Why the foot and not the entire himself!!!!!????

I had a point to ponder, recently when I heard to a song melodiously recited by Sri Putturu Narasimha Nayak. The song was related to the lord of "Maryada", Sri Ramachandra. This devotional song was composed by the lesser known among the dasas Sri Vithaladasa. Sri dasa is offering his request with lord Sri Ramachandra to show his divine  foot to him. Then I started thinking and pondering over why this Dasa had asked to have a sight of the lotus feet of Rama an not the entire Maryada Purushottama. Before any further deliberation, let us listen to the song through the link attached.

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In the link given above, go to link page and there will be a song by name "Sri Rama Ninna Padava" with the highlighted orange color. Please click on the same. Please listen to the song and come back to the blog page!

When 'Devottama Paramapurusha Jagatguru Sri Krishna' showed his Vishwaroopa to Arjuna, Sri Krishna provided a divine sight to Arjuna, not only to have the view of his infinite roopa but also to bear the enormous amount of energy emanated from the powerful soul of Krishna, or otherwise, Arjuna might have gone blind.  And with the fear of becoming blind, this humble dasa might not have dared to ask for the darshan of the whole body of the lord and restricted himself and equally restricted his demand with the lord to provide only a small look of his lotus feet only and rightly he said- " Sri Rama ninna padava toro" and never asked for more.

The lord being the lord of time obviously has the capacity of bringing life back even in a dry wooden log. Sri Rama along with his brother was undergoing article ship under the guidance of guru Vishwamitra on 'Astra, Shastra and other arts'.One day while walking along the forest, they saw a huge human shaped stone which was of Ahalya Devi who had got turned into a stone on account of a curse from her husband and lord Sri Rama touches the stone with his foot. And Ahalya gets back her life!.. The foot of Sri Rama is powerful and which is also full of eternal energy and rightly capable of converting  a mortal being to an immortal being. The Dasa rightly decided to have a look of those feet which are undoubtedly worthy a salute and worthy worship. And therefore, he prayed " Sri Rama ninna Padava Toro".

The mokey worriors of Sri Rama constructed a huge bridge across  the sea from Rameshwaram to Lanka. Th boulders and the other materials used for construction, floated on the sea waters despite the huge ups and downs in the waves of the sea, sherely on the account of the grace showered by Sri Rama and the monkeys were in an utter surprise with this magical event! However, being monkeys they had a little narrow thinking and had a doubt in their mind that the bridge may immerse into the water when they would walk on it. But not expressing the doubt, Sugreeva honored Sri Rama with a request to keep the first step on the bridge. Because, Sugreeva was pretty well knowing that once Rama walks, the entire universe can walk behind him. Sri Rama smiled and started walking over the bridge. The divine touch made the bridge strong and further fortified and not even an inch of the bridge neither shook, nor went down by an inch. Now one can imagine that why this Dasa is repeatedly asking to have a look of this miraculous and charismatic feet of Sri Rama.

When Sri Rama was on exile, Bharata established the Padukas of Sri Rama on the throne and ruled Ayodhya for fourteen long years. Being a brother, Baharata was fully aware of the fact the padukas which protected the protector's feet is more powerful than himself. Hence, he established Padukas. Meaning thereby, Bharata also wanted to have a shelter near the lotus feet of Lord Sri Rama.

If we go deep into Bhagavata and other mythological literature, we can understand how these feet only protected Dharmas and destroyed the evils of the society. It is the same feet which pushed King Bali to the Patala. It is the same feet which saved Arjuna from the Sarpaastra of Karna. It is the same feet which made Dhuryodhana to fall from his throne. It is the same feet worshiped not only by human beings, but also by thousands and thousands of devatas. And our dear Sri Ranga Vithala dasa. Rightly and rightfully requested Sri Rama to give the divine darshan of his lotus feet.

Let Mahamahima Sri Rama bless us with robost prosperity and happiness on the happy occasion of Sri Rama Navami. Let us together offer our prayer to Daasharathi Raghuveera Sri Ramachandra for the welfare of the entire human beings. If you feel to listen the song once more, please go and click the link above again.

JHARKHAND BULL-WHERE ARE YOU LOST?

I dare to show a red flag to a Jharkhand Bull.
As all of us know, Cricket is a religion in India and the players are treated as almost gods and the younger generation simply accepts them as their role models too. Normally these cricket players have a nick name or pet name. These names sometims come from their action in the cricket field or sometimes from their original name itself. Few of the names are- Jumbo, Jammy, Jimmy, Colonel, Sunny, Dada, Bhajji, Veeru, etc. But I prefer to give the name 'Bull' to our great Mahi and I think it's fit to call him as The Jharkhand Bull, the place where he hails from. The reason why I call him a bull is because of the fighting instinct which normally a bull has and its capacity to throw down the enemy using its horn with an impeccable energy and skill which also exists in this great Mahi.
Our great Mahi is always recognized as an extravagantly flamboyant and destructive batsman, Dhoni has come to be regarded as one of the coolest heads to captain the Indian ODI side. Under his captaincy, India won the 2007 ICC World Twenty20, CB Series of 2007 , and the Border Gavaskar Trophy, 2008 in which they beat Australia 2–0. Dhoni also captained Chennai Super Kings to victory in the recent IPL 2010. He is now captain of India in all three forms of the game and also led the team to their first ever bilateral ODI series wins inSri Lanka and New Zealand. Dhoni also led team India to number one position in ICC rankings in test cricket for the first time. Dhoni has also been the recipient of many awards including the ICC ODI Player of the year award in 2008 and 2009 , the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour in 2009.
With all these awards and rewards, we had expected something extra from him for the world cup 2011. But as the events are going on, this Jharkhand bull has disappointed us not only with his performance but also by his poor captaincy. The match between West Indies and India is going on now as I write this blog and India may end up in a victory in the absence of some classic batsmen in the team of West Indies. 
The leadership qualities that he had exhibited all these days is getting evaporated day by day. Theory of four 'I', now I shall narrate here which is applicable to a good captain. 

• The basic killer Instinct.
• Influencing the team members through his actions.
• Creating an Impact within the team members and also in the public.
• Immediate and right decision at the time of crisis.

and I feel sorry that during all the six matches of group B, played under his leadership, all the 4 'I's were absent. . Even in the press statement also our captain blames all others and all the departments of cricket like fielding, bowling, batting, etc. But never takes up the responsibility of the defeat directly. This sometimes makes me to comment that our Bengal Tiger was better than the Jharkhand Bull. 


Mr. Mahi, entire nation is backing you. The millions and millions of Indians, cricket fans are looking at you with a profound hope of lifting the World Cup by you. Oh my dear BULL, happened is happened, you are already in quarter finals. Get your aggreviation back and accumulate your skills and strengths and scratch the ground in the bullish way with your legs and be ready for fighting and lift your head up with the spirit. Be a nightmare to your opponent. All my best wishes are with you.

PERFORMANCE AFTER A PERISH!!!!

When I saw the disturbing pictures aired by various channels on Tsunami and its devastating effects, it took me about 30 years back, the then CEO of my organisation was telling that the mantra that we should adopt in our professional life is 'Perform or Perish'. He was motivating all the employees to perform and to humble all the targets posed before us and also indirectly hinting that the non-performance will result into a perish. And he also told, "once you perish, it is twice tough to make a comeback". But the way Japan reacted and responded made me to call the same CEO and tell, "Sir, there is a Performance even after a Perish".

Let us look at the disaster that created havoc in Japan. Few of the details are-

• Perish- Tokyo Stock Exchange directly experienced the worst fall to 5% during trade on the days of quake which is expected to swallow the loss of hundreds of trillions in Japan. The Nikkei-225 index fell below the level of 10,000.
• Performance- The Bank of Japan  pumped $76 billion in the financial system to soothe money markets shaken by Japan's biggest ever earthquake, a devastating tsunami and a nuclear emergency.And thus, safeguarde the interest of stakeholders, shareholders and the economy of the nation. 
• Perish- Nuclear Plants have automatically shutdown, power supply went off, backup system of power supply collapsed, coolant system failed and world feared a nuclear meltdown.
• Performance- Within seconds after the earthquake started, the control rods were inserted into the reactors and the chain reaction was stopped. Sea water was pumped into the reactors through copters and other methods. Nuclear Disaster minimized, not only minimized but also made negligible.Nearly 210,000 people were evacuated by the Japanese authorities from the vicinity of the reactor. The media which was repeatedly highlighting this disaster gone spellbound.
• Perish-  380,000 people became shelter less and many of them lost their kith and kins and were in the state of shock.
• Performance- Immediately 2050 evacuation centres are established and those lakhs of people were accomodated. The best part was the medias were highlighting the shortage of medicine and water and the inmates of the evacuation centre expressed satisfaction and appreciated the efforts of the govt. 

The above is an illustrative list and not an exhaustive list. 
I always remember the theory of 4 F's. Fear leads to Failure and then to upcome the Failure, you have to Fight and as a last resort if you are unable, then you have Fly away from the Failure. And the Japanese are the last in this world to do the last F. 


They are fearless and they are the born fighters(Hiroshima is an example and now it is Fukushima). Let us learn from Japanese.


Failure comes in everybody's life and also results in loss mentally, physically, financially and it may lead you to the edge of Perish. With the awesome strength which you possess, you can perform even after a perish. Three cheers to the Japanese.