BEST  WISHES  FOR  CHENNAI

             Before two days chennai celebrated its birthday. Birthday means not 50 or 60 years. Approximately  300 years. If chennai' s birth  before 365 years. Many independent leaders came and stay at this place. Also it was the living  place for people from many states. In tamil cinemas,chennai means  central railway station and LIC building was the trademark for chennai. Chennai means this comes first in the mind of people. But each and everyday chennai is looking youthful and beautiful. But howmany people celebrate chennai' s birthday. So to know that we visit the important places in chennai.There were  three friends discussed  seriously. We questioned them ,do you know?Today what day it is? immediately a person told it was saturday. Repeatedly we asked  next. Second person answered,'' Today it is chennai' s day. Later, he introduced himself also. What do you do for chennai' s birthday we asked to him.                                          

              He replied,'' We have done nothing for our chennai. But we have to keep chennai clean''. When asked about chennai people said ''From next year we will celebrate the  chennai's birthday in a grand manner. People who came from other states or people whose birth place is chennai itself will also celebrate the chennai' s birthday, because it is the living place for thousands of people.

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                                                                                                                            L.Vijayasri.

                                                   

                                                                                                 

       

                                    EYE OF THE  YOUNG

                      Children sometimes go out to play these days. Children must go out and play oytdoor games in sunlight. Sunlight prevents myopia[a kind of eye disease]. But children play only video games, or in tab or seeing the t.v. So we have to avoid these indoor games, says Dr. Mohan Rajan. 

                       When we compare the corporate students and the private students, corporate students eyes were well.But private students have deficiency in their eyes. Because corporate students playd well in before the sunlight but private students sit in the air-conditioned classroom. So their eyes were affected. We don't study at the sleeping position in the bed and at night we don't study in the chimnay lamp. This was the raeson for the power in eyes. 1,100 children were affected by the eye problems in egmore. We must check our eyes for atleast once in the year. Symptoms for the eye problems are head ache, dry eyes, eye strain, blurred vision, heck and shoulder pain, says namitha bhuveneshwari. Many children spend a lot of time in watching television. We must know the importance of our etes. People above 30 years must check their eyes.

                         BEST EXERCISE FOR OUR EYES

                    Don't sit constantly in the front of the computer. Because when we see computer continuously our eyes become dry. So automatically problems will come. We don't spwend lot of time in seeing television set. We spend time to how to protect our eyes ,like doing  exercises. If we work for 55 minuts thn take rest for 5 minutes and go out and walk .and come back. Observe the differences. We protect our eyes. This is our duty. Blinking is the best exercise for our eyes.          

                         FOOD FOR HEALTHY EYES

                           We don't take junk food, oily items etc. We take only healthy food. We eat greens, vegetables,and orange coloured fruits. They are healthy for our eyes. Carrots are high in betacarotene. It gives us the high vision and orange- coloured  fruits like papaya, orange, apricots are rich in lutin and also it protects us from age- related macular degeneration[AMD] problems.
                            Scientists researched about eyes. Eyes need vitamin c and is rich in orange and other citric fruits like lemon, grape juice, etc. Oysters, lean red meat etc are rich in zinc. Spinach is also good for our eyes. So this foods protect our eyes from the damaging effects.                                    

                                                                                                                       
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VAYALUR OR KUMARAVAYALUR TEMPLE

Vayalur or Kumara Vayalur temple is present in a  village near Trichy at a distance of 12 kms. The idol of Subramania swamy is placed in the Western direction. Subramania Swamy temple is special in many ways.
There are six abodes. One of the abode of God is located in Marutham in Tamil. It is rich for rice fields.

    Another abode. God guided Arunagirinathar to compose sandhakkavithai. Lord Muruga saved Arunagirinathar from a suicidal fall and guided him in spiritual path in Tiruvannamalai temple where Arunagirinathar composed Tirupughal which is further guided by Lord Ganapathy famously called as Poyya Ganapathy. Out of hundred songs, only 18 songs were retrieved.

    In the eastern direction, three raja gopurams and Dwajasthambam are located. One beautiful statue of Nandhi is also located. In the inside of the temple, there is a 200 years old vannimaram.Goddess temple is enclosured for Navagrahams. Going towards Garbagraha, One can see the hall one side partitioned room. In that place, bronze sculptures of Nataraja in Chatura Thandavam and Goddess Sivakami are kept. We can also see the idols of utsavar.

   Legend a chola king whose headquarters are uraiyur and Trichy. Oneday when he went for hunting, he was very thirsty. He searched for water. He saw a three forked sugarcane. When he cut it, he said blood oozing out from it. He started digging continuously in its base. Suddenly he saw a sivalingam. He decided to built a temple in that place. In historical speaking, people said that it is built in ninth century. In that temple, the swayambu is Lord Shiva. He was called as Vidhangar in that place for coming from underground. The sannithi of Subramaniya Swamy is located in the South Praharam.

   Besides the sannithi of Poyya Ganapathy and Adihnadhar there is a nice sculpture of  Dhakshinamurthy.
Subramaniya Swamy is standing with Valli and Devasena alongwith his vahanam Peacock. Its head is turned towards Valli(Devapakkam). There is a separate niche for goddesslakshmi,goddessdurga and chadekeswarar adjoining the northern wall of Adhinadhar's shrine.

   There are number of inscriptions of Devagoshtam of Adhinadhar which is referred to temple of Agneshwaram in the year 1936 they were copied and cataloged and reffered with spcial numbers from 138 to 157.That is during the chola rule Vayalur temple  is also known as keralanthaka valanattil Vayalur kottarathu Vayalur and Thenkarai brahmadeyam nadhivarma mangalam written in the inscriptions. Presiding the deity also went by the names of vidhangaperuman mahadevan mirapilli and thirukatrali peruman in the inscriptions.

  The king Raja Raja Cholan1, Rajendra1 and Kulothunga1 donated land , gold and ghee for the daily poojas and lightning the lamps of nandavanam.

  There was a special mention for navagraha idols which is in the north eastern part in the main hall.while suriya with his consorts shadevi and chayadevi is in the standing posture in the westward side . Theother graghas face suriya .

Starting from the month of chithirai to panguni a series festvals take place in that temple. Brahmaotsavam festival is conducted in vaikasi for 12 days.

 for subramaniya swamy srishti festival in aani and in aippasi is conducted in that temple. These are the things which denote the power of muruga peruman.

RL.SRINIDHII

STRENGTH OF POSITIVE THINKING

        One day a boy changed his school from Tamil medium to English medium school. First day the first period was English. His teacher asked question to him. The question was What means I and What means you. The student said I means you and you means I. All the students laughed. The teacher said, Fool. You don't know the meaning of I and you. But the student did not cry. He did not feel guilty. The student said I said the correct answer only. The teacher said prove it. The student said you asked What is the meaning of I? So I means you. Then you asked what is the meaning of you. So I said I. So the teacher congratulated him for his positive answer and said we should learn from the student.

       In Mahabaratha also, Dronacharya called Dharma and Dhuryodhana. The guru asked Dharma to call one bad person. Guru asked Dhuryodhana to find one good person. He gave one week time. The time was finished. Dhuryodhana came to guru and said Sorry Guru. I cant find any good person. Next Dharma came and said Sorry Guru. I cant find any bad person. All are found to be good only. Dronacharya praised Dharma because of his positive attitude and said Dhuryodhana to learn from Dharma. This is also a very good example of positive thinking.

       Thomas Alva Edison tried thousand times to invent a bulb. In 1001st time, he invented the bulb. While taking the bulb his servant broke the bulb carelessly. But Edison did not scold him. He again tried to find the bulb. His ambition succeeded at last.This is also a good example for hard working and positive attitude.

      In my Chess Tournament also, I am the top seed. I lost in the 3rd round itself. All my friends were 3 out of 3.But I was only 2 out of 3. I did not lose my confidence. I tried to win the next 5 rounds. I continuously won the 5 rounds and won the title. So confidence along with positive attitude also very important for all.

     The very big example was Narendra Modi was a hard working man. In his childhood he worked in a tea shop. Because of his hard working attitude, he became the prime minister of India.Because of positive thinking we can succeed in any field.

    Again I am telling positive thinking is very important for all of us to grow in life.

R. Lakshmi Narasimhan Srihari