CONTENTS

SPIRITUAL INSPIRER
His Divine Grace ‘Yogiji’
Pujyashree Akhileshji Navratra Fasting ................................................ 4
SPIRITUAL HEAD/ PRESIDENT Tuladaan............................................................. 6
Pujya Maa Malti Ji
Call: 9412206475 Meditation on Chakras ...................................... 8
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Call: 9425091615 The Science of Giving...................................... 12
SPIRITUAL CENTRE (INDIA) Sadhak’s Experience........................................ 14
Badari Narayan Sevagram,
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Student-Parents Camp ................................... 25
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NAVRATRA FASTING
There is a provision for destroys our vikaaras way of fasting before
Navratra fastings twice and manifests vital the devotees. We are
a year at the time of power in our body and reproducing this proper
changing seasons. It has generates happiness and way of fasting for the
 
    wisdom. On the basis 




body should, in a natural
  
 

  
way, be allowed to
excrete impurities the
wastages, which are
generally seen in the
form of cold, cough,
fever, constipation,
religious aspects, there
is a tradition to fast in a
proper manner to gratify
Maa Durga. However, if
without understanding
the theory of fasting, one
will get inspiration and
cooperation leading an
auspicious way of fasting.
Gradual fasting
Gradual fasting means
‘preparation for fasting’

  does it, one is supposed
If proper way of fasting is
adopted at the right time,
one can remain free from
these diseases.
From the religious view,
Navratra is Maa Durga’s
festival and Maa Durga
is the symbol of power.
Her weapons are the
and ‘preparation for
to be deceived of the
taking food after fasting’.
manifestation of the
It means one should
power. So an intelligent
neither start nor break
person is supposed
fasting all of a sudden.
to cooperate in God’s
It should be done in
regulation of power
a gradual way. If one
manifestation, by proper
wants to fast on water,
fasting to keep the senses
then one is required to
under control.
discard grains from his
symbols of destruction   
 intakes and should be
of vikaaras. Her riding a aspect in view, His on vegetables only for
lion is the symbol of Holiness Yogiji Maharaj two days before start of
victory over all the was kind to submit a fasting. Similarly, after
senses. So Maa Durga reasonable and gradual completion of fasting on

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Reasonable Fasting. It water, one should be on unripe papaya, cabbage,

does not insist upon the vegetables for three days. tinda and parval etc at
act, but upon thoughts Only after that, taking night. Potatoes should
and feeling. grain-food should be be avoided as far as
started. If this procedure possible. Also, he should
How a new devotee
is adopted, there will use enema daily and take
should fast?
be no load on vital bath both the times. He
If a new devotee has power and power will be should meditate thrice
adopted the ideal food manifested. a day, take rest properly
    and distribute some
Reasonable fasting?
noon, fruits and salads food.
between 12 and 1:30 Fasting with
During Navratra
p.m. and complete food discriminative
fasting, it is said that
at night, he can easily understanding can
the mouth becomes
undertake proper fasting. be called Reasonable
pungent and that
A devotee undertaking Fasting. A devotee should
there is pain in teeth
   
  know the
and fatigue in body.
time should give up only meaning of fasting. In
Why is it so?
grains and milk. He Hindi language, it is
should have fruit juices, called ‘Upvaas’, which Actually, during the
like carrot, cucumber, consists of two words, fasting, the vital power
orange, pomegranate namely, ‘Up’ and ‘Vaas’, becomes free from the
and pineapple etc in which means to come load of digesting the food
daytime. After gap of nearer the God. It is also and it gets engaged in
an hour or two, he may necessary to know that cleansing the wastages
eat seasonal fruits like food only builds the body from the body. Above
papaya, cucumber, and it cannot produce mentioned conditions
guava, apple and cheeku energy. With this
etc and green vegetables understanding, if fasting Contd. at page 7
like pumpkin, spinach, is done, only then it is

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TULADAAN

Human being often is (weighing equivalent to turn reduce the demand


 
 your weight) along with of food in body and the
is obsessed with just a worn cloth and some importance of it in mind.
gathering things. He is dakshina for the priest. The reason for including
afraid to give and afraid This is given to either a a worn cloth in this
to share. Although the priest in temple or any distribution is that after
fact is that he has to other food distribution food, human is second
give, whether happily area. most attached with the
or unwillingly. He has clothes he wear. Even
The science behind the
to give to the doctors, though he gets hundreds
practice can be explained
when ill. He has to give of them, he is never
like this. Man is for whole
to lawyers, when trapped  
#

life, obsessed with food.
in legal issues. If he is cloth instead of a new
Even though food is
ready to share willingly, one, helps in reducing
something that he takes
he need not give it the attachment that
throughout his life, still

!
 the person has with his
he is attached to it. Food,
"

 belongings and here
as and when, not taken
problems and bad health 


in a balanced form, is the
 
 
  we do this practice along
biggest reason for bad
Tuladaan, mentioned in with dakshina to the
health and diseases. As
ancient mythologies, is priest, as a result, we will
the Newton’s law say,
an un-comparable yet notice improvement in
every action has opposite
 

  our health.
and equal reaction, the
Tuladaan is a type of best way to get detached
practice which includes with food is to distribute
the distribution of grains and share it. This will in
Tuladaan is considered
" 
maintaining good health.

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So a normal human of our kids. Instead, birthdays, you can choose

being should at least cutting on a tenth of any of the auspicious
practice this once a year, those expenses and occasions or festivities
if not more than that, doing this tuladaan for in the house to carry this
to maintain the desired your child every year event. Our sadhaks, who
results in body and mind. on his birthday will practice this regularly
yield miraculous health have witnessed some
We often spend
results for the child  " 
thousands of rupees on
throughout his life. If not results.
birthday celebrations

Contd. from page 5

are the symptoms Coming soon...

of cleansing of the
wastages. Uprising of
Pitta, the bile creates
Mobile
pungency in mouth,
which creates fatigue app of
in body too. Vayu IASS,
vikaara creates pain
somewhere in body.
Meerut
But enema relieves for both
these problems. The
Android
devotee should make
Navratra fasting with as well as
patience and trust. iOS
At last, all problems
will go away and
permanent freedom
from body pains will
be gained.
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MEDITATION ON CHAKRAS
There are two methods of There is no chakra in or with the yellow seed
meditation: on the physical heart. capsule.
When we use the word -
1. By Relaxation (d) Some saints have
“Heart Centre”, it means
got good results by
2. By Concentration the Anahat chakra on the
meditating on the heart
Within the method spine near the heart.
centre of twelve crimson
of concentration, the (a) Sri Aurobindo and petals with the rising
sadhak can meditate by advised beginners to sun in the centre.
concentrating on various concentrate on the
(e) Maharshi Raman
names of God or on heart centre, the seat of
spoke of the heart
various ‘Chakras’ (energy the soul or the psychic
chakra as the seat of the
centres). being. This ensures
soul. He said that soul
In meditation by rapid progress in
was located about an
concentration on devotion and conquest
inch to the right of the
chakras, the mind is over animal nature.
centre of the chest and
concentrated on one or (b) In Sri Ram activated the physical
various chakras. Follow- charitmanas and Srimad organ, the heart.
ing are some of them: Bhagwat, devotees have Tradition

Manipur Chakra - been advised at many places the location of

Navel centre places to concentrate on the soul to the centre or

the form of the Lord in left of the centre —
Yogis are known to have
the heart centre. ANGUSHTHAMATRAH
acquired supernatural PURUSHONTARATMA
powers by concentrating (c) Sri Krishna advised
SADA JANANAM HRIDI SAN-
on the navel centre. his beloved devotee,
NIVISHTAH
Uddhava, to meditate
Anahat Chakra - (KATHOPANISHAD 2-3-17)
on the full-bloom heart
Heart centre The Purusha, the Spirit
lotus of scarlet colour,

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“Keeping the trunk,

neck and head straight
  % 

and look at the base of
the nose (not the tip as
generally understood)
without looking in
another direction” —

SAMAM KAY
within, which is no SHATAM CHAEKA
SHIROGREEVAM
longer than the thumb CHA HRIDYASYA
DHARYANNACHALAM
of a man, is seated for NADYASTASAM
STHIRAH
ever in the hearts of all MURDHANAMBHINIH
SAMPREKSHYA NASIKAGRAM
creatures. SRITAEK ATAYORDHW-
SWAM DISHA-
MAYANNAMRITVAMETI
(f) Meditation is done SHCHANAVALOKAYAN
VISHWANGANYA


   
 (Geeta 6/13)
UTKRAMANE
 
   $ 
the heart centre.
(g) The Holy
Kathopanishad says: A
hundred and one are
the nerves of the heart,
and of all these only one
issues out through the
The spot between the
BHAWANTI
eyebrows is the gate
(Kathopanishad 2-3-16)
to Sahasrar, the astral
Agya Chakra -
centre.
between eyebrows
The Yogic texts speak
In the Holy Gita Lord
of the Sushumna Nadi
Krishna has prescribed
(nerve) moving west
meditation between
or backward from the

     the eyebrows, at Agya Agya Chakra which
his soul mounts up to Chakra, the place of
is located between the
its immortal home, but the mystic third eye,
eyebrows —
the rest lead him to all which gives the Yogi the
SUSHUMNA PASHCHIMVAHINI
sorts and conditions of distant vision. The Lord
birth — says :

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Sahastrar Chakra - pineal. The former is Concentration on

Brahmrandhra
The Reverend ‘Yogi Ji’
advises his followers
to meditate on the
crown of the head, the
Sahastrar Chakra. Most
Yogis and Bhaktas have
meditated here in one
form or another.
Talking in modern
terminology, some Yogis
have said that two
glands in the cranium
are directly involved in
spiritual awakening —
the pituitary and the
located in a straight line
behind the Agya Chakra,
and below the spot still
uncovered with bone in
the infant.
The pineal lies still
further in the same
line but a little above,
near the upper end of
the cerebellum. It is
located in a straight
line from the centre
of the forehead. It has
the shape of a small
eye and works as an
aerial to receive cosmic
vibrations.
the spot between the
eyebrows stimulates the
pituitary which, in turn,
activates the pineal, said
to be the central point
of the Sahasrar. Above
the pineal, lies the place
where people in our
land have been growing
a tuft of hair.
In the above ways the
sadhak can meditate by
concentrating on either
or all of the centres in
sequential manner.

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THE SCIENCE OF GIVING

Nature is continuously be naturally expected overlooked.
giving away something from all human beings? Jesus Christ always
or the other without Human beings, however, preached that whoever
expecting anything in have learnt to behave gave away with devotion
return. The sun has "    would get more and
been our source of light they have been naturally whoever tried to hoard,
and energy since eons programmed over   
but it never tires of centuries. That is a But human beings
giving. No matter how big reason for their have become creatures
much sunshine it shares unhappiness as they live yearning for more,
with us, its reserves in non-alignment with endlessly. If a person
never seem to deplete. the benevolent energies earns hundred rupees,
Likewise, the earth has of Nature. Instead of he doesn’t feel like
been constantly bearing learning how to give parting with even a
plants for our survival, gracefully from the sun, tenth of it (i.e. Rs. 10
decade after decade, the earth, the trees, the as per the concept of
century after century. sources of water and so dashansh) as Lord’s
The trees around us on, human beings have share. He feels tempted
continue to produce cultivated the habit to preserve all his money
fruits and purify the air of seeking more and and belongings as giving
for us, without keeping a more, quite the opposite away would ‘reduce
tab on how many fruits of what was naturally them’ at an apparent
we pluck every season, or expected of them. In fact, level. Unfortunately,
how much air-pollution the greed to acquire and what he doesn’t
we indiscriminately hoard material things has understand is that in
cause. Everything that increased so much that the larger arithmetic of
constitutes Nature is the basic values inherent life, a person earns in
busily giving and sharing in the act of giving seem the proportion in which
then shouldn’t the same to have been completely he gives away without

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expecting anything tell us that among

in return (like the billions of
Nature), and vice human beings
versa! alive on earth
When a person today, many of
practices the art them would be
of distributing, his descendants of
energy expands erstwhile kings

  and queens.
joy, contentment What happened
and prosperity. worldly goods till their to all their riches?
The more he gives last breath, whether Where did all their
away, the more his they get to use what inherited prosperity
energy level expands they earn or not! They vanish?
thus attracting more are doomed to live a life Therefore, a better way
positivity, abundance %" of living a life full of
and happiness for him. discontentment as their abundance, fearlessness
However, when a person 
 * and joy is to cultivate

 mindedness gets the a habit of sharing with
and miserly way, the better of them. others. This is a sure
energy inside his heart Many times people shot way of becoming a
contracts. Such a person justify this save-till-you- high-energy being as the
is usually always-angry drop attitude by saying person would always be
and constantly-worried it is all for their family focusing on the highest
type, who is miles away and welfare of the future qualities a human being
from being peaceful generations. But what is can possibly possess.
and harmonious in the guarantee that all of This would make that
any surrounding. the savings will be well person always live
Unfortunately, most      in a blissful state of
people fall in the latter of the concerned person? paramanand (supreme
category, often trying Common sense would joy).
to save and gather
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QUESTIONS-ANSWERS
QUESTIONS RELATED TO SADHANA ARE BEING
ANSWERED IN THIS COLUMN. PLEASE DO NOT
HESITATE IN RAISING MORE QUESTIONS AS IT
MIGHT HELP OTHER ASPIRANTS TOO.

Q.- Ques: Sri
Ramcharit manas
(Manas) states
that even incurable
diseases can be
cured, how?
Ans: According to
medical science, diseases
are believed to be caused
by germs. Modern
are extracted and put medical science calls
in distilled water, they as ‘infection’. So, any
would not be able to impure human body is
survive in such a clean bound to attract diseases
environment. Likewise, depending upon the
the body has to be kept level of impurities it has
clean and therefore acquired over time.
disease-free by regular The principle of ‘Tap’
elimination of waste based on an ideal
matter. dietary system in Manas
science therefore focuses

on discovering new
medicines to eliminate
these germs. However,
Manas believes that there
is only one single cause
of any human sickness:
accumulation of toxins in
the body.
Germs naturally grow

Another common 
example to explain this improving the dietary
is the growth of worms system to slowly purify
over time in a closed can the body and make it
of wheat or rice at home. disease-free. American
From where do these doctor Edward Dewey
worms come? We all wrote an entire book on
know not from outside. this theme titled ‘The
This example shows No Breakfast Plan’. He
that any environment has a record of curing
that is stagnating hundreds of patients
 % 
 (therefore unclean) of medically incurable
that Manas subscribes is a fertile ground for diseases by simply
to. For instance, if germs growth of germs, what making them give up

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their breakfast. fruits and vegetables ‘Tap-Seva-Sumiran’

For treating incurable etc. Try to increase (i.e. ideal dietary
diseases according to intake of fruit juices system, sharing and
Manas, the following and vegetable soups distributing whatever
steps need to be taken. instead of depending one has materially, and
Quit morning breakfast solely on a solid diet meditation) one can
and start your day with that causes more strain come out of any sickness,
raw food, i.e. fruits, on the digestive system. old or new.
sprouted moong dal This way the system will
 
 
and salad as early lunch  

our chaturthansh
and simultaneously and all disease-causing

reduce intake of cereals germs will get eradicated
fourth portion of
and pulses during the slowly as more and more
total food consumed
rest of the day. Take waste matter will get

 
one complete meal eliminated through
service of God) is
comprising vegetables, diet-change.
still untouched in
cereals (wheat, rice etc.) We are in touch with the morning, what
and pulses at night. so many people whose should we do?
In general, try to reduce ‘incurable’ TB was cured
Ans: The Lord has said
foods that tend to fully just by eliminating
in Bhagwad Gita that if
stick to intestines like accumulated waste
a devotee shares food
=
 matter through this
with Him with love and

  % dietary system Likewise,
devotion, He would
 $ > many people could cure
surely come to receive it.
and start consuming asthma and diabetes
So if your chaturthansh
  
  * in just a few months,
is not being consumed
sticky foods like green without taking any
by a living being at night,
leaves (coriander, mint, medicine for it.
you need to work more
curry leaf, bael leaves, So by following the on the bhava (intention)
Holy basil, drumstick  
 with which you are
leaves etc.), seasonal secular principles of performing the act of

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sharing. month, then set aside so two meals a day is

one-fourth of it as ‘food @ 
  X 
Many a times, we get
budget in service of adults, it is needed
doubtful about who
God’, then distribute only for repair and
should be eating the food
food purchased from this maintenance of cells
we put aside, human
money but do it all with a in the body, that too
beings or animals, which
good bhava in the heart. depending upon the level
kind of animals and so
of physical exertion. For
on. For instance, some Ques: Is the same
instance, a farmer or a
people prefer feeding quantity of food
casual labourer needs to
cows than say a dog or good for any person
eat more food compared
a pig. The point is that   
to a person in a desk
every living being is a according to body-
job as more physical
representation of God type?
activity means more cell
so we should leave the Ans: Quantity of food breakage. In all cases, an
food outside home with consumed should depend adult should have one
an intention and prayer upon age i.e. whether the full meal a day because
that God, in any form, person is below or above unnecessary strain is
can have it and oblige us. 25 years of age, and on put on the body when a
When this feeling will the amount of physical person eats more than
strengthen, be sure that labour he or she indulges what is required by the
your chaturthansh will in during the day. A very body.
get consumed. basic point to understand
Care should be taken that
For some reason if daily is that food is not the
food gets consumed only
sharing of food is not source of energy as the
after physical work, not
possible, then make it   
before it. Meals should
a habit of sharing food deep sleep or during
be followed by adequate
with devotion every meditation.
rest to aid the process
month and in bulk. Food is a building of digestion and not the
A simple way is to material for children other way round.
estimate quantity of food below 25 years as their
consumed by you per bodies are growing

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RETURN TO NATURE
Despite constant search is not entirely bleak
for the perfect recipe for either. The Bible says,
well-being of humans “The benevolent Lord
through ages, mutually has provided everything
around at the lives of
beings from the animal
kingdom, we would see
that all of them live in
agreeable answers
 

continue to remain
illusive. Biologists,
physicists, doctors,
anthropologists and
scientists from other
schools of thought have
given it their all in trying


for us, including what
is most appropriate to
eat. He has given us
abundantly available
plants and trees that give
fruits and seeds that can
be re-sown.” As has been
very rightly pointed out
 
with Nature. They
eat what is naturally
available to them, and
even then, they know
what to avoid even if
present in vicinity like
poisonous plants etc. For
    $ in the Bible, experience instance, a baby sparrow
for human beings to be of wise ones shows that knows what it has to eat
perfectly healthy. For people who stay close the moment the mother
instance, they have all to Nature and try and sparrow puts it out of the
ceaselessly pondered in remain in alignment with  
 
  
theory and experimented it, live far longer and A fawn starts eating
in laboratories to healthier lives. No matter 

  
discover what the most
suitable diet regime
for humans could be.
Answers to this question
have changed from time
to time and continue to
get deliberated upon.
However, the situation
what science says or
suddenly discovers as a
‘new principle’ for health,
people who have lived in
constant alignment with
Nature have proved the
Bible’s claim in reality.
Even if one looks
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a baby squirrel starts
looking for nuts and a
baby fox starts searching
for mice when it gets
hungry. Who guides
these animals about
eating preferences? Like
animals, human beings
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also have an intuition,

and we need to practice
cultivating trust on the
inner voice with regard
to diet and well-being.

In the past, much before

humans started clearing
forests for establishing quality. when feeling unwell.
industries or houses, they That way too, he is in
Even then, every person
were naturally provided alignment with what
should try to return
with a wide variety of Nature seeks of him
to Nature as much
fruits and vegetables at that time. Fasting
as his or her capacity
to eat, without them during sickness is only
progressively allows. For
having to grow anything. logical because the bodily
instance, a person can
Z"   function of digestion
make his diet as simple
   "  consumes maximum
as possible to begin
natural vegetation, energy of a person. When
with. He can start eating
including fruits and he saves that energy,
more of uncooked food
nuts, depending upon then the body’s energy
compared to cooked food
season, soil and climate naturally gets directed
by focusing more on raw
type. Gradually, as man inwards, towards
salads and fruits. That
became ‘modern’ he healing the person. If
way, he will be closer to
started interfering with you notice carefully,
Nature because he will be
natural cycles of food animals stop eating
eating in alignment with
production. In place of when they are unwell.
the way Nature designed
eating raw and fresh food As Nature would have
him to eat.
in its natural form, man it, they come out of the
started eating it cooked, Additionally, he can sickness fully recovered,
thus deteriorating its avoid food altogether without having to resort

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to any medicines at all. ‘boring’ in the present fried foods, which are
Human beings, on the day and age. However, consumed in greater
other hand, are busily there are people who quantities than the
stressing themselves still enjoy eating raw body’s digestive capacity
out, over-eating cooked seasonal fruits instead or need.
food which is heavy, oily, of making jams and Ideally, people doing
spicy and stale. It is no jellies out of them or
more of physical labour
surprise that humans making salads from raw
should eat more cereals
 "  vegetables instead of
besides fruits and
so many diseases and frying them with spices
vegetables as the wear
associated miseries for added ‘taste’. It is
and tear in their body
as their basic lifestyle no wonder that people
is more. Yet, people
becomes increasingly from the former category
with sedentary lifestyle
unnatural. What remain healthier and
depend so much on
makes this worse is the happier compared to
cereal-based foods
increasing dependence the latter ones. A simple
that tend to stick to
on intoxicants like reason for that is when
the intestines and are
alcohol and cigarettes we spare the body the
[  
and stimulants like tea agony of having to digest
eliminate compared to
 " spicy and heavy food, it
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naturally functions better
The whole notion of vegetables, which are
 
 
‘taste’ has undergone a best when eaten raw.
Raw food is alive with
sea change over time.     Thus, in order to be
What people from the don’t take too much closer to nature the
older generations found energy from the body easiest way is to eat
tasty, namely fruits to get assimilated while food in its natural form
and vegetables in their the brain has to secrete and key being eating :
natural form, has become excessive acid and juices seasonal, regional in raw
increasingly ‘bland’ and to digest the cooked and form.

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ARE DISEASES CURSE OF NATURE?
Like human beings this
earth and all planet are
born and die one day.
The earth has circulation
in the form of water
which gets evaporated
and then moves to other
areas, where it causes
growth of plants. Plants
can be compared with
our epithelial cells,
which grow, develop and
dry, like layers of skin.
Animals on this earth
are like bacterias, viruses
and body cells i.e., RBC,
WBC, platelets and other
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March - April 2019
Dr. S.S.L.Srivastava, M.D
undue damage. If that
fails we take drugs or
use other methods, so
that pathogens may be
killed. If the population
of pathogens exceeds
certain limit, it may be
fatal to the host also.
We must understand that
and granulocyte may same is the situation
kill infected cells or of nature. Human race
organism to keep our was also like commensals
body free from diseases. on this earth, when its
We have a lot of demands were met by
harmless bacterias things produced on
known as commensals the earth surface by
in our body. When an natural process. Now our
organism grows in our demands and population
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body, it may survive till both have increased and

  
the population of that  
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pathogen is small. Once 
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%
%
Our body cells also live
this population ore, gas etc. We have
 " 
exceeds the tolerable made earth surface
survive for
limits, our defence comes hot and behaved like
variable periods. One
into play. The leukocytes pathogens. If we do not
animal kills the other,
and antibodies tend to change our ways, mother
like the state of our body
control the pathogens to nature will use its
where ‘K’ lymphocyte
protect our body from resources to teach us

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a lesson, by way of
calamities. The other
thing which may
happen is that, we may
multiply more, become
%
more pathogenic and
ultimately destroy the
earth, the planet which is
our abode and on which
we are living. Remember,
our race can survive only
if this planet is alive and
healthy.
Every creature has
adopted a particular

 
%

ways of living, food
habits and modes of
protection or shelter,
but our human race is
daily changing its ways of
living and is constantly
eating resources of our
nature, not bothering

 where animals are killed
what will be its long term
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 for nothing.
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and care for their fellow
members. Even if there
is shortage of food, the
vegetarian animals like
deer or goats do not
start killing each other.
They all move in search
of food. They generally
live in herds and protect
each other from various
dangers. The man on
the other hand tries to
snatch others bread. A
person may not hesitate
to kill others for his own

his personal pleasure and
can commit any crime.
Apart from atrocities
on our own race, we
also try to kill animals
just for our taste. Some


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is funny that in teaching
curriculum, even today
such experiments are
used and lives of many

may it be frog, guinea-
pig, rabbit, mouse or any
other.
These dissections have
never been useful in life
after passing that class.
I have asked hundreds
of persons, regarding
usefulness of such foolish
experiments and always
the reply has been in
negative. The similar
dissections are carried
out in grade 10th, 12th,
graduation and post
graduation and
even in medical course
" ; 
 give pleasure to one
One must know why
development has made individual.
we all do not deplore
people fearless and cruel In the name of teaching such cruel and useless
towards fellow persons or research, thousands experiments, where
and other creatures. of innocent animals are life of some poor
Members of almost all 
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species live in harmony 


+  nothing? Why do we not

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realise their pain and to use it. getting earthquakes,

torture? Why don’t we  %  
Our mother nature
understand the simple epidemics. We often cry
has a lot of love for
law of nature that due to such happenings,
all of us. She gives us
every but do not take a lesson
so much without our
action has an from them. These are
demand, till we behave
equal and opposite corrective measures
like good children. She
reaction? of nature for our
can also punish us if
misconduct and
+   that is required. If we
transgression.
others and torture become proud of our
innocent creatures, achievements we shall Nature often reminds
nature will prosecute us be taught a lesson by us of our limitations
and give us pain. It is nature. by teaching us small
quite possible that the lessons but we have
If a portion of body
increase in human become almost deaf
becomes diseased it
diseases and other and blind, due to our
has to be treated. Some
"   achievements, that is
time treatment may
such unlawful actions. why we are hurting and
be surgery, in which
One of which is to harming it daily for our
that portion is even
 %  petty gains. We have
removed. If a parasite
kill so many innocent changed atmosphere by
in our body produces
animals, either for pollution. Lithosphere
necrosis that parasite
experiments or for taste. is being damaged by
has to be killed. Why
dams, drilling and
We must understand should we presume that
removing its epithelial
that every such criminal mother nature will not
cover, the forests.
act is seen by nature. react to our misdeeds
Hydrosphere has been
Do not feel nature is and will go on tolerating
made inhabitable for
blind or it is kind and 
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many creatures. How
will forgive us. Nature Small calamities
long can the nature
always gives us a long are the reactions.
tolerate it?
rope. It is up to us, how We are frequently

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S NE Pujya Akhilesh ji jayanti
IAS (March 2, 2019)
Venue: Badari Narayan Sevagram, Meerut, India
About a hundred sadhaks yagna. He later spoke at principles of Tap-Seva-
gathered from all over length about the Guru’s Sumiran, especially
the country at Badari life and how he lived in today’s fast-paced
Narayan Sevagram, what he preached. He ‘modern’ day and age.
Meerut, to celebrate the also quoted from the She hoped that youth
birthday of param pujya Bhagwad Gita and would imbibe these
Akhileshji Maharaj on communicated to us the principles and make the
the 2nd of March. ^ _  society a better place to
service, devotion and live in.
The event was a grand love towards mankind,
success as devotees of the importance of With fond yet tearful
from all walks of life playing our role within renditions from
participated in singing the concept of dharma experiences with the
bhajans, sharing their in the ‘karambhomi’ that Guru all day through,
experiences with the life presents us with. the very eventful day
Guru and eating heartily culminated with a
at the bhandara. Pujya Malti Maa, who solemn dinner.
is the present spiritual
Swami Prahladji head of IASS, blessed The programme was
Maharaj, who had the devotees while conducted from the
especially arrived fondly remembering podium by Dr. Gopal
at the Ashram from Guruji. She elaborated Shastri.
Naimisharan, began the  
day by conducting holy relevance of the

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