जग में सुन्दर है दो नाम ...

One of the most beautiful melodies (enchanting devotional melodies that one would love to listen always) penned and sung by Anoop Jalota.

जग में सुन्दर हैं दो नाम |

चाहे कृष्ण कहो या राम  ||

बोलो राम राम राम |

बोलो श्याम श्याम श्याम ||

माखन ब्रिज में एक चुरावे | 

एक बेर बिलनी के खावे || 

प्रेम भाव से भरे अनोखे |

दोनों के हैं काम ||

चाहे कृष्ण कहो या राम ||

एक ह्रदय में प्रेम बदावे |

एक ताप संताप मिटावे | |

दोनों सुख के सागर हैं ||

और दोनों पूरण काम |

चाहे कृष्ण कहो या राम ||

एक कंस पापी को मारे |

एक दुष्ट रावण संहारे ||

दोनों धीन दुःख हरत हैं |

दोनों बल के धाम ||

चाहे कृष्ण कहो या राम ||

एक राधिका के संग राजे |

एक जानकी संग बिराजे ||

चाहे सीताराम कहो |

या बोलो राधेश्याम ||

चाहे कृष्ण कहो या राम ||

Thanks to weirdindia for sharing the Anoop Jalota's Bhajan over here:

Note: A maiden venture of LavanyaDeepak in the desh bhasha (National Language) of Bharatvarsh (India)


Inspiration: Artmap

Daylight -- Harnessing its advantages

In less than a fortnight we would need to push our clock an hour ahead to welcome spring ('Spring Ahead Fall Back' axiom of Daylight). I  hear from a few people that Daylight means trauma in a number of perspectives:

1. When you have offshore units to interact and particularly with Far-East and Asia Pacific when they call you it becomes really late in the night.
2. Adjusting time manually is an headache.

I would say we can take this in a very positive way to induce more energy, optimism and thus enhancing our personal and professional productivity to greatest levels. Here are my propositions:

1. Avoid interacting with the Far-East and Asia-Pacific over the  night. You can prefer to have the conversations early in the morning (that would be early evenings for them). Also since you get to interact from evening you gain a good control over the progress of the work besides the fact that early morning work for us would also gain more productivity. It is actually a Win-Win offer.
2. Adjusting time manually is a boon. We tend to get early and thus the harness the benefits of Brahma Muhurtha. 

So next time we see some one lamenting pessimistically on Daylight just give him a pat on his back and ask him to look towards the sunshine it brings along with it.

A new Nandhi in my Pooja Room

A few months back I saw a sweet Nandhi in Dollar Tree store. But I wanted to be sure regarding the appearance of the bull with the Nandhi. But when I visited the store again the bull wasn't in stock. Requests to replenish the stock both at the store and Dollar Tree corporate Facebook page wasn't of much avail. Interestingly today I visited another store of the outlet in the neighborhood which had a few stock of the bull. Hence got Him and placed Him in the altar.

A quick round of Rudra Parayanam in the melodious voice of Uma Mohan followed it. Also find a small video of it below.

It is the most greatest feeling of jubilant bliss to welcome Nandhi on the Maha Shivarathri weekend.

Om Namo Bhagavate Rudraya Vishhnave Mr^ityurme Pahi |

Prananam Granthirasi Rudro Ma Vishantakah |

Tenannenapyayasva || 6||

Namo Rudraaya Vishhnave Mr^ityurme Pahi

|| Om Shantih Shantih Shantih ||

Lyrics Courtesy: Shree Rudram

The Holy Wednesday 2011 (Maha Shivarathri) is just 7 days away ...

This day next week (March 2 2011) is Maha Shivarathri, the most auspicious day for everyone across the universe dedicated to the worship of Lord Shiva. A few people ask about the worship modes of Shivarathri and whether they should fast only day or night of Shivarathri.

I would like to draw the inference to the quote from Bilvastakam as below:

Indu vaare vratham sthithwaa niraahaarO mahEshwarah |
naktham hauShyAmi dhEvEshA Eka bilvam shivArpaNam ||


"Often we mistake "upavas" for "niraharam". While upavas is
establishing intimacy (mental) with the Lord, niraharam is fasting
which facilitates concentration and channelization of our energies.

The Dhramashastras prescribe both upavas and niraharam on
Shivarathri while giving concession for the old, the weak, the sick
and the diseased etc. It also advocates light food - "upAhAram" for
those who can be stable with little food.

Shasthras are really flexible and practical. We SHOULD adopt only
those tenets of shasthras that suits our body, family and social
conditions. Would it not be wise to eat something "satwik" and
worship the Lord happily instead of getting destracted by hunger ?

A more specific answer to your query would be that the tradition is
to fast completely during the day and night of Shivarathri, while
worshipping the Lord and breaking the fast the next day by partaking
food along with fellow devotees - called "pAraNam". This tradition
is still followed in rural areas where the social bondages are stillstrong." [Source Courtesy: Srinath Ram]


I would also like to quote the URL of 'Maha Shivarathri' website for more information here.

Waking up my Lord with the sweet enchanting voice of Uma Mohan's team

Monday morning as I woke up today just felt like switching on the Audio Player with Amruthavarsha Vol 4 (Audio book) which has the following songs:


01. Introduction
02. Venkatesha Suprabhaatham
03. Venkatesha Sthotrhram
04. Venkatesha Prapathi
05. Venkatesha Mangala Shaasanam
06. Raama Sthothram
07. Raama Ashtakam
08. Raama Karnaamrutham
09. Krishna Sthothras
10. Krishna Karnaamrutham
11. Hari Ashtakam

The classic Venkatesha Suprabatham in Uma's unique rendition mode of soft soothing music is sure to make the Lord a sweet kid and to give Him a pleasant wake-up call. The other slokas are for sure to boost you with good energy to welcome a new business week with more vigor and passion ensuring that you are spiritual all the way through.

Just thought would share this across here. For those interested you can order Amruthavarsha Vol 4 from a local music store or check out from from the following:

1. Pragnya

Ensure that you are also 'liking' the fan page of Uma Mohan on Facebook here.

Om Namo Venkatesaya!!!!

Operation Assistance :: A Sting and Results

Many times we have witnessed that a few people have the habit of approaching you only when there is a need for them or there is something that they would need get accomplished through you. And once the need is accomplished they just forget you totally. The worst part is that sometimes they don’t even consider a gesture of gratitude (acknowledgement/thanks) to you.

People are slowly forgetting the Thirukkural’s guidance on gratitude which says that people who forget to show gratitude are simply unpardonable in all the worlds.

எந்நன்றி கொன்றார்க்கும் உய்வுண்டாம் உய்வில்லை 

செய்ந்நன்றி கொன்ற மகற்கு

Me and my friend wanted to share this thought along with two quick case studies. Our guinea pigs for the casestudy were two big corporates based out of chennai – One in Software and other in real estate.

1. Swagatham Info Media Company [Contact Person for our Lab Experiment: Sujatha Rajesh]
2. Akshaya Homes [Contact Person for our Lab Experiment: Ram (aka) Ramachandran]

Our modus operandi was simple. We wanted to help them by showing a few caveats in their organization, issues in the website, share suggestions for improvements, help them with cost-effective measures for the business. Then to ask them a small favor in return. All things non-monetary strictly.

Whilst they kept acknowledging the favors bestowed upon them smilingly the moment we requested if there was an opportunity for a web designer (we referred some one choosing from Naukri.com after getting his consent verifying that he is good in attitude but challenged economically) they started to show a different color.

1. Sujatha was replying to us in a hard and harsh tone fabricating stories and giving an impression that she is suffering from a perceived hallucination that the way of request was not good, resume was worst and so on and so forth.
2. Ram started to give cock-and-bull stories that he was in a customer call and then travelling and such crazy things.

Just thought we would share these case-studies with the readers so that people be aware of such creatures mixed in them. We are not cared about their return of service to us. The objective of this sting is to bring such blacksheeps to the limelight of the general public.  By just taking a free lunch from their side they have ended up in owing to us if not in this birth but in subsequent births. 

Religiously intolerant people!!!!

Just wanted to rant about a couple of crazy hysteric entities that I had witnessed in my previous organization and in another team in the current organization. Not sure why people are so fond of and are driven by their religion even in this age. Religion is going to be a personal issue and people take some sort of weird sadistic happiness in making the most of it to pepper and spruce up their bestial pleasures.

And particularly a good percentage of Indian christians seems to be nurturing this ill-will and hatred to other religions. I had a talk with some one last week. He was telling that Indian christians are mostly 'converted' guys and they are just behind making fast bucks by fabricating figures and getting money from foreign organizations and they do all sorts of these crappy things. Besides they also try to garner the support of local political parties to support their malefic intentions.

I think we would need to get christian organizations like Roman Catholic church and others to chip in and bring an embargo on the dirty movements that are going on in our country which are bringing a bad name to the holy religion of Christianity.

I just thought would share the song from Bharathi which proves such acts as heights of extremism and political folly.

The Sunday Discovery -- Kelunni Asha Revathy's Official Website

Today whilst casually browsing the internet I came across the versatile actress 'Revathy's official website. Check it out too http://www.revathy.com/. Revathy is for sure always-vibrant dynamic actress with good movies that speak of her name and fame breaking the preposterous sway of time on mundane things.

Be it a romance discotheque as in Punnagai Mannan, the most naughty pet kid in a joint family (Mouna Ragam), an affectionate-turning-understanding spouse (as turns out during the climax scenes of Mouna Ragam) are all testimonies to her.

Wishes to Revathy Asha for her continued and all-round success in all her ventures!!!!

Cheerful Good News to all birthday babies of 11 February!

If you closely observe 11 02 (Feb) 2011 it would read the same both forward and backward.  Please note that this is applicable only in dd/mm/yyyy format.

dd mm yyyy

11 02  2011

11022011/11022011

Let us again join together to wish all the birthday babies of 11 February 2011 'Many Many Happy Returns of the Day'.

Source Courtesy: India Jai Ho

My sweet-kid (Sigi)'s 10th birthday on March 8

Sitagita as she is called and affectionately called as Sigi, would celebrate her 10th birthday on March 8. She was born in the year 2000 March 8 in a humble family setup at Apcom Computers. She had her early schooling at Sify Women portal. You can meet her here: http://sitagita.com/ or through Facebook page here.  A childhood photo of Sigi is enclosed along with this post. Her cute animated bird logo with wings flapping and the enchanting babbling quote "A woman's own space. In Cyberspace" is for sure to enthrall anybody.

Sitagita.com was my first web development project after passing out from college. Interesting modules like 'Thought for the day', 'Wedding Checklist Planner', 'Get a Certificate', 'Shopping Cart' are all things that can never be forgotten. Each and every step was a great learning in SitaGita.com. Each and every moment with my pet was a jubilant funtime. Sigi was then developed in Microsoft ASP 2.0 with SQL Server 2000.

Sigi: I love you darling!

Just thought I would share this out in my blog.

Is it a dual Valentine's day for me?

Feb 14 is the Valentine's Day wave sweeping its glory and bliss across the universe. Feb 11 assumes another moment of pride and prestige for me since I get to celebrate it as 'my Valentine's' day and the birthday of my better half.

With this Feb 11 expands as an extension of the usual 'November Birthday Month'. In a little moment of jubilation let us open up celebrating this day with The LavanyaDeepak Network's birthday song.

Happy Birthday Dear!!!! Have a blast!