LAST WEEK OF DECEMBER

Today of this year and today of yester year.Does it seem gramatically incorrect, never mind..

WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS NOT THE GRAMMAR , BUT THE CONTENTS, RIGHT..

The fact that i do not have any followers give me the additional liberty of psoting /recording what i want, you remember the title of my blog.Right "Honest Impressions"

Last week of December last year was spent in the company of my dear daughter and son in that order. This week, fortunately my son is with me and the daughter's presence or rather absence lingers in memory as ever..

By far the year 2009 has been good to me, perhaps due to numerological coincidence, yes 2009-the sum toatl 11 is my birth number.

And in retrospection, the question comes, whether any thing can be regarded as absolutely good or absolutely or bad , the question becomes profound after having completed the book on Ramana Maharishi by BHANU RAMAMCHANDRAN, about which i made a refrence earlier.

To make the understanding complete, the quote from the book, attributed to the saying of Ramana Maharishi to his own mother when he is hardly 19 years old , sums up as under :

TO GET ANY THING DONE IS BY HIS GRACE, IF ANYTHING IS NOT DONE , IT IS ALSO ACCORDING TO HIS DICTATE,

That being the case where is the need to celebrate good and to brood over the worst, as we are not instrumental to the outcome,He is the one who decides the out come, therefore have the balance of mind to treat good and bad alike and accept things as it comes your way,that gives you the permanant bliss and peace of mind..

I think i have moved away from my main topic,

Very few, like my son has the capability not to lose focus on a topic started , may be more but i know and i am glad that i know only my son's blog as my palm..

Again this statement may be misconstrued by a few as being partial.biased and so on .

But when one tries to be honest why bother about the counter effects..

And let me continue my focus.

Year before last year it was in HYDERABAD and at Raghavendra mandir(Manthralayam)

An year before that it was at Goa......

Last year it was again MANTHRALAYAM, and Sheeradi

This year it has been the Guru Temple at Thiruvottiyur.

Different Gods and Goddessses , The purpose is one, Peace of mind to all.

I have been a witness to tremndrous turmoil witnessed by my own near and dear and those who were near and dear to them.

But while i retrospect at the end of the year, it has given courage, wisdom and peace of mind in many walks of life to whom this reference is made.

Yes, still there are a fwe things to be accomplished, but the journey has well begun and a journey well begun is equivalent o travelling half the distance and the tempo takes you thru the rest of the journey with HIS GRACE.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010 IN CASE I DO NOT POST MY NEXT BLOG WITHIN NEXT 108 HOURS....

60th Anniversary

Time and tide waits for no body they say.True.
When a person traverses 60 years of life and turns back to see the life of 60 years it gives lessons of ommortal value.
Life filled with VICTORIES AND DEFEATS, Achievements and disasters,Associations and seperations ...Oh the list is endless.
To travel these 60 years and then to turn back and look at it with pride is something unique.
I recollected the 60th birth days that i have attended to date , after being a spectator in one such event to day evening, the Shastiaptaporthy of my wife's (and mine too ) friend ms Bhanumathi .I think i should not shadow her name , for more than a dozen reasons.

Some of them i would reiterate;
1.She lost her husband in her forties
2.She had two young sons(Not even in their teens)
3.She underwent an entrepreneurship programme(the first of its kind exclusively conducted by our bank for women alone in coordiantion with SIDBI- Having been selected out of 200 competitors for 20 births).
4. She left her past behind and worked like a robo killing all her personal (or should i say ) overcoming all her personal desires with the sole goal of seeing her two sons on board.
5.She went to US to ear a livelihood.
6. She saw to it that her sons reached an impeccable place in society and today her 60th birthday is celebrated in style with love and affection b y her two sons and their wives/grand children/

To top it all she has authored and broght out a book on Bhagwan Ramanmaharishi.
She has started the Madipakkam Ladies welfare assciation on 26th JAN 1985 and today the Association is celebrating its 25th Anniversary when this gret womwn is celebrating her 60th Anniversary.

i happened to speak a few words, not out of compulsion but out of an impulse,
When she recalled what i have done to her life asa faculty i had only one thing to say...

GREAT TEACHERS ARE CREATED BY GREAT STUDENTS. I WAS GLAD TO HAVE HER AS MY STUDENT.

And what a gift the student gave ne, a book of universal knowledge and faith...

hats off to her. May everyone's anniversary be filled with such outstanding attainments.

kanthakannan