Thanks Y M sir. There is a saying "What you don't use, you lose".
If you don't exercise your body parts (walking, moving shoulders, hands etc. and not necessarily lifting weights) they tend to lose flexibility and strength over time. So is with the reading habit, once you lose it you will find it difficult to concentrate after a few paragraphs. You only have to see how players' performances suffer when they resume playing after a long lay off due to injury or otherwise. That's why Swami Vivekananda told someone "Go, play football" when he asked Swamiji on how he can advance spiritually. The *deeper meaning here* is keep yourself physically and mentally fit - these are essential for progress in any field. Even our Yogis kept themselves fit by Yoga or some such breathing or other exercises and walking over long distances and climbing mountains and of course, breathing fresh air. Like the edifice of a building is built on a strong foundation, so is with us - we build everything on a Healthy Body And Mind. N Sekar On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 9:12 AM Rajaram Krishnamurthy <[email protected]> wrote: > Only those who are lazy and whose muscles are inactive, suffer from the > inability to concentrate. It means that the mind also is becoming > frozen.ranam > Pranam Perfect on dotted lines. > Tiruvalluvar said as" *குறள் எண்* – 605 – பொருட்பால் – அரசியல் – மடி > இன்மை// நெடுநீர் மறவி மடிதுயில் நான்கும்கெடுநீரார் காமக் கலன்.* உரை : *காலம் > நீட்டித்தல், சோம்பல், மறதி, அளவு மீறியத் தூக்கம் ஆகிய இந் நான்கும் > கெடுகின்ற இயல்புடையவர் விரும்பி ஏறும் மரக்கலமாம். Netuneer Maravi > Matidhuyil Naankum Ketuneeraar Kaamak Kalan Delay, oblivion, sloth, > and sleep: these fourAre pleasure-boat to bear the doomed to ruin’s shore > // To lag, forget, idle and doze These four are pleasure boats of loss // > Procrastination, > forgetfulness, idleness, and sleep, these four things, form the vessel > which is desired by those destined to destruction. > An anecdote in brooding over: "The Goal Of Life Is Laziness(edited > for clarity)19 October 1975, Johannesburg, South Africa > > Indian man: Don't you think the people (in South Africa) are lazy? Prabhupada: > Why aren't you lazy here? It is the government's policy or government's > management. You see? To become lazy is the recommendation of the *shastra*. > "Lazy" has become a bad word, but actually real life means to not work very > hard. Working hard (only) for eating means animal life, not human life. > Human life should be very peaceful - without any hard work - for > cultivating spiritual knowledge. Not working hard like hogs and dogs all > day just to find some stool. That isn't human life. People are being > educated to work very hard. That isn't human life. Therefore those who have > money build a nice bungalow in a secluded place to live peacefully - to > become lazy. Is it not? > > Indian man: Yes. Prabhupada: Perfection of life means ultimately you > become lazy; you haven't got to work. That is perfection, they say. > Otherwise why live in a cottage in a secluded place? On weekends, Americans > leave aside all working. They become tired from all their hard working, and > they go. The intention is to live a peaceful life, and not work very hard. > That is human life. Otherwise, why go outside the city on the weekend? Why? > > Indian man: They want rest, I suppose. They want rest. Prabhupada: That > means lazy. > > Indian man: No. . . Prabhupada: Yes. Rest means lazy; you don't work. > > Indian man: If one works five days a week, you rest for two... Prabhupada: > That is another thing. You have to work to become lazy. (laughter) That is > another thing. But the *goal* is to become lazy. You work five days very > hard just to become lazy for two days. That's all. But if you have the > means to become lazy seven days a week, you'll prefer it. > > Pusta Krishna: But I think most people would go crazy if they didn't have > any work. > > Prabhupada: No, that means their life is not properly conducted. Therefore > the word "laziness" has come (into use). "Laziness" is not actually the > word. Laziness means minimizing bodily labor and engaging in spiritual > work. If you ask people, "Please come to our temple," who is coming? Most > people say, "I have no time." But we're not working hard. > > There are (four) classifications: "Lazy intelligent, busy intelligent, > lazy fool, and busy fool." So at the present moment (laughs) the whole > world is full of busy fools. But the first-class man is "lazy intelligent." > The second-class man is "busy intelligent." Third class means "lazy fool" > and fourth class means "busy fool." > > Nowadays people are busy but they're fools - like monkeys. A monkey is > very busy. You see? People prefer to be a generation of monkeys, busy > fools. A fool, when he is busy, is simply creating havoc. A lazy fool is > better because he will not create so much harm, but a busy fool will simply > create harm. And a first class-man is lazy intelligent. He knows the value > of life. He's thinking soberly. Just like, you will find, all our great > saintly persons. They were living in the forest, (performing) meditation, > tapasya (austerity), and writing books. All lazy intelligent. They are > first-class men. > > Indian man: Not like the monkey, jumping from one ... Prabhupada: What is > the value of a busy fool? He is a fool, and he is busy. Nowadays, education > is for making busy fools. That's all. > > Indian man: What about the busy intelligent? How does he behave? Prabhupada: > Busy intelligent means at least there is some meaning to whatever he is > doing. Lazy intelligent means to be doing higher things. Lazy intelligent > means *brahmana*, and busy intelligent means *kshatriya*. *Shastra* says, > "There is no use of becoming busy for your food. Food is there already." > Food is already there. He'll get his food. That is arranged by God. But > (most people) are busy fools. They don't understand God's arrangement. > They're busy, day and night, like cats and dogs, only for food. > > So much land is there. Everyone, if he works for two months, can grow his > whole year's foodstuff. There is so much land. But no, they'll not grow > food. They will grow hammers. They will manufacture tire tubes, atom bombs, > then this and that. They are busy fools. They are fools, and they are very > busy. Everyone is busy. There are so many parts in the motorcar, three > thousand parts, and they're busy manufacturing three thousand motorcar > parts. Everyone is busy producing unwanted things, and they've created a > society in such a way that they have to do that. > > Indian man: Otherwise they think that they not economically progressing. > Prabhupada: > What is that "economical progressing?" That means busy fool. Fools don't > know how to satisfy the economic problem. That is recommended in the > Bhagavad-gita, *annad bhavanti bhutani*: [Bg. 3.14] > <http://vedabase.com/en/bg/3/14>"You grow food grains." Then all economic > questions (are answered). But why aren't you producing food grains? Why you > are producing iron stools and instruments and motors and tires and > collecting petrol far away from Arabia? Krishna never says, "You do all > this nonsense." He said, "Grow food grains." Why don't you do that? That > means fools. After all, you have to eat. But you're not busy growing your > food; you're busy producing tire tubes, motor cars, stools and instruments. > So how you will get your food? Where is your "economic progressing?" Your > first economic necessity is that you must eat. KR IRS 21722 > > On Thu, 21 Jul 2022 at 06:39, Markendeya Yeddanapudi < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> -- >> *Mar**Active-Vs-Frozen Muscles* >> >> >> >> Every muscle in one’s body needs exercise. If a muscle is left inactive >> without exercise, it becomes frozen. As one advances in age, one finds that >> he/she cannot lift a hand or bend a leg or fingers that just remain folded >> or in many cases ordinary movement becomes very difficult and painful. >> >> An active and regularly exercised muscle, actively participates in >> nature’s symbiosis, in breathing, smelling, sensing, perceiving, acting, >> interacting, cooperating, coordinating and in harmonizing with every other >> organism of the Biosphere. It inhales the smell messages from the air and >> exhales its automatic smell responses into the air, which the other >> organisms inhale and learn. Every active muscle learns and teaches. >> >> An active muscle cannot remain inactive, as it has developed the habit of >> active interaction with every other organism, very eagerly curious to know >> and also respond. One’s interest in a subject is not the property of one’s >> mind only but of every cell in every muscle. All the 10,000 trillion cells >> in the muscles actively participate, in learning and in teaching when one >> keeps every muscle in one’s body active. >> >> Most importantly, the active muscles discipline the mind and the mind, >> because of the continuous feeds from every muscle, automatically develops >> the habit of concentration. Concentration happens automatically as part of >> breathing. It indicates that every other organism of the Biosphere is >> responding to the smell messages, giving the mind great power of getting >> what is aimed at. >> >> Only those who are lazy and whose muscles are inactive, suffer from the >> inability to concentrate. It means that the mind also is becoming frozen. >> >> Active muscles need unpolluted environment. Breathe based interaction is >> the basic part of the active muscle. Pure air means the energizing air full >> of smell messages from the other organisms, the totality of which is called >> God. >> >> God does not jail and restrict himself in the pineal gland only as >> asserted by Rene Descartes, the father of the mechanical paradigm, which >> has led to the dominance of modern technology leading to lives with half >> frozen or dead muscles. >> >> God pervades every cell and every cell ultimately interacts with every >> cell in every organism of the Biosphere. The Biosphere becomes one single >> organism and they do not Darwin each other, like the cells in your body >> which do not Darwin each other. The living earth, Gaia is a fact. >> >> Today we are dominated by mechanization and we have unleashed the frenzy >> of computers to substitute every muscular activity with mechanical >> aggression. We are the targets of the deadly assault to make every muscle >> frozen. >> >> Every machine one uses freezes some muscle. And today, it is the >> computers that learn and perceive, not we. In every school, college and >> University the students are forced to use only their minds while actually >> forcing them to freeze their muscle, forcing the cells, not to participate >> in learning. The God of the Pineal gland of Rene Descartes is wrecking >> great destruction. >> >> Nature today is forced into freeze, thanks to mechanization. From the >> frozen limbs we are advancing towards the frozen Biosphere. >> >> Please go to any place where the murder of nature is pending, and do >> physical exercise. The Biosphere there under the sentence of economic death >> will respond to your cells. And your muscles can be saved from freezing. >> Smell converse with the plants and trees. They respond and give you real >> benefits; they join you to nature and give the power of nature to you. >> >> YM >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Thatha_Patty" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CAL5XZoqLtCDmT0akb-3DtfQbuV3mZ5F8hn2nUp181oMA0V5aOg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CAL5XZoqLtCDmT0akb-3DtfQbuV3mZ5F8hn2nUp181oMA0V5aOg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. 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