Snapshots From A Tamil Drama

  

Whether women are better than men I cannot say; 

but I can say they are certainly no worse.

~ Golda Meir

Purandara Dāsa : Bhagyada Lakshmi Baramma

Purandara Dāsa's Bhagyada Lakshmi Baramma 

Rendered By M.S.SubbuLakshmi

Bhagyada Lakshmi Baramma..




Oh, Goddess of Fortune ! Lakshmi Devi !

Do come slowly with your anklets making the jingling sound!

Come to us like butter emerging out of buttermilk when it is churned !




Come and shower on us a rain of gold and fufilll our aspirations !

Come with the brightness of countless number of rays of the sun !

Come and bless us; Oh, Devi, who has taken incarnation as Sitha !



Oh, lotus eyed Devi who is the pride of MahaVishnu!

Come and appear before us wearing the shining golden bracelets on your wrists
and the auspicious vermilion mark on your forehead!

Oh, Consort of PurandaraVithala !




Welcome to You who shine auspiciously in the hearts of great sages !

Oh, Queen of Alagiri Ranga!

Come to our worship on Friday when streams of ghee and sugar will overflow !



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~ Purandara Dāsa

(1484–1564)


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To Listen to M.L.VasanthaKumari's rendering :

http://www.raaga.com/player4/?id=138694&mode=100&rand=3.14159265


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Smita : The Quintessential Indian Beauty

Smita Patil

(1955 ~ 1986)

Within the image,
there is always something else..
What the public wants is the image of passion,
not passion itself..

~ Roland Barthes
Mythologies

Dear GrandMa..

Dear GrandMa ~ Brian Lynch

Visiting GrandMother ~ Hans Anderson Brendekilde

GrandMother And Grandson ~ A Russian Painting

GrandMother's Magic ~ Donna Pidlubny

The GrandMother's Wardrobe ~ George Phoenix

Dreams Of GrandMother ~ Karl Briullov

The Asshole Song ~ Jimmy Buffett

Well, I was drivin' down I-95 the other night 
Somebody nearly cut me right off the road 
I decided it wasn't gonna do any good to get mad 
So I wrote a song about him instead, it goes like this :

Were you born an asshole 
Or did you work at it your whole life? 
Either way, it worked out fine 
'Cause you're an asshole tonight 

Yes, you're an A S S H O L E 
And don't you try to blame it on me 
You deserve all the credit 
You're an asshole tonight 
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/j/jimmy+buffett/the+asshole+song_20214732.html ] 
You were an asshole yesterday 
You're an asshole tonight 
And I've got a feelin' 
You'll be an asshole the rest of your life 

And I was talkin' to your mother 
Just the other night 
I told her I thought you were an asshole 
She said, "Yes, I think you're right" 

And all your friends are assholes 
'Cause you've known them your whole life 
And somebody told me 
You've got an asshole for a life 

Were you born an asshole? 
Or did you work at it your whole life? 
Either way it worked out fine 
'Cause you're an asshole tonight


~ Jimmy Buffet


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Dedicated To The Assholes Who Work At It The Whole Life
& 
To Some Who Even Get A Doctoral Degree For That!


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