Just wanted to share my friend Jennifer's beautiful artwork of the deity Lord Rama that brought some sunshine to my mailbox last week (where lots of lovely things have been arriving lately, all of which I'm very grateful for and humbled by!)
Rama was the red avatar that appeared at the end of the Treta Yuga (the Silver Age) to establish fire sacrifice as the process for self-realization. In Hinduism he is connected to the sun and interestingly enough the ancient Egyptians also termed the sun as "Amon Ra" (or simply as "Ra") and in Latin the syllable Ra is used to connote light. Rama was considered the "ideal man" or ideal human, and his life and journey was one of perfect adherence to dharma despite the incredible challenges he faced.
Speaking of the sun, a recently released study of the Vitamin D our bodies naturally absorb from sunlight consistently found strong inverse correlations with solar UVB for 15 types of cancer including bladder, breast, cervical, colon, endometrial, esophageal, gastric, lung, ovarian, pancreatic, rectal, renal, and vulvar cancer; and Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. They also found weaker evidence for nine other types of cancer.
So when the sun is shining, make sure you get your daily share of it!
Here's to friends, well-wishes in the mailbox and the slowly returning light.
7 comments:
Thinking of you out there where we are having our fair share (and more) of sunshine here. It feels so good to be able to go out in the sun and work during the day when it is February, but somehow kind of wrong, too. Sending some you way, along with lots of love and light (from me AND the sun!)
My beloved sister-in-law, Sarah has been "Ra" ever since my brother came back from a NOLS semester in Kenya. Ra means light in Masaai, too.
It's a small world.
I really love Jennifer's work. Today, the sun in my sun window is actually HOT!!!
And I do feel more light at the end of the day already. just 2 1/2 more months till April.
Hello! I thought you might like this
http://harikaszaza.blogspot.com/2012/01/thank-you-kathmandu-post.html
We're having good, soaking rain!
Thanks for this information. The artwork is lovely and I agree about the vitamin D. I think that's why I have been sick with a respitory infection for 8 weeks. Now I sit in the sunny kitchen every morning for at least 30 minutes.
Ummm that would be "respiratory" infection.
Wonder art, good news about the sun, and words of Ra.
Thank you.
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