Experiments On Human Psychology: It is interesting to study like the males in the animal species the males of human species are all very much into zoning and creating boundaries of their imaginative realms. It is very interesting to study the general human psychology when one travels through such created imaginative realms of other men all over he place.
So dose one have to travel a lot, of course not, its there every where, one just needs to be very attentive and on the lookout of some interesting events taking place all over the place all the time...
So what has this to do with "eagerness of men to woo women" - very simple and worth considering, every city, village, town, or even a block one will happen to find individuals living there since years or may be longer than one has been in the community. Such individuals through the bond of community or eagerness to claim to be the first or the long timer residents of the community happen to start creating an imaginative boundary, a boundary that defines all the individuals or property in those areas to have the very first duty to serve them. And then starts the interesting chasing game of these men, especially when someone more competitive than them appears on the scene and starts getting attention from all the corners of the community...
Its same like one may seen in "dogs", dogs are also territorial and then when one happens to witness a "dog" visiting from the neighborhood, all the dogs get together to set a plot to shoo this new comer out of the neighborhood. This episode gets more interesting when female element's attraction from the same kind is established - all the neighborhood dogs go wild on the new comer...
One should travel, travel between communities and do very basic experiments to do some fact checks, one may be surprised, that human race is still living in the age old Animal Prone Behavioral Pattern...
Its very funny to study individuals of all ages who happen to find some techniques or other to either control the "female" kind by deploying interestingly childish and humorous behaviors - it can be compared directly to the "dogs" who "pee around" to mark their territory. Humans don't "pee around" to mark their territories but their activities are as good as the same...
So has the human kind really developed as its been preached by many & many have acquired "Nobel Awards" by displaying some or the other theology of themselves - well the question still remains a question and the answer is like a far fetched effort...
It is very interesting to know that this human behavior of building imaginative territory starts from the very childhood, even the kids at their very early ages are very territorial in nature & many parents happen to compare that to the Kids Intelligence...
Its not the question of what parents "should" or "should not" do, its just an aspect to study about human nature - interesting it is that even after humans been engaged in so called "serious relationships" - humans tend to venture around to build their imaginative territory - why should this be is a thing to be just thought about...
Irrespective of all the thinking and analyzing, one always finds a lot of humor when one encounters events and episodes happening in the surrounding where males of the human kind perform all the humorous and childish rituals to woo the female of the human kind...
Everyone experiences this in life, its so very interesting though, there are not many who happen to find humor in these activities - are these events full of life is a debatable issue - but these events are for sure full of humor and fun to calmly watch and laugh about all the time...
Herbal / homeopathic preventives for H1N1 - Swine Flu.
The new Swine flu virus has high infectivity and low mortality.
That means it spreads very quickly and rarely kills.
The patient may die due to respiratory failure (pneumonia or suffocation).
So you need to have a strong respiratory system having high immunity.
Precautions:
- Refrain from food items like banana, curds, "shrikhand", ice-cream raw onion or any other you know that gives you cough / cold etc.
- Avoid excessive work fatigue or late nights or too much eating (ajeerna).
- Regular aerobic exercise and "pranayama" are useful.
- The common face masks have pores / holes of about 50 times the size of virus. So you can judge its effectivity.
- But a good mask is very useful. It is especially needed by he who is infected and is sneezing or coughing.
Found the following procedures to be useful to increase respiratory immunity.
Used them for at least five years and found them good.
No side effects.
No strong reactions. So its safe for you to try.
But don't over do the dose. In that case consult a proper physician. Otherwise you don't or shouldn't need a physician.
1) Take a plastic / glass bottle of 1 liter.
- Fill about 700ml with pure, clean water.
- Add ten drops of Homeopathic tincture, Gelsemium 30
Dose: one spoonful of this water twice daily on empty stomach. Shake well (at least ten times) before use.
2) Herbal mixture 1
- Take equal quantity of the three meds, (e.g. 20 tablets each)
- Triphala guggul, kanchanar Guggul, Chandraprabha vati crush into powder, mix and keep in a bottle.
- Take one pinchful (about 100mg) of this powder once daily.
3) Herbal mixture 2
- Buy 50gm packet (powder) each of the following,
- Adulsa, Jyesthamadh, Beheda, LendiPimpli, Kantakari, TulsiPatra, mix together well and keep in airtight jar.
Dose: half to one spoonful (2-5gm) with some water
4) Daily intake of 2gm (4 tablets of 500mg) of vitamin C (Celin) (Ascorbic acid) is good for prevention of flu (Its quite safe in large doses - even "50gm" per day)
All of the above act as prophylactic (preventive) for flu.
In case you get some symptoms of flu, it is safe to increase dose of herbal mixtures by four times.
Severity of symptoms will require exact homeopathic medicine by a homeopathic doctor. Or even "Tamiflu".
So better take proper precautions like above.
(An interesting article worth a read for sure)..
Fire Starter: Swami Ghanananda Saraswati
(Photographer Smruthi Gargi Eswar)
AS AN Indian in Ghana, I soon became aware of the country’s Indian community. It was while working on a photo-essay about crosscultural interactions, especially interracial marriages, that I learnt of the African Hindu Monastery. Now, Ghana is by no means homogenous when it comes to religion.
Photos of the gods An African Hindu disciple scans the Bhagavad Gita
(Photographer Smruthi Gargi Eswar)
Though predominantly Christian, with Islam being prominent in the north, most Ghanaians still maintain their connections to older traditions of ancestor worship and belief in the spirit world. Hinduism, though, is a foreign and recent entrant, associated with the Sindhi business families who dominate the immigrant Indian population. The presence of an African Hindu community, therefore, came as a surprise. I decided to go and see the place for myself.
The African Hindu Monastery (AHM) is a simple white structure in Odorkor, a suburb of the Ghanaian capital city of Accra. Started in 1975, it is headed by Swami Ghanananda Saraswati. The gentle-voiced Saraswati was born into the traditional African faith. Although he converted to Christianity when both his parents became Christian priests, he continued his search for truth. Attracted by Hindu beliefs and the practice of yoga, he travelled to India. While staying at Swami Sivananda’s ashram in Rishikesh, he decided to embrace Hinduism. At 35, he returned to Ghana and acquired his first disciples, holding lectures to educate Ghanaians about this ancient and foreign religion. Initially, his teachings attracted the literate and the academic – university lecturers and lawyers. Soon, some Indian families started to come. Later, a meeting with one Swami Krishnananda (who was visiting from India) inspired him to set up a monastery “where he could tell people about all that he had learnt in India”.
Daily bred A woman takes her turn at the collective havan that follows the morning aarti
(Photographer Smruthi Gargi Eswar)
TODAY, GHANA’S population of 23 million includes 12,500 Hindus, of which 10,000, like their Swami Ghanananda Saraswati, are indigenous Africans. While an older Sindhi temple still exists in Accra (and the Sathya Sais, the Ananda Margis, ISKCON and the Brahma Kumaris are also active), the African Hindu Monastery (AHM) is now Ghana’s largest centre of Hindu worship.
Young hands The children of disciples are initiated into rituals
(Photographer Smruthi Gargi Eswar)
Ghana now has a Hindu population of 12,500, of which as many as 10,000 are indigenous Africans. Some have given their children Hindu names like Rama or Krishna after a naming ceremony
The AHM’s iconography and practices provide clues to its hybrid origins. Its nonexclusionist attitude is apparent from the picture of Jesus alongside the Hindu gods on the main mantelpiece, as well as images of spiritual leaders from other religions. There are even images of secular leaders from India. The monastery’s members also believe that the Supreme God is known by other names, such as Yahweh and Allah.
While it identifies itself with Vedic philosophy, with Vishnu as the primary deity, there is an adjoining temple for Shiva. In fact, the day starts with a Shiva Abhishek, followed by an aarti, conducted by the Swami or one of his disciples. This is followed by a havan (fire sacrifice) and the reciting of the Hanuman Chalisa. In contrast to the specially commissioned havans in most Indian temples, all those present can pour a spoonful of oil into the sacred fire. Bhajans in Hindi — sung exquisitely in a Ghanaian accent — might follow. Later, a Vedic text might be discussed, either in English or in a Ghanaian dialect.
The AHM is not just accommodating of multiple religious traditions but also open to people of all races, classes and communities. Indian worshippers are not only members of the dominant Sindhi community, but also recent immigrants: managers and contract labour alike. But most worshippers are Africans, again from different professions and backgrounds. When I asked a disciple about the group’s opinion of the caste system, he pointed out that there is no society in the world that does not break its people up into the privileged and the unprivileged, be it through profession, ancestry or race. Ghanaian Hindus like him, however, are clear that people have an equal right to education, the means to a good life and most importantly, religion.
Egalitarians all Most worshippers at the monastery are Africans from different professions and backgrounds
(Photographer Smruthi Gargi Eswar)
CONTRARY TO its name, the monastery has only one monk. Saraswati explains, “Hinduism is a new thing [in West Africa], and I do not want to make somebody a monk who later on abandons monkhood. It would bring a bad name to me and to Hinduism.” Believers who want to become disciples enroll in a six-week residential course, after which they are initiated. The transition to Hinduism is a gradual one. For instance, an African Hindu would continue to have a Christian or Muslim first name and a traditional African last name – for example, Daniele Otchere. But there are disciples who have given their children Hindu first names like Rama or Krishna after a Hindu naming ceremony. Hindu rituals at marriage and cremation (rather than burial) at death are also beginning to be adopted, though not obligatory.
Song of songs Woman singing bhajans at the monastery
(Photographer Smruthi Gargi Eswar)
The monastery likes disciples to pray and perform pujas at home. In fact, the performance of rituals is seen as essential to being Hindu. Sometimes, new believers’ desire to perform Hindu-ness is so great that it feels like they are play-acting – like the time when several people fell at the feet of a visiting dignitary to show respect ‘in the traditional Hindu manner’. But then, ritual is often the embodied route to faith.
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(As told to Trisha Gupta)
From Tehelka Magazine, Vol 6, Issue 32, Dated August 15, 2009
Words on the street - For every aristocrat with a backup of local laws and regulations are searched no doubt for security reasons, but this happens in a very organized fashion that has delegates of both the host and guest country, and specific regulations are followed to do these searches.
Is America the only country at the receiving end of so called "terrorism" - Frankly Not. India is been exposed to more terrorism than America ever has been. India is surrounded by land that's controlled by terrorists at multiple locations.
Is that true about America - of course not - America is like an island. America always complains about Mexico, Mexican drug traffic & Mexican Border Infiltration - but someone needs to look into and analyze why does this Mexican problem happens, isn't the American Business Lords or Lobbies involved in promoting such illegal activities in their country through the borders ?
India recently on 26/11 faced a major terror attack that is now been proven to have originated in Pakistan and was carried out with a strong ISI & Pakistani CIA support, the whole world already knows this including all International Intelligence Agencies. Even under these circumstance when Hilary Clinton recently visited India "She Was Not Frisked By India" - has anyone given a thought to this as of yet ?
American CIA that trained ISI & Pakistani CIA and this training acts are commonly known around the globe were involved in many infiltration activities in Asia - so far as the recent Uyyghur act of China is also originated from ISI & Pakistani CIA that's what the world is chattering about, how much truth lies in these facts is what the knowledge holders need to analyze.
Even though the Continental Airlines works for America, it was standing in the Indian Jurisdiction Land where Indian Laws are implied. Continental Airlines have once again attempted to get its anger at Indians by attempting to harass Indians under the basis of false notions.
When America speaks about "terrorists" - America should be asked a "strong question" - "Who Made These Terrorists After All?" Wasn't it the direct resultant of American Cold War Strategies that gave birth to Al-Queda - the same Al-Queda that was used strategically to break apart USSR is now strategically deployed in Kashmir to "Break India & China" ?
If this is not true then why doesn't the world ask a strong question to America - "Why Is America Funding Pakistan In Billions Of Dollars?" Pakistan is notoriously known to channel all the American Funds to Islamic Terrorism - the whole world knows it - then why is America making "false excuses" of funding Pakistan to fight Militancy - Isn't this Militancy actually created by America as its Strategic Militia Army to fiddle into Asian Region?
American laws are accepted in their US Embassy Premises - and not allowed elsewhere and that America should be strongly explained.
Isn't it true that American Navy that resides in Arabian Sea with the idea to confront Somalian Pirates - is in reality creating "Strategic Avenues" against China & India. If this is not true then "Why Is America Not Funding India & China To Build The Navy Wall To Prevent Piracy?" - Well the answer is very simple - American main aim has been the same always - to "Invade India & China" by "Hook Or Crook".
India should demand American President's Public Apology for the illicit act of American Business carried out on Indian Land against and Indian Dignity...
America Should Be Compelled To Apologize - If They Don't "Block Indian Air Space For All American Commercial & Military Aircrafts"...
An Insult Of Indian Past President Should Not Be Taken Lightly...
The Indian soldiers paraded down the 1.5-km stretch of Champs Elysees, along with French soldiers to the sound of Indian martial music played by a 90-member military band. Maratha Regiment, one of the oldest infantry regiments of Indian army created in 1768 and which was deployed in Europe during the Second World War during the Italian campaign, was part of the parade.
