Shielding oneself

 "He who is the Brahman of the Vedantins, Ishvara of the Naiyayikas, Purusha of the Sankhyas, cause  of the Mimamsakas, law  of the Buddhists, absolute zero  of the Atheists, and love infinite unto those that love, may [He] take us all under His merciful protection": Udayanacharya -- a great philosopher of the Nyaya or Dualistic school. And this is the Benediction pronounced at the very beginning of his wonderful book Kusumanjali  (A handful of flowers).

As a sapling tries to grow , a hedge is created around it so that it may be protected against animals. We are all saplings trying to grow unto God. For a warrior on the battlefield his uniform is also a shield. What is the shield that we have against the onslaught of crass comercialisation on one side and falling ethics on the other. In between these two enemies that halt spiritual development do we find wanting an armour. 

Since both the adversaries are fighting the battle within us how does one vanquish the enemy ?  Luckily we are all provided with a sword of wisdom which if used alongwith a kavach (protective covering ) of  yoga ( not to be confused with asanas) can counteract any attack. 

Spiritual energy cannot be obtained by talisman, amulets, charms, spells, rituals or any person. Spiritual energy comes from recognising that we are a spirit endowed with a body and our nature is spiritual not physical.

An after-thought.

Sensitive people should avoid large groups and gatherings. There is a theory which I subscribe to and that is the more the number of people gathered in a place the more likely their group consciouness acts in a wierd way. If you see the paranoia at rock concerts you will realise that all individuals involved are sane people but their collective gathering tends to bring out a delusional frenzy. Marriages, Birthday Parties, Dinners where a large number of people are present are potential places where our magnetic impulses tend to loose their properties and the aftermath is a feeling of fatigue and burnout. This is a very important method of shielding oneself.

India - A Land of Oppurtunity in the Stock Markets

The universe runs on one principle, Change. Whatever exsists will undego change and re-invent itself with time manifesting a different aspect of its basic function. This principle is the foundation of life.

Sindhis can claim the title of the founders of the aryan race. As original inhabitants of the Sindhu Valley they have been in exsistence since the past 7000 years or so. This is the period when trade and commerce were initiated in social life.5000 years back , Aryans started forming Societies around the world. These small pockets of habitations believed that inanimate objects are the same as living like plants animals and humans and totally capable of reproducing itself. This is the core teaching of vedanta. Hence if " food money "  or " monetary token " of any kind was given , then it was legitimate to charge interest. The rate of interest charged was 10-25 percent for silver and 20-35 percent for cereals. This was 5000 years back.  Then around 4500 to 4000 years back the Sumerians fixed the rate of interest at 20 percent. 

The word banking comes from two sanskrit words byaya or expense and onka meaning calculation. The sindhi word byaj or interest is also similar to the original sanskrit word expense. The Jews who are considered as bankers to the world have a history that can be traced to pre-christ times when they used to carry out the trade of money-lending at the temple of Solomon, built 1005 years before christ. The jews and sindhis share many common characteristics the two major being trading and diaspora. Some years back a proffesor in Allahabad University had even found that Sindhis and Jews share a very common gene pool too. 

The reason for tracing back all this information is to illuminate the readers that banking like the aryan race is very ancient and has been a part of our culture since thousands of years. Sindhis especially are known to lend money to traders who used to  buy and sell goods on the china-persia route that passed through sindh.

Today banking is institutionalised. Small time sindhi businessmen who were private bankers to many people who could not get complete the rigid formalities and the strict systems of rules of the these banks have found it difficult to realise the interest with many people defaulting. But there is still a way to be involved in this wonderful process which benefits both the debtor and the lender. The debtor benefits by utilising the funds to generate more money and thereby finding a way to become an uncommon man  from a common man.  People who have changed their status from impoverished to wealthy have all realised that success comes when you borrow responsibly and turn the debt in to an asset. When I was a small time stockbroker at the Bangalore Stock Exchange in 1997-1998, a retired Bank of India branch manager used to have coffee with me every day on the terrace of our stock exchange building near unity towers on J.C.Road. This everyday meeting between a person who had seen and experienced commerce day in and day out and an amateur who was just learning how not to get caught in a frenzy and keep away from the fiction of the stock markets taught me some of the greatest lessons in economics commerce and psychology. My tutors contention was that todays debt is tommorrows asset if carefully planned.Imagine buying a house with debt. Inflation assures that money losses value over a period of time ( Flats in Bombay 35 years back were available for 25,000 in a very good area of khar ). Now imagine putting the same money in your bank at 15.5% interest, the yield over 35 years will be around 16 lacs ( simple interest and not compound) , but the same amount invested in a house would be worth at least 5 to 7 times the amount gained by putting in the bank. An asset whether it be Land Machines or Shares would be worth more than the value of money invested wheras the actual value of money and its worth falls. 

An efficient and intelligent debtor and a banker are the nessecary requisites for a growing economy. Sindhis have known this from pre-historic times and have graciously lent money fuelling growth and thrusting people from insolvency to affluence. 

This article is incomplete if I dont mention the new opportunities available in Banking. This will be taken up in my next part when I continue this note. I will also be doing a dis-service to my nation if I dont mention that Gold Silver and Jewellery are dead investments and do not benefit a country nor the people.

My Last post was incomplete. My intentions in the last post was two fold , 1) To introduce the concept that banking was as ancient ( if not more ) than the vedic period, by establishing this theory I will be able to sanction my next postulate which will be that not only is banking and charging interest nessecary , it is also moral if done honourably. 2) The second point I wanted to make was that with lesser opportunities for private bankers a new thought and a fresh approach is required to continue in this industry. For people who may question why do we need to continue the answer lies in the fact that a business over many years developes an insight to throw out the inconsistencies and pitfalls. The business matures and goes into auto-correct mode. After years and years of growth the business becomes immune to the changes in the economic environment. 

In this note I shall take some tips from an article which appeared in DNA on 20th October under the title " The agenda behind the anti-corruption agenda" written by G.Sampath a writer whose ideas fall very close to my thoughts. The article quotes eminent economist Prabhat Patnaiks theory that " by repeatedly associating state initiatives and programmes with corruption, you make a strong case for the handing over of public assets held in trust by the state ( such as PSU's) in to private hands."  The common man is now burdened monetarily by paying much more for the services which were first rendered by the state at a nominal cost. By corrupting our minds and making the difference between nessecities and luxuries thin through the use of advertising corporations and industry are playing both sides of the game where the looser is the common man. On one hand they try and make everything costlier on the other hand they create an impression where everything is needed. In such a situation people and families spend their money before earning it.

By taking loans and not spending it on making assets people fall in to the debt trap which sucks out the life of any family. In fact the german word for debt is schuld means debt and guilt. 

Everything that happens to us or is likely to happen should be taken in the correct spirit and just as as the captain of the boat never blames the storm but takes corrective and antidotal steps to counteract the storm so should we as captains of our family who are dependent on us for their existence and expense.

Looking at the whole picture with an intutive eye and observing the trends carefully is it not a good time to invest in shares of PSU banks ?

Not only are they available at below market rates and pay yearly dividend but they may be the first businesses that herald the age of compulsive spending where private moneylenders give you money to purchase the goods manufactured by themselves at a price where paying for the interest is possible only by taking more loans.

Public Utilities and Public Sector Undertakings will be a thing of the past. We are observing that cheap goods and cheap products and services are no longer available. Future will be still hard and may be we all shall need some help or financing to carry on living a decent lifestyle. By taking co-ownership in banks and becoming the shareholders , we may be able to endure the blow which is aimed directly on our children.

Somewhere in the Middle

suni hikaayat-ehasti to darmiyaan se suni"na ibtida ki khabar hai na inteha maaloom"  

Shaad azeem abadi

In the scheme of things that got created in the universe , humans are placed in one corner from where neither the begining nor the ending is visible. On one end of the spectrum nature extends itself to about 26 orders of magnitude in space , larger than us and on the other end it , through molecules and atoms and nuclei to 18 times smaller in elementary particles. The complete scale from the invisbily minute to the extremely large is staggering to comprehend. 

The limited range of length , time and energy which define the world of middle dimensions is not sufficient to explain the workings of this world. Our phylogenetic ( each species including humans comes with some intutive concepts of space,time, geometry, causality , nature of matter etc.) knowledge or experience comes from this small part of nature. 

The individual development or learning is ontogenesis which brings a human being closer to God. The hidden and mysterious world is where all action is. Just as in the movies the projector is hidden from the view or in a puppet show the hands that control the dolls are cleverly disguised, so too in our visible world all the real work is done beyond the obvious.The spirit is more powerful than our apparent body and the events that unfold and manifest are generated from a place or a point which is mysteriously concealed.

A Probable Future

Knowing the future is useful and exciting. We can only see a part of the future as most of the variables that define future are in a state of flux and are subjectively exclusive. This means that though the patterns in future will be same for everyone their influence can be benign or malignant depending on our position and understanding in the present.

 I shall consider the trends or patterns in only two spheres of life, Spiritual and Economical. Changes at the spiritual level effect the economic status of the society is my belief. Arnold J. Toynbee, whose twelve volumme book " A study of History " traces the decline of civilisation concludes that excessive interest in political and economic issues was responsible for deterioration of human life.

 Spirituality follows the path of encompassing everything within itself. We may be believers or atheists, dualists or monotheist but spirituality does not consider it as distinctions and follows a path which hems in all faiths and all beliefs. It is concerned with morality only and if an atheist selflessly acts without expectations of a reward , he is spiritual and more closer to the ultimate power than a ritualistic person whose actions are selfish but believes in God.

 The next few years will see people becoming truly spiritual rather than expressing their religion by rituals and the outward display of their faith. They will start believing in morality as the only path towards truth. This shift has already started and people have found that religion without being spiritual inwardly has only confused and caused mental pain. This realisation will establish itself firmly as people look within to connect with the outside. 

 The fallout of such a movement will be that a lot of spiritual shops could go out of business. Commercial establishments that promise nirvana and take advantage of seekers by showing them a path that exploits their emotions leading them to grief and disbelief may find no takers. Rituals make people superstitious and generate fear in many. Since the journey of mankind is from fear to fearlessness and lower truth to higher truth, it is natural that people choose those ideals which give them more freedom.

 In every age after following a certain way humanity changes its direction by charting a new course. Historians and sociologists give many reasons for this shift in human behaviour, which define their life by embracing a new practicality. But the truth is that we are following a trajectory set in motion by our need to manifest the qualities of the God we worship and in the process make the finite experiences enduring and endless. 

 A collateral development would be that our perspective would turn from the physical to the psychical. The concept that action is a consequence of thought and thought is generated by the mind which is a non physical entity is slowly gaining strenght. In medicine and evolution, our psyche has been found to actively change our viewpoints and even create a new reality from the exsisting objective world.

The power of positive thinking and using our mind to gain a creative advantage over our hardships will get a new stamina once our consciousness leaves the plane of physical rituals of action to non physical and spiritual levels. By shifting the ballast from Kinetic to passive activity we may also inherit a new field of vision which will allow us the see an hitherto hidden dimension. It may also happen that we may gain more physical energy in the process , since the source of vital energy is our spiritual body.

It is believed that when we pay more attention to the physical aspects of life and rituals are a part of physical religion , we are disconnected from the spirit which is the source of all fortitude. It is no surprise for most of us to see that immorality manifests more at religious places and inhuman acts are committed more by religious people. 

Spiritual persons on the other hand believe that since all souls are one , harming or helping others is doing evil or good to oneself and in turn nature. Hence morality in spiritual people is firmly rooted.

Let us see how the above changes can effect the second most important aspect of our life, economy. Money has the tendency to course from one place to another. Money cannot stay long in one place. It needs to keep moving . It usually flows to a place from where it senses it will be able to have easy passage ahead. In simple words to a place where it is not hoarded but allowed to move freely. This is the reason why once countries of affluence are now in need and where there was poverty are now enjoying bountiful wealth.

So what does the future hold for the economy ? Countries which open up their money flow will be booming and those countries which devise strategies and means to control the flow of money will find being controlled by money in turn, and slowly squeezed by it ( money ) to release its movement in the process creating a void for the nation and its people.

Only by giving and distributing and spreading wealth can prosperity be assured for men and countries. But money has another tendency. It takes offense if it is used on vain show and exhibism or to damage and sabotage the goal of others. A country or a business that keeps the circulation of money and effectively reduces the disparity between the poor and the rich is likely to generate more wealth. 

This is also a trend started by Warren Buffet whose frugal economic sense has caught the attention of many. By not spending on unnesscary things and being content with little inexpensive pleasures , we are not only reducing the inequality between the haves and have nots but also respecting money. The more we display our money to the people who do not have the basic needs of life, the more further we go from spirituality and the more we widen the gap between the two classes. Since Vedanta believes in the unity of exsistence, it is nessecary that we bring our underprivileged brothers first to a level where they are treated better than animals by spending on their health and education.

Swami Vivekananda says " So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them." Actually once spirituality manifests in the real sense sometime in the future, we shall develop more self confidence and resist all exhorbitant expenses that we incur are to give us more belief and faith in ourselves.

Rituals take away the belief from our spirit to an entity outside us.

The future of man points towards more freedom and less disparity on the outside and the inner man shall develop more resilence and faith in the working of this world which now because of our physical approach looks chaotic on the outside but will look organised and purposeful after going beyond the obvious .

SPIRITUALISM IN THE STOCK MARKETS

CONVENTIAL BELIEF ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE MARKET. AND OTHER ALLIED BELIEFS.

Both George Soros and Warren Buffet believe the markets are always wrong.

An investor or a trader makes a decision to buy, sell, hold or do nothing based on his idea of what makes the markets tick. This individualistic idea that he has, is called his philosophy and since it is on the running of the market it is his market philosophy.

A philosophy can be described as an explanation of how the world around us works, and our means of understanding it. This understanding tells us what is right and what is wrong, what works and what doesnt.. Philosophy is the guide to making choices, reaching decisions – and taking action.

In the markets, this philosophy is adapted to trade in beliefs. According to a prominent Invesment psychologist , Van Tharp, people dont trade in the markets, they trade their beliefs. Yet many dont have any such beliefs as they hitch their wagon of thoughts to the prevailing bias at that time. Others cling to a potpourri of beliefs which are often self contradictory.

A Jedi investor uses his philosophy as a mental shield against the markets constant chaos.

A description about the market is given by Benjamin Graham , whose investment philosophy revolutionised Warren Buffets approach.

Mr. Market is a remarkably accomodating fellow , who is a partner in your private business. Without fail , Mr Market appears daily and names a price at which he will either buy your interest ( stocks which you would like to sell ) or sell you his . ( stocks which you would like to buy. ). All these quotes are based on a background of economic characteristics of the combined nations of the world at that time. All this is normal , but what is not normal is the behaviour of Mr. Market who has a incurable emotional problem. At times he falls euphoric and can only see the favourable factors affecting business. On this day he is wildly over-excited and is happy and quotes a very high buy – sell price because he fears that you will snap up his interest ( buy out his share ) and rob him of his imminent gains. But on some days , sometimes may be the very next day , he is depressed and can see nothing but trouble ahead for both business and the world. On these occassions he will name a very low price, terrified you will unload your interset ( sell your shares ) .

Mr Market has another endearing characteristic. He doesnt mind being ignored. If his quotation is uninteresting to you today , he will be back with one tomorrow. Transactions are strictly at your option. Under these conditions the more maniac-depressive his behaviour, the better for you.

Since the mood swings of the market are psychotic , there will be times when the market offers a price for a stock that is insanely cheap and buying it back at another time when it is ridiculously high.

There is however a handicap to this type of investment. We can never know in advance when Mr. Market will be euphoric or when he will be depressed, Hence prediction does not play any part in this type of strategy.

Remember the market is there to serve you in making wealth and not guide you. It will be a disaster if you fall under its influence.
So if the analyst who predicts is a unnessecary to the working of the market and the guidiance from people who are influenced by the market and are under its spell , is also dangerous then what is the basis for making investment decisions ? Here the personal and spiritual growth of an individual comes to play a important part. That is why investing in a stock market is the only gauge which can be used to measure a persons progress spiritually. When all physically available options are exhausted the investor turns to something beyond physics and numbers which is inherently spiritual.


And what is that ? His philosophy which dictates his life, his actions , his thoughts. his relations, his time, his whole living. The same belief that runs his life now gets to be used by him to make an investment. Every succesful investor has followed a different belief yet has achieved the same result. Those who blindly follow others beliefs without questioning are walking with their eyes closed. A master develops his own set of beliefs which are a result of his spiritual awakening.
Experts call it the unconscious competence, which in one line could be explained as undertaking a venture which may look risky or unachievable to a novice but is like a brisk walk in the park for the masters.

Success in the stock markets is unlike achieving success in medicine or any other commercial enterprise which follow a very linear and tangible way to progress without giving any growth or development to the inner nature of man. Many Industrial Emperors of this generation have been able to unlock only the procurring aspect of their true self. This unending journey of acquisition has no destination.

In Part 2 of this essay , I shall try to bring about some habits that a investor cultivates to achieve prosperity in the stock market. There are many successful stock market experts without the help of these winning habits , but then there are many in commercial and industrial establishments too, These Winners display a shallow confidence which is largely linked to material wealth .

FROM THE CHAPTER SEX AND EVOLUTION BY P.D.OUSPENSKY- A NEW MODEL OF THE UNIVERSE

According to the author sexual energy cannot have only a singular aim of continuation of Life as the energy required for such an aim is a small proportion , an infinitesimal fraction of the energy created. Since the energy created is of a much greater quantity than required just for continuation of life the author believes that there are two more aims of this abundant reserve of dynamic energy.

The second aim is the keeping up of the breed, which is expounded as secondary sex characters.

He explains it by going in to the physiological traits that are evident in men and women differently by nature of their sexual energy. He goes in to the detail by explaining that real evolution happens when these secondary sex characters are developed and energy required to develop them is freely available without becoming weak by the primary aim , which is sometimes used to extreme due to passions and desires. This process where the energy is lost by expressing it viciously becomes degenerative to the anatomical and physiological traits.

He describes in detail what these physiological characteristics are.
a) Lines of the body ( independent of the anatomical structure of the skeleton ) b) different distribution of muscles and fat on the body c) difference in movements d) different distribution of hair on the body e) a diffrent voice f) difference in instincts, sensations, tastes, temparement, emotions, reaction to external stimulli etc, g) a different mentality all that makes up feminine psychology and masculine psychology.

Now we know why the world has seen so many gay and lesbian people mushroom all over. Since this secondary characters give the esssence to the breed we can also assume why men have started behaving like women resorting to gossip cheap talk and a sudden loss of character and personality.

The author believes that the degeneration brings weakening of characters in a woman who starts developing manly characteristics and vice versa.

The third aim of this sexual enerrgy is transmutation, from man to superman. The author believes that sex is not sin or that abstinence, sexual impotence, infantile, senile or any pathological disease cannot be related to an higher aim of sex or spirituality. Even condeming it and absence of interest is also not a desirable quality of aspirants who wish to go over from man to superman. Such men who think of sex as an adversery to be overcome by struggle are usually suffering from characteristics of infra sex, which imbibes qualities of pseudo-morality and pseudo-values, pseudo-saintliness. Such men have used sex to dictate laws to normal lives, who become fearful and start growing superstition and regard things and actions with taboo. The author puts a warning here that “ This does not mean that all morals, all laws and all restrictions relating to sex were wrong. But, as always occurs in life when right ideas come from the wrong source, together with what is right they bear within them a great deal that is wrong, that contradicts their fundamental essence, that brings about new confusions and new complications. “

The apparent contradictory is cleared by the author who believes that sex is not be derided in any way and is a potent force that needs to be acknowledged and understood without making sex an object of criticism. Ramakrishna believed that the divine mother is responsible for everything in the world and even bowed down before prostitutes and treated them as manifestations of the divine .

Men who belong to the category where sex becomes a adversery have certain characteristics which are given below a) They connect with sex as something which is lowest in man. b) Sex is also thought of something as unclean, so man speaks about sex and sexual things with unclean words and unclean thoughts c) He thinks of everyone as a slave to sex at the same time being aware of his slavery.d) He mentally throws dirt on sex and on everything connected to sex, invents indecent anecdotes or likes to listen to them e) His full life is full of obscene language ; everything is as unclean to him as himself f) If he does not degrade sex he derides it, takes it as a joke, tries to find something comic in sex. g) Such men gain a mentality which becomes coloured and impregnated with distrust, suspicion , fear and repugenance..h) Such men who separate sex from other functions of their life and look upon it with antagonism in regards to all other functions and think of it as a merely physical activity feel sex as an impediment, an obstacle, a waste of force, a waste of energy. This waste of energy in sex functions and the realisation of this waste is one of the distinctive traits of the form of infra sex.

In fact the author insists on two major pointers of people having a complex infra sex problem
a) Sex as a subject of Laughter or as anything that can be connected with anything negative in man
b) Wastage of energy in sex ie depletion of energy faster than renewed. In fact one of the main positive character of normal people who do not belittle sex is that their energy is immidiately renewed because of the richness and positive chracter of the sensations thoughts and emotions connected with sex.

As against this attitude of people with infra sex people who do not look down on sex or do not make it an object of laughter usually have their energy replaced owing to the richness of the sensations and impressions which are received by the intellect, the consciousness and the feeling. This type of psyche repels everything negative. This does not imply that such people whose sex is cordinated with their functions in life do not suffer disappointments or sufferings as life is not at all harmonious with nature but the only difference is that such people never blame other people for their sufferings nor do they have any perverted emotions such as violence revenge or insanity.

The normal people who do not think of sex in deragatory means also have many uncoordinated nature as regards to their emotions but this the author insists is not due to sex but to a different cause. The author introduces now to a concept which was not so common in the time when this article was written ie between 1912 to 1929, which is endocrinology. The author believes that men and women have to be divided using not the blood types or temperaments. According to the esoteric science ( look for my next article that explains esoteric science and normal science ) men have to be divided as per their internal secretions or the “ formulae “ or their “ constellations “ which means the combinations of their internal secretions.

The author believes that the fundamental types are dictated by these internal secretion and for every man there are several positive types of women, a union of which guarantees that sex is never deragratory because the such women inspire and influence certain thoughts feelings and emotions .Hence the union of such men and women will guarantee that man will never stoop low to levels of pornography or develop impotence or perversions which the author insists is the worst form of infra sex.

Men and Women when divided using endocrinology as a type exert an influence which is emotional and physical on each other which is independent of expressed tastes sympathies and inclinations.

The author then uses a lot of words in making us understand what these different types are and what are their characteristics and how for one type of man there could be 3 or more types of women and how one type of a man could be suitable or even best for the type of the women but how that woman could be of the wrong type for that man . A perfect mismatch situation.

In ancient times such considerations were of prime importance before “ marriage sacrament “ and hence the choice was left to an “ initiate “ who did not perform the mechanical ritual part of the marriage ceremony but after determining the types gave advice and took the decision whether a particular marriage could take place or no. But this was long forgotten alongwith the different types of men and women.

All these arguments have been given by the author for the third part of the aim that is the transmutation from man to superman. All systems of cultured religions agree that sexual energy could be used for this purpose, with only one difference which was whether complete abstinence of sex is nessecary or just normal sex would be sufficient. This normal sex is clearly to be differntiated from infra sex as mentioned above.

Even Sri Ramakrishna Paramhamsa believed that 12 years of celibacy makes a man get what he wishes for.

But the way to transmutation from man to superman is through sex and not by the avoidance of it.
According to the author religions which tried to condemm sex were unsuccesful of becoming a point of refference to go from the normal to supernormal as it made people hate and make sex deragrotory, Sri Ramakrishna believed that only when the Mother ( his worship of the creator was through the idol of Kali ) wishes can such thoughts leave a person, till then the Mayavic forces are so strong that when tried to overpower they become more strong.

The author then goes on to connect all psychological functions of the body including sex to the glands of internal secretions. He suggests that most emotions are activated by glands and even the configuration of the body like growth, nourishment, structure, functioning of different organs, psychic life, intellectual and emotional life , activity, psychic make up of man, his energy and strenght is related to supply of hormones or specifically secretions from ductless glands which provide motive power for the working of the organs, the nervous system brain etc. He even says that science has connected the endocrine secretions with the autonomic nervous system.

The author emphasises that all external characteristics that are visible in a man, that is his height, the structure of the skeleton, the quality of the skin, eyes, ears, hair, voice, respiration, way of thinking, quickness of perception, character, emotionality, will-power, energy, activity, initiative, all are dependent on the action of the glands of internal secretions, and so to speak reflect their state.

The author then refers to two books by Dr. Berman of New York. The First Book the Glands regulating Personality follows several historical personages like Napolean and realises that on the weakining of his pituitary gland, at st. Helena his personality changed and ended in a catastrophe at Waterloo. Some of the data collected by Dr. Berman were from physicians attending to Napolean.

The other book The Personal Equation , Dr. Berman examines the different types of personalities by reading the pre dominance of a one or nother gland and infers that man is a marionette controlled by his glandular secretions.

The author is concerened with the secretion of Sex Glands only but now believes that though Sex is a cause for the downfall or rising of man other functions of man are affected equally and for the right functioning of whole organism all glands must be functioning well and and a change or deteriortion of one gland is responsible for the breakdown of this mechanism.

The author now firmly believes that external characteristics of a person are due to the internal secretions and goes on to give a list of 32 external signs that have been recorded and the author confers that these 32 signs give an idea of the endocrinological history of Gautama Buddha
The transmutation of sexual energy which makes man in to a superman actually works inwardly and creates a new life which is capable of ever new eternal regeneration.

In the closing argument the author believes that man on the verge of becoming a superman actually starts understanding strange emotions and stranger sensations which were inexplicable from an ordinary point of view, especially in love and sex which has a strange melancholy and strange sadness. The sensation of parting is specially strong as a new sensation gets replaced which is actually a new consciousness or a new mystical state. The author insists that of all ordinary human experiences only sex sensations approach those which we may call “ mystical “
And this is the precise reason why the terrible power of sex over human souls is absolute.
But the sex sensations disappear in the light of mystical experiences gradually or eventually.
That is the reason why first sensations of mystical experiences intensify sex sensations but the further waves of light that a man begins to see completely absorb and cause to disappear those small sparks of sensations which seemed to him a blaze of love and passion.

A final word of encouragement by the author suggests that people have to find out their own way to go from man to superman, either by struggling against sex or accepting and transforming it as in their case the sex is sufficiently coordinated with all other functions of their life.

Some Actions and Beliefs Require Thought

Our Innate ability to understand things with a pure intention are being replaced by the advertisers in many ways most of them are unkown to us. These pre mixed decisions sometimes have a bias towards result in more ways than one.

To make it more clear lets understand the case of doctors suggesting that Masturbation is harmless. Every Man or Woman who has excercised their right to celebrate temperory and momentary pleasure by masturbating is bound by guilt at first. This is the first fence that is created around us in subtle terms. Slowly the habit becomes another fence, making the loneliness of the soul from the mind more profound. Then comes signals from the body of weaknesses like failing immunity and weaknesses.The conflict between what one actually feels after masturbation and what one is suppossed to feel as per the doctors view creates another fence between the mind and the soul making the mind-body appartus unable to see the same view, thus creating a conflict between the soul-mind-body.

Dr. Edward Bach the founder of Bach Flower Remedies , thought of Disease as a contradiction between the purpose of the soul and the personalitys point of view. Such inner conflicts are designed to make us weak and loose precious vitality.

Ayurveda Explains the formation of Semen, a product formed after undergoing purification 6 times as follows.

The seven bodily tissues are called Dahtus which are responsible for the functioning of systems and organs and provide firmness to the body and their work on the development and nourishment of the body and starts with the digested food that we eat..

First tissue to form from food eaten is Rasa or Plasma meaning sap or juice. Its function is prinana or nourishment, they include lymph and blood plasma , breast milk and menstural blood are accesory tissues also formed from food. The waste product is mucous.

The purification of Rasa brings Rakta ( Blood ) to formation. Its function is invigoration. The main tissue is red blood cells and secondary tissues are blood vessels and tendons. The waste product is bile or pitta. If Rasa is not well digested, blood is not sufficiently produced the waste product is over produced, though pitta has a hot and intense influence it cannot perform the functions of blood.

The Purified Rakta ( Blood ) now takes the form of skeletal muscle (Mansa ) the accessories are ligaments and skin, the waste product at this stage is snot, navel lint and ear wax. Healthy blood nourishes the flesh and makes the skin glow.

Another purification of this highly purified Mansa takes place and Meda ( Fat ) is formed . Its function is to provide warmth and lubrication to the body and the waste product is sweat which controls the bodies tempreture.

The fifth purification of the original food ingested now makes Ashti ( Bones ). The accesory tissues are teeth and the waste at this stage is body hair, facial hair and nails. The bones give the body support or dharana.

The finer essence of Ashti is bone marrow or Majja . It is what is inside our brains and spinal cord. These red and yellow semi solid is the tissue formed to fill in the bones and contains stem cells thought to be now as multipotent. This protein is a major source for strength in an individual.
The waste is lachrymal secretions.which are saline fluids used in lubrication of eyeballs and tears.

Finally the food after getting purified 6 times now condenses to Sexual Fluids or ( Shukra ). Accessory product is the ojas the fluid that controls immunity and the aura. There is no waste generation at this point. Shukra means clear or pure in sanskrit.


Let the individual decide what is good for him after being given the details of all opposing views.
But let us not beat him with the stick of sponsored and processed labortary information.

Another case is of doctors suggesting vegeterian food for health. Do help yourself by turning a grass eater but do not propgate the use of vegeteiranism for the masses. The last experiment in such propoganda was done by Gautama Buddha in India which made us loose national vitality and allowed a nation to be enslaved first by the muslims and then by the british not to count minor attacks by disgruntled warriors.

Did you know that foodgrains, vegetables are sprayed by chemicals for growth and storage that, when given to babies can cause instant death. Religious leaders took a readily available cue from the masses and gave them instant knowledge on the foods to be eaten for spiritual gain, but those who want to lead a householders life with enough strength and sustainance to protect and procure for the family should decide their course of action after seeing all the views and even going to the extent of sacrificing their ideals for the benefit of society and their family and the nation at large.

Some of the chemicals used in food production are given below . Try searching for the harmful effects of these from the internet and you will realise that not all of them can be washed.

Diphenylamine, Cn, Endosulfan, Phosmet, Azinphos-methyl apta, DCPA, Methamidophos, Demeton, Dimethoate, Parathion,Diazinon, Thiabendazone, Carbaryl ,Methamidophos, Chlorpyrifos, Dimethoate, Acephate, are only few of the chemicals we know are used, there are innumerable advances in chemistry about such toxic substances that are nearly tasteless colourless but are potently harmful for liver, nervous system and cancer causing. Di-bromo chloro propane is known to persist in water, even going to the extent of contaminating groundwater.

So whatever is said is not nescessarily the whole truth. Is there a hidden propoganda behind these so called claims is what every individual needs to ascertain and experiment. This search for a higher truth should be our constant endeavour.