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Common name: Yellow Himalayan Raspberry Vernacular name:-आंखरे Botanical name: Rubus ellipticus  Family: Rosaceae (Rose family) Location -Himachal Pradesh Chamba DOC:-04/2022 Synonyms: Rubus rotundifolius Flowering:-Feb.-April Yellow Himalayan Raspberry is a shrub, growing up to 2 m tall. It is clothed with prickles and reddish hairs. The alternate leaves are compound with three round to blunt leaflets 5-10 cm long. The undersides of the leaves are lighter than the upper surface and covered with downy hairs. The flowers are small, white with five petals. The fruit is a round yellow cluster of druplets easily detaching from the receptacle. The prickly shrub invades native forests principally in pig-disturbed habitats. The plant has underground shoots that contribute to its spread and allow it to rapidly regenerate following a fire. The fruits are edible and frugivorous birds spread the seeds. Himalayan raspberry can invade disturbed habitats and displace other plant spec...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                       🌿Chapter - 5🌿         ~ You Are Free Right Now ~                    🌱 Day - 30 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 Be aware, "I am consciousness". In the morning when you wake up, become aware of your infinite nature. You are like the sky. You are infinity. Walk with that infinite nature. Move through this world like a white cloud; unstained and untouched. It is not difficult. Later on things happen-the hue and cry of activity. Things happen and don't happen; you feel happy, unhappy. This happens. You throw the plates out and stop eating, go on strikes and all such things-a big soap opera or drama of crying, comforting and explaining. All this nonsense goes on-explanations about why you did something. Everybody telling the others that they are right. 'Whatever I am doin...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                       🌿Chapter - 5🌿         ~ You Are Free Right Now ~                    🌱 Day - 29 🌱                     💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 कूटस्थं बोधमद्वैैतमात्मनं परिभावय । आभासोऽहं भ्रमं मुक्त्वा भावं बाह्यमथान्तरम् ॥ But when can you know your nature - that you are peace? When you become stress free, when you drop these super-impositions, when you can relax, let go and dive towards it. That's why you've seen and heard this all over the world: new birth, born again or twice born. People use them in every religion and every place. It's prevalent all over. देहाभिमानपाशेन चिरं बद्धोऽसि पुत्रक । बोधोऽहं ज्ञानखड्गेन तन्निष्कृत्य सुखी भव ॥ Ashtavakra says, that Janaka had always looked at the surroundings, at the events, at his...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                       🌿Chapter - 5🌿         ~ You Are Free Right Now ~                    🌱 Day - 28 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 There is no two. Only you are there. Everyone is your own reflection. You are in this body, in this frame of mind now. You could be in that body and that frame of mind. Whether you like it or not, it does not matter. That's how it is. It is you, you and you alone present in many, many forms. In all names, forms and qaulities, pleasant and unpleasant nature, rough and soft nature, rude and compassionate nature, neat and clean nature and filthy nature. All these are but your own form, making you aware of the opposites. The moment you like something, you dislike something else. The moment you dislike something, you already like something else. And in this figh...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                       🌿Chapter - 5🌿         ~ You Are Free Right Now ~                    🌱 Day - 27 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 आत्मा साक्षी विभुः पूर्ण एको मुक्तश्चिदक्रियः । असङगो निस्पृहः शान्तो भ्रमात्संसारवानिव ॥ Wake up and see you are infinite Self. You are free. You have just been overwhelmed by the events in your mind. That is all that has happened. A cloud has covered the sun. What can any cloud do to the sun? Can it destroy it? Remember your nature. You are the soul, only being. You are a witness to all the events. They all will come and splash like waves on the shore; then go away from you. Even if they created some impression, it doesn't stay too long because another event takes place and rubs it out, to some extent. आत्मा साक्षी विभुः पूर्ण । You are complete. Don't th...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                       🌿Chapter - 5🌿         ~ You Are Free Right Now ~                    🌱 Day - 26 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 मुक्ताभिमानी मुक्तो हि बद्धो बद्धाभिमान्यपि । किंवदन्तीह सत्येयं या मतिः सा गतिर्भवेत् ॥ Now, what do we think in our minds? 'Oh, I shouldn't be behaving like this. I shouldn't be feeling like this. I am bound, I have to be liberated. Some day in the future I will be liberated'. When? Some day in future. If you encourage this thought of being bound, and being free some day in the future, forget about it! What are you bound with? Events and happenings. And some dreams. You are dreaming that you will meet the 'right' person in your life and then you will be happy. You meet the 'right' person in your life and then you become happier or unhappier, because that ...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                       🌿Chapter - 5🌿         ~ You Are Free Right Now ~                    🌱 Day - 25 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 यत्र विश्वमिदं भाति कल्पितं रज्जुसर्पवत् । आनन्दपरमानन्दः स बोधसत्वं सुखं चर ॥ When you can see the entire event as fleeting impositions or happenings, and you remain untouched by them, then you are happy. Joy springs out of you, like a fountain. That is your very nature. Clinging on to the past, to your likes and dislikes, you have bolted the fountain of joy. It was a dark night. A gentleman was going into a forest with a small torch. From a distance he saw a snake on the path. He stood there waiting for the snake to move. His torch cells (batteries) were running out. There was a very feeble light. If it was totally dark he would have passed. But it wasn't...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                       🌿Chapter - 5🌿         ~ You Are Free Right Now ~                    🌱 Day - 24 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 Our mind is like a camera, taking pictures of events as they take place; but the events are not there. Just think what you did yesterday, and the day before that. Just go back in the flow of events. What happens? Swim backwards in the current. When you are swimming in the direction of the river, it gives you an illusion that you are swimming very fast. But try to swim against the current, then you know you are not swimming. In fact, it's the force of the water that is pushing you and carrying your body on. You can realize the force of events. You can realize that they simply do not exist this moment. What happened before that? What happened yesterday? You ...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                       🌿Chapter - 4🌿          ~ You Are Not The Doer ~                    🌱 Day - 23 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 The other day the Director of Youth came and narrated an event. He said that they had held a bicycle race in a hill near by. All the muscular people, who had trained with proper shoes, and fancy bicycles with all the gadgets, were there for the race. They had spent a lot of money on this. And then there were a set of rural village boys or cowherds. Before these people could get up that hill, they saw the boys already cycled up to there! They had gone and come halfway back while the other people were still going up. A village milk vendor, who had to go from one town to the another to give milk, became a bicycle coach for all the youth. Even today, he is ...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                       🌿Chapter - 4🌿          ~ You Are Not The Doer ~                    🌱 Day - 22 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 एको विशुद्धबोधोऽहमिति निश्चयवह्निना । प्रज्वाल्याज्ञानगहनं वीतशोकः सुखी भव ॥ Let this fire of awareness, this fire of knowledge burn all that ignorance and destroy your sorrow. What are you unhappy for? What is it that you are unhappy about? You are unhappy about the situations and circumstances around you. You are unhappy about the people around you. Are they going to be there permanently or forever? They are moving and changing. It is all like a flowing river! Wake up and see the person you saw yesterday night is not the same person this morning, this evening or tommorow. Why are you unhappy about other people? Know they are all like bubbles on the su...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                       🌿Chapter - 4🌿          ~ You Are Not The Doer ~                    🌱 Day - 21 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 मुक्त एवासि सर्वदा - you are free. You're the infinite space. The craving to be free is itself another bondage. This is what Ashtavakra said, 'You are free, my dear'. He gave an example of how 'I am the doer' comes out. It's like a dark serpent has bitten you. When it bites, the poison goes all over the body. Similarly, you have very strongly felt this concept is being the doer, of being somebody, in every cell of your being. This had gone so deep in you. Now trust my words : 'you are not the doer'. Life is 'happening' on this planet. Everything is moving. Your mind is going through ups and downs, sorrows and joys. It has its own ways, its own time. Th...