Pranam
Q4: Birds of the same feather flocks
It was an open secret that Duryodhana wanted to usurp the kingdom of
the Pāṇḍavas by evil plans, in collaboration with his father, Dhṛtarāṣṭra.
Therefore, all persons who had joined the side of Duryodhana must have
been birds of the same feather. Arjuna wanted to see them on the
battlefield before the fight was begun, just to learn who they were, but he
had no intention of proposing peace negotiations with them. It was also a
fact that he wanted to see them to make an estimate of the strength which
he had to face, although he was quite confident of victory because Kṛṣṇa
was sitting by his side.
Crows and swans are not birds of the same feather because of their
different mental attitudes. The fruitive workers or passionate men are
compared to the crows, whereas the all-perfect saintly persons are compared
to the swans. The crows take pleasure in a place where garbage is thrown
out, just as the passionate fruitive workers take pleasure in wine and
woman and places for gross sense pleasure. The swans do not take pleasure
in the places where crows are assembled for conferences and meetings. They
are instead seen in the atmosphere of natural scenic beauty where there are
transparent reservoirs of water nicely decorated with stems of lotus
flowers in variegated colors of natural beauty. That is the difference
between the two classes of birds.
Nature has influenced different species of life with different mentalities,
and it is not possible to bring them up into the same rank and file.
Similarly, there are different kinds of literature for different types of
men of different mentality. Mostly the market literatures which attract men
of the crow's categories are literatures containing refused remnants of
sensuous topics. They are generally known as mundane talks in relation with
the gross body and subtle mind. They are full of subject matter described
in decorative language full of mundane similes and metaphorical
arrangements. Yet with all that, they do not glorify the Lord. Such poetry
and prose, on any subject matter, is considered decoration of a dead body.
Spiritually advanced men who are compared to the swans do not take pleasure
in such dead literatures, which are sources of pleasure for men who are
spiritually dead. These literatures in the modes of passion and ignorance
are distributed under different labels, but they can hardly help the
spiritual urge of the human being, and thus the swanlike spiritually
advanced men have nothing to do with them. Such spiritually advanced men
are called also mānasa because they always keep up the standard of
transcendental voluntary service to the Lord on the spiritual plane. This
completely forbids fruitive activities for gross bodily sense satisfaction
or subtle speculation of the material egoistic mind.
Smd Bhagavatham 1 5 10: *na yad vacaś citra-padaṁ harer yaśo*
*jagat-pavitraṁ pragṛṇīta karhicit tad *vāyasaṁ* tīrtham uśanti mānasā*
*na yatra *haṁsā n*iramanty uśik-kṣayāḥ// *
VAYASAAM=crow. Hamsa= Swans.
Those words which do not describe the glories of the Lord, who alone can
sanctify the atmosphere of the whole universe, are considered by saintly
persons to be like unto a place of pilgrimage for crows. Since the
all-perfect persons are inhabitants of the transcendental abode, they do
not derive any pleasure there.
*प्रकृतेः* *क्रियमाणानि* *गुणैः* *कर्माणि* *सर्वशः* *। *
*अहङ्कारविमूढात्मा* *कर्ताहमिति* *मन्यते* *॥२७॥* *B G 3 27*
prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni guṇaiḥ karmāṇi sarvaśaḥ ahaṅkāra-vimūḍhātmā kartāham
iti manyate
*prakṛteḥ*—of material nature; *kriyamāṇāni*—all being done; *guṇaiḥ*—by
the modes; *karmāṇi*—activities; *sarvaśaḥ*—all kinds of;
*ahaṅkāra-vimūḍha*—bewildered
by false ego; *ātmā*—the spirit soul; *kartā*—doer; *aham*—I; *iti*—thus;
*manyate*—thinks.
The bewildered spirit soul, under the influence of the three modes of
material nature, thinks himself to be the doer of activities, which are in
actuality carried out by nature.
*It is said, "Birds of a feather flock together." In this world, everyone
is attracted by a person of the same category. A drunkard is attracted to
persons who are also drunkards. Similarly, a saintly person is attracted by
other saintly persons.*
Every conditioned soul is influenced by a particular mixture of the modes
of material nature. As such, the conditioned soul is attracted to certain
types of activity which he is forced to perform because he is completely
under the influence of material nature. The conditioned soul is attracted
by the objects of sense gratification. His eyes are attracted to see
beautiful things, his ears are attracted to hear nice music, his nose is
attracted to enjoy the aroma of a nice flower, and his tongue is attracted
to taste nice food. Similarly, all his other senses—his hands, his legs,
his belly, his genitals, his mind, etc.—are so susceptible to the
attraction of the objects of enjoyment that he cannot restrain himself. It
is said, "Birds of a feather flock together." In this world, everyone is
attracted by a person of the same category. A drunkard is attracted to
persons who are also drunkards. Similarly, a saintly person is attracted by
other saintly persons. It is said, therefore, that a man is known by his
company.
Thus, the adage is in good and bad taste as th Guna karma Vibaga: alone gts
the good and bad flocks. Nature is the running elements. Dridarashtra,
duryodhana, Dussadhana, Lakshmana etc were on the wrong flocks, whereas,
Dharma along with the other Pandavas were with Lord Krishna, the Good Flock.
The war of Mahabhartham, wiped the bad flocks all together leaving
behind the desired results. A great siddha verse is
NANADAVANATHIL ORE andi, avan naalaaru MATHAMAY kuyavanai VENDI , kondu
vandhaan oru THONDI; adhaik koothaadi, Koothaadi, pottu udaithaandi”
People use to sk a meaning that all those who danced behind the bad flocks,
went dead without the desired result, spoiling the GOOD ONES.
It is also averse philosophically; the Kuyavan the pot maker s GOD;
one prayed to GOSD for a child; and thus having got a child after 4+6= 10
months, did not rear it well and allowed to go a waste. So too the Kauravas
made the working conditions useless to them even. Flock is dangerous. KR
Irs 24622
Other Qs Better to know the best and not carried away by a limited
knowledge.
On Thu, 23 Jun 2022 at 20:16, 'gopala krishnan' via iyer123 <
[email protected]> wrote:
> *QUES ANSW Medical 06-2022-01*
>
> *Dear friends,*
>
> *These are information compiled as QA by me in* 1998’s-2014’s and stored
> in my computer. They are posted by *very learnt doctors and read persons
> in kids health.com <http://health.com> etc*. Many improvements have come
> in medical field after these compilation.
>
> These are just for general information, and for health problems doctors
> have to be consulted.
>
> *BEING COMPILATION THERE MAY BE ERRORS.*
>
> Sincerely,
>
> *R. Gopalakrishnan, 78, dated 23-06-2022*
>
>
>
> Q1 Can a bit of aspirin every other day can help women keep asthma away ?
>
>
>
> A1 Yes. According to a study published recently, a bit of aspirin every
> other day can help women keep asthma away.
>
>
>
> Previous research has shown the same benefit for men, but this study,
> published in the British journal Thorax, is the first to demonstrate that
> aspirin reduces the risk of asthma in women as well.
>
>
>
> Aspirin - which in its classic form comes in 325 milligramme tablets reduced
> the risk of asthma irrespective of age, menopausal status, exercise levels
> or smoking. But it had no impact in clinically obese women.
>
>
>
> Q2 What is asthma and how it affect world population?
>
>
>
> A2 Asthma is a chronic disease that causes inflammation and swelling of
> the inside of the airways leading to the lungs, reducing the flow of air.
>
>
>
> According to World Health Organisation estimates, 300 million people
> suffer from asthma around the world, and 255,000 people - mainly in poorer
> countries - died from the disease in 2005.
>
>
>
> Q3 Is it advisable to suppress sniffing?
>
>
>
> A3 NO NO. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to
> suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and
> die.
>
> People say “Bless you “ when you sneeze because when you sneeze,your heart
> stops for a millisecond.
>
>
>
> Q4 Why do birds of the same feather flok together?
>
> A4 Using brain imaging, scientists have shown that we easily bond with
> people we consider similar to ourselves. Brain Imaging Shows We Bond With
> People Similar to us.
>
>
>
> Q5 What are advised after food?
>
>
>
> A5 *Don't eat fruits immediately - *Immediately eating fruits after meals
> will cause stomach to be bloated with air. Therefore take fruit 1-2 hr
> after meal or 1hr before meal.
>
>
> Don't drink tea -* Because tea leaves contain a high content of acid.
> This substance will cause the Protein content in the food we consume to be
> hardened
> thus difficult to digest.
>
>
>
> Don't bathe - *Bathing after meal will cause the increase of blood flow to
> the hands, legs & body thus the amount of blood around the stomach will
> therefore decrease. This will weaken the digestive system in our stomach.
>
>
> Don't walk about - *People always say that
> after a meal walk a hundred steps and you will live till 99
>
>
>
> In actual fact this is not true. *Walking will cause the digestive
> system to be unable to absorb the nutrition from the food we intake.*
>
>
> Don't sleep immediately - *The food we intake will not be able todigest
> properly. Thus will lead to gastric & infection in our intestine.
>
>
>
> Q6 What is anemia?
>
> A6 Anemia is the deficiency of the oxygen-carrying red blood cells, which
> are produced within the bone marrow from amino acids and iron with the aid
> of vitamin B12 and folic acid.
>
> Anemia develops for many reasons but most commonly when the supply of
> iron is depleted, the production line slows and makes sub par, small red
> blood cells.
>
> Doctors diagnose anemia by measuring two blood test values: hemoglobin
> and hematocrit.
>
> Hemoglobin is the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen from the
> lungs. Hematocrit is the percentage of a blood sample that's made up of
> red blood cells, as compared to other cells and the surrounding fluid
> called serum.
>
> Anemia in women is generally defined as a hemoglobin level of less than 12
> g/dL, or a hematocrit less than 37 percent.
>
> Because of their monthly menstrual bleeding, women become anemic more
> often than do men, especially those with heavy cycles.
>
> My note- I have forgotten why hemoglobin levels is shown low comparing
> to men, This answer is refreshing to me.
>
> Q7 Wht is *menorrhagia* ?
>
> A7 The medical lingo for heavy menses is *menorrhagia*, defined as a
> blood loss exceeding 80 mL per cycle.
>
> Menorrhagia is more common among women who have fibroids within the uterus
> or have inherited a bleeding disorder Women with moderate menstrual flow
> but poor dietary intake of iron-rich foods may also develop anemia over
> time.
>
> And if a woman who has no menstrual cycles or a light cycle becomes
> anemic, she should be evaluated for conditions such as pernicious anemia,
> lupus, kidney failure, or colon cancer.
>
>
>
> Q8 Why do tiny coarse hair or hairs that crop up on women’s chin every so
> often?
>
> A8 There are ways to manage these unwanted guests.
>
> The medical term for coarse, dark hair that grows in a male pattern is
> hirsutism (HER′-sa-TIS′-um). I'm not talking here about a few wild hairs:
> Some women experience enough growth to simulate a beard or hair on the
> chest. Needless to say, it can be a significant source of emotional, if
> not physical discomfort.
>
> The culprit behind this unwelcome hair growth is a family of male hormones
> called androgens, which are generally produced in the adrenal glands and
> ovaries.
>
> All men and women have them (along with many other hormones), but each
> person's sensitivity to androgens, and the amounts of these hormones
> circulating in the body, vary by gender and genetics.
>
> When receptors on the hair follicles are activated by androgen signals,
> the follicle's size as well as the diameter of its hair fiber increases, as
> does the time the hair spends in a growth phase as opposed to a resting
> phase.
>
> When a woman's hormone levels are normal but hirsutism is still present,
> the hair growth is referred to as *idiopathic*, meaning we don't know the
> precise cause.
>
> Sometimes, however, hair growth is associated with irregular menstrual
> cycles, acne, weight gain, or other changes that may indicate an underlying
> hormonal disorder such as polycystic ovary syndrome or adrenal hyperplasia.
> These are conditions that require further medical evaluation, so consider
> discussing your symptoms with a doctor.
>
> *Q9 What are the medications for Hitruisam?*
>
>
>
> *A9 Medications.* Spironoloactone is a relatively inexpensive medication
> available by prescription only. It is classified as a diuretic which
> causes the kidneys to make more urine, but more interestingly it interferes
> with the levels and action of the androgens, like testosterone.
>
>
>
> It may take as long as two months to see the results, though, and
> spironoloactone must be used continually to maintain its effectiveness.
>
> Q10 What are the details about blood pressure?
>
> A10 First, let's dismiss this myth about adults having low blood pressure.
>
>
> Blood pressure runs a continuum from as low as 60 systolic in infancy
> (systolic
> refers to the top number, which reflects the highest blood pressure, when
> the heart contracts) and rises as we grow up.
>
> Blood pressure is thought to increase significantly over time if a person
> consumes a high salt diet, and especially if that person has inherited a
> genetic predisposition. That's why sodium content (sodium is the culprit
> in salt) is listed on the Nutrition Facts of every food label.
>
> Take a peek at these labels and you may be surprised to learn that high-salt
> foods are not necessarily all that salty tasting. We all know that cured
> meats and canned goods are full of salt, but sodium is also found in breads
> and beverages. And once you get familiar with these labels, consider what
> must be in all those great-tasting fast foods and restaurant meals!
>
> consider your own blood pressure numbers. Anything over 120/80 is
> classified as prehypertension and over 140/90 is considered full-blown
> hypertension. This is another continuum: for every 20/10 increase above
> 115/75, the risk of cardiovascular disease doubles!
>
> The diagnosis of either pre hypertension or hypertension is never based on
> a single reading. Make sure you are relaxed and rested before getting a
> reading because blood pressure increases (as it should) when we exert
> ourselves, as in exercise.
>
> If you repeatedly have elevated readings, however, it is time to look
> for a cause.
>
> My note- My nephrologist has prescribed BP tablets to me though I have no
> BP. He explained keeping BP a little low is good for health of kidney. I
> continue BP tablets more than 10 years now.
>
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