"By 2045, it is expected we will be producing 40% less food than what we are producing right now, and our population will be 9.3 billion people. That is not a world you want to live in, and that is not a world you want to leave our children." - Sadhguru
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CLINELL UNIVERSAL WIPES AND ME
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"Suacha means 'cleanliness and purity,' but it does not simply imply that one must bathe each day and keep one’s fingernails clean. Rather, it pertains to a deeper level of purity – purity on the inside, purity of thought and action. We must purify our thoughts through japa, meditation and the practice of positive thinking. We must purify our lives by ensuring that our actions are models of integrity, dharma and righteousness.
Suacha also pertains to that which we allow to enter our bodies and minds – what food we take through our mouths and also what food we take through our ears and eyes. True suacha means refraining from putting anything impure into our being. This includes everything ranging from drugs and cigarettes to negative gossip to violent music lyrics to pornography.
Practicing suacha is like taking perfect care of your brand new car. If you had a $100,000 new Mercedes, you would only put the most expensive, purest, best quality gasoline in the tank. You would never fill it up with cheap, bad quality gas and you certainly would never dump mud into the engine! Yet, our divine selves are more valuable than the most valuable car, and we continually fill them with low-quality, impure junk!
True purity is to treat our bodies, our minds, our hearts and our lives as divine temples in which God resides."
- H.H. Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji
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JUNGLE LAW- LYF DTH OR DINNER
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Anger may be caused by a wide variety of triggers, and though it has negative consequences on health and well-being, it is also crucial in motivating to take action and approach rather than avoid a confrontation. While anger is considered a survival response inherent in all living creatures, humans are endowed with the mental flexibility that enables them to control and regulate their anger, and adapt it to socially accepted norms. Indeed, a profound interpersonal nature is apparent in most events which evoke anger among humans. Since anger consists of physiological, cognitive, subjective, and behavioral components, it is a contextualized multidimensional construct that poses theoretical and operational difficulties in defining it as a single psychobiological phenomenon. Although most neuroimaging studies have neglected the multidimensionality of anger and thus resulted in brain activations dispersed across the entire brain, there seems to be several reoccurring neural circuits subserving the subjective experience of human anger. Nevertheless, to capture the large variety in the forms and fashions in which anger is experienced, expressed, and regulated, and thus to better portray the related underlying neural substrates, neurobehavioral investigations of human anger should aim to further embed realistic social interactions within their anger induction paradigms.
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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Bhagavad-gītā As It Is 16.21
SYNONYMS
tri-vidham — of three kinds; narakasya — of hell; idam — this; dvāram — gate; nāśanam — destructive; ātmanaḥ — of the self; kāmaḥ — lust; krodhaḥ — anger; tathā — as well as; lobhaḥ — greed; tasmāt — therefore; etat — these; trayam — three; tyajet — one must give up.
TRANSLATION
There are three gates leading to this hell — lust, anger and greed. Every sane man should give these up, for they lead to the degradation of the soul.
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people would probably not shout in the middle of a restaurant at a rude waiter, but rather restrain themselves and choose more accepted forms of rebuttal, such as minimizing the tip
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16.22 – Anger makes our response to a problem a bigger problem than the problem itself Posted: 01 Jul 2013 08:39 PM PDT When things go wrong, it is natural to feel angry. Yet just because it is natural doesn’t make it desirable. Of course, neither is it desirable to be passive amidst injustices; we need to be assertive and do what we can to set the situation right. But our response should alleviate the problem, not aggravate it. And anger almost always aggravates the problem. When we become angry, we frequently lose control of ourselves. Or more precisely anger takes control of us using a provocative situation as a front. And then anger makes us do things that we would never do normally. Things that may break others’ hearts. Things that may become lifelong wounds in our relationships. Things that we may regret for years. In addition to all these long-term fallouts, anger extracts a heavy cost in the short-term too. After giving us a fleeting feeling of control and power, anger abandons us, embarrassingly and distressingly ensnared in a predicament worse than the original problem. In fact, anger sometimes does worse than worsening the existing problem. Anger may create an entirely new problem – a problem that is bigger than the original problem. The original problem may might have been an unpleasant situation, but our angry response that starts off as a justified expression of displeasure (“I can’t tolerate such uncleanliness”) soon transmogrifies into a heart-breaking character attack (“You are a lousy fool, a shameless rogue, a wretched curse in my life”). No wonder the Bhagavad-gita (16.21) cautions that anger is one of the gates to hell – it propels us into hellish situations even in this world. Therefore the next verse (16.22) urges us to meticulously avoid the insidious influence of anger and thereby become free to act in our enlightened best interests. *** The man who has escaped these three gates of hell, O son of Kunti, performs acts conducive to self-realization and thus gradually attains the supreme destination. | |||
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Is destiny fixed at the macro level and changeable at the micro level? From Vinayak Raghuvamshi It is like boarding a train that goes to Delhi. We cannot change the fact that the train is going to take us to Delhi (Macro level). However, we certainly can decide whether we travel sleeping, reading a book, having pleasant conversations with passengers, fighting, etc (Micro level). I was initially upset to know that at Macro level my destiny is already fixed and there is not much I can do. However, I found it heartening to hear from and read the works of great Seers who teach that this destiny of ours is largely dependent on our Karma and God has given us tools to break away from Karmic cycles. The most powerful and relevant tool in Kalyug is that of Bhakti Yoga. A heard in few lectures that the ulitmate problems of life are birth, old age , disease and death . It is said in scripture (Garuda Puraan) , that when a man dies he suffers an unbearable pain of 42,000 scorpion bites . A Many neuroscientists want to do just that. But Vincent and I belong to a minority—nonmaterialist neuroscientists. Most scientists today are materialists who believe that the physical world is the only reality. Absolutely everything else—including thought, feeling, mind, and will—can be explained in terms of matter and physical phenomena, leaving no room for the possibility that religious and spiritual experiences are anything but illusions. Materialists are like Charles Dickens’s character Ebeneezer Scrooge who dismisses his experience of Marley’s ghost as merely “an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato.” A  A  A  A We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. - Harrison Ford A Plato- Man - a being in search of meaning." a euripedes
A patient suffered from Urbach-Wiethe disease , a rare genetic disorder, that resulted in bilateral calcification a nd atrophy of her amygdala. When asked to rate the intensity of various facial expressions, the patient judged faces showing fear expressions to be considerably less intense than ratings made by normal control subjects. Other facial expressions (smiling for instance) were also judged by the patient to be less intense than those repor ted by controls, but not to the degree made when viewing fear expressions. Bilateral amygdala damage appears to produce a profound insensitivity to the inte nsity of fear shown by faces . The patient, however, had no difficulty recognizing people by their faces and coul d rapidly learn the identity of new faces. A patient suffered from Urbach-Wiethe disease , a rare genetic disorder, that resulted in bilateral calcification a nd atrophy of her amygdala. When asked to rate the intensity of various facial expressions, the patient judged faces showing fear expressions to be considerably less intense than ratings made by normal control subjects. Other facial expressions (smiling for instance) were also judged by the patient to be less intense than those repor ted by controls, but not to the degree made when viewing fear expressions. Bilateral amygdala damage appears to produce a profound insensitivity to the inte nsity of fear shown by faces . The patient, however, had no difficulty recognizing people by their faces and coul d rapidly learn the identity of new faces. A patient suffered from Urbach-Wiethe disease , a rare genetic disorder, that resulted in bilateral calcification a nd atrophy of her amygdala. When asked to rate the intensity of various facial expressions, the patient judged faces showing fear expressions to be considerably less intense than ratings made by normal control subjects. Other facial expressions (smiling for instance) were also judged by the patient to be less intense than those repor ted by controls, but not to the degree made when viewing fear expressions. Bilateral amygdala damage appears to produce a profound insensitivity to the inte nsity of fear shown by faces . The patient, however, had no difficulty recognizing people by their faces and coul d rapidly learn the identity of new faces. |
NAT GEO FLT 2286 - 1988- HUMN ERROR
KAIZEN - BLACK BOX, GROUND PROXIMITY DEVICE
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ANOON GREEN TEA HABIT - 5 CUPS A DAY
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They are, however, often distinguished from Ishvara, a personal god, with many Hindus worshipping Ishvara in one of its particular manifestations as their iṣṭa devatā, or chosen ideal. The choice is a matter of individual preference, and of regional and family traditions. The multitude of Devas are considered as manifestations of Brahman.
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Only fall... a BIO SAR ENF DITO - FITO - DTH ISTO ONE- FOOD IS TO OTHER A  A  A "Look deeply: every second I am arriving, to be a bud on a Spring branch, to be a tiny bird, with still-fragile wings, learning to sing in my new nest, to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower, to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone." A  A  A |
HADROCODIUM - 1ST MAMMAL 150 MYA FROM REPTILES TODAY TO 5700 SPECIES OF MAMMALS- RISE OF THE ANIMALS
MAMMALS WARM BLOODED, REPTILES COLD BLOODED-
MAMMALS CAN FORAGE OUT AT NIGHT
POWERFUL SENSE OF SMELL IN DARK- BIG OLFACTORY BULBS
MALLEUS INCUS STAPES EVOLVED IN MAMMAALS - ADVANTAGE OVER REPTILES TO HEAR HIGHER FREQUENCY SOUND
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MONOTREMES - PLATYPUS, ECNIDA, SPLIT V EARLY FROM MAMMALS
THEY LAY EGGS
BUT THEY NURSE BABIES WITH MILK
MILK IS ON TAP- NONE GETS WASTE
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DWM A few cups of green tea each day is linked to weight loss, research finds.
Four cups of green tea was linked to 5.5 pounds of weight loss in eight weeks by one study.
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MAMMALS >>>> MARSUPIALS >>>>
JURAMIA - JURASSIC MOTHER- 160 MYA
EARLIEST -WOMB CARRYING - PLACENTAL
ELEPHANT PREGY IS 22 MO
MESSEL PIT, GERMANY
PRIMATES EVOLVED OPPOSABLE THUMBS/TOES TO CLIMB TREES
EVOLVED COLOUR VISION TO DETECT FRUITS
PLANTS DEVELOPED COLOR CODING SYSTEM TO SIGNAL IF SEED IS MATURE
GREEN FRUIT TO RED RIPE FRUIT
MAMMALS REACQUIRED COLOR VISION - BIRDS AND REPTILES RETAINED COLOR VISION
47 MYA - SAVANNISATION - MEGAAFAUNA APPEARED
ELEPHANT IS FEW MEGAFAUNA WHO HAS SURVIVED
MEGAFAUNA EXTINCTION -2.5 YA ICE SHEET AGE OR HUMAN ACTIVITY ?
BIPEDAL PRIMATE BIG CRANIAL CAPACITY - HUMAN , 68KYA FOSSIL IN CHINA - MADE WEAPONS , COOP FOR HUNTING - SPREAD FROM AFRICA
MOULDABLE SEPARATE BONES FOR BIRTH- THEN BRAIN GROWS AFTER BIRTH - BRAIN GROWS FOR 2 YRS
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Tamil has a very rich literary heritage and a long literary tradition spanning more than 2500 years and may be far older than that. The history of Tamil literature is an integral part of the history of Tamil Nadu and closely linked with the social, political and cultural trends of the various periods.
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The object of their religion was to propitiate these innumerable spirits. At the same time, each village seems to have been under the protection of some one spirit, who was its guardian deity. Probably these village deities came into being at the period when the people began to settle down in agricultural communities. We may see in them the germs of the national deities which were so prominent among the Semitic races and the great empires of Egypt, Nineveh, and Babylon. Where the family developed into a clan, and the clan into a tribe, and the tribe into a nation, and the nation into a conquering empire, the god of the family naturally developed into an imperial deity.
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THE worship of the Village Deity, or grama-dcvata, as it is called in Sanskrit and in Tamil, forms an important part of the conglomerate of religious beliefs, customs, and ceremonies which are generally classed together under the term Hinduism. In almost every village and town of South India may be seen a shrine or symbol of the grama-devata, and in every village the grama-devata is periodically worshipped and propitiated. As a rule this shrine is far less imposing than the Brahmanical temples in the neighbourhood ; very often it is nothing more than a small brick building three are four feet high, or a small enclosure with a few rough stones in the centre ; and often there is no shrine at all ; but still, when calamity overtakes the village, when pestilence or famine or cattle disease makes its appearance, it is to the village deity that the whole body of the villagers turn for protection. Siva and Vishnu may be more dignified beings, but the village deity is regarded as a more present help in trouble, and is more intimately concerned with the happiness and prosperity of the villagers. The village deities and their worship are widely different from the popular Hindu deities, Siva and Vishnu, and the worship that centres in the great Hindu temples.
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Tamil is older than Sanskrit and there is record of 'Tamil Sangam' dating back 4,500 years,
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Their wives, it is true, play an important part in Hindu religious life Kali especially, the "black one," the wife of Siva, is the presiding deity of Calcutta, and is one of the chief deities of Bengal but, speaking generally, in the Hindu pantheon the male deities are predominant and the female deities occupy a subordinate position. This is characteristic of the genius of the Aryan religion, but in the old Dravidian cults a leading feature was the worship of the female principle in nature. It is possible that this is due to the fact that the Aryan deities were the gods of a race of warriors, whereas the Dravidian deities were the goddesses of an agricultural people. All over the world, the gods of war are mostly male, while the agricultural deities are, for the most part, female ; and this naturally arises from the fact that war is the business of men, whereas, among primitive peoples, the cultivation of the fields was largely left to the women, and also from the fact that the idea of fertility is naturally connected with the female. All over Southern India, therefore, the
village deities are almost exclusively female
Hindu identity amidst other Indian religions
Scholars state that Hindu, Buddhist and Jain identities are retrospectively-introduced modern constructions
Sacred geography
Scholars such as Fleming and Eck state that the post-Epic era literature from the 1st millennium CE amply demonstrate that there was a historic concept of the Indian subcontinent as a sacred geography, where the sacredness was a shared set religious ideas. For example, the twelve Jyotirlingas of Shaivism and fifty-one Shaktipithas of Shaktism are described in the early medieval era Puranas as pilgrimage sites around a theme. This sacred geography and Shaiva temples with same iconography, shared themes, motifs and embedded legends are found across India, from the Himalayas to hills of South India, from Ellora Caves to Varanasi by about the middle of 1st millennium. Shakti temples, dated to a few centuries later, are verifiable across the subcontinent. Varanasi as a sacred pilgrimage site is documented in the Varanasi mahatmya text embedded inside the Skanda Purana, and the oldest versions of this text are dated to 6th to 8th-century CE.
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নিজস্ব চিত্র।
গুগলে দেড় কোটি টাকা বেতনের চাকরি পেলেন নদিয়ার কৃষ্ণনগরের ঘূর্ণির তরুণ দেবর্ষি মৈত্র। দিন কয়েক আগে গুগলের তরফে ইমেল করে বিষয়টি জানানো দেবর্ষিকে। সন্তানের এই সাফল্যে উচ্ছ্বসিত দেবর্ষির মা এবং বাবা। ঘূর্ণির মধ্যবিত্ত পরিবারের সন্তান দেবর্ষি। এলাকায় কৃতী ছাত্র হিসেবে পরিচিতি তাঁর। কৃষ্ণনগর কলেজিয়েট স্কুল থেকে ২০১৬ সালের মাধ্যমিক পাশ করেন তিনি। ওই বিদ্যালয় থেকেই উচ্চমাধ্যমিক পাশ করার পর জয়েন্ট এন্ট্রান্স দিয়ে যাদবপুর বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ে প্রোডাকশন ইঞ্জিনিয়ারিংয়ে ভর্তি হন। চতুর্থ বর্ষের পরীক্ষার পর নিজেই গুগলের সঙ্গে যোগাযোগ করেন দেবর্ষি। অনলাইন পরীক্ষায় কয়েক ধাপ এগোনোর পর চাকরি পাকা হয়ে যায় দেবর্ষির।
