Pillayar - the God of gifts

You celebrate a party – there are plenty of gifts.

You open the first gift box.
You find a pillayar.You are happy.You open the next.
Again you find another pillayar in another form.
This continues until you develop a hatredness towards pillayar.
Ayya, gift kodukkum seemangale! Yen enakkum pillayarukkum
Sanda muttaringa.
There are different kinds of pillayars you get as gift.
1- Simple pillayars – in circular or rectangular frames
2- Pillayars with digital clock.You have to replace batteries often.Other wise the clock stands still and an insult to pillayar.
3- Pillayars with flickering colour lights.You have to find a suitable place with plug points.
Invariably the pillayar comes with a wire of 2 feet and the distance between the best place and plug point will be always 5 feet.

During my wedding days pillayar culture was not there.It was milk cooker mania at that time.For my wedding in 1979 I got 7 milk cookers.Nowadays no body knows about milk cookers.But the irony is that for Magesh’s wedding in 2008 some body gave a milk cooker with out disclosing the identity.I think it is in circulation as gift for nearly 30 years and changing hands.The milk cooker should have scored a century.

For Magesh,s house grahapravesam I got 7 pillayars.In August 2008 I left my services from my company.In the farewell party I got one silver pillayar and in another farewell party next day I got one paper made walking pillyar with umbrella in hand.

This was followed by Magesh’s wedding where I got around 6 pillayars.Wedding was followed by reception at Chennai and I got 2 pillayars.

There were not any more functions and no pillayar gifts.

On 16-02-2009 Aravind celebrated birth day and he got some fancy gifts.But finally we could find 2 pillayars made out of navathaniyams.

About two years back I attended a wedding of Marwari businessman at Kolkatta.I gave a gift of fine piece of art work. You see I have not given pillayar.He is a big rich man and when I was about to check out the hotel he gave me a return gift.

It was a nice silver coated pillayar.

I have personally nothing against pillayar.But why all these people identify only pillayar as gift.I do agree that pillayar is the fore most God and it is in the best interest they give pillayar.But should not they think about the plight of the receiver.

If such pillayar gifts continue I will end up with a godown of pillayars.There is a place called as kodi lingam near kolar in Karnataka where one crore lingams are there.I will also build kodi pillayar temple soon.

My humble suggestion to every body.If yoy are really particular that you should give only pillayar to me, give any costly nice gift and paste a pillayar figure on it.


For heavens sake by mistake don’t present pillayar to Abdul Kader’s wedding.

Think Positive

This is my first blog and I want to start poitively.Hence the caption is think is positive.O.K.What is positive thinking.I say thinking itself is positive.Oh! What a great start!
When you think positive you get some vibrations around you which are transmitted to people around you.And naturally the total environment in that place become lively.So when you think positive you get vibrations around you.

We get earth quakes when the earth thinks very very very positively and great vibrations are felt around.Can some body suggest my name for nobel prize in physics.

Let me explain some situations and how to think positively during such occassions.
1.You meet with some accident and your fore arm is injured and the bone is fractured.You should think positive about this.Positive means addition.Your bone is broken into two pieces and God has added one more bone to you.So now your bone count is one higher than others.So think positive when you are fractured.

2.You travel by a train.The train is delayed by 3 hours.Think positive.For the same fare of Rs.300 paid by you you are allowed to travel another 3 hours.You are given the opportunity to see some more beggars in the train.You use the dirty toilet 2 more times.You eat some more samosas from the vendor.(Is there a business deal between the driver and the samosa vendor?)
3.Your vallet is lifted by a pick pocket.Think positive.Your vallet is due for a replacement and now you are forced to buy a new one.The thief who has taken has added some more ruppees to his kitty.So this is positive.Another great thing is that he will use your credit card and your credit liability is increased by another 25ooo rupees.Ho!what fantastic positives.
4. You write dirty things in your blog.People get furious and post angry comments.So your popularity is added.
5.You fail in youe exams.Oh!What a fantastic positive opportunity.The rank holder gets opportunity to write exam only once.But you are given opportunity to write many more times.
6.Your wife makes a new dish by seeing a cokkery show in t.v.The same is served to you and you are not even able to swallow it.The irony is that she has used half Kg of cashewnuts and one Kg of ghee.Dont worry.Think positive.You are very much angry.You are not able to cricise her due to natural fear.So you control your anger.You develop this art whenever she she tries some thing new.You learn mind control.Very sooner you become a yoga master.If this dish is served to guests they don come again.So you stand to gain a lot.
o.k.Getting positive in every thing is perfect.But not when you are tested for aids.
That is all now.
Expecting positive comments.