Birth place of Martial Art - India

When it comes to Martial Arts 7 out of 10 people always get attracted towards it, whether it is Kung fu, tykondo, judo, or something else. A big reason is because of the film industry, the action heroes, and their cool stunts. But very few people know most of this get modified from the great Indian Ancient warfare practice, which is found in Dhanurveda. So how is it related to the martial art, let’s know.

Dhanurveda is an ancient branch of education, special mastery in warfare often called as udhkaala (art of fighting) by Indians. In ancient times when it comes to medicines, mathematics, physicist, yoga, martial arts there is surely no one know better than an Indian. Dhanurveda was always an essential part of education in ancient India for the Royals and one who belongs to the soldier family.

Let’s know who had started this journey of self-defense and martial arts. It was the great Shiva (mahadev, adiyogi etc. whatever you wanna call). Let’s keep the god identity of Shiva aside, let’s talk about The Lord Shiva as a warrior. He is a master of martial art, yoga, in some sense he carry the knowledge of everything,

including nothingness. He had teach the art of self-defense and warfare to the great worrier Lord Parshurama.  It is said that he had killed many unworthy kings and their army alone. By mistake he had killed some good guys too, so as a contrition he decided to go to a place of  peace and swear that he will never fight with anyone again. Than parshurama went south India, where he meet

some curious people those who knows about the warrior Parshurama and his knowledge in self-defense and warfare. So he decided to teach them the art. Later on the art was called as Kalaripaytuu. Then in 495 AD a south Indian prince named Bodhi dharma get into a journey for china. Bodhi dharma was master of Kalaripaytuu, yoga, Ayurveda some even says Bodhi dharma has even had earned the power to get controlled over the punchbhuta

(the five elements fire, water, air, earth and ether). He spread the knowledge of Ayurveda and Kalaripaytuu to Chinese people. He founded a place, which we known as shaolin temple today. Yes, the founder of shaolin temple was an Indian. Chinese people call him as Damo master. We will discuss about him in some other post.

In this way it traveled from India to china, and then from there to many places like Japan, Thiland etc.

India had carried a great knowledge of martial art and some great warriors all through it history. India is the only country that has never invaded in some other countries in the history, but always defended from many threats. Even Alexander the great also had his last battle in India. Most of the Indian says he losses to king Purushuttam, but according to the western theory he didn’t.

Ancient India was a treasure to many things.

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Reality of Yoga (a brief idea)

Yoga has different definition for different people. Some individual it as an Indian form of exercise which has to do with specific body postures. Some of them understand it as just a breathing practice or some kind of mode of relaxation. Some experts are also there those refer it as weight reducing regimen. Besides this group of experts, there are some other great people those who believe it as a typical religious rituals. This kind of views are logical to some extend but the last one is definitely not.

This is an Ancient Science, on how the body works actually and how can we enhance it to our greatest possibilities. In this lesson we will focus only in what is yoga actually in Indian Perspective.

“Yog” or “Yoga” is Sanskrit word derived from the root word “yuj” meaning to yoke, harness or to join together. ‘Yog’ has the meaning of Samadhi, that is the prevention of all action of ‘chitta’ (brain or mind or consciousness). According to some ancient scriptures citta (our mind) is the source of ‘upadana karana’, the productive cause of all trigunas, like wise sattvaguna, rajoguna, tamoguna, the state of trigunas are respectively means brightness in its nature, action and static or motionless. Citta has five states – Kshipta (disturbed), muddha (dull), vkshipta (distracted), akagra (focused), nirodhah (mastered). Yoga begins in the first state of citta. All moods, reflection and thoughts that arise in citta are classified in five categories by the great Maharishi Patanjali – pramana (right knowledge), viparyaya (indiscrimination), vikalpa (verbal delusion), nidra (sleep), and smriti (memory). The state of yog is irrespective of their conditions. In ‘yogh samadhhi’ the afflictions and the bonding of karma subside when they are impeded the practitioner achive the highest mental state niroddha.

There are numbers of definition of yoga depending on the various level of existence and evolution of consciousness. The best definition to describe it is union – union between individual and divine self. It means the ultimate aim of yoga is to know our identity, who we are in this multiverse what’s the true reality is.

At last we can say it’s a lot more than breathing or physical exercise. It gives a new meaning to life.

(Part-2) THE MODERN SCIENCE WAS STARTED IN ANCIENT INDIA

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In our last post we have known about 3 great scientist of Ancient India.

If you haven’t yet go through my last post please go through that before reading this.

Let’s know about few more.

4. Sign convention

Symbols, signs and mathematical notation were employed in an early form in in India by the 6^th century when the great mathematician and astronomer the Aryabhata recommended the use of letters to represent unknown quantities. Here again the great mathematician has teach the world how to count.

Aryabhata was also responsible for discovery of Motion of Solar System and Eclipses. we will discuss about it in another post in details. 

5. Pascal’s Triangle

Described in the 6^th century CE by Varahamihira and in the 10^th century by Halayudha, commenting on the obscure reference by Pingla (the author of an earlier work on prosody) to the “Meru -prastaara”, or the “Staircase of Mount Meru”, in relation to binomial coefficients. (It was also independently discovered in the 10^th or 11^th century in Persia and China.)

6. Brahmagupta’s Finite Difference Interpolation

The Indian mathematician Brahmagupta presented what is possibly the first instance of finite difference interpolation around difference interpolation around 665 CE. He had begun using abbreviation for unknowns by the 7^th century. He employed abbreviations for multiple unknown occurring in one complex problem. Brahmagupta also used abbreviation for square roots and cube roots.

7.Gradational Theory

Gravity was first shown up in surya siddhanta. 1200 years before Sir Isaac Newton born on Earth, Bhaskar Acharya has came out with the Law of gravity. Brahamagupta, the Indian Astronomer and Mathematician whose work influenced Arab mathematician in the 9^th century, held the view that the earth was spherical and that it attract objects towards it. A theory which was later further established in detail by Greek Philosopher Aristotle. And everyone knows the rest story or history you can say.

8. Cataract surgery

Cataract surgery was known to the Indian physician Sushruta (3^rd century CE). In India, cataract surgery was performed with a special tool called Jabamukhi salaka, a curved needle used to loosen the lens and push the cataract out of the field of vision. The eye would later be soaked with warm butter and then bandaged. Greek philosophers and scientists travelled to India where these surgeries were performed by Physicians, and took this practice to the western world.

9. Ayurvedic and Siddha medicine

Ayurveda and siddha are ancient systems of medicine practiced in south Asia. Ayurvedic ideas can be found in the Buddhist Canonical writings (mid-first millennium BCE). Ayurveda has evolved over two thousand years, and is still practiced today.

So this are some awesome discoveries or inventions made by Indians but very very few people know regarding it.

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THE MODERN SCIENCE WAS STARTED IN ANCIENT INDIA (part-1)

We always praise the western world for the discovery like atoms, gravitation, plastic surgery etc. But do you guys know where really this things were started? Yes, it was Ancient India. Western People says they had teach Indians how to be hygienic, how to civilize, how to study … etc. Come-on when you guys didn’t have any idea of home, city, sanitation we used to use personal bathrooms, bedrooms, watch out the history of Harappa civilization. Today western world is dominant over India, only because we have adapted their Industrial education system as our way of getting education and success. This must be changed. Now that’s a different topic to discuss, let’s keep it for some other day.

Back in Ancient India, when some of our Indian sages were discovering mantras – their power, Ayurvedic healing, etc. a few of the great curious brains were busy ascertaining inventions that in future could help mankind.

Let’s know some of the huge Discoveries done by Indians.

1.    Theory of Atom

Centuries before John Dalton was born, Maharishi Kanad, who is considered as the First Nuclear Scientist of India. He is the one who introduced the theory of atom. His theories were most probably back to 2^nd century. In the book 'Darshan-Grantha', one can find a well description of Kanad concept of Atoms. His opinion was that elements are mainly formed because of electrons arranged in a specific and synchronized manner.

2.    Plastic surgery

America and Brazil may be quarrelling over who is the world’s plastic surgery capital, but do you know plastic surgery was first formulated by Sushruta. What’s widely believed to be the offshoot of modern science and technology is actually an Indian invention at the time where there was nothing called machinery technology. Sushruta’s famous book ‘Sushruta Samhita’ which is consider as bone one of the oldest discourse, vividly deals with several methods of performing plastic surgery.

3.    The zero

The biggest discovery of all time is ‘The zero’. A number that is everything and nothing, almost all invention and discoveries we know exist due to it. It is widely known how the great Aryabhatta taught the world how to count. Little needs to be written about the ‘zero’, what to tell about it I cannot figure it out, just that this mathematical digit and concept also has a direct link to the ancient philosophy of ‘nothingness’.

reference : sabkuchmile.com

That’s it for today we will see more of the ancient discoveries in next post.

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THE ARROW OF TIME

I guess many of you all come with situation where you see a cup of tea falling off a table and breaking into pieces on the floor. Now any one of you if ever had filmed it anytime you would notice that, you can easily tell whether it is being run forward or backward. If you run it backward, you will see the pieces suddenly start gathering back themselves together off in their original form and then jump back in the table. Now anyone of you ever think why the thing backward is called backward not forward, I know it’s a very nonsense question, but as I say there is always an extraordinary sensible answer behind a nonsense question. It’s called backward because we don’t see this kind of behavior in our normal day to day life.

The explanation that is usually given as to why we don’t see broken cups jumping back onto the table is that it is forbidden by the second law of thermodynamics. This says that disorder or entropy always increases with time. An intact cup on the table is a state of high order, but broken cup on the floor is a disorder state. One can therefore go from the whole cup on the table in the past to the broken cup on the floor in the future, but not the other way around until and unless it’s your smartphone or camera.

The increase of disorder or entropy with time is one example of what is called an arrow of time, something that give a direction to time and distinguishes the past from the future. There are at least three different arrows of time. First there is the Thermodynamic arrow of time – the direction of time in which disorder or entropy increases. Second, there is the psychological arrow of time. This is the direction of time in which we feel time passes—the direction of time in which we remember the past, but not the future. Third there is the cosmological arrow of time. This is the direction of time in which the universe is expanding rather than contracting. 

One can argue that the psychological arrow is determined by the thermodynamic arrow and that these two arrows always point in the same direction. If one make the no boundary assumption for the universe, they are related to the cosmological arrow of time, though they may not point in the same direction.

Now some of you may ask this question: Why does disorder increases in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands ?.... Or like The time goes forward is it because the universe is expanding ? Now what if the universe would have be contracting, would our so called future would be in past ?

What do you think guys ? ….. do comment ….
The detailed explanation of the three arrow of time would be in the next posts.

References

 Stephen Hawaking's "THE BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME" SIXTH LECTURE

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