passion
The mode of passion: Rajo Guna
As per Ayurveda, the modes of nature have been divided into three categories, Sattva, Rajas and Tama. They are the modes which act mainly on the physical and the mental behavior of a person and hence, have a nice as well as a predominant effect on the nature of a person.
The second guna is Rajo Guna or the mode of passion. This is the mode of hankering and is directly with a confused mind. When one comes in the mode of passion, he can experience that his senses have gone to the verge of uncontrolled behavior and are running hither and thither.
The scripture Bhagwad Gita illustrates the effect of mode of passion on various activities.
Bg 14.7 — The mode of passion is born of unlimited desires and longings, O son of Kuntī, and because of this the embodied living entity is bound to material fruitive actions.
Bg 14.9 — passion conditions one to fruitive action;.
Bg 14.12 — O chief of the Bhāratas, when there is an increase in the mode of passion the symptoms of great attachment, fruitive activity, intense endeavor, and uncontrollable desire and hankering develop.
Bg 14.15 — When one dies in the mode of passion, he takes birth among those engaged in fruitive activities
Bg 14.16 — action done in the mode of passion results in misery,
Bg 14.17 — from the mode of passion, greed develops
Bg 14.18 — those in the mode of passion live on the earthly planets;
This is a brief description of a personality situated in the mode of passion. Mode of passion is predominated by the sour, salty and pungent taste and the food which is burning. Foods that are too bitter, too sour, salty, hot, pungent, dry and burning are dear to those in the mode of passion. Such foods cause distress, misery and disease. (Bhagwad Gita 17.9).
When a person is in the mode of passion, he is unable to make discrimination between what is good and what is bad. He is very much jumbled, aggressive and has got little control over his mind. Such a person becomes confused about what to do and what not to and sometimes commits Pragyaparadh, the cause of all mental miseries in the science of Ayurveda. He eats what is forbidden sometimes due to the urge of his tongue and what is not good for his health, he sometimes omits the same. He knows what the seasonal regime is and what is to be taken and what is not to be taken, but sometimes follows and sometimes not. Since his senses are illuminated by confusion, he has a disturbed mindset and hence, is prone to mental illness.
He comes to the stage of delirium tremens and hence, may have to suffer the result of the same.
The Lady with the Lamp- Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale belonged to the elite social circle of the British family. Being a daughter of the wealthy landowner who had inherited two estates, Florence avoid being the center of attention whenever possible. Florence was raised on the family estate at Lea Hurst, where her father provided her with a classical education, including studies in German, French and Italian.
From a very young age, Florence Nightingale was active in philanthropy, ministering to the ill and poor people in the village neighboring her family’s estate. By the time she was 16 years old, it was clear to her that nursing was her calling. She believed it to be her divine purpose. When Nightingale approached her parents and told them about her ambitions to become a nurse, they were not pleased. In fact, her parents forbade her to pursue nursing. She even denied her marriage proposal and was adamant to pursue her passion. In 1844, Nightingale enrolled as a nursing student at the Lutheran Hospital of Pastor Fliedner in Germany.
In October 1853, when the Crimean war broke out and thousands of British soldiers were in a pathetic condition, Nightingale rose for help. She assembled a team of 34 nurses from a variety of religious orders, and sailed with them to the Crimea. Soldiers were lying on the bloodstained floors because there were not enough beds. There was a shortage of everything including bandages, medicine, blankets, even soap and the wards were rat-infested—there was filth everywhere.
Once again Florence Nightingale could make good use of her administrative talents. Together with her team she set to work. Her nurses scrubbed the wards, corridors and lavatories. She reorganized the kitchens and set up a laundry. For months she worked up to twenty hours a day, ending each day by visiting the wounded soldiers, carrying a lamp in her hand. She achieved something very close to a miracle. Within six months the death rate among her patients had fallen from 420 in every thousand to only 22.
Florence was highly dedicated to her service and considered the soldiers as her own family. At night she would often visit the soldiers while every one was asleep just to make sure they were okay and dint need any thing. Therefore she was referred as “The Lady with the Lamp” who was dedicated towards her job and hardly took time off to sleep.
Florence Nightingale became one of the most admired and respected women of her time. Queen Victoria offered her a reward for the work she had done. Instead Florence Nightingale asked people to give money to set up schools to train nurses. In 1908, at the age of 88, she was conferred the merit of honor by King Edward.
The ‘Lady with the lamp’ –Florence Nightingale surrendered her life for the service of others and is still broadly acknowledged and revered as the pioneer of modern nursing.
What does your Line of Heart symbolise?
The Line of heart is unique in the study of hand as it plays an important role in the love, drama and emotions. The line of heart runs across the upper portion of the hand at the base of the Mounts of Jupiter, Saturn, and Sun, and Mercury.
- The line of heart should be deep, clear and well coloured and it may rise from three important positions- Middle of the Mount of Jupiter, between first and second fingers, and from the centre of Mount of Saturn.
- If it rises from centre of Jupiter, it depicts the highest type of love. Men with such formations are firm, strong, and reliable in their affections, whereas females are more noble, great and famous.
- Line rising from first and second fingers gives a calm but deeper nature in matters of love. They are quitter and subdued in their passions.
- When the line rises from Saturn, the subject will have more passion in his attachments, and will never be so expressive in family life.
- When the line rises from Mount of Jupiter, it denotes excess of foregoing qualities like they get carried away by their pride and can see no faults in the people they worship.
- When the line of heart is much fretted by a crowd of little lines, it tells of inconsistency, flirtations, a series of amourettes, but no lasting affection.
- When the line of heart is bright red, it denotes great violence of passion.
- When pale and broad, the subject is blasé and indifferent.
- When low down on the hand, and close to the line of head, the heart will always interfere with the affairs of the head.
- When line of heart commences with a small fork on the Mount of Jupiter, it is an unfailing sign of a true, honest nature and enthusiasm in love.
- The line lying so low that it droops down towards the line of head is a sure sign of unhappiness in affection during the early portion of life.
- A subject with no heart line, or with very little, has not power of feeling very deep affection.
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