NEED FOR SPEED FOR THAT ADRENALINE RUSH - CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL

Above video:  My elder son at the Las Vegas track.  Check out how easily 007's Aston Martin is overtaken.

LAS VEGAS EXOTIC MOTOR SPEEDWAY FOR  THE ADRENALINE JUNKIE-  CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL

My elder son flies off on week ends to Las Vegas to race at the Las Vegas race tracks.

Usually he prefers the amazing Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 , and the Nissan GT-R , both raging beasts on the race track . On the straights both give 145 MPH.  One mile is 1.61 kilometres.

Wanna see what a beast the  Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 can be?  

The Aventador is pure bull-inspired awesomeness. 

Its 700 HP, V12 and F1-inspired carbon fiber monocoque provide vicious acceleration, sublime steering, and gives incredible handling pleasure. 

Its unmatched visual presence is the cynosure of all eyes..

Check out the video below .

Soccer player Christiano Ronaldo owns one which cost 600, 000 US dollars.  At Las Vegas you pay 499 USD to take 5 laps in 4 minutes .

The money is well spent , as it gives an incredible adrenaline rush, which last for hours.  This a  natural drug boost--, NO external chemicals are involved.   

Later when you go to the casino to pay the roulette, the Craps or Black Jack, you feel like ze king.

No bungee jump can come near this adrenaline rush

Last week end he tried out the Ferrari 458 Italia.  The car steers like a baby coupled with advanced E-Diff and F1-Trac traction control systems.  You can steer the Ferrari 458 Italia with one hand ,  which is impossible on the brutal Lamborghini Aventador.

The sporty Ferrari Italia accelerates to 100 km/ hr in just 3.4 seconds.    It has small aeroelastic winglets generate downforce .  The front grille features deformable winglets that lower at high speeds, in order to offer reduced drag and increased downforce.

Few weeks ago ar Suzuka, the 350,000 Dollar Ferrari 458 Italia was traveling at speeds in excess of 150mph when the tires lost grip around a turn, slamming the car driven by Shigeru Terajima , head-first into a safety barrier.  

The car, however, was picked off the track with shovels and a backhoe, as the super car basically disintegrated .

Check out the video yourself .

Till today nobody has figured out how the trouble free Ferrari Italia crashed.  Let me tell you this has happened due to an overheated engine freeze .

At Las Vegas you get the unique opportunity to drive and race with others -- Ferraris,  Lamborghinis,  Aston Martins,  Porsches, McLarens,  Audis,  Mercedes and Nissans on a proper race track...

They provide everything, the  supercars, racetrack, instructors, insurance and helmets.  

Every car has its signature feel.

You get to feel the brute power of  hundreds of horsepower at your fingertips , the astonishing G-Force pressure on a curve , the whiplash from a high-speed gear change, the smell and squeal of burning rubber and hear the scream of a marvelous high RPM engine.

The professional race driver sitting with you gives you a re-assuring feeling. He makes sure that you are safe in overtaking situations . He helps you to squeeze out more from the unique experience. 

The Exotics racing experience is anyday more thrilling then the Vegas roller coasters , the gambling casinos and the girly entertainment shows.

Here is a guaranteed adrenaline rush as opposed to the risks and stress of gambling.  How else can you ever get behind the wheel of a rare and super expensive  car?

  --in your dreams?  

Have you not been thrilled as a small boy playing with such supercar plastic toys ?

They help you to position the car in the right place on the track to set it up correctly for upcoming turns— it  aint at all about nag nag nag back seat driving.

While you race faaaast there is an exciting, pleasurable effect produced when the adrenal glands dump a large dose of adrenaline into the bloodstream.  The adrenaline rush usually occurs when the body senses danger, the "Fight or Flight" moment. 

Your heart rate increases, pleasure-giving endorphins are released by the pituitary gland and your breathing rate ramps up.  The result of all this extra oxygen, energy and hormones is the adrenaline high, a euphoric feeling that can last for hours.

Beats bungee jumping, wave surfing, rock climbing and even bull fighting – 

-- or even mindless tomato throwing or pretending to run before drugged bulls as one Bollywood movie with Katrina Kaif and Hritik Roshan was trying to scam us into.

You need severe lack of imagination to derive any joy out of throwing tomatoes like retarded dorks.  

Rather you need to be a prick of the first order. 

Adrenaline is a hormone and a neurotransmitter.. It regulates heart rate, blood vessel and air passage diameters, and metabolic shifts.

Adrenaline (epinephrine) is  released is a crucial component of the fight-or-flight response of the sympathetic nervous system.

The adrenal glands are found directly above the kidneys in the human body, and are roughly 3 inches in length. Along with norepinephrine and dopamine, it is a catecholamine, which is a group of hormones released in response to stress. These three hormones react with various body tissues, preparing the body to react physically to the stress causing situation.

When a person encounters a potentially dangerous situation, like seeing a cobra with read up hood in your bed room , the hypothalamus in the brain signals the adrenal glands to release adrenaline and other hormones directly into the bloodstream.  

The body's systems react to these hormones within seconds, giving the person a nearly instant physical boost.  Strength and speed both increase, while the body's ability to feel pain decreases.  This hormonal surge is ze  "adrenaline rush.".  This hormone causes heightened awareness and increased respiration.

When there is stress but no actual danger, a person can be left feeling restless and irritable. This is partly because adrenaline causes the body to release glucose, raising blood sugar, and giving the body energy that has no outlet.  High levels of adrenaline in the blood can lead to insomnia and jittery nerves, and are often an indicator of chronic stress.

I used to be Captain of fast container ships. Once the ship reaches the English Channel, the Captain cannot sleep.  There is heavy traffic , dense fog or bad weather.  Those days , in the early eighties there was no GPS and the radars were useless.

Then there are long river passages with very short distance between the sea ports like London, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Hamburg, Bremen, Rotterdam.  

The port stay is a few hours and I need to take my wife out for a shore leave jaunt too.  Sometimes for three full days the Captain cannot sleep at all.  

I have noticed that fatigue is only on the first day. The remaining two days I am alert. 

Then finally when the ship comes out of the English Channel and plunges into the Atlantic enroute New York, the Captain must indeed sleep.  

But he cannot sleep as his body is supercharged with CORTISOL, even after taking some alcohol.

You just toss and turn in bed. 

The stress system relies on two key hormones: adrenaline and cortisol.  

Cortisol is a steroid hormone,  produced by the adrenal glands.  During the stress response, massive levels of cortisol are released by the adrenal glands to provide us with more energy.

Too much cortisol cansuppress the immune system, suppress pain, increase blood pressure and sugar, decrease libido, loss of muscle mass ,  trigger insulin resistance, increase sugar and carbohydrate cravings   and contribute to obesity ( fat deposits on the belly ) and IMPAIR SLEEP.

Adrenaline works in the short term, while cortisol has large momentum and works in the long term.  Just as your levels of adrenaline start coming down, so rises the amount of cortisol flowing through your veins.  

Moreover, cortisol has a much larger momentum than adrenaline, which means that even though it builds up slowly, it also takes a long time to go back to normal.  

And should you constantly be engaging in activities which require adrenaline, so will your levels of cortisol slowly increase.

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When a a threat is perceived, a signal is sent to the brain. The brain then sends nerve impulses to the adrenal gland in the kidneys.  When the nerve signal reaches the adrenal gland, chromaffin cells, in the medulla of the adrenal gland, release epinephrine.

Epinephrine then enters the bloodstream. It is thus carried around the body to cells in various locations, where it initiates several responses.

Despite initiating several different responses, epinephrine’s effects have a collective purpose – to provide INSTANT energy so that the major muscles of the body can respond to the perceived threat.

An adrenaline rush has given mothers the super human strength to lift cars from over their dead children.

In school I used to get kicked on my shins while playing soccer. Till the game is over it does NOT pain. For once the adrenaline wears off, you'll be able to feel the pain .

At the same time it is a paradox that your vision to your touch, your senses will be dramatically heightened when you are undergoing an adrenaline rush.  Because everything happens so fast during an adrenaline rush, your breathing and your heart rate will jump suddenly. 

Your blood pressure will also go up, and you may even start to sweat to prevent your muscles from getting overworked during an adrenaline rush. 

Nutrients are released to sustain muscular activity and blood flow is regulated away from less important organs to the muscles to prepare for a fight. The body keeps up this preparation until it no longer feels threatened.  

An initial rush of adrenaline makes you feel empowered, like you can conquer the world.  The decrease in adrenaline afterwards is known as the adrenaline crash, and this can make you feel anxious or even negative. Those who suffer from depression have been found to experience an extremely drastic drop in adrenaline. After a marriage celebration you can usually see everybody pooped .

Caffeine is the most widely used drug in the world. Most  morning  coffee drinkers don't realize it, but their morning cups of coffee set their bodies up for a rollercoaster day of highs and lows, only to bottom out at the point of exhaustion.  

Just a few hours after consumption, when the artificial high dies down, many people may reach for more coffee or something sugary to get another lift, leading to daily fluctuations in energy and alertness, and possibly to eventual chronic adrenal exhaustion.  

The excessive caffeine consumption has simply pushed your adrenal glands so much that they've burned out.  Caffeine affects your body just like any drug. You start taking it slowly, but as your body develops a tolerance to it, you need more and more to feel the same effects. 

Caffeine increases the stimulating neurohormone, noradrenaline, and reduces the calming neurotransmitter, serotonin. Caffeine also stimulates the production of norepinephrine, another stress hormone that acts directly on the brain and nervous system. Caffeine works by making an ass out of a hormone that tells the adrenal glands to crank out more adrenaline. 

Like caffeine  nicotine too overstimulate the adrenal glands. Caffeine can have a detrimental effect on blood sugar. When caffeine is ingested, the nervous system is stimulated. Adrenaline is released and, in turn, the liver begins to emit stored blood sugar. Insulin is then released, and blood sugar drops below normal—a common seizure trigger for people with epilepsy.  

Caffeine also constricts  blood vessels in the brain.  Caffiene stimulates the release of stored sugar from the liver—same thing what coca cola does. Avoid caffeine -- it increases the stress hormones and adrenaline, which causes a spike in blood sugar.  These quick-fix solutions to lagging energy and poor mood fuel your fatigue and depression and aggravate food craving. 

Caffeinism usually combines physical addiction with a wide range of debilitating effects, most notably anxiety, irritability, mood swings, sleep disturbance, depression, and fatigue. Caffeine does not provide energy—only chemical stimulation. The perceived "energy" comes from the body's struggle to adapt to increased blood levels of stress hormones.  

Caffeine is the Trojan horse.  

It looks like a gift but instead delivers adrenal stress, low blood sugar, mood and energy swings, fatigue, depression, malnutrition, and disturbed sleep. 

Caffeine depletes the body of B vitamins, which you need for proper brain and nervous system functioning and for converting food to energy. with caffeine, we don't provide the glands anything to make that hormone out of—we just cry "emergency" and force them to figure it out, one way or another. So the body reaches down into its reserves and makes more hormone because it thinks it is the right thing to do. 

Caffeine forces your glands to secrete when they don't have much left to give, and they have to keep digging deeper and deeper, making you more and more tired over time. Caffeine is clearly addictive.

Although Starbucks notes that the caffeine levels of these drinks may vary, they are listed on the Starbucks website as:

Short - 180 mg

Tall - 260 mg

Grande - 330 mg

Venti - 415 mg

Experts consider 200-300 mg of caffeine a day to be a moderate amount for adults. But consuming as little as 100 mg of caffeine a day can lead a person to become "dependent" on caffeine.

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CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL DOES NOT DRINK STARBUCKS COFFEE

Grace and peace!

Put your head phones on.   

These 31 Sanskrit slokas on Life Management ,  were penned by Adi Shankaracharya in 2000 BC.   

This is the fantastic Hindu religion that the converted Indian Muslims and Christians ran away from-- and allowed their Indian souls to be harvested  by invaders –

-- for fear of the bloody sword

-- and love for immoral sops.

LET  THE  JOURNEY  BEGIN -----

Sloka translations :-

Verse 1: ~~~~~~

BHAJA GOVINDAM, BHAJA GOVINDAM

GOVINDAM BHAJA MUDHAMATE

SAMPRAAPTE SANNIHITE KALE

NA HI NA HI RAKSHATI DUKRINKARANE

Worship the Spirit, worship the Spirit, seek Govinda , O Ignoramus !  Hark - when death finally arrives at your door , these useless rules of grammer  ( atheist madhumati pursuits ) which you are now trying to cram and master , cannot salvage you at all..

Verse 2: ~~~~~~

MOODHA JAHEEHI DHANAAGAMATRISHNAAM

KURU SADBUDHIM MANASI VITRISHNAAM

YALLABHASE NIJAKARMOPAATHAM

VITHAM TENA VINODAYA CHITHAM

Oh, Fool! abandon your insatiable greed for material possessions; be sensible and develop serenity and contentment.  Be free from passion and be content with whatever you may earn by the sweat of your brow and whatever has destiny marked for your lot.

Verse 3: ~~~~~~

NAAREE STHANABHARA NABHEEDESAM

DHRISHTWA MAA GAA MOHAVESAM

YETAN MAAMSAVASAADI VIKAARAM

MANASI VICHINTHAYA VAARAM VAARAM

Enticed by the navel and cleavage of a woman, do not lose your senses; her body is nothing but a conglomeration of flesh,  dwell and reflect over this wisdom .

Verse 4: ~~~~~~

NALINEEDALAGATHA JALAMATITHARALAM

TADWAJJEEVITAMATHISHAYA CHAPALAM

VIDDHI VYADHYABHIMAANAGRASTAM

LOKAM SHOKAHATAM CHA SAMASTHAM

The water droplet on the lotus leaf is tremulous and unsteady.  So too is life which is as uncertain.  Be aware that this world is stricken with disease and arrogance and afflicted with sorrow.

Verse 5: ~~~~~~

YAAVADVITTOPAARJANA SAKTHAH

TAAVANNIJAPARIVAARO RAKTHAH

PASCHAAJJEEVATI JARJARADEHE

VAARTHAM KOPI NA PRICHCHATHI GEHE

As long as you are able to acquire wealth , your kith and kin will follow you . But no sooner your body is worn out ,  limbs become infirm and your earnings cease, none will care for you,  or somuch as speak to you , not even your own home-folk.

Verse 6: ~~~~~~

YAAVATPAVANO NIVASATI DEHE

TAAVATPRICHCHATI KUSHALAM GEHE

GATAVATI VAAYO DEHAAPAAYE

BHAARYA BIBHYATI TASMINKAAYE

As long as there is life in your body, your people may have concern for you, but once the life-breath ebbs out of your body, even your own wife will fear that cadaver..

Verse 7: ~~~~~~

BAALASTAAVAT KREEDAA SAKTHAH

THARUNASTAAVAT THARUNEESAKTHAH

VRIDDHASTAAVAT CHINTHAASAKTHAH

PARASE BRAHMANI KOPI NA SAKTHA

As a child one is attached to play, as a youth one goes in pursuits of  love for women and wealth, as an old man one is drowned in worry  for the future. At no stage does man have time to lift his thoughts to the  supreme Brahman ( the morphogenetic consciousness field )

Verse 8: ~~~~~~

KAA TE KAANTAA KASTE PUTHRAH

SAMSAROYAMATEEVA VICHITRAH

KASYA TWAM KAH KUTHA AAYAATAH

TATWAM CHINTHAYA TADIHA BHARATAH

Who is your wife?  Who is your son?  Who belongs to whom?  Strange indeed are these bonds. Where have you come from? O brother, ponder  and reflect on the truth of it all.

Verse 9: ~~~~~~

SATSANGATWE NISSANGATWAM

NISSANGATWE NIRMOHATWAM

NIRMOHATWE NISCHALATATWAM

NISCHALATATWE JEEVANMUKTHIH

The company of the good weans one away from false attachments; when attachment is lost, delusion ends; when delusion ends, the mind becomes unwavering and steady.  An unwavering and steady mind is merited for Jeevan Mukti ( liberation even in this life ).

Verse 10: ~~~~~~~

VAYASI GATE KAH KAMAVIKARAH

SHUSHKE NEERE, KAH KAASAARAH

KSHEENE VITHE KAH PARIVARO

GYNATE TATWE KAH SAMASARAH

When the youth is gone, where is lust and its sensual play?  Where is the lake when its waters have dried up?  Where are the kinsfolk when riches are gone ?  When Truth is realised, where is the snare of Samsara ( the material world ) ?

Verse 11: ~~~~~~~

MAA KURU DHANAJANAYOUVANAGARVAM

HARATI NIMESHAATKAALAH SARWAM

MAAYAAMAYAMIDAMAKHILAM HITHWA

BRAHMAPADAM TWAM PRAVISHA VIDITWA

Do not be arrogant about your wealth, pleasures , following or youth. These are all deceptively transient and Time removes them all in an instant.  Having understood that all this is illusive, be detached, understand and seek  BrahmAn.( supreme consciousness )

Verse 12: ~~~~~~~

DINAYAAMINYOU SAAYAM PRAATAH

SHISHIRAVASANTOW PUNARAAYAATAH

KAALAH KREEDATI GACHCHATYAAYUH

TADAPI NA MUNCHATHYAASAAVAAYUH

Day and night, dusk and dawn, winter and spring come again and again. Time frolics and befools us , while life span is running out steadily .  Yet we keep clinging to our desires 

Verse 13: ~~~~~~~

KAA TE KAANTAA DHANAGATACHINTAA

VAATULA KIM TAVA NAASTI NIYANTAA

TRIJAGATI SAJJANASANGATIREKAA

BHAVATI BHAVAARNAVATARANE NOUKAA

Why do you worry so much about wife and wealth?  O confused one, why don’t you seek the truth ?  Know that in these three worlds only the company of the holy and good acts as a safe boat to cross the ocean of  worldly existence.

Verse 14: ~~~~~~~

JATILO MUNDI LUNCHITAKESHAH

KAASHAAYAAMBARA BAHUKRITAVESHAH

PASYANNAPI CHA NA PASYATI MOODHO

HIUDARANIMITAM BAHUKRITAVESHAH

The ascetic with matted locks, the man with the shaven head or one with hair pulled out, or the man parading in the ochre robes -- they all have eyes but yet do not see. All these are but mere deceptions for cheating the world, for filling their bellies.   -- ( Renunciation does not lie in external appearance, but in inward thought, attitude and feeling ).

Verse 15: ~~~~~~~

ANGAM GALITAM PALITAM MUNDAM

DASANAVIHEENAM JAATAM TUNDAM

VRIDHDHO YAATI GRIHEETWA DANDAM

TADAPI NA MUNCHATYAASHAAPINDAM

With worn-out body, grey hair, toothless mouth, the bent with age old man walks with the aid of a stick.  Yet he will not loosen even a wee bit his clutch on the bundle of desires.

Verse 16: ~~~~~~~

AGRE VAHNIH PRISHTE BHAANUH

RAATHROW CHUBUKASAMARPITAJAANUH

KARATALABHIKASHAS TARUTALAVAASAH

TADAPI NA MUNCHATYAASHAAPAASAH

With fire in front and sun behind, with knees tucked into the chin at night,  receiving bhiksha (alms) in his open palms, homeless - living under trees,  even then the bundle of desires does not go.

Verse 17: ~~~~~~~

KURUTE GANGAASAAGARAGAMANAM

VRATAPARIPAALANAMATHAVAA DAANAM

JNANAVIHEENAH SARVAMATENA

MUKTIM NA BHAJATI JANMASATENA

One may have bathed at the holy confluence ( Ganga Sagar )  where the Ganga enters the ocean, he may have observed vows  and done charity,  yet unless one has glimpsed the Truth ( brahmAn ) he will not obtain liberation even in a hundred re-incarnated lives .

Verse 18: ~~~~~~~

SURAMANDIRA TARUMOOLA NIVAASAH

SAIYAA BHOOTALAMAJINAM VAASAH

SARVAPARIGRAHA BHOGATYAAGAH

KASYA SUKHAM NA KAROTI VIRAAGAH

Who can disturb the peace and inner happiness of a man if he has the true spirit of renunciation ,  controlled his desires,  even if he be the poorest, sleeping in the temple halls , under trees or on the bare open ground and just with a deer skin to cover.

Verse 19: ~~~~~~~

YOGARATO VAA BHOGARATO VAA

SANGARATO VAA SANGAVIHEENAH

YASYA BRAHMANI RAMATE CHITHAM

NANDATI NANDATI NANDATYEVA

Whether one is devoted to yoga (spiritual practice) or delighting in bhoga (sense indulgence), or enjoying in pleasurable company or has retired into solitude, only the one whose mind rejoices and revels inward in Brahman can be truly happy and can exult in joy within his heart.

Verse 20: ~~~~~~~

BHAGAVADGEETA KINCHIDADHEETAA

GANGAAJALALAVAKANIKAA PEETAA

SAKRIDAPI YENA MURARISAMARCHAA

KRIYATE TASYA YAMENA NA CHARCHA

One who has studied the Bhagavad Gita, sipped even a drop of Ganga water, has worshipped Murari (Krishna) just once, does not meet with Yama ( lord of death ).

Verse 21: ~~~~~~~

PUNARAPI JANANAM PUNARAPI MARANAM

PUNARAPI JANANEE JATARE SAYANAM

IHA SAMSAARE BAHUDUSTAARE

KRIPAYAA(A)PAARE PAAHI MURARE

Undergoing the pangs of birth , passing though the throes of death and sleeping in a mother's womb over and over again ( re-incarnation ) – this samsara (world) is unfathomable and hard to cross over. O Murari (Krishna), protect me by your grace.

Verse 22: ~~~~~~~

RATHYAACHARPATA VIRACHITAKANTHAH

PUNYAAPUNYA VIVARJITAPANTHAH

YOGEE YOGANIYOJITACHITHO

RAMATE BAALONMATTAVADEVA

Wearing patched up rags , the yogi treading the path free from punya (virtue) and apunya (vice), with mind focused on yoga (union), revels in the Supreme and rejoices like a child, lost to outward norms..

Verse 23: ~~~~~~~

KASTWAM KOHAM KUTA AAYAATAH

KAA ME JANANEE KO ME TAATAH

ITI PARIBHAVAYA SARVAMASAARAM

VISWAM TYAKTWAA SWAPNAVICHAARAM

Who are you? Who am I? From where have I come? Who is my mother? Who is my father? Contemplate over this, setting aside the whole unsubstantial worrisome world,  which is just an imaginary dream,  a delusional hallucination .

Verse 24: ~~~~~~~

TWAYI MAYI CHAANYATRAIKO VISHNUH

VYARTHAM KUPYASI MAYYASAHISHNUH

BHAVA SAMACHITTAH SARVATRA TWAM

VANCHHASYASHIRAADYADI VISHNUTWA

There is only one Vishnu in you, me and everywhere else. Mistakenly you get ill-disposed and impatient with me in vain.  Become equanimous in all situations  and discard your ego if you want to reach the state of Unity.

Verse 25: ~~~~~~~

SATROU MITRE PUTRE BANDHOU

MAA KURU YATNAM VIGRAHASANDHOU

SARVASMINNAPI PASYAATMAANAM

SARVATROTSRIJA BHEDAAJNYANA

Do not look at anybody in stereotyped terms of friend or foe,  ( either you are with  me or you are against me – President "stupid" Bush ) brother or cousin; do not fritter away your mental energies in thoughts of friendship or enemity.  See the self everywhere, in everything. 

Verse 26: ~~~~~~~

KAAMAM KRODHAM LOBHAM MOHAM

TYAKTWAA TMAANAM PASHYATI SOHAM

AATMAJNANA VIHEENAA MUDAAH

TE PASYANTE NARAKANIGOODAAH

Renounce and free yourself from lust, anger, greed and delusion.  Contemplate on 'who you are'. Enquire within yourself, who am I?  The fools who fail to apprehend the Self are caught in hell-fire even here and now itself and suffer torture.

Verse 27: ~~~~~~~

GEYAM GEETAANAAMASAHASRAM

DHYEYAM SHREEPATIROOPAMAJASRAM

NEYAM SAJJANASANGE CHITTAM

DEYAM DEENAJANAAYA CHA VITTAM

Recite the Gita; chant the thousand Names of the lord ( Vishnu Sahasranama ), meditate ceaselessly on the Consort of the and Lord, Lakshmi ( Lalita Sahasranama ) ; lead the mind towards association with the good.  Give your wealth in charity to those in need and who are poor.

Verse 28: ~~~~~~~

SUKHATAH KRIYATE RAAMAABHOGAH

PASCHADDHANTA SHAREERE ROGAH

YADYAPI LOKE MARANAM SARANAM

TADAPI NA MUNJCHATI PAAPAACHARANAM

As readily as one takes to indulging in carnal pleasures, with the same readiness, alas, he is taken over by disease too. One delights in carnal pleasure. Later the body gets diseased.  Even though death is inevitable in this world , one does not give up sinful behavior.

Verse 29: ~~~~~~~

ARTHAMANARTHAM BHAAVAYA NITHYAM

NAASTI TATAH SUKHALESAH SATHYAM

PUTHRAADAPI DHANABHAAJAAM BHEETIH

SARVATRAISHA VIHITA REETIH

It is wealth only that causes all harm and brings about one's ruin. Bear this truth in mind always. Know that the pursuit of wealth does not lead one to happiness at all. The rich fear and are even afraid of their own sons ( like all Mughal Emperors ) .  This is how it is ordained everywhere.

Verse 30: ~~~~~~~

PRAANAAYAAMAM PRATYAAHAARAM

NITYAANITYA VIVEKAVICHAARAM

JAAPYASAMETA SAMAADHIVIDHAANAM

KURVAVADHAANAM MAHADAVADHAANAM

Regulated breathing and sense control, discrimination between the enduring and the fleeting, the eternal and the transient,  practice of japa and meditation leading to inner silence,  submerging in the Consciousness of the Spirit, -- one must practice these with unrelenting fervour.

Verse 31: ~~~~~~~

GURUCHARANAAMBUJA NIRBHARABHAKTHAH

SAMSAARAADACHIRAADHAVA MUKTHAH

SENDRIYA MAANASA NIYAMAADEVAM

DRAKSHYASI NIJAHRIDAYASTHAM DEVAM

Surrender yourself to the Lotus Feet of the Guru; with your senses and mind disciplined, and freed from the shackles of Samsara --you will soon behold the supreme spirit ensconsed in your own heart.

YIKES  !!!!!

CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL
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