Counting Steps or progress

 Counting steps or progress

Often you need to count the progress of some activities like meditation, walking, chanting mantras, cooking etc. For instance, I need to chant some mantra 21 times, walk about 3 km on my terrace, wait for 6 to 9 whistles on the cooker and take to similar counting in other activities as well.

 In the case of walking, if I assume that one step is 1.5 feet, I need to count 3250 steps to cover 3 KM distance. It is easy to count the steps in units of say 100 steps.  If I walk in my terrace, the floor has lines marked on the ground in squares of 2‘X2’. I can count how many ups and downs on each vertical or horizontal line, to calculate the total distance I have covered.

 If you have Google Fit or similar App on your mobile phone you can easily measure how much you are walking. Google maps also tells you the distances if you are moving in a vehicle. But these are approximate and not accurate. The results vary from person to person. Try this with your friend walking along with you, using each other’s mobiles – you will be surprised!

 When you want to count say 200 steps, count the first hundred from to 1 to 100 and the next 100 from 100 down to 1. When you are counting in the reverse your memory and concentration increases!

 Do you use counting beads while meditation? Why do you have 108 Rudraksha beads in such a counting device?  Any clues?

 Some random thoughts to generate random ideas. What idea struck you and how did it impact you?

  

A Man from the moon - Trapezoidal Poem

Shivering

 

                                   Shivering

Do I shiver at the mere thought of something, somebody, or some place? Something? Yes, some horrible and discomforting dreams that haunt me often. Somebody? Yes, my primary school teacher, Natesan, who was a terror. Some place? Yes, when I read about a restaurant built in a burial ground.

 Shivering arises out of intense fear. You Inability to gain control over some horrid situation. Something that is thrust upon us without warning. When you are shaken by shock and not taken by surprise. Suddenly connecting you to some past unpleasant experience may shudder you into shameless shivering.

 Shivering may also be due to exposure to extreme cold. Like in December wintery mornings. And you are not adequately protected by proper clothing. Or you are having a malarial fever.  Shivering could be due an affliction of Parkinson’s disease or similar muscular disorder.

 Simple measures to handle shivering include: Wearing warm clothing, waking up and praying if you have had a bad dream, not sleeping in the first place to avoid such dreams, analysing the root cause of such shivering and avoiding it.

 Is there a person immune to shivers? A dead man in a coffin

 I read a blog post that went beating about the bush without saying anything substantial and I wanted to beat it. Have I succeeded?Only you should only tell.

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Keeping your eyes closed

 

Keeping your eyes closed

Some people close their eyes when they are praying. Some other may close the eyes while eating. I close my eyes when some extreme violence is shown on the screen, say TV or movie.

 One might relish the food better if eyes are closed. You can imagine the texture, taste, smell, flavour of the food. Mixed with proper amount of saliva, swishing or tung tumbling, masticating - the experience could be ecstatic.  One may not like to be disturbed by external distractions. So close your eyes.

 When I pray, I bring before my mental eyes, the deity to be bestowing her blessings. Concentration on prayer becomes intense and focussed. You try to feel one with that ONLY One – God. Shutting out light makes you feel the innate darkness – the primordial darkness from which the cosmos began.

 I cannot tolerate violence either real of fake. So, I switch off the TV if perchance some unacceptable scenes are fleeting past the TV screen. Mental stoic improves upon de-linking yourself this way.

 While I am walking, if I see a couple of guys fighting or hitting each other I move away. I do not want to be a witness to violence in more than one sense. Instead of going to the support of the victim or the weaker guy, if you turn away, look at the other way, there again you are closing your eyes in a figurative way.  It is a sort of cowardice, one should admit.

 If there are fumes / dust in the environs and are trying to avoid harming your eyes, closing is perfectly OK. Or when it is lightning. if you have styes and the eye is bandaged. Whether you keep your eyes open or closed does not matter. Keep your heart open to help the poor, and the God to enter.

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Rants on TV Advertisements

 

Rants on TV Advertisements

KAJ Tiles – Tamil – SunTV

Parthiban asks in Hindi a shopkeeper whether 30% discount on KAJ tiles is available. Shopkeeper answers in the affirmation in Tamil. Conversation is over phone with a salesman in next room! He hides into a room and comes out asking why when 30% discount is available on KAG quality tiles, anyone would go for low quality ordinary tiles.  Why this tamasha! I feel like strangling this Parthiban

Puro Turmeric powder

Puro Turmeric powder capsules produced in UK costs 30 UK Pounds for 30 capsules. That is Rs 100 per capsule. Advertised in India. Good brands are available at about Rs 200 per kg, max!

Sunrise Coffee Powder

A small boy searches for small coins in all odd and silly spaces, buys SUNRISE coffee powder sachet and presents it to a security guard. The AD shows fibding coins and counting - Stupidity – why search in all odd places, he could give it out of pocket money or ask his parents!

 

 

Udayakrishna Ghee

Seen this advt in SUNTV in Tamil where a lady is making some sweet with ghee? If anyone pours so much ghee as shown, consumers will certainly vomit! Advertisers should not over do!

 

Derive Fun reading Spam Messages

Derive Fun reading Spam Messages

As anyone active on email, I too get a lot of spam messages.
Fortunately, Gmail detects spam messages efficiently and separates
them as spam. I wonder what algorithms or logic they may be using to
detect spam. Some days you may land up with more spam messages than
'real' ones. And you may have free time as you need to spend less time
on mail. In such cases it may be fun to explore the contents of the
spam folder.

The only intention of spammers appears to be to collect all and
available working email addresses and sell them for further spamming.
Endless Queue of professional spammers are waiting to exploit the
unwary emailers. Even if a small miniscule percentage of victims react
/ respond then their job is done.

For spam mail constitutes a major part of the email system. It is
estimated that 350 billion messages are flowing around daily. About
45% was spam last year!

However enticing a spam message might be, you may open and read it but
NEVER click on any link given in a spam message. That is the surest
way to invite further spam!

When you do read spam messages you can derive a lot of fun. Be proud
that you are chosen as the target (victim?) among millions! That
someone is very benevolent and ready to share millions of dollars with
a total stranger like you.

That you are likely to be amongst the dumbest in the world! That you
are so easy on time and have absolutely no work to do except reading
his letters. That governments, NGOs and multinational companies are
vying with each other for the favour of your request for funds /
financial help.

Can you recall the strangest spam message of your lifetime? Surely you
must have read it before discarding it as spam!

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Dr P Vyasamoorthy / 9490804278