Personal Weblog of Deepak Vasudevan

Devilish attacks on the eve of Kalastami Tumultuous presence of Raja/Tama jeopardizing the Saatwik entities. Hence just thought would dedicate a post to Chottanikkara Bhagavathi who is known to control the ghosts, sorcerers and evil creatures and bring peace in the world.

This is the follow-up of the nefarious hacking solicitation that we discussed a few minutes ago . One other recipient has voiced their opinion. I would like to share the same over here for the benefit of everyone. We would at least this attitude to either use or stay aloof instead of resorting to wickedly misuse of Internet. There is also an advise of refraining from Cc'ing to a huge list of recipients. (Point taken). But at the same time there  hasn't been a pressing issue of Virus Bomb and Unlawful Activities solicitations and hence this had to be alerted to the larger crowd at the earliest. Thank you Srini for sharing your thoughts with others.

I had an unique blissful spiritual opportunity to visit an Ayyappa temple in the vicinity. Being a saturday they were planning to conduct Rudrabishekam. I was thinking they would be conducting this on the Shivalingam and the bhajans for Ayyappa. As a unique blessing it turned out the Rudrabhishekam was performed to Ayyappa itself with the concurrent chanting of Rudram and Chamakam. When around seventy-five per cent chanting was done, the team bifurcated and the second team started on the bhajans.

As you would have observed that I normally start my Sabarimala Ayyappa vratham during my birthday or a  week before or after that. This year this got delayed a bit (?) due to logistics and/or other reasons. But thanks for the magnanimity of Time-God for tolerating my procrastination and allowing me to start the vratham on His birthday . Thank you my sweet Todolist for endorsing and supporting to Time-God to support me.

Astami itself is considered way bit inauspicious and my late grandfather used to comment "அஷ்டமி நவமி என்ன பண்ணும்?" if some one underestimated its prowess.  And for the most, Kala-Astami (short name of Kalabhairavastami) is considered to have an unparalleled hegemony and  unrivaled  leadership amongst other Astami's. A few big attacks on Astami on LavanyaDeepak were: Virus Bomb. Neither did the fr***ing AVG nor Inbox.com able halted it and it came right into the Inbox. Interestingly since it was a screensaver application and I don't trust such apps I got VirusTotal to do a scan for it which let the cat out of the bomb. The sender had included around 500 recipients in the same message besides sending one more spam. I have been ransacking my brains and its archived repositories tremendously to see if I could not recall the sender and if I know him/her but to no avail.  So in a good samaritan gesture I chose to 'Reply All' to the disribution regarding the neces...

Writing onto blogger never became difficult or boring or time consuming to thanks to tonnage of channels they have exposed now. Mail To Blogger Live Writer Blog from Mobile Next: Think and it shall be blogged ?? I just thought if comment moderation can also  be innovated with more channels like YahooGroups message moderation like reply to an unique address and the comment would be either approved, rejected or marked as spam it would be another value addition to the blogger.

There is a saying in Tamil which emphasizes the three basic necessities of life – ‘Food’, ‘Clothing’ and ‘Shelter’. Food forms the basic of everything.  Zynga has put in a considerable effort in bringing out an application called ‘Farmville’ on Facebook to kindle everyone’s interest in agriculture at least from an e-desktop perspective. Just thought of sharing about this game with a snapshot of my farm. Currently planted ‘Cranberry’, ‘Daffodils’ with a Cherry and a Guava tree. Don’t expect fancy things like other farmers. Currently I am not not just a beginner and amateurish farmer but also have a paucity of time to focus on that. No one can underestimate the greatness of agriculture. Only if some one enters the slushy paddy fields we can have a sumptuous food to eat. Even Vivek tells about this in one comedy movie track that even if the world perishes at least the agriculturist would survive.

It was from my sister and kitten that I came to know of a site called ‘ The Free Dictionary ’ which has a very innovative vocabulary game called ‘Hangman’. Now from her profile in Facebook I got to know a similar Facebook-flavored Hangman under the collection ‘ Classic Word Games ’ This flash game is more innovative with multiple levels of difficulty with audio beeps. Of course, play it on a high speed internet connection because of the heavy shockwave flash movie content it downloads for you.

As a followup to my mention of ‘ Sabarimala of the West ’ I was doing a little research on the new temple. I would like to share about a few thoughts which I got with the grace of the Lord. Potomac (for Sabarimala of the West) Pampa (for Sabarimala) The Arindhum Ariyamalum sloka below indicates four places as illustrative for Ayyappa. Potomac river controls four states in its realm: Virginia, West Virginia, Washington DC (Commonwealth State) and Maryland. ஓம் அறிந்தும் அறியாமலும் தெரிந்தும் தெரியாமலும் அடியேன் செய்த சகல குற்றங்களையும் பொறுத்துக் காத்தருள வேண்டும். ஓம் ஸ்ரீ சத்தியமான பொன்னு பதினெட்டாம் படிமேல் வாழும் வில்லாளி வீரன் வீரமணி கண்டன் காசி ராமேஸ்வரம் பாண்டி மலையாளம் அடக்கி ஆளும் ஓம் ஸ்ரீ ஹரி ஹர சுதன் ஆனந்த சித்தன் எங்கள் ஐயன் ஐயப்பா ஸ்வாமியே சரணம் ஐயப்பா [Arindum Ariyamalum Tamil Slokam Courtesy: Sri Ayyappa Seva Sangham, France ]

Let us wish each other a Happy Thanksgiving (the equivalent of India’s Thai Pongal). A few comparison points between ThanksGiving and Thai Pongal. Both are harvest festivals towards showing the gratitude of bountiful harvest to nature, flora, fauna and other contributing entities. Three Day Festival of Pongal: Bhogi, Pongal, Kanu Mattup Pongal. Thanksgiving comes on fourth thursday of November which accompanied by ‘Day After Thanksgiving’ (Friday – TGIF ) and the hearty weekend makes it a rewarding festival. Thai Pongal marks the end of Margazhi month and start of Thai month. Thanksgiving marks the end of fall and beginning of winter. Thai Pongal marks the transition from Dakshinayanam to Uthiranayanam. Thanksgiving presents a seamless transition from fall to winter (which evolves slowly into Seasons period and New Year) Sweet sugarcane is the most sought-after stuff in Thai Pongal. Thanksgiving is associated predominantly with Turkey . Makara Jyothi forms part...

What is Dumpster-Diving? Dumpster diving is a practice in many countries where challenged and/or otherwise type of people look into the trash out of curiosity for usable items. Poor people look out for food and other people try to see if any valuable usable items are available. Check out full wiki story here . Scammers/Credit Thieves use Dumpster Diving Throwing away your bank or or confidential information without proper shredding of the same may get it landed onto the hands of a credit thief. The recent Enthiran movie (Robot in Hindi and Robo in Telegu)  showed the ill-effects of dumpster diving. Having been totally dissatisfied with his robot, Dr. Vasee dismantles and throws away the robot into a landfill dumpyard. The product still has active battery with its neural schema fully functional and intact.  This lands into the hands of his maligned guide (Dr. Bora) who thieves the neural schema diverting it to to make illegal robotic kits for the terrorists. I...

Today I wanted to curse that idiot God who has made me into a Homo Sapiens. I would love to have be a member of Robo Sapiens. On a ThanksGiving eve I would like to request Lord if you could transition me into the desired breed.  I admit that the other shore is always a greener pasture. Nay. I am not crying for the moon. But here are a few things to share: Focused on Task An ability to ensure others is not hurt even unintentionally. An ability to desist from pessimism. Robo Sapiens is always optimistic. At least is aspires to be. At least it makes every small step to move towards the task completion. An ability to refrain from Raja/Tama.

Evil things and evil spirit fast, faster and the fastest whereas the mills of God grind slow but sure. These turn out to be true even for other petty things. Recently I have observed a technical glitch in AOL Webmail Suite. I  had to email some one and there was an inadvertent error in the address. Interestingly, the auto-save contacts on compose clipped the incorrect address even though there was a failure of the email delivery. However at least till this date (more than three ways of repeated conversations with that recipient) the contact is unable to be added automatically and it keeps suggesting the incorrect in the To dialog. This is true in many other aspects as well. Other predominant trend that we witness is as below. People tend to be carried over by mundane presentations and attractions (distractions – would that be more befitting?) rather than the inner truth, which we call by infatuation realizing their folly (deep fried blunder) very later when it is irreversible...

[Activate Command Mode: ‘Lavanya’] Even when I travel for business and/or other reasons I ensure that our spiritual and religious observations are not challenged. Karthigai Deepam is a significant festival as it is called for Saivities (and referred as Pancharatra Deepam for Vaishnavites). Whilst it is said that our female fraternity is best as home managers  in getting the homes lighted up, thanks to my inbuilt guide to get this celebrated in a much grand way. [Command Mode Activated] I also put a Sri Sooktham prayer (YN Sharma and HA Shastry). [Karthigai/Pancharatra Celebration Task Complete]

The Tamil film that seems to have got released around 10th September 2010. It might not be a big box office hit but Super Good Films has truly made a humble endeavor to bring out the love and affection that prevails between a brother and sister. The movie starts in sad moments and ends with tears but moves anyone watching it and makes them realize the true love and affection between a true brother and a sister. Some of the significant observations of the movie are: People tend to be easily carried forwarded by negative suggestions (which are easy to understand and follow) than positive ones (Elixirs were and are never sweet). The brother’s spouse has a serious set of allegations as his sister being a contender for his love towards her. He clarifies the point that who has a true affection to his sister would ensure an unpolluted love for his wife too because he would be in a position to appreciate his sister’s position in her inlaws family. I sincerely thank Pratap for bri...

Whilst browsing through a few facebook posts I came to know that November 23 is birthday (jayanthi utsav) of Puttabarthi Sri Sathya Sai Baba. Let us pray Him for His most kindest showers of blessings. I am here sharing a small Suprabatam of Sri Satya Sai Baba uploaded by ( sainath459 ) for the benefit of everyone. Now this adds another divinity to the month of November.

LavanyaDeepak expresses its heartfelt wishes to everyone on the occasion of Karthigai/Pancharatra Deepam. Let this row of lights eradicate the darkness in the minds. Let this row of lights abolish poverty and sow the seeds of prosperity all over. Let this row of lights spread the brightness of smiles all over.

I came across a virtual pilgrimage video and audio of Sabarimala prepared by P4Panorama website.  It has the evergreen melodious Pallikattu son playing in the background. Check it out here: Sabarimala Pilgrimage Check with your speakers turned on and preferably on a fast broadband connection. [Information Courtesy: Cris Iyer]

Taking our philosophy and practice of November being a birthday month , we would like to again re-emphasize the month of November-December (Mrigashira) also features Kala Bhairava Jayanthi. Every month the eighth day after the full moon day is considered as Kalabhairavastami. Whilst every month’s Kalastami (shortly known for Kalabhairavastami) is considered as Kala Bhairava’s Power Time, the annual jayanthi of Him is considered very auspicious. Source Courtesy: Astroved Bhairava Let us listen to a melodius prayer song of Kalabhairavastakam in the voice of Uma Mohan here. Dog is considered as a vehicle of Kalabhairavan. Hence let us ensure that dogs are not abused and treated with love and affection. Check our our discussion on the need to care for dogs here . Time and tide wait for none. Hence let us ensure that every second is spent with care towards positive things only. Let us favorite Todolist help us in this mission. "If you insult time, yo...

The annual Ayyappa Bhajan conducted by Veeramani Raju and his group has been announced in Veeramani Raju’s official website http://www.veeramaniraju.com/ . It is on 1st December 2010. I just had a quick conversation with him and they were also trying to get some one arrange a LiveStream for the benefit of devotees logging on from across the globe and for those who are not able to attend it in person. Others please mark the calendars to attend the Bhajans and ensure to get the blessings of Lord Ayyappa.

Neither am I Adolf Hitler Neither am I Nethaji Nor am I Anniyan/Aparicit But my objective is simpler. Good people should be saved from suffering. Good people must be made to smile always. When a good soul is made to have tear drops rolling down their cheeks I think the best bet solution is to identify the culprit behind it and and slam a kumbhipakam on them. What is kumbhipakam? Here oil is kept boiled in huge vessels and sinners are plunged in this vessels. What triggered me to research this? A Google Talk conversation. If I respond directly then the other person would feel pity for the evil one because of being kind hearted. Also the other person might start sensing that I am getting disturbed, which in turn would disturb the good ambience. Hence initiating this brainstorming exercise. [Person names are suppressed for privacy reasons.] Source Courtesy:  Archana

About two days back I got a ‘Friend Suggestion’ from the managing director of one of my previous organizations with whom I had a sojourn stay in New Delhi. Since I could not refresh my memory I wrote him back asking if the message was in error and whether I knew him. He responded that out of curiosity he suggested the friend because the suggested contact was actually his friend’s kid who is just eight years old but with an overbubbling enthusiasm in FaceBook You may like to love, recall and appreciate the fact that LD diligently enforces and follows “ Mission SafeSocialNetworking_EcoSystem ”.  

I just got a message from a few asking me if the blog caption styling has changed. Yes. It has changed. I have indicated this in my other blog over here ( http://deepakvasudevan.blogspot.com/2010/10/blog-caption-one-and-top.html) . This styling change was introduced to avoid duplicate captioning bug. <!-- bd_ad_type = 'inline'; bd_ad_id = '35085'; //-->           Posted at 06:02 am by Deepak Kumar Vasudevan     bwl March 22, 2012 &nbsp; 10:22 AM PDT&nbsp;Good one�  bangalorewithlove.com                      sdees March 8, 2012 &nbsp; 07:04 PM PST&nbsp;Amazing the visit was worth� mumbaiflowerplaza.com deepa s January 25, 2012 &nbsp; 03:22 PM PST&nbsp;good one... rosesandgifts.comengineering essays March 12, 2011 &nbsp; 11:29 AM PST&nbsp;Excellent posting her...

Just for a while because of time and other reasons this blog was idle. And spammers and other nonsensical creatures seems to be acting hysterically both in comments and shoutbox. They have been controlled now. There is a good old saying that �Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss� and this turns to be very much true at least with respect to the blogging platform. <!-- bd_ad_type = 'inline'; bd_ad_id = '16051'; //-->           Posted at 05:52 am by Deepak Kumar Vasudevan     Name May 8, 2012 &nbsp; 01:17 PM PDT&nbsp;Amazing the visit was worth� Gurgaonflowerplaza.com     Original BlogDrive Post on Wednesday, November 17, 2010

[Source Courtesy: Dinakaran Aanmeega Malar]

With just around a day for the sacred Karthikai month that marks the start of Sabarimalai Vratham I would like to share the 108 Potri for Sri Sabarimalai Ayyappan. Please share it along with your friends, kith and kin.

Source Courtesy: Dinamalar Aanmeega Malar

Today whilst hearing a few golden melodies the most powerful music that enthralled me was Bombay Jayasree voice of Bharati’s song ‘Ninnai Charanadainthen…’. The lyrics are as below: நின்னைச் சரணடைந்தேன் - கண்ணம்மா! நின்னைச் சரணடைந்தேன்! பொன்னை உயர்வைப் புகழை விரும்பிடும் என்னைக் கவலைகள் தின்னத் தகாதென்று (நின்னை) மிடிமையும் அச்சமும் மேவியென் நெஞ்சில் குடிமைபுகுந்தன, கொன்றவைபோக் கென்று (நின்னை) தன்செய லெண்ணித் தவிப்பது தீர்ந்திங்கு நின்செயல் செய்து நிறைவு பெறும்வணம் (நின்னை) துன்பமில்லை, சோர்வில்லை, தோற்பில்லை, நல்லது தீயது நாமறியோம்! அன்னை (நின்னை) அன்பு நெறியில் அறங்கள் வளர்ந்திட நல்லது நாட்டுக! தீமையை ஓட்டுக!  

Just had a quick opportunity to surf through the photos of my colleague (Pradeepa Nachimuthu) in her facebook profile. I really admire her artistic photographic excellency in capturing the picturesque moments of nature (in the lines of William Wordsworth’s The Daffodils) I hence am sharing a photograph from her album. There is another photo with more exquisite coverage of the daffodils reminding the words “They stretch'd in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay:” but since that photo had persons in the foreground for privacy reasons I am not including that here. If Pradeepa permits me, I can link that album here. Thanks for the excellent album, Pradeepa for:   “For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils."

Sometime back we were discussing about the high resolution image of Sri Ayyappa over here . Just thought I would share the PNG high resolution image of the Lord over here for the benefit of all devotees. I thank the Lord for the said opportunity of sharing the PNG image for the pooja room of all devotees on the following occasions: On my birthday Just a week before the start of the month of Karthigai when the Ayyappa vratham starts . I would also like to remind people that this month Karthigai starts on a very holy Ekadasi day. The ‘Ekadasi’ is very sacred for Lord Vishnu. Besides this, ‘Ekadasi’ indicates the 11th day. The number ‘11’ is most commonly associated and glorified with Lord Shiva as well. This is a very divine blessing because Ayyappa Himself is considered as a complete incarnation and combination of the Trinity.

This day (10th of November 2010) dawned out with enormous jubilation. The Pilot Wish from the Abode of the Chief of the Lords: The joyous thunderous wishes started pouring even from 7th November 2010 with the first birthday wish from Kaattawakkam Viswarooopa Lakshmi Narasimhan temple trust Sri Parthasarathy. Sincere thanks for the breezy sweet wishes that turned on 12 AM Indian Time from the divine city of Srirangam. Gratitude to the thanks from serene city of Seattle at 12 AM New York Time. Heart-felt thanks to my friends from United Kingdom and European Union for the gracious greetings and lovely blessings. The torrential downpour of greetings from Toronto was simply inspiring, encouraging and taking me to great heights. Sweet loves and affectionate wishes from the friend’s neighborhood in FaceBook and Google Blogger. The Birthday Calendar which ran an innovative countdown and wishes in its own novel way: எல்லாப் புகழும் இறைவனுக்கே:

Who told that Sun Network or Raj TV alone can celebrate Birthday Voices in their morning programs? FaceBook brings this to everyone’s delight. As we used to discuss every year regarding the essence of November and enjoyment of birthday month, now Birthday Calendar application on FaceBook clearly indicates that a lot of our friends celebrate birthday around this month. A snapshot of my birthday calendar for November 2010 below:

I n just two days the world celebrates Deepavali. Peninsular India has a history that Deepavali is the day when wicked Narakasura was slain. North India celebrates Deepavali as a return of Sri Rama to Ayodhya after slaying lecherous usurious wicked demon devil king Ravana. Whatever be the objective the bottomline celebration of Deepavali is ‘Victory over the Evil’.   Thalai Deepavali is that Deepavali which comes right after the wedding. I would recall our Kitten’s Wedding celebration post here . A few more of my friends celebrating Thalai Deepavali are: Kothai Vedhantham (aka) Jo (Rajakilpakkam) Vijayalakshmi Seshadri (aka) Viji (aka) Vinodha (Srirangam) Sukanya Sampathkumar (Verizon) Let us wish them a Very Happy Thalai Deepavali .

We should always show the gesture of gratitude to the Lord for bestowing His showers of kindness upon us. Here is a small silverlight application that brings out the acharya daniyans (page by page). I am still amateurish in SL and Graphics so expect content information in it but pardon me for the content presentation. Since I don’t have a Silverlight Hosting available with me, you can download the SL project from here. You need Visual Studio 2010 to build the application and view the same. Alternatively you can view the video capture of the same below.  

If you closely observe the addresses of a few giants and corporates they would are really amusing and inspiring. Here are a few of them: Microsoft: 1, Microsoft Way, Redmond, Washington 98052 WA Verizon: 1, Verizon Way, Baskin Ridge, New Jersey 07920-1097 NJ Oracle: 1910 Oracle Way, Reston, VA 20190 Just thought I would share these observations with other readers too. As an added information, Verizon has one more information to its pride. Verizon Building located in Mid-Town Manhattan is known for its exquisite architecture and majesty. Check out a high resolution snapshot of the same over here:

Everyone of us know about Art of Living by Poojya Sri Sri Ravishankar. But have you come across Art of Driving ? For this we ought to lookup against Chennai and Hyderabad autodrivers.  And the government should truly consider making these auto drivers as national coaches. [Quote Courtesy: Mohan Chandran , a prolific social writer from Hyderabad]