July 2022
Story 15
22. Trivikramasena heaved the corpse onto his shoulder for the fifteenth time and began to walk. The vetāla began to narrate yet another story:-
In the kingdom of Nepāla is the city of Śivapura. A king called Yaśaḥketu lived there long ago. He had a daughter named Śaśiprabhā. One day when she went to the town carnival, she saw a young man called Manasvāmi. He too noticed Śaśiprabhā. It was love at first sight. Right at that moment, an...
It is appropriate that the system of governance in India is a collection of one and many.
Given the land’s geographical expanse, large population, bio-/geo-diversity of various regions, differences in the nature of the air, socio-cultural specialties of people, and differences in traditions and administrative organizations, it is inevitable that the Central government is one and inside that, the Regional or State governments are many.
The...
APPENDIX 2
Distinction between karma and akarma
karmaṇo hy-api boddhavyam boddhavyam ca vikarmaṇaḥ
akarmaṇaś-ca boddhavyaṃ gahanā karmaṇo gatiḥ (BG 4.17)
The discussion on karma and akarma is so deep that it baffles even the wise, says Bhagavān. What does that imply? Simply that the responsibility of a man is great and that it should translate into sad-asad-viveka -- discernment between right and wrong, truth and falsehood. Thus it becomes...
ನನ್ನ ಜಾತಕದಲ್ಲಿ ಯಾವ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಯಲ್ಲಿಯೂ ಐದು ವರ್ಷಕ್ಕಿಂತ ಹೆಚ್ಚಾಗಿ ದುಡಿಯುವ ಯೋಗವಿಲ್ಲ ಎನಿಸುತ್ತದೆ. ಇದ್ದುದರಲ್ಲಿ ಭಾರತೀಯ ವಿದ್ಯಾಭವನದ ನೆರಳಿನಲ್ಲಿ ನಾನು ಐದು ವಸಂತಗಳ ಸಂತಸವನ್ನು ಕಂಡದ್ದೇ ಅತಿಶಯ. ಕಡೆಯ ವರ್ಷದಲ್ಲಿ ಆಡಳಿತದ ಮಾರ್ಪಾಟಿನ ಕಾರಣ ಅಲ್ಪ-ಸ್ವಲ್ಪದ ಇರುಸುಮುರುಸಾದರೂ ಅದನ್ನೆಲ್ಲ ಮರೆಸುವಂಥದ್ದು ಭವನದ ಬಾಳು.
ನನಗೆ ಕಾಲೇಜಿನ ದಿನಗಳಿಂದಲೇ ಕುಲಪತಿ ಮುನ್ಷಿ ಅವರ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯದ ಪರಿಚಯ ಇದ್ದಿತು. ಅಷ್ಟೇಕೆ, ಪ್ರೌಢಶಾಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಇದ್ದಾಗಲೇ ಅವರ ‘ಭಗವಾನ್ ಕೌಟಿಲ್ಯ’ ಎಂಬ ಕಾದಂಬರಿಯ ಅನುವಾದವನ್ನು ಓದಿ ಹಿಗ್ಗಿದ್ದೆ. ಮೂಲದ ಸ್ವಾರಸ್ಯ...
In this survey of history, l have touched all the frontiers I had intended to. It is a wheel of time spanning sixty years between 1880 and 1940.* The historical events after 1940 is not relevant to my present purpose.
After Mirza saheb, the person who assumed power as the Dewan was Pradhāna Śiromaṇi Sir Nyapathi Madhava Rau. After him, Dewan Bahadur Sir Arcot Ramasamy Mudaliar took charge. With his tenure, the position of ‘Dewan’ came to an end...
Story 12
19. Trivikramasena took the corpse on his shoulder for the twelfth time and started to walk. The vetāla began to narrate another story:-
In the land of Aṅga lived a king called Yaśaḥketu. He had turned over the reins of the kingdom to his minister Dīrghadarśi and was living a life of unrestrained pleasure and indulgence with women. The people however mockingly gossipped that the minister had wilfully got their king addicted to pleasure...
Yakṣa-navodaya is an attempt at aesthetically stitching together the compositions of a few Navodaya poets of Kannada. The compositions chosen are ene śuka-bhāṣiṇi of D V Gundappa, nānu baḍavi āta baḍava of Bendre, bṛṃdāvanakè hālanu māralu of Kuvempu, nīḍu pātheyavanu of Ti. Nam. Sri, ahalyè of Pu. Ti. Na, nīvallave of K S Narasimhaswamy. The production is merely an attempt to indicate one such possibility. There is a lot of scope for...
Vokkaligara Saṅgha
I have heard that the Vokkaligara Saṅgha was established with the support and encouragement of V P Madhava Rao. He greatly admired K H Ramayya, who was one of the founding members of the Vokkaligara Saṅgha. Madhava Rao had great respect for Ramayya’s decency, people’s confidence in him, and his astuteness. As a result, he greatly motivated Ramayya. Even the Śrīmad-yuvarāja [Crown Prince] supported Ramayya’s efforts....
DVG never lost an opportunity to express his views on public affairs. To this end, he contributed to the leading periodicals of the country for many decades. In a popular article titled Thoughts on Republic Day, he mused on several important issues that plagued post-Independence India. He made a distinction between an ‘excited hour’ and an ‘average day’ and urged the leaders to promote moral integrity:
To take an excited hour of a special day...
Profession
Hereafter, the collective opinion of the citizens may take a back seat and unilateral decisions may find strength. In future, politics will only represent the lust for power. There will be factions formed in a bid to gain power. To run those factions, leaders will take birth. These leaders will later be surrounded by followers. In this manner, politics will transform into a profession. They rake up chaos every morning; divert people’s...