Monday, March 12, 2007

Commandments For The General Health

1* Use discretion in following all sayings, for they are aimed to be effective in general only, and not in particular, dont start eating off dogs jut because it was said that dog's ,eat promotes masculinity. ----- SAGE VATSAYANA ( KAMASUTRA )

2* When life is at stake, one can eat even the non-eatables. ----- CHARAK

3* Never eat in excess. ----- MANU

4* Hunger knows neither taste, nor ripeness, nor non-cooked food. ----- CHANAKYA

5* Fasting cures many maladies, and can at times prove to be medication supreme. ----- AXIOM

6* Moderation in food intake is most advisible. ----- CHANAKYA

7* Moderation in food intake enhances health, longeivity, strength and happiness. ---- MAHABHARATA

8* Regular and timely intake of food constitutes the right policy. Irregular intake leads to many diseases and different conditions. ----- CHARAK

9* Calculated intake leads to happiness.
Happy intake promotes resistance to diseases.
Too much or too little intake damages the system. ------ AXIOM

10* Never eat at dawn or dusk.
And a light supper or no supper should succeed a top-heavy lunch. ----- MANU

11* A balanced full belly should contain 50% food, 33% water and air in the residual space. ---- VISHNU PURANA

12* Non-vegtarian food, buffalo's milk, horse riding and sleeping by the side of women are fruitful for general health ----- SARANGADHARA

13* Eat food with the same calculation you take medicine. ----- ARUNIKA UPANISHAD

14* Absolutely digestable food imparts total absorption and satisfaction. Hard to digest food should be taken in half-measure only. ------ ASHTANGA HRIDAYA

15* Eat the produce of the season ------ ASHTANGA HRIDAYA

16* Take up a load that wont prove heavy to you;
Eat down a food that doesn't prove heavy to you. ----- THE RAMAYANA

17* Eat balanced food only. ------ THE RAMAYANA

18* Non-Vegetarian diet is not good for each and every one. An year-old grain of wheat or rice is ideal for cooked intake. ----- CHARAK

19* Salt provides the greatest 'taste' of all. And salt promotes all other tastes. ---- COMMON SAYING

20* The humans cannot get nectar, nor can the gods get cow's milk. cow's milk is nectar indeed. ------- COMMON SAYING

21* No food can be called complete, without having cow's milk or a preparation made out of it. ------- COMMON SAYING

22* Contra-indicated, following intake of food, are hard study, running, Exercise, intercourse and wrestling ------ for a period of 48 minutes afterwards. ------ AATREYA

23* Post-prandial walk promotes longeivity.
Post-prandial running hastens death. ------- YOGA RATNAKARA

24* Green-gram is ideal for convalescense ------- CHARAK

25* For the maintenance of well-being, an onion is as good as one's ow mother indeed.
Garlic is equivalent, in its benefit, to ten mothers.

INDIAN PROVERBS

1. There is neither a 'know-all' nor a 'know-nothing'.

2. Greed leads to grief.

3. When he says 'just a minute', it would just mean exactly six months.

4. His great appetite for food is matched only by his great anorexia for studies.

5. Assisting____like a sweeping wind to a raging fire.

6. Jumping for the unreachable high fruit.

7. Claiming himself to be a brother unto Sage Agasthya . (Tall claim; the great sage had no brothers)

8. Like a moon-lit night over a jungle. (Unappreciated wastage of colossal gift).

9. Sent to fetch medicine, he came back just in time_____for the posthumous 'monthly ceremony'

10. If you can't catch him by the hair, do catch his feet. :
(The strategy of a villian; tyranny or surrender).

11. Regular practice renders one an expert.

12. The new chieftain's palanquin sways quite a lot. (Arrogance of sudden rise)

13. "Should that cousine die, his clothing shall be mine" (Mean selfishness)

14. It is quite the same whether the child sleeps underneath the mother's cot or down on the floor beside the dad.

15. It is the hare-brained one, who grieves over the past.

16. The sculptor's assiduous quest for perfection made a monkey out of the intended statue of a man.

17. Lamentations in the jungle. (Who will listen to?)

18. Belated reaction — like the dog that barked six months after the house-break.

19. Like placing in the palm a peeled banana.(Made extremely easy)

20. The noveau-rich person needed an umbrella at midnight to move inside his own home.

21. A trader in the sky. (Swindler;Imposter)

22. Building a ladder in the sky. (Unrealistic ambition)

23. When cows fight, the calves will be the casualties.

24. Desire knows no limit.

25. Never feel shy while learning to sing, dance or study.

26. Cocks all around the house--but not a single cock to wake you up at dawn.

27. Even God himself can not find out the inmate, who commits theft inside the residence.

28. Like the servant who let in the thief at midnight, handed him the stick and then woke his master up. (Dark treachery)

29. It is only by actual experience that one gets to know what it means to build a house - or to perform a marriage.

30. Master your house first, and conquer the world next.

31. Whirling a lighted torch from atop the hut. (a mad and self destructive adventure)

32. The distance between this village and that village is the same as the distance between that village and this village. (Stressing the need for mutual obligation)

33. Exchanging luncheon-packets of sand and cow-dung.
(the mutual trick played between two co-travellers, both unloved at home) (one trick is met by another)

34. Enquire not the origins of a river, a sage or a woman.

35. The secret offender, pounceth when the truth is mentioned, forever unknowingly.

36. Astride, one is a cavalry officer; dismounted, he is a foot-soldier.

37. There is 'no brother-in-law' inside one's own brinjal field. (Business first)

38. Will a cat faint at the death of a rat?

39. The rat stood witness for the cat.

40. The loss is identical - be it a leg for the elephant or a wing for the mosquito.

41. There are thousand paths to reach the same village.

42. Having had feasted yesterday, he is obliged to go on a medicinal feast yesterday, and he's fasting today.

43. A contention at the beginning is preferrable to a quarrel at the end.

44. Like holding a mirror to a blind man.

45. Jealous of the queen on her balcony, the commoner-female ascended on to her roof.

46. Caught between high medical fees - and unbearable funeral expenses.

47. The answerer always finds himself at the losing end of the questioner.

48. The jackal cares not the authority of the gendarme.

49. Assert not thyself at unfamiliar places.

50. The bad dancer dancer blamed on the drummer!

51. Better friend with a wise man than befriend with a fool.

52. Like the mother who niether feeds her children, not allows then to beg.

53. A simple friendly treat is preferrable to a casually invited mighty feast.

54. All 'comforters' - but no real helpers.

55. Greed knows no shame -- and sleep knows no physical comfort.

56. If the family points its finger at you, the public will point its foot at you.

57. A thousand lies are needed indeed - to cover up a single lie!

58. "Neither that lady who never obliges, no the ingratitude who daily gives something have bothered about me today", lamented the beggar.

59. "Yonder, there , see a tiger" said one. "Sure enough, there do I see its tail too" added the other. (Infectious hypnotism)

60. They both ate out of the same plate and shared the same bed. (Deep companionship)

61. The pots are the principal casualties of the blind house-wife.

62. Casting a mighty weapon for the tiny sparrow?

63. Drink not milk under a date tree, lest they say that it is toddy.
(The country liquor toddy, produced from the date tree, looks like an exact replica of milk)

64. "The bull has delivered" came the news. "Tie the calf immediately to a post" said the owner of the bull.
(Unthinking and hasty foolishness)

65. Everyman must take a dip in his own pond.

66. The sweetest thing for any man is his own life.

67. "Never indeed did I come across such a painful corbuncle as this one" declared the surgeon regarding his own corbuncle.

68. "Do you think that it would be possible to grow vegetables in the pond?" asked the rich man. "Sure, and why not?" replied the sycophant.

69. A person astride an elephant fears no barking-dog.

70. An elephant at rest is taller to a standing horse.

71. The peace of the flood in recession.
(Akin to the peace following the passage of a cyclone)

72. There was neither a wife nor a pregnancy - but he settled on the name of Soma-Lingam for his future son. (Foolish arrogance)

73. Privacy is needed for every person - including one's own mother.

74. Bargaining on a full stomach.
(The commodity is an eatable, hence a hard bargain)

75. Happiness and sorrow are the twin weights of the Balance called Life.

76. A crow maintained inside a gilded cage cannot be made to talk like a parrot.

77. Pre-destined accomplishments will get performed by Gandharva Angels.

78. There is no effect without a cause.

79. Aimlessly hopping like a cat on coals - instead of doing something about it.

80. Assume the worst consequences, in order to accomplish the best sequences.

81. When the dog appears, the stone is not to be found; and when the stone is found, not found the dog appears not.

82. The braying deprived the grazing donkey. (Foolish selfishness)/(The braying invites the attention of the farmer)

83. Poverty in materials does not mean poverty in qualities.

84. The ugly person picks up dark spots among the good looking person.

85. Like selling pots in the potters' street.

86. Like a diamond in a dung-hill.
(A worthy person among the unworthy)

87. Digging up an entire mountain in an effort to catch the rat.

88. Like rolling a stone down the hill. (Easy enterprise)

89. Scratching one's own head - with a lighted torch. (Foolish way of doing things)

90. Like a monkey in possession of a coconut. (Can neither use it nor part with it)

91. All the billion arts are but crafts to maintain the belly.

92. Even a dip into the sanctifying Ganges cannot transform a crow into a swan.

93. "I cannot care less" said the dry leaf nonchalantly - whilst high winds were blowing off boulders. (Foolish and mean self-absorption)

94. Whilst one was fleeing with his beard on fire - another was pursuing him fast, with a request to be allowed to light his cigar. (Heartlessly selfish)

95. Better a squint eye than a blind eye.

96. A worthy disciple to a worthy Guru. (Cynical sneer)

97. The dead man's eyes were 'that large'. (Lavish obituary)

98. For the Dead man's wedding , whatever received was dowry enough.
(Possibly refers to the times when weddings among the warrior-cast were conducted with a sword as the proxy for the groom out in the battle-field).

99. Helping a man climb up a tree - and then quietly removing the ladder. (Calculated treachery)

100. A grey-headed woman is not a 'dried-up female'.

101. Like a blind ox in the millet field.
(Dashing in, direction less; not able to get much out of it; aimless)

102. Sugar-coated poison.

103. If the speaker is a scoundrel, the listener need not be lacking in discretion. (Let the speaker be a fool, but the listener should be wise; SPANISH)

104. The greatest strength is local-strength, (locus-standi)

105. Out on an errand, with one foot facing the street and the other thus home. (Hamletian fixation)

106. The cat, which could not drink, upset the pot.

107. The everlasting thief does get caught one day.

108. The rich offer presents to the rich man.
The poor offer presents to the rich-man.
(The rich get richer)

109. All are friends and relations to the rich man. (A full purse never lacks friends)

110. Like a bright red fruit to the crow's beak.

111. Chasing away the crows and feeding the eagles.
(Harming the harmless and strengthening the wicked)

112. Scoding gruel (rice-water) to a burning (hungry) stomach.
(Hobson's choice); (Beggars can not be choosers); (Sadistic helpers)

113. A slip, followed by a fall — and he branded the village to be a bad village, (mindless misattribution)

114. Can a grown-up antelope match a tiger's cub?

115. Sit down first, lie down next. (Caution against physical haste)

116. The monkey will not dance unless you shake the stick.

117. Will the jackal sympathize over a sheep's grief?

118. Preaching Ramayana and felling down temples.
(Conscienceless hypocrisy) (Ramayana is the name of the biography of Lord Rama)

119. Hesitate not to apply the big stick — even if the snake be small.

120. Hiding the mini-pot, while asking for butter-milk. (pride and poverty); (not being straight forward)

121. Felling the tree to fall down straight on one's own self. (wrong planning)

122. Like a gem in the dark. (unrecognised)

123. Presenting him the grown crop, together with the sickle as well. (Presenting lock, stock and barrel)

124. Should you teach swimming to fish?

125. A servant without pay sure deserves a boss without anger.

126. The first to board the boat was the fare-less man.

127. Leaving his own door open, he went out to stand guard over another's house.

128. A man is ever followed by his own shadow.
(by his own shadow of good deeds and bad deeds)

129. Like teaching the grandfather how to cough.

130. He sneezed and said to himself "a hundred years unto me". (sneezing and saying to the self "God bless you")

131. One should know what he can swallow - and of that which can swallow him.

132. Part of the book is a choice selection from the great poet Tallapaka. The rest is his own rubbish. (literary review, oral)

133. Fleeing from the police, he unwittingly hid himself in the house of the police officer.

134. God alone is the helper of the helpless.

135. The distant mountains appear smoother.

136. Trusting the astrologically lucky day, the house-breaker went on with his theft till day-break.

137. God had granted him a boon alright, but the priest delays delivery of the same.

138. The thief suspects everyone.

139. A thief is needed to catch another thief.

140. A thief stung in his act by a scorpion.

141. A king without courage, together with a minister without brains.

142. You can wake up a person asleep, but not a person pretending to be asleep.

143. A pill out of that doctor's hand provides an immediate passage to heaven.

144. Why touch fire - and why get burned?

145. The band of hundred blind men led themselves straight into a wide well. (there is need for leadership with vision)

146. Like cat playing with the rat - and rat literally dying with fright.

147. The nature of a man is derived at birth, lasts unchanged till death. (The nature derived at birth ends only with the funeral pyre)

148. Like the jackal that branded himself - in imitation of the tiger.

149. Short in physical stature, height in mental stature. (The short man has brains many)

150. Go in for an old barber and a young washerman.

151. The depth of a well is fathomable, but not the depth of a mind.

152. Should all blossoms turn fertile and bear fruit, the produce will cover the earth entire.

153. Like covering up her organ before the gyneacologist.

154. The larger the number of guests, the thinner the butter-milk.

155. A gem alone can cut another gem.

156. Caught between a chasm in the front and a well in the behind.

157. The monkey settled the bread dispute.

158. Inwardly rotten, externally tantalising.

159. A miser ultimately loses - from all the four directions.

160. The miser's money ultimately turns out to be the thief's booty.

161. When the attendant is a friend, one can well afford to sit down at the farther end of the banquet line.

162. He is the voice that calls the tune and names the dance as well.
(High authority)

163. Like wealth, like pomp. Like learning, like humility.

164. Don't believe all that you hear.
Don't divulge all that you believe.

165. Hit one on the back, if you may, But hit none on the belly.
(Deceipt is preferrable to deprivation)

166. Like a stone in the hand of a mad man.
(unpredictable and dangerous power)

167. There are a thousand forms of idiocy and ten thousand forms of insanity.

168. It was but one single jump that he made.
It was but one single fracture that he sustained.

169. Enthusiasm if half-strength.

170. Like a funster on the stage, bit by a scorpion. (who will believe him?)

171. Little learning goes hand in hand with Great Pride.

172. A fallen mountain is thought lightly of.

173. Fools learn by their own past.

174. Silence is half-consent.

175. Where there is smoke, there is fire.

176. Venture brings victory - and wealth.

177. Like a cat crouching for a rat.

178. A nail in time spares the axe later.

179. When the owner cried for the lost cow, the shoe-maker cried for lost cow-hide.

180. Strife leads to loss. Friendship leads to gain.

181. Preserve your honor, even at the cost of your own life.

182. Cut not your feet to suit the size of your smaller foot-wear.

183. Apology obviates the servant's folly.

184. Like a blow of the pestle on the whitlow.
(unkindest cut)

185. When one rides gratis, he will apply the whip more often.
(A free ride tempts application of a frequent whip)

186. Like a cat drinking milk with closed eyes — and believing that none is seeing the theft.

187. Cutting the udder in order to draw milk.

188. Kicking the very breast that had suckled. (ingratitude)

189. With commonsense, one can control a cluster of villages.

190. A baby's word is Brahma's word.
(A word spoken by a baby can be a word spoken by God himself)

191. A full-pot is a stable pot.

192. The woman that arouses one's fancy is unto him a Rambha -- the celestial sex-siren.

193. 'New' is pleasure; 'stale' is disgust.

194. The respective fortunes of a stone, a place and a man can not be foretold.

195. Every palate has its own taste and every head has its own idiosyncracy.

196. The egg heckled at the hen.
(Generation Gap)/(The ignorant heckle the learned)

197. Who did evil to the scorpion?

198. When the scorpion was given power, it bit people night-long.

199. Like flies flocking on to a piece of cane-sugar.

200. Word for word, blow for blow.
(Tit for tat)

201 Lasting for a millenium, under daily threat to life.

202. The big pumpkin is at the receiving end of the thin knife.

203. Attempting to cross the river Godavari, clinging on to the tail of a swimming dog.
(A ridiculous strategy; an exercise of idiocy)

204. One cannot play the role of a dog - without the ability to bark.

205. There is medicine for fever -- but not for fate.

206. Brining fetters for one's own feet.

207. Where is jackal? And where is Heaven? (An impossibility; a contrast)

208. Tell the truth and invite trouble.

209. If you get a foothold first, you can get a seat afterwards.

210. Water knows the downward inclination of the land and God knows the truth.

211. He is the type of a man who first presents you rupees hundred — and later fleeces rupess ten million.

212. The joint-husband died of neglect.

213. The idle barber gave the cat a hair-cut.

214. A single blow --- and pieces two. (precision)

215. Lucky --- like the person whom the tiger liked ---- and then went its way.

216. Like king, like people.

217. Fasting is best medicine.

218. From labour, unto fruit.

219. 'More' is the fruit of 'much'.
(The extra-mile)

220. Once the crossing is over, "Mr Boatswain" is called the "bad boatswain

221. Trust not a 'crying man' or a 'laughing woman'.

222. Like a bird with wings broken.

223. Better a blind husband than no husband.

224. The imperfect cook seeks a lot of priase.

225. "I am cured at last, of my madness: you just wrap this stick around my head" said the man.
(A chronic case)

226. "The man who seeks your faults" is your father.
"The man who praises you" may be , is your jealous enemy.

227. Truth prevails -- in good time.

228. Are there any holes -- unknown to the jackal?

229. Applying the big arrow on the tiny sparrow.

230. A full-pot is a stable pot.

231. Where there is honey, there will gather flies.

232. No gourd is heavy for the creeper;
No child is heavy for the mother.

233. He planned for something and god planned for something else.

234. Like employing a wolf to watch over the sheep.

235. God alone is the protector of the unprotected.

236. Put your house in order while the lamp is burning.
(Make hay while the sun shines)

237. The milk won't be released in to udder unless the calf suckles.

238. On being informed that the he-buffalo had delivered, he ordered that the calf be tied immediately to a post. (unthinking haste)

239. A thief is ever suspicious of everyone.

240. A thief thinks like a thief and a gentleman thinks like a gentleman.

241. A thief knows another thief.

242. A mindless minister for a valourless king.

243. Extend courtesy and receive courtesy.

244. Like a sugar that dropped into milk. (A chance of luck"

245. Like a tiger giving him a lick and then letting him go. (A fantastic narrow escape)

246. Greater the effort, greater the yield.

247. A speaker of truth will be treated as an enemy by everyone.

248. Like king, like public.

249. Fasting is best medicine.

250. The possessor of knowledge turns out to be the possessor of fortune.

251. The inferior man promises but delivers not.
The superior man promises not but delivers.

252. Variegated are the tastes of mankind.

253. Heat neutralises heat.

254. Little learning, lot of arrogance.
(The proud ignoramus)

255. Repetition improves the melody.

256. A honey-coated blade.

257. The wolf volunteered to look after the goats, free of pay.

258. Like purchasing leather from a shoe-maker. (A costlier transaction)

259. A father finds faults, unlike the enemy, who praises.

260. Like putting a bridle at the rear of the horse.
(Like putting the cart before the horse)

261. Can a blind man discover the colour of gold?

262. Unending, like the rope of Kondaveedu.
(The deep wells of Kondaveedu need buckets with long ropes)

263. False gold glitters like gold.

264. One the conception is confirmed, prepare yourself for the delivery. (the next logical step)

265. Can "a clap with a single hand" produce any sound? (A single handed effort always fails)

266. Fearing that the cow may kick, the shifted towards the rear of the horse. (The way of an idiot)

267. While the villagers put their rice to dry, the jackal put out its tail to dry. (foolish imitation)

268. The use of garlic equals the care of ten mothers. (medicinal advantage)

269. Where there is a fire, there is a smoke.

270. A squirrel performs a squirrel's service;
(service as per one's own limited capacity)

271. Does not the planter of a tree water it?

272. Selling firewood in a place where he sold sandalwood once.
(reversed fortune)

273. Should one teach a horse how to eat boiled gram?

274. Will a sapling that failed to bend would bend on becoming a full grown tree?

275. What does the ox know of the taste of parched grain?

276. What does a donkey know of the scent of sandalwood?

277. A blind horse eats no lesser than a normal horse.

278. He insisted that the hare he got had but three natural legs only.
(stupidity) (intransigent bluff)

279. Employment maketh a man. (like 'the apparel maketh a man')

280. Madhav Bhatt develops cold twice a year and each time it lasts full six months.

THE HUNTER AND HIS TRAPPED DEER

Once, a deer on flight from a hunter, out-ran him for a long long distance to take refuge in a big lake, and an interaction with two crows high up on a tree, resulted in a staunch alliance.

And one day, finding that the animal did not return for a dangerously long time, the alarmed crows flew hither and thither in search of their friend.

Ultimately, they discovered the deer trapped by a net, with the prospect of the forest-hunter's return any moment.

The crows hit upon on an idea and advised the animal to pretend a death that occured a long while ago, enacting the tell-tale signs and symptoms of a dead animal : fixed stare, stiffly out-stretched feet, etc. And the crows began pretending to be feeding on the eyes, etc., of the 'dead' deer.

The hunter came and duly turned away in despair', away from the "carcass', along with his net.

"Clever friends can save one's own life indeed!"