Palakkayam Thattu

നാം താമസിക്കന്നതിനടുത്ത് തന്നെ മനോഹരമായ,ട്രക്കിംഗിന് പറ്റിയ,പ്രകൃതിയുടെ വരദാനമെന്നോണം ഒളിഞ്ഞു കിടക്കുന്ന ഒരിടമുണ്ടെന്ന് യഥാർത്ഥത്തിൽ ഇന്നലെ വരെ അറിഞ്ഞിരുന്നില്ല!
ലീവിന്  ദുബായിൽ നിന്നും   വന്ന ജേഷ്ടന്റെ മകൾ ഫായിസയൂം  റിയാദിൽ നിന്നും വന്ന അനുജത്തി ഫെറിനയും ചേർന്ന്  മുൻകൂട്ടി പ്ലാൻ ചെയ്ത് കോർഡിനേറ്റ് ചെയ്ത ഒരു കുടുംബ ടൂറിൽ  അവിചാരിതമായി പങ്കടുത്തപ്പോഴാണ്  കണ്ണുരിൽ നിന്നും കേവലം 54 കിലോ മീറ്റർ മാത്രമുള്ള പശ്ചിമ ഘട്ട മലനിരകളിലെ  "പാലക്കയം തട്ട്" എന്ന സുന്ദരിയെ ശരിക്കും അറിഞ്ഞത്.

45 സീറ്റുള്ള ലക്ഷറി ബസ്സിൽ ഞങ്ങൾ 30 അംഗങ്ങൾ  തളീപ്പറമ്പ്-കരുവഞ്ചാൽ-നടുവിൽ എന്നിവടങ്ങളിലൂടെ     നടുവിൽ  പഞ്ചായത്തിലെ  മലയുടെ താഴത്ത് എത്തി.
അവിടന്നങ്ങോട്ട്  4 വീലർ    ജീപ്പുകളിൽ സാഹസിക യാത്ര! പ്രവിശാലമായ 'പാലക്കയം തട്ട്' മലമുകളിൽ  എത്തിയപ്പോൾ എന്തന്നില്ലാത്ത അനുഭൂതി!
സമുദ്ര നിരപ്പിൽ നിന്നും 3500 അടി ഉയരമാണ് ഇവിടം. കുളിർ കാറ്റിൽ മനോഹരമായ കാഴ്ച്ച!
പച്ചക്കുന്നുകളെ പുണരാൻ തൂങ്ങിക്കിടക്കുന്ന കാർമഘങ്ങൾ!!
സൂര്യോദയവും അസ്തമയവും ഈ മലമുകളിൽ നിന്നും കാണുന്നത് ഒരു വിസ്മയ ദൃശ്യമാണ്..രാപാർക്കാൻ താൽപര്യമുള്ളവർക്ക് ചെറിയ  കുറെ ടെന്റുകൾ ഉണ്ട്..ഒരു ടെന്റിൽ രണ്ടോ മൂന്നോ പേർക്ക് കിടക്കാം.. കൂടാതെ മലയുടെ താഴത്ത് ഹോംസ്റ്റെകളും ലഭ്യമാണ്.അടുത്ത കാലത്ത് മാത്രമാണ്  ഇവിടെ  ടൂറിസ്റ്റുകൾ വരാൻ തുടങ്ങിയിട്ട്.കെ ടി ഡി സി ഏറ്റെടുത്തിട്ട് 3 വർഷമേ ആയിട്ടുള്ളുവത്രെ.
പാലക്കയം തട്ടിന്റെ തൊട്ട് പരിസരത്ത്  കാണാൻ പറ്റിയ  മറ്റു ചില സ്ഥലങ്ങളും ഉണ്ട്..വെള്ളച്ചാട്ടം കാണാനും അരുവികൾക്കരീകിലിരുന്ന് ഭക്ഷണം കഴിക്കാൻ പറ്റിയ സ്ഥലങ്ങൾ...
ചുരുക്കത്തിൽ കണ്ണൂർ ജില്ലയിലെ കൊടൈക്കനാൽ എന്ന് വേണമെങ്കിൽ പാലക്കയം തട്ടിനെ വീശേഷിപ്പിക്കാം..
കുറഞ്ഞ ദൂരയാത്രയിൽ ഇങ്ങനെ ഒരു  ടൂറിസ്റ്റ് ഡസ്റ്റീനേഷനിലേക്ക് ഞങ്ങളെ കൊണ്ട് പോയി സന്തോഷീപ്പിച്ച ഫായിസ,ഫെറിന എന്നിവരുടെ ഉദ്യമത്തിന്  ഒരു പാട് നന്ദി! അടുത്ത ഡെസ്റ്റിനേഷൻ പ്ലേൻ ചെയ്യുന്നതും പ്രതീക്ഷിച്ചു കൊണ്ട്..

-വഹാബ് കെ പി.

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It is very interesting toknow that 3 three legendary personalities lived on 19th century and their connections..

Max Muller (1823-1900)
Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
Swami Vivekanandan(1863-1902)

Something Surprising... 

His Masters Voice (HMV) had once published a pamphlet giving the history of gramophone record. Gramophone was invented by Thomas Alva Edison in the 19th century. Edison, who had invented many other gadgets like electric light and the motion picture camera, had become a legend even in his own time.

When he invented the gramophone record, which could record human voice for posterity, he wanted to record the voice of an eminent scholar on his first piece. For that he chose Prof. Max Muller the great German-born philologist of England who was a great personality of the 19th century.

He wrote to Max Muller saying, “I want to meet you and record your voice. When should I come?” Max Muller who had great respect for Edison asked him to come on a suitable time when most of the scholars of the Europe would be gathering in England.

Accordingly, Edison took a ship and went to England.

He was introduced to the audience. All cheered Edison’s presence.

Later at the request of Edison, Max Muller came on the stage and spoke in front of the instrument. Then Edison went back to his laboratory and by afternoon came back with a disc.

He played the gramophone disc from his instrument. The audience was thrilled to hear the voice of Max Muller from the instrument. They were glad that voices of great persons like Max Muller could be stored for the benefit of posterity.

After several rounds of applause and congratulations to Thomas Edison, Max Muller came to the stage and addressed the scholars and asked them, “You heard my original voice in the morning. Then you heard the same voice coming out from this instrument in the afternoon. Did you understand what I said in the morning or what you heard in the afternoon?”

The audience fell silent because they could not understand the language in which Max Muller had spoken. It was ‘Greek and Latin’ to them literally. But had it been Greek or Latin, they would have definitely understood because they were from various parts of Europe. It was in a language which the European scholars had never heard.

Max Muller then explained what he had spoken. He said that the language he spoke was Sanskrit and it was the first Sloka of Rig Veda, which says “Agni Meele Purohitam”

This was the first recorded public version on the gramophone plate.

Why did Max Muller choose this?

Addressing the audience he said, “Vedas are the oldest text of the human race. And “Agni Meele Purohitam” is the first verse of Rig Veda. In the most primordial time, when human beings of the Western World did not even know how to cover their bodies and lived in caves and hunted for food, the Indians were much advanced and had attained high civilization. They gave the world universal philosophies in the form of Vedas”

When “Agni Meele Purohitam” was replayed, the entire audience stood up in silence as a mark of respect.

The verse means:

“Oh Agni, You who gleam in the darkness, to You we come day by day, with devotion and bearing homage. So be of easy access to us, Agni, as a father to his son, abide with us for our well being.

Here is an extract from The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda.

“While our study had proceeded thus for a while, Swamiji raised the topic about Max Müller and continued thus: Well, do you know, my impression is that it is Sayana who is born again as Max Müller to revive his own commentary on the Vedas? I have had this notion for long. It became confirmed in my mind, it seems, after I had seen Max Müller.Even here in this country, you don’t find a scholar so persevering, and so firmly grounded in the Vedas and the Vedanta. Over and above this, what a deep, unfathomable respect for Shri Ramakrishna! Do you know, he believes in his Divine Incarnation! And what great hospitality towards me when I was his guest! Seeing the old man and his lady, it seemed to me that they were living their home-life like another Vasishtha and Arundhati! At the time of parting with me, tears came into the eyes of the old man.

Disciple: But, sir, if Sayana himself became Max Müller, then why was he born as a Mlechchha instead of being born in the sacred land of India?

Swamiji: The feeling and the distinction that I am an Aryan and the other is a Mlechchha come from ignorance. But what are Varnâshrama and caste divisions to one who is the commentator of the Vedas, the shining embodiment of knowledge? To him they are wholly meaningless, and he can assume human birth wherever he likes for doing good to mankind. Specially, if he did not choose to be born in a land which excelled both in learning and wealth, where would he secure the large expenses for publishing such stupendous volumes? Didn’t you hear that the East India Company paid nine lakhs of rupees in cash to have the Rig-Veda published?” Even this money was not enough. Hundreds of Vedic Pundits had to be employed in this country on monthly stipends. Has anybody seen in this age, here in this country, such profound yearning for knowledge, such prodigious investment of money for the sake of light and learning? Max Müller himself has written it in his preface, that for twenty-five years he prepared only the manuscripts. Then the printing took another twenty years! It is not possible for an ordinary man to drudge for fortyfive years of his life with one publication. Just think of it! Is it an idle fancy of mine to say he is Sayana himself? 

[The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda; Volume 6; Conversations and Dialogues; Part IX, Pages 495-496 

Following points are proved from this extract:

1) According to Swami Vivekananda, Max Muller is the rebirth of Sayana Acharya.
2) Sayana has taken birth again to revive his commentary on Vedas.
3) No scholar in India was of Muller’s calibre and Muller was firmly grounded in knowledge.
4) East India Company paid NINE LAKH (nine hundred thousand) rupees in cash to publish the Rig-Veda.

5) Vedic Pundits shamelessly took money from East India Company, the occupiers of India (Aryavarta).

Vivekananda hails Muller in a letter written to Mrs. Bull on 30th May 1896, as follows:

“…Day before yesterday I had a fine visit with Prof. Max Müller. He is a saintly man and looks like a young man in spite of his seventy years, and his face is without a wrinkle. I wish I had half his love for India and Vedanta. At the same time he is a friend of Yoga too and believes in it. Only he 

(മുപ്പത്തിനിലാം വിവാഹവാർഷിക ചിന്തകൾ)

              

ഈ ജീവിത നൗക തുഴയാൻ തുടങ്ങിയ കാലം മുതൽ
പ്രതിസന്ധിയുടെ ഓളങ്ങളിലും
പ്രതീക്ഷയുടെ താളങ്ങളിലും
ഇതികർത്തവ്യതാമൂഢരാകുമ്പൊൾ
"സമ്മിലൂനീ..സമ്മിലൂനീ..*
എന്ന പരിദേവനങ്ങളിലും
ആശ്വാസത്തിന്റെ കമ്പിളിയിൽ
മൂടിപ്പുതച്ചു കിടക്കാതെ
പ്രഭാതം വിടരുമെന്ന പ്രതീക്ഷയിൽ
ഉറക്കമിളിച്ചു കാത്തിരുന്നവർ ഞങ്ങൾ..

പാതി വഴിയിലധികം ഈ നൗക പിന്നിട്ടിരിക്കുന്നുവല്ലോ?
ഇനി ആ 'തുരുത്തി'ൽ എത്താൻ
കുറഞ്ഞ ദുരം മാത്രം!
കുറഞ്ഞ ദുരം മാത്രം!!

പാറകളെ തട്ടിയും
ഓളങ്ങളെ മുട്ടിയും
യാത്ര ചെയ്തതിലത്രയും തന്നെ
മഴവില്ല് വിരിയുന്ന താഴ്വാരങ്ങളിലുടേയും
കുളിർ മഴ പോലെ സ്വപ്നങ്ങൾ പെയ്തിറങ്ങുന്ന
നീല തടാകത്തിലൂടേയും
 ഈ നൗക യാത്ര ചെയ്തു.

ഈ ഹരിതമാം ഭൂമിയിലെ
നീല ജലാശയത്തിലുടെ അനസ്യൂതമാം  യാത്ര തുടരാനാഗ്രഹമുണ്ടെങ്കിലും
ഇനി ആ തുരുത്തി*ലേക്ക്
എത്തിപ്പെടാൻ
കുറഞ്ഞ ദുരം മാത്രം!
വളരെ കുറഞ്ഞ ദുരം മാത്രം!!

(പ്രാർത്ഥിക്കുക,അനശ്വരമാം നന്മകൾക്ക് വേണ്ടി)
-വഹാബ് കെ പി

* Zammiloonee=പ്രവാചകൻ ദിവ്യ വെളിപാട് ലഭിച്ചയുടൻ ഇതികർത്തവ്യതാമൂഢതയോടെ തന്നെ പുതപ്പിക്കാൻ വിറയാർന്ന ശബ്ദത്തിൽ പത്നി ഖദീജയോട് ആവശൃപ്പെട്ട സന്ദർഭം
* തുരുത്ത് : ഇവിടെ ജീവിക്കാൻ അനൂവദിക്കപ്പെട്ട സമയം.

FATE AND FLIGHT NEVER WAIT ANYBODY

 

[My son Rawaha has left for Kuwait after much long stay. This period was luckily comfortable to me as I was bedridden due to road accident.He has to join his new job there at once.. Pls pray & go to following lines which has come from my leisure thought just after his departure)

FATE AND FLIGHT NEVER WAIT ANYBODY

You stood with a tear that rolled down your cheek,
As I opened my eyes, I just caught a peek
of you trying to cover it, not wanting to show
your sadness at parting. I know; I know.
And we talked and we hugged and we smiled at the day,
wanting to hold on; wanting to play,
But no time ,for again fate has taken a hand
Fate and flight never wait anybody.

Set you to work as you leave the hot land
To generate money that both of you need,
To start your new life, your new seed.
And I wish your better half always be better to you.

You made me comfortable those bedridden days.
Aftermath distress of the road accident I met.
I felt your presence soothing in pain.
Now, I felt your absence helps your gain.

While I unable to walk with my fractured leg,
You fetched me where ever I wished
I realized I won't expect help from others as if from you
I' be satisfied if your better half stands for your betterment in full

When I caught you as if my walker with my fractured hand
I sensed your mood; your feeling forlorn,
But sadness is not what either should feel,
the happiness shared, and our love being sealed.
Those are the feelings that keep us in touch
While you parting us in the cloudy morning.
Wishing you the pleasant morning in the desert home,
With outstanding memories of our own home.

K .P. A Wahab

 

Thanks to all for making wedding reception a memorable event...

Dears & nears
We have no words to express our gratitude to those who made wedding reception of our son Rawaha and our daughter-in law Najitha a great success and beautiful and ever memorable event. Especially to our Gulf relatives & friends who extended their stay ignoring their children’s school opening days and who did flying visit for 2 0r 3 days ignoring high ticket rate.

However, I hope and pray this spectacular event at the serene ambiance of “Sargaalaya” craft village might have  an unforgettable experience to every participant, hence not a loss for your attempt. We hope you have  appreciated the “Dinner with Gazal” , “Suhani Rath”,  colourful fire works, “Mailanchy Paatukal” & our Children’s fine arts performance. (photos & movie will postnext time)

Once again we submit our thanks to every participant. And at the same time we suggest it is a loss to those who escaped from our invitation, though it is only few persons.
Wahab KP, Ayisha Farhath, Rawaha, Rassal, Rasween & Najitha Rawaha

 

HEARTIEST WELCOME TO RAF-HA

      

Finally, joyful  steps  with  musics

Yusefzai Malala:

Be the Inspiration to Millions of  Girls in Muslim Community

Whole human being eager to know that from which ideology these brutal Talibans getting inspired to shoot out a budding rose, Yusefzai Malala  a school girl who seeks knowledge and a keen aspirant of education. I firmly can say that it is not from Islamic dogma or teaching of our Prophet (SA). Contrarily, Their act and attitudes are entirely against Prophet’s teaching and neglecting the  essence of Islamic dogma.

Often I heard from our priests' oration(vayalu)  saying of our prophet (SA) about importance of learning and seeking knowledge irrespective of men & women.

Here,remembering some ‘Hadees’ signifying  the education & learning.
I recapture them as following and interestingly its malpractices by Taliban ,just below it.

                 Prophet said; The acquisition of knowledge is compulsory for every Muslim,                           whether male or female”        

  (But these Taliban's decree is that no any women,(even it is a girl) deserve for learning)

   "Prophet: “The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr." 

(Taliban show us:'Blood of scholar is more useful than their knowledge')

   Prophet said:   "Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave." 

 (These brutal: "Seek enmity from the cradle to the grave")

    "God has revealed to me, 'Whoever walks in the pursuit of knowledge I facilitate for him the way to heaven.' 

(These Dogs seem God entrust them: "Whoever walks in the pursuit of knowledge, shoot him / her and send them to hell")  

    Someone asked the Prophet(sa) : "Who is the biggest scholar?" He replied: "He who is constantly trying to learn from others, for a scholar is ever hungry for more knowledge

If someone asks to Taliban head: "Who is the biggest scholar ? He will reply: "He who is constantly trying to spread enmity to others, for a scholar ever hungry for more blood"

Whatever ideology they are getting inspired for these kind of brutality it must an outrage to modern world and Islam.

And if there is  any organization in Kerala with  minute resemblance of such 'ideology',  they should be alienated from our soil.

( Here remember a Malayalam Poem: 
 "സ്നേഹിക്കുക ഇല്ല  ഞാന്‍,  നോവുമോരാത്മാവിനെ
സ്നേഹിച്ചിടാത്തൊരു  ത്വത്വ  ശാസ്ത്രത്തെയും "

Let us pray for the early survival of 15 aged innocent girl, Yusefzai Malala ,

Definitely , this girl should be an inspiration to millions of girls in Muslim community who are aspirants to education.  May Allah give good sense to  ‘Taliban minded’ people, if therein Muslim Community (Ameen)

Lovingly wahab