Living What You Like

Jai Gurudev !! Maharaji instructed Larry Brilliant to travel down from the mountains and become part of the World Health Organization’s campaign to end smallpox in India. It took 15 trips for officials to finally take the young doctor seriously and hire him, but each time he was rejected, Maharaji would send him back to try again. “I can’t explain how he even knew the words ‘smallpox’ or ‘eradicate’ in English,” Brilliant said. “I don’t know how he knew that smallpox would be eradicated, or how he had the confidence that there would be a place for me in that effort. I was the youngest person ever hired by the World Health Organization. They tolerated a hippie kid who had been living in a monastery in the mountains. And, as it says on my recruitment papers, I was the only one recruited from the Hanuman Monkey Temple in the Himalayas.” By 1977, they had reached that goal, one that Maharaji foresaw when he sent his young disciple (Larry Brilliant) to join the fight against smallpox...

The A2 organic milk movement is on trend now. In organic stores, speciality websites, in artisanal fairs - packaged A2 ghee, buttermilk, milk, butter etc, are a rage. Farms that exclusively breed  desi cows, and raise them ‘organically,’ have sprouted. They are small, they are local and they are expensive (think Rs 1800+ for 500 grams of  ghee ). And they all market, the health benefits of drinking organically or naturally grown A2 milk. A1 and A2 are types of beta casein proteins found in cows milk. Jersey cows, imported from the UK, produce a mix of A1 and A2 beta casein protein and Holstein cows, imported from Europe, produce mainly A1 protein. The Indian desi cows produce almost 100 percent A2 beta casein protein rich milk. What’s interesting is that A2 is actually the original beta casein protein found in cow’s milk. Approximately 8000 years ago, a mutation is believed to have taken place leading to two types of beta casein being produced by different species o...

Gayi yak-ba-yak jo hawa palat nahin dil ko mere qaraar hai  Karun us sitam ko main kya bayan mera gham se seena figar hai  (The winds of fate changed suddenly, my heart is inconsolable How can I describe the pain, my chest is heavy with melancholy) Ye reaya-e-hind tabah hui kahun kya jo in pe jafa hui  Jise dekha hakim-e-waqt ne kaha ye bhi qabil-e-dar hai  (Indians have been ruined, one can’t describe their oppression The new rulers condemned everyone they saw worthy of the gallows) Ye kisi ne zulm bhi hai suna ki di phansi logon ko be-gunah  Wahi kalma-goyon ki samt se abhi dil mein un ke bukhar hai  (Has anyone heard of such tyranny? That innocents were sent to the gallows! The rulers still bear such enmity towards those who recite the Islamic creed) Na tha shahr-e-dehli ye tha chaman kaho kis tarah ka tha yaa’n aman  Jo khitab tha wo mita diya faqat ab to ujda dayar hai  (Delhi was never just a city, it was ...