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அடேயப்பா கெடுவதற்க்கு இவ்வளவு விஷயங்களா?  

நம், தமிழ் மூதாட்டி ஒளவையார் எவ்வளவு அழகாக சொல்லி இருக்கிறார்......

(01) பாராத பயிரும் கெடும்.

(02) பாசத்தினால் பிள்ளை கெடும்.

(03) கேளாத கடனும் கெடும்.

(04) கேட்கும்போது உறவு கெடும்.

(05) தேடாத செல்வம் கெடும்.

(06) தெகிட்டினால் விருந்து கெடும்.

(07) ஓதாத கல்வி கெடும்.

(08) ஒழுக்கமில்லாத வாழ்வு கெடும்.

(09) சேராத உறவும் கெடும்.

(10) சிற்றின்பன் பெயரும் கெடும்.

(11) நாடாத நட்பும் கெடும்.

(12) நயமில்லா சொல்லும் கெடும்.

(13) கண்டிக்காத பிள்ளை கெடும்.

(14) கடன்பட்டால் வாழ்வு கெடும்.

(15) பிரிவால் இன்பம் கெடும்.

(16) பணத்தால் அமைதி கெடும்.

(17) சினமிகுந்தால் அறமும் கெடும்.

(18) சிந்திக்காத செயலும் கெடும்.

(19) சோம்பினால் வளர்ச்சி கெடும்.

(20) சுயமில்லா வேலை கெடும்.

(21) மோகித்தால் முறைமை கெடும்.

(22) முறையற்ற உறவும் கெடும்.

(23) அச்சத்தால் வீரம் கெடும்.

(24) அறியாமையால் முடிவு கெடும்.

(25) உழுவாத நிலமும் கெடும்.

(26)உழைக்காத உடலும்  கெடும்.

(27) இறைக்காத கிணறும் கெடும்.

(28) இயற்கையழிக்கும் நாடும் கெடும்.

(29) இல்லாலில்லா வம்சம் கெடும்.

(30) இரக்கமில்லா மனிதம் கெடும்.

(31) தோகையினால் துறவு கெடும்.

(32) துணையில்லா வாழ்வு கெடும்.

(33) ஓய்வில்லா முதுமை கெடும்.

(34) ஒழுக்கமில்லா பெண்டிர் கெடும்.

(35) அளவில்லா ஆசை கெடும்.

(36) அச்சப்படும் கோழை கெடும்.

(37) இலக்கில்லா பயணம் கெடும்.

(38) இச்சையினால் உள்ளம் கெடும்.

(39) உண்மையில்லா காதல் கெடும்.

(40) உணர்வில்லாத இனமும் கெடும்.

(41) செல்வம் போனால் சிறப்பு கெடும்.

(42) சொல்பிறழ்ந்தால் பெயரும் கெடும்.

(43) தூண்டாத திரியும் கெடும்.

(44) தூற்றிப்பேசும் உரையும் கெடும்.

(45) காய்க்காத மரமும் கெடும்.

(46) காடழிந்தால் மழையும் கெடும்.

(47) குறி பிறழ்ந்தால் வேட்டை கெடும்.

(48) குற்றம் பார்த்தால் சுற்றம் கெடும்.

(49) வசிக்காத வீடும் கெடும்.

(50) வறுமை வந்தால் எல்லாம் கெடும்.

(51) குளிக்காத மேனி கெடும்.

(52) குளிர்ந்து போனால் உணவு கெடும்.

(53) பொய்யான அழகும் கெடும்.

(54) பொய்யுரைத்தால் புகழும் கெடும்.

(55) துடிப்பில்லா இளமை கெடும்.

(56) துவண்டிட்டால் வெற்றி கெடும்.

(57) தூங்காத இரவு கெடும்.

(58) தூங்கினால் பகலும் கெடும்.

(59) கவனமில்லா செயலும் கெடும்.

(60) கருத்தில்லா எழுத்தும் கெடும்.

கெடாமல் பாதுகாக்க வேண்டியது அவரவர் பொறுப்பு..

7 short stories

 7 short stories shared by Satya Nadella [ _CEO Microsoft_ ]

*LOOKING BACK*
I interviewed my grandmother for part of a research paper I’m working on for my Psychology class. When I asked her to define success in her own words, she said, “Success is when you look back at your life and the memories make you smile."

*LOVE CONQUERS PAIN*
After I watched my dog get run over by a car, I sat on the side of the road holding him and crying. And just before he died, he licked the tears off my face.

*TOGETHERNESS*
As my father, three brothers, and two sisters stood around my mother’s hospital bed, my mother uttered her last coherent words before she died. She simply said, “I feel so loved right now. We should have gotten together like this more often.”

*AFFECTION*
I kissed my dad on the forehead as he passed away in a small hospital bed. About 5 seconds after he passed, I realized it was the first time I had given him a kiss since I was a little boy.

*JOY*
When I witnessed a 27-year-old cancer patient laughing hysterically at her 2-year-old daughter’s antics, I suddenly realized that I need to stop complaining about my life and start celebrating it again.

*KINDNESS*
A boy in a wheelchair saw me desperately struggling on crutches with my broken leg and offered to carry my backpack and books for me. He helped me all the way across campus to my class and as he was leaving he said, “I hope you feel better soon.”

SHARING
I was traveling in Kenya and I met a refugee from Zimbabwe. He said he hadn’t eaten anything in over 3 days and looked extremely skinny and unhealthy. Then my friend offered him the rest of the sandwich he was eating. The first thing the man said was, “We can share it.”
 

*Celebrate Life with Gratitude*

How do you know you are rich?

Amazing answer by Mr Awadhesh Singh, an ex student of IT-BHU (now IIT-BHU)
When I was doing my B Tech, there was a Professor Das Talukedar who used to teach us вЂ˜Mechanics’.
His lectures used to be very interesting since he had an interesting way to teach and explain the concepts.
One day, in the class, he asked the following questions,
1. What is ZERO?
2.What is INFINITY?
3. Can ZERO and INFINITY be same?
We all thought that we knew the answers and we replied as following,
ZERO means *nothing*
INFINITY means *a number greater than any countable number*
ZERO and INFINITY *are opposite and they can never be same*
He countered us by first talking about infinity and asked, вЂ˜How can there be any number which is greater than any countable number?’
We had no answers.
He then explained the concept of infinity in a very interesting way, which I remember even after more than 35 years.
He said that imagine that there is an illiterate shepherd who can count only upto 20.
Now, if the number of sheep he has less than 20 and you ask him how many sheep he has, he can tell you the precise number (like 3, 5 14 etc.). However, if the number is more than 20, he is likely to say “TOO MANY”.
He then explained that in science infinity means вЂ˜too many’ (and not uncountable) and in the same way zero means вЂ˜too few’ (and not nothing)
As an example, he said that if we take the diameter of the Earth as compared to distance between Earth and Sun, the diameter of earth can be said to zero since it is too small.
However, when we compare the same diameter of earth with the size of a grain, diameter of earth can be said to be infinite.
Hence, he concluded that the same thing can be ZERO and INFINITE at the same time, depending on the context, or your matrix of comparison.
The relationship between richness and poverty is similar to the relationship between infinity and zero.
It all depends on the scale of comparison with your wants.
If your income is more than your wants, you are rich.
If your wants are more than your income, you are poor.
I consider myself rich because my wants are far less than my income.
I have become rich not so much by acquiring lots of money, but by progressively reducing my wants.
If you can reduce your wants, you too can become rich at this very moment.

Good News

 newspapers simultaneously announce a definitive treatment for diabetes*
http://youtu.be/YHYdRkQl8 Ic
After discovering a cure for diabetes yesterday in Harvard by converting stem cells into pancreatic cells ...
The front page of most international newspapers today is led by news about a breakthrough in the treatment of diabetes, and the headline was in bold:
   Diabetes: A Final Cure
The Telegraph newspaper
http://goo.gl/LASN29
The Independent newspaper
http://goo.gl/dF5kfv
The Guardian newspaper
http://goo.gl/KXgA6g
Harvard newspaper
http://goo.gl/qocRzu
CBS News
http://goo.gl/ObXeS1

Global good news for every patient
This morning, Friday, the British newspaper, The Times, with global credibility, in its opening page, the first page is great news for mankind. A final treatment for diabetes by transplanting insulin-producing stem cells and abolishing the use of daily insulin needles and this new treatment will spread to all countries of the world without exception, and this discovery was made in the Harvard University Research Center The American medical team has more than 25 years of research for the final discovery by transplanting stem cells and activates and produces insulin naturally in the human body without drugs and this is final news from Harvard University that will officially announce it to the world permanently and dispense with daily insulin injections.

Interesting read to contemplate..

 When Valmiki completed his Ramayana, Narada wasn't impressed. 'It is good, but Hanuman's is better', he said.

'Hanuman has written the Ramayana too!', Valmiki didn't like this at all, and wondered whose Ramayana was better.

So he set out to find Hanuman.

In Kadali-vana, grove of plantains, he found Ramayana inscribed on seven broad leaves of a banana tree.

He read it and found it to be perfect. The most exquisite choice of grammar and vocabulary, metre and melody. He couldn't help himself. He started to cry.

'Is it so bad?' asked Hanuman
'No, it is so good', said Valmiki
'Then why are you crying?' asked Hanuman.

'Because after reading your Ramayana no one will read my Ramayana,' replied Valmiki.

Hearing this Hanuman simply tore up the seven banana leaves stating
"Now no one will ever read Hanuman's Ramayana.'"

Valmiki was shocked to see this action of Hanuman and asked him why he did this,Hanuman said, 'You need your Ramayana more than I need mine.
You wrote your Ramayana so that the world remembers Valmiki;
I wrote my Ramayana so that I remember Ram.'

At that moment he realized how he had been consumed by the desire for validation through his work.

He had not used the work to liberate himself from the fear of invalidation.

He had not appreciated the essence of Ram's tale to unknot his mind.

His Ramayana was a product of ambition;
but
Hanuman's Ramayana was a product of pure devotion & affection.

That's why Hanuman's Ramayana sounded so much better.
That is when Valmiki realized that "Greater than Ram...is the name of Ram!"
(राम से बड़ा राम का नाम).

There are people like Hanuman who don't want to be famous. They just do their jobs and fulfill their purpose.

There are many unsung "Hanumans" in our life too, our spouse, mother, father, friends, let's remember them and be grateful to all.

Points to ponder:

1. Which area of your life are you seeking validation?

2. Who are you seeking validation from?

3. Know that you are complete and perfect with all your imperfections!

In this world, where everyone is highlighting his work and seeking validation, let just do our karma because he who matters, the almighty God, knows without telling him and in the end, it is actually just he who matters.

The Daffodil Principle

 Several times my daughter had telephoned to say, "Mother, you must come to see the daffodils before they are over."  I wanted to go, but it was a two-hour drive from Laguna to Lake Arrowhead "I will come next Tuesday", I promised a little reluctantly on her third call.

Next Tuesday dawned cold and rainy. Still, I had promised, and reluctantly I drove there. When I finally walked into Carolyn's house I was welcomed by the joyful sounds of happy children. I delightedly hugged and greeted my grandchildren.

"Forget the daffodils, Carolyn! The road is invisible in these clouds and fog, and there is nothing in the world except you and these children that I want to see badly enough to drive another inch!"

My daughter smiled calmly and said, "We drive in this all the time, Mother."  "Well, you won't get me back on the road until it clears, and then I'm heading for home!" I assured her.

"But first we're going to see the daffodils. It's just a few blocks," Carolyn said. "I'll drive. I'm used to this."   

"Carolyn," I said sternly, "please turn around." "It's all right, Mother, I promise. You will never forgive yourself if you miss this experience."

After about twenty minutes, we turned onto a small gravel road and I saw a small church. On the far side of the church, I saw a hand lettered sign with an arrow that read, "Daffodil Garden."  We got out of the car, each took a child's hand, and I followed Carolyn down the path. Then, as we turned a corner, I looked up and gasped. Before me lay the most glorious sight.

It looked as though someone had taken a great vat of gold and poured it over the mountain peak and its surrounding slopes. The flowers were planted in majestic, swirling patterns, great ribbons and swaths of deep orange, creamy white, lemon yellow, salmon pink, and saffron and butter yellow. Each different-colored variety was planted in large groups so that it swirled and flowed like its own river with its own unique hue. There were five acres of flowers.

"Who did this?" I asked Carolyn.  "Just one woman," Carolyn answered. "She lives on the property. That's her home." Carolyn pointed to a well-kept A-frame house, small and modestly sitting in the midst of all that glory. We walked up to the house.

On the patio, we saw a poster. "Answers to the Questions I Know You Are Asking", was the headline. The first answer was a simple one. "50,000 bulbs," it read. The second answer was, "One at a time, by one woman. Two hands, two feet, and one brain." The third answer was, "Began in 1958."

For me, that moment was a life-changing experience. I thought of this woman whom I had never met, who, more than forty years before, had begun, one bulb at a time, to bring her vision of beauty and joy to an obscure mountaintop. Planting one bulb at a time, year after year, this unknown woman had forever changed the world in which she lived. One day at a time, she had created something of extraordinary magnificence, beauty, and inspiration. The principle her daffodil garden taught is one of the greatest principles of celebration.

Daffodil garden is one of the greatest principles of celebration.

That is, learning to move toward our goals and desires one step at a time--often just one baby-step at time--and learning to love the doing, learning to use the accumulation of time. When we multiply tiny pieces of time with small increments of daily effort, we too will find we can accomplish magnificent things. We can change the world ...

"It makes me sad in a way," I admitted to Carolyn. "What might I have accomplished if I had thought of a wonderful goal thirty-five or forty years ago and had worked away at it 'one bulb at a time' through all those years? Just think what I might have been able to achieve!"

My daughter summed up the message of the day in her usual direct way. "Start tomorrow," she said.

She was right. It's so pointless to think of the lost hours of yesterdays. The way to make learning a lesson of celebration instead of a cause for regret is to only ask, "How can I put this to use today?"

Use the Daffodil Principle. Stop waiting.....

Until your car or home is paid off
Until you get a new car or home
Until your kids leave the house
Until you go back to school
Until you finish school
Until you clean the house
Until you organize the garage
Until you clean off your desk
Until you lose 10 lbs.
Until you gain 10 lbs.
Until you get married

Until you have kids
Until the kids go to school
Until you retire
Until summer
Until spring
Until winter
Until fall
Until you die..

There is no better time than right now to be happy .

Happiness is a journey, not a destination.
So work like you don't need money.
Love like you've never been hurt, and, Dance like no one's watching.

If you want to brighten someone's day, pass this on to someone special.

I just did!

Wishing you a beautiful, daffodil day!

Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.