Wednesday, August 6, 2008

remembering the great C.S.K

i present here some of my observations and incidents which happened during my Grand Father's{csk} time.
1. one day Mr . Mani , a customer was having a chat with sri C.S.K and in course of discussion Mani was stressing that vibuthi was better for forehead and not nama, Sri csk gave a apt reply in his style that vibuthi being horizontal would make u rotate around this world only and only namam which is straight will take u to vaikundam.
2. after returning from a hotel , sri csk asked us why we had "eccha sooru" as he calls it. we had no reply and he continued..for having "eccha sooru u people paid money too."
3. once while having chat with Dr. Madhavan , C.s.k said "Yama takes life away and you doctors take money also with that....."
4. once i was having a heavy argument ...for name sake{which is called kudrishti and which i am generally gud at} on the topic of karma....sri c.s.k finally ended saying that we have to accept that karma is anadhi and it precedes janma on the strength of texts alone and expatiated vedia texts that speak of the same ..... and also added if u want to argue try reading satha dushini first and learn how to argue.
5. once when i was praising his memory, sri csk replied that apart from patti, every one notices only positives in him and said "if u want to know how bad i am ask patti, she is an expert in that"
6. simply to tease my Gfather i called him and said i am Lingam iyengar and wanted a car repair...he immediately blasted back.."first repair your name then we will see ur car"
7. we used to have a sloka teacher for vishnu sahasranama and tatha came to test him and it was the teachers bad day that he was teaching"padmanabho mara prabhuhu" tatha blasted back at him that "ooye say padmanabah amara prabhuh ...enne vishnu marathikaa prabhu...avan amarargaluku prabhu...ennaaa solitara...."
8. i introduced my school sanskrit teacher who was a gold medalist in sironmani and tatha asked him to explain Desikas sloka in paduka....yaayaayaayaayayaayaaa and my teacher was standing quiet..."tatha replied all ur phd's are not sufficient to understand a single line of vedanta Desika"
after the incident my teacher in school asked me personally"is ur tatha a sanskrit genius" i replied him back ....."not exactly but tatha has great intution and knowledge"
9. damadora Dhishita used to visit us often and on seeing my mantha buddhi he suggested doing saraswathi homam...tahta came to know of this and said " hayagriva stotra is even superior to that and said to dikshitar that ur saraswathi sits like a baby on Lords lap and restated Desika's stotra "
10. once one evening tatha was explaining me the meaning of rudratandava stotra of ravana and rudram and chamakam......i was taken aback and asked him how come u know these things also...he replied" its never bad to know shiva literature as long as one studies it with the thought that Narayana is superior to all"
rest will continue......................