Friday, 17 January 2020
निरामय_आरोग्यवर्धिनी - २
Thursday, 16 January 2020
निरामय_आरोग्यवर्धिनी - १
10. Reduce external intoxicating food. Leverage internal energy to get high
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There are three types of food in yogi’s philosophy.
1. Tamasi
2. Rajasi
3. Satvik
Yogi endeavours to increase portion of Satvik food to maximum. He then tries to fill in remaining part appropriately with other two (Tamasi & rajasi). There needs to be a separate chapter on food for yogi life but we will take just one cue from food here. The point of attention for this chapter is limited to intoxicating element in food. By and large the satvik food has least to none intoxicating elements. Let’s first understand and qualify intoxicating elements. Something that gives you high, reduces awareness of surrounding or own body and senses, makes you addict to it, makes you dependent on it. many of the problem for your body, you look at that substance as solution. Most of the time that reprieve provided by the external food is temporary. However, one continues to crave for it. Such food would be broadly qualified as external intoxicating food. Now let’s visit examples of what is intoxicating. Caffeine from coffee or similar chemical theanine from tea. Off course none of the herbal teas have such thing. Then all alcoholic or nicotine or tobacco products or drugs that give you high are external intoxicating elements. There will be many that satisfy criteria defined above.
Yogi’s path to samadhi has important milestone of having developed highest form of awareness. Awareness about own body, surrounding atmosphere and people. Such awareness requires highest form of alertness and reflexes. Such awareness is also achieved by mediation which intern also gives you high (yes, you can get elated experiences via meditation). There are differences between this high and high activated by toxins. Yogic high keeps you alert while you are High and leaves you happy and energised once the effect of the experience recedes. The awareness of senses and body is heightened. It is NOT possible to con/trick person into any morally wrongful act if person has achieved the high via Yogic means. However, consumption of intoxicating elements temporarily lets you get high. Depending on the intensity of the toxics, You can easily be tricked into any immoral act or be cheated. In most cases, once the effect of the drug has receded, you will be down in energy level or feel depressed or develop headache.
So far we have tried to understand qualifying criteria for external intoxicants, symptoms of post consumption and their diametrical opposite position to yogi lifestyle.
The lasting effects of intoxicants is we develop insensitivity towards our senses. We become emotionally vulnerable. The sense of dependence prevails in many aspects of our life. We develop fear when denied access to these things and finally such person takes refuge in violence. You would chart on such a destructive path if you sticks to the intoxication and regresses into addiction. The other path of knowledge and meditation however, gives you those regular highs and after effects of energised body full of life. The fear slowly diminishes as person is able to empathise with his body and be sensitive to senses and it’s craving. Where there is knowledge of situation and consequences, there is no space for fear. Yogi thus become confident in his being. Steadily the control is established on the body and mind generates energy from its independence on any external energy inducers. It harnesses it’s internal energy and uses that to keep the flame of life on full throttle. We have already discussed in previous chapter on how yogi generate energy from the task by achieving resonance.
Making sudden changes in life to completely eliminate intoxicants is hard. One must steadily reduce and remove as much toxic elements as he can. As our goal is to achieve awareness about minute details of the body, senses, mind and how they work intertwined with subconscious mind.
Friday, 10 January 2020
पकोडेपुराण
पकोडे विकणार्यांची आठवण मोदी सरकारने काढली व त्यांचा यथोचित सन्मान केला... त्यावर माझे पकोडे पुराण....
स्वातंत्र्यपुर्व काळातच काय पण पुराणात देखील पकोड्यांचे फार वरचे स्थान आहे. सुदाम्याने कृष्णासाठी पोहे नाही तर पकोडे आणले होते.... परंतु संस्कृतचे प्राकृत आणि मग मराठी होण्यात पकोडे शब्द चेपले आणि त्याचे पोहे झाले.
शंकराचार्यांनी भजे ग़ोविन्दम हे लिहिलेच मुळी भज्याच्या प्रेमापोटी. रचनेमधे ग़ोविन्दाच्या आधी भज्याचे स्थान आहे हे वाचकांनी लक्षात घ्यावे.
टिळकांनी जळजळीत लेख केसरी मध्ये लिहीले त्यात सर्वात प्रसिद्ध झालेला लेख “सरकारचे पकोडे ठिकाणावर आहेत काय?” हा टंकलेखनात चुक होऊन पकोड्याचे डोकं झाले. नेमकी त्यावेळी प्रिंटरुममध्ये देखील कामगार भजे खात होते. हा निव्वळ योगायोग नक्कीच नाही. ईंग्रजांनी भज्यांवर बंदी आणल्यावर “भजे खाणे हा माझा जन्मसिध्द अधिकार आहे, आणि ते मी खाणारच” ह्या लेखातून टिळकांनी सरकारची वामरंध्रातुन भजे खाल्यासारखी हवा काढली होती. ईंग्रजांनी भज्यांवर कर लावल्यावर गांधीजींनी देखील दांडी यात्रा काढून भजे उचलून सरकारचा विरोध केला होता.
विवेकानंदांनी देखील पकोडे हे राष्ट्रनिर्माणाचे हत्यार आहे असे उद्गार काढले होते. “उठा, भजे खा, आणि राष्ट्र निर्माणाच्या कार्याला लागा.” आणखी एका सदग्रुहस्थांनी सांगीतलेच आहे की “तूच तूझ्या भज्यांचा शिल्पकार.”.....
इंदिरा गांधींनी जरी पकोड्यांचे व चहाचे राष्ट्रियकरण केले तरी सर्वांच्या घरात पकोडे आणि चहा पोहोचला तो जनभजेचहा योजनेतूनच. आज चहावाल्याचा मुलगा पंतप्रधान झाला आहे, उद्या भजेवाल्याचा झाल्याशिवाय रहाणार नाही. हे कळाल्यावर, राहुल गांधी या युवकाने भज्याचे दुकान ७ रेसकोर्स रोडवर टाकले असे पर्वा भजे बांधुन दिलेल्या पेपरात वाचले. मोदींनी मुसलमानांसाठी एका हातात कुराण आणि दुसऱ्याहातात बाँम्बच्या ऐवजी भजे घ्या असे सांगुन आपली कळवळ व्यक्त केली. भजे खाऊन (पोटात तयार) होणारा मानवी बाँम्ब हा समाजाचे नुक़सान अजीबात करत नाही तर रोजगारच वाढवतो.
.... इतिहासातून थेट जर तुम्ही वर्तमानात आले तर लक्षात येईल की भले तुमचे अपत्य इंजीनीयर, डाॅक्टर वा कुठलाही पदवीधर होवो.... त्याच्या काॅलेजातल्या आठवणी ह्या चहा किंवा भज्याच्या टपरीवरील अधिक खोलवर जातात.... बाकी कुठला विषय लक्षात राहील न राहील, पण त्या गाड्यांवरची भजी आणि चहा ह्यांचा समागम झाल्यावर घडणाऱ्या गप्पा आणि लागणारी तंद्री, पाहीले जाणारे स्वप्न, दररोज घडणारे प्लान... होणारी आणि चहावर मीटणारी भांडणं...अहाहा तो मार्ग भज्यांवरुन सरळ समाधीत कडे जातो. अगदी ओशोंनी त्यांच्या “पकोड्यातुन समाधीकडे” या पुस्तकात सांगीतले तसे..... नाही नाही.... तो भजीवाला भजी किंवा पकोडे नाही विकत.... तो बिझनेस देखील नाही करत..... तो निख्खळ आनंदाच्या आणि आठवणींच्या प्लेटस वाटत असतो....अगदी माफक दरात.....
त्यामुळे भज्यांना राष्ट्रीय पदार्थांचा मान दिला पाहीजे. आणि असा ब्रम्हानंद (पकोडे, भजे) स्वस्तात विकणाऱ्याला कोण, कसा आणि का हिणवणार.....?
चला तर मग आपण भजे खाऊन राष्ट्रनिर्माणाला लागुया!
आपला भजेप्रेमी
राहुल करुरकर
Monday, 2 December 2019
शक्तिचा गुणाकार: योगरहस्य
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
शक्तिचा गुणाकार : योगरहस्य
Friday, 11 October 2019
8. Optimise energy by tapping into resonance
In many old stories about monks and Yogi, you may have found that they lived easily beyond 100 or 150 years age, with absolute young and working body and mind. How could that happen? Since it’s a body, it must deteriorate and perish. It is a law of nature. Yogi being the persuader of aligning life to the nature, would surely not go against the law of nature. But he can reduce the decay to the minimal. And he can also rejuvenate the body and replenish the energy. Yogi have phenomenal amount of energetic persona. They rest very rarely. That is because they can redraw energy from their actions, work, engagements. Lets understand this concept little deeper. When we exercise or work in garden or say do shopping of grocery or travel, we obviously get tired. And it is natural. However, when Yogi performs these actions, he will be still as fresh as he was before or at least very little tired as compared to an ordinary person. Yogi’s body may require some rest or may be tired but his energy levels are absolutely intact. The difference lies in his ability to engage his mind, matter(brain & body) & soul in all actions he performs. What happens when you are engaging all levels of your identity? You are unifying yourself with the action and becoming one with it in thought, action as well as identity. It is here Yog defines the state of meditation. Yes Yogi meditates when he is performing any action. He doesn’t need to stay as recluse banished in forest or mountain with eyes closed and legs in lotus position. Off-course doing it that way when situation allows enhances your progress. But that is not a constraint for meditation for an advanced yogi. He is meditating every moment. His focus is the highest and so is the absorption capacity when he is involved into conversation or learning activities. The flow of energy is smooth when you are meditating. That smoothness of the flow carries information, knowledge and calmness without friction or any loss. The smoothness of the flow of energy allows the entry to the realms of resonance. In purely scientific term, Resonance is an act of matching the frequency. But in yogic term resonance is union of energy. Union of magnetic field, union of thoughts, union of emotion and off-course action. So if you be one with action and are completely subdued in your task at hand, you will have experienced resonance. There are some signs of that. E.g. you lose the track of time. You lose sometimes connection with surrounding and many times you become oblivious to the discomfort of body, cloths, hunger, thirst, noise around you, surrounding weather. Another sign is you come out rejuvenated out of the process. Which means you enjoyed your time. You are high on energy or at least intact. Body may be tired but energy is high. That situation allows you to jump on another work without any rest and still perform. That focus comes with concentration but that’s not all. It comes with another important factor of Yogi prerequisite. That is dissolving your identity in pursuit of being one with the work. E.g. when working in a job at reception, you welcome everyone with same vigour and hospitality and make everyone at ease, loved and cared. That should become your earnest desire, forgetting your own headache or cold or some mental tensions. Another place would be Teaching a class any subject where you pour your heart in it and explain kids and interact with them as you are one of the characters in the subject . Making it lively and interactive. The subject should leave involved teacher and student to desire that period should not end. That kind of engagement is striking resonance with the job at hand. Once that level of union is achieved, you can benefit from meditation from that moment. You no more need special arrangements. This is next level to team work or synergy. When you see a company of soldiers marching past in synergy or birds flying in a sequence that drives synergy or group of people doing together a social or community work. All these examples are of synergy and to some extent forgetting self by identifying with group. Such act of synergy also creates and multiplies surge in energy and output. Yogi can achieve such positive energy surge even when engaged alone. He can go beyond synergy and strike resonance with the task itself. This gives him the same state of meditation as he would get sitting in cave alone in lotus position with eyes closed. Now when you are into such a deep-trans, you are bound to have very efficient mind, brain and body co-ordination. And such highly co-ordinated involvement will obviously optimise your effort and energy. A body in deep-trans or meditating or in union with acts it is performing I.E. resonating, will rejuvenate or generate energy. So traditionally a task or job can be draining your energy and be tiring. When done in a way Yogi does, it can be rejuvenating. So now all dots tie in together to explain how Yogi have always been bustling with high energy and having highest quality yield in their tasks. To end the chapter, I will summarise an example of such highest yield. Swami Vivekananda in USA during his famous tour visited a farm. People there were playing a game with guns to hit the target. They invited Swamiji to try hands on gun. Swamiji reluctantly tried and aimed at the target and hit it absolutely bang on precision. Everyone cheered and asked if Swamiji was professional shooter. Vivekananda politely explained that this is the first time he is holding gun in his hands. People in complete disbelief asked him to try again. Swamiji hit the target with repeat precision second time. Then Swamiji explained, it’s his meditation that is aiding here to produce such enhanced result. Vivekananda was able to dissolve himself, ignore all noise around and focus his mind and align his senses and body to perform the action of shooting to generate same union or resonance that we discussed in above chapter.