His discovery by the fishermen makes searching for a needle in a haystack a piece of cake. Physical Thirst 3. I just have to share with you a couple of interesting facts about physical thirst. Thirst is something we experience when the pituitary gland secretes two hormones in the body. One causes a physical reaction in the kidneys and the other causes the more complicated activity of the hypothalamus to send signals to the salivary glands to reduce secretions.
Physical thirst can be excruciating and dangerous.
Dehydration will get you into serious difficulty in a hurry. If you have ever been really, truly thirsty then you will be much more able to connect with the meaning of thirst in a spiritual sense. The teacher asked the student to accompany him to the river which ran by the village and invited him to go into the water. The student did as he was instructed, whereupon the teacher put his hands on the young man's head and held him under the water. Presently the student began to struggle.