1. How a nation can knowingly and deliberately destroy its own moral fabric?
Government welfare programmes and freebies doled out to buy votes. Japan does not have any
welfare programmes like free LPG etc. Their motto : Work for it or do without.
These are possibly the five best sentences you'll ever read and all applicable to our Indian
experiment:-
(a) You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
(b) What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without
receiving.
(c) The government cannot give to anybody that the government does not first take from
somebody else.
(d) You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
(e) When half the of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half
is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea it does no good to work
because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of
any nation.
God and sane citizens should stop this mania.
2. Dangerous heat to intensify this week.
The equinox phenomenon will affect us in the next five days. Please stay indoors and keep animals
indoor or protected especially from 1200 hrs to 1500 hrs. The temperature will fluctuate and may
reach 40 degrees Celsius. This can easily cause dehydration and sun stroke. This phenomenon is
due to the sun directly positioned above the equator. Please keep everyone including yourself
hydrated. Everyone should be consuming about three litres of fluid everyday. Monitor everyone's
blood pressure as frequent as possible. Many may get heat stroke.
Take cold showers as frequent as possible. Reduce meat, increase fruits and vegetables.
Heat wave is no joke! Place a new unused candle outside home area or exposed area. If candle can
melt, it's at a dangerous level.
Always place a pail of water half filled in the living room and one each in every room to keep the
temperature down.
Heat stroke has no indicative symptoms. Once you faint, it's serious and dangerous as organ failure
kicks in.
Always check lips, eyeballs for moisture. Please inform the others.
3. Day, date and time.
In the ancient Indian calendar, time was never identified by weeks and days. There was no
mention of Sunday, Monday etc. These were later inclusions after contact with the Greeks and
the Romans.
For ancient Indians, time always had an astronomical significance. Time was defined as a mental
frame in which they co-related events.
So our forefathers identified time by co-relating positions of the sun, moon, the five principle
planets (The ones which were easy to see with unaided eye like Venus and Mercury, the two inner
most planets closer to the sun than the earth and can be seen in the early evening or in the
morning. Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn further away from the sun than the earth and can be seen at
anytime of the night. The Earth, of course, is also a planet but the ancient astronomers did not
perceive it so and therefore, did not count it in their list of planets!) and two nodes against the
fixed starry background.
That is why you will find all Hindu festivals are based on planetary positions.
The present day measurement of time in days and weeks has no such astronomical standing. It is
based on a linear scale and has to be supported by date, month and year, of which the year alone
has astronomical significance.
Tailpiece.
Got up earlier than usual as I'd to accompany Lekha to attend her Valiachhan's funeral at Maannaar, despite my weakness. Rema, my sister was unable to make the trip and Lekha had carried idlis and two bottles of water to stand in for my lunch and supper. We reached there in time to see the ceremonies leading to the funeral and made a hasty departure around 1700 hrs after the pyre was lit and reached 'The Quarterdeck' by 2300 hrs. Sajid made good company.
Met Lekha's folks after a very long time.
Government welfare programmes and freebies doled out to buy votes. Japan does not have any
welfare programmes like free LPG etc. Their motto : Work for it or do without.
These are possibly the five best sentences you'll ever read and all applicable to our Indian
experiment:-
(a) You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
(b) What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without
receiving.
(c) The government cannot give to anybody that the government does not first take from
somebody else.
(d) You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
(e) When half the of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half
is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea it does no good to work
because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of
any nation.
God and sane citizens should stop this mania.
2. Dangerous heat to intensify this week.
The equinox phenomenon will affect us in the next five days. Please stay indoors and keep animals
indoor or protected especially from 1200 hrs to 1500 hrs. The temperature will fluctuate and may
reach 40 degrees Celsius. This can easily cause dehydration and sun stroke. This phenomenon is
due to the sun directly positioned above the equator. Please keep everyone including yourself
hydrated. Everyone should be consuming about three litres of fluid everyday. Monitor everyone's
blood pressure as frequent as possible. Many may get heat stroke.
Take cold showers as frequent as possible. Reduce meat, increase fruits and vegetables.
Heat wave is no joke! Place a new unused candle outside home area or exposed area. If candle can
melt, it's at a dangerous level.
Always place a pail of water half filled in the living room and one each in every room to keep the
temperature down.
Heat stroke has no indicative symptoms. Once you faint, it's serious and dangerous as organ failure
kicks in.
Always check lips, eyeballs for moisture. Please inform the others.
3. Day, date and time.
In the ancient Indian calendar, time was never identified by weeks and days. There was no
mention of Sunday, Monday etc. These were later inclusions after contact with the Greeks and
the Romans.
For ancient Indians, time always had an astronomical significance. Time was defined as a mental
frame in which they co-related events.
So our forefathers identified time by co-relating positions of the sun, moon, the five principle
planets (The ones which were easy to see with unaided eye like Venus and Mercury, the two inner
most planets closer to the sun than the earth and can be seen in the early evening or in the
morning. Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn further away from the sun than the earth and can be seen at
anytime of the night. The Earth, of course, is also a planet but the ancient astronomers did not
perceive it so and therefore, did not count it in their list of planets!) and two nodes against the
fixed starry background.
That is why you will find all Hindu festivals are based on planetary positions.
The present day measurement of time in days and weeks has no such astronomical standing. It is
based on a linear scale and has to be supported by date, month and year, of which the year alone
has astronomical significance.
Tailpiece.
Got up earlier than usual as I'd to accompany Lekha to attend her Valiachhan's funeral at Maannaar, despite my weakness. Rema, my sister was unable to make the trip and Lekha had carried idlis and two bottles of water to stand in for my lunch and supper. We reached there in time to see the ceremonies leading to the funeral and made a hasty departure around 1700 hrs after the pyre was lit and reached 'The Quarterdeck' by 2300 hrs. Sajid made good company.
Met Lekha's folks after a very long time.
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