Warrier's Collage 06072020 : Human Body
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M G Warrier
Responses :
1) Response to yesterday's (July 5, 2020) message :
Shri V Babusenan writes :
The reference to the late Yati touched a tender cord in my mind. I had the good fortune of knowing him in his previous ashrama(his name was Jayachandra Panicker )as lecturer in psychology in Sree Narayana College, Kollam where I was studying for my degree in Physics. He used to come by passenger train from Varkala, the famous pilgrimage town where his guru Dr.Natarajan had set up an ashram. Simply attired in white dhoti and jubba with measured steps and alone, he would walk from the station to the college which was at the far end of a big maidan. One could never mistake his aloofness for hauteur. There was always a serene calmness on his face.
I recall an incident that happened when, as Yati, he moved to the newly constructed ashram near the Ooty town. On the very first morning of his moving to the ashram, he saw an unpleasant sight: on either side of the pathway leading to the ashram, children were squatting in a row performing the defecation act. That sight did not upset him. The construction was not complete.
There was a mound of river sand in the compound. He waited until the children left. With a spade he put sand over each one's contribution and, in the evening, he formed a heap of the dried excreta and set fire to it. The villagers were silently watching what he was silently doing. Not only that the practice stopped but the village folk wholeheartedly cooperated in keeping the ashram precincts clean thereafter.
Yati Nityachaitanya fitted well to the definition of the Sthithaprajna in Chapter 2 of the Gita.
Regards."
2) A profound thought* :
*Thought for the Day, Sunday, July 05,2020*
Good Morning. Have a good day.
What is the litmus test for a true spiritual seeker?
Poornima means effulgent Full Moon. Guru means (Gu - ignorance; Ru - destroyer) He, who removes the darkness and delusion from the heart and illumines it with Higher Wisdom. The Moon and the Mind are inter-related as object and image. Today, the Moon is full, fair and cool, its light is fresh, pleasant and peaceful. So the light of the Mind too must be pleasing and pure. In the firmament of your Heart, Moon is the Mind. There are thick and heavy clouds, sensual desires and worldly activities, which mar your joy at the Light of the Moon. Therefore, welcome the strong breeze of Love to scatter the clouds and confer on you the cool glory of moonlight. When devotion shines in full, the sky in the heart becomes a bowl of beauty and your life is transformed into a charming avenue of Ananda. That beauty of heart, that Ananda (bliss), must be won through the mind, by engaging in Sadhana (spiritual practice).
If there is no transformation of the heart, of what avail are spiritual sadhanas? Regards 🙏🙏🌹
* Received from Shri Balasubramanian, Ex-RBI, Coimbatore
Cartoon from Hitavada
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TlH1rcLhk8krKfSUY6YN1r7qJonNe5e4/view?usp=drivesdk
Chat in Rats' World
Warrier's Collage 06072020 : Human Body
A. Current Affairs :
1) New book
"Murder in the Time of Corona" by Darshana Sugathan*
https://notionpress.com/read/murder-in-the-time-of-corona
Promo : https://photos.app.goo.gl/HRQwY8bW2sL9nKb78
Darshana Sugathan who is working in Scotland pursues her passions in media and writing, side by side with her job.
This book is her first published detective story.
I wish her all the best in her creative efforts and success in all her endeavours.
(*Darshana is my brother-in-law's daughter- Warrier)
2) Watch "The Arrogance of Economics by China"
https://youtu.be/DXYxmHzufhE
Dr Jayaram Nayar talks about China's Economy aligning with current political compulsions.
B. Five vital organs
Watch "5 most important organs in the Human body - Human Anatomy | Kenhub"
https://youtu.be/-u5wVgJCJmI
Functions & Working
C. Human Body
Watch "Human Body 101 | National Geographic"
https://youtu.be/Ae4MadKPJC0
D. Five senses and "vastu"
5 elements energy vastu
https://www.speakingtree.in/blog/5-elements-energy-vastu
Relevance of "vastu" in peaceful life.
E. Music and Healing
Music and health - Harvard Health
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/music-and-health
This is a 9 year old article. Further research would have taken place.
F. Three nadis*
It is worthwhile contemplating on three naadis,
the energy circuit in our body in simpler terms .
The three naadis referred to are Ida, Pingala
and sushumna.
The Ida and Pingala represent the basic
duality in the existence. It is this duality which
we traditionally personify as Shiva and Shakti.
Or you can simply call it masculine and
feminine, or it can be the logical and the
intuitive aspect of you. It is based on this
that life is created. Without these two dualities,
life wouldn’t exist as it does right now. In the
beginning, everything is primordial, there is no
duality. But once creation happens, there is
duality.
When we say masculine and feminine, we
are not talking in terms of sex – about being
male or female – but in terms of certain
qualities in nature. Certain qualities in nature
have been identified as masculine. Certain
other qualities have been identified as feminine.
You may be a man, but if your Ida is more
pronounced, the feminine may be dominant
in you. You may be a woman, but if your
Pingala is more pronounced, the masculine
may be dominant in you.
Bringing a balance between the Ida and
Pingala will make you effective in the world,
it will make you handle life aspects well.
Most people live and die in Ida and Pingala;
Sushumna, the central space, remains
dormant. But Sushumna is the most significant
aspect of human physiology. Only when
energies enter into Sushumna, life really
begins.
Fundamentally, Sushumna is attribute-less,
it has no quality of its own. It is like empty
space. If there is empty space, you can
create anything you want. Once energies
enter into Sushumna, we say you attain
Vairagya. “Raga,” means color. “Vairag,”
means no color, you have become transparent.
If you have become transparent, if what is
behind us is red, we turn red too. If what is
behind us is blue, we turn blue too. If what is
behind us is yellow, we turn yellow too. We
are unprejudiced. Wherever we are, we
become a part of that, but nothing sticks
to us. Only if we are like this, only if we are
in a state of Vairag, then we will dare to
explore all dimensions of life when we live
here.
Right now, we are reasonably balanced,
but if for some reason the outside situation
goes crazy, we will also go crazy in reaction
to that because that is the nature of Ida and
Pingala. It is reactive to what is outside.
But once the energies enter into Sushumna,
we attain to a new kind of balance, an inner
balance where whatever happens outside,
there is a certain space within us which
never gets disturbed, which is never in any
kind of turmoil, which cannot be touched by
the outside situations. Only if we create this
stable situation within ourselves, we will
dare to scale the peaks of consciousness.
Let us try to energise the 'sushumna'.
* Write-up received from Smt Vathsala Jayaraman, Ex-RBI, Chennai via group email.
G. Response
Shri K Ramasubramanian, Ex-RBI Mumbai writes :
"
Today's wars are of different type. It employs arsenal bombs drones and most importantly the trade and investment related issues of bilateral significance. Digital equipments and App's are stopped for entering India. Mobilize group of countries against a particular ideology of a country like Chinese communism, create internal disturbances like inciting youngsters against country's policies etc Use religious beliefs to convert and erode the traditional culture of the country so on so forth. This type of war has become eternal path of survival. Use economic sanctions to s uttle the trade of a country like Iran.
An approach of universal love Vasudeva kutumbakam may be an answer.
Dear Babusenan hope you and family are fine.
Warrier triggers our thoughts.."
(Thank you, Sir - Warrier)
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