Gems of thoughts

   

                         Gems of thoughts

 

• Everything is precious when it means something personal.
• Not only love can unleash the creative potential, but it can also connect us with higher truth and ideals.
• Your body is the marble and your mind is its sculptor. Small daily shifts in how you perceive and respond to life’s events can gradually reshape your overall well-being.
• Happiness has less to do with pleasure and more to do with purpose.
• What man stores in language and in books the accumulated results of experiences , the animals seem to have stored in instincts.
• Music is the language of the soul. When we play it flows within us not from us. It is free flowing state expressed by the creation itself.
• Step into the enchanting world of literary treasure that unravels layers of universal truths and timeless wisdom that are applicable to every reader’s journey.

Some fascinating facts

 

                           Some fascinating facts

•       Our ears and nose never stop growing.
•       As compared to men, women blink nearly twice.
•      It is impossible to sneeze and also keep the eyes open.
•      From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
•     If finger prints are unique, so are our tongue prints.
•     The stay of food in our stomach stretches for 2 to 4 hours.

Health quotes

 

                                    Health quotes

•       Wherever the art of medicine is loved there is also love of humanity.
•         Health is the greatest of human blessings.
•        All diseases start in the gut.
•      Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They’re developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
•    Neither hunger nor satiety nor anything that exceeds the natural bounds, can be good or healthy.
•   We ought not to be ignorant that the same remedies are not good for all.
•    Everyone has a doctor in him or her. We just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine, our medicine should be our food.
•  There are no incurable diseases- only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs- only lack of knowledge.
• Walking is a man’s best medicine.
• Sleep has been considered a powerful therapy for any type of illness since ancient times in all cultures.
• The best physician is also a philosopher.

A matter of a drop or a few drops of water

 

                        A matter of a drop or a few drops of water

       Interesting details as to what happens to a drop or few drops of water in association with something.

According to Sanskrit poet Bhartruhari, even the existence of a drop of water placed upon a piece of red hot iron, becomes unknown ( vanishes without any trace of it’s once existence), the same water drop when placed on a waxy surface of broad leaf of lotus flower shines like a pearl. On Swati constellation day, the same drop of rain water falling into an oyster transforms itself into a precious pearl. This verse is depicted as an example of the effect of association. Men acquire the lowest, average and the highest virtues in association with the nature of the associate.

A picturesque description of milk and water as a true self-sacrificing companionship. When milk is boiled on a stove, first a little water is put in the pan , then pure milk is poured over it  to prevent the milk from getting stuck at the bottom and getting charred. The water at the base prevents this spoilage and then merges with milk imbibing its sweetness . It is imagined as water prevents its friend from spoilage and takes the first onslaught of heat on itself, the milk in turn gives its sweetness to water by merging it within itself. You can separate water and milk. Then when the milk boils completely, it has a tendency to spill over the pan and falling itself into the flame of the stove. So to prevent this , a few drops of water poured over the boiling milk coming to the brim cool it and prevent from spillover.  It is as if milk is in distress and his friend water cools him down.

In the words of Bhartruhari, when heated, the water evaporates to save the milk from burning, and later when the milk boils over in distress, the water returns ( is added ) to calm it, showing a perfect friendly bond where each shares other’s pain and joy and become one.

Chataka bird ( Jacobi Cuckoo ) in Indian literature and folklore is depicted as the harbinger of monsoon and is believed to to wait for the rain, to drink its drops falling from the sky ( cloud ), not water from any other source.

Interesting timeless tales

  

                                              Interesting timeless tales

•     A nutmeg carried in the pocket is a cure for rheumatism.
•     Brides once carried a clove of garlic in her pocket for good luck.
•    Cabbage should be planted in the garden after a couple has been married, if they were to have good luck in their marriage and garden.
•    Gardners and farmers thought that Good Friday was the best day for planting because it was the only day of the year when the devil was thought to be powerless. Slow germination in soil, or slower growth or perish all attributed to the influence of devil.
•   Flowers which bloom out of season were considered evil.
•  Placing several banana peels in the planting hole was popular among the rose growers in the eighteenth century as they believed that the peels seemed to yield healthier roses.

Food for thought

                                  Food for thought

 

•     Science and Spirituality are not contradictory, viewed properly they are nothing but two attempts to decode the same mystery. When a physicist speaks about a universe that may be a mathematical structure and a sage speaks about illusion ( maya ) both are grappling with a reality that refuses to reveal itself fully. The conflict between the two seems to arise only when each side assumes its language is superior. But looking deeper, we can find that both are describing a universe where consciousness plays a pivotal role. The ancient stories depicting goddess shakti or Parvati and God Shiva , inseparable , as energy and matter, and as parents of the universe and another view that universe is created from nada ( sound ) or vibration- all these align beautifully with modern theories of energy and simulation.
• Be a lamp, or a life-boat, or as a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal.
• Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
• When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Ancient wisdom - Time calculation

 

                              Ancient Wisdom-  Time calculation

                Natural and interesting !

   Lava - A minute division of time, the 60th of a twinkling ( half a second), a moment. To be specific,  the time taken to insert a minute needle into petals of a lotus. It’s called Lava.

Truti -  1000 Lavas are equal to one truti.

Tatpara-   100 Trutis make one Tatpara.

Nimesha-   30 Tatparas  equal to one Nimesha.

Kastha -  18 nimeshas form a Kastha.

Kalaa-  20 Kasthas form a Kalaa.

Kshana-  30 Kalaas make a Kshana.

Ghati - 6 Kshanas equal to one Ghati.

Muhurta- 2 Ghatis make a Muhurta

Prahara -  4 Muhurtas form a Prahara.

Naktam ( night ) - 4 praharas make aNaktam.

Diva ( day )-  4 Praharas make a day.

Aharnisham or Ahoratra ( day andnight )- 8 Praharas are collectively called Aharnisham or Ahoratra.

Paksha ( fortnight)- 15 such Ahoratras make a paksha( based on the light of the moon- shukla paksha bright fortnight, and krishna paksha dark fortnight).

Masa (month )-  2 pakshas make a Masa ( Shuklapaksha+ krishnapaksha )

Ayanam-  6 Masas make an Ayanam. Ayanam refers to the movement of the Sun towards north and south. 

Manushi varsham - 2 Ayanas one  Uttarayana , movement of sun towards north + one dakshinayana , movement of sun towards south constitute a humanly or earthly year.

Divya varsham - 300 cycles of 60 Manushi varshams make a divya varsham ( an year time in heaven).

Chaturyuga-  12 thousand divya varshams make a chathuryuga in earth ( collection of 4 yugas as Krta or satya, Treta, Dvapara, Kali).

Kalpa- 1000 chaturyugas make a kalpa, a period of Kalpa is a day to Brahma, the creator, and at the end of his day, a pralaya happens . It’s called dainandina pralaya  ( daily dissolution) or kalpa pralaya.

Maha pralaya -  After 72000 Kalpas, the Mahapralaya happens ( in the period in which everything and everyone are dissolved in absolute God before next cycle of creation starts ). One Mahapralaya is the lifetime of Brahma, the creator.