Rains, floods, and landslides. Sadgati to people succumbing to these.
Manu Bhaker gets the second bronze. This time in mixed team (with Sarabjot) 10m air pistol shooting. Manu is the first athlete in Independent India to win two medals in one Olympics.
We break the fast within an hour or two of waking up, after 10-12 hours after the previous meal. Do we eat dinner 3-4 hours before sleep? Just around or after the sunset? Critically, can we maintain consistent timings? We may not plan to skip, except when we are fasting. The last meal is required to last the night, and provide essential nutrients to repair the body overnight, grow et al. It may not be a good idea to wake up hungry, disrupting sleep. The last meal needs to be balanced, healthy. Should include lean proteins, complex carbohydrates, whole grains, healthy fats, nuts, diverse vegetables, fruits, etc. No heavy foods, saturated fats, sugary foods and beverages. Not more than a half of the breakfast or the main meal of the day.
If late night snacking is a must, we may limit ourselves to a small portion of yoghurt, nuts, apple, fresh fruit slices, vegetable slices, and whole grain products. Can we eat only when we are genuinely hungry?
Friends. Good friends, close friends, and best friends. Forever, across life span and beyond. So many of them, so much breadth; so much intensity, intimacy, and depth. Degrees of reciprocated friendship – enduring affection, intimacy, and trust. More than friendly acquaintance, association, and attachment. By choice, to meet our varied but mutual needs, in their own ways. No pretensions; no demands, and obligations. Workable worldviews. Practical support. Agency augmented. Emotional anchor. Friends of many nuances, colours, and dimensions. With shared interests, different ages. Earned in childhood, teenage, youth, adulthood, workplace, activities et al. For an ecosystem of being truly us with guards down, idiosyncrasies, and vulnerabilities. Being safe, secure. Being nurtured, supported. Facilitating unlearning-learning. Making us sensitive, sensible, relevant, and useful. Second-third pushkar friends are likely to last longer. Yet, some fade out, and some others join in, as time progresses. Biological, social, human, spiritual processes, and physical movements cause these snaps, switches. A galaxy of them committed to us, sometime or the other, someway or the other. GCBFs in various guises, raining, pouring amrt, making us better and better, without us realizing it.
What a blessing it was, is, and will be. Our feet are firmly on the ground, because of them. We do not fly ‘kites’. When we err, we are guided back. Gently, subtly first. Harshly if required, but with care. We are us, because of them. Happier, more confident. Bettered wellbeing; physical, mental, social health, wellness; life, living. Can we persist with them, can they have the stamina to bear with us, with our idiosyncrasies?
Together, can we be in harmony, with a shared spirit of human solidarity? For the health of all people, all life, alife, non-life, planet, and universe. Can we take the path of friendship, trust for this? Can we work for a safer, more peaceful tomorrow for the NextGen with hope, faith, promise, love, coexistence? Can we be together, act collectively, for ushering ‘new’ Culture, Civilization of NextGen? Can we be the friends of the universe, today, tomorrow? Can we?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, if we flow in a friendly amrt together. In N? sakhyayoga for 7L.
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