Recipe - Groundnuts or Peanuts Chutney (Side dish for Idlies/ Dosa/ Upma or Even Rasam rice)

50 grms of groundnuts
1/4 coconut- crated
Mustard/ Urdh dall
curry leaves
tamarind- small piece
Salt

Take 2 spoons oil
Fry kadugu (Mustard seeds)/ urdh dall for garnishing
Then fry the groundnuts (golden brown)
Those who like garlic taste, can add 2 cloves of garlic and fry with groundnuts
Then add coconut and tamarind (slight fry only)
add curry leaves and salt
let the heat come down
grind it

Recipe- Cocunut Milk Rice (Thenga Pal Saddham) & Vegetable Kurma (Stew)

Coconut Milk Rice and Veg Kurma

Coconut Milk Rice

1.  Grate 1/4 of a big coconut and grind it like paste with 1 cardamom piece
2.  Boil 1 liter water and then put this coconut paste in it
3.  Leave it aside after filtering the coconut milk (Don't throw the coconut after milk extract- you can use this for kurma)
4.  Now grind the following
8 cloves of garlic
8 green chilies
25 grms ginger
2 pieces of cloves (lavangam)
1 piece of cinnamon
5.  Heat the pressure pan or cooker
6.  Put a small cube of butter
7.  Fry 10-12 pieces of cashew broken pieces and take it once turned golden brown and keep it aside
8.  Now add 4 regular spoons of cooking oil (Sunflower oil)
9.  Fry one thinly sliced big Onion pieces
10. Add Pudina leaves for frying
11. Add the half of the grinded ginger and garlic paste and fry till the dry smell of the paste goes
12. Add 1.5 tea spoons of salt or as needed for taste
13. Now Add 2 Cups of Basmati Rice to this mix in the cooker and fry for a minute along with 2 bay leaves
14. Now add the coconut milk filtered  ( 2 cups rice needs 4 cups coconut milk)
15. Leave it for 2-3 quick whistles
16. Once cooker releases-  add the fried cashew nuts and serve

Veg Kurma

1.  Cut few varieties of vegetables (carrot 1, beans -5-6, Brinjal-1,  cauliflower- few pieces,  drumstick -4 pieces
potato-  1,  green pea's -around 20, capscium few slices)  ( you can add few or all, or even one like potato, or cauliflower
or soaked meal maker  or channa)
2.  Cut one onion and one tomato
3.  Cut 4 green chilies
4.  Take the 50% of the ginger garlic paste you grinded for rice
5.  With the coconut left after milk extract, add 5-6 pieces of cashew and 20 grms of ghasa ghasa (poppy seeds)
and grind and keep this ready
6. Now take a pan , add 3-4 small spoons oils and fry the onions
7. Next add tomato and green chillies and little curry leaves and fry for a minute
8. Add the ginger garlic paste and fry
9.  Now add the cut vegetables and fry for 2-3 minutes
10. Add a pinch of turmeric and 1.5 spoons of salt or as needed, and pour water and let the vegetables to cook
11. Once the vegetables are cooked 5-7 mins, add the grinded coconut, ghasaghasa paste
12. Let it boil for 5 mins and your kurma is ready

Buddha – The benevolence & Arise of Spiritual Seeker

“Oh Buddha….What are you my Lord?

The Most Benevolent or  this Yasodhara’s Bygones Battle

You showed the world the true inner awakening

But leaving behind the samsara after you were at it?

We bow to you for the greatest of the epithets

People tell me that you are enlightened my Lord!

Twelve years of penance and you return home to talk

To express your gratitude for all the help I gave

On my Lord,  in this process, I have only helped myself

Oh Mahatma, you thought that you owe me a share of your awakening

The day you decided to leave and go

Had you trusted the woman you loved and told her so

Would I, your dear wife, not be the first one to let you go?

That was my only pain and truly anguish Lord

Whatsoever that prevented you to speak then?

And what ever you have come to speak up now?

It doesn’t matter to me anymore, my Lord!”

Buddha looked at her apologetic and confirmed he was ignorant

It was the non-understanding as he started the journey to seek

That he can make his own people sad and meek

And he escaped like a thief in the middle of the night

Without giving her a hint or a chance to fight

Soon after the childbirth, as tired she went to sleep

The world around took its mighty deeper leap

“Oh Mighty Buddha…no use crying over the split milk

Nor I would understand your journey experiences bilk

You are no longer the man I used to know

You are the greatest Luminosity with an aura to follow

The light around you is making me go blind, Oh Buddha!

I feel your presence almost absence, you so silent and peaceful

Its been ages since, I was already into you initiated!

Before my eyes close off, and my thoughts cloud off

I just have one last question to ask!

Whatever you have attained? Whatsoever it is?

Was it not possible to attain here with me around?”

Buddha did not reply to her with his words

But closed his eyes in her benevolence

He could feel and tell himself in truth

As he knew it has nothing to do

With the forests or the palaces, he was raised

With the family or with the ashrams to attain

It has got nothing to do with any place

All it had was something to do with his innermost core

That’s just available everywhere

Just practicing the great pancha silas

Respect for Life,   Respect to other’s property

Respect to our pure Nature,  Respect for Honesty

Respect for a Clear Mind

And he for sure knew,

That his Queen Yasodhara

Has long attained the inner awakening

That he longed and seemed so fervently chasing

In Sarnath, 2018

Now, the Part 2-  of Buddha- The benevolence…the actual spiritual attainment of Yasodhara will be published towards the end of month on how Striding into Spirituality like Yasodhara is even possible and humanly adorable

The new age Masters are those who do not leave behind their responsibilities in search of spiritual seeking…they are among-st us, around us, impacting us, influencing us every day…and conquering our thoughts & imaginations and injecting aspirations to live in a more meaningful and matured way.  I see a Buddha in every such soul around me!   Yes, I want to be a Yasodhara…the one who conquered seeking of self from where I am !