RE: adi udhavum

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thanks for sharing your thoughts.

 

regards/VjPrabha Ramesh <s161464 (AT) emirates (DOT) com> wrote:

excellent one.i am going to share this with all my friends here.thanks and keep

sending good ones like these.regsPrabha Ramesh

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M.G.Vasudevan02 September 2005 13:33oppiliappan;

Cc: ramanujaSubject:

adi udhavumDear sri vaishNava perunthagaiyeer,Many a times it is said while

handling persons or individuals, in particularchildren, punishment is the best

form of motivation. In management parlancealso, it is accepted as 'fear

motivation'. Perhaps it is also added by themanagement experts, that, this may

not always be successful way ofmotivation. This mode of 'giving punishment' has

also lead to

coining a proverb "adiudhavuvadhu pOla aNNan thambi kooda udhava maattaargaL" -

meaning "evenbrothers may not render help like meting out a punishment.Many a

times, I used to wonder how a punishment will help better thanbrothers. After

attending a few management sessions, I was convinced aboutthe genuineness of

the proverb. But always there was the other side, whichwas irking me on this.

Yesterday when I opened a tamil magazine, there srikaanchi mahaa periyavaaL had

given a new dimension to this proverb. Thatmade me to share that new direction

with you all. Hence I am sending thismail. adi does not mean punishment. adi

means paadham - feet - kaaladi - the lord krishNa's lotus feet. Now you read

the proverb again with the new meaning - "adi udhavuvadhu pOla aNNan thambi

kooda udhava maattaargaL" - if you surrender to krishNaa's feet,

those feet will save

youfrom all your troubles - like those lotus feet of krishNa, even

you own brothers willnot help. That is the real meaning for this proverb. Not

the one, we had or meant orconceived all these days, nor the theory stated

above of modern management.Just remember krishNa's charama slOkam - "maam Ekam

charaNam vraja" - "maasucha:". When the surrender is done "yoga kshEmam aham

vahaami" - I willbear all your "yoga and kshEmam". So "adi udhavugiRadhu".

Now link that to the oft repeated kuRal paRRuga paRRaRRaan paRRinai

appaRRaipaRRuga paRRu vidaRku meaning: Catch hold of the feet of that lord who

has no desires, for you toget relieved of the desires.here the word paRRu is

used as 1. a noun meaning paRRu - adi - paadham - feet, 2. another noun paRRu

- aasai - desire 3. verb paRRu - catch or get a hold on those feet of the

lord.That is what is said in that adi in the proverb. So dear

bhakthaas,Hereafter whenever you use this proverb, think of the proverb in the

newlight and not the old stuff, thereby get that eeswara smaraNai

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