25, October 2004
 
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 What is wrong with NORTH ?
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PARVAMANI

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India is rich in spiritual Heritage and every custom laid down by our ancestors to be followed had a clear reason behind it. A fable or Mythological story was given, as reason for following such customs so that the adherence may commence even from childhood; but the wonderful benefits derived by following the mandate was really surprising. The actual reason for such practice was appreciated at a mature stage.

Puranic Story about north 

The traditional custom in India is that one should not lie towards the North - having his head placed towards the Northern direction. The popular story connected with this practice is as follows.

Goddess Parvathi was once necessitated to leave her abode for getting water. As there was nobody to keep watch over the house during her absence, she made a doll and gave it life and instructed it to keep watch over the abode and not to allow anybody inside till she came back. It happened that Lord Shiva wanted to enter the house but forbidden to do so by the boy (i.e. the doll with life). Enraged by this obstruction, the Lord at once cut of the head of the boy and entered the house. Meanwhile The Divine Mother entered the house and learnt the boy had met with his end at Lord Shankara’s hand. She demanded from Lord Shankara that the boy’s life must be restored at any cost. Shankara at once ordered that head of any person who slept towards the North must be brought for this purpose. The attendants of Lord Shiva found only an elephant in that position and the head of the elephant was brought and placed on the trunk of the boy and his life restored. This is said to be the Lord Ganesa. And was given many boons one of which was that no good act can be started without worshipping Lord Ganesa. Incidentally Lord Shiva said that who so ever slept towards North shall lose all his fortune and goodness and shall be deemed to be great sinner. 

Another story is that as Lord Yama- the Duty God (DHARMA) resides in the south, nobody shall sleep towards North, as this would mean disrespect to the Lord of Dharma, as ones feet will be towards South in this position.

Scientific explanation

Our Sages thought that having born, as a human one should not fritter away his energy with out deriving any advantage. It is the duty of any person born, to acquire knowledge and proceed in the right line of thinking and try to reach the Omnipotent as his final goal. For this it is absolutely necessary to conserve one’s energy to the best of one’s capacity.

Our body comprises of Iron, Cobalt and Nickel in small proportion as necessary constituents to make us strong. In places situated in the area between latitude 0 to 40 degrees the horizontal component of earth’s magnetic field exists in considerable magnitude. Its value at equator is 0.38 Oersteds (C.G.S. Units) and at 40deg. it is 0.31 C.G.S. Units. This means that a unit pole placed in this region is either attracted or repelled (depending upon the nature of the pole) with 0,38 to 0,31 dynes of force (depending upon the latitude of the place)


The magnetic lines of force runs from South to North When a man sleeps towards the North, these lines of forces run through him and his cerebrum and at each instant, the iron, cobalt, nickel present in his body is being magnetised and in a short time the human body becomes a mass of small magnets. Summing up all these small magnets become one big magnet of magnetic moment ‘M’ which will be the resultant of pole strength multiplied by the length of the magnets. Thus the human body will be subjected to a force of MH dynes. Where H is the Horizontal component if the Earth’s Magnetic Field.


When a person sleeps towards North he will be making an angle of 0 deg. With the line of action of Force and as such the component of Force along him will be MH Cosine 0. But Cos 0 = 1. Hence full force of MH dynes will pass through his Cerebrum. 

What does this mean? 

Out of his conserved energy he will have to spend every time MH dynes to counter act this force, in order to keep the system in equilibrium. This means he is losing every time MH dynes from his reserves. Thus sleeping towards the North is a wasting disease as his energy is drained
by this quantity.

When he sleeps towards the south then the component along his body will be MH Cos 180degrees as he is sleeping opposite to the line of action of the Force. Cos 180 = -1. And hence he loses _MH dynes every time. This means he gets MH dynes added on to his system and one therefore sleeps towards South to his best advantage.

Sleeping towards East or West would mean that the component of the force is MH Cos 90 or MH Cos 270 degrees which is ‘0’as Cos 90 and Cos 270 degrees are equal to 0. Hence the man is not subjected to any reaction.

Persons situated at higher latitudes are not subjected to influence of this force as the value of H wanes out as we go higher up. It is 0.18 C.G.S.Units at U.K. and 0 at the Pole

Hence the maximum effect is felt by the people living between the two Tropics and India being one such country, our ancestors rightly laid down, as one of the normal precepts of life to be followed, that one should not sleep towards the north as they wanted to discourage any wastage of energy, however small it may be. Only a literate in science subject can understand the above analysis. As our ancestors wanted everybody whether literate or illiterate to be benefited equally they have told these through stories. They aimed at the results only in whatever way the principle is conveyed to the mass. From this we can see how our ancestors have framed our codes of life with high scientific principle. 

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