Being a Ascetic (Sanyasi) Is a bad Idea

Geeta is the philosophy that is purest form of introspection, their is nothing that can even come close to it, among all the literature I read during time of my depression, I could only understand Geeta.

There is an interesting point in Geeta when Arjun ask Shri Krishna that it would be better to leave everything and take sanyas & beg for food, as Arjun thinks that to fight a war against his own Kin ( i.e. Killing his Kin) will only give him sin, also, land, wealth etc are all materialistic thing, they don't last forever.

Shri Krishna then guides him, he asks him that even if you take sanyas would you really be not doing anything? won't you be searching for food? Is getting food so easy? don't other living beings fight for their food? He tells Arjun that "you are not having control over your mind, you shouldn't act like a coward, all your brothers & soldiers are ready to die in this war as they have been snatched away from their rights and at this time you are offering to quit, also if you are not happy when you are having everything then how could you be happy when you would not be having anything".

He tells Arjun that if you quit in between this war then people will laugh at you, people will make anecdotal jokes on you, which will be circulated all across the places, if you think about yourself to be knowledgeable and sensible, then keep it in your senses that for a self respecting man there's nothing worse then being called a coward.

He further guides him that if you are not happy with what you have been doing since a long time, and in fact you are not able to do something in which you are supposed to be second to none then how could you be happy in something which you have never done before? also, is living without your loved one is so easy?

Shri Krishna tells him that a true Sanyas is to not to worry too much about the consequences of an action, this doesn't means that you should stop thinking, but you should not be possessive about anything, you can perform to best of your abilities, but what will be the outcome of your action is not in your hand.

Shri Krishna tells Arjun to look at Shri Krishna himself and learn that how he i.e. Shri Krishna himself is living his life, Shri Krishna was an ordinary shepherd, he didn't get his lady love Radha, but he didn't loose his heart or mind, his own uncle tried to kill him but he withstood them and in fact killed his uncle, he became a King himself, he ask Shri Arjun to learn from his life and make him his idol so that it is easy to guide his life by looking at the life of Shri krishna.

 OM :)

Plz Don't cook oil at High Temperatures

Hot Oil

I had some issues with my skin, my skin problem dates back to when I was 13 or 14, lots of dandruff use to generate on my scalp also I had a problem of dry lips since the time I was 8 to 9 years old or may be even before that, I don't even remember  since when I have started issues of dry lips.

It was only after I realised with the help of Bhagwat Geeta that we are eating wrong food and when I started experimenting with foods that I found out that if I am not adding any oil to my food then my dandruff issues are being arrested within 2 to 3 days, but stopping oil was a bad bad idea, it gave me issues with my bowel movement. If I use to add unheated oil then it has odour in it if it's a regular filtered oil, and if I use to add oil along with the  water and cook the lentils under pressure then the oil use to escape from the pressure cooker due to high pressure gradient and temperature which again use to cause issues with my bowel movement.

Later I realised that if I add oil over the lentils after it being cooked and boil it for 4 to 5 minutes then this way the oil use to get rid of its smell and at the same time the quantity of oil don't escape from the lentils as there is no pressure gradient as boiling takes place at atmospheric condition, boiling water temperature can't go beyond 100 deg C at atmospheric pressure so the quality of oil don't degrade and hence giving me the complete nutrition. This helped me to get rid of dry skin.

This was great but this led to sort of monotonous cooking as I was not able to eat any fried food, frying in modern day cookware means cooking at a very high temperature, as the temperature of propane butane gas mixture is around 1800 deg C, though a large quantity of heat is lost by conduction, convection and radiation but still the temp is high enough, also the anodised aluminium vessel used are very thin and have very high heat transfer coefficient.

So I did following changes first I bought a new seat stand which is used to keep vessel above the gas stove then increased the height of the same by almost 2 inches by welding support on it, but even after doing so oil was able to generate dandruff all over my skull, so next step I took was to put a square MS plate of almost 4 mm thickness over the stand and then placed my cooking vessel over it, it may sound like crazy stuff but it did worked finally.

We need oil in our system but not the one which is heated at such a high temperature it only leads to degradation of oil, in my case it was the issue of dandruff but in someone other case it may lead to other serious complication. In Bhagwat Geeta it has been mentioned that cooked food is good for health but overcooked food or say burned food are not ideal for health, but unfortunately we don't learn from history.

How to Brush your Teeth w/o using a Tooth Paste

A slow Poison

The topic may sound weird to most of you, but I am really very serious about it. The toothpaste that we are using today has a fluoride content of about 500 ppm to 1000 ppm, remember as per scientist (I call them stupids) 15 ppm of iodine is enough for sharpening your brain, but 1000 ppm of Fluoride is acceptable to human body, it don't cause any harm but instead it protects our teeth (600 ppm of Hexane in Soyabean also don't cause any harm, as per scientist (idiots)) most of the kids swallow the toothpaste as they like its taste. You can read about the content of fluoride in modern day toothpaste  here, the other toxic chemicals which are present in a normal toothpaste can be read on here.

Now I am going to tell you about a safe, easy to execute and cheap and best method of brushing your teeth. I am personally using this method since last 4 months, I add almost say a pinch of sea salt granules and not iodised salt and then I add few drops of mustard oil ( check the pic. below), I mix the mixture and gently rub it over my teeth with my  finger, of course :). As the sea salt surface is rough it cleans any deposition over the teeth, but as it is softer compare to teeth it don't cause any damage to them, also due to the saliva it start to dissolve hence become much softer, and as mustard oil is applied over it, it doesn't have too much friction and both of them have antibacterial properties as well. The component are 100 % edible they cause no harm to you or your loved once even if you or they swallow it, if you don't want to swallow it you can wash them out too.

As you will be rubbing with the help of your finger it will not damage your gums as well, as they do while we use tooth brush.

Use of technology is not a bad thing, in fact the reason that we have less war now a days is because we have weapons of mass destruction, because of which leaders of our Great Nations are themselves afraid to die, but a hammer doesn't work at a place of toothpick, this simple fundamental we have lost somewhere.

This salt comes at price of 10 Rs per Kg and is easily available in market in India as Hotelier use this salt only in manufacturing food, cost of mustard oil is 120 Rs/liter, for a family of four you might be having a cost of Rs 130 per year or might be even less as I have not measured the exact quantity.

This method of brushing your teeth was a normal day to day practise in Indian household say about 100 years back, though some people use to prefer Neem Tree twig as well.

Mustard oil with Sea Salt

What Is Yoga

Just RELAX the Man in the above picture is not doing Yoga, he is doing some exercise and as he himself is a confused being, so he thinks it is Yoga. If Yoga is what he is doing then every gymnast in this world is a yogi. Most of the people who has clicked on this link must be good people because they want to bring change in their lives as they want to improve.

What happens in our lives is that from childhood we are taught the wrong things, but being told that this is the right thing, we are given eg. of Rich and the Famous and we are being taught to be either very Rich or be very Famous by giving eg. of somebodies life whom we have never met or met very few time.

Shri Krishna tells Shri Arjun to practice YOG at the battle field, so did Shri Krishna wanted Arjun to head stand in the battle fied, hell no, yog is not stretching exercises which Baba Ramdev teaches or Yog is not anything tough, but rather as beautifully said by Shri Krishn "Samatv YOG Uchayate" i.e. a balance approach is called YOG, Shri Krishna tells Shri Arjun that it is very easy to practice; balance approach in everything, right from eating right i.e. eating food which helps you feel energetic as well as feel happy in mind, which may include gluten free, casein free diet, diet with sea salt and not iodised salt, sugar in the form of jaggery rather than white sugar, meat if you are non vegetarian then you could use ghee in your diet and sprouted grains, to thinking right, balance may even include the medicine if you require it to feel healthy or feel pleasant in mind, but having medicine doesn't mean you can eat anything and everything, the whole aim is to feel pleasant physically as well as mentally

Thinking right comprises of the fact that you should not have in your mind extreme attachment, hatred, desire or anger for anyone, Shri Krishna further tells to Shri Arjun that thinking about something constantly causes affection for those things, due to this affection we generate desire for those things, and when we have hurdles in the path of obtaining those desire we get anger, and anger make us loose our sanity which led to our own decline.

This doesn't mean that you should not have desire as Shri Krishn tell Shri Arjun to have a balance approach, but problem is that our mind is never empty its all the time thinks, it is good thing that your mind is thinking but anything extreme is not good, so atleast for sometime you should take a break, so how to slow down our mind for few mints in a day, this can be done by practicing Pranayam.

Now again Pranayam is not what Baba Ramdev teaches, they are just the steps to master the art of Pranayam. What is Pran, pran is the breath that you inhale, our body is so beautifully built that we don't even think about the most important aspect of our life i.e. breathing we never think about breathing it happens by itself, when your concentration will become subtle i.e. when you will be in a state of complete relaxation you can observe the breath you are inhaling, you can practice the art of Pranayam, but  Pranayam has significance only when you practice Yog, without Yog pranayam is useless, and again Yog is just the balance approach in life.

Bhagwat Geeta teaches lot of good things if you got time do read it, don't try to mug it, just get the feeling of it. :) Om

Its Cool to be enlightened

Let me ask you one thing, what do you expect a enlightened human being to be, for instance do you like him to be like Sai baba he was born in 1900 century in India, so not way back only 100 or say 150 year old.

We expect them to move in a slow motion, having a light glowing over their head as if they are carrying a bulb along with them, be miraculous, don't have erection on seeing a sexy woman or vice verse i.e. they should completely ridicule the laws of nature, they should put fire on water, carry a mountain on his little finger, this is what we expect and many such things and this is the reason why we get these things from so called human incarnation of GOD, but why we expect something like this, is it not a miracle that you breathe, is it not a miracle that child grows or say birth of a child but we are ignorant we want more so we expect them to produce motichur ka ladoo or say an apple from air, is that our expectation of God, this can be done by a Magician too, this was the very reason why person like Shri Satya Sai baba made fool of our self.

This is the reason why Shrimad Bhagwat was crafted in such a beautiful manner by Shri Ved Vyas, because he knew it is not possible to make everyone understand the meaning of enlightened human, there is interesting anecdote in Mahabharata where Yasohda finds Shri Krishna eating soil she scold him and ask him to open his mouth, when he open his mouth she see the entire universe in his mouth, now you will say "that what god should be like", my dear friend this story was very cleverly planted by Shri Ved Vyasa, the universe which Yashodha sees in the mouth of Shri Krishna was nothing but actually the knowledge of the universe which comes from his mouth. Yashodha gets scared as any normal mother would be as she use to consider him her son and not a enlightened person, she thought might be her son is under the influence of some spirit, this what happens even today also.

We expect a enlightened person to be with grown up beard and hair like Jesus and wearing saffron colour or white colour Dhoti, was Shri Krishna or Shri Ram were really like that, you will now say yes, that though Shri Ram and Krishna not have grown up beard but they do use to have grown up hair and use to wear Dhoti, my dear friend that Dhoti and hair cut was style of that era, for instance what is happening in movies now Amitabh, Akshay and Sanjay Dutt act as a God in film and they are suited booted, and it is just 100 years of Indian cinema may be 5000 years down the line we will see that pictures of Akshay Kumar as Shri Krishna in the houses i.e. God wearing tie & suit.

Shri Krishna says that " My devotee will never be shattered or destroyed" so what we have translated this statement in to, that if you are a true devotee of Krishna than you can drink even poison and you will not die, take for eg: story of meera bai, my dear friend Shri Krishna continuously emphasizes on Science and Wisdom he repeated says during his conversation with Shri Arjun that "I will again repeat the Knowledge for you which comprises of Wisdom and Science", everything in this universe in governed by the principal of science, science is specific and wisdom is generalized, might be we are unaware of the science of something today but we will be aware of it in the coming years or say days, so something which is not defined today comes under the category of Wisdom. By virtue of this same wisdom a devotee of Krishn will not drink or eat poison by himself b'coz he will be quick witted and clever and this has been said by Shri Krishna himself in Bhagwat geeta.

Coming back to the point of Sai Baba people say that he was not an enlightened human but rather GOD with miraculous power, I use to ask myself that if he was having so much of miraculous power then why didn't he just puffed and scared away the Britishers. Do you have a answer. :) OM

Sex and The Desire

Bhagwat Geeta doesn't talk about sex, I know you will be disappointed but plz read on, it talks about desire, this is the beauty of Bhagwat Geeta it says many things in a few words, it talks about Kaam i.e. the desire, Shri krishna tells Arjun that beings are never satisfied b'coz of the never ending desires, for eg: even if your partner is the sexiest being and have lot of money, fame and even highly spiritual or say philosphical but you would still have the desire for someone else ( eg Hrithik and Suzane), he tells Shri Arjun that as Smokes cover up the fire and dust cover up a mirror similarly desires cover up the knowledge of a being ( that means they new how to prepare glass as he talks about mirror, don't look at the picture above concentrate on the writing plz). 

But this doesn't mean that a being should not have a desire at all, b'coz desire are necessary for our survival but we should not start worshiping our desire. For eg: One sex will always have attraction toward a opposite sex, it is natural but it has no end you can go on changing your partner everyday but after sometime nobody will trust you, your children will not respect you and you will not even be respected in the society, similarly money is required, it is necessary for our survival but we are never satisfied with it, the salary we are getting or the enumeration we are getting is never enough, similar things happen with fame, cars or beauty the desire never ends, we want to look beautiful, its good that you want to look beautiful, but plastic surgery, ok once a while but repeated surgeries, I don't think it can protect you from looking old.

This is the reason Shri Krishna ask Shri Arjun to practice Yog i.e. the art of balance approach, in everything right from thought process to eating and clothing, we have to dress as per the occasion, if you observe how Shri Krishna use to dress, you would see that he use to dress just like the Kings of that era as he himself became a King, he use to put a Peacock feather on his Crown, his entire life is a source of inspiration, he used to love Radha but was not able to marry her for some reason, but he stood by himself, his own uncle tries to Kill him, but he survived  he lived a King Life, he is my Hero.

Spirituality & Psychology

Shiva , I feel he is enlightened Human

Indian Ancient Scripture has always fascinated me, it use to raise lot of question within me & the answer of which by my various elder family member never satisfied me.

India was the richest country in the world just 250 years back & for Some reason I think India is the country that has the richest source of everything, even after 2000 AD people come to India to seek spiritual enlightenment, Please don’t think I am rude but I question myself that why after 2000 years west can’t come even close to spiritual knowledge of India , also spirituality is something which is very subtle and very hard to understand & even harder to define & even more harder to make other people practice,  sustain for such a long period of time & protect the same in its original form. We assumed Indian history to be 5000 years old but recent extravagation at Indus valley has found human remains of around 10000 years & older might not exist now.

The entire concept of ancient Indian philosophy which we have tagged as “Hinduism” revolves around three Main God, “Shiva”, “Brahma” & “Vishnu”. In my childhood I always use to question their functioning as I never use to understand that why always devils pray the Brahma, but  both the devils as well as  the deities pray Shiva, & Vishnu is only prayed by deities.

With time I have got some insight in to it and I am sharing the same with you, some people may understand, some may not & for some it may help in creating a new insight which will be much better than that of mine.

"Shiva" is an character in the Hindu Scripture,  whose behavioral characteristic have been mentioned  as that of a very innocent & humble being who is very short tempered, he lives in isolation, away from all the beings, he is in the stage of human where the man is struggling hard to achieve the peace & enlightenment , he is on the search of truth, he lives on Himalayas as some of the saints do, his mind is compared to moon, as its denoted by the symbol of “half moon” over his head, possibly it denotes his intentions i.e. he is very gentle and he don’t have malevolent intention for anybody, his mind is as gentle  as moon .

As he lives in wild, he has a weapon called "Trishul" a sort of a spear with three points, it is specifically designed so as to slow down the momentum of animal attack such as leopard or a Tiger ( as single spear will not be able to stop the momentum of big animals like Tiger), he has small dumru (a small two headed drum, google to see the image) attached to the spear as the sound generated with the help of dumru can deceive the animal in some way, he has a bull accompanying him showing that the bull and not the dog is man's best friend as the bull can come handy during animal attack due to its shear power & horn as well as its intelligence and non malevolent intent and  its herbivorous nature, also it can attract cows which further will give milk to you.

His vocals has been represented as blue,  the blue denotes the poison in his vocals, it's the poison that is generated through the attrition between the two forces (The Good & The Bad as in scripture of “Samundra Manthan”) of thoughts as we often become abusive b’coz of tussel or say confusion in our mind, the diversity & the magnitude of our brain is compared to that of a Ocean i.e. Samundra in Sanskrit, lot of things are liberated in these tussels of thoughts in our brain, resulting in  something  good i.e. say useful or may be something bad, as mentioned in the anecdotes in ancient Indian scriptures.

He is in the initial stages of enlightenment, he has different perspective of the world i.e. called the third vision, a vision through his intellect and not mere through the  senses of his eyes, this third perspective of the world help him in burning all his desires denoted as Kamdev in ancient Indian text.

In the scriptures river Ganges is shown to be flowing through his head,  this Ganges can't be anything other than the flow of pure divine knowledge from his mind, consisting of Science & philosophy as stressed upon in "Bhagwat Geeta", as knowledge is always present in the universe, but Shiva is able to gather it, Shiva act as a carrier & transfer this knowledge to the masses in a form which could be understood by them, this knowledge is as pure as Ganges as we say in Hindi "Gyan Ki Ganga".

A snake is shown to be attached around his neck, if you consider the behaviour of an snake how it is, it doesn’t bite you unless and until you disturb it, but if disturbed it can even bite its caretaker, may be it is something similar to the state of a person who is in the stage of Shiva, he will not quote the poison of his words on you until & unless you disturb him, if you disturb him he gets angry very quickly & hence may say something which may hurt the other being.

Shiva as per my Understanding is a representation of a human being who is in a quest to come in peace. As per Hindu scripture both the devils as well as the Deities worship Shiva, this can be better understood as, that any person at a appropriate time of its life cycle can reach this stage, but if a person doesn't follow the philosophies of scripture than he will become a Bhasmasur a devil who become reason for his own destruction, as anger is not good for anybody , while the person if follow the teachings of scripture can proceed further to reach the stage of “Vishnu” another Character in Hindu Scripture which I have discussed in another post. Shiva is said to be the creator of Vishnu & Brahma this probably is b’coz of the fact that Shiva is the stage of human where he realises b’coz of his third eye the Presence of Vishnu as well as the presence of “Brahma” another character in Hindu scripture which I will discuss later.