Estos son mis hijos.

Estos son mis Hijos, Manoj que tiene 3 Años y Anuj que tiene un año, los dos juntos son mas peligrosos que un huracan del Caribe, son mitad venezolanos y mitad indues!

SRI RAMANUJACARYA

Today is the avirbhava, birthday, of Sri Ramanujacarya. Rama-Navami, the birthday of Lord Rama, is also coming very soon, Throughout Their entire lives, Rama and Sita-devi always had problems, even though Rama is God and Sita-devi is his svarupa-sakti, internal potency. They showed by example that in this world, even if you are a king and have a very strong personality, you will still have to suffer. So try to be like Rama, Sita, and Hanuman. Don’t be worried. There are many stories of the lives of great personalities that illustrate this, such as the life of Sri Ramanujacarya.Sri Ramanujacarya is an incarnation of Laksmana (Lord Rama’s youn ger brother), and he accepted the Sri Sampradaya. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Prabhupada took many teachings from him, such as the duties of sannyasis, the duties of disciples, and the etiquette of the Vaisnava. He utilized 108 teachings. We follow these teachings, and we have also published them in our Bhagavata Patrika and Gaudiya Patrika (Hindi and Bengali Magazines).
Correcting His Guru
Sri Ramanujacarya took birth in a simple family. His mother and father were not very wealthy, but they were of a high brahmana caste and they were very learned. Ramanuja was an outstanding boy from his childhood. While under the guidance of a Mayavadi guru named Yadavacarya, he was very careful in his studies. One day, when his guru was giving an impersonal explanation of a verse that contained the word taptyasana, he compared the lotus-eyes of the Lord to the hind part of a monkey which is reddish near its tail. Hearing this from his gurudeva’s mouth, Ramanuja began to cry in great pain. He felt grief in his heart that his gurudeva had used such a bad analogy for describing the lotus-eyes of the Lord. After collecting himself, he very politely asked if he could say something about the verse. Yadavacarya assented, and Ramanuja very nicely gave many explanations according to Sanskrit grammar. He said that the term taptyasana actually means one who bring s water, and that is the sun. The lotus blossoms by the potency of the sun, and therefore the Lord’s eyes are compared to the lotus, not the monkey. When Yadavacarya heard this, he thought, “This boy is dangerous. He is very expert and is giving such nice explanations. In the future he might uproot all the impersonal teachings from the Vedas, and so I must kill him.”

Protected by the Lord

Fearing in this way, he announced to the boys that they would be going on an outing on a particular day. He also very confidentially told a few of his disciples of his plan to kill Ramanuja on that day. Within the group of these disciples, one boy was a cousin-brother of Ramanuja named Govinda. He discreetly came to Ramanuja and quietly informed him of their teacher’s intention. He said, “O brother, you should be very careful, for our teacher is planning to kill yo u tonight when we are all out together.” Hearing this from Govinda, Ramanuja immediately left that place. Throughout the day and night, he passed through the dense forest, and it was difficult for him to discern his way, especially at night. Seeing His dear devotee in such a state, the Lord appeared in the form of Bharadvaja and, holding a conch in His hand, showed Ramanuja the way. Thus, within no time at all Ramanuja crossed the entire distance of the forest, and he found himself standing outside a village. After some days, out of compassion for Yadavacarya and with a desire to deliver him, he again began studying under his guidance. After some years, Ramanuja converted Yadavacarya to Vaisnava philosophy, whereupon his teacher became his disciple. At one point thereafter, Ramanuja began hearing of the qualities of a great Vaisnava guru in South India by the name of Sri Yamunacarya, and he eventually became Sri Yamunacarya’s d isciple.

The Quarrelsome Wife

Later on he married, and his wife was very quarrelsome. Her behavior was discourteous and uncooperative, and incidents would often take place, which he would have to somehow tolerate. A disciple of Sri Yamunacarya and elder god-brother of Ramanuja named Kancipurna came to Ramanuja’s village along with his wife. Ramanuja accepted Kancipurna as a siksa-guru. One day, when Kancipurna’s wife was taking some water from a well, she met Ramanuja’s wife, who had also come to the well for drawing water. It so happened that while taking the water out of the well, some water from the pot of Kancipurna’s wife spilled into the pot of Ramanuja’s wife. Although this was a small accident, Ramanuja’s wife became furious and insulted Kancipurna’s wife with abusive language. Kancipurna became hurt when he later on heard about this and, wi thout informing Ramanuja, he and his wife left that place and went to Sri Rangam.When Sri Ramanuja came to know that his wife’s behavior had offended a Vaisnava, he felt very bad and thought, “She is committing vaisnava-aparadha; she has such an offensive mentality. I must do something about it.”

The Trick

One day, a hungry brahmana came to Ramanuja, asking for some food. Ramanuja sent this brahmana to his wife, telling him, “Go to my home and tell my wife that I sent you. She will give you some food.” When that brahmana came to Ramanuja’s wife, she boldly insulted him again and again. She told him he should get out of there, and that there was no food for him.Returning to Ramanuja, the brahmana reported what had happened, and Ramanuja replied, “Wait here for a few minutes.” He left and wrote a letter to his wife, as though it was written by her father, stating, “O my dear daughter, I am arranging the marriage of my son, your brother. So you should come. Please bring your husband with you.” Writing these words very nicely, he folded that letter and tied it with colorful threads. And, along with that, he sent a coconut and other auspicious items. He then gave that letter to the brahmana and said, “Now go again to my wife. She will welcome you nicely this time. The brahmana went again. After reading the letter, Ramanuja’s wife’s behavior completely changed. This time she welcomed him warmly and sweetly, and offered him all kinds of palatable food and sweets. When Ramanuja came home, his wife told him about the marriage. She cited her father’s request for both of them to come and requested him to please come along. Ramanuja said, “No, I cannot come, for I am very busy; you may go now with this brahmana. Don’t be late.”

Accepting Sannyasa

After his wife left with that brahmana, Ramanuja locked the door of his house and went to Sri Rangam to meet his Gurudeva, Sri Yamunacarya. He wanted to take sannyasa from him, but when he reached Sri Rangam, he found that Sri Yamunacarya had just passed away and his disciples were walking in a funeral procession with his divine body. Ramanuja felt very disheartened and sad. He asked them to stop for a moment. He wanted them to uncover the transcendental body so that he could take darsana of his Gurudeva’s divine form. He observed that all the fingers on one of his Gurudeva’s hands were open, and on the other, three fingers were closed. He inquired from the disciples all around as to why this was, and he wanted to know when it happened. No one could answer. They said, “We didn’t notice it before; it must have happened just now.” Ramanuja became silent, and after some time he spoke, addressing Sri Yamunacarya’s transcendental body. He said, “Now, I will first of all write a Vaisnava commentary on Vedanta, and I will preach that Vaisnava commentary throughout India.” One finger opened, and Ramanuja spoke further, “I will take tridandi-sannyasa right now, and I will preach the message of vaisnava-dharma and your teachings.” When Sri Yamunacarya heard that, his second finger opened. Ramanuja then said, “I will systematically write about Vaisnava etiquette, explaining the behavior required to execute pure devotional service, and what precautions should be taken. I will also preach this throughout India.” After uttering this third statement, Sri Ramanujacarya observed, along with all present, that three of Yamunacarya’s fingers had now opened. Then and there, Sri Ramanujacarya formally accepted tridandi sannyasa from Sri Yamu nacarya.

The Ideal Disciple

What is the duty of an ideal disciple? He should not merely stay with gurudeva; he should try to give his energy by body, mind and words, and try to serve him according to his desires. He should not just be present physically, thinking something exciting is going to happen, while remaining unenthusiastic to serve. That is not a disciple, but rather something quite opposite. A true disciple always desires, with heart and mind, to better serve his gurudeva. Sri Ramanujacarya had now formally taken initiation from Sri Yamunacarya. Afterwards, all the disciples of Sri Yamunacarya, who were great scholars and who had served their Gurudeva for so many years, came together. Having seen the extraordinary characteristics and personality of Sri Ramanujacarya, they collectively decided that he should be appointed as the next acarya after their Guru, and they honored him with the acarya seat in Sri Rangam. Sri Ramanujacarya accepted the orders of his god-brothers, but before sitting and acting as the acarya, he went to each of his god-brothers, for two months, four months, six months, or one year, and served each of them. He thus formally endeavored to understand the teachings of Sri Yamunacarya since he had not gotten the opportunity to spend much time with him. After serving and satisfying them, Sri Ramanujacarya commenced his role as acarya of the Sri Sampradaya in Sri Rangam

Sampradaya in Sri Rangam

We should carefully follow Sri Ramanujacarya’s example. Not only should we intimately serve our Gurudeva, we shoul d also respect and properly honor our god-brothers and god-sisters. If someone is senior to us, having served our gurudeva longer, we should show that person great honor. If someone is equal to us, we should give friendly honor to him, and if we encounter someone in an inferior position and who is serious about learning, we should always be merciful. We should try to perform devotional service in a very harmonious way.

Refuting the Impersonalists

When Sri Ramanujacarya officially became the acarya, he began preaching the cult of Sri Yamunacarya very strongly. In South India, two impersonalist sects are very prominent: Saiva and Sankaracarya. Sankaracarya’s followers subscribe to the vedanta-sutras like "sarvam kalvidam brahma" and "tat tvam asi." They think themselves impersonal brahma, and they think everything comes from brahma. The Saiva School considers Lord Siva to be the ultimate truth, and they want to merge into him. This is the basic difference between the two. Sri Ramanujacarya refuted and defeated all impersonalism by his very strong and effective preaching.

La odisea de vivir en Calcutta (Kolkata) II

En los ultimos años Calcutta ha experimentado un boom economico sin precedentes, basicamente impulsado por el exito del sector de Informatica y los BPO centers, (business process outsourcing), los centros de llamadas de atencion a los clientes proliferan como hongos en la ciudad, es asombroso ver como desde Calcutta se atienden los pedidos de pizzas para Miami, Pistsburg o West Virginia sin que el cliente se de la mas minima cuenta de esto!, todo es posible en esta era de las autopistas de la informacion.
Esto ha hecho tambien que cambien el estilo de vida de los miles de jovenes - y no tan jovenes, como yo- que trabajan en este sector, la India tiene una diferencia de casi diez horas con respecto a los Estados unidos, asi que mayormente trabajamos en turnos de noche, nuestran vidas se han convertido en un transtorno, no solamente esto si no que a veces tambien se trabaja con horarios de Australia o El Reino Unido asi que es toda una locura, pero a nadia pareciera importale esto, los empleos en los "Call centres" son muy bien pagados con relacion a los demas trabajos y tienen cierto aire de glamour, que atrae a los jovenes que son la mayoria de los que forman la fuerza laboral en este sector, pero todo tiene sus desventajas, los niveles de stress son grandes, despues de algun tiempo los jovenes terminan dejando estos empleos y en el peor de los casos hasta se destruyen relaciones amorosas debido a que las parejas trabajan en diferentes horarios y no tienen tiempo para ni siquiera hablar!
Pero nada de esto parece detener esta avalancha y asi que tendremos mas de esto por muchos años, asi que cuando llame a un centro de atencion al cliente
no se sorprenda si le contesta alguien en español con un acento Indu!

El camino de la virtud

El largo viaje del alma a traves de la creacion es un ciclo de constantes cambios que comienza desde la misma creacion del Universo cuando la materia se separa de la energia primordial que proviene del creador Supremo; el deseo y el libre albedrio son las causan que llevan a el alma individual a llevar una existencia separada de la Suprema divinidad ocasionando el vagar del alma por los diferentes aspectos de la creacion material hasta que finalmente abandona sus intereses separados y regresa al regazo del divino Creador.
La creacion es de una naturaleza dual, posee dos apectos distintos y opuestos :
a).- La energia espiritual que se origina en el supremo creador, y la cual es fuente primordial de los distintos aspectos de la creacion.
b).-La energia material, que es de naturaleza burda y tiene la propension al deterioro y la degenaracion, pero que a su vez tiene su origen en la misma fuente que la energia espiritual.
La dualidad es un aspecto intrinsico en la creacion, es el principio y el fin, el dia y la noche, Hombre y Mujer, bien y mal, nacimiento y muerte.
Otra caracteristica de la crecion es que es de una naturaleza ciclica y dinamica, de esta manera las caracretisticas de la creacion serian:
1).- Es de Naturaleza dual
2).- Es de Naturaleza ciclica y dinamica.
3).- Es Eterna.
El alma en su vagar por la creacion material pasa por diferentes nacimientos y muertes en un ciclo que parece eterno, la transmigracion del alma o reencarnacion es un proceso natural en la creacion, la ley de la conservacion de la energia, la energia se transforma y se conserva de una manera interminable.
Otra ley predominante en el universo es la ley de la causa y efecto toda accion tiene una reaccion, asi que el devenir del alma depende grandemente de sus acciones.
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La Noche de la luna llena de los tambores

La luna llena del mes de Phalgun marca el dia de la celebracion del Dhol purnima, el festival mas grande junto al Rasa purnima que se celebra en el Pueblo de Nabadwip, siete dias antes miles de peregrinos de distintas partes de Bengal occidental llegan al pueblo para realizar la circumbalacion del mandala que durara una semana y que culmina con la celebracion del nacimiento de Sri Caitanya, el famoso reformador religioso del siglo XVI.
A pesar de ser basicamente un festival Vishnuista mucha de las familias Brahminicas de Nabadwip son seguidores del Shaktismo- el culto a Durga y Kali- y han convertido el festival en una ocasion para celebrar el culto a shakti, tambien es el dia del festival de Holi, el festival de los colores que marca el inicio de la primavera.
Docenas de miles de devotos arriban a Nabadwip llenando las calles, cantando mantras sagrados de glorificacion a Sri Caitanya acompañados de tambores y cimbalos, Dhol significa tambor, todos los templos distribuyen alimentos consagrados al dios Krishna a los miles de peregrinos que realizan austeras penitencias durantes estos siete dias, la atmosfera es de celebracion y jubilo muchos practican ayuno desde el onceavo dia de la luna nueva para purificarse de las contaminaciones materiales.
En el dia de la luna llena se ayuna hasta la salida de la luna, todo el dia transcurre en medio de cantos, danzas y discursos religiosos y finaliza con la toma de un suntuoso banquete de exquisitas ofrendas de alimentos preparadas exclusivamente en honor a Sri Caitanya, el Gran Maestro.

ME ENCANTO ESTA NIñA ES MARAVILLOSA

BIANCA RYAN


Ojala que no terminen dañandola en el mundo del espectaculo.

DURGA

DURGA is SHAKTI, The energy, material energy, this energy comes from a source, which is SHAKTIMAN, energy is femenine in nature, that is why durga is a woman, and Shaktiman is masculine in nature, but both are independent from each other, when the energetic comes in contact with the energy then the material creation is produced, she is the universal mother, that is why she is whorshiped, this is one thing and another aspect is that she represents the elimination of the tendency to control over the material energy, which is impossible and that is an impediment to the spiritual progresive evolution of the spiritual soul, when this tendency is eradicated the spiritual entity is free to break the material strata and joint the supreme spiritual being.

MAKARA SANKRANTI

La noche se confunde en el espacio y en el tiempo y el susurro de las caricias es llevado por la briza de la primavera en los jardines de bambues y los campos de arrozales, el aroma de la tierra al mezclarse con el rio que lleva en sus aguas la pureza de los mistiscos que dejan alli su fe y su amor por la raza humana es un estimulo para meditar en el futuro y cuando comienza a aparecer el divino calor del poderoso sol de las planicies, nos detenemos a rezar por aquellos que queremos, Que el amor del universo os guie en su andar por este tortuoso camino de los muertos.

La odisea de vivir en Calcutta (Kolkata)

Si alguien me hubiera dicho hace 15 años que iba a vivir como un expatriado en Calcutta, lo hubiera mandado al carajo, ahora ni yo mismo puedo creerlo, no solamente esto, si no tambien casarme y tener hijos y no saber si algun dia podre regresar a la tierra en la cual naci, eso me asombra aun mas.

La vida nos da la recompensa de lo que merecemos, pareciera una posicion pesimista o fatalista pero es la verdad, de todas maneras a veces pienso que venezuela a pesar de todas sus riquezas tambien esta teniendo la recompensa que se merece y pienso en que sera mejor.

Yo solo quiero lo mejor para mis hijos, todo padre piensa en esto y como van las cosas en Venezuela no veo un futuro claro, la India a pesar de sus problemas de sobrepoblacion, ha desarollado muchos aspectos que Venezuela aun esta muy lejos de lograr, como por ejemplo su avance en el campo de la informatica, la ciencia e incluso en el campo nuclear.

La India con todos sus problemas se proyecta como una potencia para el 2020 y Venezuela? se proyecta como un pais dominado por un lider con ideologias que ya estan caducadas desde hace mucho tiempo y que no funcionaron incluso en lo que fue la segunda gran superpotencia de siglo xx.