A Great Soul is Remembered Forever! During his first visit to Ceylon in the year 1951, Pandit sethuraman was invited as a special guest to the parliament. First, he was served the world famous Ceylon Tea. Panditji did not taste the same. One member said Panditji that, this tea is the “Pride of their Country”. Please have it while it is hot. Panditji replied him saying, what looks like tea for you, looks like the blood of our ancestors who played a major role in clearing the forest and making it a cultivable area. This wonderful tea was the best outcome of bloodshed by our ancestral Tamil community. Hearing Panditji’s fiery speech, one M.P pointed that Panditji’s words could stir up...

On invitation from various friends, Panditji visited Ceylon in the year 1951, and stayed as a special guest of MR. Vairamuthu, then secretary in the Home Ministry. After few days MR. Vairamuthu had arranged a special meeting in which several judges and erudite scholars were present. At the beginning of the meeting a person sang the Tamil Mother Praise song. Instead of concluding with that, he simply continued with and another song called Koluru pathipagam and a song on God Muruga with the sentence NAAL ENNA SEYYUM , KOL ENNA SEYYUM, (which means what can the days do, what can the planets do when the God Muruga is there). It was like mocking at panditji, who is supposed to give a...

A young crown prince was proposed by Buddha. He had seen all kinds of gratification in his life; he had lived only for fulfillment. Then he became a bhikshu, a monk. All the other bhikshus were very much astonished about his conversion. They implied,”This young prince is becoming a bhikshu! He has never gone out of his palace; he has never walked without his chariot; the path he used to walk on would be covered with silk carpets! But now he wants to become a monk! What kind of foolishness is he thinking of doing?” Buddha said that man’s mind always moves between extremes – from one extreme to the other. Man’s mind never stops in the middle. Just as a pendulum...