Sunday, February 15, 2009
Super Brain Yoga or Thoppukarnam
Recently my good friend Madhuri pointed me to Interesting video of Brian Yoga and she laughed out lot, I was thinking a funny yoga again? But any Indian kid would have gone through this, no wonder we Indian kids are smarter.
Wow, Super Brain Yoga. http://www.superbrainyoga.org/
We Indian kids were trained Brain yoga from school days. Schools, where children spend most of their developmental stage of life, have been identified by children in the region as a place where they are subjected to various forms of physical and degrading/humiliating punishments. Children have stated that these punishments affect their school performance, as their minds are dominated by the fear of punishment rather than learning.
The most popular kind of punishment during my childhood was Sit-Ups holding the ears, in Tamil we call it “Thoppukarnam” and “Gunjeellu” in Telugu
Thoppukarnam is not only a form of punishment, but its also ritual rite, a way to pray to the god.
At one moment of time playfully Shri Ganesha grabbed the Sudarshan Chakra from Shri Vishnu’s finger and hid it in his mouth. In spite of repeated requests and appeals of Shri Vishnu to return the same to him Shri Ganesha never relented to his pleas. The more He requested to return the disc, Shri Ganesha would become more playful with His eternal childhood qualities and run away from Him. Embarrassed Shri Vishnu tried all tricks to please Shri Ganesha but all were in vain.
At last an idea struck Shri Vishnu and he went after Shri Ganesha following him up to Kailasha-lok (abode of Shri Shiva-Parvati). There as He faced Shri Ganesha He initiated a very funny gesture of seeking forgiveness by holding His ears with criss-cross twisting of His hands around his neck. This did the trick and Shri Ganesha giggled like a child and laughed aloud. This eventually released the seized sudarshan from His mouth. Shri Vishnu instantly recovered His favorite disc and departed for his Vishnulok with victory.
So Thoppukarnam is act of forgiveness for your sins and wrongs and Super Brain yoga is proving to be rehabilitation for your brain and makes you think smart. All my Grandmas stories are making sense to me now
Wow, Super Brain Yoga. http://www.superbrainyoga.org/
We Indian kids were trained Brain yoga from school days. Schools, where children spend most of their developmental stage of life, have been identified by children in the region as a place where they are subjected to various forms of physical and degrading/humiliating punishments. Children have stated that these punishments affect their school performance, as their minds are dominated by the fear of punishment rather than learning.
The most popular kind of punishment during my childhood was Sit-Ups holding the ears, in Tamil we call it “Thoppukarnam” and “Gunjeellu” in Telugu
Thoppukarnam is not only a form of punishment, but its also ritual rite, a way to pray to the god.
At one moment of time playfully Shri Ganesha grabbed the Sudarshan Chakra from Shri Vishnu’s finger and hid it in his mouth. In spite of repeated requests and appeals of Shri Vishnu to return the same to him Shri Ganesha never relented to his pleas. The more He requested to return the disc, Shri Ganesha would become more playful with His eternal childhood qualities and run away from Him. Embarrassed Shri Vishnu tried all tricks to please Shri Ganesha but all were in vain.
At last an idea struck Shri Vishnu and he went after Shri Ganesha following him up to Kailasha-lok (abode of Shri Shiva-Parvati). There as He faced Shri Ganesha He initiated a very funny gesture of seeking forgiveness by holding His ears with criss-cross twisting of His hands around his neck. This did the trick and Shri Ganesha giggled like a child and laughed aloud. This eventually released the seized sudarshan from His mouth. Shri Vishnu instantly recovered His favorite disc and departed for his Vishnulok with victory.
So Thoppukarnam is act of forgiveness for your sins and wrongs and Super Brain yoga is proving to be rehabilitation for your brain and makes you think smart. All my Grandmas stories are making sense to me now
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