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Know few things before you let energy in: How to cleanse negativity & reset what drains you

We’re not just cleansing energy—we’re reclaiming our power. This sacred guide teaches you how to protect your spirit, clear toxic residues, and run a full energy audit to stop the silent soul leaks. Through ancient rituals, questions that sting, and sacred tools, learn to guard your aura like the temple it is—because your energy is holy.

First Published on - 01/07/2007 20:10

If you are here, something in you has grown tired.

Tired of being the one who always smiles.
Tired of carrying moods that aren’t yours.
Tired of spiritual tips that feel hollow…
…and most of all—tired of trying to protect your peace in a world addicted to chaos.

So I’m not going to overwhelm you with advice.

I’m going to sit with you, in the ruins and the rising.
I’m going to tell you the things you already knew—but forgot when life got loud.
And I’m going to remind you, gently but firmly:

Your energy is not a public resource.
Your joy is not a negotiation.
Your sacredness is not up for compromise.

Here, we do things differently.

We don't dive—we remember.
We don't fix—we release.
We don't strive—we soften.

So before you scroll any further, place your hand on your chest.
Inhale. Exhale.

And whisper to your weary heart:

“You’re allowed to let go now.”

You don’t have to be everything for everyone.
You don’t have to carry invisible wars on your back.
This time, you don’t have to pretend you're okay.
You just have to be here.

Together, let’s unlearn depletion.
Let’s reclaim the sacred.
Let’s do this not for content—but for your soul.

Welcome home.

Know Few Things Before You Let Energy In: How to Protect Yourself, Cleanse absorbed negativity & reset What drains you
Photo by Ali Pazani

🌟How to spiritually protect yourself from negative people


What Are the Signs Your Aura Is Being Drained by Negative People?

I want to share a story. A friend once told me, “I feel fine all day—but the moment I speak to this one person, I feel like I’ve been emotionally mugged.” If you’ve felt the same, you’re not alone. It’s one of the most common signs of an aura being drained. And sometimes, it’s so subtle you don’t even realise what’s happening until you're too tired to think.

Let’s call it what it is—energetic theft. Not out of malice always, but often from people who haven’t learned to process their own shadows.

Here’s how to know-few-things are off with your energy:

  • Sudden exhaustion: You walk into a room full of people, and after 10 minutes, your shoulders droop. You're not physically tired, but your soul feels like it’s just run a marathon.

  • Emotional whiplash: You were in a good mood, then someone vented for 15 minutes, and now you feel angry or anxious without reason.

  • Mental fog: You can’t think clearly after interacting with someone. Thoughts become cluttered, and decisions feel harder to make.

  • Physical signs: Tight jaw, racing heart, nausea, or back-of-the-neck tension—especially around gossipers or hyper-critical folks.

But here’s the kicker—some of these people are close to us. Family, colleagues, friends. And confronting them is hard. That’s why protection is not optional—it’s essential.

I often tell my clients, “It’s not about cutting people off. It’s about not letting them cut into your soul.”

🌀 Action tip: After every emotionally intense interaction, take a pause. Ask yourself, “Is this mine, or did I pick this up from someone else?” You’ll be surprised how often the answer is the latter.

📖 Also, visit: How to Remove Negative Energy Blocks for deeper tools to cleanse lingering emotional debris.


Can you really visualise protection using white light?

Yes. And it’s not just woo-woo. It’s ancient, it’s sacred, and it’s science-backed when you understand quantum fields and visualisation psychology.

Imagine this. Close your eyes. Visualise a gentle, radiant bubble of white light wrapping around your entire body. This isn’t just imagination. Your brain starts sending real signals of safety and regulation to your nervous system. You are, quite literally, resetting your energy field.

🧠 Why does this work?

  • White light is symbolically the frequency of purity and higher consciousness.

  • When we visualise, we send bio-electrical impulses throughout the body, telling it how to feel.

  • Your energy field responds to intention. It’s like placing an energetic filter between you and the world.

🌿 How to create your bubble daily:

  1. Sit quietly for 2 minutes after waking up.

  2. Take 3 slow, deep breaths.

  3. Imagine a warm white light descending from above, forming a cocoon around you.

  4. Say softly: “This is my space. I choose who enters it.”

  5. See this bubble gently expanding as you go about your day.

Advanced Tip: Add colour. If you feel anxious—add soft pink to your bubble (calm). If you’re around manipulative energy—use gold (sovereignty). If you’re heartbroken—try green (healing).

As a spiritual guide, I remind every seeker: this simple visualisation has saved many empaths from burnout and breakdown.

It’s not about being guarded—it’s about being guided by your own divine authority.


Which tools truly work—Do Black Tourmaline or Camphor Cubes Really Help?

Ah, now we speak of earth’s protectors. Tools that don’t just absorb energy—they transmute it.

Let’s start with Black Tourmaline—the ultimate grounding stone. If you’re the kind who feels drained after office meetings, metro rides, or family dinners—keep this stone on you. It acts like an energy vacuum, pulling out toxic residues without you needing to “do” anything.

🔹 How to use Black Tourmaline:

  • Keep one in your left pocket (receiving side).

  • Place a piece under your pillow at night.

  • Leave a chunk at your entrance to trap energy before it even enters.

Now, about Camphor—a Vastu and Ayurvedic favourite. In spiritual spaces, it’s believed to burn off negative entities and stagnant energies.

💨 Here’s a traditional yet modern Camphor Ritual:

  • Place a bowl with 2 camphor cubes near your doorway (ideally NE corner).

  • Replace every 3rd day. Discard used camphor respectfully.

  • For intense spaces (post arguments), light camphor in a fireproof dish and let the smoke cleanse your home.

Many ask, “Do these work even if I don’t believe in them?” Here’s my answer: They work better if you do—but even if you don’t, they change the air around you. Literally. Camphor alters the vibration of molecules. Tourmaline alters the frequency.

They are spiritual seatbelts in a world full of energetic potholes.


How does Lal Kitab suggest mustard Seeds Can Ward Off negativity?

Lal Kitab, the timeless Indian astrological grimoire, doesn’t play around when it comes to spiritual hacks. Its mustard seed ritual is an underrated gem for energetic self-defence.

🥄 Ritual Summary:

  • Every Tuesday morning, take a pinch of yellow mustard seeds.

  • Place them in a small cloth pouch.

  • Keep it in your pocket or handbag, especially if you’re visiting heavy-energy places.

Why Tuesday? It’s ruled by Mars—the planet of protection, action, and spiritual fire. Mustard seeds represent ignition. They ward off ‘nazar’ (evil eye) and are said to absorb envy, gossip, and toxic projections.

In folk traditions, people would even toss mustard seeds at their doorstep after guests left. Why? To shake off any negative energy left behind unintentionally.

As someone who works with both modern psychology and ancient Vedic science, I’ve found this one shockingly effective. I’ve seen people’s luck shift, energy lift, and confidence rise—all after doing this weekly.

🛡️ Pair this with Camphor and Tourmaline, and you’ve got yourself a personal spiritual fortress.


Can an Affirmation Shift Your Energy Shield?

Yes. Because words are spells. And this one is my personal favourite:

“Their energy is not mine to hold.”

This isn’t just poetic. It’s neurological reprogramming. Every time you say it, your brain gets the message: I do not have to carry what isn’t mine.

💬 How to use it effectively:

  • Whisper it to yourself after a draining interaction.

  • Write it in your journal at the end of the day.

  • Say it 3 times while placing your palm on your chest.

Pair this affirmation with breathwork:

  1. Inhale slowly for 4 seconds.

  2. Hold for 4.

  3. Exhale gently, whispering the affirmation.

🌿 It clears residual tension in your chest—the emotional sponge zone.

Remember: You are not a trash bin for other people’s unresolved chaos. You are a temple. Guard your gates.

🌿Signs you have absorbed someone else’s energy (And how to cleanse it fully)


Are sudden mood swings a sign of energy absorption?

Yes, they are. But most people never realise it. They blame themselves, label it as “moodiness,” or worse—carry shame for emotions that were never theirs to begin with.

Let me tell you about Aarti, a client I once worked with. She would wake up full of joy. Then, a 10-minute phone call with her mother-in-law, and she’d spiral—anxiety, tears, anger. She thought she was unstable. But what she was actually doing was holding someone else’s emotional weight, every day, without boundaries.

Have you ever:

  • Felt peaceful… until you were around someone sad, and then couldn’t shake the heaviness for hours?

  • Been in a great mood, but after talking to a friend who’s always in crisis, suddenly felt drained or depressed?

  • Found yourself restless, angry, or foggy after a simple social gathering?

This is not coincidence. It’s not personality. It’s energy absorption.

Especially for empaths and sensitive souls, the body becomes a sponge. The nervous system, so attuned to others, cannot tell where “they” end and “you” begin. It’s a spiritual erosion. One that happens slowly—until you're exhausted, irritable, and no longer recognise yourself.

☁️ Here are deeper signs you’ve absorbed someone else’s energy:

  • Emotional confusion that doesn’t match your circumstances.

  • Dreams that feel like other people’s memories.

  • Digestive issues after visiting certain homes or people.

  • Sudden loss of motivation or joy after interactions.

You are not “too sensitive.” You’re intuitive. But no one ever taught you to differentiate empathy from enmeshment.

🪶 So let me whisper this into your soul:

“Not everything you feel is yours. You’re allowed to return it.”


Can salt water Baths and Clove Smudging Actually Cleanse Energy?

Let’s get real—sometimes a shower doesn’t wash away what life throws at you. Because the grime isn’t on your skin—it’s in your aura.

I’ve seen it in the eyes of mothers after a long day of caretaking. In the stiff bodies of young people who carry their families' dreams and traumas. In lovers whose hearts are heavy with unsaid goodbyes.

They don’t need another productivity hack. They need ritual.

🛁 Salt Water Bath: A Homecoming
When you sit in salt water, you’re not just cleansing—you’re remembering. That you are more than the static of the day, more than the pain you’ve picked up. You’re spirit.

📜 How to do it:

  • Use Epsom salt, pink Himalayan, or even simple sea salt.

  • Add a handful into warm bath water.

  • Optional: a few cloves, drops of lavender oil, or lemon peels.

  • Soak for 15-20 minutes. Cry if you must.

  • As you drain the water, say: “I release what’s not mine. I reclaim what is.”

💨 Clove smudging: The Forgotten Flame
Clove isn’t just a kitchen spice—it’s a weapon of light. In ancient households, cloves were burnt during grief or illness, not just to clear air but to cleanse spirits.

🕯️ Clove Cleansing Ritual:

  • Take a few whole cloves and burn them on a charcoal disc or small clay dish.

  • Let the smoke drift into corners of your room, your bed, your body.

  • Say: “I clear the stuck, the sad, the silent.”

There’s something profoundly healing about smoke. It moves where we cannot go. It reaches what we dare not name.

📌 Bonus: Cleanse your kitchen too—where energies of conflict or poverty often hide. Visit Vastu Tips for Kitchens to purify your home from its energetic roots.

This is your sanctuary. Smoke it. Soak it. Speak to it. Heal it.


What is the “Return to Sender” ritual and how does it work?

This ritual isn’t revenge. It’s release. And oh, how necessary that is when your heart is full of what was never yours.

Too many of us are carrying burdens gifted by guilt. Grief that never belonged to us. Expectations etched into our souls by lovers, parents, bosses.

Here’s how the “Return to Sender” meditation works—it re-establishes boundaries energetically and ethically.

🌕 Guided ritual (Do this after salt bath or smudging):

  1. Sit in silence. Place both hands over your heart.

  2. Breathe in deeply and recall the feelings or energy that feels foreign—heaviness, sorrow, anger.

  3. Say softly:

    “With love and light, I return this energy to its source.
    It is not mine to hold.
    I honour the journey, but I release the weight.”

  4. Visualise the energy lifting off you—like mist rising off water—and drifting gently back to where it came from.

☀️ You are not punishing anyone. You’re simply remembering sovereignty.

It’s the energetic version of saying: “I will not carry what you won’t heal.”


Why walking barefoot can ground your energy daily?

This one’s for the overthinkers. The hyper-empaths. The anxious. The ones who spend all day in their heads, but forget to come home to their bodies.

Walking barefoot—on grass, on soil, on sand—is not just nature therapy. It’s Earth Medicine.

🌍 Earthing is backed by real science:

  • Walking barefoot reduces inflammation in the body.

  • It lowers cortisol (stress hormone).

  • It regulates circadian rhythm, helping you sleep better.

But more than that—it reconnects your energy to something ancient. The Earth is a living organism, pulsing with frequencies of calm, safety, and truth. When your bare feet touch her skin, she grounds your nervous system. She absorbs the chaos. She offers stillness.

🪨 Daily grounding walk practice:

  • Find a safe patch of grass or soil. Even your terrace garden will do.

  • Take off your shoes. Walk slowly for 5-10 minutes.

  • As your feet touch the ground, whisper: “I am here. I am safe. I am held.”

Notice the shift. Your breath slows. Your thoughts pause. You feel… more you.

🌿 This is your portable sanctuary. Available daily. No membership required. Just your presence, and the planet.


🕊️ That completes Part 2 (Headings 6-9) of this emotional healing journey. You are not too sensitive. You are sacred. You don’t need fixing. You need cleansing. And you don’t need a guru—you need remembrance.

Your energy is your home. Treat it like a temple.

🔋Your Energy Audit—What’s Draining You (And What’s Been waiting to empower you)?


H10: What Are Energy Leaks and How Do They Affect Your Life?

Let’s get brutally honest. We all have leaks. Unseen places where our energy quietly trickles out—until one day we wonder why we feel so… empty.

Let me describe a scene. You wake up tired. Not physically, but like your spirit hit a wall. You try to focus, but your thoughts scatter. You feel like you’re carrying invisible bags—each one filled with obligations, unsaid resentments, people-pleasing wounds, unresolved tasks.

That? That is the cost of energy leaks.

They’re not always dramatic. Often, they’re deceptively ordinary:

  • That friend who “just needs to vent” every night.

  • That WhatsApp group you’re in out of guilt.

  • The clothes in your closet from a past life you no longer live.

  • The job you’ve outgrown but can’t quit because “what will people say?”

These small, quiet compromises drain your life force.

🧃 Energy leaks are often born from:

  • Unspoken boundaries

  • Lingering decisions

  • Emotional entanglements

  • Physical clutter or blocked spaces

And they manifest as:

  • Fatigue without medical cause

  • Chronic procrastination

  • Emotional numbness

  • Feeling "off" in your own skin

This is why I teach energy audits. Not because I want to add to your to-do list—but because you deserve your power back.

✨ Energy isn’t just about motivation—it’s your soul currency. Every leak is money slipping out of your spiritual bank account.

And here’s the thing: Healing doesn’t begin with adding. It begins with subtracting.


How can You Begin a Self-Audit With These Simple questions?

Let’s not complicate this. You don’t need a guru. You need better questions.

Sit with a journal or your thoughts and ask:

  1. “What am I tolerating?”

    • That relationship?

    • That outdated commitment?

    • That mess in your cupboard?

  2. “What no longer feels aligned?”

    • Your morning routine?

    • Your social media feed?

    • The stories you still tell about yourself?

These two questions are lightning rods. They break denial. They stir clarity. And sometimes, they stir tears. Let them. Your truth is rising. Don’t silence it.

🧠 Bonus Prompts for Deeper Insight:

  • Who drains me—even subtly?

  • What have I outgrown but keep out of fear?

  • Where do I feel most alive? How often do I go there?

This isn’t about instant answers. It’s about tuning your inner compass. And once you ask these questions, patterns will start appearing everywhere—like threads pulling loose from a sweater.

🧭 Energy Audit Practice:

  • Pick one leak per week.

  • Close it: say the thing, quit the group, clean the drawer, speak your no.

Small repairs. Big returns.

And yes, even your home could be leaking energy. Doors, especially. Read Is Your Main Door Blocking Your Destiny? to fix energetic bottlenecks from your literal threshold.


What are the types of energy leaks You Must Watch For?

There’s a sacred trifecta every energy guide knows: Energetic, Emotional, Environmental. Miss one, and you’ll always feel like something’s off.

Let’s explore each deeply.


🌀 1. Energetic Leaks (The Invisible Drains)

These are your unspoken agreements. The “yes” when you meant “no.” The way your energy attaches to people you can’t stop thinking about—exes, enemies, expectations.

💔 Examples:

  • Being overly available

  • Obsessing over others’ opinions

  • Attaching your self-worth to external validation

🧩 Fix:

  • Daily cord-cutting visualisation

  • Energetic boundaries: “This is not mine”

  • Letting go rituals


💓 2. Emotional Leaks (The Wounds We Carry Silently)

These show up in the pauses. The tears that never came. The rage we swallow. The grief we perform politeness over.

💔 Examples:

  • People-pleasing rooted in childhood abandonment

  • Saying “I’m fine” when you’re not

  • Avoiding conflict at your own expense

🧩 Fix:

  • Voice notes to self (“How do I really feel?”)

  • Screaming into a pillow (it works)

  • Emotional release journaling


🏡 3. Environmental Leaks (The Chaos in Your Corners)

Your home holds your patterns. A cluttered drawer is never just clutter—it’s a metaphor.

💔 Examples:

  • Unfinished tasks visible every day

  • Crowded wardrobes of past identities

  • Rooms you avoid because they feel heavy

🧩 Fix:

  • One shelf, one box, one corner at a time

  • Sage or camphor cleansing post-decluttering

  • Shift objects that trigger emotional memories

Each leak, when plugged, gives you a piece of yourself back.


How Can a Candle Ritual Help You Release Old Energy?

There’s something timeless about fire. It's primal. Sacred. It knows how to end and begin in the same breath.

Lighting a candle is not trivial. It’s a statement to the universe: “I’m ready to burn what no longer serves.”

🔥 The Five-Leak Fire Ritual:

  1. Sit in darkness with a single candle lit.

  2. Take a pen. Write down 5 leaks. Not goals. Leaks. Truths you’re done pretending about.

    • “I’m tired of carrying guilt that’s not mine.”

    • “I’m done trying to prove my worth.”

    • “I no longer need that friendship to feel valid.”

  3. Read each line aloud. Feel it. Then fold the paper.

  4. Burn it in a fireproof bowl (safely). Watch it turn to ash.

Then whisper:

“I release these burdens. I reclaim this breath. I remember my light.”

⚠️ Emotions may rise. Let them. They’re the final goodbyes of stories that lived inside you too long.

You’re not being dramatic. You’re being devoted—to yourself.


Can an Energy Leak tracker really Transform You?

Absolutely. Healing is not just poetry. It’s pattern recognition. And nothing shows patterns like a tracker.

📘 Energy Leak Tracker Template:

DayMood CheckDrain of the DayBoost of the DayWhat I’m Letting Go
MonLowClient call felt fakeTea with friendSaying yes out of fear
TueCalmWatching news too longYogaGossip thread
WedIrritableInstagram scrollingMorning walkComparing online

This is not busywork. This is soul-data.

🗓️ 3-Day Reset Challenge:

  • Use the tracker for just 3 days.

  • At the end, underline repeating leaks.

  • Write one thing you’ll stop, shift, or surrender.

It’s simple. Not easy. But simple.

And if you’re ever unsure where to start? Start with the entrance. The literal and symbolic door of your home. Is Your Main Door Blocking Your Destiny? may surprise you.

Your energy is holy. Sacred. Limited only when you forget that it is your birthright to protect it.

🌕Truths to carry Home, rituals to stay awake


Are You Willing to Be Brutally Honest—What Have You Been Avoiding Feeling?

Let’s drop the masks.

Right now—pause. Sit back. And breathe.

Tell me:

  • Who are you still trying to impress?

  • What heartbreak are you spiritually bypassing with productivity?

  • When did you stop dancing in your room for no reason?

  • Who taught you that to be loved, you must be useful?

  • What memory still haunts your silence?

You see, I’m not interested in your perfection. I’m interested in your pain—the real you, hidden under the polished responses and spiritual quotes.

Because here’s what no one tells you in personal growth:
Avoiding your truth is the most toxic energy leak of all.

This is where your healing begins—not with incense or crystals—but in owning the ache. In finally admitting:

“Yes, I am tired. And no, I don’t want to be strong today. I just want to be held.”

Your soul doesn’t need another tip. It needs permission—to weep, to scream, to purge, to rise.

And maybe tonight… you’ll open your old messages, those unsent goodbyes or love confessions never delivered. Visit Old SMS Messages. You’ll realise those echoes still live in your energy field. Cleanse them. Speak them aloud. Let your soul release what it never dared say.

Ask yourself:

  • Who deserves to be energetically blocked in my life?

  • What am I still mourning?

  • Where did I stop trusting my own magic?

Feel it. Then free it.


🧘‍♂️Your Energy is Sacred—guard it like the temple it is

You’ve made it to the end. But maybe, just maybe… it’s the beginning of your real life.

One where you’re no longer the emotional trash can for others.
One where your “no” is sacred. Your boundaries—non-negotiable.
One where your joy isn’t an apology—it’s a protest against numbness.

Remember these truths:

  • Protection isn’t selfish. It’s soul hygiene.

  • Absorbing others’ emotions isn’t love. It’s a trauma response.

  • Letting go isn’t betrayal. It’s coming home.

And above all:

“Their energy is not mine to hold.”

So light the camphor. Salt the bath. Walk barefoot on the grass.
Say the affirmation. Say the goodbye. Say the truth.

Because you’re not just healing your life.
You’re healing your lineage.

Now… will you let yourself be seen?


Soulful FAQs

Q1: What if the person draining me is family or someone I can’t avoid?
Set energetic boundaries. Use the white light bubble before contact. Protect, don’t absorb.

Q2: How often should I do these rituals?
Daily micro rituals (affirmation, breath) + weekly deeper cleanses (bath, smudging). Trust your body’s signals.

Q3: I don’t feel “spiritual.” Will this still help?
Spirituality isn’t belief. It’s awareness. If you feel—this works.

Q4: I feel numb, not drained. Why?
That’s emotional shutdown. Often a sign you’ve absorbed too much for too long. Start with grounding and candle release.

Q5: Is this selfish? Am I abandoning others?
No. You’re honouring yourself. When you protect your energy, your love becomes cleaner, clearer, safer.


🧑‍🏫 Author

Tushar Mangl is a counselor, vastu expert, and author of I Will Do It and Ardika. Blogging since 2006 at tusharmangl.com, he helps people design spiritually aligned homes, lives, and relationships. He believes that through ancient wisdom and grounded rituals, we can build a more vibrant, awakened world.

“I help unseen souls design lives, spaces, and relationships that heal and elevate—through ancient wisdom, energetic alignment, and grounded action.”


📺 Note: For more inspiring insights, subscribe to the YouTube Channel at Tushar Mangl or follow on Instagram at @TusharMangl

If this guide stirred something in you—don’t let it fade.
📩 Book your personal energy audit consultation now.
Together, we’ll cleanse, align, and reset your life’s frequency.

Some interesting facts 

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for

Blood plasma.

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No piece of paper can be folded in half
more than seven (7) times.

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Donkeys kill more people annually
than plane crashes.

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You burn more calories sleeping
than you do watching television.
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Oak trees do not produce acorns


until they are fifty (50) years of age or older.

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The first product to have a bar code
was Wrigley's gum.

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The King of Hearts is the only king

WITHOUT A MOUSTACHE

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American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987
by eliminating one (1) olive

from each salad served in first-class.

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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

(Since Venus is normally associated with women,what does this tell you!)

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Apples, not caffeine,

are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

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Most dust particles in your house are made from

DEAD SKIN!

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The first owner of the Marlboro Company
died of lung cancer.

So did the first " Marlboro Man."

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Walt Disney was afraid

OF MICE!

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PEARLS MELT

IN VINEGAR!

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The three most valuable brand names on earth:

Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

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It is possible to lead a cow upstairs... but, not downstairs.

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A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

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Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush
be kept at least six (6) feet away from
a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

(I keep my toothbrush in the living room now!)
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Richard Millhouse Nixon
was the first U.S. president
whose name contains all the letters
from the word "criminal."
The second ?
William Jefferson Clinton

(Please don't tell me you're SURPRISED!?! !)

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And the best for last.....

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

(I know some people like that, don't YOU?)

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I think, it was Tan's post on this blog itself, Republic Day Event, where this question was raised. My answer. YES. we need communal parties even in Independent, Secular India. Now let me take you, back to events before 1947. When India was a colony of the British Empire. The congress party, in its attempt to gain momentum for the independence movement, heavily used Hinduism, an example of which is the famous Ganesh Utsav held in Mumbai every year. Who complains? No one. But at that time, due to various policies of the congress, Muslims started feeling alienated. Jinnah, in these times, got stubborn over the need of Pakistan and he did find a lot of supporters. Congress, up till late 1940's never got bothered by it. And why should we? Who complains? No one. But there were repercussions. The way people were butchered and slaughtered during that brief time when India got partitioned, was even worse than a civil war scenario. All in the name of religion. And there indeed was cr...

Ramayana in Indonesia: A Timeless epic across borders

The Ramayana, an epic saga originating from India, has transcended borders, weaving its influence into the cultural, spiritual, and artistic fabric of Indonesia. Here, Rama becomes a secular icon revered by Hindus and Muslims alike, showing how mythology unites diverse communities. This article explores how the Ramayana journeyed through time, embracing new interpretations while retaining its core values of righteousness, devotion, and the triumph of good over evil. Introduction: Why is Ramayana everywhere, even in Indonesia? When I first heard of the Ramayana thriving in Indonesia, I was captivated. How could an Indian epic be so embedded in a predominantly Muslim country? The answer lies in history, adaptability, and shared human values. The Ramayana's journey from Indian shores to the Indonesian archipelago is a fascinating tale of cultural exchange, adaptation, and enduring relevance. How Did the Ramayana Travel to Indonesia? The Ramayana arrived in Indonesia during the early c...