RAG-LAJJA-BHOI-TIN THAKTE NOI

Chapter XVI: The Yoga of the Division Between the Divine and the Daemonical

XVI.21. TRIVIDHAM NARAKASYEDAM DWAARAM NAASHANAMAATMANAH;
KAAMAH KRODHASTATHAA LOBHAS TASMAADETAT TRAYAM TYAJET.

(Krishna speaking to Arjuna of the fate of daemonical beings)
Triple is the gate of this hell, destructive of the self-lust,
anger, and greed,-therefore, one should abandon these three.

XVI.22. ETAIRVIMUKTAH KAUNTEYA TAMODWAARAISTRIBHIRNARAH;
AACHARATYAATMANAH SHREYAS TATO YAATI PARAAM GATIM.
A man who is liberated from these three gates to darkness, O
Arjuna, practises what is good for him and thus goes to the
Supreme goal!

COMMENTARY: When these three gates to hell are abandoned, the path
to salvation is cleared for the aspirant. He gets the company of
sages, which leads to liberation. He receives spiritual
instructions and practises them. He hears the scriptures,
reflects, meditates and attains Self-realisation.



///////////////////Professor Links Atheism to Intelligence

Professor Richard Lynn, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Ulster University has claimed that many of those in the intellectual elite consider themselves Atheists. Or to be more precise, the proportion of atheists in this group is higher than average. He has also claimed that the increase in Atheism is directly linked to the average level of intelligence also increasing.


///////////////Predators ignore peculiar prey

Published: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 10:57 in Biology & Nature
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Fitzpatrick et al., BMC Ecology
Rare traits persist in a population because predators detect common forms of prey more easily. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Ecology found that birds will target salamanders that look like the majority – even reversing their behavior in response to alterations in the ratio of a distinguishing trait. Benjamin Fitzpatrick, from the University of Tennessee, worked with Kim Shook and Reuben Izally to study the effects of the prevalence of a dorsal stripe among a group of model salamanders on the foraging behavior of a flock of Blue Jays. He said, "Maintenance of variation is a classic paradox in evolution because both selection and drift tend to remove variation from populations. If one form has an advantage, such as being harder to spot, it should replace all others. Likewise, random drift alone will eventually result in loss of all but one form when there are no fitness differences. There must therefore be some advantage that allows unusual traits to persist".


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