River Ganga one of the 10 most endangered rivers of the world

River Ganga one of the 10 most endangered rivers of the world

In a few days time, Hindus will be observing Ganga Saptami, the day Ganga descended on earth, but the most revered river in the world,Ganga, has been enlisted on the list of 10 most endangered rivers of the world. The sand bed in the Ganga is increasing slowly and the increase is clearly distinguishable each year. A recent study of American scientists at the National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) suggests that there is a reduced flow in Ganga. Two years back a study by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) had also indicated that Ganga might not reach the ocean in the distant future.

Binay Singh Writes in the Times of India

"The increasing sand bed, which defines the ecosystem, is an indicator of the gloomy future of the Ganga," predicted Uday Kant Chowdhary, a professor of civil engineering and coordinator of Ganga Research Laboratory, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (BHU). According to him, sand bed in the Gangais increasing five-six metre in width and 8-10cm in height annually. "It means the width of the river is reducing in proportion to the increase in sand bed," Chowdhary told TOI.

"The increasing sand bed, which defines the ecosystem, is an indicator of the gloomy future of the Ganga," predicted Uday Kant Chowdhary, a professor of civil engineering and coordinator of Ganga Research Laboratory, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (BHU). According to him, sand bed in the Ganga is increasing five-six metre in width and 8-10cm in height annually. "It means the width of the river is reducing in proportion to the increase in sand bed," Chowdhary told TOI.

According to him, factors like increasing pollution, over-extraction of water and reduced flow of the Ganga are causing slow death to the river. The unscientific extraction of river water through Bhimgauda Barrage to Western Ganga Canal is harming the river badly. The capacity of this barrage has been enhanced from 6,000 cubic feet per second to 9,000 cubic-ft per second, he said adding: "People in Delhi are drinking Gangajal (Ganga water) while the natives of the cities like Varanasi are using polluted water."

He said since the holy water was diverted towards Delhi in huge quantity, the velocity of the stream was reduced drastically on the Gangetic Plane. "The loss in quantity ultimately causes loss to the quality of the river water," he said. Besides, due to the increase in total dissolved solid (TDS) in water stored in reservoirs, the water loses its dissolved oxygen (DO) retention capacity. "The quantity and quality are interrelated," he pointed out.

Besides the reduced flow, increasing pollution load is also causing great harm to the river. The increase in pollution load in river water decreases its dilution factor. The dilution factor of the Ganga used to be 1,200-1,400 in Varanasi seven-eight years ago. "But, today it is not more than 700-800," said Chowdhary. Holding poor planning responsible for the deteriorating condition of the Ganga, he said in the existing system, only 100 MLD sewage was treated while the daily discharge was over 250 MLD.

link:http://www.hindu-blog.com/2009/04/river-ganga-one-of-10-most-endangered.html 

Gudi Parva and narmada river

"On the Eve of Gudi Parva special Coins will be distributed in Narmada River"
29 March 2008, Source: Vedinformatics, May 2008; BhaskarNews , Ahmedabad

Special coins made by IIT, Rorkee will be distributed by Narmada Samgra Sanstha on the eve of Bharatiya New year eve Gudi Parva. These coins will carry out purification of Narmada water for 150 years.

According to Secretary of Narmada Smagra Sanstha, Shri Anil Madav Dave, “ The Narmada water is being used for the drinking purpose, therefore these special coins will play significant role in water purification. On the auspicious eve of Gudi Parva on the both the banks of river these coins will be made available. Because in Bharatvarsa river is considered as sacred so from ancient times coins are thrown into river by the devotees”.

Further explaining how these special coins will work, he stated that, “these special coins contain 96% of copper and 4% of silver. The ions of copper and silver get mixes into the water and searches for opposite charged pollutants like bacteria, virus, fungi, etc. The positive ions get attached with negatively charged microbial cells, resulting into electrostatic compound. Due to this microbial cells are unable to take any nutrient. Copper ions penetrates inside the bacterial cells and makes space for the silver ions. And these silver ions abruptly affect DNA and RNA process, thereby halting the making of new cells. Consequently, bacteria are destroyed. These silver ions remains activated for long times until absorbed by any biological system”. (Originally in Gujarati)

http://www.vedicmicrobiology.com/vedicnews.aspx

Polluted Ganga still has medicinal qualities Sanjay Pandey, Lucknow, DH News Service:

Despite being polluted, the waters of the Ganges still possess ‘medicinal qualities’ and could pave the way for developing new ‘anti-microbial compounds’.

Lucknow:According to a research conducted by a senior scientist of Lucknow-based National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI), a prestigious CSIR laboratory, Dr Chandrashekhar Nautiyal, the Ganga waters have ‘anti-bacterial qualities’.

Dr Nautiyal’s research paper has been published in the International Journal ‘Current Microbiology’.“The study was conducted to validate the ancient knowledge about the antimicrobial effect of Ganga water and to evaluate the potential of Ganga water to explore the possibility of using it as a source of antimicrobial compounds”, Dr Nautiyal told Deccan Herald here. “The objective of this study was to evaluate the incorruptible self-purificatory characteristic and microbial community structure of Ganga water, when spiked with E.coli O157:H7”, he said.

E.coli is a worldwide cause of infection in humans and animals. E.coli O157:H7 is responsible for causing diarrhoea and urinary tract infection, he added. It is common knowledge that Ganga water does not putrefy, even after long periods of storage. Water has been used from time immemorial for remedial purposes. Most religious beliefs involve some ceremonial use of ‘holy’ water.

Ernest Hankin, a British bacteriologist, reported in 1896 on the presence of marked antibacterial activity against Vibrio cholerae, which he observed in the water of the Ganga and suggested that it might help to decrease the incidence of cholera in people using water from the Ganges. Though invisible, it was possible to show that this principle was particulate and it was called ‘bacteriophage’.“Thus in a way the world owes the discovery of bacteriophages to the Ganges water”, Dr Nautiyal said.

He said during the research it was found that E.coli could survivie for only three days in a three-day old sample of Ganga water. The bacteria survivied for seven days in the Ganga water sample collected eight years back while it lasted for 15 days in a 16-year old sample of the Ganga water.

The E.coli however survived for longer time in boiled water, he said. A study of factors affecting the survival of E. coli in Ganga water is of great interest due to its importance as an indicator of fecal pollution in natural waters. It is ancient knowledge that Ganges water does not putrefy, even after long periods of storage, thus water from the Ganges has for millennia been regarded as incorruptible, Dr Nautiyal said.

Dr Nautiyal says this quality of the Ganga water could be used to develop a new anti-biotic which could be more useful in fighting bacterial infections. “There is however need for more research in this regard”, he said.

sacred secrets of ganga

The Sacred Secrets of Ganga

I am the shark among the fishes, and the Ganges among the rivers - Krishna in Bhagavadgita

In his book Discovery of India, Jawaharlal Nehru says:
The Ganges, above all is the river of India, which has held India’s heart captive and drawn uncounted millions to her banks since the dawn of history. The story of the Ganges, from her source to the sea, from old times to new, is the story of India’s civilization and culture, of the rise and fall of empires, of great and proud cities, of adventures of man

River Ganga/Ganges with its source in the mighty Himalayan mountains is considered to be the most sacred river by Hindus. The waters of Ganga (referred to as Ganga jal) is believed to be self cleansing in nature and it is said that a single dip in the waters of this holy river will wash away all the sins of a person!

The last rites of the thousands of Hindus are performed at the numerous ghats along the shores of Ganga at the holy sites like Kashi, Varanasi etc. Thousands of human bodies are consigned to this holy river. Millions of Hindus take bath in the waters of this river day in and out and millions more in a single day during festival seasons throughout the year. And yet there is no sign of contagious diseases spreading from person to person due to contact through this river water! Nor is there any sign of things like skin disorders etc after bathing in this river!

A river which is 2525 kilometers long, which has been the lifeline of the entire stretch of the Ganga-Yamuna plains, with over 300 million dependents today, why is Ganga considered so sacred? What is the secret behind its water?

Antibacterial Nature

In 1896, E. Hanbury Hankin (a British physician) after testing the water of Ganga wrote in a paper published in the French journal Annales de IInstitut Pasteur ,
The bacterium Vibrio Cholerae which causes the deadly Cholera disease, when put into the waters of Ganga died within three hours! The same bacteria continued to thrive in distilled water even after 48 hours!
He also suggested that the water of this river and its tributary Yamuna were responsible for containing the spread of this deadly disease cholera in the region in those days!!

Anti-putrefication

C.E. Nelson, another British physician noticed that, the waters of Ganga when taken even from one of its dirtiest mouths at Hooghly, by the ships returning to England, remained fresh throughout the long journey!! Normally river water begins to putrefy over a period of time due to lack of oxygen which promotes the growth of anaerobic bacteria, which in turn gives rise to the smell of stale water.

Cleaning the dead!

In 1927, Flix dHerelle , a French microbiologist, was amazed when he saw that only a few feet below the bodies of persons floating in the Ganga who had died of dysentery and cholera, where one would expect millions of germs, there were no germs at all!

In other words, Hindus had for thousands of years rightly believed that Ganga purifies the dead bodies, which is why probably the bodies of even those who died of infectious diseases were offered to this river for purification!

Recent Research

D.S. Bhargava, an Indian environmental engineer/professor of hydrology has spent a life time studying the amazing properties of Ganges. He measured the remarkable self cleansing ability of Ganges in an exhaustive three year study which showed that Ganges is able to reduce its biochemical oxygen demand levels much faster than other rivers! Bhargava says that the self-purifying quality of this river leads to oxygen levels that are 25 times higher than any other river in the world.The Ganges cleans up suspended wastes 15 to 20 times faster when compared to other rivers!

In a study conducted by the Malaria Research Center in New Delhi it was observes that the water from the upper reaches of Ganga did not host mosquito breeding, and also prevented mosquito breeding in any water it was added to! On the other hand, water from other rivers were shown to allow mosquito breeding!

Why?

There are two major factors which give Ganges its unique ability.

1. The presence of Bacteriophages which gives it the anti-bacterial nature.
2. An unknown factor called the Mystery Factor, which gives this river an unusual ability to retain dissolved oxygen from the atmosphere!

Bacteriophage

Bacteriophage are those viruses which kill bacteria. What a cat is to a mouse, the bacteriophage is to a bacterium. In fact what Hankin reported in 1896 about the antibacterial nature of Ganges was the first modern observation/documentation of a Bacteriophage ! It was Herelle, (who again observed the anti-bacterial nature of Ganges) who coined the term Bacteriophage (meaning bacteria eater ) for these viruses.

The high levels of oxygen in the waters of Ganga gives it the unique ability to remain fresh over a prolonged period of time. The waters of Ganga when added to other water resources in adequate amount, causes the bacteriophage in it to quickly multiply cleaning the new water resource of any bacteria present in it. Which is why the ancient Indians used to take Ganga jal back home to clean their local water resources! People practice it even today, except that most of them dont know the actual reason!

In other words, the water of river Ganga can be an alternative for using antibiotics to treat bacterial diseases! Ancient Indians who used the water of rivers like Ganga never required any antibiotics, for the very water they used was anti-bacterial in nature! This type of Bacteriophage Therapy has been suggested by many researchers, but rarely tried/tested or practised in the health industry.

In fact it was in the former Soviet Union that the most active research about using bacteriophages to treat bacterial diseases was done at the George Eliava Institute ! This research institute was co-founded by George Eliava and Felix DHerelle after DHerelle introduced Eliava to the wonderful world of Bacteriophages.

The death of anti-biotics?

Today more and more bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics. The world is running out ofantibiotics! We need an alternative, and a potential alternative is Bacteriophage therapy.

The emergence of pathogenic bacteria resistant to most, if not all, currently available antimicrobial agents has become a critical problem in modern medicine, particularly because of the concomitant increase in immunosuppressed patients. The concern that humankind is reentering the preantibiotics era has become very real, and the development of alternative antiinfection modalities has become one of the highest priorities of modern medicine and biotechnology. - Source Phage International

Phage Therapy Research in India

GangaGen Biotechnologies , a bio-medical research company based out of Bangalore, is now leading the alternative therapy of Bacteriophage based treatment for antibiotic resistant bacteria. It is the first firm to have developed bacteriophage based commercial products. Their first bacteriophage based product was to treat the problem of E.Coli in Cattle.

Industrial Pollution

Having said all this, all along the course of river Ganga, today 27 major towns dump over 900 million litres of sewage/industrial waste into it every day! This nonsense should be stopped at any cost. Humans have no rights to pollute the natural resources of this planet. If we cant handle our waste, we shouldn’t be producing it in the first place. Rather than being an individual’s symbolic effort to fight pollution, it should be an enlightened mass movement of entire humanity to create non-polluting technology out of the science we know.

The very fact that almost all the technology that we possess today in the name of development and modernization is polluting, proves that the technology we have created using modern science is still primitive. It has more to do with our greed, than with science.

As Mahatma Gandhi once said, Earth Provides enough to satisfy every man’s need but not every man’s greed.

courtesy:http://www.hitxp.com/articles/science-technology/sacred-mystery-secrets-ganga-ganges/

=Hinduism and Nature=
Respect Earth, Protect Her, Stop Pollution, Go Green, Act Wisely
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The Earth was not created by God to be partitioned into artificial geographic regions, over which men will then foolishly war with one another. Rather, she is a living being, a mother, a woman, a Goddess, whom we are to love, respect and 

nurture - as she so patiently nurtures us. In the Hindu tradition, Mother Earth even has a name: Bhu-devi.

To worship the Goddess is to honor the Earth and all the creatures. In the Vedic literatures mother Earth is personified as the Goddess Bhumi, or Prithvi. She is the abundant mother who showers her mercy oh her children.

Incident from the scriptures :
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The Earth Goddess, Bhoodevi, nourished all humankind with Her bounty, She was venerated by sages and seers; She belonged to all. But then humans sought to possess Her and plunder Her wealth. Enraged by this callous new attitude toward Her, the goddess refused to let any seeds sprout or any plants bear fruit. Humanity began to starve and die away. Moved by their plight, the God Vishnu descended to Earth as the patriarch Prithu and tried to make peace with Bhoodevi. But she refused to forgive humankind; She ran away from Prithu in the form of a cow. Prithu decided to take a harsher approach, pursuing Her on his chariot and threatening to shoot Her with arrows.

“If you harm me,” She warned, “the world will cease to be.”
“I do not wish to harm You,” he replied. “I want You to feed
mankind.”

“Why should I nurture those who do not respect me?” She asked.

“Fear not,” He told Her. “I shall make sure humans respect their Mother Earth and treat Her as a cow treats Her calves. I will be Gopala, the cowherd, protecting You from danger.”
And so it came to pass, Prithu instituted the practice of prudent economics and taught mankind to draw on the Earth’s resources without exploiting Her. He also established the sacred laws of Dharma that ensure stability in society, and maintain a harmonious relationship between mankind and the world around. Pleased with this, Bhoodevi called Herself Prithvi, beloved of Prithu.


But the lesson remains, and may yet return to destroy humankind — as exploitation replaces respect, will She continue to nurture us and give us life?
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Oh Devi, bless us with your divine blessings. Grants us fulfillment, prosperity, peace, abundant food, water and air. You take care of Us and we will take care of You, Mother Earth.

- Om Swastiastu
- Jai Bhudevi Prithvi
- Hari Om

Here are some interesting articles I came across about some of the
latest research in the field of sound and its effect on the
surrounding environment. It might provide a wonderful insight on the
scientific nature of Tantra, which was known to Rishis long ago, and
currently brought to the common man by great souls such as Shri
Paramhans Nikhileshwaranand Ji and others.

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>From http://9waysmysteryschool.tripod.com...ools/id12.html

In 1967, Hans Jenny, a Swiss doctor, published the book Cymatics -
The Structure and Dynamics of Waves and Vibrations.

In this book Jenny showed what happens when one takes various
materials like sand, spores, iron filings, water, etc., and places
them on vibrating metal plates. What appears are shapes and motion -
patterns which vary from the nearly perfectly ordered and stationary
to those that are excitingly chaotic and constantly in motion. Jenny
created an invention of his own called a tonoscope which made use of
crystal oscillators to set these metal plates into motion. Unlike in
previous experiments. Jenny could precisely control the rate of
vibration and repeat experiments attaining identical results.

"The tonoscope was constructed to make the human voice visible
without any electronic apparatus as an intermediate link. This
yielded the amazing possibility of being able to see the physical
image of the vowel, tone or song a human being produced directly. Not
only could you hear a melody - you could see it."

In his research with the tonoscope, Jenny noticed that when the
vowels of the ancient languages of Hebrew and Sanskrit were
pronounced, the sand took the shape of the written symbols for these
vowels. Experimentation with modern languages general produced chaos.
Is it possible that the ancient Hebrews and Indians knew this? Could
there be something to the concept of "sacred language?" Would other
sacred languages produce similar results ie. Tibetan, Egyptian or
Chinese. These languages have always proposed that they have the
capacity to influence and transform physical reality through the
recitation or chanting of sacred syllables and mantras.

One of Jenny's most interesting results with the tonoscope was
produced when he took a vibrating plate covered with liquid and
tilted it. "The liquid did not yield to gravitational influence and
run off the vibrating plate but stayed on and went on constructing
new shapes as though nothing had happened." If, however, the
oscillation was then turned off, the liquid began to run. But if the
tonoscope was turned back on and the vibrations re-established,
quickly, before the liquid ran off the plate he not only could
prevent the liquid from leaving the plate but actually set it back
into its original position. According to Jenny, this was an example
of an anti gravitational effect created by vibrations.

Jenny, also, pointed out the resemblance between the shapes and
patterns we see around us in our physical reality and the shapes and
patterns he generated in his experiments. Jenny stipulated the theory
that biological evolution was a result of vibrations.

"There is a similarity between cymatic pictures and quantum
particles. In both cases that which appears to be a solid form is
also a wave. They are both created and simultaneously organized by
the principle of pulse (the principle of vibration). This is the
great mystery with sound: there is no solidity! A form that appears
solid is actually created by an underlying vibration." (Beaulieu)

In his book, Jenny says that the key to understanding how we can heal
the body lies in our understanding of how different frequencies
or "tones" influence our physical reality.

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>From http://www.kuruvinda.com/health/music-6.shtml

The Physics of Sound and Music

We don't often think of the physics of sound, and the fact that sound
has power to effect physical objects. Just the mere fact that you
perceive sound shows this vibrational nature. The sound waves cause
your eardrums to vibrate, which causes a chain reaction in your
middle and inner ear. This eventually causes nerve impulses to reach
your brain that are perceived as sound.

To truly appreciate the power that sound can have, it helps to think
of two examples. An earthquake is actually a series of sound waves
caused by two plates of earth sliding by each other in a quick
motion. The scraping that ensues causes a sound wave to be produced.
Sound travels faster in the air than it does in the denser earth, so
you can often hear an earthquake before you feel it. We all know
about the power and destructive capabilities of an earthquake.
Another example of the destructive power of sound is the ability of
some singers to break a glass merely by singing a particular note.
Both the example of the earthquake and that of the singer illustrate
the characteristic principle of resonance.

Our bodies also resonate or vibrate in response to and in concert
with sound waves that we are exposed to. In fact, there is some
fascinating research that's been done that even shows the
relationships of this resonance to the planets of our solar system.
Our DNA and RNA molecules, which are the building blocks of our very
chromosomes, resonate to an octave tone (a musical relationship) of
the earth's rotation pattern. Is it any wonder that with our DNA
vibrating in concert to the energies we are exposed to, that when we
listen to certain kinds of music we could be damaging our own bodies
and those of future generations (through our chromosomes).

The different frequencies of the sound waves that are produced when a
musical instrument is played correspond to various musical notes. For
example, a sound wave that produces the note that is commonly
called "concert A" vibrates at a frequency of 440 cycles per second
(hertz or Hz). Different parts of your body resonate with different
notes and the harmonics produced by different types of musical
instruments. Each one of us becomes a magnificent dance of tissues,
cells, molecules, atoms, and energy fields swirling in rhythm to the
beat of the sound waves. When this dance is a dance of harmony, it is
healing and life giving. When the dance is one of dissonance and
disharmony it brings on disease and it takes away life energy.

This dance of nature to sound and music was visually demonstrated by
two different scientists in similar ways. An eighteenth century
physicist named Ernest Chladni investigated the effects of sound an
music on matter by sprinkling sand on steel disks and watching what
happened when a violin played various notes. The changing patterns
that were produced were striking in their symmetry and artistic and
mathematically precise patterns.

In this century, Dr. Hans Jenny took Chladni's work a few steps
further. Dr. Jenny devised a device he called a "tonoscope," which
consisted of a metal plate on top of an oscillator. The oscillator
produces vibrations in the plate that are adjustable according to
volume and pitch. When different materials are placed on the
tonoscope, patterns emerge in response to the vibrations that are
very much like patterns found in nature. For example when paste is
placed on the tonoscope, a patterns emerges which looks like the
early stages of cell division. Other substances mimicked honeycombs
and nautilus shells. A pattern produced when a crescendo of sound
vibrated through powder looked remarkably like the iris and pupil of
an eye.

However, one of the most fascinating results occurred when Jenny used
a microphone to vibrate the tonoscope. When he uttered the ancient
mantra, AUM or "Ohm", a pattern was produced which consisted of a
perfect circle filled with concentric squares and triangles.
Coincidentally, the very same pattern is found in the yantra or
geometric artwork that has been used for centuries in the East to
represent the AUM, the so-called mantra of mantras. Once again,
science demonstrates the profound relationship that sound has with
matter.

Another profound relationship that sound has with our bodies and
minds was discovered by a French ear specialist named Dr. Alfred
Tomatis. Dr.Tomatis spent decades measuring the affects of different
sound frequencies on our bodies. He researched which frequencies
boost energy and which ones deplete it and how they bring about these
effects. He came to a startling conclusion. Dr. Tomatis says, "The
ear is made not only for hearing. The ear is designed to energize the
brain and body."

How can we possibly get energy through our ears? Well, in our
previous discussion of the power that music has, we talked about
resonance and how the right frequencies of sound waves produce
sympathetic vibrations in other physical objects, including our
bodies. Tomatis discovered that certain kinds of music, which had an
abundance of certain frequency ranges, actually were effective in
recharging the central gray nuclei cells in the brain. These cells
act like tiny batteries that power your brainwaves. You would expect
that these tiny batteries must be recharged by your body's internal
systems and metabolism. Tomatis found otherwise.

Dr. Tomatis discovered that it wasn't something inside you that
recharged these brain cells, it was certain frequencies of sound from
outside your body that provide the recharge. As sound travels through
your inner ear, it whirls around and around through the coils of the
snail shaped cochlea. From there it comes upon a long line of 24,600
cells called Corti cells, which dance a perfectly synchronized dance
to each sound. This dance of the Corti cells produces energy that
splits off, some going to the brain and some going to the vestibular
branch of your auditory nerve and then to the muscles throughout your
body.

So, with all we've discussed about the benefits of certain kinds of
music, what kinds of music would you expect to have the ability to
produce the most energizing of the brain as well as the most release
of muscle tension and improvement of bodily functions and posture.
The same Baroque and Classical music that we've discussed before,
especially those pieces rich in strings, produce frequencies that
Tomatis found to be energizing and healing. In fact, Tomatis found
that it is possible to rejuvenate your ears with sound.

Dr. Tomatis developed and patented a devise he calls the Electronic
Ear. This device emits bursts of different high and low frequency
sounds, alternating from ear to ear. This process effectively
exercises the muscles of the middle ear so that they get in shape and
work as they are supposed to. Tomatis found that sounds in the range
of 5,000 to 8,000 hertz recharge the cells that are like tiny
batteries in our brains the fastest. He also found that the music
that is the richest in these high frequency sounds is that of Mozart.
And, he went on to pinpoint those sounds that were damaging to the
body and the mind. These were low frequency sounds, like the noise at
an airport, a construction site, in traffic, etc. Tomatis also
singled out the low pounding sounds in rock music as "brain drain"
sounds.

Others have taken the same frequency ranges that Tomatis worked with
and found that these appear to universally benefit life. A researcher
named Dan Carlson found that 5,000 hertz also energizes plants. He
performed experiments in which he embedded a 5,000 hertz pulsed sound
(which resembled big cricket sounds) in tapes of Baroque and other
classical music. He played these tapes to plants as he sprayed them
with a nutrient mix. He found that the plants showed a 700 percent
increase in efficiency of absorbing the nutrients. It was discovered
that this frequency of sound actually helps the little pores on the
plant's leaves called stomata, to open up. Guess what the frequency
of bird song is. Yes, it's around 5,000 hertz. And who says nature
doesn't have a plan. You'll find that in areas that don't have a lot
of birds singing, there's not a lot of plant growth either.

Speaking of plant growth, Dan Carlson found that his mix of life
enhancing music and spraying of nutrients on his purple passion plant
produced some record results. He was able to take a plant that
normally grows to a height of around 18 inches and produced a plant
that grew 1,400 feet long in the course of two and a half years! This
feat earned Mr. Carlson and his plant a place in the Guinness Book of
World Records.

Researchers have also applied this 5,000 hertz frequency to studies
on people. A recent test was done using this frequency added to
Baroque music played while people ate dinner at a restaurant. It was
found that people who ate to slow classical music ate more slowly,
digested better, and didn't gain weight. On the other hand, those
that ate to rock music ate very quickly, digested poorly, and gained
weight.

In addition to benefiting the body and its functioning, Tomatis
discovered that these life giving frequencies could bring
psychological health also. He found that he was able to help learning
disabled and even autistic children to lead normal lives. One of his
lines of research revolved around the sounds that a baby hears when
in the womb. Tomatis discovered that by placing a specially sealed
microphone and speaker into water he could simulate the sonic
environment that a baby experiences before birth. When Tomatis played
the sounds of a mother's voice through this fluid media to her
autistic child, the child went over and turned off the lights,
climbed onto his mother's lap, assumed the fetal position and started
sucking his thumb. Over time, by gradually substituting the mother's
voice through regular speakers instead of through the fluid media,
Tomatis was able to get the child babbling and eventually brought the
child to complete normalcy.

Guess which sound frequencies predominate in the fluid environment
that Tomatis used. They are some of the same sound frequencies that
dolphins make and the same frequencies found quite often in bird
song. It was also the same frequencies that Tomatis found to be most
beneficial for recharging your brain cells - around 8,000 Hertz!

Choose what you and your children listen to, and choose carefully!

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>From http://users.nni.com/aurael/soundform.html

Using sound waves and resonance, we can change the form of matter.
When a sound frequency matches the vibrational frequency of any
structure, resonance occurs. You can hear examples of this when you
sing a note and the same note sounds on a stringed instrument like a
guitar or piano. The changes sound produces can be quite dramatic, as
in the classic example of a singer shattering a glass with the voice.
Sound is now being used in the medical field to treat certain
conditions. A treatment called extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy
uses sound waves to disintegrate gallstones. In 1940, the Tacoma
Narrows Bridge in Washington state collapsed due to relatively mild
gusts of wind. The wind started the main span of the bridge vibrating
at it's natural frequency, causing it to sway and ripple violently,
then collapse.

Aside from these destructive examples, sound can also CREATE form.
Sound can create complex geometric patterns in various substances.
Hans Jenny found in his research of cymatics that the sounds of
vowels in ancient Hebrew and Sanskrit actually produce patterns that
resemble the alphabetic symbols used for the sounds. Jenny invented
an istrument called a tonoscope, which allows you see the pattern a
sound creates. When the mantra AUM is chanted into a tonoscope, it
produces a pattern that looks like the Sri Yantra mandala, the most
holy symbol of Hindu tradition. It symbolizes the divine creative
aspect of sacred sound, out of which the manifestation of the
physical universe is generated, and the merging of one's soul back
into the Absolute Consciousness.

Many spiritual teachings speak of the role of sound in manifesting
form. In the creation story of the Christian Bible, notice that it
says God invoked Light with sound. According to Buddhist
teaching...it is said that if AUM is chanted in just the right way,
this world will cease to exist in it's present form.

courtesy:http://www.indiadivine.org/audarya/mantra-tantra-vigyana/149743-scientific-nature-tantras-mantras.html

ధన త్రయోదశి

ఆశ్వయుజ బహుళ త్రయోదశి(అంటే నరక చతుర్దశికి ముందు వచ్చే తిధి).దీన్నే "ధన త్రయోదశి" అంటారు.ఈనాటి రాత్రి అపమృత్యువు(unnatural death) నివారణకై నువ్వుల నూనెతో దీపాన్ని వెలిగించి,పూజించి,ఇంటి ముందు ఉంచాలి.దీనికి "యమ దీపం" అని పేరు.యముని అనుగ్రహం పొందడం కోసం ఈ దీపాన్ని వెలిగించాలని చెప్తారు.  

ఆశ్వయుజ బహుళ చతుర్దశి నరక చతుర్దశిగా చెప్పబడింది. సత్యభామ నరకాసురిడిని సంహరించిన కారణంగా ఈరోజున పండగ జరుపుకుంటారు. ఈ చతుర్దశి యమునకు ఎంతో ప్రీతికరమైన రోజు. ఈ రోజు తెల్లవారుజామున అంటే సూర్యోదయానికి గంటన్నర ముందే నువ్వుల నూనెతో తల అంటుకొని స్నానం చేయాలి.స్నానానికి ఉపయోగించే నీటిలో ఉత్తరేణి,తగిరస,తుమ్మి చెట్లకొమ్మలను కలియబెట్టాలి.స్నానం మధ్యలో ఉత్తరేణి ఆకులను తలపై త్రిప్పుకొని పారేయాలి. ఈరోజు చేసే స్నానం నరక భయాన్ని పొగొడుతుందని, మంగళకరమని చెప్పబడింది. ఈ రోజున సూర్యోదయానికి ముందు నువ్వులనూనెలో లక్ష్మి దేవి, నీటిలో గంగా దేవి ఉంటారని,అందువల్ల ఆ సమయంలో చేసే స్నానం వల్ల వరి అనుగ్రహం కలుగుతుందని శాస్త్రం చెప్తోంది.

స్నానం చేశాక దక్షిణంవైపునకు తిరిగి నువ్వులతో యముని ప్రీతికొరకు తర్పణం ఇవ్వాలి, ఈరోజు భోజనంలో మినుములతో చేసిన పదార్ధాలను, మినప ఆకులతో వండిన కూరను తినాలి.

ఈరోజు ప్రదోషంలో అంటే సాయంకాలం ఇంటిముందు, ఆలయాల్లోనూ దీపాలను వెలిగించాలి. నాలుగు వత్తులతో దీపాన్ని వెలిగించి దీపదానం చేయాలి.