True purpose of celebrating Ugadi

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Yes. You are right - Sri Prasanna Kumar Garu

 

I totally agree with you.

 

Let us all strive hard for the benefit of the mankind with this

feeling and spirit.

 

Regards

 

Om Namah Shivay!

 

Shiv Kumar V Andukuri

Member - Om Namah Shivay group

 

 

, " Prasanna Kumar

Kasturi " <groupowner.prasanna wrote:

>

> *True purpose of celebrating Ugadi.*

>

> Today is Ugadi, the beginning of the New Year. Since ancient

times, man has celebrated many Ugadis, but he has yet to give up bad

qualities. True Ugadi is the day when man gives up bad qualities,

fills his heart with love, and takes to the path of sacrifice. Do

not limit the celebration of Ugadi to merely putting on new clothes

and partaking of delicious items. Today you may wear a new shirt,

but how long will it remain new? Tomorrow it becomes old. Nobody

reads the same newspaper everyday. Today's newspaper becomes a

> waste paper tomorrow. Our life is like a newspaper. Once you have

finished reading a newspaper, you do not like to read it again and

again. You have been given this birth, which is like a newspaper,

and have gone through varied experiences of pleasure and pain.

Enough is enough. Don't ask for one more newspaper, i.e. another

birth. You should pray, " Oh God! You have given me this 'newspaper'

and I have gone through the experiences of this life. I don't want

to have another birth. "

>

> Adi Sankara said,

>

> Punarapi jananam punarapi maranam

> Punarapi janani jatare sayanam

> Iha samsare bahu dustare

> Kripaya pare pahi murare

>

> Oh Lord! I am caught up in this cycle of birth and death,time and

again experiencing the pain of lying in the mother's womb.It is very

difficult to cross this ocean of Samsara.Please take me across this

ocean and grant me liberation.

>

>

> Sage Vyasa has given the essence of eighteen Puranas in two

sentences,Paropakara punyaya, papaya parapeedanam (one attains merit

by serving others and commits sin by hurting them). When you help

others, you will receive help tenfold. If you harm others, you will

be put to harm ten times more. Keep this in mind. On this sacred

day, fill your hearts with love and undertake sacred activities.

>

> This is the true purpose of celebrating Ugadi.

>

> Regards

>

> Prasanna Kumar

>

> Group Owner

>