Returning To Sanatani Ways For Improvement

Right now things are not too good with the world around us.

- LAKSHMI BAYI

This gets aggravated by social media. AI adds its own (in) judicious bit. So let's look at what can be done to maintain a sense of equilibrium. Let us seek solutions in the science and wisdom of the ancients.

Start with the youngest form of human life on Earth, the infant. Technology is so highly developed that most handheld mobile phones have the ever popular YouTube. This site is a veritable treasure house of music, dance, talks and an unbelievable amount of information and entertainment.

There are twenty-seven stars or Nakshatras in our astrological system. It starts with Ashwathi and ends with Revathi. The cycle starts all over again with Ashwathi. All of us are born under a specific asterism. The tying of a black thread to ward off the evil eye, putting kohl in the infants' eyes, putting on gold, etc. are rituals associated with the 28th day of birth. This coincides with the repeat of the star the child is born under. Some merciful parents and caregivers pierce the child's earlobes that very day, when the flesh is very tender and the hands of the infant too uncoordinated to touch the earlobes.

Piercing various parts of the body has become high fashion. Earlier there was just one hole per earlobe. It is said that the shape of our ears resembles us as fetuses in the womb. A normally delivered baby enters headfirst into this world. Our earlobe denotes our head. Piercing this is believed to open up a potential to the Brahmarandhra point. This is located right on top of our head.

We are born with a soft skull. The four quarters of the fontanels fuse together roughly three months after birth to form the hard skull. A human soul can potentially exit from many parts of the body at death. Nirvana or salvation is likelier when the Soul escapes through the top of the head.