Lucknow: RSS Sah Sarkaryavah Shri Dattatreya Hosabale said yoga provides complete healing and there is a need to make yoga part of the life if we wish to live a healthy and meaningful life. He was releasing the Yoga Special issue of Avadh Prahari, a fortnightly magazine on June 19. RSS Avadh Prant Sanghchalak Dr Harmesh Chauhan, Sanyukat Kshetra Prachar Pramukh Shri Kripashankar, treasurer of Bharatiya Punaruthan Samiti Shri Babulal Sharma and editor the magazine Shri Ramkumar Verma were also present.
“Our ancestors gave us yoga thousands of years ago. It is essential to know about it. Ashtaang Yoga has aasan as one of its part and pranayaam as another. But it has six other parts. Yoga joins body and mind. It is difficult to keep the mind focused. But when the mind is engaged in constructive activities, and is not working against anybody, but instead is busy in social welfare, it is easy to keep it focused. Doing aasan and pranayaam is just the beginning of yoga. We should try to imbibe complete yoga. Yoga opens the doors to wider world and helps control the mind,” Shri Hosabale said.
He said Bharat has given yoga to the entire world and we the Indians feel proud of it. Talking about environment, he expressed concern over its rapid degradation and further. “We all are responsible for the present degradation in environment. What is happening all over the world is happening in India also, the country which gave Ayurveda, Yoga, and Disciplined Way of Life to the entire world,” he added.
Training the Nation Builders
Jammu: A 10-day Teachers Training Orientation Workshop was organised by the Bharatiya Shiksha Samiti J&K from June 10 to 20 at the Sant Bal Yogeshwar Bhartiya Vidya Mandir, Billawer. The workshop was inaugurated by national secretary of the Vidya Bharati Shri Hem Chander. The closing ceremony was addressed by the Vidya Bharati’s north zone general secretary Shri Surinder Attri.
Shri Attri appreciated Bharatiya Shiksha Samiti for arranging orientation programmes in and around Jammu and inculcating rich cultural knowledge in the trainee. He said a teacher has the sole responsibility of transforming the young minds into well developed human beings by his own mission and vision. A teacher should enlist his experiences and weaknesses daily and devise the mechanism to overcome them by regular self-study. Teacher is the nation-builder, transformer, thinker, advisor and a missionary worker. He also said that the Vidya Bharati runs 15,000 schools all over the country.
Organising secretary of the Samiti Shri Pradip Kumar apprised the audience of the Samiti’s functioning in J&K. He said the Samiti’s at present runs 38 schools from pre-primary level to secondary level in Jammu & Ladakh.
State coordinator of Teacher’s Training and Incharge of the Orientation Workshop Shri Vijay Kumar said 43 selected teachers from 11 Vidya Mandir Schools of Kishtwar, Udhampur, Reasi, Billawar Basoli, Kathua and Jammu attended the orientation workshop on spoken English, Vedic Mathematics, Science, Hindi, S.St, Physical education, Yoga, Music, Sanskrit, Moral & Spiritual Education, rich cultural diversity of Bharat and J&K. The resource persons were Dr Upendra Shastri from Delhi, Shri Harsh Kumar from Vidya Bharati Jalandhar, Smt. Savita Kulsheresht from Vidya Bharati Delhi, Shri Devendra Rao Deshmukh, Vidya Bharati Sanyojak, Vedic Mathematics expert from Raipur Chhattisgarh, Smt. Ranjana Bajaj, Shri Naresh Singh, Shri Anil Kaul and Shri Kuldeep Raj.
Call for Credibility
New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Smt Sumitra Mahajan advised mediapersons to maintain their credibility in all circumstances and do not indulge in any activity that shakes the trust of people in the fourth pillar of democracy. She was speaking at a function organised in New Delhi on June 21 by Indraprastha Vishwa Samvad Kendra (IVSK) to felicitate journalists for their outstanding contribution. The function was part of the Narad Jayanti celebrations.
Those journalists who were honoured on the occasion included veteran journalist Dr Nandkishore Trikha with Lifetime Achievement Award, Shri Rahul Sinha from Zee News with Best Journalist Narad Award, Sushri Sandhya Jain with Columnist Narad Samman, Shri Sanjay Singh from Firstpost with Digital Media Samman, Sushri Nidhi Chaturvedi from Rajya Sabha TV with Newsroom Supporter Narad Samman, Shri Vivek Srivastava from Hindusthan Samachar multi lingual news agency with Rural Journalism Narad Samman, Sushri Shilpi Tiwari with Social Media Narad Samman, Sushri Pratibha Jyoti with Woman Journalist Narad Samman, Shri Francois Goeture with Foreign Journalist Narad Samman, Shri Vipin Chandra Pujari from News 18 with Best Cameraman Narad Samman and Shri Hemraj Gupta from Bharat Prakashan with Best Photo Journalist Narad Samman. A special jury award was presented to the team Balaknama, a newspaper run by voluntary organisation Chetna.
Director General of Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) Shri KG Suresh headed the jury which included senior journalists Shri Prabhu Chawla, Shri Ashish Joshi, Shri Vijay Trivedi, Sushri Sarjana Sharma, Alka Raghuvanshi, Shri Vagish Issar and Shri Parijat Kaul.
Smt Sumitra Mahajan further said we have lost more soldiers in Kashmir than the soldiers martyred in all the wars fought after 1947. “Why this? Have we ever thought over it? I request all journalists to think over it seriously and expose all those who are guilty of it,” she added.
She further said the objective of Indian media is not limited to communicating information only to the people of Bharat, but to the entire world. It is necessary because we think for the welfare of all. We don’t want that only we should progress. We want that the entire world should progress. “We need to learn the art of communication from Devrishi Narad, who was expert in communicating not only to the Gods but also to the demons and humans,” she addd.
Akhil Bharatiya Sahsampark Pramukh of RSS, also the key speaker of the function, Shri Arun Kumar said the biggest drawback with Indians is that we are in the state of self-abandonment. “We have forgotten what we were. Now we look at everything with the Western glass. We had also forgotten Narad. But it is good that now the Indraprastha Vishwa Samvad Kendra is trying to revive that glorious history by organising Narad Samman for the last 10 years,” he said. He expressed concern that some elements are still trying to raise questions over the nation and nationalism. Need of the hour is that the media world should understand the ideals of Narad so that the communication in the society is for harmony and not for division.
Presiding over the function, noted defence expert Shri Maroof Raza said national interest should be supreme for the journalists while discharging their duty. He said the country is facing various internal and external threats and the role of journalists is paramount in fighting against these threats. A souvenir, Disha, published by IVSK, was also released. IVSK secretary Shri Vagish Issar proposed vote of thanks.
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