Naam gum jayega

This weekend program of Mahima Shani Dev Ki  is emphasizing the need of our name to be Saatvik  and its effects on our outlook to the world.

The Plot: In the story, the prince rebelled against his father in the coronation and banished his father in Aurangazeb style besides taking his own name as 'Dur-Vijay' in a gesture of temerity to terrorize the world. His sins blinded him to such an extent that he misused his mystic powers to challenge Indra and even to force the apsaras succumb to his lust. Shani intervened in his malicious efforts to penalize him in a very extreme way but narrowly allowing his life. His life was spared because his wife was very pious and god-fearing.

Shani did forgive him at the end because he 'realized' his folly and openly demanded heart's true apology from everyone that he inflicted hurt and on whom he had hurled abuse upon.

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I prostrate before Shani and saluting Him for giving a sneak preview of this knowledge to me several years back thereby gifting me my pen-name which has almost now on-par my statutory name now. You can find out the narration here.  Bolo Shani Dev Maharaj Ki -- Jai.

This post caption inspired by 'Lavanya Panchapakesan Deepak's post of the same title.

Jai Maha Kaal! Om Sham Shaneeswaraya Namaha!

Bing and Symantec Rewards

My Bing rewards just accumulated 541 points last week and had the opportunity to get it converted to an Amazon Gift Certificate ($5). Interestingly the same day, my Symantec account hit into 100 points with a few of my articles being approved by the moderator giving me another Amazon GC of $15.

Be it a Happy New Year 2012 gift or Pongal 2012 bonus or Republic Day of India offer or an advanced Valentine's celebration token, my sincere thanks to Bing and Symantec for the wonderful gifts.

Tidbits of blushing with the ideologies of Bharatiyar

Bharatiyar is known for this radical renaissance thoughts from the perspectives of indian independence and liberating people afflicted with multiple forms of social stigma.  Nevertheless two recent experiences with diversified set of people seems to share a sort of unique hatred to his section of his ideologies (or people mis-using it?)

1. The famous 'Agni Kunju' song. In my previous contractual assignment at VA ('the honeymoon assignment' :) ) there was a stupid desi outsourced partner involved in the delivery of the project. His representative and his team demonstrated heightened forms of damaged communicative abilities and broken English along with their sinister attitude.
   
   And the way they tried to 'run behind the stakeholders like a dog behind a biscuit' and showing a 'pompous' show-offs by pretending to work on weekends made us compare as if his group was attempting to dance in the similar way as the one showed for this song in 'Bharati' movie.
   
   Sorry. No hurt intended for the original actors other than a wild imagination. You can check out the song here.
2. The other thing is a positive gesture. Given that in our current team there is a good amount of Telegu fraternity and the amount of exposure to Telegu conversations in an alien land does  make you feel little amused? Was this the reason for 'Bharathi' to call it as 'Sundara Telengu'?

A note from 'LD Desk' after a long hiatus ...

It had been close to a month since we last met each other. 2012 had been starting up with little tight schedules on Todolist. Nashville and Texas share the similar expressions for me. Days in Texas had been always giving late night stays, offshore calls, production support keeping me real busy even through weekends. Nashville seems to be humbly emulating from it without any demur or delay.

Precisely speaking the honeymooning at VA is complete as a few posts in LD Desk and LD Tech would have already announced. I wouldn't call the waxing/waning period in other words for obvious and diplomatic reasons.

Stay connected through my FB Blogpage and Twitter more frequent updates which can conquer over this time crunch.

"A Gift of the Magi" from Uma to this blogger

I have been trying to locate a  good high resolution clear picture of Lordess Kamakshi at Mangadu for sometime close to an year now. Interestingly the website of Mangadu Kamakshi temple also seems to have only a low resolution picture of the Lordess.

My sincere thanks to Uma from Pammal who endeavored to help in getting a good high resolution image scanned and shared across.

And as a rarest breed of coincidence the scanned image came up on the Christmas Eve day making it a gift of the magi and a greatest divine blissful shower of blessings.

Perhaps, Mangadu Kamakshi had been penancing to Lord Shiva for several years before tying the knots at Kanchipuram and quite similarly it had been months of wait for Her before I could get behold of Her after a long gap.

Update on 27th December 2011: I also emailed to Sri Mangadu Kamakshi Devasthanams the new picture and with a request to them to see if they can publish the newer image on the website for the benefit of all devotees. Today they replied me with the calendar pic of 2012 where they have another divine picture of Sri Kamakshi. Please find the same below:

Thank you Uma and thank you Kamakshi!

Happy Thiruppavai Celebrations and Happy Holidays!

I am glad that I was able to compile and publish Thiruppavai videos along with pasurams in Tamil in my micro-blog. And with the grace of Sri Andal the same has been accomplished, this day (1st day of Margazhi)

திருவாடிப் பூரத்து செகத்துதித்தாள் வாழியே!
திருப்பாவை முப்பதும் செப்பினாள் வாழியே!
பெரியாழ்வார் பெற்றெடுத்த பெண் பிள்ளை வாழியே!
பெரும்புதூர் மாமுனிக்குப் பின்னானாள் வாழியே!
ஒரு நூற்று நாற்பத்து மூன்றுரைத்தாள் வாழியே!
உயரரங்கற்கே கண்ணியுகந்தளித்தாள் வாழியே!
மருவாரும் திருமல்லி வள நாடி வாழியே!

வண்புதுவை நகர்க் கோதை மலர்ப் பதங்கள் வாழியே! 

"Why this kolaveri di?"

Another kind of viral music that is enthralling social networks -- Aishwarya Dhanush' directed film '3' starring Dhanush and Sruti Hassan. Just was leisurely watching the lyrics. Though not a great message in the music but a good youthful rejuvenating time-pass.

Here is a quick youtube link to share out:

Happy Birthday Rajinikanth!

Superstar Rajinikanth celebrates his 61st birthday. Despite being a stunning universal superstar, he is known for his extreme simplicity, respect to elders and god-fearing attitude. Even one of the interviews regarding Enthiran for the next thing he is planning he was observed to show a gesture 'All credits to God'.

That humility and god-fearing attitude is the one taking him to high peaks, fortifying him like anything and the gestures of which we should learn from him.

Let us join him to wish 'Many Many Happy Returns Of The Day'. Enjoy Maadi!

Veeramani Raju's Bhajan on December 1

The annual bhajan for Swamiyae Saranam Ayyappa by Veeramani Raju is being organized at Kamaraj Hall in Chennai. Please schedule your calendars and try to arrange the same. Veeramani Raju has also been kind enough to announce through his Facebook page that they are trying to webcast this year's event through his website as well: http://www.veeramaniraju.com/

Date: 1st December 2011
Time: 1800 hours Indian Time

CORRIDENDUM POST ("Life is Beautiful")

A reader commented on of my previous post as here:

I was little surprised on what triggered the reader to post that way and then realized that it was a contribution of 'Abhiyum Naanum'. In order to dispel any myth and clear the same the specific post has been amended duly.  I regret for the wrong message being propagated and also at the same time delighted to hear from the well-wishers  like you. Thank you. :)

As Raghu says in the climax of 'Abhiyum Naanum', 'Life is beautiful'. Here is a melody from Abhiyum Naanum.


Disclaimer: This song in this particular instance is just a melody to enjoy. No hidden messages to express in anway.

On the other hand I wouldn't mind considering to dedicate the song to my Ayyappa mapping Abhi to Ayyappa:

If 'Lavanya' is 'Ayyappa' then 'Deepak' is 'Hanuman'

I have one habit or weakness which often puts 'bad people' in deep mess and trouble without even my and their knowledge and it helps bring them out to limelight as a service to the society. Perhaps it lights up the darkness created as my 'name' reflects its shine too. Of late, a few desi consulting organization has been duly reported to the labor department here and they are pursuing punitive actions on them besides serving as an eye-opener to others.

Many times I am not myself involved in the so-called unearthing report and/or the so-called detective attempts. The 'Lord' makes it happen through me. Here is my so-called 'habit'. When you give me some concrete information or thing for 'safe custody' and it is a ethical thing then rest assured I can take good care of the same till you or the bona fide owner claims it back. And the confidentiality is assured to two hundred percent. However when the so-called thing happens to be touching the lines of 'unethical gestures',  for some reason I can not keep quiet or just stop by reporting to a few and can only spill it all over causing a massive destruction of the satanic evil force -- a kind of Lanka Dahan by Sri Hanuman.

Perhaps this is another subtle reason for my statutory name being tagged and firewalled by my sweet pen-name as described in 'The name Lavanya' at http://www.lavanyadeepak.tk/

What's in a name?
The 'rose' by any other name does smell sweet fragrant right? Perhaps this habit might also seeded from the name itself. The bad people interestingly share those information with me in many ways only to get burnt off.

The so-called casual introduction happens and after getting the first hand information about them, the bomb gets ignited to blast and annihilate them totally from the face of this beautiful earth.

The name might also be a manufacturing defect introduced by my parents in naming me so. The 'lamp' has a habit of 'attracting' insects and when the insect is within its dragnet it burns it off. Just felt like sharing this after a recent 'good community initiative' of burning a dirty devil insect. A few significant incident samples are:

1. A small-scale software organization in Chennai was 'annihilated' from its India operations (year-ending 2008) due to multiple issues like (1) Intellectual Property Violations (2) Misuse of Microsoft Credential like MCP certifications and MVP recognitions of the employees and (3) Untoward gesture of a few handful of middle-managers with female employees accompanied by the callous gesture of the top management. The corporate headquarters at MN can be investigated for the complete incident if needed.
2. A rogue near Tambaram was made to confess of his 'concubine relationships' hysterically from his own mouth in 2009. His malicious gestures were forced out of his own mouth.
3. A desi consulting organization based in VA has been unearthed about shady HR practices ranging upto duping of Social Security Administration. No further details available as of now.

Hence it is up to the other party to address me as 'Lavanya' or 'Deepak' or 'Lavanya Deepak'. But just by routing through 'L' can not save you from the wrath of 'D' which will prove more catastrophically disastrous in the long run.

Life is beautiful!

We already covered about the crowning feedback in the birthday month. At the same I am also indebted to express my heart-felt thanks to Mark Zuckerburg for the amazing community that he has  created bringing long-lost people back into the network. Whilst this is the plus-point of Facebook, it also does help you in identifying the rotten samples amongst the basket of apples so that you can remove them in the first instance.

At the same time I am delighted to have a blissful show of bountiful greetings on the birthday month which just poured like incessant rose petals right a week before the birthday itself.

Face is the index of the mind and a diligent careful use of Facebook in turn helps as a valuable fathom to assess the veracity of the entities in your network.