Oru muttalin lamentation Poor soul let it lie in peace KR On Mon, 22 Apr 2024 at 20:56, Narayanaswamy Iyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Dear folks > > A nursery rhyme often repeated when I was a schoolboy went:- > > "*My mother told me not to play* > *With the loafers in the street;* > *If I did, my mother would* > *Break my head with a bamboo stick.*" > > There is among us, a persistent loafer in the street who never attended > any school, even pre-kindergarten, never spent a single day in a > paata-shaala, or received instruction from a guru on our scriptures and our > way of life, but roamed about town gathering rubbish and garbage by > emptying waste-bins and scratching around crematoria and burial-grounds in > search of material for his long-winded argumentative dissertations on > irrelevancies and controversies. > > He associates with and praises to the skies such rebels from orthodoxy as > (1) Raamaanuja the dvaitha proponent and opponent of Aadi > Shankaraachaarya's advaitha philosophy, (2) Vyaasa Krishna-Dvaipaayana of > Mahaa-bhaaratham and Vishnu Bhaagavatham fame, black-skinned illegitimate > baby born of a caste-less ascetic Paraashara and of the adopted daughter of > a fisherman, an avowed celibate but a triple adulterer, father of > Dhritharaashtra the blind, Paandu the mottled-skinned, and Vidoora, (3) > Aarya Samaaj and its founder and deliberate mis-interpreter of our vedams > Dayaananada, who established a break-away self-contradictory Anglo-Vedic > school -- neither about England nor about our vedams, (4) Jabaalee > Sathyakaama the Illegitimate -- mis-spelt Jabala by our loafer -- whose > mother when young entertained so many guests and visitors to her home that > she did not know who was her son Sathyakaama's father, (5) Theresa the > fierce Austrian evangelist Christian missionary interloper who was > responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of helpless innocent > new-born infants entrusted to her care in the former British India capital, > over-populated teeming poverty-stricken and slum-filled Calcutta, > > The illiterate loafer finds fault with Sri Gopalakrishna but depends > shamelessly on the latter's posts to publish abuse, insults, and > inaccuracies in uninvited and unwelcome response. > > The loafer also cannot stand the accurate images of himself which Sri > Laxminarayan sarma > -- the loafer once in screaming ignorance mis-called him Lakshmi Narayana > Sharma -- drew of him in accurately vivid characterisation. > > S Narayanaswamy Iyer > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "iyer123" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/iyer123/CAL4idhM_GkMLh3fSW7J40rWGHdhg5KTKE3NDRMe2Z_MrXHofrQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/iyer123/CAL4idhM_GkMLh3fSW7J40rWGHdhg5KTKE3NDRMe2Z_MrXHofrQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CAL5XZopGhKVVkAOkyGzvGa_KV0AUcBDzjAjs43mecc9aaZRWsw%40mail.gmail.com.
