ನನ್ನ ಊರಿನ ವಿಶೇಷತೆ

                                          ನನ್ನ ಊರಿನ ವಿಶೇಷತೆ

ರಾಜ್ಯದೆಲ್ಲೆಡೆ ಚುಮು -ಚುಮು ಚಳಿಗಾಲ
ಆದರೆ ನನ್ನ ಊರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಎರಡೇ ಕಾಲ : ಮಳೆಗಾಲ ಮತ್ತು ಬೇಸಿಗೆಕಾಲ ;
ಮಳೆಗಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ಆಕಾಶವೇ ತೂತಾದಂತೆ ಮಳೆ ಮತ್ತು ಬೇಸಿಗೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ನೆತ್ತಿ ಸುಡುವಷ್ಟು ಬಿಸಿಲು
ಆದರೂ ಸಹನೀಯವಾಗಿದೆ : ಹೆಚ್ಚಾಗಿದೆ ರಾತ್ರಿ ಮತ್ತು ಕಡಿಮೆಯಾಗಿದೆ ಹಗಲು !

The judgement

                                        The judgement

This incident happened in the times of Tenali Ramakrishna.
One day a youth and an old man came near Ramakrishna. They were arguing on one matter. They believe that Ramakrishna may give them the justice. The problem is youth had given a diamond near old man to keep safely as he was going to neighbouring town. But after returning and asking ,Old man is not ready to return the diamond. Now dispute is in Ramakrishna's court.
Ramakrishna listened to them. He asked the old man whether youth is telling true? Old man didnt reply. Instead he gave his walking stick to Ramakrishna and he faced the sky and told " I promise on God that I have returned diamond".
Instantly , Ramakrishna gave that walking stick to youth . Youth was disappointed. He had thought that Ramakrishna may help him in solving this matter. Instead of that, he is giving him the walking stick ! Ramakrishna asked the youth to go home and break the stick.
Youth went home. After some time, he broke the stick in center. To his surprise, there was the DIAMOND ! Now ,youth realised why Ramakrishna had given him the stick.

A folk tale

                                   A folk tale

Long ago, there lived duo of brothers. Elder brother is very rich. But not younger. Elder brother threw his brother  out of his house. Younger brother for his living, was cutting dead trees in forest and selling them in market. One day, when he was working, he saw a wounded sparrow struggling to fly. He lifted the sparrow with sympathy and brought sparrow to his house.
He treated it well with medicines. Soon sparrow was feeling fine and was about to leave. Before to that in gratitude, it gave  younger brother a seed and asked him to plant it. Likewise, he did. It has grown up to become a big tree. It was full of fruits.
Younger brother plucked a fruit. When he opened it, it was full of diamonds. Younger brother was very happy. By selling them, his powerty vanished and he became rich. His elder brother got jealous of him. Even he went to forest. But he could not find the wounded sparrow.
Tired as he is, he shot a stone to a sparrow and wounded it. Now, he brought the wounded sparrow to his house  and treated its wound. Soon ,sparrow became allright. Even this sparrow gave elder brother a seed and asked him to plant it. Elder brother happily did that dreaming that he will become even more rich. Seed has grown up to a big tree.
Even it is full of fruits. Elder brother plucked one of fruits and cut it. Alas ! it is full of sand. Each and every fruit is of same character. Elder brother soon lost all his wealth too.

Why goddess Kali has elongated tongue?

                                      Why goddess Kali has elongated tongue?

In the photos of Goddess Kali, it is always shown that she is having an elongated tongue. There is a story behind that.
There was a demon called Rakta Beejasur. He had been granted a special boon that if a single drop of his blood touches ground, then twice of his replicas will be born with much more strength ! This boon made him invincible in battle field.
Everyone tried to defeat him. But because of his boon, their effort is going in vain. So all of them prayed to Goddess Durga to help them. Durga faught with demon. But even she was tired soon. There would be many more demons as soon as his blood touches ground.
Durga took the form of Kali. She started to fight. Now she is aware that demon's blood must not touch ground. For that reason, as soon as demon got wounded and started to bleed, Kali elongated her tongue and covered whole ground.
Since his blood didnt touch ground, Kali could easily defeat and kill the demon. That's why in the pictures of Goddess it is been shown that she is having elongated tongue.

Sacrifice of Dhadichi

                                          Sacrifice of Dhadichi

Dhadichi was a saint. At that time, there was a demon named Vrutrasura. He had got a boon that anything made from wood or metal can not kill him. This made him invincible day by day. Since there is always fight happens between devas and demons, Vrutrasura now eyes heaven. Because of his trouble and also their inability to win over him, devas all went near Bhagawan Vishnu.
Vishnu listened to problems faced by devas. He knew that the demon got a boon . Vishnu said to devas that if ammunition made by bones of a saint, it will help them to win over the demon. He said saint named Dhadichi may help them.
Listening to that all the devas including their king Indra, went near saint. They said their problem to him and also said the remedy recommanded by Vishnu. After listening to that , Dhadichi smilingly said that it is a great honour for him that devas selected him for the noble cause. He said he will attain his death by yoga and after that devas can use his bones for making ammunition.
Likewise, devas made Vajrayudha from his back bone and many other ammunition from his bones. With that ,devas could kill the demon in their next battle. Dhadichi was henceforth remembered for his sacrifice so that devas could win over demon.

Paradox of life

                                            Paradox of life

One day, a mother hurriedly parked her car near a medical shop. She was in hurry since her daughter is very ill. Mother figured out that her daughter has caught fever and to buy medicines, she is in medical shop. She bought the medicine and came near her car.
To her horror, she has kept the car door keys on driver seat itself. In a hurry, she got down and closed car door. But car keys are inside the car itself. Now, she didnt know what to do. She rang to her house . Maid picked the phone.
Mother told everything to maid . Maid said if mother can find a hanger, using that, car door can be opened. To her good luck, mother found a broken hanger nearby. But she doesnt know how to open car door using a hanger. Maid also could not explain correctly.
With no other way out, mother waited for some person to come on street . She prayed to God to help her. That time itself, a man wearing a faded trousers and shirt and with a unshaven face had come on bike. Mother thought, how can this man help whereas he only needs help !
But she guestured him to stop and explained her problem. She showed him the hanger also. Passerby assured her that he will help. In a fraction of a second, using the hanger he opened the car door. Mother was speechless. She thanked passerby and said that like an angel he had come to her rescue. She went on thanking him.
Passer by stopped her from thanking. He said he is no angel but a thief. He has experiance in opening car doors with a hanger and stealing valuable things inside the car. Police had caught him and he is out on parole now. He was going to meet his family.
Listening to that, mother was dumbfounded. God surely sent her a help but in a new and unexpected way!

Method to prepare dryfruit payasam

                                     Method to prepare dryfruit payasam

Ingredients

Milk - As per requirement
Sugar- 3 spoon
Dryfruits- Cashew nuts, grapes, almonds, pista etc. - 1 cup
Cardomom powder - For taste
Bananas - 1 - sliced

Method

First put the milk to boil. At the same time fry the dryfruits in ghee . After milk starts boiling, transfer the fried dryfruits to milk. Mix and once again heat them. After that switch off gas stove and add cardomom powder. Lastly add cut banana . Now, payasam is ready.

Akbar-Birbal story

                                  Akbar-Birbal story

One day, Akbar put a question to his court to say who is content in his life. One minister said whoever has money with him, he is content in his life as he can afford all luxuries of life. Another minister said the merchants are content people as they dont have to worry about any goods. They themselves have everything. But Birbal was silent.
Akbar asked Birbal what he thinks? Then Birbal replied " According to me, whoever die with a feeling of satisfaction in their life are people having content in their life". Akbar liked the answer and awarded Birbal the reward.

Justice given by lion

                                          Justice given by lion

There was a tiger in the forest. He was very hungry. That time itself, he saw  a deer passing. He thought if he kill the deer , he can quench his hunger. Tiger was stealthily following deer. That time itself, a leopard jumped from a tree and killed the deer.
Tiger is now angry. It said to leopard that he was following deer in order to kill it. But leopard had cheatingly killed it. So, dead deer must belong to him. By hearing this, leopard is angry. It started arguing. Quarrel started. By hearing the chaos, a lion came near them. Both tiger and leopard asked lion to give justice after saying their problem.
Even lion was hungry. He thought nice pray has come to him by itself. But lion seriously told the other two that it is difficult to judge who is stronger between them. Thats why, a fight must be arranged between two and whoever wins the fight, he will have the dead deer.
Both opponents agreed to this. They started fighting. As both of them are strong, they badly hurt each other. As a result both of them died there itself. Then lion had the dead deer.

Story of Shakuntala

                                                    Story of Shakuntala

There was a king by the name Dushyant. He was a good administrator. One day Dushyant went for hunting. There he came near the ashram of saint Kanva. There was a beautiful lady watering the plants. By seeing Dushyant , she invited him to her house as now he is her guest. For Dushyant, it was love at first sight. He happily went with lady.
Then he came to know that the lady is none other than adopted daughter of sage Kanva, Shakuntala. By that time, even she was fond of him. Both of them got married . After some days, Dushyant remembered his duty and said to Shakuntala that he will leave. He had put a ring to her finger and said it is the token of love of him to her. Shakuntala is now pregnant.
She was spending much of her time thinking about Dushyant. By this time, sage Durvasa came to her house. Engrossed in her own thoughts, Shakuntala didnt notice him. Sage got angry and cursed Shakuntala that whoever she is thinking of, that person will forget her.
Shakuntala by this time realised her mistake and asked for mercy with sage. Sage is now calmed down and told her that if she shows the ring she was wearing to that person, he will remember her. By this time, her father had come back. He realised what had happened in absence of him and decided to send Shakuntala near her husband.
Shakuntala was travelling in a boat. There she lost the ring she was wearing while playing in water. Shakuntala met Dushyant. But because of curse, he didnt remember her. Instead he insulted her. Shakuntala was devastated and called her mother, Apsara to take her.
The ring Shakuntala had lost ,was eaten by a fish. A fisherman caught that fish. While cutting it, he saw the royal ring. He came near Dushyant and showed him the ring. By seeing that, Dushyant remembered everything and went in search of his wife.
While passing through a forest, he observed a boy playing with lion cubs. Dushyant was captivated by looks of boy and started talking to him. At that time, Shakuntala came there calling the boy. Boy is her son, Sarvadaman. By seeing Dushyant with the boy, she said boy is his son.
Dushyant apologised for what had happened. Then afterwards, Dushyant and Shakuntala lived happily.

Curious monkey

                                        Curious monkey

There was work going on for Temple in outskirts of city. Many people are working for the project. It was afternoon time. Hence they all went to have lunch. That time, a group of monkeys came by that way. They were surprised to see all those materials.
Among them, there was a curious monkey. It was so fancied by seeing all those building materials. It took a log which was kept there for making pillars of temple. It had a hole in it. Curious monkey first put its hand on the hole. Then taken it back.
Now monkey is all sure that log is harmless. It started playing with log. In a playful mood, it had put its leg inside the log. But now, its leg is bigger than the size of hole and hence it could not take it back. Monkey called all of his friends. But it is of no avail.
Now monkey can not walk with log attached to its leg. Friends have left seeing that they cant do any help. Then workers came back having their lunch. They saw the monkey with the log. By seeing them, monkey was scared. It started to roam and tried to hide itself.
In that process, it had hurt itself. Because of bleeding, monkey died soon.

Story from Tulunadu

                                           Story from Tulunadu

Long ago, in Tulunadu( Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts) there lived a couple named Koosappa and Sesi. For many years they didnt have any siblings. They prayed to deity Panjurli. Thus born a girl child named Lakshmi. Sesi was very happy.
She decided to celebrate the occasion by inviting their relatives to house. Sesi decided to make jack fruit gidde which is famous in this region. She told Koosappa to go to forest and fetch leaves which are required in preparing gidde.
Koosappa went to forest and found the perticular tree. But leaves are not reachable from ground level. Hence ,he decided to climb the tree. He didnt notice a lion was watching his every step. When he was about to get down, he saw the lion.
Lion said if he surrenders his child Laxmi to it, it will allow him to get down. Koosappa had other way out, agreed for that condition. After reaching house, he told everything to his wife Sesi. Sesi started crying. At that time, Koosappa had an idea.
After several weeks, lion came to Koosappa's house. It remembered him the promise he had made. Then Koosappa showed lion a way to room and said Lakshmi is inside the room. Lion went inside the room. There was Lakshmi lied down covered with a white blanket. Sesi was crying in corner. Lion asked the reason with Sesi. Sesi replied Lakshmi died because of high fever and she is crying because Koosappa had gone to perform  last rites.
Lion went in search of Koosappa. It found Koosappa in the cemetry  igniting a flame. It asked with Koosappa the truth. When Koosappa replied positively, lion jumped to ignited flame and died. Koosappa came back to home and was happy that his drama was successfull.

Method of preparing orange lussy

                                  Method of preparing orange lussy

Ingredients

Orange
Sugar
Curd
Jeera powder
Salt

Method

First take orange in a mixie jar, add sugar and grind them. Now filter them to a bowl and take only the juice. Now add curd. Mix them well. Finally sprinkle jeera powder and salt to taste. Now orange lussy is ready to taste.

Merchant of death

                                              Merchant of death

One day Alfred Nobel was reading newspaper. He was surprised to find his name in obituary column of paper. He just pinched himself to make sure that he is not dreaming ! Out of curiosity, he started to read the column to find out what has been written about him.
That time, he had invented Dynamite which is used to break solid rocks without difficulty. But many people had died using that. But Nobel had got good amount of money by selling the technology. That's why in news paper, they had called him as  merchant of death.
Nobel was very disturbed by that phrase. He thought he will be remembered by next generation by that name itself. He didnt want that . That's why he established a society to recognise and give medals to whoever works for peace in world.
That society is giving now Nobel prize not only for peace workers for those who have done notable work in physics, chemistry etc. since Nobel himself had interest in all those fields. Now Nobel prize is very popular. Atlast, Nobel is remembered for his good work.

Learning things by themselves

                               Learning things by themselves              

In a kingdom, there was this gardener. He was working in garden of King. King was pleased by his hardwork. One day, King wanted to reward gardener for his hardwork. Hence, he offered some money to gardener. But gardener softly refused it.
One day, a man from neighbouring  country had come to King's court. He had brought some mangoes which are famous in his country. He offered them to King. King ordered gardener to cut it and serve him. Gardener did the same. Mangoes were tasty. King asked gardener to taste them. But gardener said if he can have the seeds of mango, he will have one.
King thought it is a weird idea for asking the seeds of mango instead of tasting them. But he fulfilled the wish of gardener. Gardener took it and left. Days passed. King had forgotten about the incident. One day, gardener insisted King to come with him for a while.
King went with gardener. Then gardener took him to royal garden and presented him the pieces of mangoes. King tasted them. He thought he had tasted them earlier also and had liked them. King said the same thing with gardener.
Gardener said the mangoes are from the seeds of neighbouring state. King was very surprised.Then he realised why gardener had refused the pieces to taste. Instead he had asked for seeds so that he can grow them here itself. Now, King can relish them at any time he wants.

Esope's moral story

                                           Esope's moral story

Long ago, there lived an old woman. She was not having anybody to look after her. That's why she was having pets with her. To feed them, she had 2 maids also. The maids were in a mood to enjoy. But here, lots of work for them. Old woman was waking them as soon as her hen was shouting as soon as Sun rises and from that time onwards, maids had to start work.
Maids were fed up of this daily routine. Both sat together and started to think of some idea to escape from the work. They realised its all happened because of hen's shouting in morning. Hence they decided to kill the hen and to bury the dead body somewhere and not to tell old woman.
Old woman was having weak eye sight. She could not come to know absence of hen. One day passed. Maids were happy that their plan worked properly. Later the day, old woman realised hen is not there. She asked the maids. But they acted like they dont know anything.
Next day,old woman now being knowing that hen is not there to wake her up, could not sleep properly in night. She thought that sun has rised already. But it was still midnight. She woke her maids and ordered them to start working.
Now, maids realised they have lost small amount of sleep also.

Story of Ashtavakra

                                          Story of Ashtavakra

It was the time, when King Janaka was ruling. In his kingdom, there was a sage by name Uddhalaka. His profession was teaching. In his school, there was a student named Kahoda. He was intelligent. Uddhalaka got married his daughter Sujata to Kahoda.
Now Sujata is pregnant. One day, Kahoda was chanting some words. Then a voice said him that his pronounciation is not right. Kahoda looked everywhere. But could not find anyone. But he again heard the voice. It was of the still to be born his child.
Kahoda was very angry. He thought this child now itself, pinpointing his weakness. Hence he cursed the child to born with abnormalities. His curse was true. Child born with abnormalities. Hence he was named as Ashtavakra (having 8 types of abnormalities}.
Ashtavakra was very intelligent and studious. One day, there was a competition in King's court. Whoever will lose in competition, they have to accept his defeat and must immerse himself in water. Being knowing this condition. Kahoda participated and lost.
As per condition, he accepted his defeat, and got immersed in water. Back home, everyone was waiting the arrival of Kahoda. But he never returned. Then, they came to know of truth. Ashtavakra decided to get his father back. He went to participate in competition.
Ashtavakra won in competition.  And he got his father back from water also. Ashtavakra taught the King some ideas to achieve happiness. They are famous as "Ashtavakra Geeta"

Problems of lazyness

                                        Problems of lazyness

Everyone knows God Ganesh rides on mouse. One day, this mouse sat in a corner and started to think "I carry God on my back.  So, he has to look after me. Today I will not go to find food. I sit chanting name of God. He will provide me food".
Like this thinking, he sat in a corner. A rabbit was his neighbour. Both were going together in search of food.  But today, mouse didnt come. Rabbit came looking for mouse. Rabbit was surprised by seeing mouse sitting in a corner. Rabbit asked for reason with mouse.
Mouse said everything with his friend. Even rabbit thought there is truth in it. He thought when mouse can get food just by chanting the name of God, why  should I work hard in order to quench my hunger?. Even he sat with mouse chanting name of God.
By seeing them sitting ,chanting name of God. a passerby which is a goat was surprised. He came near them asking the reason. When they told him the reason, goat started laughing. Goat said " It is true that God will look after us. But that does not mean that we must sit idle without doing any work. God will surely help if we chant his name when doing our work.So, our lazyness must not be a reason for chanting God's name. God will not like it".
By listening to this, mouse and rabbit were ashamed of their foolishness and got up to find their food.

Mind as monkey !

                                     Mind as monkey !

One day, master was teaching his student how to meditate. Master said to student to concentrate on only one object and not to let the mind to wander as monkey. Student agreed. Then master left on some other work. Student started to meditate.
He sat on a place where it is almost clean and noise level is also less. He closed his eyes and tried to focus on only one object that is God. But to his dismay, whenever he tried to focus, the thing his master told him not to let mind to wander as monkey used to come before him. !
He tried very hard to forget all the unnecessary things but he could not. Atlast, fed up of this, he came back near his master and told him what had happened. Master was all smile. He said to his student that is how the concentration has to build up. If some other things comes to our mind also, we must not let it to continue and should carry on our goal.
Listening to that,again student went to meditate and this time he was successfull by following the method told by his master.

Hands of love

                               Hands of love

There was this oldman in hospital. He suffered a massive heart attack. The hope that he may live after that attack is very low. He was lying down on bed. No one were around of him. At that time, nurse came inside with an adult. She said to old man that his son has come to see him. A smile came on face of old man. Old man called youth near him.
Young man came near old man. He held the hands of old man firmly. Old man was very happy. He said till now, no one has come to see him or to talk with him. Young man talked with old man with compassion. Even old man told all his feelings near his son.
That night  young man stayed near old man. But on that night itself, old man breathed his last. Young man didnt know what to do. He called the same nurse who had showed him his father. He said that old man has died. He asked her, the address of old man.
Nurse was surprised. She asked him why is he asking the question whereas he himself is the son of oldman. Then young man replied " I dont know who is that old man. But I observed that he was waiting for someone with whom he can share his feelings. He was so weak that he could not diffrentiate between me and his own son. But now he got peace atlast. I am happy for that"
Nurse stood with stunning face.

Method to prepare Baasundi

                                     Method to prepare Baasundi

First take milk in a pan. Quantity depends on persons to be served. Now boil the milk so that it will get reduced to half of its original quantity. Now add sugar to it. Then add dry fruits and lastly cardomom powder for taste. Seve it chilled.

Silence is the best medicine !

                                 Silence is the best medicine !

One day a man came near Tenali Ramakrishna. He was worried that his peace of mind is lost all because of his arguing wife. He said to Ramakrishna all his problems. He asked Ramakrishna's help in solving his problem. Tenali Ramakrishna listened to man's saying. Then he said the problem can be solved and he has the medicine for that.
Man was very happy. He urged Ramakrishna to give that medicine. Ramakrishna went inside the house and came back with a bottle. He said to man that bottle has medicine. But as soon as his wife starts talking, man has to drink the medicine but not to swallow it.
Till his wife is talking, man has to keep the medicated liquid in his mouth without swallowing it. As  soon as wife stops talking, he has to spit the liquid outside. Man agreed and went home with liquid. Few days passed, man came near Ramakrishna and thanked him for the medicine. He said because of that, there is no quarrel in the house !
He asked Ramakrishna the way to prepare medicine.  Then Ramakrishna smiled and said that the bottle has no medicine but just water. When man's wife is talking, if man keep silence then matter will not go out of hand. Wife will talk as much as she wants. But seeing that no one is giving back reply or contradicting her, she will be quiet soon after.
Tenali Ramakrishna disclosed the secret of happiness and strength of silence.

Story of a bird with two heads

                                         Story of a bird with two heads

There lived a bird with 2 head. Once bird got a fruit. Its right head said it has found it and it will taste it. Listening to that, left head said there lies happiness in sharing things. So, right head must share the fruit with it. Right head laughingly said whoever eats the fruit, it will go to stomach which is same for both. Right head didnt agree to share the fruit.
Left head felt insulted. But it didnt say anything. Next time,left head found a fruit. But it was poisonous. Left head remembered how it got insulted from the other regarding last fruit. So it decided to eat the fruit all by itself. Right head tried to convince left that fruit is poisonous.
But left didnt listen. It thought because of jealousy ,right is forbidding himself from eating the fruit. He finally ate the fruit all by himself. The bird died soon after along with its both heads.

Huge mansion

                                          Huge mansion

Once upon a time, there lived an old man. He was living in a small hut. It was very conjusted that there is no space to put old man's things also.He was having ambition that he must live in a huge house with lots of space. But he was not rich so that he could build a new house.
Thinking of this, old man came near an old lady who is considered as having great knowledge. Old man told his problem near her. She assured him that she will solve his problem. She asked him to put all of his pets including cats,dogs,hens and cows in his house.
Old man thought it is a weird idea. But he didnt say anything. He did as old lady said. Now, his problem looks more complicated. Now there is no space to enter for old man only! Fed up of this,he again came near old lady and started complaining.
Old lady calmly said to vacate all the animals from house. Old man instantly did that. Now to his surprise, his hut looks big to him. He realised that all lies in the way we see the things

Death of Tarakasur

                                       Death of Tarakasur

Long ago, there lived a demon named Tarakusar. He was giving trouble to everyone. He was invincible. There is a reason for his attitude. He had been granted a boon that his death can only be by son of God Shiv. But actually wife of Shiv , Daakshayini had sacrificed herself to fire. It was in protest to negligence of her father to her husband, Shiv.
Now after her death, Shiv is in great grief. He was doing meditation. No one had the courage to break his meditation. Tarakusar being knowing this, had asked for the boon that his death must be because of son of Shiv, whereas Shiv is now single.
But Daakshayini had born again as Parvati. She had special affection for Shiv. She was knowing Shiv is meditatimg. She was serving him there itself. But Shiv didnt notice her presence also. At that time, god of love , Manmatha had come for Parvati's help.
With his bow, he shot flower love arrows to Shiv. Shiv's concentration was spoiled by that. With angryness, Shiv opened his third eye. Manmatha was burnt to ashes. By coming to know of this, Rati ,wife of Manmatha, was unconsolable.
Parvati thought all happened because of her. She decided to meditate and vowed that with that only, she will make Shiv to come near. By seeing her concentration for her goal, Shiv finally moved by her love. He decided to marry her. The son born is known as Kaartikeya and he killed Tarakusar.
For Manmath, Shiv granted him a boon that he can do the work without body.

The reason for doing good work

                                                    The reason for doing good work             

This incident happened in times of Guru Nanak. When Guru Nanak happened to stay in a village, people came to meet  him. Among them, the richest man of village was also there. Basically ,he  is a miser.He was not helping anyone.His life consisted only himself.

Guru Nanak being knowing that, decided to teach the miser a good lesson and to reform him. When everyone is leaving the place, even miser was about to leave. Before leaving, he came near Guru Nanak to wish him good night.

Guru Nanak gave him a needle. He asked the miser to return that in his next birth ! Miser didn't understand anything. But he received the needle. But he could not sleep at night. He was thinking how can he find out Guru Nanak in his next birth.

After spending sleepless night, morning again he came near Guru Nanak. He asked his doubt near Guru Nanak. He said he is really confused that how can he return the needle in his next birth. Then Guru Nanak smiled. He said miser doesn't know the way to return a needle. But he is collecting wealth in such a way that he is going to keep it for his next birth.

Guru Nanak said only the effect of things whether they are good or bad will come with us. If we do more good things, its effect will lead us to goodness in our next birth. Miser knew what Guru Nanak meant to say. He spent his life constructing hospitals and schools for villagers.

Story of bull

                                    Story of bull
Long ago,there lived a man called Vardhaman. One day, as he was taking rest , a thought struck him. The thought is that money is everything in life. Without money, it is difficult to live comfortably. Money has the power to make a young to look old and the old to look young. By this thought, he set his travel plans so that he can sell the goods in city.
One day, Vardhaman left his place on a bullock cart. 2 bulls are arranged to drag the vehicle. When the vehicle was passing through forest, one bull named Sanjeevaka collapsed because of fatigue. But Vardhaman was not ready to abandon his plans.
He left Sanjeevaka in the forest and asked his servants to look after it. Vardhaman continued his journey with another bull.  But in forest, servants thought it is waste of time to look after an ill bull. So they abandoned bull there itself and returned near their master. They said Sanjeevaka died in forest . Hence they came back after performing last rites.
But actually, Sanjeevaka has not died. In the forest after eating forest fruit, he became healthy once again. He was spending his time happily. In the forest,there lived a lion. One day he heard the roar of Sanjeevaka. Frightened lion withdrew himself from site.
By seeing his worried face, his ministers are also worried. They decided to entertain him. They came to know the reason also. Now,they made friendship with Sanjeevaka. They said him that the king wants to see him. Sanjeevaka prepared so that he can meet the king.
The ministers,who are cunning jackals, took bull near lion. There lion  was acting that he was ill. Jackals said nowadays, King is unable to hunt and he is not having any food for past 1 week. Ministers tried arguing that King must eat them and quench his hunger.
By seeing their false quarrel, lion said that he will not kill anyone. But listening to that his ministers started arguing that King can't stay hungry . After seeing all this, Sanjeevaka came forward and  said that King can eat him in order to quench his hunger.
Lion was waiting for this and he pounced on the bull and killed him. He and his ministers had a party that day. Lion successfully removed his enemy from his path.

ತೂಫಾನ್ ಕೈಲಾ

                                                  ತೂಫಾನ್ ಕೈಲಾ

ಅರಬ್ಬೀ ಸಮುದ್ರದಲ್ಲಿ ಎದ್ದಿದೆ ತೂಫಾನ್ ಕೈಲಾ

ಹೀಗಾಗಿ ಎಲ್ಲೆಡೆ ಮಳೆಯಾಗಿ , ಕೆಸರಾಗಿದೆ ಪರಿಸರವೆಲ್ಲಾ;

ರಾತ್ರಿಯಿಂದ ಕೇಳುತ್ತಿದೆ ಗುಡುಗಿನ ಆರ್ಭಟ

ಹಿಮ್ಮೇಳವಾಗಿ ಇದೆ ಕಪ್ಪೆಗಳ ವಟ - ವಟ !

True friendship

                                                 True friendship

Duryodhan was crowned prince of Hastinapur. Karna is his friend. Their friendship is well known. Here is the incident to show it.
Bhaanumati is Duryodhan's wife. Since Karna used to come to meet Duryodhan almost regularly, even Bhaanumati was close to Karna. Once Duryodhan was not at home and Bhaanumati was alone. Not knowing that, Karna came to meet Duryodhan.
When he learnt that his friend is not at home, Karna prepared to leave. But Bhaanumati asked him to stay back. She invited him to play Chess. Though Karna hesitated in beginning, finally he agreed to play. Both were playing chess and were engrossed in it.
That time, there was a bet between them. Whoever wins, they must obey the order of the other. Karna won in bet. When he was about to tell his wish, Duryodhan came inside. Bhaanumati stood up. Without knowing that, Karna tried to stop Bhaanumati.
In that process, the necklace Bhaanumati was wearing, tore and all the pearls fell down. By seeing that, Karna stood up and realised Duryodhan was standing. Without knowing what to do, Karna stood with his head bent down in shame.
But Duryodhan smiled and started picking up the pearls. Then he encouraged both his wife and friend to continue game. And also urged his wife to fulfill Karna's demand. This shows the confidence Duryodhan had in his friend and in his friendship.

Character by choice

                                          Character by choice

There lived this beggar. He was spending his life with difficulty with no proper income. Once he was praying to God that he must get rich. God listened to his prayers ! God came and gave a bag full of gold coins to beggar and blessed him.
God said with one gold coin , beggar can spend 1 month with no difficulty. God said from nowonwards, beggar can live a prosperous life. Beggar was happy. He opened the bag after some time. He saw gold coins. By seeing them, he didnt want to spend them !
Beggar kept all the coins back to bag and started begging once again !

ಬಾದಾಮಿ ಲಾಡು

                                                  ಬಾದಾಮಿ ಲಾಡು

ಬೇಕಾಗುವ ಸಾಮಗ್ರಿಗಳು

ಸಿಪ್ಪೆ ಸಹಿತ ಬಾದಾಮಿ

ಹುರಿದ ಬಿಳಿ ಎಳ್ಳು

ಕೊಬ್ಬರಿ ತುರಿ

ಏಲಕ್ಕಿ

ಹಾಲು

ಸಕ್ಕರೆ-೩ ಚಮಚ

ಮಾಡುವ ವಿಧಾನ

ಬಾದಾಮಿ, ಹುರಿದ ಎಳ್ಳು, ಕೊಬ್ಬರಿ ತುರಿ ಮತ್ತು ಏಲಕ್ಕಿಯನ್ನು ಮಿಕ್ಸಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ತರಿ ತರಿಯಾಗಿ ರುಬ್ಬಬೇಕು.ಒಂದು ಬಾಣಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ಹಾಲು ಮತ್ತು ಸಕ್ಕರೆ ಯನ್ನು ಹಾಕಿ ಪಾಕ ತಯಾರಿಸಬೇಕು.ಈ ಪಾಕಕ್ಕೆ ಪುಡಿ ಮಾಡಿದ ಮಿಶ್ರಣವನ್ನು ಹಾಕಿ ಉಂಡೆ ಕಟ್ಟಬೇಕು.