Mimicking animals stretching.

Surya namaskar. Sun salutation.

Captain Ajit Vadakayil penned a yoga stretching in alignment with the rising of the sun. It is called surya namaskar which means sun salutation.

I have watched a Russian channel, this was run by Kurney, a man with a smooth fatherly voice, he also know the sun salutation and he tells a little bit of history on the gods and demons of Pakistan and India. He said it was interesting to note that these two countries are not only separated by borders but also religious views. The gods in Pakistan are the demons in India while in India, the gods (devi) are the demons (asura) and the demons are gods. Funny thing right? It seems that Pakistan and India are once a whole but it was divided in a joke mirror.

He narrates that the yoga is an act of sacrifice to the god Shiva, god of destruction. Shiva is depicted as a blue skinned young man, sporting with a long man bun, holding a triton spear that was tied with two drums, who wears a tiger skin and sits in lotus position in a carcass of a bear, is one of the triad of major gods, joining him are, Bramah, the creator god, he was depicted as an old white bearded man with four heads symbolizing an all-knowing god looking at the four cardinal directions, he also sits in lotus position and have multiple arms also, and lord  Vishnu, God of the universe.

So Kurney said he was doing the sun salutation for quite some time. Initially it felt good but after some time he feels the opposite of the desired benefit. He feels drained, not good. And so he tells there was this actress who despite of age, looks young and having an energy of a youth. She must have mimic the behaviour of animals. Kurney then presented pictures of cats, bears, dogs, that was stretching, in reference per position of the yoga.

Eventually, Kurney modify some of the positions and he said after he have changed that he felt much better.

So what are my thoughts on mimicking animals in leading my life. If it's for the better, then why not? But there are things animals do that seems stupid. Should I give examples? Dogs eating cat poop, dogs mating. So what's wrong there? Dogs eat because they're hungry, they x c.f. no sense of pride, dignity, love, etc. animals in general are pulled by the strings of their stomach and genitals. That's it. To survive and to populate. Such is nature. It must bear fruit. It was designed that way.  Okay I agree. So what's separate man from animals? The ability to think. Thoughts are what makes the world changing. Change. Nothing good or bad. Just change.

I would like to add what I learned from Dr. Jordan Peterson. It's a story about the zebra stripes. Unlike the lion with brown fur which perfectly adapts to the arid environment, the zebra has black and white stripes which stand out in a brownish environment. Now there are scientist that was there observing and also finding out the reason why this was so. And as they are writing on paper, then they look at the particular zebra, then write again on the paper, they couldn't distinguish the zebra from the herd and so they place an ear tag to the subjects but what's end up was that the zebra that was tagged are the ones killed by lions. So the scientist concluded that the zebra stripes act as an optical illusion to mask the size, strength, position of the zebra therefore more difficult to focus on a single target bewildering the predators and if it true that lions see in black and white, then, that was a perfectly designed feeding system I tell ya.