Sri Annamayya.

Tallapaka was the name of the village in Rajampet Talaq of Cuddapah district where a bright boy was born to Lakkamamba and Narayanasuri. They named him Annamayya, and fed him after the food and milk was offered to the Lord first. his Upanayanam was performed in his fifth year (Pancame Brahmavarcasakamam and Navametv ayuskamam) meaning if upanayanam is performed in the fifth year he attains Brahma's effulgence and if performed in the 9th year he attains longevity. 
While yet a child he gained a strong hold on poesy and devotional song. he danced in ecstasy while singing to the Lord, this devotion grew strong as he grew up. One night he saw in his dream the temple of the Lord, the golden doorway, the sanctum sanctorum and the resplendent Lord therein beckoning him to come near. soon after he set off to Tirumala alone without even intimating his elders at home. he reached the foot of the hills worshipped the village goddess and started his climb up enroute he worshipped the tamrind tree at alipiri and the Lord Narasimha and reached Mokallamettu out of exhaustion he fainted. It is said the goddess Alanelmanga woke him up from his stupor and having refereshed him with her mercy and glances he was able to climb the rest of the distance. early the next morning after his bath in the temple tank he went to the temple but it was locked. he then sang a sataka he had composed and lo behold the locks came off and the temple doors were thrown open for one of the Lords greatest devote. it is believed that this happened in his sixteenth year. every thing comes to the Lords devotee by design so to say. one day to a priest named Vishnu had a dream that the lord was instructing him to perform the Tapta Chakrankana(marking Sankha and Chakra on the shoulders) along with Panchasamskara to a black complexioned boy who would approach him the next day. The saint did all that was necessary to make the boy a full fledged Vaishnava thenceforth he was Annamacharya.
He has written 12 songs in Sanskrit he professed that he belonged to the school of Ramanuja "puman visnur iti khyato striprayam itaram jagat" which means Vishnu is the only man and the rest of the universe is female. He also believed that it was wrong to show any discrimination on the ground of caste creed and colour. this is brought out in the beautiful song
"tandanana ahi tandanana indu jantukumal antan okate mendaina brahmanudu mettu bhumi yokate candalu dundeti sari bhumi yokate "
and also in
"Vijatul anniyu vrtha vrtha ajamiladula kadi ye jati..."
Annamacharya was a profound scholar both in Telugu and Sanskrit. His Telugu Sankeertanams appear to be a happy blend of grammatical and colloquial forms. His Sanskrit language has its own distinctive style. they are rich in romance and philosophy platonic love as brought out in the song "idi gaka saubhagyam idi gaka tapamu..." expressing Madhura bhakti.
The Vaishnava literary compositions seem to vie with Saiva literature of Basava, Palkuriki somana, Panditaradhya and others.

prasannanjaneyam hanumatsandesa.

A Sanskrit Kavya running into one thousand Mandakranta verses.
at first this work was only some seven hundred odd verses but an article in a leading news paper prompted the author to add a few more verses now describing the sea, sky, seasons, sunrise and the like to be classified into the Maha kavya group. the author also writes 
" Ye nama kecidiha nah prathayanty avajnam
Jananti te kim api tan prati naisa yatnah,
Utpatsyate hi mama ko,pi samanadharma 
Kalo hyyam niravadhih vipula ca prthvi."

Whosoever cannot or will not appreciate this work of mine, this is not intended for them. I have the fond hope that sometime somewhere, somebody will be there, who sheds a tear on my humble work"

Nirai Nilanai.

6.9

You became the radiant orbs, Siva and Brahma,
Earth, water, fire, wind and wide sky.
Will you not come to the wicked self one day
with conch and discus in hand, heaven and earth rejoicing?

You came and showed your strength on earth as Vamana
O wonder Lord who took the earth and sky! 
Pray come and walk this earth again one day
And let me touch and see you, and dance in joy.

O lord who protects all through every age,
we see you walking standing sitting and lying
O lord with beautiful lotus dame Lakshmi.
How many days must i live in separation?


You twisted, mangled and destroyed the Asuras
You stomped a devil-chariot with your foot. 
Pray appear in the sky at least one day. 
Surrounded  by Brahma, Siva Indra and all the gods.

You sit in the sky, stand on the hill, sleep in the ocean,
walk on the plains; in all these O lord you are present hidden.
O lord existing in countless other worlds as well, blending in me.
will you still hide yourself from me?

with one step you strode the earth and ocean.
with one step you spread and took the world above.
O  lord how many days must i yearn to see you?
I melt like wax in a fire and roam the earth. alas!

You are the karmic self roaming the earth,
you are the soul of the world itself
you are the formless ten spheres and spirit beyond.
pray this tiny self of infinite ignorance.

O soul of the mortals pray grace this ignorant self
My fragrant icon lord of infinite radiance.
will you still keep away and kill me with your tricks?
Alas my soul which knows nothing else is afflicted.

My soul is afflicted with pleasures that the senses heap.
will you still destroy me with distractions?
Has the time not come for me o be united
To your lotus feet that grew and strode the earth?

For many ages that do not shrink or stretch or end
Even if i were to attain the infinite pleasure of the self.
Alas! on reflection, will that ever match my lord,
Even a short while of service to you without returns?

This decad of the thousand revelations
Of devotee's devotee's devotee Satakopan
On the lord beyond sight, thought and feeling
Will secure the feet of the Lord who swallowed the earth.

The Purusha; Man;

God cannot cease from leaning down towardsmNature, nor man from aspiring towards the Godhead. It is the eternal relation of the finite to the infinite. When they seem to turn from eachother it is to recoil for a more intimate meeting.
In man nature of the world becomes again self-conscious so that it may take the greater leap towards its Enjoyer. This is the Enjoyer  whom unknowingly it possesses, whom life and sensation possessing deny and denying seek. Nature of the world knows not God only because it knows not itself; when it knows itself, it shall know unalloyed delight of being.
Possession in oneself and not loss in oneself is the secret. God and Man, World and Beyond world become one when they know each other. Their division is the cause of ignorance as ignorance is the cause of suffering.
Man seeks at first blindly and does not even know that he s seeking his divine self; for he starts for the obscurity of material Nature and even when he begins to see, he is long blinded by light that is increasing in him. God too answers obscurely to his search; He seeks and enjoys man's blindness. 
FOR MAN an uncreated and indestructible soul has housed itself in a mind and body made of its own elements.

effeminate

The mystic element dominates the stanzas devoted to the archa form. Though the Alvar wishes the Lords form to be present before him the Lord plays the hide and seek of appearance and disappearance leaving the alvar thirsting for  him it is both beneficial and cause for dejection and sorrow. If this had not happened the beautiful verses would not have been our lot. The Lord disappeared too often drowning the alvar in total dejection and sorrow and reappeared before him in his most enchanting form to soothe the desperate devotee causing the devout to experience periods of despair and exultation aroused by the irresistible 
attraction have made Maran's mind turn effeminate. Thus he becomes the spouse or would be bride for God. A mother and friend are supposed to keep company with the bride and console her in times of disappointment and appeal to her lover for affording help and encouragement to the bride. this accounts for thirty one groups of bridal mysticism appearing in the Thiruvaimolzi. 
How it all unfolded
When Madhurakavi was serving his Acharya Sathakopa, Lord Vishnu appeared before Maran, mounted on garuda bedecked with ornaments so as to enable Maran to experience and enjoy him in all aspects at one and the same time Maran enjoyed all this to his hearts content the feeling of what we call joy expanded and he could not contain himself he had to share the experience which he did in four of his works The glow this experience caused by Maran was so great that the permanent designers of Vaikuntha (Nityasuris)
those who live in Svetadvipa and the deities who are present in archa form in the sacred shrines arrive before Maran to behold the glory of Maran. Maran in his turn exclaimed that the bondage is destroyed and calls all devotees to come together to behold and celebrate the occassion.

Ubuntu

The African philosophy best described the above Ubuntu is "I am because we are" a collective movement or collective evolution, mostly may be because of their way of life and living. its a very nice feeling though the togetherness is so important. its a great lesson and the world is slowly changing towards this ubuntuness.

best YOGA exercise

 Sooryanamaskar is the best yoga exercise while it enriches the body its muscles and tones up the system it  aids in the working mechanism too. done slowly it helps reduce weight and the correct proportion is maintained. aches and pain which have crept in slowly vanish giving life a boost it requires.