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Quoraanswers need not be 100% correct answers .Compiled and posted byR. Gopala krishnan, on 14-04-2024 Q1 What happened to Ekalvya after he cutoff his thumb in Guru Dakshina? A1 Rama G, Lives in Bengaluru,Karnataka, India Updated Thu This is whatI heard from my teachers when I was in high school. Ekalvya is aNishada king. Tribal rules are different. Not follow dharmas of othersocieties. Strength is their asset. They have their own rules. Drona wantsomeone who is best in strength, follower of dharma, who has Vichakshna as hisstudent and saviour of Hasthina. That is thereason he didn't find even his own child Aswathama as suitable to learn thebest archery from him. Which father keeps away their own children for otherssake? Eligibilitydoesn't mean only expertice. It needs patience, calm nature, Dharma vichakshna. Aswathama, Ekalvyathese people are very short tempered. Ekalavyapunishes a dog for barking and disturbing him when he was practicing. He isright according to his tribal rules. Not for Hasthina. Purpose ofteaching should be seen as an issue between right and wrong. Guru works for theside of right. Love and mercy are more powerful than hatred and cruelty. He stopped Ekalvyanot killed him. He can do that also if he want to misuse his position. A personwith a missing limb can not become king of Hasthina pura.Just like Dhritarashtra. So he ensured that. Even afterall this, he blesses Ekalavya with best skills, so he practices without thumband excels. I heard till date those skills are practiced in archery. Not usingThumb. I am not an expert in archery. So, this is just what I read. Finally asexpected Ekalavya makes friends with Jarasandha and killed by Lord Krishna. Arjun thinkstwice even before Kurukshetra war. Doesn't want to fight. Then by Krishna’s‘Gitopadesam’ he fights war. Ekalavya’s mindset, manners are different. Being aBrahman guru, Drona did ‘Himsa’ by asking ekalavya his thumb as Guru dakshina.May be for good reasons. His loyalty towards Hasthina pura kingdom. He is Rajaguru. Still, has to face consequences of his karma. So, died inwar by a lie. “Aswathama hathaha kunjaraha” said byDharmaraya. Bharatham isfull of this kind of rules, principles, dharma, adharma, conflicts betweenthem, doubts, clarification, you can't measure them with present day scales. Thosecharacters are not black and white, they have different shades also. Peopleobviously pick up points according to their taste, their view point. People seewhatever they like to see, hear whatever they like to hear. I takeekalavya as my idol for his lakshya sadhana. Will power. Even Guru is not readyto teach him, he learnt on his own how to excel in his chosen field. Humans takebirth for some reasons, die again for some reasons. Thosereasons may appear logical to some . Illogical to some. Picking upgood things from any epics help us. Especially from those which happenedthousands of years back instead of dissecting and post mortem. If you haveplenty of time to waste or your goal is to prove who is wrong or right, all thebest. Q2 What's the funniest joke you've heard recently? A2 Robert Farnsworth,Apr 4 “Hey mom!Can I buy a car? There is this advertisement in the paper for a new Porsche,only $25.00!” “Oh, I am sure it is a misprint,” said mom,“no one would put that kind of price on a car like that.” “Can we go and see?” said the boy. So they wentto the address. Sure enough,there was a brand new Porsche, in excellent condition, with only a few hundredmiles on it. A woman sawthem looking at and came out. The boy said“It is a beautiful car. It was advertised at $25.00. How much is it really??” “It’s $25; unless that is too much for you,I’ll lower the price.” The boyforked over the $25 and they signed the papers. Before theyleft with the car the boy’s mother said “I just have to ask. Why are you selling thisvaluable auto for only $25?” “Well,” said the lady, “My husband left theother day and ran away withhis secretary. He wired me from Hawaii saying ‘Sell my car, send me the money.’So that is what I am doing.” Q3 Do you know any funny jokes involvinganimals? A3 Marek Čtrnáct,10mo The animalsin the forest decide to build a public toilet in order to have a cleanerforest. For a weekor so, everything is fine. But then, one day, a hole appears in the door. The wolf,whose cousin is a police dog, takes the role of the investigator. “Does anyone know what happened here?” heasks. “Yes, I know something,”says the rabbit. “Yousee, the bear went to use the toilet, but there was no toilet paper. I was justoutside, so the bear grabbed me, wiped his butt with me, and threw me out sohard that I flew through the door.” “The bear,yes…” says the wolf. The bear is big, strong, and cranky, and the wolf has nodesire to tangle with him. “Fine,” he says, “we’ll just repair the door. Idon’t think this will repeat.” Another weekpasses, and this time, thedoor is lying on the ground. So the wolf investigates again. “Does anyone know what happened here?” heasks. “Yes, I know something,” says the fox. “Thebear was on the toilet, and there was no toilet paper, so he grabbed me, wipedhis butt with me, and throw me against the door with such force that the door hingesbroke. All theanimals take a while to think about it. Such brutality! Such strength! No, theydon’t want to tangle with the bear. So they, again, repair the door and saynothing. And then, aweek after that, they see thatthe whole building is completely demolished. The walls are reduced to rubble. The toilet itself is broken intoshards. “OK,” says the wolf, “this is too much. Evenif it is the bear again, we can’t let this slide, but, just to keep theprotocol… does anyone know what happened here?” “Yes, I know something,” says the hedgehog… Q4 Do all trees produce oxygen for humansto breathe, even when they do not have leaves? If so, what percentage of oxygencomes from trees? A4 Ken Saladin,Former professor ofhistology (microscopic anatomy)Updated Apr 8 I can’t tellyou specific numbers, but I know (if my readings are correct) that oceanic phytoplankton produces moreof the world’s oxygen than any other source, and on land, grasslands producemore than forests. Even urban lawns produce a significant amount ofoxygen in growing season, but they have anet oxygen consumption by decay in the nongrowing part of the year. A 5,000sq.ft. lawn (a little over 0.1 acre) produces enough oxygen to meet the needsof nerly 35 people per day, whereas the same area of forest produces enough for8 to 18 people.[1] With few exceptions, trees do notproduce oxygen when they have no leaves.One exception is the palo verde tree of the American Southwest, which haschlorophyll throughout (hence its green branches) and photosynthesizeseverywhere, with or without leaves. Palo verde It must be remembered that evenphotosynthetic plants don’t just produce oxygen, they also consume it.In the winter, leafless deciduous trees only consume it, and some forestsconsume about as much oxygen as they produce because of the decay of vegetationand other matter of the forest floor. A tropical rainforest is not a netproducer of oxygen. Q5 Why is it a bad idea to run from abear? A5 Mats Andersson, Businessman atLanguage Industry (1991–present)Apr 5 Bears don’tclassify much. They divide the world into a few simple categories. It hasworked for them for millions of years. Those categories are: Things to mate with. Things to eat. Things that might be a threat. Rocks. Many animalswill have category 3 labelled “Things to run away from”, but that’s not whatbears do. They walk up to it and whack it; problem solved. When youchance upon a bear, it will immediately discard option 1. You are provisionallyin class 4, but it’s watching for evidence to the contrary. Bears don’t normally eat humans.We’re far too big to be bear prey. But if we run away, we might suddenlytrigger pattern recognition for option 2. Walking towards it is, of course,worse, because we get upgraded to option 3 pretty quickly, the bear will solvethe problem, and then we’ll be investigated for whether our remains maybeclassify as option 2. What you want to do is to display behaviour thatmakes it think you have filed it under option 4.That’s when you keep lookingat it, but slowly and confidently walk away. Since you’re not afraid, you can’tbe food; since you’re not advancing towards it, you can’t be a threat. Mind you,it’s not certain that you will suddenly be classified as food. But you reallydon’t want to take chances with a bear. -- 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/1995884788.5489386.1713110478607%40mail.yahoo.com.
