💥 Birthdays are Deathdays 💥

Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi was born on December 30, 1879. His birthday, however, is observed according to the Tamil calendar in Maargazhi when the moon is with the star Punarvasu.

When it was first proposed in 1912 to celebrate His birthday, Bhagavan expressed his objection in the form of the following two verses. Even so, his disciples were not deterred and the Jayanti day festival continues to be one of the great annual events at the Ashram.

1. You who wish to celebrate a birthday, inquire first who was born. One's true birthday is when one enters into the Eternal Being which shines forever without birth or death

2. Of all days on one's birthday one should mourn one's fall (into samsara). To celebrate it as a festival is like adorning and glorifying a corpse. To seek one's Self and merge in it is wisdom.


Till we attain certain maturity, till the Western venom has its effect, we think life is celebration, life is linear, we are in control of our life, etc., 😝 After a point, we begin to realize that life is a losing game, life is sorrowful, age is irrelevant, education is waste, experience has no meaning, etc., Crown jewel is when we realize we can't even pluck our own hair. 😂😂

If age is irrelevant, why did our ancestors said "பெரியவங்க சொன்னா பெருமாள் சொன்ன மாதிரி"? 😉

The clue to this question is, "முதுமை என்பது இரண்டாம் குழந்தை பருவம்". How do we make an adamant child eat? By calling him/her "நீ நல்ல பிள்ள தானே", "புத்திசாலி பிள்ள தானே", etc., Got it? 😀 By assigning the good qualities the child is lacking, we try to turn him/her good. In the same way, we equal old people with பெருமாள் and try to infuse godly qualities into them!!

Why பெருமாள்? Why not சிவன்? Because சிவன் is always silent and பெருமாள் is the one who does everything (வைணவ பெருமாள் = சைவ சக்தி). So, what use is of a silent oldy? 😉 God and, that too, a hard-working God is what a family needs!! 😂😂

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