Consciousness - A beginners perspective

We are conscious beings. How? Because we are able to experience things. Experience comes through properties of things being perceived, If there is no property being perceived there will be no experience of anything. It is through body or the mind that we perceive things. A body without a mind will perceive things but the dimension will not be of that level of a human. For example a worm without a brain can not perceive emotions of a human mind but it would perceive many things for its own survival. It is the specific instruments in human body-mind complex that gives a human unique experience of the world.

Indian Vodka - tracing the origin of Russian alcoholic drink

Vodka as we know today is an alcoholic drink having its origin in todays Russia.A quick search of the etymology for Vodka gives the root Voda which in Slavic language means water and in its diminutive form Vod-ka meaning little water. So far so good. The drink being a watery object or prepared with little water or perhaps its consumption with little water may have created the today's vodka. In polish records Wodka referes to some medicinal drinks. A link with Latin Aqua Vitae meaning water of life is also proposed which in laymans observation is a distant link if any exists. In whatever way the search is made, a connection with water, be it slovak or Russian voda, polish woda i spretty clear.

However a more common and stronger link is found in a Sanskrit word. there are numeral synonym of water in Sanskrit and common ones are udaka, bari, neer, apa, jal etc. The phonetic similarity of Udaka(or Udakam) is so obvious with Vodka. Udaka means water and wodka or Vodka is so closely connected with water that a link between Sanskrit Udaka and Vodka cannot be denied.

Linguistic studies tell us that Slovac/Plolish/Russian languages fall under Balto-Slavic linguistic group which originated from Indo-Europian linguistic group, the same group from which the other languages of antiquity originated like Indo-iranian, Hellenic, Italic, Celtic and the likes.