Southern Convent High School

Reunion of 2005 batch.

SCHS Sweet Memories

Touch any word in the English dictionary using the below link and you can find the meaning in Kannada.
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Team- very sad to inform you that today morning our kannada madam Smt.Anuradha passed away 🙏🏻Om Shanthi 🙏We pray to god to give their family courage and peace during this time of mourning... With heartfelt condolences🙏 May her soul rest in peace🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

My SCHS School Life 1984-85, 1st standard

C. Radhakrishna Rao, retired at the age of sixty and went to live with his daughter in America along with his grandchildren.

There, at the age of 62, he became a professor of statistics at the University of Pittsburgh and at the age of 70, he became the head of the department at the University of Pennsylvania.

US citizenship at the age of 75. National Medal For Science at the age of 82, a White House honor.

Today, at the age of 102, he received the Nobel Prize in Statistics.

In India, the government has already honored him with Padma Bhushan (1968) and Padma Vibhushan (2001).

Rao says: No one asks after retirement in India. Colleagues also respect power and not scholarship.

At the age of 102, receiving a Nobel while in good physical condition, it is probably the first example. An event that should be taken into account by all of us !

Age is just a number. Willingness to work and excel always matter.

OCEAN OF WISDOM

A poor man always think the rich man made his wealth out of luck.

And the rich man believes the poor is poor because he is lazy.

A young lady who married very early thinks ladies who are finding it hard to get married have bad character.

A man who just graduated and get a job immediately thinks he is smarter than others.

While a woman who just got married and start giving birth sees "barren" women as people who lived a wayward life.

If only the poor knew the price the rich paid to get to top and if only the rich knows the battles, challenges that the poor is going through, none will ever form a theory about each other.

If the poor can't appreciate the rich man's success let him mind his business if it is easy to be rich he wouldn't have been poor.

And if the rich won't help the poor grow at least they should not kill the spirit of a struggling man.

If only you know what people endure or fight behind the scene you will always thank God for your life. Until you walk in people's shoes, You will never know how hard the journey is.

Help each other grow!!!
Mock less, envy no one.
and love one another.

#1998

"ಮಾಡಿದವರ ಪಾಪ, ಆಡಿದವರ ಬಾಯಲ್ಲಿ" !
ಒಬ್ಬ ರಾಜನಿದ್ದ . ಆತ ಪ್ರತಿದಿನವೂ ಬ್ರಾಹ್ಮಣರಿಗೆ ಶ್ರದ್ಧೆಯಿಂದ ಅನ್ನಸಂತರ್ಪಣೆ ನಡೆಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದ .
ಒಂದು ದಿನ, ಬಯಲು ಪ್ರದೇಶವೊಂದರಲ್ಲಿ , ಅನ್ನಸಂತರ್ಪಣೆ ಏರ್ಪಡಿಸಲಾಗಿತ್ತು . ಮೇಲೆ ಆಕಾಶದಲ್ಲಿ ಗಿಡುಗವೊಂದು, ಸತ್ತ ಹಾವನ್ನು, ಎತ್ತಿಕೊಂಡು ಹೋಗುತ್ತಿತ್ತು. ಆ ಸತ್ತ ಹಾವಿನ ಬಾಯಿಯಿಂದ ಒಂದು ಬಿಂದು ವಿಷ , ರಾಜ ಹಂಚುತ್ತಿದ್ದ ಆಹಾರದ ಮೇಲೆ ಬಿದ್ದಿತು. ಹೀಗಾದದ್ದು ಯಾರಿಗೂ ಗೊತ್ತಾಗಲಿಲ್ಲ. ರಾಜ ಆಹಾರ ಹಂಚುವುದನ್ನು ಮುಂದುವರಿಸಿದ .
ರಾಜನಿಂದ ವಿಷದ ಆಹಾರವನ್ನು ಪಡೆದ ಒಬ್ಬ ಬ್ರಾಹ್ಮಣ ಸತ್ತು ಹೋದ. ರಾಜ ಈ ಘಟನೆಯಿಂದ ತುಂಬಾ ನೊಂದುಕೊಂಡ.
ಈಗ, ಕರ್ಮಫಲದ ಹಂಚಿಕೆ ಮಾಡುವ ಚಿತ್ರಗುಪ್ತನಿಗೆ ಒಂದು ಸಂಧಿಗ್ಧವುಂಟಾಯಿತು. ಈ ಘಟನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಬ್ರಾಹ್ಮಣನ ಸಾವಿನ ಪಾಪದ ಫಲವನ್ನು , ಯಾರ ಲೆಕ್ಕಕ್ಕೆ ಬರೆಯುವುದೆಂದು, ಅವನಿಗೆ ತಿಳಿಯಲಿಲ್ಲ. ಅದು ಗಿಡುಗನ ತಪ್ಪಲ್ಲ. ಯಾಕೆಂದರೆ ಅದು ತನ್ನ ಆಹಾರವನ್ನು ತೆಗೆದುಕೊಂಡು ಹೋಗುತ್ತಿತ್ತು. ಸತ್ತ ಹಾವಿನ ತಪ್ಪಂತೂ ಖಂಡಿತಾ ಅಲ್ಲ. ರಾಜನ ತಪ್ಪೂ ಆಗಿರಲು ಸಾಧ್ಯವಿಲ್ಲ. ರಾಜನಿಗೆ ಆಹಾರದ ಮೇಲೆ ವಿಷ ಬಿದ್ದಿದ್ದು ಗೊತ್ತೇ ಇರಲಿಲ್ಲ .
ಚಿತ್ರಗುಪ್ತ ಸೀದಾ ಯಮಧರ್ಮನ ಬಳಿ ಹೋಗಿ ತನ್ನ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆಯನ್ನು ವಿವರಿಸಿದ. ಯಮಧರ್ಮ, ಅವನೊಡನೆ ತಾಳ್ಮೆಯಿಂದ ಕಾಯುವಂತೆ ಹಾಗೂ ಇನ್ನು ಕೆಲವೇ ದಿನಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಆ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆಗೆ ಉತ್ತರ ಹೊಳೆಯುವುದಾಗಿಯೂ ತಿಳಿಸಿದ.
ಆ ನಂತರ ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ದಿನಗಳಲ್ಲಿ , ರಾಜನನ್ನು ಭೇಟಿಯಾಗಲು ಕೆಲವು ಮಂದಿ ಬ್ರಾಹ್ಮಣರು, ಆ ಊರನ್ನು ಪ್ರವೇಶಿಸಿದರು. ಅರಮನೆಯ ದಾರಿ ಅವರಿಗೆ ಗೊತ್ತಿರಲಿಲ್ಲ. ಅಲ್ಲಿಯೇ ಮಾರ್ಗದ ಬದಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕುಳಿತು ಹೂ ಮಾರುತ್ತಿದ್ದ ಹೆಂಗಸಿನೊಡನೆ, 'ನಿನಗೆ ಅರಮನೆಯ ದಾರಿ ಗೊತ್ತಿದೆಯೇ ? ನಾವು ಅಲ್ಲಿಗೆ ಹೇಗೆ ಹೋಗಬಹುದು?' ಎಂದು ವಿಚಾರಿಸಿದರು. ಆಕೆ ಒಪ್ಪಿ, ಸರಿಯಾದ ದಾರಿಯನ್ನು ಅವರಿಗೆ ವಿವರಿಸಿ ಹೇಳಿದ ನಂತರ ಸೇರಿಸಿದಳು. 'ಆದರೆ ನೀವು ಜಾಗರೂಕರಾಗಿರಬೇಕು. ಏಕೆಂದರೆ ಆ ರಾಜ ಬ್ರಾಹ್ಮಣರನ್ನು ಕೊಲ್ಲುವನು.'
ಅವಳು, ರಾಜನು ಮಾಡದ ಪಾಪದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಕೆಟ್ಟದಾಗಿ ವಿಮರ್ಶೆ ಮಾಡಿದ ಕ್ಷಣದಲ್ಲಿಯೇ ಚಿತ್ರಗುಪ್ತನ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆಗೆ ಉತ್ತರ ದೊರಕಿತು. ಆತ, ಬ್ರಾಹ್ಮಣ ಸತ್ತ ಪಾಪದ ಫಲವನ್ನು ಆಕೆಯ ಲೆಕ್ಕಕ್ಕೆ ಸೇರಿಸಿದ.
ಕಥೆಯ ನೀತಿ : ನಾವು ಯಾರಾದರೊಬ್ಬರ ಪಾಪದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ, ಆಡಿಕೊಂಡರೆ, ಮತ್ತು ನಾವು ಆಡಿದ ಮಾತು ಸುಳ್ಳಾಗಿದ್ದರೆ, ಆ ಪಾಪದ ಫಲ ನಮ್ಮ ಲೆಕ್ಕಕ್ಕೇ ಸಂಪೂರ್ಣವಾಗಿ ಸೇರಿಸಲ್ಪಡುವುದು.
ಆಚಾರವಿಲ್ಲದ ನಾಲಿಗೆ ನಿನ್ನ ನೀಚ ಬುದ್ಧಿಯ ಬಿಡು ನಾಲಿಗೆ; ವಿಚಾರವಿಲ್ಲದೆ ಪರರ ದೂಷಿಪುದಕ್ಕೆ ಚಾಚಿಕೊಂಡಿರುವಂಥ ನಾಲಿಗೆ
ಪ್ರಾತಃಕಾಲದೊಳೆದ್ದು ನಾಲಿಗೆ ಸಿರಿಪತಿಯೆನ್ನ ಬಾರದೆ ನಾಲಿಗೆ ಪತಿತ ಪಾವನ ನಮ್ಮ ರಜಪತಿ ಜನಕನ ಸತತವು ನುಡಿ ಕಂಡ್ಯ ನಾಲಿಗೆ
ಚಾಡಿ ಹೇಳಲು ಬೇಡ ನಾಲಿಗೆ ನಿನ್ನ ಬೇಡಿಕೊಂಬುವೆನು ನಾಲಿಗೆ ರೂಢಿಗೊಡೆಯ ಶ್ರೀ ರಾಮನ ನಾಮವ ಪಾಡುತಲಿರು ಕಂಡ್ಯ ನಾಲಿಗೆ
ಹರಿಯ ಸ್ಮರಣೆ ಮಾಡು ನಾಲಿಗೆ ನರಹರಿಯ ಭಜಿಸು ಕಂಡ್ಯ ನಾಲಿಗೆ ವರದ ಪುರಂದರ ವಿಟ್ಠಲ ರಾಯನ ಚರಣ ಕಮಲ ನೆನೆ ನಾಲಿಗೆ.

ಕೃಷ್ಣಾರ್ಪಣಮಸ್ತು
(ಸತ್ಸಂಗ ಸಂಗ್ರಹ)

There is an ancient story..

A man who has gone out of his town comes back and finds that his house is on fire.

It was one of the most beautiful houses in the town, and the man loved the house.
Many people were ready to give double price for the house, but he had never agreed for any price, and now it is just burning before his eyes.

And thousands of people have gathered, but nothing can be done.

The fire has spread so far that even if you try to put it out, nothing will be saved.
So he becomes very sad.

His son comes running, and whispers something in his ear: "Don't be worried. I sold it yesterday, and at a very good price ― three times.The offer was so good I could not wait for you. Forgive me."
But the father said, "Good, if you have sold it for three times more than the original price of the house."
Then the father is also a watcher, with other watchers.
Just a moment before he was not a watcher, he was attached.
It is the same house, the same fire, everything is the same, but now he is not concerned.
He is enjoying it just as everybody else is enjoying.

Then the second son comes running, and he says to the father, "What are you doing? You are smiling ― and the house is on fire?"
The father said, "Don't you know, your brother has sold it."
He said, "He had talked about selling it, but nothing has been settled yet, and the man is not going to purchase it now."
Again, everything changes.
Tears which had disappeared, have come back to the father's eyes, his smile is no more there, his heart is beating fast.
But the watcher is gone.
He is again attached.

And then the third son comes, and he says, "That man is a man of his word. I have just come from him. He said, 'It doesn't matter whether the house is burnt or not, it is mine.
And I am going to pay the price that I have settled for.
Neither you knew, nor I knew that the house would catch on fire.'" Again the father is a watcher.
The attachment is no more there.

Actually nothing is changing; just the idea that "I am the owner, I am identified somehow with the house," makes the whole difference.

The next moment he feels, "I am not identified. Somebody else has purchased it, I have nothing to do with it; let the house burn."

This simple methodology of watching the mind, that you have nothing to do with it..

Everything starts with a Thought !

Most of the thoughts are not yours but from your parents, your teachers, your friends, the books, the movies, the television, the newspapers.

Just count how many thoughts are your own, and you will be surprised that not a single thought is your own.

All are from other sources, all are borrowed ― either dumped by others on you, or foolishly dumped by yourself upon yourself, but nothing is yours.

Sow a thought, you reap an action.
Sow an act, you reap a habit.
Sow a habit, you reap a character.
Sow a character, you reap a destiny..