Morning walk

 

Amongst all exercises brisk walking has been found to be the best .

It has plenty of benifits with less harm .

An hour walk at least five days a week not only helps in minimal weight reduction ,a boost to all bodily systems .

It gently stimulates your heart but never stresses it by hyperactive Gym manouveures .

Of course if done professionaly cardio in Gym gives better results and ideal for youngsters and middle age .

But lot of recent stories of sudden death in those straining in Gyms like Kannada film star Puneeth tells us serious studies are needed to find out this .

Diet fads too taken too far @ to me arent very good .

Long time fasting or very strict diets at times is inimical to our body .

Its better to have a bit of lard or a tiny paunch than a six pack glistening body at the cost of a sudden collapse .

Iam no professional in this field so please dont take my views as advise .

This is just take of a senior citizen on the other side of obese border who loves his walk for it also gives him time to think and enjoy music or his languid swims but without much visible differences in his physical structure

But never overdo things 

Even charity or spirituality

Adigamaanal Amirthavum Visham 

Says a famous Tamil saying even Amirtha is a poison if in excess .

So live your life balanced ,laugh a lot and try to make others laugh even if at your expense,

The world has enough to make you laugh ,all you need to is watch those conceited constipated men and women preaching commandments and edicts they believe in .

Or watch those scheming plotting looting puny politicians living a life of falsehood die one day like unremembered flies in a cesspool .

Enjoy life as one never knows tomorrow .

Reduce the gripe ,but talk bravely on injustice unfairness and abuse by anyone .

If at all you just have just one life to lose .

We will have other lives too and karma balam will do rest .

I dont have a long runway of plans to take off 

I do like a rocket straight up if something inspires me 

of course learn to fall like a cat if you can

 I fall with a thud but .

Good day .

Hearts..world heart day

 Today is world hearts day .

Beyond the usual keep your heart healthy adage ,which every other doctor would post, I want to post something different on hearts .

Heart as an organ is just a bundle of muscles ,blood vessels ,and nerves tirelessly ticking away till we cease to exist .

Thats its anatomy and physiology and its medicine part .

Iam familiar with that too .

But beyond that the heart is often thought to be the place where our mind sits ,not the cold calculative mind that deals with logic and steers us in the throes of life ,but the foolishly passionate soul stirring mind that is in love with people with beauty of creation, with nature ,and which suffuses us with pleasure ,never ever explained by science !!

Its that heart which is my topic today .

The heart from which a poet gets his poem, the heart which a singer or actor needs for his song or acting ,to surpass the realms of mundaenity .

The heart that needs no words ,no signs, no symbols ,but passes its message by silence and un interrupted telepathy to its recipient .

A look, a smile ,a crinkling in the corner of our eyes ,as we look at our beloveds

 ( not wives always 😁 ),our children ,

at innocence ,at the spectacle of divinity in nature ,in the rustle of a breeze, in chirping of a bird, in the wake of a wave, is all from this heart .

The moment this heart ceases to manifest its just a muscle bundle that makes you live ,but it never makes you alive !

So while you keep that bundle all healthy do the exercises needed to keep this heart the real one kicking .

The jumba dance you need to keep this heart of love in shape ,is to fall in love over and over again ,not only with people or your loved ones ,but with beauty ,with things ,with time ,with life itself, for the ultimate utopian secret lies in love, and its needed to have a heart for that .

A heart full of love .😍😚

Distortion of Onam

Its become a pattern in Kerala to distort Hindu mythology and scriptures .

Hinduism is made to appear as a religion of superstition ,orthodoxy,divisiveness, gender restrictive and discriminating by caste .

Concerted studied efforts to belittle its thoughts and messages to make it appear as a pagan religion believed by men and women teeming with class differences and orthodoxy is becoming a habit .

Some are aware its but the opposite in its inner message but the idea is to create an impression itsnt so

Its probably beneath its surface sheen of rituals and customs temple worshiping and pilgrims one of the most broad minded theological concepts delving the most deepest in philosophy psychology logic and most accepting and all encompassing thought process in religions but without the habit of proclaiming it like others do

Amongst the many recent attacks on its beliefs is on the Onam festival in Kerala

Onam has been a celebration whose origin is based on Hindu scriptures though its accepted by all Keralites as a harvest festival

The story of Mahabali the wise and just king who ruled it is given moksha or salvation by the supreme for his devotion and fairness in life though through a ruse to control his ego

Designed distortion ts to make this an example of casteist dominance that existed in ancient Hinduism by the story of a cunning Brahmain Vamana cheat a lower caste Asura ruler ie Mahabali

Vamana is accused of cheating Mahabali the benevolent Sudra king and stamp him to oblivion !! and is made to appear of the habit in the dark casteist Hindu past

This year a nun from Kerala had made these remarks in social media and later made an apology once she knew many were angry and some could take legal action on her

A MP and a state minister too made the same kind of remarks in social media ,such posts evoke lot of support from progressive liberals of the pseudo secular mould and the evangelist forces in the state whose agenda is to divide the people by distorting their beliefs and inducing doubts on them

when one delves a bit deeper one comes to know Mahabali actually was a king and from the Asura clan ie in the puranas they were demons but nowhere does it tell they were lower castes who had fought Indra and Devas in a war after the search for the divine nectar Amrutha was taken by the Devas ,

He conquered Devas and ruled their lands

On the plea of the Devas lord vishnu took birth as a child to kashyapa and Aditi and grew up as a brahmin boy ,

Vishnu agreed to this as he knew Mahabali who was the great grandchild of Hiranyakashpu and the grandson of prahalada and was a just king but needed to quell his ego to reach nirvana the ultimate destination of any realized Hindu free of any more births

in the concept of Karma any remaining sin or vasana like the ego prevents a soul from attaining nirvana or moksha and needs further births and sufferings to destroy it ,

Vishnu wants Mahabali to negate the small ego by a ruse so he is given moksha in that birth itself

so he visits Mahabali during a sacrifice and as

ks for alms as a Brahmin is bound to do so in sacrifices as was the custom those days

Mahabali asks the Brahmin what he wants

Vamana replies that all he wants is three steps of earth

Mahabali immediately agrees though warned by Sukracharya his Guru who had realized that Vishnu was Vamana .

but Mahabali says hes blessed that the great lord himself had come to grant him eternity

Having heard him reciting the Vedas, the bestower of the wanted things (Bali) said to the Dwarf in spite of being obstructed by Sukra (the preceptor of demons), "Whatever (you) desire I shall give (you)". The dwarf asked Bali, "Get (me) three [footsteps] of spaces for the sake of the preceptor. (Bali) said to him, "I shall give (you)". When the water was poured on the hand the Dwarf became a Giant (and) measured the worlds of Bhuh, Bhuvah, and Svar [ground, sky, and Heaven] with the three strides and (sent) Bali to Sutala (a nether world) and (then) Hari (Visnu) gave the worlds to Sakra (Indra). Sakra (Indra) praised Hari (Visnu) along with the celestials (and) remained happy as ruler of the world.

— Agni Purana (unabridged), translated by J.L. Shastri, G.P. Bhatt, and N. Gangadharan (1998), Chapter 4, Verses 5-11

By the first step vamana covers all of earth and by second the skies and all other world as he has grown into a giant

now the question is why did Vamana use a devious method ?

did he cheat Mahabali ?

scriptures are never taken literally but interpreted in many ways .

After taking earth and heaven in two giant steps as part of three foot of land to him by Mahabali the king Vishnu looked at Mahabali in askance for his third foot promised to him .

Mahabali realized God was in front of him .

It was Mahabali who bowed down and offered his head for the lord to place his foot on .

Then he said to Bali: "O lord of Asuras, there is no place for the third step. Where shall I place the third step? Give me the ground." Laughingly Bali said with palms joined in reverence. He was accompanied by his wife.

The entire universe has been created by you, O lord of Devas. I am not a creator. Due to your fault it has become too small, O lord of cosmic identity. Still I have never uttered a lie, nor will I ever utter a lie proving me to be a man of truthful statement. Step on my back

— Brahma Purana (unknown translator, 1955), Gautami-Mahatmya, Chapter 4, Verses 48-52

By this he surrendered in every way with any bit of ego he had and attained Moksha or eternal freedom or nirvana .

The three foots themselves are not taken literally by the learned as in every scripture in Hinduism there are many interpretations literal and abstract for every thought and saying

The three worlds are The organ of speech is this world (the earth), the mind is the sky, and the vital force is that world (heaven).

These are the three Vedas. The organ of speech is the Rig-Veda, the mind is the Yajur-Veda, and the vital force the Sama-Veda.

These are the gods, the Manes and men. The organ of speech is the gods, the mind the Manes, and the vital force men.

These are the father, mother and child. The mind is the father, the organ of speech the mother, and the vital force the child.

— Brihadaranyaka Upanishad with commentary of Shankaracharya (translated by Swami Madhavananda, 1934), Section 5, Verses 4-7[74]

Again the three foots covering earth sky and all worlds is not literal but symbolic of other hidden meanings to instill goodness in the living

He was said to be banished to Sutala and its believed he was allowed to come once in a year to see his subjects and that is Onam

Mahabali was not stamped forcibly as made out by some .

Its again a message to tell us to forego our ego and surrender to the almighty

not the idiotic caste story created to divide people by castes .

Castes came by professions initially but perpetuated and much maligned by humans by exploitation and discrimination and today by politicians to keep us divided

The almighty is beyond castes

In his cosmic creation humans and their idiocies are insignificant

its time those who use their own interpretation on other s beliefs to ponder well and do some search before they do so

again the fact that these worthies never dare do the same with the other religious beliefs as it doesn't fit in their agenda of dividing Hindus and ridiculing their traditions and heritage by shallow distortions .

Hinduism has never relied on militant imposition and violent replies to those who malign it but have done it over the ages by debate and education and correcting misinterpretations

but in these cases the motive is not realizing the truth it is the squelching of truth for achieving destruction of the ideals of a religion in a systematic manner

Hence this post is not to convince the perpetrators of such rumors but to convince those who are fair about the unfairness of such agendas .

 

Secular me

Though I share this post  its not to prove any minority credentials ..
no Indian needs that .
In everyday life Indians are quite happy with each other ,and hardly see each other with coloured glasses of religion ,or caste .

Its only in pages of newspapers or in TV screens , or in social media that  we hear stories of bigotism ,incidents of insinuations,discrimination,intolerances and fundamentalistic acts ,terrorist attacks, arson ,and immediately a sense of distrust is created .

Above all the politician of all hues and party though they describe themselves as secular ,labelling their opponents as communal ,are the prime reason for driving wedges amongst communities .

In day to day life people live , laugh , love , litter ,with neighbours ,co passengers coleauges ,classmates,friends,casual contacts,service people and no one is bothered about these two factors which is how it should be and is .

There are umpteen incidents of people pitching in for each other ,helping each other ,assisting strangers taking part in joint local celebrations ,holidays as a united group .

Most festivals, in the country are celebrated with much fanfare by all communities
I used to look forwards to xmas for taking part in midnight carols  when young,
for Ramadhan when in Brunei and UAE for the general bonhomie of iftars and fast breaks
 in fact a couple of times i too had fasted alongwith
On Bakrid we used to get some excellent meat as our share from neighbours .

I still remember my dads sardar friend telling me about Golden temple in Amristar which i had the fortune to visit last year .

I love old Kerala churches with thier qauint roofed buildings ,old mosques

 In Malappuram district where I hail from
In my dads place in Tirur I can never forget an old retainer who was there even when my dad was young ,we just called him maplah ,whenever we came for holidays he would be around ,silent but cheerful .
People interact ,respect,have friendships ,share thier problems and celebrate in day to day life without much barriers or apprehensions or pretensions .

They respect each others faiths ,dont intrude or interfere , live and let live .

Its when these walls,are broken by conversions , incursions , and ridicules of traditions that there is irritation and anger , and we all know who causes those
Fundamentalists and politicians who gain by splitting people
If only all knew this truth and turned in unity against these two dissiparous forces , how our nation would change

60 th milestone

The milestone..i turn 60 today sep 12 th

There are some milestones in your age which are significant
When i became 16 i had only one ache
  to get into a medical college .
I knew it wasnt easy for a fatherless boy not remarkable in his studies .

Actually that hardly counted in karunanidhi ruled Tamilnadu .
Entrance exams were yet to begin and medical admissions were based on whims of those in power .
Your PUC marks mattered but it was the all important interview that did the trick and with a malayalee fathers name of Narayanan nair I was sure to be ticked off the list as those days they would remark
 oh  malayalathaana
 as they  werent  great favourites  with the powers that ruled ,
but serendipity was in my favour as Indira Gandhi then PM kicked out the DMK Govt and presidents rule was brought to Tamilnadu .

Medical admissions would be strictly based on PUC aggregrate with double marks for biology ...read zoology and botany they decided .

With 84 % aggregrate i started smiling though it was a long haul ,with 3 months of doubts studying Bsc zoology in  Presidency college but spending time in the beach and eating Buhari samosas with gals and finally joining Kilpauk medical college.

I would become a doctor after all !

In final year I became love mohan and managed to pass too 😂

The next milestone was in1983 the year i got married .

26 years too was important as I had my first child ,our Shilpa though not perfect I will  still give a star to that year .

Eleven years later at 37 I lost my child
But  had 2 children more ....all by 38 years .

And at 48 years I went abroad for 12 years and now the 60 is appearing fast and furious and Iam back to GOC

I have changed
of course
Have i mellowed ?

Dont think so.

On introspection I feel I have become a bit bitter and grumpy .
Thats what the family feels 😥

Somehow couldnt stand unfairness any time  and my trigger posts have irked many though I had been as sincere as possible .

I love food and learnt to cook and serve and enjoy .

And I love to write though many fear to read my long posts 😁

I hadnt fallen to any isms , though Iam highly politically aware .

I prefer individuals rather than parties and Abdul kalam sir stands only next to Mahatma Gandhiji  to me .
Mother teresa was someone I admired till I wondered about agendas behind ,even then she was a great soul .

E .Sreedharan.kurien.Alponse kanamthaanam Krishna iyer are all my idols .

I love good actors like kamalahassan .mohanlal.
mamooty.sivaji ganesan .rajesh khanna .Amitabh bhachan
Rekha asha parekh .

To singers Iam partial
 I love them all
of course lataji asha ji rafi saab dasettan jayachandran p susheela vani jairam s janaki

Rehman ilayaraja laxmikant pyarelal viswanathan ramamoorthy Salida
Onv kurup sir vayalar sir kannadasan sir

Even Arundhati roy and Sashi tharoor I like  for thier talents though not thier politics .

I admire many of my coleagues who have achieved so much in health

My mentors are VPG sir ,
Ahmed ali sir ,Alizadeh hussain my hematologist friend ,Amar lal and pawan kumar ,and masood ,nazish Aurangazeb my seniors and my  coleagues.

I was grateful to study under Rajagopal sir to work with coleagues learn a lot to get friends from several nationalities .

My children have turned good on thier own ,which is a grace of God and my 59 th year was another milestone in celebrating my daughters wedding and getting another son our Achyuth .

So all in all not bad  .

Future unknown .

In south india they celebrate 60 th birthday as sastithapoorthi they call it 60 aam kalyanam that means 60 th wedding 😁

For sure I was looking ahead to 59 more weddings but not when i heard it cant be with  different wives 😂

And so 60 is coming

There are advantages

As senior citizen I get some perks...

 lower berths in trains ,concessions in flights ,maybe shorter ques , maybe an youngster will give me his seat in a bus , and I will be forgiven for upstart thoughts in FB and debates as after all they may think ..
Poor  old man let him talk !!

I may be excused if I fart in public with just a guffaw 😂

 But I dont feel old at all and still want to  be a back bencher ,laugh with friends, hitting backs ,do dubsmash ,get high on cocktails , and watch porn ...oops !

Now iam being confessional

Confession isnt a good word these days can never be sure of our backs with section 377 diluted by those horrible sorry  honble judges .

I may get an enlarged prostate as a bonus or a stroke and grin loppishly

Well not worth much then .

Again dont know how long I will last if I stretch maximum it cant be more than 40 years ,since our DNA never lasted so long .

And I wouldnt want that long too which wud just be kiddy care by me ,later home care for me !!

I wud love to go with a bang listening to my sruthi singing me a lullaby .

my Shyam wishing me ....have fun acha or dad wherever u r going

 and wife tellng me ..... so long till we meet again !!

Omg

60 th birthday tributes

From wife
A man whom I have been with almost my entire life (met him when I was sweet sixteen 💃 ) is turning sixty today !!! We have been lucky to have had a fulfilling life with a satisfying career , great friends and relatives and above all to have had the most loving parents siblings and children and I thank the Almighty for all that he has given us abundantly till date and pray it stays like this forever !!! I also hope we both stop our silly fights and behave more mature ( remember our children asking us when we are arguing to grow up and stop behaving like kids 😄 ) especially now as you turn senior citizen today So no more kids play my mighty senior 😜 Happy birthday mate🎂


From my son Shyam and daughter Sruthi

A letter to my father on his 60th Birthday :-

Hi Acha,

It has been 60 years in your tortuous, but satisfying journey of life. You have achieved so much professionally and personally in this time. Life has not been a piece of cake for you, but that has not deterred you : Whether it was the loss of a father at the age of 12 ; having a mentally handicapped first child( Shilpa chechi) early in your married life ; or losing her at a young age. But it was these hardships that shaped your trajectory, by working hard in school to get into a medical college , or if it was starting a school for the mentally handicapped with amma. Life has thrown at you the toughest bouncers, but you knocked it out of the park in Dhoni style everytime.

For that we will always respect you

As a parent you have provided everything that as children chechi and I can ask for. Whether it is the best education possible in the best schools, or building our overall personality with different training classes be it in dancing, singing or football. You had even managed to keep us alive in the one year amma had gone to Hyderabad for a diploma course (although that was the year I was my naughtiest ). The time you spent in Dubai and Brunei working hard, living alone in a foreign country so that we can have a good education and standard of living. These are all just examples of sacrifices you and amma have made to ensure we have a comfortable life. I can never forget those days in my childhood, when at night I used to crave for jalebis, and you used to go out on your scooter and get me hot jalebis from a far away shop that closes late. For all these unconditional sacrifices you made and continue to make for us, sacrifices we can never comprehend.

For that we will always love you.

As a person you are the wittiest and fun loving person that I know of. Be it in your uncanny ability to make any situation humorous, allowing us to keep smiling. The voracious reading that you do(or maybe used to do) , has had an effect on us intellectually, be it the monthly national geographic and readers digest magazines that you used to make us read, or the myriad of books that we had at home. Your love for Kishore Kumar and AR Rahman songs has reciprocated in my taste in music , with my friends shocked at my perfect knowledge of the lyrics of old hindi songs. The biannual trips to various tourist destinations in India will always be in my memory. All these memories you have given us, and the skills you have inculcated in us:-

For that we will always be indebted to you.

Now it is your 60th birthday, where the central government classifies you a "senior citizen". The stereotypical senior citizen sits on his reclining chair with a hot chai and a grumpy look on his face. But my father is no stereotypical person. So go on enjoy this phase of your life - travel , read, write and have a few drinks. For you have had enough of a tough life full of responsibilities . It is time now for you to sit on a reclining chair on the beaches of Goa, enjoying the sun , while we as your children try to give back at least 10% of how much you have done for us.

The only difference is that I won't be bringing hot jalebis for you, but rather a cold glass of Malibu rum  , because as Ernest Hemingway once said:- " the only regret in my life was that I did not drink enough wine" .   😜😜😜

A happy birthday to you Acha.  😁

Your loving children
Shyam and Sruthi

Wedding planning

The fine art of planning an aesthetic traditional kerala wedding involves hard work of several professionals .
It needed the creative inputs of Sruthi and Premila mainly and succesfully completed by the main designer event manager of Bhaskareeyam convention center
sri Pramodh .
It was he who built on the temple theme with mural background and multiple lighted lamps .
Mr Kaimal and his able asst arranged the stage essentials the the thaalam ladies were organised in neat lines and every single thing to be done explained in steps with no stress.
The welcoming of the groom with washing
 his foot by Shyam and the entry of the bride in resplendent spotlit brilliance with a lotus umbrella ably held by Shyam .
The retinue walked gracefully as i held on to one  hand and premila the other .
The rituals of the wedding itself was step by step meticulous to a fault .
During all this there were two things that filled it
Sopana sangeetham by Satyan marar from chottanikara temple and udayans nadaswaram were the highlights

The melodious voice of my niece Archana followed after the main ritual and during the blessings of elders as
GOWRI KALYAAANA VAIBOGAME

The lunch too wasnt left to caterers
We had by turns gatecrashed three weddings on the invit of center as taste making trials and found out subtle changes to be made .
Of course it wudnt have worked if not fir shyam and preethis fance coaching pramodh s logistic listings of room allocations picks and drops and priyas overall support
Shyams classmates were willing for anything from thier side thier youthful energies ever ready
Sruthis classmates looked after her grooming etc
Finally it was Gods grace all went well

Monsoon magic

Theres no better place to be in during the heavy kerala monsoons in june july .
Theres an explosion of green everywhere .
Dripping water droplets from freshly bathed leaves shining like a new born baby .
The flutter of wings as birds joyfully flow in the drizzle of the dusk back to thier cosy nests to feed thier cackling young thier crimson red greedy throats wide open .

The rain waxes and wanes like the aaroham avarohanam of carnatic musis at times pitching in with so much force that small rivulets become gushing rivers but at times gently fall on the wet earth caressing it like a lover meeting his beloved after a seperation .
The rivers are angry and roaringly ferocious as the water laps the bridges where lonely buses cross precautiosly .
The sun knows its beaten during these times as its vain attempts to shine forth is defeated by dark clouds pregnant with rain .
Its a waterworld with roads full of potholes but looking smooth filled with brown water which covers the holes and mounts with marxian efficiency .
The waves go large and bobbing boats show glimpses of wet fishermen struggling  in the rain by glimpses of lightening flashes .
The butterflies twit in haste before being brought down to the crowd not by ego for thier lovely coats but by the weight of water on thier backs .
The crickets hum the frogs cry to sing the fly hums and the bumble bee makes electronic music .
Wet men and women reprimand joyous children to get away from the rain to the safety of thier houses tempting them with delicious food .
While the poor paper thier cracks to get over the wet miserable season when they stand on water and get dripped with water .
Wetness is the password of kerala in monsoon where God paints the state with a swathe of colours and admires his pastel creativities .

Doctors of valliyil

Doctors of Valliyil family

My cousin Dr Rajalakshmi probably was one of the earlier doctors in our Vallyil family .( my mothers ancestral family in Parappanangadi is a well known old family in the place )
There were two aunts
Dr Thangamani ,Dr Bhargavi ,all lady doctors
Dr Rajeev is my cousin a senior psychiatrist  in UK now.
Dr Vidya is a dental surgeon in Bangalore my niece .
Daughter of my cousin Vanajachechi I heard is a medical doctor too .
Major Vikraman or Kutettan is a renkowned vertinary surgeon .

Hope I  havnt missed anyone else .

Dr Rajalakshmi describes her professional tenure in her words below
"It will be a long script if I start writing my experience in service
I had my toughest time in kondotti. _
my first posting.
I managed to escape from there after a year only to land up in more trouble being posted in mobile FP unit
Well 2 years of travelling all over Calicut district and getting 2_3 awards ended that .

Later I got posted to GH .

3 yrs later they shifted me to Manantavadi in wayanad dt  where I refused to join.

I had a tough time to get a decent place near Calicut because my amma was alone in Parappanangadi .

Finally I opted for ESI and remained in Calicut till 1976 .

After marriage I shifted to Bombay Where my hubby  Chandrasekhar was working with TVS.

Then  onwards it was the role of a GP in Bombay, Jalandhar ,Delhi , and chennai.

After 5 years I was in cancer institute .

 I shifted to TVS organisation as a consultant till I shifted to Coimbatore  in 2010.

Iam not working now.

So I can tell u this much
that I am a jack of all trades but master of none !

Somehow going for PG didn't t work out.
So that's that."

Dear chechi ..you have had a fruitful career helping so many in so many places .
A PG is nothing compared to your noble work
We Drs in valliyil family stand inspired by you as an example .

You are not only jack of all trades
 but also master of one and all

Vishu

When u see the vishukkani, pl keep the following symbolism in mind. It is the day on which sun enters in to the first segment of the Zodiac circle,which is called  Medam raashi in Malayalam.This is the transit period of a season in Kerala. The auspicious day to commence agriculture and farming. Similarly after vishukani, have a feesh mind, fresh thought, fresh investment with the coin you receive as vishukainettam from your father. Do you remember, that the very  first coin of wealth u received from your father which is the first capital investment in your life.The wealth you earned till date is the multiple of your first vishukainettan filled the love and blessings of your father. Pithrudevo Bhava....
Watch the symbols of  each item  in the vishukani, as under:-

1. Idol of krishna....Godliness of the mind.

2. Mirror....your own reflection i.e. jeevatma
3. otturuli...The round universe
4, Rice....Good thoughts
5. Other cereals....earnings and Progress in life.
6. Fruits...Good results
7. Konnaflowers...The ormament of God
8. Cucumber..The fresh and clean mind
9. Gold.....Aiswaryalakshmi
10. White cloth...Symbol of white dressed Devi..
11. Coins....Dhanalaxmi
12. Book...Knowledge
13. Broken coconuts....Devotion with concentration
14.betel leaves...Mangalam & Guru dakshina
15. Kunkuman & kanmashi.. Mangalyam
16. Nilavilakku...The glowing life  in Your soul
17. Water.. the basis of living things on the earth.

Watch the Vishukani.. Not just see it. Happy vishu to all.