Ayurveda Initiative For Global Health

Sparrow's Mango (Buchanania arborescens) is a medium sized tree that can grow up to 35 m tall, and may sometimes have buttresses upto 1 m high.   Bark is smooth, greyish brown, red on the inside, and oozes harmless greyish gum when cut.  Crown is compact with upright leaves that are spirally arranged.  The stalked leaves have leathery leaf blades that are green, oval to drop-shaped, with a blunt tip, and network-like venation.. Young leaves are reddish in color.  Its flowering shoots are 5.5–22 cm long, and bear small creamish-white flowers with 5-6 petals.  Fruits are tiny, globular, about 1 cm in diameter, reddish to purple-black when ripe.  These are eaten by sparrows, imperial pigeons and other birds.  Aboriginal people of Australia eat the fruit raw. Unripe fruits may be boiled and cooked. When ripe, they become sweet and pulpy, like gooseberries, although their rind is ...

Chapter 2 - Honouring The Practise  Day 11  Once you know the nature of your being - total bliss and total pleasure - even the fear about the gunas and the fear about the world will disappear. It is like diabetic patients being afraid of sweets. The sight of sweets frightens them because they are forbidden. But the one who has sweetness in him doesn't mind if there are sweets near them. This is parama vairagya.  Supreme dispassion, ie., not being scared or running away from the world but being in it, completely centered. People have very peculiar ideas about enlightenment. Every culture and religion has got its own ideas about it.  In the Christian religion a rich man cannot be enlightened. It is impossible. You have to be poor to be enlightened. Form the Christian point of view, Rama could not be enlightened. He ws a king. How could a King be enlightened? Even if a camel could go through the eye of a needle, a rich man could not be enlightened.  On...