भोजन-पात्र

भोजन को शुद्ध, पौष्टिक, हितकर व सात्त्विक बनाने के लिए हम जितना ध्यान देते हैं उतना ही ध्यान हमें भोजन बनाने के बर्तनों पर देना भी आवश्यक है। भोजन जिन बर्तनों में पकाया जाता है उन बर्तनों के गुण अथवा दोष भी उसमें समाविष्ट हो जाते हैं। अतः भोजन किस प्रकार के बर्तनों में बनाना चाहिए अथवा किस प्रकार के बर्तनों में भोजन करना चाहिए, इसके लिए भी शास्त्रों ने निर्देश दिये हैं।

भोजन करने का पात्र सुवर्ण का हो तो आयुष्य को टिकाये रखता है, आँखों का तेज बढ़ता है। चाँदी के बर्तन में भोजन करने से आँखों की शक्ति बढ़ती है, पित्त, वायु तथा कफ नियंत्रित रहते हैं। काँसे के बर्तन में भोजन करने से बुद्धि बढ़ती है, रक्त शुद्ध होता है। पत्थर या मिट्टी के बर्तनों में भोजन करने से लक्ष्मी का क्षय होता है। लकड़ी के बर्तन में भोजन करने से भोजन के प्रति रूचि बढ़ती है तथा कफ का नाश होता है। पत्तों से बनी पत्तल में किया हुआ भोजन, भोजन में रूचि उत्पन्न करता है, जठराग्नि को प्रज्जवलित करता है, जहर तथा पाप का नाश करता है। पानी पीने के लिए ताम्र पात्र उत्तम है। यह उपलब्ध न हों तो मिट्टी का पात्र भी हितकारी है। पेय पदार्थ चाँदी के बर्तन में लेना हितकारी है लेकिन लस्सी आदि खट्टे पदार्थ न लें।

लोहे के बर्तन में भोजन पकाने से शरीर में सूजन तथा पीलापन नहीं रहता, शक्ति बढ़ती है और पीलिया के रोग में फायदा होता है। लोहे की कढ़ाई में सब्जी बनाना तथा लोहे के तवे पर रोटी सेंकना हितकारी है परंतु लोहे के बर्तन में भोजन नहीं करना चाहिए इससे बुद्धि का नाश होता है। स्टेनलेस स्टील के बर्तन में बुद्धिनाश का दोष नहीं माना जाता है। सुवर्ण, काँसा, कलई किया हुआ पीतल का बर्तन हितकारी है। एल्यूमीनियम के बर्तनों का उपयोग कदापि  न करें।

केला, पलाश, तथा बड़ के पत्र रूचि उद्दीपक, विषदोषनाशक तथा अग्निप्रदीपक होते हैं। अतः इनका उपयोग भी हितावह है।

पानी पीने के पात्र के विषय में 'भावप्रकाश ग्रंथ' में लिखा है।

जलपात्रं तु ताम्रस्य तदभावे मृदो हितम्।

पवित्रं शीतलं पात्रं रचितं स्फटिकेन यत्।

काचेन रचितं तद्वत् वैङूर्यसम्भवम्।

(भावप्रकाश, पूर्वखंडः4)

अर्थात् पानी पीने के लिए ताँबा, स्फटिक अथवा काँच-पात्र का उपयोग करना चाहिए। सम्भव हो तो वैङूर्यरत्नजड़ित पात्र का उपयोग करें। इनके अभाव में मिट्टी के जलपात्र पवित्र व शीतल होते हैं। टूटे-फूटे बर्तन से अथवा अंजलि से पानी नहीं पीना चाहिए।

Products That Were Invented by Accident

Products That Were Invented by Accident

The best-laid plans can often go awry. Sometimes, when they do, the result can be pure profit.

Millions have been made from accidental discoveries, proof of the adage that sometimes it is better to be lucky than good.

Coca-Cola(KO) and Pepsi(PEP) were birthed as medicinal remedies. Plastic was first synthesized in a failed effort to reproduce the shellac once made from beetle husks and Charles Goodyear, as inGoodyear(GT), made no secret that his revolutionary process for vulcanized rubber was discovered randomly.

Here are 10 other big products that went from being missteps to life-changing discoveries:

Viagra
Pfizer(PFE) chemists were developing a pill to treat cardiovascular ailments. In 1991 something came up (literally) that sidetracked those efforts: Test subjects exhibited a rather virile side effect to the treatment.

The pill, later named Viagra and approved by the FDA in 1998, proved a bust in terms of treating heart disease. But the unexpected benefit pumped up its maker's bottom line and set the stage for a brand-new industry.

Today, drugs to treat erectile dysfunction command more than $5 billion a year in sales globally. Of that take, Viagra accounts for about $1.9 billion, but its chief rival in the space, Eli Lilly's(LLY) Cialis, closing in on parity.

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Good Luck? Bad Luck? Who Knows?

There is a Chinese story of an old farmer who had an old horse for tilling his fields. One day the horse escaped into the hills and, when all the farmer's neighbours sympathised with the old man over his bad luck, the farmer replied, 'Bad luck? Good luck? Who knows?'
 
A week later the horse returned with a herd of wild horses from the hills and this time the neighbours congratulated the farmer on his good luck. His reply was, 'Good luck? Bad luck? Who knows?'
 
Then, when the farmer's son was attempted to tame one of the wild horses, he fell off its back and broke his leg. Everyone thought this very bad luck. Not the farmer, whose only reaction was, 'Bad luck? Good luck? Who knows?'
 
Some weeks later the army marched into the village and forced every able-bodied youth they found there by law to serve in the army. When they saw the farmer's son with his broken leg they let him off. Now was that good luck? Bad luck? Who knows?

5 Generals Who Got In Trouble With Their Chief

5 Generals Who Got In Trouble With Their Chief

5. George McClellan

As an organizer and logistician, Union General George Brinton McClellan was a godsend to the Army of the Potomac, early in the American Civil War. The scholarly, well-traveled veteran of the Mexican War and former instructor at West Point was just what the Union, stunned by unexpected defeats by the Confederacy, needed to whip its forces into trim. Even though McClellan himself had been mauled by Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee in the Seven Days Battle, his assumption of command from the defeated General Pope was met with enthusiasm. Unfortunately, he was unused to supreme command. He was as overcautious in the field as he was meticulous behind the lines, time and again allowing Lee to slip away. He complained of lack of support, and consistently overestimated the enemy’s strength. President Abraham Lincoln began to lose patience with him, sending increasingly tart orders for him to get moving: “Are you not overcautious when you assume that you cannot do what the enemy is constantly doing?” “I beg to assure you that I have never written you, or spoken to you, in greater kindness of feeling than now, nor with a fuller purpose to sustain you, so far as in my most anxious judgment, I consistently can. But you must act.” Finally, he was relieved and replaced by General Burnside. He ran and lost against Lincoln for President in 1864, later served as governor of New Jersey, and died of heart failure in 1885