30 October 2021

Evil people and their influence

A few months back, I mentioned a wonderful religious discourse in which Shree Morari Bapu described as to how newly married women get spoilt by their mothers, start accusing their husbands and parents in law (particularly mothers in law) without any reason and get divorced, so that they can stay with their parents. This happened in my own case when I got married in 1982. We can see many examples in which even relatives interefere and try to break marriages. This has also happened in my case by way of dirty involvement by my father's cousin brother's wife and her son, my mother's sister and my mother's brother's wife, according to the woman who got married to me. 

Once the woman to whom I got married told me that she heard that my mother left my father without letting him know her whereabouts and that my father searched and finally found her after three months. I replied to her that it was rubbish. My father clarified to her that it was not my mother who left him. My father explained to the woman to whom I got married as to how enduringly my mother was patient and calm and that she never left him at any time, in spite of his short temper and frequent beatings. He clarified to the woman to whom I got married, that it was my maternal uncle's wife (one of the vicious women mentioned above) who left her husband for three months etc. As my father and my maternal uncle had the same name 'Raghavendra Rao' it was easy for the gossip monging sadist relatives to fabricate false things about me and my mother and succeed in breaking my marriage. 

My parents got me married to the woman because one of my father's friends who was considered to be good in astrology said that horoscopes of the woman and that of mine tallied well with each other. I suspect that the woman's parents got their daughter's horoscope fabricated so as to tally with my horoscope. 

Such things are not unique in my life. There are many such instances in which good people suffer due to evil people. 

Some times I wonder why good people suffer and evil people have no suffering at all, though as far as I know, according to Shaastraas, such evil people will reap the consequences in their next birth if not at present. 



29 October 2021

Divine Discourse

I am a fan of Rajendradas Devaachsaryajee Maharaj for many years. In this evening's discourse on Shreemad Bhagavatham, on Astha TV Channel, Swamiji was explaining how the whole universe is  Shree Hari's Divine Body, which many of us know from Bhagavatham. What I didn't know until I heard Swamiji saying a few minutes back that what the scientists call 'Black hole' is Shree Hari's naabhi  (stomach button). He is a charismatic speaker.



21 October 2021

Bill Clinton's recovery

It was nice to hear that Bill Clinton, former US President, got recovered from a urological infection and discharged from the hospital. Best wishes to him and his dedicated wife Hillary Clinton.



20 October 2021

Nostalgic memories

As usual, it was nice to view my favorite TV Channels and programs such as Guru Kaarshnee Yamunaa Aarthi in Brindavan followed by divine lectures of Shree Sharananandji Maharaj on Ashtha Channel,  David Rocco's 'Dolce Africa' featuring Lalibela in Ethiopia on BBC Earth and a plane journey in Bhutan with Captain Kenga Tshering taking us to and from Paro airport (which was was under construction when I and my friends used to pass through, on our way to Paro Post office and back, on some afternoons after school) on BBC Earth, in the past few days. Some of these bring nostalgic memories.




09 October 2021

9 Nights and 10 days Fest

Past Tuesday night and the next day morning marked the beginning of the holy 9 nights festival known as Nava raathri and the 10 days Fest known as Dusaraah in Bhaarath (India). During this period, special worship is done to Shree Mahaa Lakshmi and Shree Mahaa Vishnu, Shree Durga and Shree Rudra, and Shree Saraswathi and Shree Brahmaa respectively.

07 October 2021

Shree Krishna Chandra Shastriji

It was joy to listen to 'Shree Bhaagavath Venu Geeth' discourse by Poojyashree Krishna Chandra Shastriji on my favourite Ashthaa TV channel this morning. He was explaining the sacredness of Brindaavan, the holy land where Shree Krishna performed His numerous Divine Acts. A solace to a troubled mind.

02 October 2021

Gandhi Jayanthi

Today is the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhiji, known as father of our nation 'Bhaarath'.

About Me

My photo
Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
I am a retired K-12 Education Management Professional. I have worked at different levels in K-12 school systems, textbook publishing, elearning and Education NGOs. I have held memberships in The Association for Science Education (UK), American Association of Physics Teachers and The Malaysian Institute of Physics. I hold a 1st class B Sc Degree in Physics followed by B Ed [English and Physical Science] and M A [Childcare and Education] degrees. My published works include 59 articles in teacher development magazines in India and the US and a book entitled `Creative Classrooms and Child Friendly Schools' (listed in Amazon). This book is almost an anecdotal account of my professional experience in six countries (including Cambodia where I worked as Technical Adviser to the Ministry of Education, Youth And Sports). I served as mentor in the Certificate of Teaching Mastery Program offered by Teachers Without Borders.