Showing posts with label wisdom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wisdom. Show all posts
Sunday, 24 May 2020
Saturday, 9 May 2020
Hand washing is useless, unless ..
With the rapid spread of the highly contagious CCP virus (COVID-19), medical experts have told us we must wash hands more often.
It is a very good suggestion not only now but always to maintain hand hygiene even in routine course, if we wish to stop the spread of disease.
A friend sent me a BBC news report that shocked researchers, that what we thought are clean hands in Britain are actually quite dirty. The report prepared by hygiene experts from Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) and the [London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) report that.
25% of British people have faecal matter on their hands, 14% of bank notes and 10% of Credit cards have faecal matter and hence, lots of germs because of not washing hands.
In general 11% of Britishers have hands so contaminated that the level of harmful germs is higher than that of a dirty toilet bowl.
Horrified, I wanted to find out why this was so.
My research shows the primary reason is that most Britishers believe that they live in very clean environments, so they really do not need to wash their hands.
Further investigation by me revealed that the way we wash our hands is also important.
I found this very good illustration by Taylor LJ which I am sharing with you.
Remember washing hands is useless, if we are not doing it right.
Be hygienic, be safe, be healthy.
Monday, 27 April 2020
We are Human, not God.
Modernity has given us much to feel happy about, really?
Material comforts may have increased tremendously but so has emotional sickness. The mind wavers and wanders aimlessly and the spirit lies deep asleep in darkness.
Science and technology have delivered to humanity great gifts of physical health and material prosperity. Unfortunately, prosperity tends to make us arrogant and disrespectful. We forget we are human and come to believe we are gods.
When we believe we are like gods, we can either blossom into the Divine or we can regress into darkness. Generally speaking we have been disrespectful not only of ourselves, but also of Humanity and Creation.
We live unnaturally, disrespecting, destroying, consuming or damaging everything we can in nature just for the heck of it.
The law of Karma applies to everyone. Simply put, 'Whatever goes around comes around'.
Law of Karma states, every action will produce consequences related to that action. If we disrespect we will be disrespected, if we destroy we will be destroyed.
Life as we humans know, has almost come to a total standstill, thanks to the latest crisis.
But this has happened before. But this has happened before. We have to remember each time it happens that,
In a conflict between Humans and Nature, Nature always wins.
In cooperation between Humans and Nature, Humans always win.
Monday, 23 March 2020
Sat Sri Akal - Namaste
Coronavirus pandemic, has made many people realise that unnecessary physical contact will have adverse consequences. People have begun to greet one another with the world famous 'Namaste' or 'Sat Sri Akal'.
The wise have learnt that in addition to physical, there are also psychological and spiritual consequences of unnecessary physical contact.
People across the world, have reduced the shaking of hands, embracing and kissing when they meet, choosing instead to using the greeting, Namaste or Sat Sri Akal, etc.
Based on Sanatana Dharma (eternal order), most Indians believe that every soul is part of that one divine soul. Also known as 'Prana' the all pervasive life force and energy that is omnipresent.
'Namaste' or Sat Sri Akal, simply means my soul recognises yours and therefore honours divinity. Those who greet in this manner acknowledge the divinity in everyone and all things.
This greeting by the Sikhs, Buddhists and Hindus when they meet another soul is performed with bowed head, palms touching, fingers pointing upwards and the thumbs near the chest, to convey that with my entire being, that is my soul, mind and body, I humbly acknowledge the divine in you.
The Buddhists often do not utter anything.
The Hindu will usually say 'Namaste', In Sanskrit 'Namaḥa' means 'respect', 'humble greeting’ or 'high regard' whereas 'te' means 'to you'.
The greeting of the Sikh's 'Sat Sri Akal' reminds themselves
and the other that we are all part of that One divine existence, and timeless, present in every being.
Namaskar and Namaskaram, Sat Kartar are alternate choice of greeting words.
'Sikh' means the 'student or seeker'. A seeker is not bound by ideology or rituals. The Sikh greeting of Sat Sri Akal differs from the traditional Namaste, to reestablish the fact that the path of the Sikh is to awaken and realise the Divine.
Sat Sri Akal.
Everything is One. How we treat one person is, how we treat the whole universe. When we respect the individual, we respect not only ourselves, but we respect all of Creation.
Tuesday, 3 November 2015
Oh Lord! Please give us rain
It is now known that at the centre of every raindrop is an impurity, a particle of dust, soot, clay etc. It is impossible for rainfall to take place from pure water.
Naturally occurring particles in the sky help trigger rainfall. Sometimes particles have to be introduced artificially into clouds to cause rainfall. This is called Cloud Seeding
There are several ways seeding is carried out. Modern techniques involve introduction of various types of materials particle matter into the clouds using ground based particle generators, rockets, artillery shells or dropping from aircraft.
Now accepted as an effective way across the world, to modify weather and help stimulate rainfall and snowfall. Materials used vary but include, dry ice (solid carbon dioxide), sea salt, silver and potassium iodide etc.
Ridiculed by modern science and frowned upon by many as witchcraft, until recently cloud seeding has been carried out successfully for thousands of years across the world.
One of the practices used in India even nowadays, is called a Havan*.
It took a wise scientist, my teacher and friend Dr. Rajendra Jagdale to connect the dots between science and tradition and explained why people performed Havans.
The reason is now not far to understand that a Havan often worked is, because the fires fed by wood, ghee and other combustible materials threw up particles of soot and dust into the sky. These particles would often ascend thousands of metres into the atmosphere and into clouds causing them to form raindrops and bring rain down.
Many people who do not understand the mechanics, just perform a havan for rainfall at anytime and usually indoors and are often disappointed. The wise men are successful because they studied the sky, wind etc. and then chose the right time to seed the clouds by the havan to help trigger rainfall.I too like other 'scientific minds' and the 'educated', scoffed at ancient rituals and traditions, calling them mere mumbo-jumbo, and silly superstitions worthy only of a laugh.
Everyday I learn about many ancient wisdom and traditional practices, I now feel humbled and also foolish for keeping a closed or prejudiced mind.
Just because we do not understand something does not mean it is untrue or irrelevant.
Maybe you too should stop laughing.
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*Havan, is a Vedic tradition and is also called Homa or Yajna or Agnihotri
There is some controversy of excessive use of cloud seeding, leading to use or misuse of this and other weather modification systems.
Dr. Raja Marathe, a highly reputed scientist has set up his own low cost rain seeding project in Nanded, Maharashtra, India with good success. Click here for more information:
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