Monday, January 12, 2009

The temple experience

I am not roaming around for the past twenty days. I didn’t have anything to write. But why am I writing this post then because something came across and it was worth sharing I thought. I am not so busy with work but didn’t have any new things or news to share. But then I have been going to temple all evenings and watching people play cricket in Malleswaram ground near my home when I am free. I have been reading a lot of books. I didn’t believe when I finished 23 books last month and I read nearly 130 pages per hour. I thought that was little too much for me. I didn’t had any books left to read as I read all those I had with me. So I was forced to move out and have some other things to concentrate on.

I started going to temple every evening. There is a Kannika Parameshwari temple in Malleswaram 8th cross, where I used to spend my evening. There is something which I felt interesting, since this is the month of Margali month. There was Mahabharath told in that temple by an old Pandit. I used to spend my evening time from six to eight in the temple, hearing few chapters of Mahabharath. Its not that I don’t know it but hearing it from a different perspective was something interesting. The way the Pandit explains it was also something which got my attention. I am going through a different experience. It is really something where people need to concentrate and learn what our elders have given us. I realized there are lots more of things said via those two great epics to us. Everyone should find time to go through and understand those things which will definitely help making earth a better place to live.

I have seen lots of elder people who are there to hear the Mahabharath, regardless the freezing cold. They travel with their sweaters and caps in this part of the year where even youngsters don’t go out in the evening.

2 comments:

Renu said...

my god wat a reading speed u have...at least unhv completed wat all u had n got the time to roam abt outside like a good places temple..
yes dear we must spend sum time wid the older generations see undrstnd n visulaize all grtr things they hv done...

even i spent times long back with my grannies n all we used to watch tv the myhtological progrmas with whle family.. tlking n learning them thru...

Sethu Maathavan said...

Good to know there is another one with my own freq...