Monday, 1ST DECMBER 2014
LAUGH AND LIVE LONGER
Laughter helps a
person to live longer and feel younger. Doctors and psychologists in U.S.A and
U.K. have come to the conclusion that laughter is the best medicine.
Psychiatrist William
Fry in his book. “Humour an Ageing “stated. “ It is estimated that the impact
on the heart of 20 seconds of hearty laughter is comparable to three minutes of
rowing, which is supposed to be the best aerobic exercise for reconditioning
the entire body and promote longevity.
Laughter stimulates
heart supplies oxygen to lungs and energizes the brain cells , which promotes
positive outlook in life.
Laughter tones up the
heart and nervous system. Dr Andrew Well in his study published to British
Journal of General Practitioners, writes, “Laughing has effect on all organs of
the body . when we laugh, we secrete hormones that stimulate and strengthen the
heart. Stress is reduced calories and burnt and digestion improves and the
entire bodily system get rejuvenated”
Laughter is an internal
Jogging . According to Norman Cousin. “Laughter not only massages all organs of
the body but also removes tension in every part of the body. Hearty laughter
enjoys most of the benefits attributed to physical exercise”
Laughter oxygenates
all the cells of the body. According to Dr. Robert Province; “A hearty laugh
raises the pulse rate and amplifies respiration, thus leading to increase in
oxygen intake in all the cells of the body. We inhale larger quantity of oxygen
which circulates more freely through the blood to every part of the body. “
Psychologist Sigmund
Freud in his book “Wit and Its Relation to Unconscious Mind” observed. “Humour and laughter helped
individuals defend against subconscious fears, worries anger and other
disturbing emotions, which are the cause of all types of psychosomatic
disorders. Several phycologists are now using humour and laughter as a weapons
to combat sleeplessness. Neurosis, nervous breakdown etc. “
That day is the most
wasted day when one has not laughed . make a resolution to laugh and the world
will laugh with you courtesy “Idea
Exchange
Quote from the True
Charm and power of Vedanta
Renunciation ; Timid
Versus Heroic
Accordingly , Swami
Vivekananda had said, ‘Every where I go in India people come and tell me Swami,
I want to renounce; I want to surrender everything to God” I just ask them;
“What have you to renounce? What have you to surrender; Neither a strong body, nor a trained mind, nor any
talents, nor money in the bank, nor a well-developed individuality. A Buddha
could renounce, he had a kingdom t renounce and a fine youthful personality; he
had a world of achievement ahead in has grasp to renounce but what have you?
What a beautiful
idea! How inspiring and clear cut! When I first read it as a boy, I felt
inspired by the very idea of atma-vikas , self-development, as the true scope
of Vedanta. What a positive strengthening message this si for all people in all
parts of the world! Very often most anaemic people to fulfil this its early
phase, and they make the whole of religion a farce, and human life a timid
futility without this heroic element in it. That will not happen if they first resort
to a teaching that they can digest , that will give them strength, that will
slowly prepare them to climb the higher peaks and even the highest peak, of
religion. For religion, Vivekananda has said, is infinite is scope; it takes n
everyone, just as education takes in everyone from wherever it finds him or
her, and helps him or her to grow.
The Gita’s Message to
Manliness leading to Godliness.
So, in the Gita, you
will find the cadences of this powerful music throughout. It is the music of
strength, the music of steady human unfoldment, the music of human growth. An
entire philosophy of man –making is given to us in the first chapters of the
Song Celestial, as Edwin Arnold described the Gita. When Arjuna was really
weak, he thought himself to be extraordinary virtuous. He wanted to renounce
the impending battle and also the kingdom expected to be his at the end of the
battle , and become a beggar, and adduced various justifications for such a
step, and sought for, and expected to have, Sri Krishna’s concurrence and
blessing to such a course, He wept and wailed and sank down in the chariot
throwing his bow and arrows away . That is the picture of Arjuna given by the
Gita at the end of the first chapter entitled , significantly, as the ‘yoga of
Arjuna’s grief. And Sri Krishna looks at him with an amused smile and thinks
within himself thus . What has happened to this man ? He was such a hero; he
ahs now become weak and dejected and renationalized all this as high virtue’
And so, as a tonic, to his weak nerves, Sri Krishna reprimanded and exhorted
Arjuna in the powerful words of verse
That is the message
of manliness with which the Gita begins its powerful music of human
development. It is significant to note that, though the context of the Gita
dialogue is war, everything thereafter is only the comprehensive spirituality
of philosophy of human development and fulfilment. All training in spiritual
life begins with this attitude of manliness; not hanging on to an external god
or goes or deities for everything lie the body hanging on to its mother all the
time. Such a body will ever remain only a baby . it wont grow , Similarly, the
spiritual baby also can grow only when it understands this great message of self-reliance-atma
sraddaha and atma –nirbharata-and develops its physical muscles of body,
mental ‘muscles’ of intelligence and
will, and emotional ‘muscles’ of feeling. The will, a resolute unified will, is
very important, says Sri Krishna further on
There is no gulf
between religious life and secular life; life is one continuos
unfoldment-unfoldment of the infinite possibilities lying hidden in every one.
It is unfortunate that we make water-tight distinctions-this is secular life
that is religious life, this is worldly life, that is spiritual life. The Gita doesn’t
recognize any such dictions Sri Krishna means to say; Life is one; but you being
with man-making and character-building; there are other spiritual heights to
climb and I shall tell yo about them later on.
IF HE EXIST
