Monday, November 30, 2020
Sunday, November 29, 2020
HOW I START (and end) MY DAY : SURI
taken a few months back
I am a retired person, 72 years old, with not much work or any other commitment.
Generally, I wake up around five and meditate for about ten to twenty minutes; do some simple physical exercise. Offer my morning prayers. For the past few days, maybe because of the climate, I skip all these.
In Homeopathic parlance, I am a "chilly" patient, who cannot bear cold well. Actually, my homeopathic friends describe me as a 'human barometer'. If the climate dips, I am the first one to feel it in my bones, before the TV news cinfirms it. But I ignore all these and don't let them to affect or depress me. I know how to protect myself.
So I get up briskly and start my morning chore.
I switch on my smartphones. They need charging. So I charge them.
Then I open my second-floor window. A calm, serene and beautiful morning welcomes me. I do some nature worship, sky worship and sun worship (though he is not visible, hidden by dark clouds).
A cup of butter tea with soaked and dehusked almonds enliven and energize me.
Posting Good morning and related messages in my Tamil and English blogs is the next step.
I check my WhatsApp messages. If I find good, useful material, I keep it for posting to my relevant blog or repost it to other WhatsApp groups.
Usually, I have some light breakfast, two idlis or two dosas or a cup of pongal with chutney or sambar.
Take my medicines for sugar.
Read the Tamil newspaper, Dina Malar.
Check gmail. If I find anything interesting, I read it.
Then Facebook. It provides me a lot of interesting and useful materials for posting to my blogs. Offer my comments, if something merits it.
YouTube. Many new, unknown and interesting videos come to my view. I post them to my mail, for reposting to my blogs, if they are copyright-free. It is sometimes difficult to know whether they are in the public domain.
Around eleven, coffee without sugar.
Go to the nearby shop to get milk packets, vegetables and anything else required for the home.
On the way to the shop, I peep in at my daughter's house and smooch my darling little grand daughter.
Home.
Read some ebooks. I read two or three books at a time, a little from each. For example, now I am reading:
eBooks
1. THE WEB OF LIFE by Fritjhof
Capra
2. I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
3. THE SCION OF IKSHVAGU by
AMISH TRIPATHI
4. THE DRAMATIC DECADE by
Pranab Mukherjee
5. SPECIMEN DAYS by Walt
Whitman
6. AFRICAN DIARY by Bill Bryson
PRINTED BOOK
உப பாண்டவம் -
எஸ்.ராமகிருஷ்ணன்
Books completed reading in October :
1. I, KRISHNA DEVARAYA
by Ra.Ki. Rangarajan
2. 1991 by Sanjaya Baru
3. THE ACCIDENTAL PRIME
MINISTER by Sanjaya Baru
4. HALF-LION by Vinay Sitapati
5. THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH
by Ken Follett
6. FALL OF GIANTS by Ken Follett
7. WORLD WITHOUT END
by Ken Follett
8. POLAND by James A. Michener
9. THE WORLD IS MY HOME
by James A Michener
10. A QUIVER FULL OF ARROWS
by Jeffrey Archer
11. ONLY TIME WILL TELL
by Jeffrey Archer
Sit before my PC and start posting YouTube videos already selected and kept in my mailbox.
Some rest.
Mobile sudoku. This is my as per the advice of my brother: Exercise your brain and protect yourself from the dreaded Alzheimer's.
Between one and two, simple lunch with raw onions, some citrus pickle and one or two vegetables.
Watch some movie in Jio Cinemas or MX Player. For example, yesterday I saw:
THE KING'S speech, starring Colin Firth. It is the story of the stammering King George VI (he is the father of the present Queen Elizabeth II) and his brother, King Edward VII, who abdicated so that he could marry, Wallis Simpson, a twice-married American woman. How George fights to overcome his stuttering and diffidence with the help of a speech therapist is the plot of the movie. Excellent performance by Colin Firth. I enjoyed the movie very much.
Afternoon nap.
Evening coffee.
Call my friends and relatives and some time, exchanging news and views.
We are a large family, scattered all over Tamil Nadu, besides one in Andhra and another in Kerala. Of these, one of my younger brothers is close to me and as we have many things in common like love of books. When we speak, usually it lasts for not less than 30 minutes.
Rest of the time is spent mostly in some or other social media. Nothing frivolous.
Night food, usually some simple, easily digestible food.
Reading.
At nine, swich off my phones and go to sleep.
Not much of a day! =What to do, that is the fate of old people in corona-time.
Looking forward with hope to the New Year.
FORTIFYING OURSELVES WITH DIVINE THOUGHTS!
Let us throw out enfeebling thoughts and emboldenvand enrich ourselves with ennobling thoughts!
Saturday, November 28, 2020
Q&A : WHY IS BIODIVERSITY SO IMPORTANT?
WHY IS BIODIVERSITY SO IMPORTANT? -
KIM PRESHOFF
1,907,852 views•Apr 20, 2015
TED-Ed
12.8M subscribers
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-is-biod...
Our planet’s diverse, thriving ecosystems may seem like permanent
fixtures, but they’re actually vulnerable to collapse. Jungles can become
deserts, and reefs can become lifeless rocks. What makes one ecosystem strong
and another weak in the face of change? Kim Preshoff details why the answer, to
a large extent, is biodiversity.
LESSON BY KIM PRESHOFF, ANIMATION BY TED-ED.
Grateful thanks to TED-Ed, KIM PRESHOFF and YouTube and all the others who made this video possible
LISTEN TO THIS EVERY NIGHT BEFORE YOU SLEEP
LISTEN TO THIS EVERY NIGHT BEFORE YOU SLEEP |
POWER OF SELF TALK BY SWAMI MUKUNDANANDA
1,220,268 views•Jun 27, 2020
BHAGAVAD GITA
288K subscribers
Listen To This Every Night Before You Sleep | Powerful Self Talk by
Swami Mukundananda
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One Spot for Spiritual Wisdom
In this video, Swami Mukundananda talks about the importance of positive
self-talk or Reaffirmations to reprogram our subconscious mind and get rid of
negative thoughts.
A subconscious mind is a subtle machine that works based on the thoughts
and directions of the conscious mind. Our conscious mind is like the captain of
a ship guiding it's course while the subconscious mind is like the Mariners in
the engine room who can't see anything but obeys the instructions of the
captain. So we need to be conscious of our thoughts and actions, for those
impact our subconscious mind.
One easy and powerful way to reprogram our subconscious mind is through
self-talks. Watch more to find out how positive self-talk can help reprogram
our subconscious mind.
Action item: Identify one positive self-talk today and keep repeating it
to you every day a few times. One way is to chant the name of God, who is all
pure and divine. When you do this every day, you can transform your life.
Grateful thanks to BHAGAVAD GITA and YouTube and all the others who made this video possible.
CYCLING TOURS : CYCLING ADVENTURE IN AFRICA
I TRAVEL BY BIKE (CYCLING DOCUMENTARY) -
CYCLING ADVENTURE
294,547 views•Jun 20, 2015
Tapi-TV
2.42K subscribers
A amazing story about Cat, a strong women, who loves bicycle touring. A
cycling film/ documentary about long distance bicycle touring lovely made by
Tapinambur - Tapi-TV in Africa. Cycling Adventure
Grateful thanks to Tapi-TV and YouTube and all the others who made this video possible
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