ahimsa palatschinken

a dosa for gandhi birth day

Vienna,02-10-2007:This is meant to make
a vegetarian meal in memory of Mahatma
Gandhi. Ingredients:fine wheat flour,baker´s
yeast,salt,chopped onions, tomato,cucumber,
spinach,mushrooms or bambu crumbs,okra
melanzani crumbs etc.
First mix wheat flour with salt and baker´s
yeast. Use half tea spoon of margarine on
pan, spread the thick flour mix on heating
pan quickly place the chosen required
vegetable crumbs on the spread. Let it
heat and roast for a minute and turn it for
less than a minute, the dosa or palatschinken
is ready.
It can be eaten with pickles of lemon, olive,
chutney pastes, or honey, marmalades of
any kind.Supporting drinks: wine,butter milk
of Turkish or Indian type,or fruit juices of
choice.Even tea or coffee would be suitable.
Advantages: self made,easy and whole some
vegetarian all based on tenets Gandhism.(end)
-Kulamarva Balakrishna

food for thought

a school for eating fruits?

By Dr.Gauthama Bhat, Kulamarva
MRCS,MS(ENT),DNB

( Vienna,29-09-2007:Internet communication has
permitted every one easy communication world wide.
The communication line is open to the informed and
uninformed as well as semi informed. When informed
and uninformed use the opening for interaction the semi
informed use the life for interruption and causing
confusion.The targeted audience should be careful. It
should first identify the aggressive intruder and his
intentions.Undesirable elements should be excluded
as junk mail. All questionable, should be segregated
until they are validated. It is in this context,I am
publishing the comments of Dr.Gautham Bhat,my
guest author,who is bombarded by a questionable
intruder on the organic acidic ill effects of natural
fruit diet,without undergoing an =eating school=)

Fruits

Eating lot of fruits is good for health, I support this.
But to say we don't know how to eat it fruit is wrong.
The intruder tries to say that to save fruits from
encountering acidic environment of food eaten earlier,
saying we have to eat fruits before meals, it is wrong.
If we give it a thought, when we don't eat food,what
is left in the stomach is Acid!! The normal HCl, with
a pH of approximately 0.9 !! I don't think any acid
produced by putrefaction can be as strong an acid as
after all they are all organic acids and are less stronger
as compared to inorganic acids like HCl. So that theory
goes into dust.

If it is said that the bread can coat the intestines
and block the absorption of fruits, I differ with it. The
entire surface area of our absorptive surface in the
intestines if displayed on a surface is comparable to
a football field area!!How many bread blocks will we
have to eat to cover all of this area and block the fruits
from being absorbed?

Fruits though important for health, if taken alone in an
unbalanced way, will only cause harm. I'll just give a
personal example of this. When Ashay,my 18month old
son,was weaned off his mother's milk, we were giving
him fruit purees/pulp as he was very fond of them. After
a while, we started realizing that he was not getting
enough in the way of nutrition and was growing
thinner! That's when we started feeding him
carbohydrates and fats and milk, causing him gain
weight afterwards.Fruit by itself doesn't have much
"food" value speaking medically. It mainly provides us
with the volume and fibre, essential vitamins and
minerals and hardly any fat or proteins. Therefore,
it can't be used as growth building blocks in our body.
If we understand the purpose of the fruits existence,
they are there with their own purpose.They are there
to attract other species of "mobile" animals so as to
propagate the seeds and advance in nature the
particular race of the plant. The plant has only one
intention in producing the fruit and that is to
propagate its own family. It doesn't care for our
nutrition. In the bargain, it gets its seeds dispersed
and propagates its own family. It is a way of
paying us the dues for propagating its family.

Roots tubers and seeds

The fibres,tubers and roots are different.They are
rich in carbohydrate and proteins and are
good in the form of food. That is why, rice and
wheat and potatoes are great food based on which
nearly all our population of six billion plus
survive.Yes there are advantages in eating fruits
as everyone knows. Apart from providing us with the
essential 'micro nutrients' they help us reduce the
consumption of "Unnecessary food" If we are living
like animals like Tiger/Lions who don't eat more once
their stomach is full, we don't have to follow any of
these fads. It is our different way of "modern" living
which is making us hungry for such information
hoping to rectify our years of wrong doing by following
some small tips. By nature we as humans tend to find
comfort in things which says that =if only we were to
do and act as X way rather Y way we also would have
been equally good like others. In essence, majority of
people who do not have healthy life style tend not to
agree with their wrong habit and tend to seek short cuts
or easy solutions for things the only solution is nothing
but well thought out hard work,pure and simple. (end)

children of seven mothers

love & affection for women

By Kulamarva Balakrishna

Vienna,27-09-2007:(I read this morning in
=arab news= two articles one by Ms.Abeer
Mishkhans =if women are intruders?=
and another from Priyamvada Gopal
=women in the east=,both welcome pieces
by concerned women.I feel touched by
them. My response to them were sent.Below
are the adjusted copies for readers to
respond, as it is the theme of the survival
of humanity as a healthy single family.
I welcome your response)

Ms.Abeer Mishkhas,=arab news=

Dear Ms.Mishkhas,

I am like your fan, keep reading you in
=arab news=.I send the copies to my niece
for further reading.May be in one of these
days I will approach Mr. Khalid Al-Maeena
permit me to republish your articles on my
website.Remember one thing this human
civilization exists inheriting its gens from
seven mothers as proved by Prof. Brian Sykes
of the Oxford University by his studies
covering almost ten thousand years.Women
are not intruders.They brought us into
this world and made us men.Without the
Queen bee there are no honey bees and honey.

You should reach larger than Arab readership.
Interact with women especially young ones
from other countries developing a net work
in the days of communication revolution.If
you send an e mail
to = presidentofindia@rb.nic.in =
appealing for Indian citizenship for Taslima
Nasrin,45, the brave medical doctor of Bangla
Desh, who single handedly fought off mobs
from attacking minorities,rescued many sexually
abused female Bengali children it would help
not only a single individual but the entire
humanity.

This morning I also read Ms.Priyamvada
Gopal´s article also in =arab news= may
peace be upon arab news! I am enclosing my
response to her article I sent her.I intend
publishing it with this one on my website since
the matter is of great public interest need to
be openly discussed by intellectuals all over.

Do feel you belong to us, the whole human
family not as an intruder but a distinct part
and parcel of it.We do need your help to keep
the family of six billions or more safe,secure
and prospering at a time girls like Sunita
Williams are set humanizing space.

With all the best wishes from me from
personally and on behalf of the whole human
family.

Kulamarva Balakrishna

Ms.Priyamvada Gopal,Cambridge

Dear Ms.Priyamvada,

I hope you would permit me address by
your name.I happened to read your article
on women appearing in =arab news=.
Congratulations.

But let me point out for one missing link.
It was Pandita Ramabai Saraswati 1858-1924,
who made it possible for oriental women
including Indonesian and Australian to get
due recognition, education, and full civil rights.
It was a girl rescued by her,Godutai Karve,
who with her husband, revered as Maharshi
Karve, who worked for women´s education
and emancipation in India by establishing the
=S.N.D.T.= Womens Only University in Bombay.
That apart, the Pandita´s work in sheltering
and giving the rightful respect to child widows
even before Miss Mayo arrived in India, can
not be ignored.The great Pandita was more or
less banished her into Christianity by none
other than the late Bal Gangadhar Tilak
because of his conservative views.
In Europe itself, in a feudal society of Imperial
Austria, 1843-1914 Baroness Bertha Suttner
persuaded Alfred Nobel to found Nobel Peace
Prize.Her own individual contribution to the
world peace remains the Inter-Parliamentary
Union (IPU), and thereby the International
Court of Justice at the Hague.

Her field work and novel =Down with Wars=
got her Nobel Peace Prize during her life time.

There are great many Saudi girls with hopes and
aspirations.When they are freed from misguided
fundamentalism,which dumped Prophet maker
greatest of Arab woman of Islam, Khadija into
dustbin to throne the last and gossiping eleventh
and the Child wife of the Prophet as
=Lady Ayesha= (she is the source of 25% all
=hadiths=) the concept that =every terrorist is
a muslim= would disappear.

I write this with full knowledge that many
misguided (H)Indologists,who are working
overnight revising Valmiki´s Ramayana,
launched a campaign against the re-organization
of Cambridge Department of Oriental Studies,
especially South Asian Studies.We need to
address growing intolerant fundamentalism
among the so called upper caste Hindus, who
import all their camel bones from the Kingdom
of Saudi Arabia to attack and kill innocent law
abiding citizens.We have to stop them.It is they,
who are opposing a courageous woman medical
doctor Taslima Nasrin being made into an
Indian citizen. Taslima fought for Hindus in
Bangla Desh and rescued so many sexually
abused muslim female children.

She is now 45, and alone needs a sense of
belongingness, which is being denied her by
the beneficiaries themselves! I appeal women
in all countries to write to
= presidentofindia@rb.nic.in = by e mail
to give Taslima Indian citizenship and protection.

Female pregnancies are terminated by upper
caste wealthy Punjabis, Marwaris,Gujaratis,
Sindis bringing down the sex ratio to almost
8-10 (female-male) as they went on raping
spree even in hospitals in India´s capital.They
went about promoting murder on funeral fire
of widows and the setting up illegal =sati temples!=
It was not by accident that Phulandevi, a
female child,grew up to become a =bandit queen=
only to be murdered as a member of Parliament,
by the cowardly so called ruling =Singh=
(carcass eater) castes.The world today needs
to show more respect to women and heed
their advice.

I hope, you will permit me to publish this letter
on my website humans austria
With best wishes,-Kulamarva Balakrishna (end)

yoga & pranayama

to be unobtrusive

By Kulamarva Balakrishna

Vienna,26-09-2007:Pranayama is considered a part
of certain ceremonials beginning with a brahmin
initiate who is empowered to conduct distinct
morning, noon and evening sun worship,
recognizing him to be the soul of everything in
the world,the moving and unmoving.
The ceremony ordains the worshiper,to inhale,
retain, and exhale in particular ways. These last
no more than minutes.Just as a sportsman or
athlet gets ready it is meant to get in readiness
to be attentive.
There is no intention of manipulation of human
breathing process involved.When eight part
exercise of the mind, known as yoga system
came into being breathing became the fourth limb
of the system.
Here the breathing is done consciously but not
demonstratively observing the three processes
meaning inhaling,retention and exhaling
plus a subtle adjustment of the breathing
to suit space and time is taken to mean
pranayama.
In Buddhism,which came into being in parallel
to the yoga system the observation is
called =minding=, in rather low key attention.
All this is meant to indicate we should be
natural in breathing to be attentive.No undue
importance to bend the ways of breathing
is meant.
However,as yoga system was called upon
by the supernatural power hungry to advance
their causes manipulative experiments in
breathing began and such attempts were
advocated.
If one goes to Patanjala yoga sutras, five fold
yama and niyamas, suitable and comfortable
sitting posture as asana and similar unobtrusive
breathing practices are prescribed as
preparatory for leading mind to its steadiness.
The comfortable sitting and comfortable
breathing are advised to get mind on focus,
nothing more.To these preparedness added
a mode of holding back all senses from
distraction so the mind is ready to engage and
occupy a targeted subject before fully
possessing by a concerted attack.
All deviations to the process are misguided
and contradictory to the very fundamental
aims of the yoga.It is unfortunate yoga
preachers go overselling themselves to
harm yoga by commercializing a great
cherished tradition.A pity indeed for a
great culture to be sold in crudest ways.
(end)

do not meddle with breathing

normal is the best

By Dr.Gauthama Bhat, Kulamarva
MRCS,MS (ENT),DNB

Kasaragod,Kerala, India

(Dr.Gauthama Bhat is an Ear Nose Throat
Specialist.Some half-wit circulated a message

suggesting deep breathing as the sure road
to greatness.He has answered it,in his effort
to curtail such false propaganda among
the ignorant would be patients,showing his
moral responsibility of a doctor.)

normal breathing & deep breathing

What has been portrayed as =shallow breathing=
in the passage is the real =normal= breathing.
When a person is at rest, he exchanges about
500mls of air in each breath cycle.The rest of
the lung volumes remaining unused. But they
are there for a purpose. Should a person start
running or exercising, he requires a lot more
energy or in other words oxygen to perform
that sport. That is when the reserve lung
volumes come into play and the person is
able to cope with the physical stress. Just
imagine that a person is already breathing to
his full capacity when he is at rest utilizing all
his reserves, and then he is forced to run to
escape from some danger, where will he be
able to harness the energy/oxygen from.
He has already used up all his capacity!

Even though the deep breathing suggestion
looks intelligent on paper, the fact that nobody
can do it in real life.It is simply impossible
to breathe so deeply throughout life,
consciously.This is because of the "original
architecture" of the body is to breathe
shallowly at rest and breathe deeply only
momentarily, only when required.
The way a normal human breathes during
sleep is the true breathing.It is inadvisable to
change that rhythm.We can never exhale more
than inhaling or inhale more than exhaling.
Because when one breathes at least 12times
in a minute and does it for the entire life, even
a slight discrepancy in the order of micro liters
can cause either an excess or a deficit in the lung
volumes in a matter of few days- therefore
again this theory I would reject.
Lungs will remain normal only when the inhaled
and exhaled air volumes are perfectly balanced
which it done with such great fidelity!

Last line for the one who suggests reorganizing
human breathing on animals model:
If one wants to emulate a dog or an elephant,
I think there are better ways like - starting to
bark or snouting like a pig or sporting a tail, that
is if you want to show your sense of humor!
Great men didn't become great by doing
whatever with their breathing or washing their
hinds.To represent it that way displays nothing
but stupidity of the person,who does it claiming
to be clever.Do not follow such advice and suffer.
Our body is the best machine ever made. Let
us not meddle with the "Factory settings" it
comes with and down grade our lives.(end)

kambala at katpadi

honnamma presiding
a buffalo race!

By kulamarva Balakrishna

Honnamma,my late sister told me not very
long ago, she had visited our old grandfather´s
house, at Karyadu where I was born and
marked the room. It was an occasional visit
she used to refresh her memories of childhood.
It meant her so much,our childhood.Her siblings
were her Barby toys.If Barby plays were passive
and one sided, we siblings responded that made
us different and loving.It meant a lot for her,
enough to decide giving up going to school to be
able to help mother.
Looking back almost seventy five years,she said
=if only I had continued in school, I would have
been like you, a free bird=.
I was touched to note there was no difference
between male or female dreams.Pains and pleasures
are similar as desires for accumulating experiences
remain irresistible for the sensitive.
That was the secret for her ignoring bodily strains
to go with me on diffilcut tracks and streams
bridged by mere bamboo sticks involving descents
and climbs of minor hills to reach an old aunt or an
uncle,who had rocked us as kids.
When I said to her at Katpadi not far away from
Padubidri on Highway 17 en route Udupi there was
a =kambala= buffalo race with some 60 pairs
participating,she felt like witnessing it.
She had seen as a child with us at our own field,
half a dozen pairs running in sticky mud for a
bunch of coconuts or bananas and a few coins
by flashing mud higher and higer!
But Katpadi annual race of buffaloes is only
surpassed by the one held at Kadri, at the
center of Mangalore city.
In both the places the atmosphere is that of
festivals.Large crowds of men and women,
special tents of shops selling sweets and spicy
crumbs of food.Participating athletic men with
masted buffaloes =pre-teens and teens= with
full of spirit.The excitement seniors tend to avoid.
But Honnamma was a game full of sportive
spirit.=Let us go there=,she said.I asked Elias
to drive us there.
A crowd of several thousands.Excited young
buffalo pairs lined up by half dozen young men
behind each pair with turban ends flaying like
individual flags!
The spirit of enthusiasm, and of course a display
of animal and human health in prime of youth.
We were total strangers to the village crowd.
But welcomed with reverence.We got the best
of seats as we both were rare seniors in the
midst of so many young.I felt more than
flattered at the reception given us by the
kambala organizers.
We spent there no more than forty five minutes.
We felt young once again, we were proud our
distinct culture of the district was lving and vibrant.
We had a restful night.But next day calls after calls
of telephone ringing from relations and friends
to say =we saw you presiding over Kambla at
Katpadi!= (end)

pampers for dogs

Langoti for Monkeys


by Kulamarva Balakrishna

Vienna,23-09-2007: Hope like us in Vienna,
Bangaluru (pronounce it if you like in the
district dialect of the former Prime Minister
with a =hu= between bengal and uru)
introduces pampers for dogs, including stray
ones to keep the city clean.

Here with us it is now mandatory for dog
owners taking plastic bags to collect dog´s all
cure (ayurveda medicine prescribed by seers
and sava seers of various global mathas!) on
grass and deposit it in dust bin safely to
avoid environment being polluted.

After all the headquarters of Karnataka
has been showing off its =silicon= breasts
for a decade now attracting =foreign=guests!
The dogs mouths are of course to remain
gagged to prevent them from attacking
school going or garbage picking children.

In the next few days,Karnataka will have a
=fatva= (kannada pronounciation not
Tamil) Chief Minister, hopefully under his
=kishkindha= rajya Karnataka does not
come under a tsunami pralhaya with its
epicenter from Udupi Pejawara matha.

Now the CM will also explain under the
Hindu culture why the counted tenth
incarnation is still absconding.

It is a matter of faith meant to be respected.

After all, religion is not a joke.

But make sure in =kishkindha= monkeys
wear langotis, shave clean, use lathis,
match sticks and petrol cans against
interstate bus services! (end)