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Healthy Daily Routine

Came across this good article on Healthy daily routine or Dinacharya commentaries and notes

Before bed and Night sleep time

1. Our Health and Supreme Success in life start at moment, when we come down daytime active activities, conclude the day and have a good, health and sound sleep – regeneration and rejuvenation for now day.
2. Sundown is the time for spiritual activities, like prayers, meditation, spiritual reading etc. It is a special time of balance between night and day and is the good time of the day for reflection between 10 and 100 min daily.
3. Before bed sat on flour or bed for few minutes, take several deep and slow in and out breathes, or pranayama in that mode, come down the body, mind and soul.
4. After breathing for few minutes open our diary and tick off the work which we have completed, anything which has been left or not completed add to another day and with gratitude say thank to Supreme for this day.. This will help uncluttered our mind and to allow us a more peaceful and restful sleep.
5. Bedtime before 10pm is ideal. In some special cases, when we lacking sound sleep, it is recommended to go to sleep before 9pm.
6. Sound sleep recommended for mature, healthy people between 6-8 hours, depend from season, work specifications, tiredness, health, individual constitution etc.

Morning:

1. More healthy sleep and morning, if we can get up peacefully by our inner-heart clock without external alarm-clock and other help.
2. Get up early; from 3am till 5am, at least 2 hours before sunrise is recommended, if we can’t manage that, then we can try at least 30 minutes before. This is the time that vata is dominant, and is the most fresh and pure time of the day and it helps to tune the body, mind and soul to nature.
3. Don’t jump off from our bed as soon as we wake up. Take a moment or two to mentally identify our position on the bed, the room and the thoughts running through our mind. Touch and feel our body for a while and take two or three deep breathes before we slowly get off.
4. Rinse the mouse, teeth, face, hands, feet, and then drink plenty water in room temperature. Hot or cold water can stop our bowels and elimination case constipation. It is helping cleans out bowels and elimination of the accumulated wastes before sunrise.
5. The last portion of the night being ruled by vata is involved in the process of elimination. Before dawn is the best time to eliminate the body’s physical waste.
6. Very unhealthy suppress the natural 13 physical urges. If we suppress the natural physical urges as elimination, hunger, thirst, sleep, sneezing, yawning, vomiting, flatus and ejaculation as it leads to discomfort and during course of time to indigestion, constipation, lost of sleep etc and many others various diseases.
7. Clean our teeth and scrape our tongue, Ayurveda considers a coating on our tongue as an indication to toxins in the colon.
8. Daily self massage with oil (coconut oil– cooling, seamen oil– neutral, mustard oil – heating effect on body) from up to down of body: our scalp, forehead, temples, hands and feet on average for 5 – 10 minutes. The oil massage makes the skin supple, balance vata by reducing its cold, dry, light, rough and erratic qualities, enhances blood circulation, encourages quicker removal of metabolic wastes and relaxes the body. Body massage is one of the best ways to prevent aging and develop immune system and flexibility in body and mind.
9. Bathe in comfortably warm water and purify our bodie’s 10 sense organs. Cold water bath shake body and increase stress level in body, mind and spirit, warm (not to hot water, not to cold) water bath positively energise, comfortably hot water bath relaxes and sluggish us.
10. Put a two three drops of Gee or seamen oil in the each nostril (nose) and then frankly massage with finger each nostril to purify the sinuses and sense of smell.
11. Always recommended to wear neat, clean and fresh all clothes, at least underwear.
12. Do some brief yoga asanas, pranayama, exercise, aerobics, walking, swimming, stretching, breathing exercise etc like Surya Namaskar. Regular daily exercises increases the body’s stamina and resistance to diseases by facilitating the immune system, clearing all channels, promoting circulation, elimination process and destroying unhealthy fat. The early morning exercise removes stagnation in the body and mind, strengthens the digestive fire and gives an overall feeling of lightness and joy as it fills the body with good prana. Exercise can be done moderately as too heavy, too aggressive and too much exercise aggravates vata resulting in imbalance. Doctors daily recommend 30 – 40 minutes for Health Maintenance. Can be in one run or deviated 10-30min morning, 10-30min evening. Can be done before, after or/and in middle of spiritual activities.
13. Time for Spiritual, Transcendental and Religious practises like meditations, prayers, chanting of Holy names, Deities Worship, reading of spiritual scriptures etc up to 1-3 hours, but at least for 15 minutes. These activities are ideal for disciplining the body, mind and removing stress and strain. These activities help in satisfying the mind’s hunger, controls desire and are the key to longevity and immortality. Daily transcendental activities help in maintaining health of body, mind and soul. It increases the general awareness, provides clarity to the thoughts.

Breakfast 

1. Drink 1-2 glasses of warm around one hour before and one hour after each meal. This will help to get freshness and new energy, and help for digestion and metabolism process and to stimulate our bowels to move.
2. Directly before and after every meals rinse hands, all face, eyes, noose, ears, mouse, teeth, and gargling throat and rinse feet. It is possible rinse feet up to knees, and hands up to ankles.
3. Eat breakfast consisting of a diet balanced according to our personal requirements.
4. Make a habit to pass urine after each meal. This will help to have more peaceful and productive time after meals.
5. Please do not start our work or business activities event planning, before breakfast. After breakfast health peacefully come down.
6. Then helpful at least 5 minutes to plan our day in our diary, prioritize our work load etc

Employment
Since work consumes at least one-third part of our lives and success or failure in our profession affects self-confidence, self-worth, it is important that the nature of work match well with our natural nature or prakriti.

Noon or midday
Best time to eat lunch is between 12 noon and 1pm as this is the peak Pitta period and Pitta is responsible for digestion. Ayurveda recommends that lunch be the largest meal of the day. Try to eat fresh food and make an effort to eat consciously, concentrate on how the food tastes and on fully chewing up to 30 times our food.
After meal healthy to take a short walk to aid digestion for 5-10 min or at least 100 steps.

Evening 

1. 6pm – If we do physical type work healthy recommendation spend an least 20 minutes doing relaxing yoga or meditation, if our work is not physical then at least 20 minutes physical yoga, exercise etc would be beneficial. 
2. Evening meal recommended to be lighter than lunch and be taken before sunset, at latest before 7pm or/and at least three hours before bedtime as gives the body ample time to digest the food. Sleeping just after the dinner with a heavy stomach is not conducive to a health, digestion process, sound sleep etc and increase unnecessary sensual and sexual desires. 
3. Many in the habit to take only hot milk in diner or even skipping dinner at all, especially the transcendental practitioners as the dinner sometimes is interfering with our spiritual practise, meditation etc. 
4. After meal healthy to take a short walk to aid digestion for 5-10 min or at least 100 steps. 
5. Sundown is the time for spiritual activities, like prayers, meditation, spiritual reading etc. It is a special time of balance between night and day and is the good time of the day for reflection between 10 and 100 min daily.

Night sleep 

1. To take glass of comfortably hot milk, bat not so hot to bearn our tang, with cardamom, black paper or ginger 10-15 minutes before sleep improves and deepen sound sleep. It poor health situations, it can be deluded with water up to 10% milk and 90% water.
2. Before go to bed or just before sleep, healthy washing the hands, feet and face improves and deepen sound sleep.
3. Before bed sat on flour or bed for few minutes, take several deep and slow in and out breathes, or pranayama in that mode, come down the body, mind and soul.
4. After breathing for few minutes open our diary and tick off the work which we have completed, anything which has been left or not completed add to another day and with gratitude say thank to Supreme for this day. This will help uncluttered our mind and to allow us a more peaceful and restful sleep.
5. Good to massage the soles of the feet with oil before going to bed, particular if we have: no sound sleep, disturbed sleep, dreams etc. This will calm the system, gives mental relaxation and promote well-being.
6. Before sleep good to thank to Supreme for giving and providing everything we have in our life. This is also a good practice to stay mentally happy and healthy.
7. Fall in sound sleep before 8pm ideal, 9pm good, 10pm is good enough, if we are strong and our health still quite good. In some special cases, when we lacking sound sleep, recommended go sleep even before 6 or 7pm. “Early to bed, early to rise, make one healthy, wealthy and wise.” as English proverb recommend us.
8. Night is the natural time to sleep and mid-day catnaps recommended not are more than 15 minutes long except for the very young, very old, very weak and those intoxicated, diseased, exhausted or traumatised peoples.
9. Sleeping on the right side is the most relaxing and good for yoga. On the left, it is most digestive and increases body temperature, interest in food, sleep and seances gratification.Sleeping on the back indirectly and on the stomach directly encourages disease. Sleeping with crown of the head facing east or north and feet into the west or south promotes the best relaxation, rejuvenation, meditative and healthy sleep.
10. Sound sleep recommended for mature, healthy people between 6-8 hours, depend from season, work specifications, tiredness, health, individual constitution etc.

Movies 2012

List of movies that I have seen in 2012 so far:


1. Agneepath
2. Bachna e haseeno
3. Players
4. Mere brother ki dulhan
5. Kucch Luv Jaisaa
6. War Horse
7. Date Night
8. Something borrowed
9. Journey2: The Mysterious Island
10. Yes man
11. The 50 first dates
12. How to loose a guy in 10 days
13. Tees maar khan
14. Ek main hun aur ek tu
15. The Chronicles
16. Love Breakups Zindagi
17. The Loot
18. Kahani
19. London Paris Newyork
20. One for money
21. This means War
22. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
23. Wanderlust
24. Agent Vinod
25. John Carter
26. 21 Jump Street
27. Streetdance 2
28. We bought a Zoo
29. Jodi breakers
30. Will you marry me
31. Gali gali chor hai
32. Pyar ka panchnama
33. Chhodo kal ki baatein
34. Housefull2
35. Battleship
36. Wrath of titans
37. Rowdy Rathore
38. Shanghai
39. Cocktail
40. Ek tha Tiger
41. Kya super cool hai hum

Dharm...

परिस्थितियों के साथ मनुष्य के लिए धर्म की परिभाषा भी बदल जाती है और मनुष्य को अलग अलग रूप में अपना धर्म निभाना पड़ता है

Ram naam chanting

Came across this interesting article by Atul Thakur on the way of RAM NAAM chanting....worth trying...

Ram mantra is considered to be Taraka mantra. The Sanskrit word Taraka denotes a star. A star traverses in space and acts as a guiding light. Similarly, a Taraka mantra is that which provides guidance and helps liberate one’s self from the cycle of birth and re-birth. When examined, one finds that the word Ram is a combination of two sounds, Raa and Om - sounds of two very important and powerful chakras or centers within the human body.

Chakras:

There are seven chakras in the human body (I won’t go into detail in this article). The lower three chakras deal with one’s material life while the upper 4 deal with one’s spiritual life. The sixth center is the Ajna chakra, which is located between the eyebrows, is considered the king of all chakras. To become spiritually elevated, the body’s prana or life force has to pass through this center. This chakra is the gateway to higher consciousness and is where the powerful light of the ‘Inner Guru’ resides. The third center or Manipurak Chakra is the king of the lower centers and controls the materialistic aspect of life. Anyone with a strong third chakra will usually have all the material comforts in life. Therefore, one’s material strength is not only dependent on our Karma (actions), but is also dependent on the Manipurak chakra.

Meaning of RAM Mantra:

As mentioned earlier, the word Ram comprises of two parts - Raa and Om. When the two sounds are joined, it forms Ram. The sound of the third chakra is Raa, while the sound of the sixth chakra is Om. By reciting Raa, the karma stored in the lower centers is churned. By adding Om to the end, the churned karma is submitted to the sixth chakra (Ajna Chakra) where the light of the Guru evaporates the karma.

This mantra is also called the ‘mantra of Surrender’ as one is surrendering the karmafrom the third chakra to the sixth chakra. As karma is removed by the sixth center, the ego is reduced and the light of higher consciousness shines through. A sense of lightness and happiness prevails over the body and gives one the power to help one cross the ocean of samsara or life.

How to Chant:

The chanting of the mantra should be done with a lot of vibrations. Beginning the mantra with Ra, the focus should be at the nabhi (navel) and when the sound progresses toOm, the focus should be between the eyebrows – the Ajna Chakra. Both the sounds must have as much vibration as possible. In order to receive its benefit, the mantra should be recited by prolonging the word Ram i.e. Raaamm.

It is important to note that nothing should be recited or chanted before or after the mantra. In fact, the word Ramitself is sufficient and anything added to the mantra only dilutes its effectiveness. Furthermore, one should be attentive and focused, concentrating on the third and sixthchakra.

Benefits:

Over time whoever chanted the name of Ram became famous, strong and attained salvation. Hanuman, a great devotee of Lord Ram, recited this mantra mentally and served and surrendered to Sri Ram every second of the day. He was able to subdue the powerful planets and their effects and perform miraculous feats for Sri Ram. Swami Tulsidas recited the mantra and become a famous poet, and Sage Valmiki overcame his past karma and became a great writer.

In the current environment, this mantra can resolve any mental and/or physical problems one may face. Just surrender your worries to the third eye (Ajna Chakra) while chanting this mantra, and let the higher power resolve the issues. Of course, one’s prayers should always wish well for others and should never foster any negative thoughts towards any being.

Retrospection

Long time. Many things come to my mind as i write this after long time and penning them down honestly is what this is all about. It’s Diwali and my first after marriage, also my first with no grand- parent in physical form to give blessings as all of them have progressed their journeys to being formless. I wish all, the ones with & without form a very happy, enlightening & blessed Diwali.

It is almost the year-end now and an important milestone to sit back and do some retrospection. This gives me the opportunity to do something that I truly love i.e. spend time with self. It is like re-unification with the soul after long journey. As I delve deeper, I come to know the difference between ‘Being self’ & ‘Being with self’. One has to know self to be self and that is where ‘Being with self’ matters. Self exploration is the task one should undertake frequently to know ourselves better, to make ourselves understand what are we comfortable with, what are the things that truly matter to us, to help us understand the deviations in you from the true you, to understand what satisfaction really means to you and to understand a point from where we should take cues for further journey. ‘Being with self’ will help you identify the true self & ‘Being self’ will instill in you the conviction & complete accountability of your actions. The key is to improve your true self by devoting yourself completely to almighty; this will ensure clear conscience. It is very critical to have clear conscience as same knowledge has different effect on different people depending on their upbringing, mannerism & innate nature. That signifies the upbringing nature of our next generation.

Coming back to my retrospection -this reminds me of a quotation “If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans”. But no harm in taking cues from retrospection. I believe the retrospection should be a continuous process and one should not await any milestone to do it. I wish if I’d follow this going forward. I believe, best way to retrospect is to ask self, if i were to die this moment, then which category would this deed of mine count in..moral/immoral & the best way to fix anything wrong is to accept it immediately & apologize for it. Not always you will get time to fix the mistakes later. Well, to summarize retrospective for self, I wish if I could utilize time more efficiently for that is the most important but irrevocable asset that I spend cheaply & consistently.

Once again wishing all a very enlightening & blessed Diwali!

Not satisfied with own behaviour?

Sometimes we are unhappy with our own behaviour towards people. While some of us try to introspect this part of the behaviour, others feel bad momentarily and let it go. You will be amazed with the findings if we introspect the way things happened and our reactions expressed in those situations.

The first and foremost being, our responses in that situation are build on reaction of the others. If our responses are build on others reaction then how do we expect to be our self in public? Our true personality will never come out if our behaviour is based on reactions expressed by others. While its true, we'll react to situations as and when they come across, but its very important that they should originate our true personality. Its very important to be aware of your inner self while we come across situations in life. By doing so, you will be more confident, calm, comfortable & convinced while responding back. Do this for yourself as this will bring you inherent satisfaction & happiness with no traces of grief/repentance.


The other part of feeling unhappy about ourselves is, we try to do somethings for our loved ones at the cost of our own happiness. For e.g. Husband/in-laws of a woman want her to give up on career and sit at home. She does so for their happiness while she still feels bad within. Momentarily that will make her loved ones happy but in the longer run, say 10 years later they will still be unhappy about it because of the unhappy energy that woman will consistently transmit as she feels the unhappiness within. And how can a person be happy with someone who is transmitting unhappy energy for long time. Relationships are not all about actions. Success in them mainly depends on the energies you transmit in them. These energies significantly depend on your inherent happiness. And anything that you do against inclination of your true self will not bring you happiness in longer run. And this unhappiness saps the positive energy exponentially resulting in pain,grief & frustration. There is a basic rule about true happiness. It comes only from WITHIN. So if you want happiness of your loved ones, make sure YOU are happy in first place.


Identify your true self & be yourself in any situation of life. Your true self will expose intrinsic nature of the soul within that is of love, peace, happiness, truth, bliss, purity. Therefore, souls always desire for experiences of these
qualities. These are the qualities that naturally emerge when the soul is aware of itself, or in other words, is soul-conscious..

Wishing all a very blessed life!
||Jai Sri Ram||