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Ottelia alismoides (L.) Pers Family - Hydrochaitaceae Common name - Panikundari Mainly found in streams, lakes, marshes, ponds, ditches & canals. The plant is entirely submerged except for the flower which is in the water surface. Medicinal uses -  Leaves Applied on poultice arm & legs in fever. It is used as the treatment of Pneumonia. It is used as a rubefacient. It is used as the treatment of stomach disorders. It is used as a spice for the rice & vegetables. Leaves used to check to bleed. In Tamil Nadu, India leaves used to treat hemorrhoids.   Flower  Flower paste 10 - 12 gram is taken orally early in the morning to curing piles. Local people eat lower part of the flower as raw or as a vegetable.   Fruit  Arresting cough & inducing diuresis. The fruit is eaten as raw.    Seed   In West Bengal, India, the paste of dry seeds used    externally on boils for relief of burning sensation.   Whole Plant...

Barleria prionitis Linn. Family - Acanthaceae Common name - Kanta malati, Daskerenta. Medicinal uses -  The juice of Barleria prionitis is used for the cure of whooping cough in Uttar Pradesh & Madhya Pradesh. The leaves are used for toothache, rheumatism & root powder to cure fever. The juice of leaves is used in fungal infections, ulcers & fever. In Bangladesh, it is used for anti-inflammatory activity & also for the treatment of cancer & tumor.   In Orissa, it is used in cuts, wounds & malaria. In Karnataka, it is used for fresh leaf paste that has been used for scabies. It is also used in urinary infection, jaundice, hepatic obstruction & dropsy. The decoction of aerial parts is used in anti- respiratory synctyial virus, anti-arthritic, anti-inflammatory & antifertility activities.          Sugimani Marndi Biodiversity and Conservation Lab.  Ambika Prasad Research Foundation Cuttack, Odisha India ww...

*_Brassica nigra_* L *Family* - Brassicaceae *Common name* - Sorisha, black mustard *Medicinal value* - 1. Treatment of rheumatism, as an agent to reduce congestion in internal organs. 2. Epilepsy, snakebite and toothache. 3. Used for the treatment for carcinoma & throat tumors. 4. Diuretic, rubefacient, pneumonia. 5. A liquid prepared from the seed, when gargled help tumors of the sinax. 6. The seed was eaten as a tonic & appetite stimulant. Sugimani Marndi Biodiversity and Conservation Lab.  Ambika Prasad Research Foundation Cuttack, Odisha India www.aprf.co.in

*_Hybanthus enneaspermus_* (L.) F.Muell *Family* - Violaceae _(Spade flower, pink ladies slipper)_ *Medicinal uses* - 1. The whole plant is used as a general tonic for pregnant women. 2. The root infusion is used as a diuretic for gonorrhoea & urinary infections. 3. The decoction of leaf & tender stalks are used as a demulcent(a substance that relieves irrigation of the mucous membranes in the mouth by forming a protective film). 4. Leaves are used as an external application for the treatment of wounds. 5. Drief leaf powder is used to treat asthma. 6. It is externally used as a herb to relieves ulcer & headache. 7. Used for diarrhoea, urinary infections, leucorrhoea, dysuria, inflammation, cholera & sterility. Sugimani Marndi Biodiversity and Conservation Lab.  Ambika Prasad Research Foundation Cuttack, Odisha India www.aprf.co.in

*_Tamarix indica_* Willd *Family* - Tamaricaceae _(Found mostly near streams and rivers)_ *Medicinal uses* - 1. It used for fuel wood & timber in certain countries in the wood. 2. The bark is bitter & a severe tonic, leaves & fruit are useful for chronic diarrhea & dysentery. 3. The roots are beneficial for sore throat & ulcerating piles. 4. Plant extract are rich by acid compounds that are used as an inhibitor of nephrolithiasis. 5. It can be used as prophylactic & therapeutic remedies to cure malaria as folk medicine. Sugimani Marndi Biodiversity and Conservation Lab.  Ambika Prasad Research Foundation Cuttack, Odisha India www.aprf.co.in

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 31🌿                ~ Free Of Wanting ~                   🌱 Day - 179 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 जनक उवाच प्रकृत्या शून्यचित्तो यः प्रमादाद्भावभावनः । निद्रिनो बोधित इव क्षीणसंस्मरणो हि सः ॥ क्व धनानि क्व मित्राणि क्व मे विषयदस्यवः । क्व शास्त्रं क्व च विज्ञानं यदा मे गलिता स्पृहा ॥ विज्ञाते साक्षिपुरूषे परमात्मानि चेश्वरे । नैराश्ये बन्धमोक्षे च न चिन्ता मुक्तये मम ॥ अन्तर्विकल्पशून्यस्य बहिः स्वच्छन्दचारिणः । भ्रान्तस्येव दशास्तास्तास्तास्तादृशा एव जानते ॥ Many had experienced enlightenment, but only a few could express it, only a few could properly express it. And among those who could express it, only a few could communicate or transfer that experience. Janaka speaks about what everyone has termed to be something which words cannot descri...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 30🌿     ~ Your Nature Is Gratefulness ~                   🌱 Day - 178 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 The electricity inside the bulb knows that it is all over the wire; that it is the electricity. The current that is transformed into light, knows itself as the electricity present in the wire. It is immediately in touch with entire circuit, wherever the wire is present. It happens in no time. And it is your very nature and birthright. That's what Janaka says, ' Evameva mastitaha. I am abiding in my very nature.' So think of all those things that you could be grateful for. We are born on this planet. We could have been born somewhere in Ethiopia or Bangladesh where you don't know when a river would flood, and wash you away; perhaps in the middle of the night. Of this infinite ...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 30🌿     ~ Your Nature Is Gratefulness ~                   🌱 Day - 177 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 Master and a disciple were doing a lot of work helping the poor - caring for the needy and doing a lot of social work; the work of God. On rainy days when they could not travel, they would go to their small hut and rest. One day, after finishing their work, they returned home. When they arrived, they found that a big storm had damaged it and only a little portion was left, where they could hardly sit. When the disciple saw this, he became very angry with God. He prayed and asked God if He could not have saved one small hut for them. That they had not asked Him for anything! They just had that one hut for shelter and He did not even save that! He further said that they had tol...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 30🌿     ~ Your Nature Is Gratefulness ~                   🌱 Day - 176 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 Millions of people are born in this world. They live and die. And what do they do all along? Everyone has come into the world crying and crying. All along they cry for this or that. They will live feeling that something is right and something is not right; that something is good and something is not good. They will want something and not want something else. They live in the limited spheres of likes and dislikes, love and hate. Only a few brave ones can know that they are beyond all these small things. That they are much deeper in their very nature - like an ocean. In the ocean, there are so many things. Oil is there,pearls are there,fish is there, sand is there... and what n...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 30🌿     ~ Your Nature Is Gratefulness ~                   🌱 Day - 175 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 एवमेव कृतं येन स कृतार्थो भवेदसौ । एवमेव स्वभावो यः स कृतार्थो भवेदसौ । In the one in whom this is just the nature, by his very nature is really fortunate. Svabhavo, one who has attained this is really fortunate. What do we think is fortunate in the world? Who do we think are fortunate? Do we think that those who have a lot of money are very fortunate? How is it fortunate for them? They are very nervous of what others would do to them to take away their wealth. They don't have friends. It is very difficult for them to have friends because they don't know whether anybody's friendship is genuine or not. Many wealthy people stay in isolation, because they are so afraid of people...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 30🌿     ~ Your Nature Is Gratefulness ~                   🌱 Day - 174 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 Once there was a saint giving a talk. A wealthy man was sitting and listening. It was just a hobby for him. People came to religious talks and lectures so that everybody would think they were very honest and religious. They would gain credibility. People would feel that he was not only rich, but very spiritual, too. So he would come and sit in the talks. The saint was saying that all names and words belong to Him. That every word that was said was God's name."Banana" meant God and so did "cockroach". All names and forms were His. But the previous day, he had contradicted this saying that they should take the name of God and chant it. So, the man asked the saint why he was say...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 29🌿       ~ You Have What You Seek ~                   🌱 Day - 171 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 गुणैः संवेष्टितो देहस्तिष्ठत्याति याति च । अात्मा म गन्ता नागन्ता किमेनमनुशोचसि ॥ Along with this body, certain qualities are endowed. A person has a particular nature. Consider vata, pitta, kapha. When the sun rises, there is more bile in you. Pitta rises, and then vata. It's interesting to see how the three doshas in the body - vata, pitta, kapha - rise and fall, and how they affect your activities, your behavior and your emotions. Someone may be grumpy because of a rise in pitta. Somebody may be too active because the vata in him has risen. And, kapha will cause dullness and idleness. These doshas, keep changing in you. Do not consider yourself lazy. If you do, you will ...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 29🌿       ~ You Have What You Seek ~                   🌱 Day - 170 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 Ashtavakra had said, Vigata jwara. They are very precious words. Just two words - vigatat jwara. And now he says - prakrteh parah. That is the skill of a Master. He mentions both the opposites and keeps you in the middle; in the right place. He gives a blow from one side and then from the other side. So there is nowhere for you to escape, but to be where you ought to be. There is nothing that you can do. Vigatat jwara and then prakrteh parah. Prakrteh parah - that you are beyond the prakriti, the nature and the qualities. How much can you purify? However,you go on purifying yourself. This is what the Buddhists, Zen Buddhists, meditators, and other people who are so stuck i...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 29🌿       ~ You Have What You Seek ~                   🌱 Day - 169 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 There was this Sufi saint whose name was Mansoor Hallaj. He said that he was God, and he was also crucified. The only mistake he made was being born in the wrong place. If he was born in India, people would have thought he wasn't avadhut, and great master. In his country, they thought that he was a stupid and a mad person. It was his experience. And even in his last moments, Mansoor was told to declare that he was not God. And he asked how he could say that he was not God. All was God. That everything was made up of God. He said that it did not matter if his head and arms were chopped off. That he was not worried about it. It is a state. It is reality. Bhagavan tvam. You ar...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 29🌿       ~ You Have What You Seek ~                   🌱 Day - 168 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 श्रद्धस्व तात श्रद्धस्व नात्र मोहं कुरूष्व भोः । When you don't have trust in yourself, in the love that you have been given by the Divine or by the society, and the people around you, then you get cravings, attachments and entanglements. Your entanglement is the doubt that whoever you are entangled with doesn't love you, or you don't love them enough. That's where the entanglement begins. Then you want more,more and more. You are not reposing in your Self. This is where love curdled itself. Love becomes sour and becomes an entanglement. You look at someone or something and love springs up in you. Then, you start being with that person or that object that you possess. And t...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 29🌿       ~ You Have What You Seek ~                   🌱 Day - 167 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 There's an event, an instance in Bhagvad when a yogi talked to the gopis about yoga and meditation. They told him not to talk to them about meditation or yoga. That they were so intoxicated with love for the Lord that they saw only Him in the trees, in the green, in the leaves, in the yogi, in themselves. They saw only Him everywhere. That they were intoxicated and drunk in His love, and felt His presence all the time, everywhere. Even the body did not seem to be their own. It seemed to be His. That He lived in them and breathed through it. And that He ate, looked, smelt and did everything through them. That means yoga has already happened. Knowledge has dawned. Union has h...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 29🌿       ~ You Have What You Seek ~                   🌱 Day - 166 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 It has taken several months for the body to form and several years for it to be in the form it is in right now. It did not happen in one day. It took nine months to have all organs formed, and probably nineteen years to be in the current shape. It has taken several years for the intellect to mature, and for the emotions to culture. And it has taken 84 lifetimes for the mind to be formed. Mind has taken much longer. This very consciousness, this mind has passed through many bodies to be able to be in this body, as it is now. This consciousness is very old, ancient. The life in you is not new. When a baby is born, it is said that a new life has come to the house. A new life h...

Question - Gurudev, what is the force that keeps the material things in their shapes? I go to sleep at night and when I wake up in the morning, all the furniture is still there. What is holding the outside world together? The explanation I found in Physics was not satisfactory. Gurudev Sri Sri - That is called intelligence. There is some intelligence that is making you ask this question, that is holding your brain together. That which is keeping the brain together is the same intelligence which is keeping the furniture together also. Brain is also a furniture for consciousness to sit on. Got it? If you have one, you have got it. I am sure you have one, otherwise you couldn't have asked this brilliant question. Usually ordinary people take things for granted. It needs that extraordinary brain to get intrigued by the realities of life. Question these things in the universe and don't just be satisfied with what comes in the so called science books because they keep cha...

Question - Gurudev, our friends in Europe are trying to get rid of religion entirely. What's your view on that? Gurudev Sri Sri - Religion has its own place, but I feel that spirituality is something that rises above religion and unites people's hearts and minds. religion has got spiritual values in it. This is what needs to be highlighted much more than the practices that the different sects practice. I would say we need to have unity in diversity, at the same time, enrich the diversity because that is the beauty of our planet. We are so different, and there are different rituals and different practices, none of it should be lost. Everything has its own value. There is a unifying force in all religions, and that is of the values of compassion, love, and togetherness. These values need to take the front seat.

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Last question in Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's conversation in Folketeatret: If there is one thing, we should bring with us out into the world, what should that be? (shortened) Keep your smile 🙂 And in tough times, if you could keep your smile, you have won the race of life. When everything is ok, everyone can smile. When things are falling apart, if you could smile, then you have achieved something in your life. So let that be your goal. Meditate a few minutes every day and see how much peace it brings to you. #Istandforpeace Copenhagen Denmark 😊❣️

Jatropha podagrica Hook. Family : Euphorbiaceae Common name : Gout plant, Buddha belly plant. Medicinal uses : 🍀It is used for pain relief, reduction of swelling, jaundice, gonorrhea. 🍀Root is used for parasitic skin infection. 🍀Leaf juice applied to hemorrhoids. Sugimani Marndi (Biodiversity and Conservation lab., Ambika Prasad Research Foundation, Bhubaneswar, Odisha)