Ayurvedic touch to lunch

While I always try experimenting with alternate medicines, home remedies, I was little skeptic to pay a visit to Cholaiyil Sanjeevanam Restaurant. I then decided to visit Sanjeevanam restaurant for lunch at Mugappair, Chennai. Touted as the natural health restaurant serving the meals prepared in Ayurvedic principles by trained and experienced cooks, it also showcases health products. The food is prepared only in earthen, bronze and copper vessels to reinforce that these contribute to the organic food.

The special attraction in the à la carte is the Rajakeeyam (Royal) lunch is a satvic meal. Satvic meals can be regarded as yogic diet or sentient diet, that are rich in antioxidants and leading to clarity of mind. Satvic diet is closest to natural form. However raw food may not be considered satvic owing to the impurity and microbes in raw form. So a satvic meal tries to emulate the nature food being moderately cooked with few spices and less fat added. Most of the cereals would accompany satvic diet. Honey, ghee and jaggery are also part of satvic diet. Picture this: Food that is less spicy and less oily, constituting the healthy cereals, sprouted grains, vegetable juice extracts moderately cooked is certainly proven to improve the healing response and builds the immunity, more so the digestive system is let to perform a lighter province, a heavy duty otherwise.



Satvic meal is eaten in an organized manner as the nutrients of fruits and vegetables should be absorbed by the system prior to the grains. (Courtesy: Placard placed in the serving table). The attendants would ensure to provide the order of serving to comfort yourself.

A pure vegeterian meal with 26 different varieties come at a cost little higher but yet a healthy bet

Swivel the life force by indulging yourself in a satvic diet and feel the difference swiftly. You will feel a completeness in diet but not a sense of heaviness and discomfort.


For more details visit : http://www.cholayilsanjeevanam.com/contact.htm

Infuse wisdom through materialism ?

Talk a lot about Classic Marxism and stage a big protests in the name of communism, but pay a visit to Sripuram temple to see the architectural marvels and decorations in dazzling expensive yellow metal, the gold and finally boast your spectacular glimpses to others. This is the recent fad amongst most of the big(wigs\ots) !

The temple is situated at the foot of a small range of green hills in a place known as "Malaikodi" in the city of Vellore in TamilNadu,India.

The salient Feature of Sripuram is the Lakshmi Narayani temple or Mahalakshmi temple whose 'Vimanam’ and ‘Ardha Mandapam’ have been coated with gold both in the interior and exterior.

The attainment of material pleasures is regarded the utmost stature as per the Sripuram history. This comes as a stark contrast to what Karma yoga preaches, for it focuses on the adherance of the duty without expecting any fruit in return. Karma yoga is a spinning disk of detached actions.


courtesy: http://www.sripuram.org/

The conceptualization is to embark on a journey to infuse wisdom through materialism says Sri Sakthi Amma. This would perfectly imply one to not practice detachment from the web of materialism thereby forbidding one in attaining samadhi !

A perfect negation on the preachings of Bhagavad Gita Chapter 4 (verse 10), follows as below:

Verse 10

vita-raga-bhaya-krodha
man-maya mam upasritah
bahavo jnana-tapasa
puta mad-bhavam agatah

Translation
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Being freed from attachment, fear and anger, being fully absorbed in Me and taking refuge in Me, many, many persons in the past became purified by knowledge of Me—and thus they all attained transcendental love for Me.
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Courtesy: http://www.bhagavad-gita.us/articles/497/1/Bhagavad-Gita-410/Page1.html

The core importance of the temple at Sripuram goes further to say :
" So even though the world comes to see the temple, before they reach the temple, they will see Amma’s messages also; there will be message from holy texts like Gita, Quran and Bible"
Source :http://www.sripuram.org/htmls/sripuram/importance.html

How does the holy texts from Gita hold good here in the ken of materialistic preachings?

An iconic Sripuram temple claiming to be the world's only Golden temple built of gold to its entirety, preaches towards the attainment of materialistic pleasures and fulfillment of one's needs as opposed to the preachings of Karma Yoga.


Emergence of Egalitarianism ?#?

Appeal appended and amended

It did indeed evoke diversified opinion on publishing the post titled: KSRTC e-ticket Only Original Photo ID Card ?"

I quote :
"But it also casts aspersion when it culminates to the very point that the right person is deprived of his journey merely for not in possession of the "Original" photo ID card as was entered in the ticket while booking, despite the person ready to prove his identity by many other sources including alternative Photo Identity cards."

I am indeed happy to find this concern addressed not by KSRTC but by the largely traded e-commerce site in India namely: www.irctc.co.in

Recent amendment to the online ticketing system by Indian Railways is as follows:

New Facilities In E-Ticket

AMENDMENT IN E-TICKET SCHEME:-

On and from 01-11-2008 the provision for specifying I/D proof at the time of booking an e-ticket has been dispensed with. The accommodation booked is not transferable and is valid only if one of the passenger booked on an e-ticket in a transaction presents any of the five identity cards(Voter identity card/Passport/ Pan card/Driving license/Photo I/d card of Central/State Government)during train journey in original and same will be accepted as proof of identity failing which the passengers will be treated as travelling without ticket and shall be dealt with as per extant Railway Rules.

Courtesy: www.irctc.co.in