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Dear sri vaishNava perunthagaiyeer,

Many a times in the office as well outside, we say 'I do not have time to do 
that, I can not do this for I do not have time etc'. But what we do is to waste 
the time in doing certain useless things besides a host of good and useful 
things. Particularly when it comes to do sandhyaa vandhanam for 10 minutes in 
the evening, we offer this excuse, I am tired, I do not have time, I have to 
attend to that this etc. Perhaps that '10 minutes time' we waste in seeing a TV 
serial or some such thing. 

On the other side, when it comes to doing certain important things, we are 
under pressure to do these things within a certain time frame. Thereby this 
working under pressure leads to physical plus mental stress. Then for we are 
forced to do the same work within certain limits. That leads to inefficiency, 
less productivity etc further adding to the stress and pressure. 

This wasting of time on one side and then doing things under pressure both are 
ruining the mind and creates lot of stress on the physical body. Once this 
stress builds up other ways for relieving that is being resorted to. This is 
the urban scenario.

On the other hand the rural or semi-urban scenario is, people have lot of time 
to do things and there are not enough things to do. So they resort to playing 
cards, thaayam, pallanguzhi etc, watching TV, which is not offering any kind of 
physical exercise but a simple time killer. 

That is why a 'management topic - viz. TIME MANAGEMENT, is introduced and lots 
of people are trained in classrooms, workshops, seminars. It is also a fashion 
nowadays that such management topics are being conducted by many a 'swamys' 
whose names end in aanandhaas, having 'kaashaayam' robes. [Please do not be 
surprised, for I have physically and mentally attended one such series in 
Ahmedabad, and now I get regular invitation from that place]

Finally when it comes to the results, what they teach in these 'hifi' workshops 
is to 
*       form  simple habits [it is taught - managing your time is also a habit, 
not managing your time is also a habit] 
*       prioritize your immediate tasks on hand for the day
*       note all tasks what all you have to do in a day and then check back at 
the end of the day whether all are done or something is remaining
*       for each task assign a time and see that you finish that within that 
allocated time
*       have some cushion of time for unexpected things cropping up during the 
day etc.

Dear bhakthaas, please do not think whether I am, also, conducting a Time 
management workshop through the list. I do no think this is big vEdhaantha to 
be taught by a swamy named --- aanandhaa.

Now read an aazhvaar saying how he manages his time.

thariththu irunthEn aagavE thaaraa gaNap pOr
viriththu uraiththa ven naagaththu unnai - theriththu ezhudhi
vaasiththum kEttum vaNangi vazhipattum
poosiththum pOkkinEn pOdhu. - 63 - naanmugan thiruvandhaathi
 
pOdhu - time 
[this word pOdhu also has meanings of a flower bud, come 
*       pOdhu means a bud about to blossom, 
*       come - vaa - Eval vinai in tamil]

pOkkinEn pOdhu - I spent time
how 
act no. 1 - unnai theriththu - learnt about you
act no. 2 - ezhudhi - started writing about you
act no. 3.- vaasiththu +um - reading about you [please note here the um - means 
additionally, also - besides doing the above two additionally this reading 
also] 
act no. 4 - kEttu + um - hearing about you - after doing above three, this also
act no. 5 - vaNangi - bowing to you
act no. 6 - vazhipattu + um - doing many prostration - added to the list above 
this also.
act no. 7 - poosiththu + um - doing poojaas - continuously chanting your 
sthuthi, sthOthrams, slOkams, and naamaas etc [after doing all these above 
six]. 
 
Now dear bhakthaas, just think whether any time will be left out in the day or 
will be sparable by this person who does all these. Now you also check whether 
this person who does all these manages his time properly.  

For the words used here are 'pOkkinEn pOdhu' - sounds as though time is spent 
just like that - or wasted. Is it really wasted? For, in general, when this 
'pOkkinEn' word is used in that sense of 'wasting' or spending without any 
result - with an aluppu - an in-built fatigue in whatever is said as next 
kaaryam - work. 

But when aazhvaar is doing THE RIGHT thing, can it be said 'pOkkinEn pOdhu' - 
perhaps it implies, that, this is the way you have to spend the time, and not 
with that usual 'aluppu'. On the other side see another aazhvaar saying on the 
same pOdhu - time. 

pOdhellaam pOdhu koNdu un ponnadi punaiya maattEn
theedu ilaa mozhigaL koNdu un thirugguNam seppa maattEn
kaadhalaal nenjam anbu kalandhilEn adhu thannaalE
EdhilEn arangarkku, ellE, en seivaan, thOnRinEnE. --- 26 thirumaalai

My dear ranganathaa, oh my lord, I will not do in 'time' whatever the other 
aazhvaar said he is doing in 'time', even though I also have same available 
time - pOdhu ellaam koNdu - as he has - any how I am also born.  What I will 
not do is a big list. 
[that we will see translated in next post]

See what a 'contrast' in managing the time. Is it really? We will see more 
points on these two verses in next.

Dhasan

Vasudevan m.g.




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