Existential intelligence

At the low tide, I left a trail of footsteps on the soft seaside sand. Then the high tide came and cleaned the slate for somebody's fresh journey. We just write the same lines over and over on the same slate. Life is one. It's not a noun. It is basically living. A throbbing and ever persistent verb. Throbbing in totality, driven by an ever expanding code of cosmic intelligence  which allows a bird weighing 10 grams, and insects weighing in milligrams, to accomplish what we cant do with our two kg brain. And existence lives through different things, phenomena, processes and characters. It's just a quizzical interplay of earth, water, fire, air and ether. 

Girinika: God bless you with the gift of a cow

"...large animals, particularly cows, are aware of their impending slaughter well before it happens. Consequently, they experience high stress levels, which generate a tremendous amount of acidic content in their systems. This, in turn, has its own adverse effects on those who later consume the meat." --Sadhguru in Inner Engineering.

Now I understand why cow-eaters face so many problems... especially the ones who do halal, torture, before slaughter because it is just implanting them with poison. Well, the debate should be kept beyond religion. It's basically what is good for the human system and what is not. The benefits of a live cow, as an integral part of the rural economy, are far more than a slaughtered one. In Rwanda, the gift of a cow, girinika, meaning god bless you with the gift of a cow, is helping in rebuilding a society ravaged by civil, ethnic and tribal wars. The moment two parties at loggerheads gift each other a cow, it is accepted as a truce and confidence building measure. The President there has started a girinika program which has revolutionized the meaning of rural development, using cow as a partner in the rural economy.

In the power game, humanely inferior always defeats humanely superior

"A bigger civilization is always defeated by a lower civilization. India was continuously defeated because of her higher civilization. People were more at ease, not in the mood to fight. They were enjoying life. Those who aren't enjoying life, they are ready to fight. If life is beautiful, you can bless everyone. If your life is in difficulty, in turmoil, you can kill, you can become destructive."

Osho

Why India only, now we understand why Tibet was gobbled up by an ever-hungry China. Now we understand why the people from a particular religion are ever-ready to kill. The only exception to the above seems to be America. But then possibly we shouldn't interpret technological advances as a mark of civilization.

Perils of cooking in aluminium utensils

Cooking in Aluminium utensils is risky for health. In simple words you can say it introduces slow poison in your food. According to researchers, cooking in Aluminium is not advisable. In India we even have a conspiracy theory about it. Most probably just a spin off of anti-colonial talk. They say that cooling in aluminium utensils was first introduced in the infamous cellular jail, Kala Pani jail, in Andamans by the British govt to slowly cripple the prisoners so that they won't be blamed with direct slaughter. And then the trend continued. Most of the modern day diseases have roots in Aluminium cooking, they say. Well, at least research has concluded that aluminium dissolved in the food during cooking gets deposited in brain resulting in Alzheimer disease. Our body basically doesn't require aluminium. So it is advisable to use stainless steel pressure cookers and other kitchen utensils where boiling is involved. 

Be the king in your small world

There are just dozens around us who have achieved more than us at the cost of far less struggle and effort than us. But there are millions who have nothing like us, even though they have struggled thousand times more than us. The numbers involved in this simple maths should make us proud and satisfied with whatever we have achieved and given by life. So smile, feel lucky and look at the small world, your own world, around you. It is bigger and better than you ever thought. Just that you have always been looking sideways to the taller structures. Don't worry the inhabitants over there are even more anxious than you. They have their own still bigger world to ogle at and feel sorry for themselves. You are a 'being', a phenomenon which can exist in the present. So simply be with the moment in your small world. That's what we call by being with your own self.