I am not sure who wrote this poem: the person who wrote is really a GOOD BOY!

I went to a party Mom,
I remembered what you said.
You told me not to drink, Mom,
So I drank soda instead.

I really felt proud inside, Mom,
The way you said I would.
I didn't drink and drive, Mom,
Even though the others said I should.

I know I did the right thing, Mom,
I know you are always right.
Now the party is finally ending, Mom,
As everyone is driving out of sight.

As I got into my car, Mom,
I knew I'd get home in one piece.
Because of the way you raised me,
So responsible and sweet.

I started to drive away, Mom,
But as I pulled out into the road,
The other car didn't see me, Mom,
And hit me like a load.

As I lay there on the pavement, Mom,
I hear the policeman say,
"The other guy is drunk," Mom,
And now I'm the one who will pay.

I'm lying here dying, Mom....
I wish you'd get here soon.
How could this happen to me, Mom?
My life just burst like a balloon.

There is blood all around me, Mom,
And most of it is mine.
I hear the medic say, Mom,
I'll die in a short time.

I just wanted to tell you, Mom,
I swear I didn't drink.
It was the others, Mom.
The others didn't think.

He was probably at the same party as I.
The only difference is, he drank
And I will die.

Why do people drink, Mom?
It can ruin your whole life.
I'm feeling sharp pains now.
Pains just like a knife.

The guy who hit me is walking, Mom,
And I don't think it's fair.
I'm lying here dying
And all he can do is stare.

Tell my brother not to cry, Mom.
Tell Daddy to be brave.
And when I go to heaven, Mom,
Put "GOOD BOY " on my grave.

Someone should have told him, Mom,
Not to drink and drive.
If only they had told him, Mom,
I would still be alive.

My breath is getting shorter, Mom.
I'm becoming very scared.
Please don't cry for me, Mom.
When I needed you, you were always there.

I have one last question, Mom.
Before I say good bye.
I didn't drink and drive,
So why am I the one to die?

(Mohandas Karamchand) Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in Porbandar, India. He became one of the most respected spiritual and political leaders of the 1900's. Gandhi helped free the Indian people from British rule through nonviolent resistance, and is honored by his people as the father of the Indian Nation. The Indian people called Gandhi Mahatma, meaning Great Soul.

At age 13, Gandhi joined Kasturba, age 12, in a marriage arranged by their parents. The Gandhis had four sons: Harilal and Manilal, born in India, and Ramdas and Devdas born in South Africa. While Gandhi displayed loving kindness to everyone else, he was quite demanding and severe with his wife and sons.

Gandhi studied law in London and returned to India in 1891 to practice. In 1893 he accepted a one year contract to do legal work in South Africa. At the time South Africa was controlled by the British. When he attempted to claim his rights as a British subject he was abused, and soon saw that all Indians suffered similar treatment. Gandhi stayed in South Africa for 21 years working to secure rights for Indian people. He developed a method of direct social action based upon the principles courage, nonviolence and truth called Satyagraha. He believed that the way people behave is more important than what they achieve. Satyagraha promoted nonviolence and civil disobedience as the most appropriate methods for obtaining political and social goals.

In 1915 Gandhi returned to India. Within 15 years he became the leader of the Indian nationalist movement. Using the tenets of Satyagraha he lead the campaign for Indian independence from Britain. Gandhi was arrested many times by the British for his activities in South Africa and India. He believed it was honorable to go to jail for a just cause. Altogether he spent seven years in prison for his political activities. More than once Gandhi used fasting to impress upon others the need to be nonviolent.

India was granted independence in 1947, and partitioned into India and Pakistan. Rioting between Hindus and Muslims followed. Gandhi had been an advocate for a united India where Hindus and Muslims lived together in peace. On January 13, 1948, at the age of 78, he began a fast with the purpose of stopping the bloodshed. After 5 days the opposing leaders pledged to stop the fighting and Gandhi broke his fast. Twelve days later he was assassinated by a Hindu fanatic who opposed his program of tolerance for all creeds and religion.

Among the tributes to Gandhi upon his death were these words by the great physicist, Albert Einstein:

 

Being an ardent of Devotee of Swami Vivekananda, here is few gems from his teachings..
1. Love Is The Law Of Life: All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore, love for love’s sake, because it is law of life, just as you breathe to live.

 

2. It’s Your Outlook That Matters: It is our own mental attitude, which makes the world what it is for us. Our thoughts make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.

3. Life is Beautiful: First, believe in this world - that there is meaning behind everything. Everything in the world is good, is holy and beautiful. If you see something evil, think that you do not understand it in the right light. Throw the burden on yourselves!

4.It’s The Way You Feel: Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.

5. Set Yourself Free: The moment I have realised God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

6. Don’t Play The Blame Game: Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

7. Help Others: If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

8. Uphold Your Ideals: Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

9. Listen To Your Soul: You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

10. Be Yourself: The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves!

11. Nothing Is Impossible: Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin - to say that you are weak, or others are weak.

12. You Have The Power: All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

13. Learn Everyday: The goal of mankind is knowledge… now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we say a man ‘knows’, should, in strict psychological language, be what he ‘discovers’ or ‘unveils’; what man ‘learns’ is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.

14. Be Truthful: Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.

15. Think Different: All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

To read more about Swamiji Vivekananda and teachings please visit http://www.vivekananda.org

Did you know ?

Swami Vivekananda was the first Indian to be invited to accept the chair of Oriental Philosophy at Harvard University.

Jamshedji Tata set up the Tata Institute or the Indian Institute of Science on the Swami’s advice.

India celebrates National Youth Day on his birthday

“One infinite pure and holy–beyond thought beyond qualities I bow down to thee” - SwamiVivekananda”
[Picture and quote courtesy of Vivekananda.org]

 

Mettā in pali language means unattached loving kindness. It is one
of the ten pāramitās of the Theravāda school of Buddhism, and the first
of the four Brahmavihāras. The mettā bhāvanā (cultivation of mettā) is
a popular form of meditation in Buddhism.

The Chant of Metta With english lines… For Audio.. Click here

The Chant of Metta Text

Aham avero homi
May I be free from enmity and danger

abyapajjho homi
May I be free from mental suffering

anigha homi
May I be free from physical suffering

sukhi - attanam pariharami
May I take care of myself happily

Mama matapitu
May my parents

acariya ca natimitta ca
teacher relatives and friends

sabrahma - carino ca
fellow Dhamma farers

avera hontu
be free from enmity and danger

abyapajjha hontu
be free from mental suffering

anigha hontu
be free from physical suffering

sukhi - attanam pariharantu
may they take care of themselves happily

Imasmim arame sabbe yogino
May all meditators in this compound

avera hontu
be free from enmity and danger

abyapajjha hontu
be free from mental suffering

anigha hontu
be free from physical suffering

sukhi - attanam pariharantu
May they take care of themselves happily

Imasmim arame sabbe bhikkhu
May all monks in this compound

samanera ca
novice monks

upasaka - upasikaya ca
laymen and laywomen disciples

avera hontu
be free from enmity and danger

abyapajjha hontu
be free from mental suffering

anigha hontu
be free from physical suffering

sukhi - attanam pariharantu
May they take care of themselves happily

Amhakam catupaccaya - dayaka
May our donors of the four supports: clothing, food, medicine and lodging

avera hontu
be free from enmity and danger

abyapajjha hontu
be free from mental suffering

anigha hontu
be free from physical suffering

sukhi - attanam pariharantu
May they take care of themselves happily

Amhakam arakkha devata
May our guardian devas

Ismasmim vihare
in this monastery

Ismasmim avase
in this dwelling

Ismasmim arame
in this compound

arakkha devata
May the guardian devas

avera hontu
be free from enmity and danger

abyapajjha hontu
be free from mental suffering

anigha hontu
be free from physical suffering

sukhi - attanam pariharantu
may they take care of themselves happily

Sabbe satta
May all beings

sabbe pana
all breathing things

sabbe bhutta
all creatures

sabbe puggala
all individuals (all beings)

sabbe attabhava - pariyapanna
all personalities (all beings with mind and body)

sabbe itthoyo
may all females

sabbe purisa
all males

sabbe ariya
all noble ones (saints)

sabbe anariya
all worldlings (those yet to attain sainthood)

sabbe deva
all devas (deities)

sabbe manussa
all humans

sabbe vinipatika
all those in the four woeful planes

avera hontu
be free from enmity and dangers

abyapajjha hontu
be free from mental suffering

anigha hontu
be free from physical suffering

sukhi - attanam pariharantu
may they take care of themselves happily

Dukkha muccantu
May all being be free from suffering

Yattha-laddha-sampattito mavigacchantu
May whatever they have gained not be lost

Kammassaka
All beings are owners of their own Kamma

Purathimaya disaya
in the eastern direction

pacchimaya disaya
in the western direction

uttara disaya
in the northern direction

dakkhinaya disaya
in the southern direction

purathimaya anudisaya
in the southeast direction

pacchimaya anudisaya
in the northwest direction

uttara anudisaya
in the northeast direction

dakkhinaya anudisaya
in the southwest direction

hetthimaya disaya
in the direction below

uparimaya disaya
in the direction above

Sabbe satta
May all beings

sabbe pana
all breathing things

sabbe bhutta
all creatures

sabbe puggala
all individuals (all beings)

sabbe attabhava - pariyapanna
all personalities (all beings with mind and body)

sabbe itthoyo
may all females

sabbe purisa
all males

sabbe ariya
all noble ones (saints)

sabbe anariya
(those yet to attain sainthood)

sabbe deva
all devas (deities)

sabbe manussa
all humans

sabbe vinipatika
all those in the 4 woeful planes

avera hontu
be free from enmity and dangers

abyapajjha hontu
be free from mental suffering

anigha hontu
be free from physical suffering

sukhi - attanam pariharantu
may they take care of themselves happily

Dukkha muccantu
May all beings be free from suffering

Yattha-laddha-sampattito mavigacchantu
May whatever they have gained not be lost

Kammassaka
All beings are owners of their own kamma

Uddham yava bhavagga ca
As far as the highest plane of existence

adho yava aviccito
to as far down as the lowest plane

samanta cakkavalesu
in the entire universe

ye satta pathavicara
whatever beings that move on earth

abyapajjha nivera ca
may they are free of mental suffering and enmity

nidukkha ca nupaddava
and from physical suffering and danger

Uddham yava bhavagga ca
As far as the highest plane of existence

adho yava aviccito
to as far down as the lowest plane

samanta cakkavalesu
in the entire universe

ye satta udakecara
whatever beings that move on water

abyapajjha nivera ca
may they are free of mental suffering and enmity

nidukkha ca nupaddava
and from physical suffering and danger

Uddham yava bhavagga ca
As far as the highest plane of existence

adho yava aviccito
to as far down as the lowest plane

samanta cakkavalesu
in the entire universe

ye satta akasecara
whatever beings that move in air

abyapajjha nivera ca
may they are free of mental suffering and enmity

nidukkha ca nupaddava
and from physical suffering and danger.

A new month with a new mission.

Its since few months, I am chatting with my new friend on Google Talk and today is the day we met and interacted face to face. I am deeply honoured by his thoughts and views about a great mission set in the city of Chennai “Building a Culture of Peace for the Children of the World”, A Culture of peace exhibit Organized by BSG. More information, see http://buildingacultureofpeace.blogspot.com/

The Exhibition was started on June 24, 2007, 5 pm to 7.30 pm at ICSR Auditorium, IIT Madras. This was inaugurated by M. S. Swaminathan “a Indian agriculture scientist, the “Father of the Green Revolution” in India.

The Inauguration photos are available @ soka youth

Some of the panals in the Exhibition can be found @ http://cultureofpeaceexhibit.org

Please share view on the topic “Building a Culture of Peace for the Children of the World”.

In my view :
To change the present problems (war, non-violence etc) in the world is to start it from the children. By negotiation and peace talk we may convince the present world to certain extent but eradicating the war/non-violence is quiet tough in the present generation. Its high time to teach our kids about war,non-violence and create awareness to provide them a BRAVE NEW WORLD; so that tomorrow generation will never see any blood shed or war.

As George Bernard Shaw rightly quoted:
“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no “brief candle” for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”

Following are some of quotes i have taken from the exhibition.

It is not the violence of a few that scares me.It is the silence of the many. — Martin Luther King, Jr

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children. - M.K. Gandhi

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about be a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely an absence f war. It is also a state of mind. - Jawaharlal Nehru

The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? - Paslo casals

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. - Albert Einstein

Following are some of the snaps shots taken by myself at the exhibition.

This is very small collection. There are 100s of them.

!!!!! See the kids curiosity! Taking notes! May be next peace maker.

 

Today morning, my best friend Herath, Pathum
from Srilanka pinged me in google talk and we had a conversation
regarding a south indian J. Krishnamurti(May 12, 1895–February 17,
1986) one of renowned Indian philosopher, writer…… a thought in mind to
write about this great person long ago.

I wish to continue this idea in my further article .

Let me post one of his famous speech taken place at Alpino, Italy, July 1933 .

“Friends, I should like you to make a living discovery,
not a discovery induced by the description of others. If someone, for
instance, had told you about the scenery here, you would come with your
minds prepared by that description, and then perhaps you would be
disappointed by the reality. No one can describe reality. You must
experience it, see it, feel the whole atmosphere of it. When you see
its beauty and loveliness, you experience a renewing, a quickening of
joy.

Most people who think that they are seeking truth have already
prepared their minds for its reception by studying descriptions of what
they are seeking. When you examine religions and philosophies, you find
that they have all tried to describe reality; they have tried to
describe truth for your guidance.

Now I am not going to try to describe what to me is truth, for that
would be an impossible attempt. One cannot describe or give to another
the fullness of an experience. Each one must live it for himself.

Like most people, you have read, listened and imitated; you have
tried to find out what others have said concerning truth and God,
concerning life and immortality. So you have a picture in your mind,
and now you want to compare that picture with what I am going to say.
That is, your mind is seeking merely descriptions; you do not try to
find out anew, but only try to compare. But since I shall not try to
describe truth, for it cannot be described, naturally there will be
confusion in your mind.

When you hold before yourself a picture that you are trying to copy,
an ideal that you are trying to follow, you can never face an
experience fully; you are never frank, never truthful as regards
yourself and your own actions; you are always protecting yourself with
an ideal. If you really probe into your own mind and heart, you will
discover that you come here to get something new; a new idea, a new
sensation, a new explanation of life, in order that you may mould your
own life according to that. Therefore you are really searching for a
satisfactory explanation. You have not come with an attitude of
freshness, so that by your own perception, your own intensity, you may
discover the joy of natural and spontaneous action. Most of you are
merely seeking a descriptive explanation of truth, thinking that if you
can find out what truth is, you can then mould your lives according to
that eternal light.

If that be the motive of your search, then it is not a search for
truth. It is rather for consolation, for comfort; it is but an attempt
to escape the innumerable conflicts and struggles that you must face
every day.

Out of suffering is born the urge to seek truth; in suffering lies
the cause of the insistent inquiry, the search for truth. Yet when you
suffer - as every one does suffer - you seek an immediate remedy and
comfort. When you feel momentary physical pain, you obtain a palliative
at the nearest drug store to lessen your suffering. So also, when you
experience momentary mental or emotional anguish, you seek consolation,
and you imagine that trying to find relief from pain is the search for
truth. In that way you are continually seeking a compensation for your
pains, a compensation for the effort you are thus forced to make. You
evade the main cause of suffering and thereby live an illusory life.

So those people who are always proclaiming that they are searching
for truth are in reality missing it. They have found their lives to be
insufficient, incomplete, lacking in love, and think that by trying to
seek truth they will find satisfaction and comfort. If you frankly say
to yourself that you are seeking only consolation and compensation for
the difficulties of life, you will be able to grapple with the problem
intelligently. But as long as you pretend to yourself that you are
seeking something more than mere compensation, you cannot see the
matter clearly. The first thing to find out, then, is whether you are
really seeking, fundamentally seeking truth.

A man who is seeking truth is not a disciple of truth. Suppose that
you say to me, “I have had no love in my life; it has been a poor life,
a life of continuous pain; therefore, in order to gain comfort, I seek
truth.” Then I must point out that your search for comfort is an utter
delusion. There is no such thing in life as comfort and security. The
first thing to understand is that you must be absolutely frank.

But you yourself are not certain what you really want: you want
comfort, consolation, compensation, and yet, at the same time, you want
something that is infinitely greater than compensation and comfort. You
are so confused in your own mind that one moment you look to an
authority who offers you compensation and comfort, and the next moment
you turn to another who denies you comfort. So your life becomes a
refined hypocritical existence, a life of confusion. Try to find out
what you really think; do not pretend to think what you believe you
ought to think; then, if you are conscious, fully alive in what you are
doing, you will know for yourself, without self-analysis, what you
really desire. If you are fully responsible in your acts, you will then
know without self-analysis what you are really seeking. This process of
finding out does not necessitate great will power, great strength, but
only the interest to discover what you think, to discover whether you
are really honest or living in illusion.

In talking to groups of listeners all over the world, I find that
more and more people seem not to understand what I am saying, because
they come with fixed ideas; they listen with their biased attitude,
without trying to find out what I have to say, but only expecting to
find what they secretly desire. It is vain to say, “Here is a new ideal
after which I must mould myself.” Rather find out what you really feel
and think.

How can you find out what you really feel and think? From my point
of view, you can do that only by being aware of your whole life. Then
you will discover to what extent you are a slave to your ideals, and by
discovering that, you will see that you have created ideals merely for
your consolation.

Where there is duality, where there are opposites, there must be the
consciousness of incompleteness. The mind is caught up in opposites,
such as punishment and reward, good and bad, past and future, gain and
loss. Thought is caught up in this duality, and therefore there is
incompleteness in action. This incompleteness creates suffering, the
conflict of choice, effort and authority, and the escape from the
unessential to the essential.

When you feel that you are incomplete, you feel empty, and from that
feeling of emptiness arises suffering; out of that incompleteness you
create standards, ideals, to sustain you in your emptiness, and you
establish these standards and ideals as your external authority. What
is the inner cause of the external authority that you create for
yourself? First, you feel incomplete, and you suffer from that
incompleteness. As long as you do not understand the cause of
authority, you are but an imitative machine, and where there is
imitation there cannot be the rich fulfillment of life. To understand
the cause of authority you must follow the mental and emotional process
which creates it. First of all, you feel empty, and in order to get rid
of that feeling you make an effort; by that effort you only create
opposites; you create a duality which but increases the incompleteness
and the emptiness. You are responsible for such external authorities as
religion, politics, morality, for such authorities as economic and
social standards. Out of your emptiness, out of your incompleteness,
you have created these external standards from which you now try to
free yourself. By evolving, by developing, by growing away from them
you want to create an inner law for yourself. As you come to understand
external standards, you want to liberate yourself from them, and to
develop your own inner standard. This inner standard, which you call
“spiritual reality”, you identify with a cosmic law, which means that
you create but another division, another duality.

So you first create an external law, and then you seek to outgrow it
by developing an inner law, which you identify with the universe, with
the whole. That is what is happening. You are still conscious of your
limited egotism, which you now identify with a great illusion, calling
it cosmic. So when you say, “I am obeying my inner law”, you are but
using an expression to cover your desire to escape. To me, the man who
is bound either by an external or an inner law is confined in a prison;
he is held by an illusion. Therefore such a man cannot understand
spontaneous, natural, healthy action.

Now why do you create inner laws for yourself? Is it not because the
struggle in everyday life is so great, so inharmonious, that you want
to escape from it and to create an inner law which shall become your
comfort? And you become a slave to that inner authority, that inner
standard, because you have rejected only the outward picture, and have
created in its place an inner picture to which you are a slave.

By this method you will not attain true discernment, and discernment
is quite other than choice. Choice must exist where there is duality.
When the mind is incomplete and is conscious of that incompleteness, it
tries to escape from it and therefore creates an opposite to that
incompleteness. That opposite can be either an external or an inner
standard, and when one has established such a standard, he judges every
action, every experience by that standard, and therefore lives in a
continual state of choice. Choice is born only of resistance. If there
is discernment, there is no effort.

So to me this whole conception of making an effort toward truth,
toward reality, this idea of making a sustained endeavour, is utterly
false. As long as you are incomplete you will experience suffering, and
hence you will be engaged in choice, in effort, in the ceaseless
struggle for what you call”spiritual attainment.” So I say, when mind
is caught up in authority, it cannot have true understanding, true
thought. And since the minds of most of you are caught up in authority
- which is but an escape from understanding, from discernment - you
cannot face the experience of life completely. Therefore you live a
dual life, a life of pretence, of hypocrisy, a life in which there is
no moment of completeness.”

Let me share one of the wonderful photos of Indian Hindu gods .

These photos are taken during Indian festival called Vaikunta Ekadashi on Dec 30th 2006 at ISKCON Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Photographer unknown.

Religion being the root cause of Indian heritage and strength. In modern India religion has become a tool to create social nuisance and also political in-secular paradigm.

I am posting these photos too late but still, the meaning behind these photo are everlasting blunder of Indian heritage,creativity and their hopes, belief since 5000 years.!-- google_ad_client = "pub-1595176548215691"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 60; google_ad_format = "468x60_as"; google_ad_type = "text"; google_ad_channel = ""; //--> 

Sri Srinivasa Govinda smiling

Sri Srinivasa Govinda’s Lotus Feet

Sri Srinivasa Govinda

Sri RadhaKrishnachandra

 

Who can forget the lines “And miles to go before i sleep,And miles to go before i sleep”

Yes! The poem of Robert (Lee) Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) four-time Pulitzer Prize winning American poet, teacher and lecturer wrote many popular and oft-quoted poems including “After Apple-Picking”, “The Road Not Taken”, “Home Burial” and “Mending Wall”.

I love many of his poems and interested to post one of his fabulous poem in my blog.

I have heard that Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, a pivotal figure in the Indian independence and the first Prime Minister of Independent India, used the last line of the poem on his table.

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

Let me share my all time favourite short story in the form of TV serial.

Malgudi Days by R. K. Narayan (October 10, 1906 - May 13, 2001)
I have already written an article about him. Check here.

Malgudi Days
Collection of Narayan’s short stories. All the stories are taken place in a fictional town called Malgudi.

It is one of my childhood favourite stories in those days.Since I was unable to understand novels much my interest was to read short stories.

Narayan’s stories are always very simple in nature, the characters look very natural and realistic.

In the end of 70s and beginning of 80s, Doordarshan (a public broadcast Terrestrial television channel run by Prasar Bharati, a board nominated by the Government of India) use to broadcast many famous stories from independent producers and directores to popularize telivision serials. Malgudi days was one of those successful collective programme.

Directed by Kannada actor Late Shankar Nag and produced by T.S. Narasimhan of the Padam Rag Films. The whole serial was shot near Agumbe in Shimoga District, Karnataka, The serial was shote with great artist of that time.

In this program, my preference is not only with the story but the title music , the cartoon.
The music was composed by T.S. Vaidyanathan and the cartoons drawn none other than R.K. Lakshman: Narayan’s own brother.

Let me sharing some stories of this TV serials from You Tube. Thanks to people who shared this.

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=4419994978611794804

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-481218032931239148

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=7042784844598959264

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=8759633237701250144

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=6014193114935631484

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=2888458095781102997

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-5788735509190492720


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See Also
    R. K. Narayan. The Guide.

An old man lived alone in a village. He wanted to spade his potato garden, but it was very hard work. His only son, who would have helped him, was in prison. The old man wrote a letter to his son and mentioned his situation:
 
Dear Son,
 
I am feeling pretty bad because it looks like I won't be able to plant my potato garden this year. I hate to miss doing the garden, because your mother always loved planting time. I'm just getting too old to be digging up a garden plot. If you were here, all my troubles would be over. I know you would dig the plot for me, if you weren't in prison
Love, Dad
 
Shortly, the old man received this telegram: For Heaven's sake, Dad, don't dig up the garden!!

That's where I buried the GUNS!!
 
At 4 a.m. the next morning, a dozen FBI agents and Local police officers showed up and dug up the entire garden without finding any guns.
 
Confused, the old man wrote another note to his son telling him what happened, and asked him what to do next. His son's reply was: Go ahead and plant your potatoes, Dad.. It's the best I could do for you from here.
 
Moral:
 
NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE IN THE WORLD, IF YOU HAVE DECIDED TO DO SOMETHING DEEP FROM YOUR HEART, YOU CAN DO IT. IT IS THE THOUGHT THAT MATTERS NOT WHERE YOU ARE OR WHERE THE PERSON IS.