Ankit Kumar

[Tehxi @yajnshri]

All 6 Phases of Autophagy Explained And How to Activate Each

[Adithya @adithya]

Some years ago this below excerpt from Kanchi Jagadguru Mahaperiyava's Dheivathin Kural/ Voice of God greatly influenced me and had a profound impact on my thought. This was around the time when my wife and I were expecting our first child

During college days, while I would do my daily Sandhyavandana, I was a big fan of Ayn Rand's Objectivism, free will, reason and heroic happiness of a human being. After I read the Fountainhead, I gave it to my then 75 year old grandmother who also finished reading it in a few days

As Carl Sagan says you and I are literally nothing but a "speck of dust" in this "pale blue dot"

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SASTRA OR CONSCIENCE?

The goal of dharma is universal welfare. The great men who produced the works on Dharmasastra didn't have a trace of self-interest in them and had nothing but the thought of the happiness of all creatures. These treatises are the authority on which dharma is founded. You find the form of things, the image, with your eyes; you perceive sound with your ears; you know dharma with the help of Dharmasastra.

The Vedas (Sruti) are the root of all dharma. After Sruti comes Smrti. The latter consists of the "notes" based on Smrti. It is the same as Dharmasastra. Another guide for the dharma is the example of great men. The Puranas provide an answer to how great men conducted themselves. Then there is shistachara to guide us, the life of virtuous people of noble character. Not everybody's conduct can be a guide to us. The individual whose life is an example for the practice of dharma must have faith in the sastras and must live in accordance with their ordinances. Besides, he must be free from desire and anger. The conduct of such men is shistachara. Another authority or guide is what we know through our conscience in a state of transparency.

In matters of the Self, of dharma and religion, the Vedas are in the forefront as our guide. Next come the dharmasastras. Third is the conduct of the great sages of the past. Fourth is the example of the virtuous people of our own times. Conscience comes last in determining dharma.

Now everything has become topsy-turvy. People give importance first to their conscience and last to the Vedas. We must consult our conscience only as a last resort when we have no other means of knowing what dharma with reference to our actions is. Why is conscience called one's "manahsaakshi"? Conscience is fit to be only a witness (saakshi), not to be a judge. A witness often gives false evidence. The mind, however, doesn't tell an untruth - indeed it knows the truth of all things. “There is no deceit that is hidden from the heart (mind), “says Auvvai. Conscience may be regarded as a witness. But nowadays it is brought in as a judge also in dharmic matters. As a witness it will give us a true report of what it sees or has seen. But on the basis of it we cannot give on what is just with any degree of finality. "What I think is right,” everybody would try to satisfy himself thus about his actions if he were to be guided only by his conscience. How can this be justified as the verdict of dharma?

We often hear people say, "I will act according to what my conscience tells me.” This is not a right attitude. All at once your conscience cannot be given the place of a judge. It is only when there is no other way open to you that you may tell your mind: "You have seen everything as a witness. Now tell me your opinion. “The mind belongs to each one of us as individuals. So it cannot be detached from our selfish interests. The place it has in one's personal affairs cannot be given to it in matters of religion. On questions of dharma the opinion of sages alone is valid, sages who were concerned with universal welfare and who transcended the state of the individual concerned with his own mind (or with himself).

Source: "Hindu Dharma"- English translation of "Deivathin Kural", a collection of speeches of Kanchi Jagadguru Sri Sri Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi MahaSwamigal

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@Thesage_lord Sometimes I thank god for the kind of chill parents I've got.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Powerful rule for life: Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary feeling. Bad days pass. Anger fades. Fear settles. Just learn to pause. Take a walk. Sleep on it. Give it a minute. You can always act tomorrow. You can't always undo a rushed decision made today.

[Priya @FiercelyVirgo]

Consistent 8-9 hours of mindful sleep (when you actually focus on deep sleep leaving behind all the worries of the world) with a strong sense of purpose in life will age-reverse you, seriously!

[Philosophy Monk @PhilosophyMonk]

THE ONLY 5 EXERCISES YOUR BODY REALLY NEEDS.

1. Walking

[Diaryofadreamywriter @Briellefine]

When you stop reading books, you start losing verbal dexterity, depth of thought and imagination. A closed book is a closed mind. Don't EVER stop reading.

[Manifest_Lord @Manifest_Lord]

ChatGPT was asked how to live to 140 years & the answer was simple, logical & unexpected..

You will be shocked.. 👇🧵

[Barbara Oneill @BarbaraOneillAU]

EAT THIS DAILY TO PREVENT DISEASES

1. If you want to prevent heart diseases, start eating walnuts.

2. If you want to prevent brain diseases, start eating blueberries.

3. If you want to prevent liver damage, start eating beetroot.

4. If you want to prevent diabetes, start eating chia seeds.

5. If you want to prevent joint pain, start eating turmeric.

6. If you want to prevent gut inflammation, start eating ginger.

7. If you want to prevent skin aging, start eating avocados.

8. If you want to prevent chronic fatigue, start eating bananas.

9. If you want to prevent high blood pressure, start drinking coconut water daily.

10. If you want to prevent hair loss, start eating pumpkin seeds.

[Scient @scientxbt]

this is insane. i genuinely don't understand why ambitious people aren't shown this lecture before their careers start consuming their entire lives.

clayton christensen spent his career studying why successful companies collapse. in his final class, he asked students to apply the theory to themselves: if you keep allocating your time the same way, what life are you actually building?

he had already seen the answer in his own harvard mba class. everyone looked successful at the fifth reunion; by the 10th, 15th, 20th, and 25th, many were unhappy, divorced, and living far from their children.

work shows you the score immediately. close a sale, ship a product, finish a presentation, earn a promotion, get paid.

an hour with your child may produce nothing you can measure today; it may take 20 years to understand what that hour built. so the next free hour goes back to work, one rational decision at a time.

this is how people build lives they never planned: through hundreds of right decisions that lead in the wrong direction, day after day.

money, titles, and headcount are easy to count. christensen believed a life should be measured by the people who became better because you were there.

he died in 2020.

one question remains: if someone saw only where your time, energy, and attention went this year, what would they think actually mattered to you?

the full 19-minute lecture is in the video below.

[Jasper Kasparov @JasperKasparov]

Your blood flow is aging your brain faster than alcohol or screens.

It fogs your afternoons, slows your word recall, and ends in the diagnosis nobody plans for.

Here's the simple fix:

1. Don't do more crosswords

[Dean Carter @TheFastedState]

Sleep is the most powerful medicine on Earth.

It boosts memory, recovery, fat loss, and even helps with anxiety.

Here’s how to improve it with 7 simple steps:

1. Don’t sleep 8 hours.

[Dr. Priyam Bordoloi @DocPriyamMD]

Most people connect stroke with BP and cholesterol.

Almost nobody connects it with their toothbrush.

Here are 5 daily habits linked to stroke.

1. Going to bed without brushing your teeth.

[Džejla Cathleen @dzejlacathleen]

A Heart doctor confessed:

“There are 3 kinds of people who never get heart attacks.”

1. Those who don't get up to pee at 3 AM

[Jasper Kasparov @JasperKasparov]

A Harvard professor who studied happy people for 40 years left me in tears when he told me:

There are 8 things that decide your quality of life.

1. The distance between your house and your job.

[Dr. Biohacker @Dr_Biohacker]

A sleep researcher:

“People who go to bed after 1 AM develop something that looks like DEPRESSION. No antidepressant can fix a broken CLOCK.”

The fix takes 5 DAYS:

Day 1: set an alarm for 7 AM. Get up. Don't negotiate.

[Tehxi @yajnshri]

Science just confirmed eating 2 dates filled with pumpkin seeds every morning delivers more iron, magnesium and zinc than most supplements and this combination has been used for 6,000 years.