God’s Pharmacy

It has been said that God first separated the salt water from the fresh, made dry land, Planted a garden, made animal and fish…..All before making a human. He made and provided what we do need before we were born. These are best and more powerful when eaten raw. We are such slow learner …..God left us a great clue as to what foods help what part of the body ! God’s Pharmacy amazing !

CARROT

SLICE a carrot and it looks just like an eye, right down to the pattern of the iris. The pupil, iris and radiating line look just like the human eye. And yes, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes. It’s a clear clue to the importance this everyday veg has for vision. Carrots get their orange colour from a plant chemical called beta-carotene, which reduces the risk of developing cataracts. The chemical also protects against macular degeneration an age-related sight problem that affects one in four over-65s. It is the most common cause of blindness in Britain. But popping a beta-carotene pill doesn’t have the same effect, say scientists at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore

TOMATO

A TOMATO is red and usually has four chambers, just like our heart has four chambers and is red॥ Tomatoes are also a great source of lycopene, a plant chemical that reduces the risk of heart disease and several cancers। The Women’s Health Study — an American research programme which tracks the health of 40,000 women — found women with the highest blood levels of lycopene had 30 per cent less heart disease than women who had very little lycopene. Lab experiments have also shown that lycopene helps counter the effect of unhealthy LDL cholesterol. One Canadian study, published in the journal Experimental Biology and Medicine, said there was “convincing evidence’ that lycopene prevented coronary heart disease. Therefore all of the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food.

GRAPES
Our lungs are made up of branches of ever-smaller airways that finish up with tiny bunches of tissue called alveoli. These structures, which resemble bunches of grapes, allow oxygen to pass from the lungs to the blood stream. One reason that very premature babies struggle to survive is that these alveoli do not begin to form until week 23 or 24 of pregnancy. A diet high in fresh fruit, such as grapes, has been shown to reduce the risk of lung cancer and emphysema. Grape seeds also contain a chemical called proanthocyanidin, which appears to reduce the severity of asthma triggered by allergy. Each grapes looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.

WALNUT
A walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three dozen neuron-transmitters from brain function.

THE gnarled folds of a walnut mimic the appearance of a human brain - and provide a clue to the benefits. Walnuts are the only nuts which contain significant amounts of omega-3 fatty acids. They may also help head off dementia. An American study found that walnut extract broke down the protein-based plaques associated with Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers at Tufts University in Boston found walnuts reversed some signs of brain ageing in rats. Dr James Joseph, who headed the study, said walnuts also appear to enhance signaling within the brain and encourage new messaging links between brain cells.

BEANS
Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes they look exactly like the human kidneys.

AVOCADOES, EGGPLANT AND PEARS

Avocadoes, Eggplant and pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female- they look just like these organs. Today research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this ? It takes exactly Nine Months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods. (Modern Science has only studied and named about 141 of them ).

SWEET POTATOES
Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics.

ORANGES, GRAPEFRUITS, and others CITRUS FRUITS.
Oranges, Grapefruits, and other Citrus fruits looks just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts.

ONION

Onions looks like the body’s cells। Today’s research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion, Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radials from the body.

CELERY, BOK CHOY, RHUBARB and many more look just like bones.

These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23 % sodium and these foods are 23 % sodium. If you don’t have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.

OLIVES
Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries.

FIGS
Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. It is just like the lungs.

CHEESE – BONES

A nice ‘holey’ cheese, like Emmenthal, is not just good for your bones; it even resembles their internal structure. And like most cheeses, it is a rich source of calcium, a vital ingredient for strong bones and reducing the risk of osteoporosis later in life. Together with another mineral called phosphate, it provides the main strength in bones but also helps to ‘power’ muscles. Getting enough calcium in the diet during childhood is crucial for strong bones. A study at Columbia University in New York showed teens that increased calcium intake from 800mg a day to 1200mg – equal to an extra two slices of cheddar - boosted their bone density by six per cent.

GINGER – STOMACH
Root ginger, commonly sold in supermarkets, often looks just like the stomach. So it’s interesting that one of its biggest benefits is aiding digestion. The Chinese have been using it for over 2,000 years to calm the stomach and cure nausea, while it is also a popular remedy for motion sickness. But the benefits could go much further. Tests on mice at the University of Minnesota found injecting the chemical that gives ginger its flavor slowed down the growth rate of bowel tumors
BANANA (SMILE) – DEPRESSION
Cheer yourself up and put a smile on your face by eating a banana. The popular fruit contains a protein called tryptophan. Once it has been digested, tryptophan then gets converted in a chemical neurotransmitter called serotonin. This is one of the most important mood-regulating chemicals in the brain and most anti-depressant drugs work by adjusting levels of serotonin production. Higher levels are associated with better moods.

MUSHROOM – EAR
Slice a mushroom in half and it resembles the shape of the human ear. And guess what? Adding it to your cooking could actually improve your hearing. That’s because mushrooms are one of the few foods in our diet that contain vitamin D. This particular vitamin is important for healthy bones, even the tiny ones in the ear that transmit sound to the brain.

BROCCOLI – CANCER
Close-up, the tiny green tips on a broccoli head look like hundreds of cancer cells. Now scientists know this disease-busting vet can play a crucial role in preventing the disease. Last year, a team of researchers at the US National Cancer Institute found just a weekly serving of broccoli was enough to reduce the risk of prostate cancer by 45 per cent. In Britain, prostate cancer kills one man every hour.

NAVARATRI
Every festival in India is celebrated with a divine purpose so as to receive the grace of the almighty. Navaratri means nine nights. According to a Hindu belief, the last thought one entertains before one’s death determines the next birth. How does one have a sacred thought before death? It is possible through self-discipline. We sleep everyday. Sleep is similar to death except that we wake up. Sleep can thus be termed as mini-death. If we were to discipline our mind by invoking a sacred though prior to sleep everyday, it will certainly help us thieve a sacred thought during the time of death, Mahatma Gandhi said ‘hey ram’ before his death as he was self – disciplined.

Nava also means ‘new’. If we invoke the blessings of Saraswati , Lakshmi and Shakti before going to sleep every night, we will experience newness every night. Night or ratri also means darkness denotes ignorance. For this too, invoking the goddesses can prove fruitful. Through grace, our ratri or ignorance will vanish. Grace cannot be understood logically. It is a quantum leap in the field of consciousness. In physics, quantum leap is a great discovery. It involves electrons disappearing from one point and between them there is no time gap. Hence it id called quantum leap. Similarly, in the field of consciousness, when grace descends there will be a quantum leap in us.

During Navaratri, three nights of worship are assigned to each of the three devis. Nava or newness in the form of grace is invoked. The tenth day is Vijayadashami, denoting victory – victory of higher consciousness through the blessing of the goddesses. The greatest victory is the dispelling of darkness or ignorance.

Grace of the Devis always exists; it’s just that we should be worthy to receive them. The inner apparatus suitable to receive them is pure mind. Impure mind is like dirty muddy water, which cannot reflect the light of the moon. Moon exists but to reflect in water, the water has to be clean. This is called partibimba nyaya. Our mind has to be pure in order to receive grace.

Navratri, therefore, is the celebration of removing ignorance. Our ignorance exists in the form of ego. E-G-O can mean edging god out. Hence we find Shakti dancing on Shiva’s chest. It may appear disrespectful but it is symbolic: an egoless lord Shiva allows his wife to dance over him. It means Devi’s grace can descend in any form… but one should be available to receive it.

Shraadh श्राद्ध


आजकल श्राद्ध का समय है । कई लोग इस बारे में बात करते हैं की क्या होता है श्राद्ध । हम क्यों देते हैं । यह तो पंडितों की बनाई रीत है कई की कुछ और सोच है वास्तविकता जाने बगैर किसी को क्या पता ।

पदम् पुराण में एक सृष्टि खंड है उसमे इस बारे में लिखा है । पितरों का श्राद्धकर्म किस प्रकार शास्त्रोक विधि से करमा चाहिए . इसका विस्तृत विवरण इसमे दिया है । इस पर्व में नर्मदा को पितरिकर्म व पिंडदान के लिए विशेष रूप से प्रशस्त माना गया है । श्राद्ध या पितरिकर्म में चांदी अथवा चांदी से युक्त पात्रों का , स्वधा शब्द का , दक्षिण दिशा का अप्सब्या यज्ञोपवीत का , तिल दान का विशेष महत्व माना गया है , जो पितरों को सर्वदा संतुष्ट करता है । पितरों के श्राद्ध में कुश , उड़द , गाय का दूध , घी , मधु , मूंग , गन्ना और सफ़ेद फूल का प्रयोग अति शुभ व मंगल फलदायक माना गया है ।

पितरिकर्म में विशेष ध्यान देने रखने वाली बात यह भी है की चाहे मनुष्य कितना भी धनवान और साम्र्द्याशाली हो , उसे श्राद्ध में केवल एक ब्रह्मण को ही भोजन कराना चाहिए । श्राद्ध में विस्तार नही होना चाहिए ।

कईयों के मन में संसय रहता है की मनुष्य जो कुछ भी पितरों को अर्पण या तर्पण करते हैं , जल तो जल में चला जाता है , पिंडदान में पिंड तो यहीं पृथ्वी पर पडा रहता है । भोजन तो ब्रह्मण खाता है , फ़िर यह सब पितरों को कैसे प्राप्त हो जाता है । हम इसे कैसे मान लें ।

I have written in my blog dated Friday, July 31, 2009 Human Physiology (अध्यात्मिक शरीर विज्ञान ) If you have read it you will not have doubt, and such thought will never come to your mind. But one has to read it in a proper way. Because the meaning of the writting is not in the words of the article. The meaning of the article is running side by side in silence between the words, between the lines, in the gaps. If you are in a state of meditativeness if you are not only reading a fiction but you are encountering the whole religious experience of a great human being, absorbing it; not intellectually understanding it. The words are there but they become secondary. Something else becomes primary: the silence that those words create. The words affect your mind, and the music goes directly to your heart.”

Reading an article like the article is an art by itself. And these articles to be read by the heart, not by the mind. The articles in my blog not to be understood, but experienced. This is something phenomenal.

So therefore my dear देवता और पितृ केवल गंध व रस से ही तृप्त हो जाते हैं । अन्न या जल का केवल सार तत्वा वह ग्रहण करते हैं , स्थूल तत्वा नही . जिस प्रकार मानव अन्न खाता है और उसका सूक्ष्म भाग यानी सार तत्वा ही शरीर ग्रहण करता है , शेष तो स्थूल रूप मल मार्ग से त्याग दिया जाता है । यही सूक्षम तत्वा अन्नमय , प्राणमय व मनोमय आदि कोशो को पुष्ट करता है । (Please read Blog article of Thursday, June 18, 2009 Human physiology with the Veda) इसी सूक्षम तत्वा की शक्ति को पितृ स्पर्श मात्र से अवशोषित कर लेते है । (चांदी में किसी भी प्रकार उष्मा को बहुत शीघ्रता से अवशोषित व उत्सर्जित करने की क्षमता होती है । यही कारण है की स्पर्श ग्राहक पितरों के लिए श्राद्ध के समय चांदी के बर्तन का प्रावधान है ।)

फिर कई लोग प्रश्न उठाते हैं की पितृ भी तो कर्मों के आधीन होते हैं , सम्भव है की उनका किसी योनी में कंही और पुनर्जन्म ho गया हो या वह स्वर्ग या नर्क में हों , ऐसे में वह कैसे आकर स्पर्श द्बारा सार तत्वा ग्रहण करेंगे और वरदान देंगे ?

यह संच है की पितृ कर्मों के आधीन हैं , परन्तु पितृ भी दो प्रकार के हैं - नित्य और अनित्य। अनित्य पितृ या स्वर्ग्वाशी माता -पित्ता , दादा - दादी आदि अनेक सगे सम्बन्धी तो निश्चित रूप से कर्मानुसार विभिन्न लोकों और योनियों में होते है , परन्तु नित्य पितृ 7 हैं , जो कर्मसः चारों वर्णों में मूर्त रूप ब्राह्मण , क्षत्रिया ,वैश्य क्षुद्र और तीन अमूर्त देवता , असुर और यक्ष रूप में होते है । यही सातों पितृ संकल्प के समय अनित्य पितरों के भाग का श्राद्ध ग्रहण करके वह पितृ जिस योनी में व जिस स्थिति में और जहाँ कहीं भी स्तिथ होता है , उसे उसी रूप में पहुंचा देते हैं और वरदान भी यह नित्य पितृ देते हैं । अतः पितरों को मंत्रों के द्बारा शास्त्र सम्मत विधि से प्रतिग्रह प्रदान करना चाहिए । जल व कुश सम्बन्ध भी दोनों के लिए अनिवार्या है , अन्यथा दान को दैत्य शक्तियां नष्ट कर देती हैं ।

SOUL / MIND / BODY

I have been thinking for a long time about what we do in our life. We start by being taught in school, how to become a good citizens. We spend a great part of our childhood studying. And finally we get the diploma that will ensure us “the position we deserve”. We participate to increase of unemployment……….until we find a job. Through hard tests we are accepted in the world of work. We perform a good professional career filled with activity and efforts……a lot of efforts…….till we fall down exhausted… But we are great professionals with our valuable market share.

Time keep on passing, and….we select new targets. We meet the sweetheart of our life, and promise a never ending love. Passionate hugs and here comes a baby into our home. Dammed night couldn’t close my eyes. We keep on advancing in the society trying to make the best of our time. We are the stars. Where ever we go and we are finally rich, but we need sometime more to triumph completely. O God ! One day they tell they can do without you. By this time you think getting crazy. You feel destroyed. You feel you lost means of communication; you realize you are cut-off from everything. Now time does not pass any longer. Still you are loosing it. You realize you have been living in the fog, in search of a silly target. You become walking Ghost. Trying to escape your enemies. You are only one longing hours to pass till your time comes.

The Bank Account of Life. Imagine there is a bank that credits our account each morning with Rs. 86,400/- It carries over no balance from day to day. Every “Evening” deletes whatever part of the balance we failed to use during the day. What we do ? Draw out every paisa, of course ! Each of us has such a “Bank”. Its name is TIME. Every morning, it credits us with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever of this we have failed to invest to good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no overdraft. Each day it opens a new account for us. Each night it burns the remaining of the day. If we fail to use the day’s deposits, the loss is ours. There is no going back. There is no Drawing against the tomorrow. We must live in the present on to-day’s deposits. Invest it so as to get from it in the utmost in health, happiness, and success ! The clock is running. Make the most pf to-day.

To realize the value of One YEAR………… ask the student who failed in his class.
To realize the value of One MONTH…ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby.
To realize the value of One WEEK……..Ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.
To realize the value of One HOUR….ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.
To realize the value of One MINUTE…ask a person who missed the train.
To realize the value of One SECOND…ask a person who just avoided an accident.
To realize the value of ONE MILLISECOND…ask the person who won a silver medal in the Olympics.

We should treasure every moment that we have. And Treasure it more because we shared it with someone special, special enough to spend our time. And remember that time waits for no one. Yesterday is History. Tomorrow is mystery and to-day is a gift. That is why it is called …………the Present.

Upon this evaluation, an idea came to my mind on how to improve my life. I will take things easy. I will try to open my heart to my love. I will listen to the ones surrounding

If the modern scientists tell us that human body consists of billions of living cells and also has millions of germs, bacteria, etc., if so,
Do all these tiny living creatures have souls?
In that case, has the human body one soul or billions of souls or these merge into one big soul?
What is the size of the soul- is it of the size of a thumb (angush matra) or the entire body or just a just a subtle tiny particle?
Why do many scriptures say that the highest birth on this earth is as a human being?
Why in Bhagavad Gita it is mentioned that God is the procreating Father and the Supreme Mother is the divine Nature i.e., Prakrti?
Has it any thing to do with the concept of soul and spirit?
Why the ancient Greeks did referred to the energy principle as “Thumos” akin to mettle or eagerness and called it mortal?
An inward thinking mind can raise hundreds of more such ques­tions.
This brief introduction of soul and spirit is likely to lead to a large number of questions. These questions could vary de­pending on the degree of knowledge an individual possesses. What is the “self”? Is it the gross body, human personality or some thing else? Like human body, the personality of a person is different in child hood, youth, middle age and old age. It changes very fast after marriage and arrival of children in the indi­vidual's family and on the type of a job a person accepts as his/her permanent vocation.

Hence, personality is a Flux and as such, it cannot be the real self. The same with human body that undergoes continuous change cannot be considered as real self. Is the human Ego or the Mind the real self? Life is short, human Ego is sweet and mind is powerful but creates different and divergent thoughts at different times and situa­tions. Is it the Will - part of our impulse or desire of self-preserva­tion? How do we know that soul is immortal and is not affected by Flux? Is the concept of soul and spirit varies with the growth of mate­rial prosperity, when one does not find any use of soul, spirit and formless God. This is a stage when concepts like “all due to my efforts develop” and only those - real or mythological deities with form are acceptable which can give blessings for permanent material prosperity even by sharing some of the ill gotten material wealth.

It is the stage when concepts of false ego, status and power develop and a person becomes his/her own enemy. Is the human being like other animals, if not what makes him/her different? What makes a person different and distinct than other human beings? Is he divine, social or material animal or all combined?

Basically we are alive that is Pran is in the Body. Prana : Responsible for the beating of the heart and breathing. Prana enters the body through the breath and is sent to every cell through the circulatory system.

Prana was first expounded in the Upanishads, where it is part of the worldly, physical realm, sustaining the body and the mother of thought and thus also of the mind. Prana suffuses all living form but is not itself the Atman or individual soul. In the Ayurveda, the Sun and sunshine are held to be a source of Prana.
In Ayurveda, the Prana is further classified into subcategories, referred to as pranas. According to Hindu philosophy these are the vital principles of basic energy and subtle faculties of an individual that sustain physiological processes. There are five pranas or vital currents in the Hindu system:

Then what matters live for us what is the meaning of life ?

Live a life that matters ready or not, someday it will all come to end. There will be no sunrise, no minutes, hours or days. All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else. Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance. It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed. Your grudges, resentments, frustrations, and jealousies will finally disappear. So, too, your hopes, ambitions, plan, and to do lists will expire. The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away. It won’t matter where you came from, or on what side of the tracks you lived, at the end. It won’t matter whether you are beautiful or brilliant even your gender and skin colour will be irrelevant.

So what will matter? How will the value of your days be measured?

What will matter is not what you bought, but what you built; not what you got, but what you gave.
What will matter is not your success, but your significance.
What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.
What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, or sacrifice that enriched, empowered or encouraged others to emulate your example.
What will matter is not your competence, but your character.
What will matter is not how many people you knew, but how many will feel a lasting loss when you are gone.
What will matter are not your memories, but the memories that live in those who loved you.
What will matter is how long you will be remembered; by whom and for what?

Living a life that matters doesn’t happen by accident. It is not a matter of circumstance but of choice. While you meet something beautiful, the first thing you should do is to share it with your friends anywhere. So that, these beautiful things, will be able to spread out, literally around the world.

Life Is Eternal



Life is Eternal. Considering death - the cessation of functions of physical body - as the end of life is a great delusion. The soul (atma), which is the upholder of bio-energy in the physical body, is ageless, timeless and indestructible. The fear of death ensues from the misconception that with the end of physical existence, the individual loses its identity in totality. A firm conviction in the continuity of life after physical death frees man from the fear of death

Man is afraid of many things, but the fear of death is the greatest, the very thought of which makes him shiver. The reason for this unusual reaction is the ignorance about the environment of life beyond the physical death. In this short article an attempt has been made to remove these misconceptions and enlighten man about the facts he is curious to know about the unknown future.

The task of educating people about the invisible realms of existence is, however, not easy. The subject pertains to paranormal phenomena and is, therefore, much beyond the reach of physical sciences and intellectual disputations.

Life is like an eternal stream. Each one of us has been living since time immemorial and would continue to do so for millions of years in future. Ignorance of facts makes us believe that life begins in the womb of mother during pregnancy and ends with cessation of functioning of heart and brain. It is a myopic point of view – a misleading concept. Modern medical science would make us believe that soul has no independent existence of its own, that the body itself is the totality of a living entity and the being is lost forever on death of the body.

But Alas! Physical sciences themselves are even today in infancy. Take for instance the subject of velocity of electricity. So far, over three dozens theories have been advanced in this context, each contradicting the earlier ones. No doubt man has learnt to make use of electrical current, but he is still uncertain about its mode of propagation. To the material world the ever-changing theories of physical sciences may not matter much but it would be unfortunate for mankind to apply the same norms to research in spirituality. Whereas scientists consider body itself as the total existence of a living being, a research scholar of spirituality puts forward evidences of paranormal activities of the departed, defying explanation by material sciences.

Then there are authenticated versions of small innocent children, who have identified places and people of their past lives proving beyond doubt that a being goes through cycles of birth and death again and again. Sucking milk from mother’s breast immediately after birth itself indicates the presence in the infant of a memory from previous life. Extraordinary talents of many young children too are indicative of knowledge acquired in an earlier incarnation.

Soul (not mind which is erroneously considered as soul in the West) and body are not one and the same entity. Just as one is required to change clothes according to the requirements of occasion, the soul too changes bodies. As it is not possible to wear the same clothes throughout ones life, the soul with its infinite continuity in time, cannot dwell in the same body. That is why it seeks to find a new body again and again. Though, generally, one discards the old worn out and torn clothes only, at times it becomes necessary to do so prematurely, when they are accidentally damaged, torn or have become unusable on account of some other reason.

Likewise, though the soul continues to live in the body till it becomes infirm due to old age or diseases, it may also leave it at a younger age in a contingency.