My Visit to Zurich - 30.5.25 to 27.7.25

1.6.25 - Planing for a trekking around Appenzell 85 kms from home. Got up at 5:30am, brushed, bathed, meditated, had breakfast (Strawberries, Blueberries, Poha Upma and Sanjeevani) Nirmalya and Shalini explained nicely about their journey in acquiring their platinum AI card. Let me see if I could get a gold card😊. Had started at 8:40am. Took our jackets and walking sticks. Nirmalya my son in law drove and we reached Appenzell and started the trekking at 10:30am to see the Seealpsee a lake atop the mountains. On our way to the lake we took a detour to have Butterbrot (Butter Bread) and Yogurt from a farm store. After the snacks took a dip (leg alone) at the lake’s chill water. It was refreshing and rejuvenating, it took away all the stress and pain in the legs

Seealpsee - the lake atop the mountains which was our trekking destination.

Flammkuchen - Veggie version

The restaurant just before the lake that severed us with Butter bread.

The restaurants cows, who’s milk was used to make the butter that we had😊.

The restaurant that served us Flammkuchen - Veggie version.

Butterbrott 😀

Guess distance to our destination 😀

we followed a tougher route and not the service lane while climbing but resorted to service lane down hill.

Down hill we had yummy 🤤 Cone ice cream from a self served vending machine at 3 CHF each.

On our way back my daughter Shalini drove back.

It was a lovely trekking experience which we all liked thoroughly🤩.

Further climbing up from the lake would have taken us to the hill top hut which one could stay over night😱.

Here is the link to the GoPro recording of our trekking.

Baltic Cruise

 Took a trip with Kala(Wife) and Shalini(Daughter) on a Baltic cruise, in Serenade of seas owned by Royal Caribbean. Spent eight days sailing ⛵️ in Baltic sea 19th May to 27th May-2017, starting from Copenhagen-Denmark 🇩🇰 and visiting Stockholm-Sweden 🇸🇪, Tallinn-Estonia 🇪🇪, Saint Petersburg, Pushkin-Russia 🇷🇺, Helsinki-Finland 🇫🇮 and back to Copenhagen- Denmark. A memorable trip. Here are some photos too. Worth the trip. 

Copenhagen water front

Catherine palace at Saint Petersburg.

Walls decked with gold end to end

Cruise’s deck Caption Christoph was at ease and friendly

Sweden- Blue hall  in Stockholm were Nobel prizes are given every year. 

Serenade of the sea’s centrum. The cruise ship had 9 floors in all..

With Shalini in Copenhagen water front

Tallin Market square - Estonia’s capital

From our rooms Balcony - Sun Set

Helsinki- Finland

spilt blood - Russia

Stockholm’s “Dalia” wooden horse dolls.

Place for various flags in the ship’s deck. The cruise would hoist the countries flag when it enters its waters. 

With Kala by Serenade of the seas -Docked

Kids to school with their teacher - Stockholm 

Nyhavn - Fabulous joint where people from various countries congregate to have street food. 

Inside our room in the cruise

Stockholm - Noble prize Venue

Journey in Natural Farming

After knowing through news paper, TV news, TV debates, Youtube videos, and many Social medias about chemicals getting into our food chain to the extent researchers finding 200 odd manmade chemicals being present in an umbilical chord of a new born baby, I bought a device that could be used to measure man made chemicals (nitrates) present in the vegetables and fruits. The device has a probe that can be inserted into any vegetable or fruit and the devices’s screen displays the Nitrate content. If the nitrate content is with in allowable limits it is safe to consume and if the Nitrate reading show in red, that means the vegetables or fruits are grown using excessive man made chemicals. Believe me the researchers data is correct, all veggies and most of the fruits that we have access to through vegetable and fruit shops are chemical ridden. 

Our body that has evolved over millions of years is not ready and is still learning to digest / eliminate man made chemicals in food that are less than a century old. Though agriculture is more than 2000 years old man started using man made chemicals as fertilisers and insecticide, herbicide etc only in the last century. So human body is yet to learn how to eliminate these toxins from the body. The toxins that remain in the body undigested reduces immunity of the body and also pave way for chronic diseases.

My experience with FMTV ( food matters tv) :

James the founder of FMTV was in sync with my thinking and hence have been subscribing FMTV for more than a decade now. By consciously avoiding solid food and sticking to juices prescribed in FMTV’s 2 weeks workshop on detoxification help’s detoxification and during the workshop from 2nd day onwards you start to feel the benefits of the workshop . The head ache or diarrhoea one gets while detoxing means detoxing exercise is working. These symptoms of detoxification subsides by 4th or 5th day of detoxification. Ones starts feeling breeze after this. 

It was not sufficient you only detox. You have to source chemical free food ingredients. Hence my journey in to farming to grow my own rice without any man made chemicals. Rice is the single most food that we consume in abundant quantity as idli, dosai and for daily lunch as boiled table rice etc..

I attended Shri Subhash Palekar’s 10 day work shop on (SPNF) natural farming in 2019 February at Trichy SRM campus. It was an eye opener. He said nature is abundant with the minerals required for the plants and humans and that we do not have to use any man made chemicals whatsoever either to grow or protect the plants. All that we need as per Shri Subhas Palekar was one Desi cow for its urine and cow dung, which are rich in microorganisms that act on the soil to provide the plants with the essential nutrients and minerals. Learnt to make Jeevamrutham, Ganajeevamrutham, Beejamrutham, மோர் கரைசல் etc to grow plants with out using man made chemicals. 

So first was to buy a Desi cow. I was surprised to see not a single soul in the village nor those in the family who have been in agriculture for ages knew how to identify a Desi cow from a Jersey cow or Jersey cross breed cows. It took almost 2 years for me to identify a pure Umbalacherry cow with calf. Lakshmi (2nd calfed mother) and Ahalya (calf) as named by my daughter Shalini came into our life in July’23. Not just us our extended family was thrilled to have the cow. Deputed Raja as care taker for Lakshmi and Ahalya. Lakshmi’s milk 3 litters in the morning and 2 liters in the evening was relished by all milk takers in the extended family. I came across a tamil புறநானூறு பாடல் that exemplifies Umbalacherry buttermilk. This exemplification is not without a reason the milk, butter and the butter milk all tasted out of the world. My mother stopped buying butter for daily use. Daily ghee usage was  met with the butter drawn out of the  curd made from umbellachery cow’s milk.            

Lakshmi with her calf Ahalya

I was more interested to make Jeevamrutham. It was made my mother’s responsibility to make the moong dal flour and supply the 100 gram moong dal flour, 100 gram jaggery along with 100 gram soil to Raja(my man Friday on Farming front)  every 15 days, so that Raja makes 20 liter Jeevamrutham mixing 1 liter of cow’s urine and 1 kg of cow dung to the above ingredients that my mother gives along with 20 liter water. This mixture is left to fermant for 48 hours, only stirring morning and evening in clockwise direction for a minute. 

As we stopped using man made chemicals (fertilisers), pesticides and herbicides from 2019 onwards, now our land is ready to be certified as an organic farm land. I have taken steps to register our land as organically certified. This will be handy when some organic produce sellers insist on certificates to buy organically produced farm products from our land.

My journey became relatively easy with the support of my brother Viswanathan who has been doing agriculture for more than 25 years now. Thanks to my wife Kala and daughter Shalini for their encouragement. 

September ‘23 Rakthashaali a traditional 2000 year old paddy was harvested from our farm land and this was our first venture to sell the paddy after value adding as rice and poha. There was tremendous support to the organically grown Rakthashaali rice. This rice is touted to be 2000 year old rice and is figuring in the Ayurvedic book Charaksamhitha as a rice with high nutritive value. Here is an article from Tamil news media about the rice Rakthashaali  We have now started growing the Tamil Nadu varieties like Athur kichilli samba, Vasanai seeraga samba etc..Literally we sold Rathasaali rice to retail customers all over India from Kanyakumari to Kashmir and West Bengal to Gujarat. 

With my brother Viswanathan at our Village Katalaicherry 

Gist of Saiva Siddhantam (continued)

Read this before proceeding https://gowrisankar.blogspot.com/2021/01/jist-of-saiva-siddhantham.html 

பதி, பசு - நிலைகள் states / levels of the almighty and the atma

பதி நிலைகள்

 There are 4 levels god has

1. சொருப நிலை soruba 

    This level is beyond comprehension of human intelligence however high the intelligence may be.

2. தடத்த நிலை Thadatha 

    2a அருவ நிலை - with out form 

          உணர மட்டுமே முடியும் நிலை can only be felt

    2b அருஉருவ நிலை - with and with out form

         Lingam

    2c உருவ நிலை - with form

         Multitude of gods - Siva, Sadasiva, Mageshwaran, Rudhran...

பசு நிலைகள் (18)

There are 18 levels in which atma can be in

1. கேவல நிலை Kevala level

    ஆணவத்தால் கட்டுண்ட நிலை due ignorance encompassed by ego immovable, frozen kevala level. At this level pasu is immobilised. As it is a அறிவு (has intelligence) பொருள் it starts feeling...வெறுப்பு ஏர்பட்டு, கேவல நிலையிலிருந்து விடுபட விருப்பு தோன்றும். இந்நிலையில் பதி தன் கருணை மிகுதியால் பசு விர்க்கு உதவும் பொருட்டு தன்நிலையில் இருந்து இறங்கி வந்து 35 கருவிகளை புட்டி (தனு, கரண, புவன,போகங்கள் கொடுத்து) உண்மை உனரும் பொருட்டு (உலகுக்வைகு) அனுப்பி வைக்கிறான்.

God is all present, all pervading, all mighty but as he is away from desire he doesn’t directly bail out atma (pasu) from miseries (maya). He provides all engines to make pasu realise truth and achieve bliss. In the next level உயிர் நிலை.

2. சகல நிலை Sakala level

    பதியின் கருணையால் பசு 35 கருவிகள் பூட்டப்பட்ட நிலையில் தனக்கு உரிய புவனத்தில் வந்து அடைகின்றது.   Pasu with pathi’s grace bestowed with 35 engines reaches the world. Pathi has given these engines to help pasu realise self and god.

3. சுத்த நிலை Sudha level

    பதி உடண் சேர்ந்து ஆணவ மலம் வறுவுண்ட நிலை. mukthi level when Pasu realises self and reaches god conciousness and be part of god.

சகலநிலையில் உயிர் 15 நிலைகளில் செயலாற்றும் 

(There are 15 levels at which atma operates in sakala level) one needs to understand them (15) to consciously cross the levels. 

There are 3 major levels in sakala level

They are 

1. கீழாவித்தை, 2. மத்தியாவித்தை, 3.மேலாவித்தை

In each of the 3 major level there are 5 sub levels

As follows

1. விழிப்பு, 2. கனவு 3. உறக்கம் 4. துரியம் 5. துரியாதீதம்

1. Wakeful state, 2. dream state, 3. deep sleep state 4. Thuriam, 5. Thuriyathitham 

Now lets look at examples of  கீழாவித்தை with its 5 sub levels

       1. விழிப்பு நிலை - சராசரி அனுபவம் 35 கருவிகளும் இயங்கும் - இந்உநிலையில் உயிர் புருவ மத்தியில் நிலை பெரும். Wakeful state all 35 engines work. Atma resides between eye brows.

        2. கனவு நிலை - உறங்கும் நிலை - 25 கருஙிகள்  மட்டுமே யங்கும். 5 அறிவு கருவிகளும் 5 செயல் கருவிகளும் இயங்காது. Example while dreaming one sees with out eyes open, walks runs etc with out legs. இந்உநிலையில் உயிர் தொண்டையில் நிலை பெரும். 10 engines do not work (5 sense organs and 5 activity organs). Atma resides in vishudhi (throat). 

        3. ஆழ் உறக்க நிலை - 3 கருவிகள் மட்டுமே இயங்கும். அவை 1. உயிர், 2. பிராணன், 3. சித்தம். உம் :- கனவுகள் அற்ற நிலை. You breath and when you wake up you say you had undisturbed deep / good sleep. இந்உநிலையில் உயிர் இதயத்தில் நிலை பெரும். Only 3 engines work. 1. Atma ?, 2. Breathing 3. chintha alone work in this stage. Atma resides in anahatha at heart. (Apart

       4. துரியம் - மயக்க நிலை - 1. உயிர் , 2. பிராணன் இவை இரண்டு மட்டுமே இயங்கும். மயங்கி விழித்தவருக்கு தான் எவ்வாறு மயக்கமுற்றோம் என்று தெரியாது. இந்உநிலையில் உயிர் மணிபூரகத்தில் நிலை பெரும். At Thuriam, only Atma ? and breathing exists. When a person wakes up from fainting he doesn’t remember what happened to him. Chintha is shutoff too. Atma ? Resides at manipuraham below naval / solar plexus.

        5. துரியாதீதம் - இந்நிலையில் உயிர் மட்டுமே இயங்கும் பிராணன் தடைபட்டுவிடும். பாம்பு கடிவுண்டவர்கள், நீரில் மூழ்கியவர்கள். இந்உநிலையில் உயிர் மூலாதாரத்தில் நிலை பெரும். At Thuriyathitham only atma? Alone will be there. When bitten by snake, or drowned Atma goes snd resides at Muladhara between Anus and Genital even breathing stops. At this level still the person can be brought back to life. Garudabavana for snake bite will get the patient to life back again. Artificial breathing can bring drowned person back to life.

All the 5 above states in kelavithai can be experienced in madyavithai also. There are no words or comparison to explain Experience one get at the third state - Melavithai’s 5 levels…when the level of thuriathitham at melavithai is reached the entire knowledge of universe, energy of para sivam and parvathi flows into one and one become part of the almighty. 

https://youtu.be/8gxfU6hgjNc 

How to Keep your lungs healthy

8 Natural Remedies To Improve Lung Capacity

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Audible - Corona False Alarm ?

 

The above book is an international best seller. Dr Reiss & Dr Bhakdi have varied expertise as MD, Microbiologist, professor etc.  The summary of the book is

1. No doubt Corona is a virus that is contagious and is affecting human life.

2. But the governments and the main line media had too much of voice and went about doing all acts that were unnecessary and the effect of economy is much more a serious problem than corona itself.

3. They keep telling all through the book that lockdown   could have been avoided. Many countries like iceland, Sweden, Hong Kong, South Korea and even Japan (as per the book) were transparent, kept the citizens aware of the disease and went about the business with out stringent lockdown measures and the number of cases reported and deaths are not too very different from countries that had stricter lockdown measures.

4. There had been no effective vaccines for flu and so extending the same to Corona too as the virus keeps mutating there is no real vaccine available and people are being vaccinated with out telling them the future impacts.

5. Similar cases of swine flu vaccines have rendered many with brain disease.

6. Countries like Germany 🇩🇪 that have prudently stopped GMO produce are now vaccinating humans with Gene 🧬 modified vaccines. Which is ridiculous foolish as per the authors.

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The last four engines of prakritimayay

 The last 4 engines if prakriti mayay that pathi has given to pasu to help pasu realise truth are

1. Manasu - helps decipher / understand

2. Puthi - helps know good or bad

3. Ahankaram - helps seek what is in it for me

4. Sitham - un sullied memory. According to avvaiyar god is shown / seen in Sitham ( சித்த்த்தின் உள்ளே சிவலிங்கம் காட்டி )

When one is able to have mastery over the 20 + 4 engines it is said G

The roles micro nutrients play in your life.

Not just physical health, as physical health has direct relationship with mental health, scaling high in academics, sports , career and in spiritual wellbeing, just as macro nutrients (Carbohydrates, Protein & Fat), micro nutrients play a major role. A continuous intake of Celery and Parsley juice will show you the immediate result after consumption of these juices. 

I have seen my confidence levels going up. Apart from the physical  improvement I see over a period. 

Understanding upanishads

 Kathopanishad 

Seed activation - Food posts

 

Seeds and nuts are designed by nature to sprout into trees / plants. Inorder to preserve them from insects and worms nature had provided them with a layer of toxins,  so that insects and worms do not eat them away when they are in the soil to germinate. Seeds and nuts hold lots of essential nutrients that the human body needs. While seeds can be had to augment body’s nutrient requirements, they need to be activated to increase their bio availability. The above chart gives time required to make the seeds / nuts be more bioavailable. If you are interested in knowing the time needed for groundnut / peanut 🥜 it is 6 to 8 hours soaking in water to make them more bioavailable . This soaking also removes the pitham in groundnuts. Enjoy!!  Click hear to know the soaking time for various nuts and seeds (as recommended by Food Matters) https://drive.google.coM/file/d/1xKmdBbPjkplW9o6GXnkR46G0Lh0o7iBK/view?usp=drivesdk 

Eat this ... Not that 😃

If one is confused as to what to eat and what to stay away from here is the guideline https://drive.google.com/file/d/12a5Igsat9E46dbGzs-XYBlvVngc_qWw-/view?usp=drivesdk 

Food additives to avoid

 

While detoxing is trending people are not fully aware of the root cause of the toxicity in the body. It is the food that we take infested with factory made chemicals that the body does not know how to process and eject out accumulate as toxins in the body. Some of the food additives to avoid in food are here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GEACOUZzvEVwV70KlEwThARTPN-cG3hO/view?usp=drivesdk 

Gist of Saiva Siddhantham - As understood by Gowrisankar Namasivayam

What ever I could gather on Saiva Siddhantham due to my several years of listening to Thirumanthiram discourse by Sivakumar Ayya in Youtube and CD recordings and discussions with my dad and mom who had told and discussed many a spiritual aspects from time to time from my childhood. 

Unlike Vedhantam Saiva Siddhantham believes in Duality.

Saiva Sidhantham 

Some of the seilient points of Saiva Sidhantham are

1.  No one knows the genesis of  those 3 things that were the only things that existed at the start of the universe. They are as follows      

     A) Pathi

     B) Pasu

     C) Pasam

     Pathi (the almighty) is knowledgable and is the one that knows all by itself.

     Pasu (the athma) is knowledgable but only if the almighty (pathi) helps.

     Pasam (desire) is not knowledgable at all. It is inanimate. 

2.  After seeing the sufferings of atma (due to its preoccupation with desire), pathi decides to help atma realize the truth, so that atma can come out of its sufferings and attain blissful state. In order to educate and make atma realize the truth, pathi decides to provide atma with necessary engines, so that atma uses these engines to realize the highest truth, that being in unison with pathi is the one and only salvation, to tide over the sufferings and ultimately come out of the birth cycle and attain mukthi.

3. There are 36 thatvas (engines) that pathi provides athma to experience the truth.

4. The 36 thatvas, bottom up are as follows

    1 - 5 - the punja boothas 

         1. Earth, 2. Water, 3. Fire, 4. Air, 5. Space

    6 - 10 - thanmathirai

          1. Smell, 2. Taste, 3. Sight, 4. Sense of touch, 5. Sound

    11 - 15 - gnanenthrium

          1. Nose, 2. Tounge, 3. Eyes, 4. Skin, 5. Ears

     16 - 20 - karmenthrium

          1. Hands, 2. Legs, 3. Ability to speak, 4. Excretion outlet, 5. Reproductive outlet.

      21 Manasu

      22 Budhi

      23 Ahankaram

      24 Sitham

      The above 24 thatvams of overall 36 thatvams is called / are from prakritimayay.

      The 7 asudhamayay thatvams are as follows

       0. Mayay

       1. Kalai (gnanam)

       2. Vithai (kriyay) வித்தை 

       3. Passion (itchai)

       4. Time (neeram)

       5. Space (neyathi)

       6. Purudan (above 1-5 is called panjakanjugam ( dress ) for athma, panjakanjugam + athma is called purudan.

         The 5 Sudha thatvams are as follows top down

       1. Sadhasivan

       2. Maheswaran

       3. Ruthiran

       4. Vishnu

       5. Brahma

       All the above 5 are all various status of atma, but due to their mastery / control over the prakritimayay & Asudhamayay have entered into Sudhamayay. Every Atma has the potential to raise upto Sudha thatvas.

Some exponents have included 2 more elements to 5 Sudha thatvam    1. Parasivam(Natham), 2. Parasakthi(Vinthu).

5. Above all 36 thatvam is Paraparasivam in Paraveli 

6. How to cross all the 36 thatvams and attain mukthi ?

    By having control over the 24 prakritimayay one enters the Asudhamayay. -Read Seerkazhi Sitrambalanadigal's "Thugalaru Bodham" vurai for more details

    One's gnana guru appears when one crosses prakritimayay and one enters Asudhamayay, to redeem the athma from Karma and ego(anavam).

7. As one crosses each thatvam the atma attains (super)natural powers. Saivam insists not to get diverted when attaining such powers as they might delay the attainment of Mukthi. During the exercise (Sadhana) to help cross the thatvas, There are stages when ones ego might make one feel he/she is the god. One need to be cautious of the same and should always have in mind that atma has no knowledge unless the knower(almighty) lets the atma know and realise truth.

8. Even after attaining mukthi atma should realise that it is because of the knower that the atma is enjoying the bliss.

As you can see from the above that Saivam is in support of duality unlike Advaitam that proposes atma  when refined it becomes paramatma or the god. But Saivam always says that the atma can only reach to the Knower(god) and can never become God. Saiva Siddhanta(m) believes in Duality. The basic premise being if we are one and the same as the creator we would not be messing with us and world like we have been doing. Saiva siddhanta(m) begins saying Pathy,Pasu,Pasam were the three things that existed for eons. Pathy is lord(paramatma) , Pasu is atma & Pasam is love. Paramatma and atma understand(know things). While paramatma is eternaly knowledgeable, atma needs guidance. Atma understands only when shown(explained). Paramatma after seeing the pains that atma undergoes decides to help atma to overcome the pain. 

Saiva Siddhanta philosophy is based mainly on the Saiva Agamas. Vedas are considered to be of general nature and Agamas of special nature to Saivism. Saiva Siddhanta developed as a plausible philosophy in the Tamil land and is considered as the philosophy of the Tamils.

Authoritative texts in Saiva Sidhanta are the fourteen Meykanda Sastra books in Tamil. One of these is Sivagnanbodham which is the primary text in Saiva Siddhanta. The authors of these books are divine inspired saints.  

For a long time it was believed that Saiva religion, like other Indian religions, had its origin with the Vedas. The Mohenjadaro – Harappa excavations of the last century proved that Saivism and Siva worship existed before the Vedic period. Following words of Sir John Marshall testifies to this: 

‘Among the many revelations that Mohenjadaro and Harappa have in store for  us,  none perhaps is more remarkable than this discovery that Saivism has a history  going back to the chalcolithic age’ – John Marshall 

The Saiva religion and its philosophy are praised highly by scholars.

                 ‘Saivism is the oldest pre-historic religion of S. India’ – G.U.Pope 

                 ‘One of the most closely reasoned religious philosophies found anywhere in             

                  the world’. – John H. Piet

My experiments with food - Morning miracle

This juice mix brings good positive vib to your mind and helps to maintain it throughout the day apart from other benefits like controls diabetic, enhances heart function, dissolves stones etc.

Cold press - Plantain Steam 2 inch + Beet root  1/2 + Cucumber  2 to 4 inch + Green apple 1/2  add a pinch of salt + pinch of pepper powder. Have it in empty stomach. 

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