Answer the following multiple choice questions with explanation to your answer
1.What generates Rajasik and Tamasik tendencies?
a. Practicing Yoga
b. Overindulgence in spicy food
c. Overindulgence and excessive craving for a particular taste of food
d. Exercising daily
2.Where does an important aspect of the relationship between food and stress lie?
a. How much we eat
b. What we eat
c. How the food is taken
d. Where we eat
3.What does „induce‟ mean?
a. reduce
b. cause
c. eliminate
d. curb
4.Which of the following is a mistaken belief?
a. Smoking helps to digest the food.
b. Smoking or drinking in moderation relieves stress.
c. Pickles add flavour to the food.
d. Condiments help to enhance appetite.
Answers
Answer:
Explanation:
Traditionally, Yoga was not intended for the imbalanced or sick individual but for the normal person interested in, and capable of, pursuing what Abraham Maslow called B-values. Yoga is not physical or psychological therapy—even though it contains a therapeutic element—but a tradition of psycho-spiritual growth leading to inner peace and freedom. Today, however, in Western countries, Yoga is almost universally pursued as a discipline for fitness and health and has proven to be highly effective as such. While Yoga’s comprehensive methodology includes many techniques that serve the popular goals of enhancing or restoring fitness and health, its real potency lies in the domain of psychospiritual maturation, notably at the higher levels of self-transcendence and self-transformation through profound meditation. As a psychospiritual discipline, which also involves a therapeutic component, Yoga can offer an unusually comprehensive and practical perspective on this acute problem in medical care. The yogic perspective is inclusive of the moral and spiritual aspects of human life but also of the practical issues of pain, suffering, illness, and death. To begin with, Yoga philosophy acknowledges the stark reality that life itself is terminal (anitya). Whatever our state of health may be, we all are destined to die within a rather limited frame of time: eighty, a hundred, or perhaps, at some point in the future, two hundred years. For most of us, life will always be too short. Yoga acknowledges another undeniable fact: that life is filled with suffering (duhkha)—an insight with which other spiritual traditions fully concur. See, for instance, the Biblical wisdom of John 16:33: “In this life you will have trouble.” Even if we were to never experience sickness or bodily injury, we would still be exposed to all kinds of experiences that would cause us distress (i.e., suffering), notably interpersonal difficulties, sickness and injury of family members and friends, and not least loss of a loved one. The question is whether there is ever a moment when suffering becomes so overwhelming that we are justified in taking our own or someone else’s life in order to end suffering. First of all, we need to appreciate that Yoga makes a distinction between pain (pîthâ) and suffering (duhkha). The former is a physical reaction, the latter a psychological response. Yogins have clearly demonstrated that they can experience pain without adding to it the subjective element of suffering. A good example is Sri Ramana Maharishi (1879-1950), an enlightened master who awoke at the age of sixteen. Toward the end of his life as a sage, Ramana suffered from rheumatism in his legs, back, and shoulders and then also was diagnosed with a sarcoma near his left elbow. First he refused to be operated on, preferring to allow Nature to take its course. At the urgent pleading of his disciples, however, he finally succumbed to several operations, which all proved useless, and, if anything, merely exacerbated his physical pain. All the while, however, Ramana remained in a state of great calmness, which was palpable to the numerous visitors who day after day came to his hermitage to sit in his presence. When asked about his pain, he observed: “They take this body for Bhagavan and attribute suffering to him. What a pity!” To another devotee he said: “Where is pain if there is no mind?” Ramana died with utmost dignity in front of numerous devotees. Just before he passed away, a group started to chant, and Ramana opened his eyes. “He gave a brief smile of indescribable tenderness,” wrote Osborne. “From the outer edges of his eyes tears of bliss rolled down. One more deep breath, and no more.
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Answer the following multiple choice questions with explanation to your answer
1.What generates Rajasik and Tamasik tendencies?
a. Practicing Yoga
b. Overindulgence in spicy food
c. Overindulgence and excessive craving for a particular taste of food
d. Exercising daily
2.Where does an important aspect of the relationship between food and stress lie?
a. How much we eat
b. What we eat
c. How the food is taken
d. Where we eat
3.What does „induce‟ mean?
a. reduce
b. cause
c. eliminate
d. curb
4.Which of the following is a mistaken belief?
a. Smoking helps to digest the food.
b. Smoking or drinking in moderation relieves stress.
c. Pickles add flavour to the food.
d. Condiments help to enhance appetite.