Sunday, September 13, 2015

56 Everyday Things You Never Knew Had Names..

56 Everyday Things You Never Knew Had Names..

1. Petrichor: the way it smells outside after rain.
2. Purlicue: the space between the thumb and forefingers.
3. Wamble: stomach rumbling.
4. Aglet: the plastic coating on a shoelace.
5. Vagitus: the cry of a newborn baby.
6. Glabella: the space between your eyebrows.
7. Chanking: spat-out food.
8. Lunule: the white, crescent shaped part of the nail.
9. Peen: the side opposite the hammer's striking side.
10. Tines: the prongs on a fork.
11. Souffle cup: a ketchup/condiment cup.
12. Natiform: something that resembles a butt.
13. Phosphenes: the lights you see when you close your eyes and press your hands to them.
14. Nurdle: a tiny dab of toothpaste.
15. Box tent: the table in the middle of a pizza box.
16. Cornicione: the outer part of the crust on a pizza.
17. Barm: the foam on a beer.
18. Rasceta: the lines on the inside of your wrist.
19. Overmorrow: the day after tomorrow.
20. Ferrule: the metal part at the end of pencil
21. Punt: the bottom of a wine bottle.
22. Keeper: the loop on a belt that keeps the end in place after it has passed through the buckle.
23. Minimus: your little toe or finger.
24. Zarf: the cardboard sleeve on a coffee cup.
26. Agraffe: the wired cage that holds the cork in a bottle of champagne.
27. Columella nasi: the space between your nostrils.
28. Lemniscate: the infinity symbol.
29. Desire path: a path created by natural means, simply because it is the "shortest or most easily navigated" way.
30. Armscye: the armhole in most clothing.
31. Dysania: the state of finding it hard to get out of the bed in the morning.
32. Collywobbles: butterflies in your stomach.
33. Nibling: the non-gender-specific term for a niece or nephew — like sibling.
34. Griffonage: unreadable handwriting.
35. Paresthesia: that "pins and needles" feeling.
36. Defenestrate: to throw out a window.
37. Muntin: the strip separating window panes.
38. Philtrum: the groove located just below the nose and above the middle of the lips.
39. Snood: the fleshy thing around the neck of a turkey.
40. Vocable: the na na nas and la la las in song lyrics that don't have any meaning.
41. Tittle: the dot over an "i" or a "j."
42. Morton's toe: when your second toe is bigger than your big toe.
43. Crepuscular rays: rays of sunlight coming from a certain point in the sky. AKA what your aunt might have called "God's rays."
44. Snellen chart: the chart you look at when you take an eye exam.
45. Crapulence: that sick feeling you get after eating or drinking too much.
46. Obelus: the division sign (÷).
47. Ideolocator: a "you are here" sign.
48. Brannock device: the thing they use to measure your feet at the shoe store.
49. Interrobang: what it's called when you combine a question mark with an exclamation point like this: ?!
50. Mamihlapinatapai: the look shared by two people who both hope the other will offer to do something that they both want but aren't willing to do.
51. Phloem bundles: those long stringy things you see when peeling a banana.
52. Semantic satiation: what happens when you say a word so long it loses meaning.
53. Octothorpe: the pound (#) button on a telephone.
54. Mondegreen: misheard song lyrics.
55. Scurryfunge: the time you run around cleaning frantically right before company comes over.
56. Aphthongs: silent letters.

 

Friday, September 4, 2015

Do you have these bizzare phobias?

Do you have these bizarre phobias?

 
Gone are the days when you wouldn't know where your phone is. You would be blissfully lying on the bed, reading a book, not caring about the virtual world. Now, two minutes without the gadget seems like the end of the world! With the Iowa State University claiming almost everyone with a phone has Nomophobia, the fear of being without a mobile, we list other phobias that grip us in anxious zaps. While some of these are justified, others are rather unconventional. Do you have any of these?

ONEIROGMOPHOBIA FEAR OF WET DREAMS
It's common and yes, pretty exciting, to have dreams laced with sexual fantasies and cheeky escapades. But sadly, there are people who break out in a cold sweat and get goosebumps if they have a wet dream. These oneirogmophobics are paralysed by the fear of seeing their deepest sexual desires coming to life in their dreams.

VENUSTRAPHOBIA FEAR OF BEAUTIFUL WOMEN
Studies say this fear could be a result of low self-esteem.Remember how The Big Bang Theory's Raj Koothrapalli's selective mutism used to render him speechless in front of women? Venustraphobia is on the lines of it, except that it's restricted to good-looking women.

PAPYROPHOBIA FEAR OF PAPER
Imagine giving someone a heart attack by throwing a paper ball at him! You can, if the person in question is papyrophobic -someone who has an irrational fear of paper.Such individuals experience emotional upheavals at the sight of a blank sheet, a paper ball and the sound of tearing paper.Even the sound of someone writing on paper can terrify such people.

NOMOPHOBIA FEAR OF BEING WITHOUT THE PHONE
Nomophobia is an unjustified fear. We are always reaching for our phones, consciously or subconsciously, so much so, that in an area without network coverage, we wouldn't know what to do with life anymore!

ABLUTOPHOBIA FEAR OF BATHING
You wouldn't want to get too close to someone who's ablutophobic, or in simple words, is terrified of taking a bath or cleaning up. Often triggered by traumatic experiences involving water, this phobia can make individuals go to extreme lengths to avoid prolonged contact with water.

ALLODOXAPHOBIA FEAR OF OPINIONS
Honestly, we have all had allodoxaphobia or the social fear of opinions, at some point of our lives. In a world where the capacity of most individuals to understand others is as short as their attention span, it's not surprising if they are afraid of opinions. However, being defensive is one thing, but completely losing it when someone has an opinion (good or bad) is quite another.


     
 
 
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Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Sri Krishna Taught And Embodied Yoga

Sri Krishna Taught And Embodied Yoga
M N Kundu

Sri Krishna was undoubtedly the best exponent of yoga, the art of cosmic union with the Absolute and working in daily life with that consciousness.

In the Gita and the Bhagavatam, he explained the theory of yoga while in real life he demonstrated the practice of the same. He clarified that equanimity is yoga, the art of right action which enables one to remain steadfast amid worldly tribulations and tackle all disharmony, the root cause of all evils and problems with divine anchorage. His yoga was not the preparatory Hatha Yoga for health and healing but the highest yoga for liberation and living. He placed transcendental yoga of Maharishi Patanjali into social context, linking it with selfless service to humanity, infinite expansion of Self with ultimate wisdom and entire abolition of delimiting ego with divine devotion.

Entire creation is an ideational composition of consciousness of Spirit which is manifested in and through Nature. While Nature is constantly active, creative and operative consciousness lying at the backdrop is always behind the screen.Mind, matter and prana owe their existence to consciousness. As a yogi, Krishna was always anchored in cosmic consciousness, yet perfect in enactment of his human role. This is the yoga of wisdom with which he was simultaneously more divine and more human in the stupendous drama of creation exhibiting what true yoga is. The simplest method of yoga is to develop non-attachment with discriminating wisdom and cultivate unconditional love for God.

In the life of Krishna we find the ideal golden mean for living.He did not follow any world negating life of renunciation but showed what mental renunciation is. Clinging to anything was absolutely foreign to his smiling nature.He perfectly played the role of a naughty child, a playful youth, a statesman par excellence, an intimate friend, a beloved husband and above all embodiment of wisdom. His prescription for life is to maintain non-attachment to anything and everything being calmly active. Thus he exemplified the practice of Karma Yoga.He himself remained thoroughly within worldly life, being entirely aloof from it despite apparent involvement. He never hesitated to leave his dear gopis, kingdom and even life, being ever fixed in witness-Self. In the Gita, Krishna advises us to do our duties knowing fully well that the result will be in the hands of the Almighty. Practice of detachment to worldly matters and maintenance of perfect equanimity under all circumstances with absolute surrender to the will of God are the best course. Thus he prescribed yoga, the art of right action as the way to unification with the eternal Self. Keynote of Krishna Consciousness is divine love for the Omnipresent Absolute in everybody. Krishna is the embodiment of love ­ love for mother Yashoda, cowherd friends, classmate Sudama, devotional gopis, Pandavas, specially Arjuna and even his killer-hunter Jara who shot his deadly arrow by mistake. With Christ-like love, he consoled his killer saying that it was all predestined and the killer acted as an actor in the drama of divine love. These are all manifestations of same divine love which enables us to see Krishna in everybody and see everybody in him and serve them all.

Assertion of non-doership despite doing everything, never expecting fruits of action and accepting all that follows despite taking the best action and surrendering everything to the will of the Almighty enables us to acquire our divine inheritance and enjoy peace, bliss and everlasting joy. The life of Krishna embodied his presentation of the aforesaid concept of yoga.
 
   

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