The traditional way of Hindus praying/ prostrating before Gods is different from the way one does to Lord Ganesa.
In this process,one holds the Right year by the Left hand and the left by The Right.
Standing on the toes of the feet, one has to go down till the calves and the back of the thighs touch each other.
Then, one has to rise straight and repeat the process.
This Religious practice followed by the Hindus is found to be most useful in increasing the electrical activity of the Brain and enhances Brain Health.
This is named as Super Brain Yoga.
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There is a Legend narrated by Kanchi Periyavar in ‘Deivathin Kural’ part -1.
Lord Vishnu went to meet up with Lord Siva and showed his Sudarsana Chakra to the child Lord Ganesa.( it is not Ganesha/Ganesh)
(The Sudarshana Chakra (Sanskrit: सुदर्शन चक्र) is a spinning, disk-like super weapon with 108 serrated edges used by Lord Vishnu. The Sudarshana Chakra is portrayed on the right rear hand of the four hands of Vishnu, who also holds a Shankha (a conch shell) in his left rear hand, a Gada(mace) in his right fore hand, and a Padma (lotus) in his left fore hand.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudarshana_Chakra)
The child grabbed and swallowed it!
Unable to retrieve,Lord Vishnu made a prank of holding his ears with his four ears , sat and stood again.
The child laughed heartily and and the Sudarsana Chakra came out.
Lord Vishnu then declared that those who do the same before Lord Ganesa shall receive His and Lord Ganesh‘s Blessings.( I have marked as Ganesh here to enable Readers to go to Wikipedia)
‘Thorpi’ in Sanskrit means hands, ”karanam’ means ‘ears’.
That this practice is not initiated by Man is explained by Paramacharya.
In Sanskrit there are three categories to indicate numbers in Grammar,as againt two in other languages.
We have Singular and Plural in English;’ஒருமை , பன்மை ‘ in Tamil.
Singular indicates one, whereas Plural denotes more than one.
The same in Tamil.
In Sanskrit there are three categories.
Singular-Eka Vachanam-Singular.
Dwi vachanam-Indicates Two.
Bahu Vachanam-More than Two.
As Lord Vishnu has four hands The Acharya concludes that this Thoppukaranam practice was started by Lord Vishu and not by Man as Human’s have only two hands.
Dr. Paul Nogier MD, a neurologist, spent 20 years from 1950 to about 1970 doing medical research. He rediscovered that the ears correspond to the whole body. The ear corresponds to an inverted fetus curled in the womb. The ear lobe corresponds to the head [ref: Nogier, Dr. Paul M. F., Handbook to Auriculotherapy, (France, 1981)]. The correspondence of the ear to the whole body was already recognized by the ancient Chinese acupuncturists and also to the great rishis (teachers) in India, who developed a technique to increase people’s intelligence. Now we know it worked because it was based on the principle of ear acupuncture.
THE ENERGY BODY
Clairvoyants, with the use of their psychic faculties, have observed that the physical body is surrounded and interpenetrated by a luminous energy body, which resembles the visible physical body. Clairvoyants call this the etheric double or etheric body. The “energy body” as they called it was first photographed by Russian scientists Semyon Davidovich Kirlian and his wife in 1939. With the aid of Kirlian photography, they observed, studied and photographed small bioplasmic articles* like the “light” or bioplasmic energy of the fingers, leaves, etc. It is through this energy body that prana or vital life energy is absorbed and distributed throughout the whole physical body [ref: Master Choa Kok Sui, Miracles Through Pranic Healing, (Phil, 1987), 5]
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