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💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 27🌿        ~ I Am In All These Forms ~                   🌱 Day - 155 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 All these thoughts are just concepts. What have you done? You have made many divisions. विभागमिति सन्त्यज । Drop all such divisions altogether. This is what is holding you back from enlightenment. This is what's holding you back from your very nature. Drop them right away. सर्वमात्मेति निश्चित्य निःसंकल्पः । All is my Self, all is the Self. You may know this, but become निश्चित्य, be very sure. This is what a Master does. He reassures you. You have an experience, but you're not sure. You know all is the Self, maybe you may have had a glimpse, but you are not sure, because there is no way you can be sure. Ashtavakra says that be sure of it. Be sure that what you are experiencing ...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 27🌿        ~ I Am In All These Forms ~                   🌱 Day - 158 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 This is really confusing. This does not mean that you should be arrogant or disrespect people, and not to bow down. This means not to be swayed away from your center by anyone. That's why the Master or Guru says not to ever look for salvation anywhere else. Because the Master is building you up. He is building you up to that level of Being. He is you and you are Him. The Master will build you up to that level. But if you are searching here and there, for this and that saint you will get very confused. You will start comparing them. You will feel this Guru is better or that Master was better. You will feel that you are nothing compared to them. And wonder how you will ever become...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 27🌿        ~ I Am In All These Forms ~                   🌱 Day - 157 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 ततैवाज्ञानतो विश्वं त्वमेकः परमार्थतः । त्वत्तोऽन्यो नास्ति संसारी नासंसारी च कश्चन ॥ भ्रान्तिमात्रमिदं विश्वं न किञ्चिदिति निश्चयी । निर्वासनः स्फूर्तिमात्रो न किञ्चिदिव शाम्यति ॥ Now, do not brag about yourself; that you are a worldly person, that you love finger chips, ice cream, pizza and going out. Do not think that spirituality is not for worldly people. That it may only be suitable for someone who wants to be a recluse and be in an ashram all the time. There are no worldly and unworldly people. You see the world and its divisions because of your ignorance. By your knowledge you will see the Divine. Tilt this way and you will see the Divine. Tilt that way and you will see ...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 27🌿        ~ I Am In All These Forms ~                   🌱 Day - 156 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 Everyone is happiness, but not everyone is happy. That is the only difference, between the enlightened and the unenlightened. Enlightenment means that one is happiness and one is happy. Unenlightenment means that one is happiness, and is not aware of the one who is happy. You are the source of joy. You are beauty. You are joy. Beauty is not outside, in the rocks, in the sunset, in the trees, or in the moon. Beauty is inside you. It is the same moon. Look at the moon on a day you are very miserable. It seems dull. But when you are happy, you describe the moon as being wonderful and beautiful. There is a saying, 'When a hungry man sees the moon, he sees roti (bread) in it.' He com...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 27🌿        ~ I Am In All These Forms ~                   🌱 Day - 154 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 विभागमिति सन्त्यज । Drop this division in your mind. You have big compartments in it - innumerable compartments. So you put everything, your experiences into various compartments, thereby making concepts and getting stuck there. You may feel that nobody loves you and everybody is against you and nobody accepts you; you have a compartment for that, and you pick up any such experiences and put them there. You feel that people are very nasty. You have a compartment which is labelled - "People are very nasty". So any such experience or event is put there. You may have a compartment, labelled "Guruji never answers any questions, especially mine". Others may agree with you. विभागमिति ...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 27🌿        ~ I Am In All These Forms ~                   🌱 Day - 153 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 अयं सोऽहमयं नाहं विभागमिति सन्त्यज । सर्वमात्मेति निश्चित्य निःसंकल्पः सुखी भव ॥ When someone begins on the path, the process is to enunciate that he is not anything; that he is not the body; not the mind. That he is not anything. He is not even the sensation or the mind. Then what is he? Who is he? This is an inquiry, and this is how someone starts on the path. But Janaka had already completed the path. Ashtavakra was putting an end to his running around and his journey. He says, "This is not me and this is me". What does it mean? It means that all is only the Self; everything is the Being. You are everything and you are nothing. You say you are not this body, but is this body ...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 27🌿        ~ I Am In All These Forms ~                   🌱 Day - 152 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 एकस्मिन्नव्यये शान्ते चिदाकाशेऽमले त्वयि । कुतो जन्म कुतः कुतोऽहंकार एव च ॥ यत्त्वं पश्यसि तत्रैकस्त्वमेव प्रतिभाससे । किं पृथक् भासते स्वर्णात् कटकांगदनूपुरम् ॥ अयं सोऽहमयं नाहं विभागमिति सन्त्यज । सर्वमात्मेति निश्चित्य निःसंकल्पः सुखी भव ॥ You come alone and you will go alone from here. You have come alone and you will depart from here all alone. And what you do in the meanwhile is your karma. You may get together with people or break away from them, but your mind is what goes with you along with all its strains, anguish,desires and problems. Your mind is indestructible; it stays with you always. It takes in all the stars, garbage and the smell. That's why it's called vasana....

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 26🌿          ~ Prana, Faith And Doubt ~                   🌱 Day - 151 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 श्रद्धस्व तात श्रद्धस्व नात्र मोहं कुरूष्व भोः । ज्ञानस्वरूपो भगवानात्मा तवं प्रकृतेः परः ॥ 'My dear, have faith. Have faith. Believe in this. You have to believe, because you don't know. You cannot know unless you believe.'  श्रद्धस्व । Unless you get into the water, you cannot learn to swim. Some say they will first learn to swim before getting into the water. The whole world and entire libraries are filled with such philosophies and arguments - atheists and believers. The atheist will believe only after he sees God. And the believers say that they do believe in God, but they want to see Him, they want to realize. These two are not श्रद्धा । They are in the same boa...

Cyanotis axillaris (L.) D.Don ex Sweet Family - Commelinaceae Common name - Creeping cradle plant ( Found mostly in damp places.) Medicinal uses - 🌼Used to treat boils. 🌼Used for rheumatism and joint pains. Sugimani Marndi Biodiversity and Conservation Lab.  Ambika Prasad Research Foundation Cuttack, Odisha  www.aprf.co.in

Sesamum indicum L. Family - Pedaliaceae Common name - Sesame ✨ Sesame seed contain two unique substances; sesamin & sesamolin known to have a cholesterol-lowering effect in humans & to prevent high blood pressure. Medicinal uses - 🌸 Seed oil is used externally to treat haemorrhoids & ulcers. 🌸 It posses antiaging, anticancer, anti-iflammatory and antioxidant 🌸 The antibacterial activity of seed is common for skin fungi such as athlet's foot fungus. Sugimani Marndi Biodiversity and Conservation Lab.  Ambika Prasad Research Foundation Cuttack, Odisha  www.aprf.co.in

Argemone mexicana L. Family - Papaveraceae Common name - kanta malati, prickly poppy. Medicinal uses - ✨ The leaf is used to treat as malarial fever, ulcers, cough, wounds, warts, cold sores, cutaneous affections, skin diseases, itches. ✨ The root is used to treat as skin diseases, leprosy and inflammation, constipation. ✨ Seed is used as asthma, ulcers, dental caries, rheumatalgia, pertussis. ✨ Flowers is used as treat coughs. ✨ The latex of Argemone mexicana used to treat boils, good wound dressing, dermatitis, dropsy, blisters  Sugimani Marndi Biodiversity and Conservation Lab.  Ambika Prasad Research Foundation Cuttack, Odisha  www.aprf.co.in

Lobelia alsinoids Lam Family - Campanulaceae Common name - Chickweed lobelia 💫(Mostly near ponds, ditches, streams, river banks.) (Photo credit - Rajkumari Supriya Devi Ma'am) 💫Medicinal uses -  Liver disorder like jaundice. Sugimani Marndi Biodiversity and Conservation Lab.  Ambika Prasad Research Foundation Cuttack, Odisha  www.aprf.co.in

Trichodesma indicum (L.)Sm  Family - Boraginaceae Common name - Indian borage (It is mostly found near moist area) {Photo credit - Rajkumari Supriya Ma'am} Medicinal uses -  🍁 Externally the Leaf juice Trichodesma indicum was found to be useful in the treatment of ear pains and wound healing.  🍁 Decoction of whole plant Trichodesma indicum was found to be useful in the treatment of influenza and cough. 🍁 Trichodesma indicum and its warmed root poultice was effective when massaged on painful parts. 🍁 It was traditionally used for dysentery,  arthritis, arthralgia, skin disease. 🍁 It is also reported as antioxidant, antitussive, antidiabetic, antiinflammatory,  diuretic, antimicrobial, antifungal, dermal toxicity and metal chelating efficacy. Sugimani Marndi Biodiversity and Conservation Lab.  Ambika Prasad Research Foundation Cuttack, Odisha  www.aprf.co.in

🍁Merremia umbellata (L.)Hallier f. This is a synonym of Camonea umbellata (L.) A.R.Simoes & Staples Family - Convolvulaceae  -It is mostly found in river banks, grasslands, wasteland Medicinal uses -  🌸 A decoction of plant is used in the treatment of rheumatism, neuralgia, headache, auricular ulcers, abscesses. 🌸 The dried powdered leaves are used epilepsy, emolient, ulcers, burns, sores & scalds. 🌸 The seed is used as an aperient & alterative in the treatment of cutaneous diseases. 🌸 The decoction of root is used as haematuria, poultice to swelling, purgative. 🌸 Anti-inflammatory, antioxidant activity, antibacterial activity. Sugimani Marndi Biodiversity and Conservation Lab.  Ambika Prasad Research Foundation Cuttack, Odisha  www.aprf.co.in

Oxalis corniculata L. Family - Oxalidaceae Common name - Yellow sorrel Medicinal uses -  💫 The leaf juice is applied to insect bites, burns and skin eruptions. 💫 The plant is a good source of vitamin C & is used as an antiscorbutic in the treatment of scurvy. 💫 It is also used for the treatment of influenza, fever, urinary tract infections, enteritis, diarrhoea, traumatic, injuries, sprains & poisonous snake bites. 💫 Anti-inflammatory, anxiolytic, anticonvulsant, antifungal, antiulcer, antinociceptive, anticancer, antidiabetic, hepatoprotective, hypolipedemic, abortificient, antimicrobial and wound healing properties. Sugimani Marndi Biodiversity and Conservation Lab.  Ambika Prasad Research Foundation Cuttack, Odisha  www.aprf.co.in

Cleome rutidosperma DC Family - Cleomaceae Common name - Fringed spider flower ➡️ It is mainly found in humid areas, moist area, waste grounds. ➡️ It has trifoliate leaves, and small blue, violet with whitish patches flower, which turns pink as they age. Medicinal uses -  🌸 Leaf sap is applied for earache, ear-inflammation. 🌸 In South Nigeria a leaf extract is used to treat irritated skin, prickly heat, convulsions. 🌸 In Zaire, Cleome rutidosperma is used for deafness. 🌸 The root were used as hypoglycemic effect and anthelmintic activity. 🌸 Anti-oxidant, anti-plasmodial, analgesic, locomotory, anti-microbial, diuretic, laxative, anthelmintic and anti-diabetic activity. Sugimani Marndi Biodiversity and Conservation Lab.  Ambika Prasad Research Foundation Cuttack, Odisha  www.aprf.co.in

Spirodela polyrhiza (L.)Schleid. Family - Araceae Common name - Duckweed, greater duckweed, duckmeat. (Perrenial aquatic plant) ➡️ It produces several minute roots. ➡️ It produces a pouch containing male & female flowers. ➡️ It is ideal system for biofuels, bioremediation & carbon cycling due to its aspects of fast growing. Medicinal uses - ❇ ️The whole plant is used as antipruritic antipyretic, cardiotonic, carminative, diaphoretic, diuretic. ❇ ️It is used in the treatment of measles, oedema and difficulty in urination. Sugimani Marndi Biodiversity and Conservation Lab.  Ambika Prasad Research Foundation Cuttack, Odisha  www.aprf.co.in

Spermacoce latifolia Aubl. is a synonym of Spermacoce alata Aubl. Family - Rubiaceae Medicinal uses - 🍁 The root juice of the plant is used for the treatment of malarial fevers.  🍁 Leaf paste is used for the treatment of boils by Tanchangya ethnic people in Bangladesh. 🍁 It is also included in the treatment of fever, hemorrhage, skin diseases, urinary and respiratory infections. 🍁 Antioxidant, antimicrobial, cytotoxic, anti-leukemic and larvicidal properties. Sugimani Marndi Biodiversity and Conservation Lab.  Ambika Prasad Research Foundation Cuttack, Odisha  www.aprf.co.in

Ipomoea aquatica Forssk Family - Convolvulaceae Common name - Kalama saga, water morning glory                (Semi-aquatic) Medicinal uses - 🌸 Ipomoea aquatica leaves leads to cure ailments such as jaundice, nervous debility. 🌸 The crushed leaves are applied as a poultice on sores and boils. 🌸 The dried juice has purgative properties, leaves & stem are said to be cooling. 🌸 A paste made from the buds is used to treat ringworm. 🌸 The plant is used in the treatment of liver diseases, constipations, diabetes, abscesses, mental illness, anthelmintic, central nervous system depression(CNS) depressant, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant. 🌸 It is also used as against nose bleed & high blood pressure, piles, anthelmentic, leprosy, jaundice. Sugimani Marndi Biodiversity and Conservation Lab.  Ambika Prasad Research Foundation Cuttack, Odisha  www.aprf.co.in

Potamogeton natans L. Family - Potamogetonaceae Common name - Broad-leaved pondweed    (Submerged aquatic plant) 🌼Small green flowers 🌼It produces both floating and submersed leaves on the same plant. 🌼The shape of the floating leaves depends on the shape of the current, with faster current resulting in more elongated the leaves and less cordate leaf bases. 🌼It can be used as an oxygenator of ponds. 🌼 Medicinal uses - The plant is used as febrifuge. Sugimani Marndi Biodiversity and Conservation Lab.  Ambika Prasad Research Foundation Cuttack, Odisha  www.aprf.co.in

Bergia ammannioides Roxb. Family - Elatinaceae ➡️ It is found mostly in marshes, swamps and moist area. ➡️ Leaves opposite decussate with serrate margins. ➡️ Flowers in very tight clusters around leaf axils all along the stems, Buds reddish.  💉 Medicinal uses - 🌺 The whole plant infusion of Bergia ammannioides is applied to cure scabies, wounds, cuts. 🌺 Anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antibacterial activity. Sugimani Marndi Biodiversity and Conservation Lab.  Ambika Prasad Research Foundation Cuttack, Odisha  www.aprf.co.in

Hydrilla verticillata (Linn.f.)Royle Family - Hydrocharitaceae Common name - Waterthyme (Submerged aquatic plant) -It is well- known as Chingudia dala in the Mayurbhanj district of Orissa. -It is found in lakes, ponds, rivers, streams & marshes. -It is used as phytoremediation. Medicinal uses - 🌼 Antibacterial activity, antioxidant activity, analgesic activity, anticonvulsant activity. 🌼 It is used for the treatment of digestion & gastrointestinal function, improves blood circulations, helps in detoxification, good for neurological health, cardiovascular function. 🌼 It increases endurance, help in blood sugar control, strengthens immunity to protect the body from invaders & slows ageing. Sugimani Marndi Biodiversity and Conservation Lab.  Ambika Prasad Research Foundation Cuttack, Odisha  www.aprf.co.in

Potamogeton crispus L. Family - Potamogetonaceae Common name - Curled pondweed 🍀(Submersed aquatic plant) 🍁Mostly found in ponds, lakes, rivers and paddy fields. 🍁It has phytoremediation of heavy metals 🍁Leaves are conspicuously toothed along leaf margins, sessile(attached directly to the stem), it is olive green. 🍁The inflorescence is a short spike of flowers emerging above the water surface. 💉 Medicinal uses -  Antioxidant, immunity -regulation, tumour proliferation. Sugimani Marndi Biodiversity and Conservation Lab.  Ambika Prasad Research Foundation Cuttack, Odisha  www.aprf.co.in

*_Bryophyllum pinnatum_* (Lam.)Oken *Family* - Crassulaceae -Bahamians call it "Life Leaf" or "Ploppers".  -In the Bahamas it is mostly used for Asthma or shortness in breath. 💉 *Medicinal uses* -  ⚡It is used for the treatment of earache, burns, abscesses, ulcer, insect bites, diarrhea & lithiasis. ⚡It is also used as hypertension & for the treatment of kidney stones. ⚡ In South eastern Nigeria, it is used to facilitate the dropping of the placenta of a newly born baby. ⚡ Leaves are known to possess neurosedative and muscle relaxant, antimicrobial, antiulcer, uterine contractility, antinociceptive, anti-inflammatory and antidiabetic, antihypertensive and nephroprotective activities. Sugimani Marndi Biodiversity and Conservation Lab.  Ambika Prasad Research Foundation Cuttack, Odisha  www.aprf.co.in

Hemidesmus indicus (L.)R.Br. (flower part) Family - Apocynaceae Common name - Onotomulo, Anantamula. (photo credit- Dr Sanjeet kumar Sir) - Roots are woody and aromatic - The root is a substitute for sarsaparilla( Smilax spp.)  - ️Flower cymes are stalkless & greenish on the outside & purple to yellowish orange on the inside. 💉 Medicinal uses - 🌼 It is one of the Rasayana plants of ayurveda, as it is anabolic in its effect. 🌼 It is used for venereal diseases, herpes, skin diseases, arthritis, rheumatism, gout, epilepsy, insanity, chronic nervous diseases, abdominal distention, intestinal gas, debility, impotence & turbid urine. 🌼 The root is used as blood purifier, demulcent, diaphoretic, diuretic, swellings & rheumatic joints. 🌼 Antiarthritic, anticancer, antimicrobial, antidiarrhoeal, anti-inflammatory, antileprotic, antivenom, wound healing activity. Sugimani Marndi Biodiversity and Conservation Lab.  Ambika Prasad Research Foundation Cutt...

Merremia hederaceae (Burm.f.)Hallier f. Family - Convolvulaceae (Ivy woodrose) Medicinal uses - 🌸 It is used as burns, scalds, colds, febrile disease, sunstroke, oliguria, tonsil inflammation, laryngitis, leucorrhoea. 🌸 The seeds are used as fevers, colds, sore throats, haematuria, conjunctivitis & boils. 🌸 Leaves are used to treat of chapped hands & feets. 🌸 Antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, alpha amylase inhibitory activity, anti - microbial. Sugimani Marndi Biodiversity and Conservation Lab.  Ambika Prasad Research Foundation Cuttack, Odisha  www.aprf.co.in