కొ. బి. పొ. యె.

కొత్త బిచ్చగాడు పొద్దు ఎరుగడు అని సామెత. Translation in English ..." New begger doesn't have time sense". Actually I dont know better way of translating this. By the way I am from the Tirupati, just near the foot hills of Lord Venkateswara. Most of the writing from now on will be a mix of telugu and English. I love telugu although it is not supposedly my mother tongue. My mother tongue is supposedly tamizh (yeah that the right way of writing tamil...that zh is the beauty for tamizh language). It so happens that my grand parents have changed their tongue...so it became telugu..I love both the languages..for that matter kannada also...its really poetic...not because the kannada girls are cute ...ofcourse that might be true..I am talking in terms of linguistic beauty.

మన భాషయే మకరంద బిందు బృందశ్చందన తుందిల మగు మాతృభాషయే ...Sorry I cannot translate this...I dont want to kill the poetic beauty of the line by translating. Some Bhavas cannot be translated...they should stay in the original language.

We cannot forget some events that happen in our life....like the recent "insult" that I got...I was on my way to Chennai to attend to my friends marriage. I arranged my luggage and started looking around...suddenly one gentleman came and sat opposite to me. He had full luggage..He was trying to adjust the luggage all around...One of his relative arranged the luggage below my seat and said "Hi UNCLE aap ko kuch problem nahi hain na?" I just wanted to shout...the problem is with UNCLE not the luggage..Anyway I thought of forgiving him...but then another person entered the field...it happens to be the relative's wife...A married man calls a unmarried, young,dynamic gentleman ( if you didnt get it ...its me) an UNCLE....What more can insult can happen??? Anyways...I have my part in it...The probable reason is I maintain a proportionality of 3 between my age and weight..I am 81 now...


Speaking about good things I remember three slokas from a story told by my atta ( father's sister) when I was in eighth class...They registered in my mind forever..I shall explain the meaning in the next post...still forth coming...thyagaraja vaibhavam...an translation of Pravachanam by samavedam shanmukha sharma and chaganti koteswara rao garlu...

1. ఋణాను బంధం రూపేణ పశుపత్ని సుతాలయః

2. జన్మ దుఃఖం జరా దుఃఖం జాయా దుఃఖం పునః పునః
సంసార సాగరం దుఃఖం తస్మాత్ జాగ్రత జాగ్రతా

3. మాతా నాస్తి పితా నాస్తి నాస్తి బంధుస్సహోదరః
అర్థం నాస్తి గృహం నాస్తి తస్మాత్ జాగ్రత జాగ్రతా

Till then
Swasti