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May 30 , 2015 !!
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Balakanda continues with Sarga 45. We get to know about Sumudra manthan out of which came the poison "Haalaahala" which was accepted by Siva at the bidding of Vishnu. We also come to know why Asuras are called Asuras and the others are called Suras. Finally we know Purandara ( Indra) got the victors spoils in the form of ruling over the three worlds after the great war following the churning namely Sumudra manthan . All of this was in response to Rama's question about the city of Visala and the kings ruling the same. Sage Viswamitra is quite adept at story telling. In narrating the story to Rama Viswamitra uses we words like "ancient times" making us wonder about ancient ancient times !!!
Recently somebody asked us what is the purpose of our Ramayan pages etc . He did not say we are wasting time ! But his demeanor bordered on those lines. We were immediately reminded of the Rt. Honourable Srinivasa Sastri's memorable talks on Ramayan at Madras Sanskrit Academy in 1944. In his preface to his talks ,speaking in his inimitable self deprecating style he raised and answered several similar questions. We have an admiration admixed with fascination for his talks . As an answer to my friends queries we updated our introduction to Ramayan pages . The updated new page does state with some clarity some of our thoughts on the Ramayan pages we are bringing !
These are months for filing " ACRs( annual confidential reports) in many organizations with the Boss's PA sending reminders on his own ! In Ramayana Yuddhakanda SriRama defined the three categories of performers " outstanding" "good" and "poor". the outstanding performer is called " Purushottam" and the poor performer is called " Athama" We have a small submission on "Purushottam" under one more thing. It can be see on the last weeks home page too as usual !!
We have been revisiting Bhagavatam pages. Now the main page of Dasama Skandha or the book Ten of Bhagavatam is revised. We have added links to several important events of the tenth Book of Bhagavatam.
Some of the key stories of Dasama Skandha or the Book Ten of Bhagavatam so highlighted are : Krishna's Birth , Raslila, or Gopikas and Krishna , Rukmini kalyanam. The page on Krishna and Gopikas is interesting because we tried to present the gradual evolution of Gopis from the early days of admiration of Krishna in his childhood to the last stages where Krishna meets Gopis at the Syamantapanchaka.
Complete Sundarakanda has been revisited to delete 2500 links ( each page having links to all other sixty eight Sargas) and leave all of the chapter /Sarga links to only one page listing Sundarakanda chapters or Sargas . Each chapter has link to next and previous Sarga. Next on our list is Bhagavatam . We will gradually move to the simplification in unnecessary links.!
We hope to make this the norm !.
Happy Reading !
What is on the kasarabada.org?
For the new visitors - the site has a layered structure with with Four main pages :
- Ramayanam which includes (i) Sundarakanda, (ii) Role models of Ramayana, (iii) Vijayraghavrao gari Telugu Sundarakanda (iv) Balakanda
- Bhagavatam which includes (i) Dasama Skandha and (ii) Uddhava Gita
Athato Brahma jignyasaa which includes (i) Kathopanishad and (ii) Tatvabhodha
One more thing is a page where we have articles which could be on anything , informative and educative handled with a light heart and a touch of contemporary realities.
These pages list all contents of those segments !
In effect to have a look at what is available from the earlier issues you only need to visit the four pages of Ramayanam , Bhagavatam , one more thing. and Athato Brahma Jignyasaa. Each page of these banner pages carry the list of all earlier articles .
Om Tat Sat ( info@kasarabada.org)
Witty Wisdom
- contributed by Kamaraju Turaga
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