What of BMI
By JIRARA
© JIRARA, September 2020
Published by JIRARA, on matrubharti.com
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What of BMI
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BMI has two very interesting connotations: The word can be considered as abbreviation/s of: i) Body mass index, iBMI and ii) Body-Mind-Intellect, iiBMI.
i) iBMI: The body mass index is defined as the ratio of the weight of a person in Kg., and the square of the height (ht) of the person in meters, which is equal to: weight/(htxht).
As per the chart of iBMI: if it is below 18.5, then the person is underweight; for between 18.5 and 25, the person is normal; if it is between 25 and 30, the person is overweight; and if it is above 30, the person is obese.
Presently in USA, nearly 40% of the adults are obese, and 19% children (age 2 to 19 years) are obese.
If your weight is 67.5 Kg., and the height is 5 feet (60 inches, nearly 150 cms., and hence 1.5 meter), then your iBMI is nearly 30, which is on the border and can slip into obesity band, if you are not careful.
Major possible effects of the high iBMI/obesity are: a) high blood pressure (BP), i.e. hypertension; b) high level of triglycerides (Dyslipidemia) related to cholesterols; c) type 2 diabetes, needing insulin tablets; d) coronary heart disease; e) stroke (which can cause paralysis of limbs); f) osteoarthritis; g) sleep apnea and breathing problems; h) low quality life; and i) mental anxiety. These problems could occur otherwise also, but with the obesity the risk is higher; the possibility is sooner than later.
In most cases the agility of the person decreases with increase of his/her iBMI, because so much weight has to be carried/pushed forward while doing work.
In order to control BMI, one needs to do regular (almost daily) walking, exercises-movements of all the limbs, and the person’s diet management. This regulation of iBMI is of very significance to the success of iiBMI for us, the humans.
ii) iiBMI: Body-Mind-Intellect; signifies that a human being is primarily composed of body, his mind and his intellect. Here, the same body as discussed in the context of Body-Mass-Index, iBMI is carried forward; and it means that the same body houses the physical brain wherein the thinking process is continuously/continually going on. This also signifies the fact that if the iBMI is very high, then a person may face even mental/psychological problems, and s/he might not be able to achieve her/his goals with the help of even iiBMI.
The physical brain (in the humans) has the biological neural network (BNN-a computational intelligence, a kind of soft machine/software/collections of algorithms/pogramms) which is always active and it has billions of synapses wherein the information is stored. This BNN is the most and only one crucial thinking machine, and consists of billions of neuronal elements/cells and these are connected in a parallel manner. This then signifies that the body, mind and intellect, iiBMI are very effectively connected in some complex manner, and these together, as iiBMI run/govern/monitor our daily routines and activities. So, the health of one i) BMI is closely related to the correct functioning of the other ii) BMI.
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Now we go further into the significance of the second B-M-I (iiBMI) and assign some attributes to each of its components: Body-as a perceiver; Mind-as feeler; and Intellect as thinker.
The perceiver sees the objects in the world outside; the feeler feels the emotions; and the Intellect ‘thinks’ the thoughts.
Thus we have: B-P-O; M-F-E; and I-T-T. The body perceives the objects as a perceiver; the mind feels the emotions as a feeler; and the intellect thinks thoughts as a thinker.
Thus, in addition to human-BMI, we have human-PFT, as the perceiver, feeler and thinker; and in the external world we have the OET: objects, emotions, and thoughts; most of these latter aspects occur in the outer world. However, in our minds/brains the observed/felt/thought out effects keep lingering on for long time. Thus OET-personality is such that, as if, it is lying half way on the path of the door of our human-home, the ‘soul’.
We carry lots of images of the observed/seen objects in our memories. We also carry and store lots of effects in our memory (BNN synapses) of the emotions that we have had gathered as interactions with the people around us, including our own people/relatives. These often create lot of agony if the events wherefrom we had/have gathered these emotions/sentiments were not pleasant at all. That is why we must also develop the ability to ‘forget’ many such things. I think we should learn some lessons from the memories of such gory past events and forget those events all together; because if we don’t forget these then our life would be miserable.
We cannot avoid dealing with this OET, we have to take cognizance of its presence in our lives, and regulate our interactions with it in order to achieve our goals. This requires lot of training, and planning, by the PFT, and thought experiments by BMI; here meditation, yoga-exercises (not necessarily gyms, though they would help to some extent), and keeping lofty goals and thoughts/ideal in our lives would certainly help.
The entire game/leela/act/drama/play of human life can be explained by iiBMI after adding two more important aspects: a) human desire, and b) human consciousness. Now onwards we will refer this as BMI.
We have desires that naturally spring up from our own self. We are also conscious of our own selves and our environs; of course the degree of being conscious varies from person to person, and circumstances to situations. In fact the (pure) consciousness is the same in all the humans, and there is no degree assignable. So, we can term the practical consciousness as ‘awareness’, and we know that more and more aware we are of certain aspects and procedures (of doing something), more and more happy we will be to deal with the situations, and we will be very comfortable, and less excited. So, the awareness is one key aspect in our life, and we can time being say that the infinite awareness reaches to the ‘pure’ universal consciousness. However, our desires become a stumbling block/obstruction in the path in reaching out to the infinite bliss.
So, the experience of BMI-PFT-OET influenced by the desires is the kind of composition that can be considered as a ‘jiva’, the one-self, the ‘soul’ for all the practical purposes. If the desires are in full control or even not there, that is if we have redeemed ourselves of these binding desires, then we are a free ‘soul’, and we are then only the pure consciousness. So, in our life we have to make at times heroic efforts to get rid of or win over these desires. Of course, there are basic tendencies, and life giving or life sustaining requirements and needs that have to be fulfilled. But, extravaganza desires need to be controlled/thoroughly regulated at all the times.
So, the BMI-PFT-OET individual without worldly desires is a soul beyond ‘soul’. Such as an individual is a true saint, seer, guru, an enlightened soul; even though s/he lives in the same world, s/he is not touched by the world; s/he gives, and does not take. Normal individuals take more than they give, at all if they give anything!
The lay persons, the normal individuals like us can also live with nearly perfect BMI-PFT, and though they will not be sanyasis, and might not be called or recognized as saints, and seers; they also are the souls beyond ‘souls’, but they cannot be easily recognized because they do not wear special dresses/garments worn by the so called seers. They live simple life without pomp and show; some examples are: the late Shree Ravishankar Maharaj (in Gujarat), who daringly persuaded the outlaws (dacoits) to come to main stream of the society; and Poojya Vinoba Bhave, who started the ‘bhudaan’ movement (Bhumidaan, give away the bhumi-land to the needy people); these people dedicated their lives for the cause of their societies and spread of virtue of humanity. Often, these people go unsung and unnoticed/unheard of by the large classes of people. According to me these and such several heroes (Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Mother Teresa,…) of our societies are nearly the perfect souls beyond the normal ‘souls’. They have redeemed themselves from the shackles of the personal desires.
In our lives, we all should have a goal to try to become a soul beyond a normal ‘soul’; we may not be able to reach there, but our idiology should be to reach there.
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