Justified - Rama killing Vali

Rama killed valli in  hiding is that right? The protector of Dharma itself does not walk the path of Dharma !! How can it be true , how come Rama with all his prowess kill some one in hiding

Below are the various justification

Rajaji's view

Owing to the protective virtue of Indra's necklace, Rama could not have met Vali face to face and vanquished him, just as Ravana could not be conquered by the gods. Rama could kill Vali only when himself unseen. And still the question stands, why should Vali have been killed at all?

Perhaps the answer is to be found in what Kabandha said to Rama in gratitude for being released from his curse. "Through Sugriva's friendship you will recover Sita," Sugriva's help not Vali's. And so Rama went in search of Sugriva, found him and pledged his friendship and consecrated it by fire. Sugriva had committed no unforgivable offence against Vali. Yet Vali, with his supernatural strength, persecuted his brother. Hearing the latter's complaint, Rama had pledged his word to kill Vali and restore to Sugriva his wife and make him king as his part of the contract of alliance. Thereafter, Rama had no alternative. To kill Vali from cover became an inevitable necessity. Rama erred in running after the magic deer to please his wife.

Consequent on this, difficulties and sorrows and conflicts of duty pursued him. If we keep in mind that when God takes a lower and limited form by His own ordinance, limitations follow and we should not be confused thereby. This is my humble view as against other explanations propounded by the pious.

Valmiki Ramayana View

In valmiki ramayana when valli after being hit by rama arrow goes on a spree of quesstions and questioning rama on how he can kill some one who is faced away in battle ie( killing someone from the back) and that he has done no harm to rama and he is monkey eating fruits and living in forests and he also tells rama that he would have brought ravana by his neck if he had asked him and goes on on but rama replies to him saying that valli acted unjustly and abused sugreeva's wife and that the law of the manu dictates if the king punishes the guilty the guilty will enter heaven absolved from sin but if the king does not punish the guilty , the king will bear the bolt of the sin comitted by the guilty at that time Bharata was the king and rama his brother was doing only what the king should do plus valli is just an animal and when u hunt u kill animals in hiding and its the nature of hunt and hence Rama justifies killing Valli

COORG WILDLIFE SOCIETY

The last time i visited coorg was in March and i was captivated and wat captivated me more was the coorg logo than the scenery and i have a big  one in the back of my car and when i went to coorg i went in a hired cab which had a sticker of an elephant with jungle beat return below and the driver explained me that thats a mysore sticker and there was some healthy competion between coorg and mysore but i have got both the stickers on my car as i love both the places both has its own charm and both are covered by forest

The other thing capivated me is my Jawa was originally a coorg regestired vehicle and the prev owner used to work in the coffee plantations and i imagine the good old days riding jawa in the twisties in the cold weather must have been amazing but gone are those days and now my jawa is in sunny chennai reminicing the age gone by

The best thing about coorg or mysore is that u have national park every within100km and free flowing river and the people are polite the food is funny but its good  but the worst part is though coffee is from coorg coorgies make horrible coffee its unpallable but noting beats Madras for its coffee any way if its adventure u want then coorg and mysore it is

The Ultimate Motorcycle

Vasanth , Rajaram and Venkat all have posted there dream bikes but dream bikes are always subject to change why because either u achieve ur dream or there is a bike always to replace it example my dream bike is a Ducati 916 this bike was a work of art in fact its in Smithsonian institute in the art gallery and this bike is synonymous with the ducati name and it brought ducati in mainstream it was the same bike that won 4 superbike championships with Carl Forgaty and before this ducati was also in racing and they were successful with there first bike a 125cc grand sport desmo followed by a 250 and then came the legend Mike Hail wood whose father wanted his son to race on a ducati but he was not able to convince the factory to build a bike for his son so he ordered 200 bikes so his son can race and the legend lives on but the irony is ducati was originally a radio making electronics and electrical company but after there factory was destroyed in world war 2 they started making mopeds and followed by appointing the great tagollini who gave ducati the desmo and L-twin which is what still they make
               ok lets get back to dream bike now my 2nd dream bike slowly replacing the 916 though i am fighiting the temptation hard is the ducati desmocidici its about i dunno guess a crore in india and its got a 200bhp L-four engine with titanium valves and all the bells and whistles its a motogp bike for the street same as an f-50 for ferrari

but all these keep getting replaced because am sure there is going to a better bike which ducati might bring out

Then the quesstion what would be the ultimate motorcycle the answer in material terms would be the bikes to come in future years but that kind kills the idea of a dream bike . But what an ultimate bike is it should be soul of the all motorcycles it should be a definition of motorcyle with only the basics and not a fancy gizmo , it should be something which tingles ur senses and lights u up and takes you to everyplace u want to go ie it should not jus be a track weapon or dirt racer it should be something of everything it should be fully mechanical and not some software engineers wet dream with lots of microchips and finally it should be from a place where industrialisation began and hence my friends i give u the ultimate motorcycle

Its a 500cc single which is the soul of any  motorcycle and its the basic machine with no fancy gizmos and its a delight to look at it and a pleasure to ride and its the ultimate truth

Italian Affair

This about a short romance i had with an italian beauty she had this curves which makes u hug her tight and hold her hands and caress them and the experience was amazing i met this naked beauty when i was in dubai i saw her standing all by herself and went to get a better glimpse of her and when  i was about to get close to her there was this whiite guy found out he was an italian and he had also recently come to dubai and so i ended up talking to him and befriended him he was guy he used to come to office in a R6 and he was also had the italian beauty with him and she was jus amazing .the italian and myself used to hangout in the evening together and he also realised my  passion for motorcycle and offered me the  beauty the first few times were in the parking lot and slowly he gained confidence in me and we started going out for late night rides the expresssway to abudhabi was jus amazing and more amazing was the italian babe she was a MV Agusta BRUTALE had a 1078cc 170 bhp engine that jus used to flip ur mind we used to touch speeds that were taboo and this about my experience one and the most memorable one so as usual it was late night and me and my friend left to ride  and we were going on the usual road and a white porsche 911 jus came crusing next to me and inside was a sheik in usual white robe and was snarling at me and we stopped at a signal and u know ur pluses start rising u break a sweat the adearline pumps up and the signal turns green and bang in first i was doing 100k and i had gone through all the gears and the porsche was next to me i had to do something and bang came down two gears and the bike did a wheelie and zooom i was off the porsche was a small spec in my rear view mirror i was going faster than ever gone in any mode on road and i was scared and shivering and let off the throttle and then i heard the grunt and roar of the porsche charging at me and both realised that speed camera we braked hard i got to side of the road and i jus parked the bike and i was shivering scared and its a feeling u can never describe it wat everyone should do once by an insane motorcycle and blast down the road at breakneck speeds but as i said before it was only a breif affair and i realised that when i came back to India  and i also realised that riding down the road on an enfield or jawa is pure bliss the feel of these bikes can never be replicated

thats the beaut i was talking about

Die Cast -II-Hot rods & Muscle

So after the Shelby Cobra  the next acquisition was a Volkwagen beetle & A Chevy Bel Air followed by Chevy Covertte 1957&1959 followed by a  1932 Ford 3 door coupe this had a flat head V8 and its specially favoured by the Hot Rodding community for 2 reasons a) the flat head V8 and b) the ultra cool looks this very car would be the basis for many hot rods

But i wanted to expand my collection further i went and got a Fiat 500 or it was called Topolino italian for Mickey mouse look at the front of the car what does it remind you

after this my recent purchase some week ago was the best i got myself a Ford thunderbird , a chevy Sting Ray and Chevy Impala

and out my collection the impala and the chevy covertte are the best in detail wise they even have an engine  pics of my collection soon

Die Cast Obssession

When i was young my friends used to collect stamps some used to collect coins and i used to collect car toys but i used to buy hot wheels and the first one i got was a pontiac firebird trans am it was red and had a bird decal on the hood the car was ultra cool and it started the passion for vehicles but the ride on my dad's jawa was the one that pulled me to two wheeles but i did buy lots of cars, but losing them at a faster rate and slowly i grew over it i forgot all about the Lamborgini Countach and Ferrari F-50 or the Great F- 40 in which the doors can be opened But Countach was a favourite as the doors opened upwards and small lever under the car will open the pop up headlights and i was facinated anyway now the lost fire has been reindled some time last year i saw this beautiful example of a shelby cobra

 which i bought without any hesitation and now this has become my latest obsession buying die cast models and my collection has grown to 11 cars and all are from the early fifties to the late sixtys and no new ones and i am buying in scale of 1:32 to 1:28 and not the big ones as i like all of them to be of the same size and my  latest acqusitions are so good they even have an engine on the inside and more about this in my next post

The Value of humility

Kubera, the god of wealth, was very proud of his boundless fortune. One day, he organized a gorgeous dinner. Kubera invited Lord Shiva and Parvati to dinner wishing to show off his riches. But, the couple denied Kubera's request and said that he could feed Ganesha instead. Kubera laughed and said 'I can feed thousands of children like this."

Ganesha went to his palace and sat down to eat. He started eating all the food placed in front of him. As was the custom, more and more food was served to him as he did not say that he had enough. Soon there was no more food in the palace and so Kubera ordered his troops to get more food from the surrounding villages. But Ganesha continued eating and there was no more food to be found. Still very hungry, and not satisfied with all the available food, Ganesh started to devour plates and dishes, the furniture and all the content of Alakapuri, the main city of Kubera.

When he achieved to gulp down the whole, the child Ganesh threatened to swallow Kubera himself. Frightened, the god of wealth rushed forward to Shiva's feet to implore his help, since the Ganesh voracious appetite seemed to be unlimited.

Kubera became very frightened. Ganesha told him, " You promised my parents you will feed me. Now, I have to eat you up as I am still very hungry ". Kubera ran away and pleaded with Shiva to save him from Ganesha. Shiva asked Kubera to give up his pride and serve Ganesha a handful of rice. Kubera went back to his palace. By this time, Ganesha's stomach had become very huge but the child was still hungry. When Kubera served a cup of rice with humility, Ganesha's hunger was satisfied.