/////////////////////Chapter XVIII: The Yoga of Liberation by RenunciationXVIII.23. NIYATAM SANGARAHITAM ARAAGADWESHATAH KRITAM; APHALAPREPSUNAA KARMA YATTAT SAATTWIKAMUCHYATE. (Krishna speaking to Arjuna)An action which is ordained, which is free from attachment, whichis done without love or hatred by one who is not desirous of anyreward-that action is declared to be Sattwic. XVIII.24. YATTU KAAMEPSUNAA KARMA SAAHANKAARENA VAA PUNAH; KRIYATE BAHULAAYAASAM TADRAAJASAMUDAAHRITAM. But that action which is done by one longing for the fulfilment ofdesires or gain, with egoism or with much effort-that is declaredto be Rajasic. XVIII.25. ANUBANDHAM KSHAYAM HIMSAAM ANAVEKSHYA CHA PAURUSHAM; MOHAADAARABHYATE KARMA YATTAT TAAMASAMUCHYATE. That action which is undertaken from delusion, without regard tothe consequences of loss, injury and (one's own) ability-that isdeclared to be Tamasic.
//////////////////////Self-Actualization as:"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. This is the need we may call self-actualization ... referring to a person's desire for fulfillment, namely to the tendency to become actually what we are potentially ..."
////////////////////LCA=Avoid any such systematic choices! Too many other players may think along your lines, and some may copy your selection. Be aware of the two players who split the jackpot in the Irish Lottery, both having picked their numbers using the dates of birth, ordination and death of the same priest! One idea is to choose your numbers completely at random, perhaps by use of an ordinary deck of cards (discard three of them, shuffle well the other 49), or the official Lucky Dip facility. But do not fall into the trap of believing that spreading your choices evenly across the card is the same as choosing randomly: far from it!
If the combinations listed above, with 133 and 57 winners are marked on the Lottery ticket as set out at the time (nine rows of five numbers, a bottom row with four numbers), you will see that
every number is on a different row
no two numbers are adjacent vertically
no numbers are in the outside columns. It is as though players had run their pencils down the middle of the ticket, dodging a little from side to side, thinking they were choosing at random. They were not - as their disappointing jackpot prize proved.
One further factor: many players choose numbers based on family birth dates, and so the numbers 1 to 31 are be selected more often. To help avoid their choices, bias your random choice towards the higher numbers. How? Plainly, the mean value of a single number is and so the mean total over six numbers chosen at random is . The calculation for the variance is more complicated - successive choices are not independent - but Riedwyl's advice is to select your numbers at random, but then reject them en bloc unless:
their total is at least 177
3,4 or 5 of them are on the edge of the ticket
they do not form a single cluster, nor are they spread as six isolated numbers. This still leaves over 1,500,000 combinations, and following his advice makes no difference whatsoever to your winning chances - but it is likely to lead to bigger prizes.
//////////////////APAW=High-flyer
Meaning
High-flyers, sometimes spelled high-fliers, are people who have achieved notable success, especially those who have become successful more quickly than is normal. The term is also used to describe speculative stock that has reached a high price in a short time.
Origin
We might expect this term to have originated in the world of aviation. In a way that's correct. The phrase does in fact predate the invention of planes/balloons by some hundreds of years, but there is an avian connection - if we recall that the word aviation derives from the Latin name for birds - avis. The first known citation of it in print is in Richard Harvey's diatribe Plaine Perceuall the peace-maker of England, 1590:
"Men haue great desire to be compted [regarded as] high fliers and deepe swimmers."
When looking for the origin of the term we need to take account of its change in meaning over time. When coined in the 16th century it wasn't used admiringly to refer to someone who had achieved success, but critically about someone who unwisely aspired to achievements beyond their talents. We still retain a version of the phrase with that meaning - high-flown, which we reserve for critical judgments of people who are extravagantly ambitious and bombastic. These are of course exactly the character faults that were ascribed to Icarus, the figure of Greek mythology who ignored his father's warnings not to use his homemade wax and feather wings to fly too close to the Sun, resulting in the inevitable crash to Earth. It is clear that, until the late 17th century at least, high-flyers were directly equated with Icarus. For example, William Chilcot's Practical treatise concerning evil thoughts, 1698:
"These highflyers, when they are in their altitudes, suddenly their waxen wings melt, and down they fall headlong."
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