According to our texts, Sun stands for “Pratyaksha-Braham”, “a manifestation of the Absolute”, bestowing knowledge, spiritual light.
आदित्यं च शिवं
विन्द्याच्छिवमादित्य-रुपिणम्।
उभ्योरन्तरं नास्ति,
आदित्यस्य शिवस्य च।।
आदित्यं च शिवं
विन्द्याच्छिवमादित्य-रुपिणम्।
उभ्योरन्तरं नास्ति,
आदित्यस्य शिवस्य च।।
Makar Sankranti is a festival of celebrating “Sun”
Vitamin D is made by the body with sunlight.
Vitamin D is made by the body with sunlight.
Sesame seeds (til) have the highest calcium (975mg per 100g). Milk has 125mg only. healthline.com/nutrition/blac…
The body is capable of storing vitamin D up to a year in the fat tissues and use the reserves. yalemedicine.org/news/vitamin-d…
Lastly, the body is capable of getting its large part of vitamin D requirements with 3 full days of sunlight. nhs.uk/live-well/heal…
The best quality of sunlight is end of winter & beginning of summer as it’s neither harsh nor benign.
Now let’s join the dots, and see how wise our sages were in ancient India.
Now let’s join the dots, and see how wise our sages were in ancient India.
They created a festival of flying kites where by our kids get excited to go in the open, under direct sunlight, throughout the day starting from early morning. And their mothers feed them homemade Til (Sesame) ladoos.
And we have been labelled as antiquated, outdated, unscientific civilisation.
As Ariel Durand had said “A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within”
As Ariel Durand had said “A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within”
In last 200 odd years, we were fed so much of inferiority about our Civilisation, that everything which was logical and scientific about our customs & traditions started to be made look like redundant & obsolete.
India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.
- Mark Twain
- Mark Twain
Let’s return to our traditions, our roots, celebrate our festivals which were based on scientific knowledge and be proud of our Sanatan Culture which has been in existence way before the rest of world was even able to fathom something called civilisation.
निरपेक्षो निर्विकारो निर्भरः शीतलाशयः ।
अगाधबुद्धिरक्षुब्धो भव चिन्मात्रवासनः ॥
You are unconditioned and changeless, formless and immovable, unfathomable awareness and unperturbable, so hold on to nothing but consciousness.
Let’s be conscious & proud of our culture’s legacy.
अगाधबुद्धिरक्षुब्धो भव चिन्मात्रवासनः ॥
You are unconditioned and changeless, formless and immovable, unfathomable awareness and unperturbable, so hold on to nothing but consciousness.
Let’s be conscious & proud of our culture’s legacy.
Credits - Internet, Whatspp and self interpretation.
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