KALU PIDIKKAL PART 2 CONTINUED FROM PART 1
13. The foot The foot is used for walking,running and entire body weight is bore in the two legs in humans. When bodyweight increase the legs feel pain on account of this. Even by reducing body weight by one or twokilograms we can observe the relief from pain. 14. Kalupidikkua (Falling on the feet) This is a saying used to ask forexcuse for erring committed by a person on other and asking for pardon fallingon the feet. To escape from offences committed, many people resort to this atone stage or other. Sometimeseven to get out of the false allegations or getting things done. Really it has very positiveeffect. After one has hold the leg of another, the other cannot normally rigidon his earlier stand and used to change decisions. 15. Droupadi and mango The incident told in Vanaparvaand I have written many times on it….. On Krishna’s advice each of the Pandavabrothers came under the mango tree. Mango reached top level when each expressedtheir feeling at that time. While Panchali expressed her feeling the mango felldown since she expressed a lie thinking something else. To cut short, Panchali calledKrishna and expressed her wrong thinking and could not express in thatsituation, touching his feet. Krishna came out side and looked at Mango. Itwent back to the original place. For persons reading as new item- She was thinking about Karna. 16. Namaskaram When we perform sashtanganamskaram to anybody, it should be ensured not to touch their feet by theperformer’s hand. 17. Thapas The sages on those days, I haveread used to perform thapasya standing on one leg. However standing on one legis difficult even for a minute. Most will lose balance. I have seen in Bharathanatya some pose with one leg bend. But here body weight is suitably balanced bybending. 18. Standing a punishment in middle school classes. While I was studying in primaryand middle school classes, keeping standing till the teacher asks to sit waspunishment for minor offences. These offences mostly did not relate to study. In primaryclass some teachers used to ask the student to stand on the bench. This wasmore delicate. While standing before girls created inferiority also. If I am correct standing on bench was notcommanded to girls, but asked to stand. All these practices are not there now. In someschools it has come in new form- imposition for such actions like disturbingother students, pushing etc. 19. Standing and leg pain. Irrespective of age, standingcreates leg pain and uneasiness. It would be more with the aged. Whiletravelling in bus this is felt much more. Everybody will be looking to somebody making signs of getting down. But there are some wicked, who make signs of getting down in stops, butnever get down. They enjoy in others looking at them. Even during deepradhana intemples, if the pooja take more time we can see restlessness with people. 20. Football and private bus. We know Football is the gameplayed with feet and requiring more space. It was a practice for private busoperates to accommodate more standees during rush hour on those days. Once a private bus was operatingwith sufficient standees. Suddenly in a bus stop about 10 persons got in. Thebus has become well crowded with standees. Normally standees take theirposition more near entrance and exit for easy getting down. In the next stop too there wereabout 10 persons. As usual the conductor desired to accommodate them also. He said to the standees- There isenough space to play football in the centre of bus. Please move permittingthese 10 people to get in. Among the standees there was asatirist. He said- First let me see whether it is true. Give me a football. We willarrange as a team and play. 21. Animals and weight In the animals which stand onfour legs, the weight of the body is horizontal. It is shared in four legs.Animals can stand more time by standing. Many animals sleep also whilestanding. However for relaxing all animals too want to lie. Animals like cowlay and perform “ayavirakkal” (Bring the food took in a hurry back to mouth andchew well). 22. The pain on left leg changed to right leg. We know the net effect is thesame. I recollect the incident Aswini kumars were asked by acourt man to relieve the pain from left leg. They looked at him. Butthe court man felt relieved pain from leg pain, but appearing in right leg. Hetold Aswini kumars pain is now in right leg. Aswini kumars said- you only wanted to relieve pain fromleft leg. (Ref -Film Punniam in soorya TV) Probably from this the saying hascome. The saying means the net effect isstill. 23. Speciality with foot. I am told all important nerveending are there in the foot bottom. Acupuncture talk of this in detail.However I have felt pressing or hitting with hand finger in certain leg partsgive much relief when pain is there in the body. Bottom of feet and palms are the two places where humanhairs do not grow in human body. A few days back I felt severepain in right leg and as heavy and got up. As if told in a dream- I applied thevathamardhanam kuzhampu heated on both legs, and got sleep. But weight and painwere felt next day but lesser. My kuzhampu I applied again. Not much effect. Inthe night just like that I started hitting thigh with scratching road. I felt comfortedand felt weight reducing. I hit some more time. I cannot believe, weight wasreduced fully and no pain. The reason could be perhaps some block in the thighfor blood circulation. 24. Foot for measurement. Once a normal grown up man’s footwas considered as a means of measurement of ground etc. I am not sure whetherthe “atikkol” ofcarpenters are based on it. The measurement of one foot todayis however about two tothree inches more than human foot. (Doubt- take a scale and check. Ihave checked before writing) 25. The birds and the foot. The birds have two feet. Some birds have lengthy feet and some shorttype. But birds have some what a hollow body and less weight. Some are able tofly very high and some a few yards like hen. Birds like peacock has morelengthy body comparing to others. They sleep too standing on legs sitting ontower tops and tree tops. 26. Foot wear. Even during Thretha Yuga, we have instance Bharatha worshipped the Padaani of Sree Rama as his guidance. So foot covering was common. The bottom of the foot iscomparatively harder. A kid walks with bare foot. Only when he is able to wearand walk he is given a kid shoe. Tillhigh school days I was not wearing any footwear. For sabarimalai pilgrimage tripeven today the hill section of 8 KM of Neelimala is surely climbed by bare footby 80% of the pilgrims. Once started walking pain is not felt much. Somehow I walk around home, doingpetty garden work, clean the front of the home every day not having anyfootwear. I will end this posting with a humorous note but real fact. Once Iwas attending a paid diabeticcamp immediately on detecting me as diabetic arranged by TrivandrumMedical College in 1998. We could meet individual doctors and discuss. It wasvery difficult to get diabetic special foot wear. We had to wait at least 3months to get one. I took this point with a young doctor available for discussionsince I was very much worried father of it. He smilingly told me- Whetherour grandparents and even parents used foot wear? Where not some of themdiabetic? Actually our body is designed to walk bare foot. Now we areaccustomed to wear footwear. So anything can be worn but good quality. He told specially tome- If I put this opinion people will call me a noss (One nut loose). Hence wear good foot wear. Re written and posted by R.Gopala Krishnan, 77, retired AGM, Telecom, Trivandrum on 22-4-2021 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. 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