking about that one goal making it a second nature. this is not at all easy but one can succeed.

Chidambaram Chitrakutam.

Known more famously for the Dancing Nataraja. The shrine for Govindaraja faces east and is close to the chitsabha of sri Nataraja which is facing south. The peculiar feature of this temple is though ancient there is a separate tower, Bali peetam, dwajasthambam and Garuda shrine facing the Lord, and a separate Thayar shrine with a separate management of its own with its own rituals in such close proximity to the sanctum sanctorum of Shiva. the only record is of a 6th century Pallava King Simhavarman as having worshipped the original deity in thillai Forest. The sabha where the dance took place and all other mantapas are very impressive and have a stately sublimity. there are in all five sabhas the Nritta sabha is the most spectacular and this is where siva entered into a dance competition with the goddesses. In fact the four tall temple gopurams are a majestic sight for miles around. it is a well planned temple with geometrical symmetry.
Lord Govindaraja the Moolavar is a massive and majestic figure reclining on Adisesha with figures of Brahma, Sridevi and Bhoodevi by his side. Seen in Boga sayana pose facing east. the Utsavar known as Parthasarathy and also Devadi devan in a sitting position with chaturbhujam his right hand is raised in gnana mudra for upadesa the Ubhaya Nachiyars are also seen by his side.
the stories connected to this temple are to be found in Bavishyotra puranam told by Vyasa Maharishi to Jaimini rishi.
The story goes that Kanva Rishi on performing penance god appeared and asked him to go to Pundarikapuram where the divine architect had built a town in the form of a lotus on behest of Brahma. God appeared seated on Garuda before Kanava Rishi who asked of god four boons. 1st that god should stay there and bless all the people visiting chitrakuttam. 2nd that even if any one just thought of Thllai Thiruchitrakutam should be blessed with the four purushartas dharma, artha, kama and moksha. people ending their lives when at this place should receive moksha and that he permanently should be granted moksha to stay with the perumal. all his wishes were granted. the Lord decided to stay on in Archa avtara. Brahma asked Visvakarma as well as theasura architect Mayanan to construct the Chitrakutam. accordingly a beautiful temple was built the pancha bothams became the five kalasas on the top of the sanctum sanctorum, the four vedas became the four gopurams, the 36 smruthi sutras became the 36 entrances in the temple, the thousand names of god became the thousand pillared mantapam, the Astakshara became the eight steps leading to the sanctum. as the temple was completed the devas praised the perumal the divine dundubhi was heard, a varitable rain of flowers was noticed and in the midst of all this God laid down inthe ratna sabhai on pranava peetam under the satvika vimana.
The dance of Shiva and Parvathy.
Lord Vishnu was seated on the throne in the Ratnasabai. shiva was also present and started to dance. hearing the tinkling noise of the dancing bells, Parvathy also came rushing. Perumal laid down the rules for the contest. he said the dance should conform to the rules prescribed in the Bharata sastra and that each should repeat whatever was the dance mudra performed by the other. if any of them failed to repeat the mudra he/ she would have to accept defeat. the one who lost would have to go and stay outside the city of Thiru Chitra kutam. the contenders both shiva and Parvati agreed to these terms. the tandavam started. People were admiring the divine dance which lasted for seven days. Ambikas dance was becoming more refined and beautiful. Shiva realising that he was being defeated by his wife pleaded with Perumal with a facial expression. Perumal taking pity on siva gave him a clue by raising one leg which of course siva immediately incorporated in the dance which was no longer graceful for Parvati to compete with, Siva was declared the winner. He continues to stay there as Nataraja and continues to serve God. Parvathi's abode is in the northern part of the town and is known as Thillai Kali.
Lots of other interesting stories are also connected with this temple which are very interesting.