Tuesday 30 December 2014

Courage - what does it mean?

Yesterday, I was searching for the meaning of various words like patience, anger, worry, ego/pride, courage, I was able to define the previous words with some explanation but I didn't know what does courage mean? Let me tell you what I felt about the other words :
Patience - It can be called as waiting & working for the results/success despite adversities.
Anger - It is an instrument which helps us in controlling situation when it is going out of hand.
Ego/Pride - The superiority & inferiority complex mixture which neither gives peace to person possessing it nor to the people who have to associate with him.
COURAGE - ????
Then I started searching in the dictionary at first and typed the word COU while Google figured out what was in my mind and prompted 'Courage meaning' and clicked that but the first post was related to images while the second one was 'www.brainyquote.com' seeing which immediately my hands clicked that.
The moment I have clicked the link, I jumped into the sea of courage that great people defined. Let me tell you whether I found it's meaning or not? Yes, I did find that and the most apt definition was given by 'Mark Twain' - Courage is not absence of Fear, but it is control/Mastery of Fear. I have a lot share about COURAGE but due to some work am unable to do it now... let me continue it in the next post .....

Earning is nothing before the means of Earning

This quotation was quoted by 'Chaganti Koteswara Rao' garu in his discourse on Sampoorna Ramayanam (whose discourse you can find on Youtube - You would definitely learn from it if you understand telugu)

The example he quotes regarding the statement above is that 'Ravana' who is the villian or the lead negative character in Ramayana has all obtained all the things which have glorified his Lanka (the place where he lived) were bought in an unrighteous (adharma) manner. Say, Pushpaka chariot (pushpaka vimanam) is given as gift to Lord Kuvera/Kubera (Lord of Wealth) from Lord Brahma (The Creator) for his tapasya (say one form of prayer).
The above story states that the pushpaka chariot belongs to Kuvera (who is elder brother of Ravana indeed) but Ravana wanted to possess any valuable thing thought it belonged to him/not by his prowess/power gained through his tapasya which has costed him his life, How?

Once, Ravana was flying on Pushpaka chariot over Mt. Kailasa where Lord Shiva resides in due to his respect pushpaka was not allowed to fly above his residence/residing place, Ravana has asked for the reason of not being allowed to fly which was informed to him by his messengers saying that as Lord Shiva resides here pushpaka cannot fly at any cost.

Ravana didn't know the greatness of Lord Shiva and wanted to meet him ... (cont. in the next post)