Dr. Anil Kumar Agarwal

Landlord: When will you give me the rent of five months?

Writer: The moment I get my cheque from the publisher I will give you the cheque.

Landlord: But when you will get the cheque.

The writer: The moment I get a good topic I will write down a book. The book will be sent to a publisher. The moment he accepts my book he will send me a cheque of royalty.

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A servant said, ‘Madam I have got a new better job than yours with handsome salary in a mental hospital.

The lady employer said, ‘But from where you got experience of working in a mental hospital.’

The servant replied smiling, ‘I told them your address and they immediately offered me the job.’

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A man went in to a store and said shrieking, ‘Do you have biscuits for dogs?’

The shopkeeper replied, ‘Yes sir! Do you want to eat them here or to pack them?’

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After examining a patient, a doctor said, ‘You have some chronic illness that is ruining  both your health and mental peace.’

The patient said in low volume, ‘For God’s sake, doctor, please speak in low tone. My disease is sitting out side your chamber.’

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Doctor said to Shyam, ‘Keep this thermometer below the tongue of your wife for half a minute and tell her not to open her mouth till then.’

Shyam replied, ‘Doctor! Please give me such thermometer that is kept at least eight hours in the mouth, in place of this one.’

Shivaji was a known Hindu king during Mughal period. His teacher’s name was Samarth Guru Ram Das. Guruji loved him a lot, and he too. Guruji had a lot of respect in Maratha Durbar. One day, Guruji reached at Satara along with his disciples. The moment Shivaji got this information he went running barefoot to see Guruji. He bowed down his head full heartedly at the feet of Guruji and requested him to come to his palace. Guruji said he came to collect ‘Bhiksha’ so he wouldn’t stay there.

Shivaji said, ‘Wait! You wait for some time I will arrange Bhiksha for you.’

After some time, Shivaji came back and there was a piece of paper in his hand. He put that paper in to the Bhiksha pot. Guruji read that piece of paper before his disciples and startled. It was written, ‘I hand over my kingdom to Guruji.’

Guruji said amazedly, ‘What did you do?’

Shivaji didn’t reply it. He took the Bhiksha pot and went door to door for collecting Bhiksha. After that he cooked the food and served to Guruji along his disciples.

Guruji was very happy to see his devotion towards him. He put his hand on the head of Shivaji and said, ‘Shiva! You are a lucky chap. I am a sadhu so I don’t require your kingdom. What will I do with this kingdom? You look after it and serve the public. God may fulfill your all the desires.’ After saying that, Guruji went on his way.

Aurum Metallicum is a homeopathic medicine prepared from gold which is a precious metal due to its qualities in the worldly affairs as well as in scientific world too. It acts deep in to the tissues even up to bones and heart. The most characteristic feature of it is that it causes perversion on to the emotional level. Perverted habit means that it is not considered natural in the existing society where in the man is born and brought up. In the beginning the patient becomes sad and loses interest in his work, after sometime sits in a corner do brooding and hatches new grievances. Slowly and gradually he becomes irritated and least contradiction is intolerable to him but doesn’t show them frequently. At the end it reaches up to the level of thinking to commit suicide that is the height of the perverted thoughts. He gets such conditions after the effect of some shock, being disappointed in love, bad news or grief etc. He is constantly dwelling on committing suicide. Naja and Nux Vomica also have these symptoms but in Nux Vomica he is afraid to die. Aurum always has a desire to die. Such conditions come after the abuse of mercury also in the cases of syphilis. The patient may have after effects of mercury poisoning. He has a great desire to do work hurriedly, both physically and mentally, but he can’t do things fast enough.

Old people become flabby, have weak vision and are tired of life. But children become emaciated, low spirited, weak memories and their boyishness has gone. The testes are undeveloped or not descended into the scrotum.

The patient is oversensitive to every thing: can’t tolerate least contradiction, he is sensitive to pain, to smell, to taste, to touch and to hearing etc.

Due to the mercurial and syphilitic affections the patient becomes bald, and only falling of hair is also present in some cases.

It has marked action on eyes; the patient can see only the lower half that is called hemiopia.

It has deep action on the bones and causes caries of the bones. Pain in bones which is aggravated at night as occurs in syphilitic affections.

Fatty degeneration of heart. There is congestion of blood in heart and liver.

There is wandering pain that is rheumatic in character. There is a lot left that can be written on it. This is a snap shot of it. It can help in treating heart affections, liver trouble, indurated glands, and suicidal tendency in cases of depression.

A remedy of ‘Fissures in thought’

Divya and Ashish were working in the same office. They were fast friends since childhood but now for a long time their thoughts were contradictory. One day Divya said to Ashish, ‘I got a good idea to strengthen our friendship that is becoming weak day by day.’  Ashish replied, surprisingly, ‘OK! Tell me soon what that idea is?’

Divya said, ‘See! Today, after reaching home we will make a list in which we write all those things that one doesn’t like but the other has it. Tomorrow, in lunch break, we will read it out. In this way we may rectify ourselves so that in future our relations will not be strained.

Ashish nodded his head in acceptance.

Next day in lunch break…. Divya came near him with a list of two pages. He sat beside Ashish and started reading that list fast. After finishing the list he raised his head, took a long breath and saw at him. There were tears in Ashish’s eyes. Seeing him Divya was amazed and asked what had happened to him and why he was weeping. It was the decision of both to correct our lacking. OK. Then he asked him about his habits which he didn’t like.

Ashish said, taking a long breath, ‘Divya, you are my best friend so that I like you as you are. I am overwhelmed with your friendship. Therefore I don’t see anything wrong in you. I don’t have any word to write against you so that my paper is plain.’

Now, it was the turn of Divya to weep. The flow of water from his eyes was so intense that his both pieces of paper were merged with tears and every word written on them disappeared. His facial expression was narrating many things themselves clearly, ‘Ashish, please forgive me. Today I understood the meaning of friendship.’ Ashish embraced him tightly. It was the day when the gap between them was filled.

The story of these two friends is really emotional and touchy. It gives us a message that has deep meaning. The gap between relations or in friendship comes when we become judge for each other. Instead of keeping love, affection and respect we start searching out others weaknesses. It is quite evident; where there is criticism there will be strained relations. Therefore we should emphasize more on love in relations than any other thing. If we see our friendship through spectacles of love we will be unable to see the weaknesses of our loved ones. If we find in him any negative quality and tell him politely at the appropriate time, he will not feel bad but relations would be better and deep. Friendship is an incredible thing in the world so that it should not be wasted in petty pebble like talk. I read it in a magazine named ‘Akhand Gyan’ and liked it so that I wrote down it at my blog.

I am a poor farmer of Jodhpur and have no personal field to earn my livelihood. I labor in the field of others to survive. Last year, I got an invitation to celebrate Holi festival at Guruji’s house. I requested my employer to grant me leave to go to Guruji’ house for celebrating Holi but my boss refused me to grant a leave even for a single day.  So even on the day of Holi I went to the field for doing work along with my lunch box. My heart was weeping invisibly and I was cursing my fractured luck. I was telling my Guruji, in thoughts, ‘Sir! My fortune is not as good as it should be… I am one of the unluckiest people in the universe… Otherwise I would also have been wet in different colours of Holi….’  I remembered my tears were not being stopped from the eyes… All of a sudden I started feeling something cold inside my body that began from forehead and then went to throat… then to chest… and after that in every part of the body. I couldn’t understand the reason of this feeling though the sun was shining brightly but my body was feeling a special type of coldness.

After finishing some work I stopped plowing the field and went at a lonely place. I startled suddenly and started thinking why I came here walking. At that time I felt something inside my head as if my head is drawn to sky. I raised my eyes at the sky and saw a white ball that was moving round. It had bright light and at that time shower of cold water from it began to drizzle at me. My head and clothes got wet. I felt such coldness in the body as if silver water were pouring on my body. I was wet from head to toe. With this experience I came back near my friends. Then a friend of mine said, ‘my dear where are you coming from? Did you plunge into the well?’  I said to him, ‘I can’t explain it but I think my Guruji had played Holi with me and he had wet me with the water.’

This is somewhat a religious story that is experienced by one of the devotees of the Guruji. I am unable explain it and I read it in a magazine named ‘Akhand Gyan’.

A rich man went to see St. Kabir. He sat near him in his hut and said with folded hands, ‘I have made a lot of property and money with my hard work but my only son is wasting my wealth extravagantly. If he squanders my treasure at the same pace what will he do in future? I am always concerned to think about his potential.’

The saint asked him if his father also collected that much means for him. The rich man said, ‘No! My father was a poor man and I hardly got meal twice a day in my childhood.’

Kabir replied, ‘Your father was poor, even then you have been rich and collected that much capital with your wisdom and hard work. You concentrated your energy to earn worldly goods. My dear brother, prosperity is not a stable thing. If you had spent some time to make your son a cultured and kind person you would not have needed to worry from your son’s side. You learnt the art of earning prosperity but forgot to learn how to cultivate a child. If you had taught him what was good and bad he would have not been spellbound in awful society. This is the prime contractual obligation of a father to make his son capable to sit in the first row in the society. Rest of the things he can accomplish with his ability.’

The rich had been enlightened with the words of Kabir and decided to make his son a good man.

Ignatia is a hysterical remedy as it is known. But it can’t cure a patient who is born hysterical. Hysteria is more prevalent in women so that it is called a woman remedy. It doesn’t mean it has no action on men. A patient who manifests Ignatia like symptoms can be relieved by it. Ignatia is a nervous, hysterical, delicate, and moody lady. It can be aggravated from grief, disappointed love, and loss of a loved one or near one. Such type of shocks may drive him to go in to hysteria. The patient may manifest the hysterical symptoms which are queer and strange in nature e.g. the patient may feel there is a complete paralysis of one hand or a leg that is not caused by cerebral hemorrhage. But after a day or many hours the paralyzed part becomes perfectly all right. The patient doesn’t want to meet any one and sit alone in a corner of the room. She sobs and sighs. She is taciturn too.

There are so many alternating symptoms present. One moment she laughs spasmodically and controllably but soon she starts crying. One time she meets everyone joyously and the next moment she may be violent. She may have vivid imaginations like Hyocyamus but without fever though delirium occurs generally in fever. She will talk unrequitedly. She may be overexcited, sensitive and overwrought due to overstrain of work even like music, art etc. She may start to love with a married man but is unable to control herself in overwrought condition. She says Mom I know this is not good but is unable to get rid of these thoughts.

The medicine is full of paradoxes. You see a patient who has a pain in knee with lot of swelling, redness and heat. The patient says you may examine it by pressing but to your utter surprise, he doesn’t feel pain rather feels better by lying on it or pressing it hard. Every patient has thirst at the stage of heat, but in Ignatia the patient has thirst only during chill and at no other stage.

The patient has headache, he feels as if a nail is driven in head through temples but feels better either lying on it or by pressing hard on it. This is a strange symptom.

It is a chilly remedy but its stomach disorder is better by taking cold food. He can’t tolerate soft meal like milk and toast but raw onion and cabbage which are hard to digest, agree to his stomach. He is better in warm room and by wrapping up.

Cough generally comes when there is irritation in larynx or in throat. That irritation is relieved by coughing. But in Ignatia the more he coughs the more he desires to cough even sometimes he may go in spasm.

Today was the first day of my college. I got up even earlier than usual. Since then, I was excited. I shaved my mildly grown beard and took bath with fresh water. I took just double time in bathing from the average. I took more time even in selecting my dress to wear today as such a day comes only once in life. It can be said that I was some what under joyous as well as stressed state. I had had my breakfast hurriedly as my friend Sohan had arrived at my home to go to the college. He lives near my house. He is not my old friend though I know him casually a long back. He met me in the college on the day when I went there to deposit the college fees. He also came there to do the same job. He also got the admission in the same subject which I chose. Since then, he has been my friend.

We took the metro train to go to the college and dropped at university station of the metro. We walked to the college though metro bus was standing ready to go near the college. There were crowd of students going to their respective colleges. Some food stalls were also opened. Some students were standing there and enjoying snacks. We had no tension of ragging in the mind but we were excited to see our seniors. We know very well that ragging is banned nowadays and college authority takes strict action if any student is caught teasing others.

A group of seniors was standing on the main gate of the college. They welcomed us with smile. Some police men were also standing to control any unpleasant situation. Along with security they were counseling the fresher’s. The effect of anti-ragging was clearly seen in the campus.

We entered in to the college and went near the notice board to see the notice that might be concerned with us. After that we went into our class room but it was empty as no student and teacher was there. We came out of the class room and took  round of the college. It was our first day when we ever saw any college. Then we went to the canteen where many students were sitting on the chairs and some of them were standing in different groups. We sat at the table in the one corner of the canteen. I called a canteen boy and ordered him to bring two cups of tea with two samosas. Within five minutes he served us both the things. We had the tea and samosa. Tea was certainly good but samosa was not very delicious. I paid him the bill and came out of the canteen. We spent another one hour in the college and went back home happily.

Every word has many meanings, some synonym and antonyms in English. How a writer uses it is also valuable. When a well known personality uses any word in a special context it has also been its meaning. As you have revealed that ‘committed’ as a word was used negatively during emergency viz. Committed press, and committed judiciary etc. It is true that ‘committed’ is an adjective and generally used positively.

Every one has his commitment to his country and his organization to which he is attached. When he changes his commitment because of fear or otherwise, he is called committed negatively. During emergency, some people and organizations were committed to the ruler instead of their country even though they were called committed but negatively.

One more interesting thing I want to share with others that ‘committed’ is derived from the word commit which is used as a verb. This verb itself is used negatively e.g. (1) He committed a crime. (2) He committed suicide etc. Timid people are more prone to change their commitments.

I feel I am timid but my friends don’t notice it as I show more courage in front of them and handle every situation successfully even when they dare not to cop up with it. Sometimes I think I am not timid but careful. I learnt driving bicycle cautiously even scooter. Since then, I have been driving every type of vehicle without any trouble. Occasionally my children told me to drive fast even though I drove sensibly. People praise my driving even I also love it but I am afraid of my wife’s driving. I read it in newspaper that every third person is scared of the driving of his wife. It is revealed from the survey that some husbands press their feet against the floor of the car when their wives press the brakes. They do it under reflex action as they don’t rely on their driving. One out of ten husbands forces her to drive carefully, even some of them argue on their style of driving. According to online market research site, ‘one pole dot com’, husbands think that men are better deriver than women. They also think that they drive better than their wives and can understand easily the road situation so that they can take decision quickly. Men complain that women easily get anxious when they see other vehicle or any child in front of their motor. The survey revealed ten problems in women’s driving. These are as follows.

1)Lack of concentration.

2)Delay in using the brakes.

3)Increase the race with jerk.

4)Don’t keep proper gap from the vehicle ahead of her.

5)Use brake improperly.

6)Keep concentration more on music.

7)Don’t use indicator regularly.

8)Drive fast.

9)Generally drive in middle lane.

10)                 Generally get attracted with useless noise.

These points were noted by the above said organization and published in ST newspaper. I don’t agree with them though my observation is also more or less the similar. But I know my observation may be wrong.