<*>[Attachment(s) from SURESH JAGADEESAN included below] Dear zen members,
Sorry to bother you with my post in other forums. But if you have time you can read and comment whether I am right or wrong in my conclusions. best regards Suresh ---------------------------------------------------- Dear Sri.Bharath, Quote Cannot easily explain what kind of a person my dad was. Be it he being religious in doing daily pooja/abisegam to SriChakra and other yentras/idols for years, be it the ardency he shown towards lord Ayyapan for 35+ yrs being a Guruswami visiting Sabarimala every year, be it he doing annadhana every year for 45 days being a founding trustee of that trust, be it he fulfilling the duties as the breadwinner of a lower middle class family with many sisters, be it he actively being full time part of a cancer care trust for more than a decade after his voluntary retirement, be it his character of being helpful to anyone and everyone around in the society without any inhibition or expectations (Paropakari), be it the involvement and faith in doing the Pitru Kriyas every year, be it he fulfilling his duties to the offsprings, be it he being a best dad, husband, son, brother, relative, neighbor, social being. (Trust me, am not exaggerating because he is my dad, anyone who knows him will vouch for all of the above) He was diagnosed with stage 3 oesophagus (food pipe) cancer in early 2012 and we lost a yearlong battle 3 months back (when he was just 62). He trusted that Ayyapan will save him till the last week of his death. Trusted 100%. Ayyapan gave him a damn. Unquote Apart from my first mail to you, do you want me to give a constructive help or you want me to have words of solace by blaming on karma. I am spending my office time to find all about food pipe cancer. Now my simple question is apart from the above, how much do you really know about your father as close as possible? My father died at the age of 72 due to cardiac arrest. He could have been made alive if timely help reached him, and also if house women were trained to handle such emergencies. (This implies that all house holders must undergo First Aid course) I am not very close to my father, but my elder brother was, which means my father even can show penis to my brother when he was suffering to urinate. My father used to be very shy and hardly go to any doctors for any illness. If fever or head ache, he will take saridon or crosin, that is all he knows about medicine. My brother and my father both did operation for removing fore skin of the penis (Circumcision). My brother forces my father to go to hospital. My father died just after 3 days of marriage of my younger sister. He loves sweets and those oily eatables. Now my brother and sisters and most of them who are close to him taken vow not to touch sweets and oily stuff. I will always eat moderately from very young age and that continues. Now my brother and his wife had undergone First aid course. My brother actually arranged First Aid course for his entire building contains 10 flats. Since I am a sailor I have long back done advanced master Medicare. These are lessons one learns when they come across some catastrophe. Since I am a sailor I know how new regulations are coming into practice. When Titanic sunk in 1912, the world shipping Industry was shaken. After that they sat and drafted over a period of years evolved a New regulation or New convention called Safety of Life at sea (SOLAS) (The sinking of the Titanic on 14 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg was the catalyst for the adoption in 1914 of the first International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS). More than 1,500 passengers and crew died and the disaster raised so many questions about the safety standards in force that the United Kingdom Government proposed holding a conference to develop international regulations. The Conference, which was attended by representatives of 13 countries, introduced new international requirements dealing with safety of navigation for all merchant ships; the provision of watertight and fire-resistant bulkheads; life-saving appliances; and fire prevention and fire fighting appliances on passenger ships) If that time people thought it is fate and Karma, we would not have ships which are built today with high safety standards preventing many numbers of losses of life. Another incident - Herald of Free Enterprise was a roll-on roll-off (RORO) ferry which capsized moments after leaving the Belgian port of Zeebrugge on the night of 6 March 1987, killing 193 passengers and crew. - The immediate cause of the sinking was found to be negligence by the assistant boatswain, asleep in his cabin when he should have been closing the bow-door. This accident resulted in bringing International Safety Management Code (ISM Code) so as to make accountable all crew who are working on board by providing a system of working. See what had happened after ISM code came in. - Protection and indemnity (P&I), and hull insurer, The Swedish Club reported that a study it conducted showed direct evidence that ships complying with the International Safety Management code (ISM) have made significant fewer claims than non-ISM vessels. The analysis, which examined hull and P&I claims over a four-year period ending June 30, 1999, revealed that claims levels have fallen by about 30 percent The Club said the major relative fall in claims occurred in the final two years of the study period. It stressed that it has taken great care to ensure that the analysis took full account of key variables. The Club's claims study involved 592 hull and 426 P&I vessels, together with 1,218 hull and 1,035 P&I claims. This story continues. Now people don’t wait for accidents to draft regulations, but they anticipate dangers well before and take all measures. That doesn’t mean they are successful 100%, but they are successful 90% which means when 100 to die, now only 10 dies. Is it not a great achievement? It means you have made smiles in 90 person’s lives (just for example). Please go through 6 sigma quality system. They try to achieve 99.999% quality. Many companies adopting this find their profit increased in multifold. Now you tell me how much you know your father. You mentioned that he was diagnosed with stage 3 oesophagus (food pipe) cancer in early 2012. Why did you wait until stage 3? Why not at stage 1 or why not periodical medical checkup was not started when he was just 35? 1. The awareness of doing periodical checkup was not there in your father, which you need to learn 2. Doing all those rituals and poojas indicates food was not taken at regular period of interval. Also indicates those poojas/rituals involves various food which contains lot of oil and other which naturally weakens the health. Also indicates consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables not a practice. 3. He was a Gurusamy, goes to Sabarimala every year. – This means he for most of the time was without slippers on his foot, walking on the road, where uneducated laymen make so unhygienic, and can cause or bring any disease. He also would not have worn upper garment while he is going to the temple or right in the queue to have darshan which means, his sweat bare body will touch such similar sweat bare bodies, can contaminate any disease. 4. On his pilgrimage he may have to eat outside, which may involve any unhygienic hotel preparations. Also at Sabarimala, to take shower or bath, in such dirty river can bring any disease. Also those common toilets which were so shabby in that Pambai, can give any kind of disease. ( I have been to Sabarimala once, hence I know the conditions there) 5. He seems mostly outside, which means he is exposed to various kinds of smoke. He could have been a passive smoker, which is very unavoidable at many times. 6. He also served in cancer care trust helping poor cancer patients, which indicates there is a possibility of contracting such disease if one is careless. He may be a best dad, husband, son, brother, relative, neighbor, social being, but paid little attention on hygiene and health. You as son not done your duty properly, to warn your father not to perform those acts, which is harm to his health. Please note a child may not know the nature of fire, but the fire will not see that the child is innocent of its nature, so when child touches the fire, fire will burn the child. For fire there is nothing like one is innocent or ignorant or one is wise and intelligent, it will burn whatever comes on its way. Your father and you may not be aware of how a disease can spread, but that does not mean, the contagious virus will not catch you if you touch him or come across. Please note my uncle who was a Marine Engineer, died due to fire on board. He was 47, unmarried. Since my grandfather died at very young age (40) ( Not died, but he was in Samadhi), my uncle who was eldest son took the responsibilities of looking after the siblings. My uncle was also very religious person doing daily poojas, tarpanas, divisams etc. regularly. He used to go to Ragavendra Math every year. He also goes to kanchi and sees any Sankaracharya available every year regularly. He helps all. He only made me join merchant navy. Unmarried sacrificed entire life for his siblings. But all these are not known to fire. He got 3rd degree burn, only his face escaped (because he tured other side) He was hospitalized for 5 days. The death was not immediate (even that grace was also not shown by god). Despite the warning given by the senior Engineers, without taking adequate precautions, and plan, he opened boiler valve, which back fired. Now the fire has not seen his virtues done, it only seen his mistake. Had he taken precautions he would have been alive today. (This is not fate, mere carelessness, ego, thinking I know everything). Please note until today, even now, some ships may be opening Boiler valves, but it does not back fire, why, because they plan, take adequate precautions. If you pay adequate attention in whatever you do, they also work smoothly. Just by praying god, you cannot omit your responsibilities of paying adequate attention to the job you do right at this moment. Be fully attentive to this moment, that is the only god, or the consciousness or the awareness in you is god. If are fully alert and aware every moment of your life, you will live mostly with negligible problems. This post took me three hours in office. You are at liberty to take or leave. Any members in this forum can curse me for this advice. If List moderators think I am not right, they can remove me. Best wishes Suresh (Attachments 1 - ISM - Power point presentation 2 - What is Cancer 3 - Advantages of Ayurvedic treatment for cancer 4 - Oesophageal cancer research 5 - Top 10 Ways To Prevent Cancer 6 - Diet for preventing cancer -- Thanks and best regards J.Suresh New No.3, Old No.7, Chamiers road - 1st Lane, Alwarpet, Chennai - 600018 Ph: 044 42030947 Mobile: 91 9884071738 <*>Attachment(s) from SURESH JAGADEESAN: <*> 2 of 2 File(s) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/attachments/folder/1244481070/item/list <*> Top 10 Ways To Prevent Cancer.zip <*> ISM – INTERNATIONAL SAFETY MANAGEMENT.ppt ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! 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