Quote of the week:
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Maayai maraikka maraindha maraiporul
maayai maraiya velippadum apporul
maayai maraiya maraiyaval laarkatku
kaayamum illai karuthillai thaanae.
- Thirumoolar (in Thirumanthiram)
[Maayai - illusion; maraikka - to hide; maraindha - hidden; marai
- sacred book; porul - object; velippadum - to reveal presence;
apporul - that object; vallaar - capable person; kaayam - (human)
body; illai - not present; karuthu - meaning/purpose]
[That which is hidden by Maya (or illusion); That which is visible
when Maya clears; those who can clear this (Maya) have no attachment to
their material human form and have no other (worldly) purposes.]
Kural of the week:
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Pirappennum paedhamai neengach sirappennum
semporul kaanbadhu arivu.
[Pirappu - birth; paedhamai - ignorance/foolishness; neenga - to
get rid of; sirappu - great; sem - high quality; porul - thing/object;
kaanbadhu - to find; arivu - knowledge]
[Knowledge is a tool to get rid of the ignorance in knowing the
reasons for one's birth and attain good qualities.]
Thought for the week:
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"To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift.
Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see
themselves. ... For example, how can the sane get to know what it
actually feels like to be mad ? Or, short of being born again as a
visionary,.. a musical genius, how can we ever visit the worlds which,
to Blake, ... to Bach, were home ?"
- Aldous Huxley,
in The Doors of Perception
Site of the week:
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Ever thought of reading some high-priced or rarely available
classic works of people like Darwin, Voltaire, HG Wells, Omar Khayyam,
Descartes, John Milton, Shelly & others ? Visit this week's site to
read their works.
http://www.literature.org/Works/
The writings and the translations were made with the little knowledge, I had then and hence may not be exact.
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