Researchers have presented new findings which found after one session of aerobic exercise people showed reduced cravings for alcohol, lower levels of stress, and improvements in mood.
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"Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind." ~ Plato
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Namadeva Gatha is a compilation of the poems of the Marathi Saint Namadeva (1270 – 1350 CE). It is held in reverence by Varkaris, a sect of Vaishnavas in Maharashtra, which regards Vithoba of Pandharpur as the incarnation of Bhagavan Sri Krishna. The verses called abhang (a special Marathi meter) are sung all over Maharashtra.
Namadeva is said to have composed hundreds and thousands of abhangas, but the available number at present is only about 2,110. About one hundred and fifty two abhangs delineate his own life. No poet before Namadeva wrote his autobiography in a poetic form.
Sixty one verses from Namadeva Gatha are included in Guru Granth Sahib, the holy books of the Sikhs. As Namadeva lived and travelled extensively in North India, there are references to the way of life of the people there. Mughal kings also find mention in his abhangs. One hundred and ninety-four abhangs are on the importance of the recitation of God’s name (nama mahima). About two hundred and six abhangs are devoted to the Samadhi of Saint Jnanadeva.
The meter used in Namadeva Ghatha is nivrti gayatri abhana canda. Its characteristics have been described by Namadeva in one of his abhangas (1382).
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A distaste for the objects of sense is liberation; attachment to those objects is bondage. This is wisdom; now act as thou wilt.
Knowledge of the imperishable Essence makes a worldly, active and eloquent man inactive, silent and wise. What wonder that the holy Truth is shunned by those still attached to the pleasures of the world. — Ashtavakra Gita, XV. 1-3.
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Space, time and the objects in them being illusions caused by maya, there is no limitation of Brahman by them. Infinity of Brahman is therefore clear. — Vidyaranya's Panchadasi, 3.36
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As for happiness it is our essential nature. All suffering and misery pertain only to the body. If you do not identify yourself with the body then the problem is not there.
One may be a great scholar, an author or composer and everything else in the world. But it is indeed very rare to come across anyone actually established in the Self Supreme.
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The acronym "OMG" for Oh My God is not new. The first recorded usage of it can be tracked to 1917!
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Greenland sharks have to wait for 150 years to reach maturity. On the upside, these sharks can live for up to 400 years!
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There’s an old story about Henry Ford. One day he commissioned a study of all the junkyards in America. His agents were to find the scrapped Model T’s and determine what components never failed. They came back with reports of broken axels, frames, brakes, pistons, etc. But in every case, the kingpins (a part of the steering column) were all in pristine condition. With ruthless logic, Ford ordered that the kingpins henceforth be made to cheaper, but inferior specifications.
Now this story is probably apocryphal, but it serves to highlight the economics of quality. It does the car no good to have this one part be vastly superior to all the others. The car will just fail and break down due to some other cause, and the extra resources poured into the single high-quality one would be wasted. Ford could have instead opted to raise the quality of all the other components to match. But then it wouldn’t have been a cheap everyman’s Model T anymore. It’d have been Rolls Royce, an expensive rich man’s car.
The most perfectly designed car is one in which every component wears out simultaneously. For cheap cars that date merely comes sooner than for an expensive one. Conceivably you could build a car of such high quality that the parts would last forever, in which case you have an eternal, albeit mind-bogglingly expensive car. At least until you get T-boned by a drunk driver running a red light, and all that extra money you spent was just wasted.
Now, imagine you are an animal living in the wild. There are predators all around you, ready to eat your liver with some fava beans. Or if you are already an apex predator, then there is still the risk of injury, disease, or starvation. There are 10,000 ways to die that have nothing to do with old age. It makes no economic sense for evolution to select for all those extra genetic and metabolic resources that make an animal that will never grow old, if doing so only buys it an extra X% of life before being killed from some other cause anyway. Animals evolve to live just long enough that they don’t incur selection penalties for having life spans that are too short.
I recall reading that if you eliminated all forms of disease from humans, including old age, it would ‘only’ bump our average life expectancy up to about 600 years. Very impressive, and a welcome improvement on a mere 80 years, but still definitively finite. Accidents and violence would get us all in the end, though I’m sure that the economics of safety features and punishment for crimes would change drastically to minimize those even further.
It was the single most unrealistic thing I found about the film The Man From Earth. I can easily suspend my disbelief enough to allow for an freak immortal. But that he somehow managed to avoid accident or violence for 14,000 years? Not happening. Some bandit or famine or tribal conflict or tetanus or an injury gone septic would have claimed him long before agriculture was a thing.
I know it may not feel like it, but the time from year 1900 on has actually been the most peaceful in human history. Despite the world wars and genocides and threat of nuclear destruction, the per-capita rate of violent death is lower now than it has ever been.
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Do you know the difference between a graveyard and a cemetery? A graveyard is located next to a church, but a cemetery is not.
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People can see their noses all the time. Our noses are nearly always within our field of view, but our brain filters it out.
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In any random group of 23 people, the likelihood of two people having the same birthday is greater than 50%!
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