Six parts on Youtube
Guess what revealed
Feb 20
Hmm.. First thing first. Among all our blog entries this elicited most number of comments.. Interesting observations have come out labeling it from abstract art to doodle to kirukkal. I am sorry to disappoint. None of these fit the bill. This represents a very simple thing. It is the flow of mouse movement on my IMac screen when i played a game of free cell !!!!!!. Now you can decide whether it is art or information.
The software to capture this was developed by Anatoly Zenkov, a Russian graphic designer and programmer. The software runs on windows as well as Macintosh . Mr Zenkov is a Russian graphic designer and programmer. More images of these type can be seen in his flickr page
The picture below is the flow of mouse on my screen when i really “kirukked’ on the touch pad using the pen from our new acquisition Bamboo touch Pad and Pen.
Harivarasanam
Feb 18
Hariharasuthashtakam a.k.a. Harivarasanam
Harivarasanam is a sloka on Lord Ayyappa composed by K Kulathur Iyer and it is said that it was sung for the first time in Sabarimala temple by Swami Vimochanananda in 1955. This hymn is sung as a lullaby to the Lord when the doors of the Sanctum Sanctorum are closed every night. The chief priest (Melsanthi) and other priests stand on either side of the deity and recite the hymn. While singing the hymn, the priests leave the Sanctum Sanctorum one by one without making noise. The Chief priest starts putting off the lamps one by one when the song is halfway through and when the final line is sung, the last lamp is extinguished and he closes the door, locks it for the night.
Those who have heard the rendition at the Sannidhanam, have poignant
memories.
॥हरिहरसुताष्टकम्॥
हरिवरासनं विश्वमोहनं हरिदधीश्वरं आराध्यपाधुकम्।
अरिविमर्धनं नित्यनर्तनं हरिहरात्मजं देवमाश्रये॥१
शरणं अय्यप्पा स्वामि शरणं अय्यप्पा
शरणं अय्यप्पा स्वामि शरणं अय्यप्पा
चरणकीर्तनं भक्तमानसं भरणलोलुपं नर्तनालसम्।
अरुणभासुरं भूतनायकं हरिहरात्मजं देवमाश्रये॥२ शरणं
प्रणयसत्यकं प्राणनायकं प्रणतकल्पकं सुप्रभाञ्चितम्।
प्रणवमन्दिरं कीर्तनप्रियं हरिहरात्मजं देवमाश्रये॥३ शरणं
तुरगवाहनं सुन्दराननं वरगधायुधं वेदवर्णितम्।
गुरुकृपाकरं कीर्तनप्रियं हरिहरात्मजं देवमाश्रये॥४ शरणं
त्रिभुवनार्चितं देवतात्मकं त्रिनयनं प्रभुं दिव्यदेशिकम्।
त्रिदशपूजितं चिन्तितप्रदं हरिहरात्मजं देवमाश्रये॥५ शरणं
भवभयापहं भावुकावहं भुवनमोहनं भूतिभूषणम्
धवलवाहनं दिव्यवारणं हरिहरात्मजं देवमाश्रये॥६ शरणं
कलमृदुस्मितं सुन्दराननं कलभकोमलं गात्रमोहनम्
कलभकेसरी वाजिवाहनं हरिहरात्मजं देवमाश्रये॥७ शरणं
श्रितजनप्रियं चिन्तितप्रदं श्रुतिविभूषणं साधुजीवनम्
श्रुतिमनोहरं गीतलालसं हरिहरात्मजं देवमाश्रये॥८ शरणं
Guess What
Feb 17
Is this Modern art or Digital Kolam . Guess
Maalaadu
Feb 8
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Ingredients:
Sugar- 1 cup |
Method:
Powder fine sugar and fried gram separately and mix well. Powder cardamom seeds also and mix. Break cashew nuts into small bits. In a spoonful of ghee, roast cashew nuts until golden and add raisins and remove from fire. Add this to the powder mixture and mix well. Heat the rest of the ghee. Add a little warm ghee at intervals, mix with the powder and make into a ball. If ghee is not enough, you cannot make the ball stand. If ghee is too much, it will be too sticky.
Kanakadhara Sthothram
Feb 8
Kanakadhara Sthavam:
Adi Shankara as a Brahmachari, before he took up Sanyasa, used to seek Bhiksha daily in accordance with his Asrama Dharma. One Dwadasi day, he went for Bhiksha to a poor Brahmin’s house. That Brahmin himself was living by unchavriddhi (is an act of collecting grains left out in the threshing field) and had gone out to collect grains.
When Shankara came for Bhiksha, the lady of the house was alone and had nothing to offer. However, she had one single gooseberry which was kept as an essential item for dwadasi paranai. (on dwadasi , the day next to ekadasi -day of fasting) people eat gooseberry as a custom) She thought that while she was not able to offer Bhiksha to the Brahmachari, she should atleast give him the gooseberry fruit and so gave it to Shankara.
Shankara understood the lady’s good intention and inability to give grains for Bhiksha. He was moved by the gesture and so prayed to goddess Mahalakshmi to give the family prosperity and composed Kanakadhara Sthavam. An ashareeri was heard to say that the Brahmin couple is suffering from poverty on account of their actions in their previous births and that it cannot change. Shankara, however represented to the divine stating that in this birth, they have parted with the only edible item of gooseberry in their house and by that action alone, they have earned immeasurable punya which nullifies all the papas of their previous births. He then prayed to the Goddess Lakshmi again to give them prosperity. Immediately, thereafter commenced a shower of golden gooseberries in their house.
‘Kanaka’ means gold and ‘dhara’ means shower. Since the sloka caused a shower of gold, it is called Kanakadhara Stotram.
श्री कनकधारास्तोत्रम्
अङ्गं हरेः पुलकभूषणमाश्रयन्ती
भृङ्गाङ्गनेव मुकुलाभरणं तमालम्।
अङ्गीकृताखिलविभूतिरपाङ्गलीला
माङ्गल्यदाऽस्तु मम मङ्गलदेवतायाः॥ १॥
मुग्धा मुहुर्विदधती वदने मुरारेः
प्रेमत्रपाप्रणिहितानि गतागतानि।
माला दृशोर्मधुकरीव महोत्पले या
सा मे श्रियं दिशतु सागरसंभवायाः॥ २॥
आमीलिताक्षमधिगम्य मुदा मुकुन्दं
आनन्दकन्दमनिमेषमनङ्गतन्त्रम्।
आकेकरस्थितकनीनिकपक्ष्मनेत्रं
भूत्यै भवेन्मम भुजङ्गशयाङ्गनायाः॥ ३॥
बाह्वन्तरे मधुजितः श्रितकौस्तुभे या
हारावलीव हरिनीलमयी विभाति।
कामप्रदा भगवतोऽपि कटाक्षमाला
कल्याणमावहतु मे कमलालयायाः॥ ४॥
कालाम्बुदालिललितोरसि कैटभारेः
धाराधरे स्फुरति या तडिदङ्गनेव।
मातुस्समस्तजगतां महनीयमूर्तिः
भद्राणि मे दिशतु भार्गवनन्दनायाः॥ ५॥
प्राप्तं पदं प्रथमतः खलु यत्प्रभावात्
माङ्गल्यभाजि मधुमाथिनि मन्मथेन।
मय्यापतेत्तदिह मन्थरमीक्षणार्धं
मन्दालसं च मकरालयकन्यकायाः॥ ६॥
विश्वामरेन्द्रपदविभ्रमदानदक्षं
आनन्दहेतुरधिकं मुरविद्विषोऽपि।
ईषन्निषीदतु मयि क्षणमीक्षणार्धम्
इन्दीवरोदरसहोदरमिन्दिरायाः॥ ७॥
इष्टाविशिष्टमतयोऽपि यया दयार्द्र-
दृष्ट्या त्रिविष्टपपदं सुलभं लभन्ते।
दृष्टिः प्रहृष्टकमलोदरदीप्तिरिष्टां
पुष्टिं कृषीष्ट मम पुष्करविष्टरायाः॥ ८॥
दद्याद्दयानुपवनो द्रविणाम्बुधारां
अस्मिन्नकिञ्चनविहङ्गशिशौ विषण्णे।
दुष्कर्मघर्ममपनीय चिराय दूरं
नारायणप्रणयिनीनयनाम्बुवाहः॥ ९॥
गीर्देवतेति गरुडध्वजसुन्दरीति
शाकम्भरीति शशिशेखरवल्लभेति।
सृष्टिस्थितिप्रलयकेलिषु संस्थितायै
तस्यै नमस्त्रिभुवनैकगुरोस्तरुण्यै॥ १०॥
श्रुत्यै नमोऽस्तु शुभकर्मफलप्रसूत्यै
रत्यै नमोऽस्तु रमणीयगुणार्णवायै।
शक्त्यै नमोऽस्तु शतपत्रनिकेतनायै
पुष्ट्यै नमोऽस्तु पुरुषोत्तमवल्लभायै॥ ११॥
नमोऽस्तु नालीकनिभाननायै
नमोऽस्तु दुग्धोदधिजन्मभूम्यै।
नमोऽस्तु सोमामृतसोदरायै
नमोऽस्तु नारायणवल्लभायै॥ १२॥
नमोऽस्तु हेमाम्बुजपीठिकायै
नमोऽस्तु भूमण्डलनायिकायै।
नमोऽस्तु देवादिदयापरायै
नमोऽस्तु शार्ङ्गायुधवल्लभायै॥ १३॥
नमोऽस्तु देव्यै भृगुनन्दनायै
नमोऽस्तु विष्णोरुरसि स्थितायै।
नमोऽस्तु लक्ष्म्यै कमलालयायै
नमोऽस्तु दामोदरवल्लभायै॥ १४॥
नमोऽस्तु कान्त्यै कमलेक्षणायै
नमोऽस्तु भूत्यै भुवनप्रसूत्यै।
नमोऽस्तु देवादिभिरर्चितायै
नमोऽस्तु नन्दात्मजवल्लभायै॥ १५॥
सम्पत्कराणि सकलेन्द्रियनन्दनानि
साम्राज्यदानविभवानि सरोरुहाक्षि।
त्वद्वन्दनानि दुरिताहरणोद्यतानि
मामेव मातरनिशं कलयन्तु मान्ये॥ १६॥
यत्कटाक्षसमुपासनाविधिः
सेवकस्य सकलार्थसंपदः।
संतनोति वचनाङ्गमानसैः
त्वां मुरारिहृदयेश्वरीं भजे॥ १७॥
सरसिजनिलये सरोजहस्ते
धवलतमांशुकगन्धमाल्यशोभे।
भगवति हरिवल्लभे मनोज्ञे
त्रिभुवनभूतिकरि प्रसीद मह्यम्॥ १८॥
दिग् हस्तिभिः कनककुंभमुखावसृष्ट-
स्वर्वाहिनीविमलचारुजलप्लुताङ्गीम्।
प्रातर्नमामि जगतां जननीमशेष-
लोकाधिनाथगृहिणीममृताब्धिपुत्रीम्॥ १९॥
कमले कमलाक्षवल्लभे त्वं
करुणापूरतरङ्गितैरपाङ्गैः।
अवलोकय मामकिञ्चनानां
प्रथमं पात्रमकृत्रिमं दयायाः॥ २०॥
स्तुवन्ति ये स्तुतिभिरमीभिरन्वहं
त्रयीमयीं त्रिभुवनमातरं रमाम्।
गुणाधिका गुरुतरभाग्यभागिनः
भवन्ति ते भुवि बुधभाविताशयाः॥ २१॥
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