INTERNATIONAL YOGA DAY

 

INTERNATIONAL YOGA DAY: 2023

 

International YoGa day 2023

 

International Yoga day, if not for any other reason, it has a relevance in the Indian Socio Political Contest. The first Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, who garnered recognition and respect among the chaste Hindu Population of India, was perhaps; better aware of YoGa than the present Prime Minister who worked for the International recognition of YoGa. Nehru used to send a letter every month to the Chief Ministers of the states.  In one of the letters which Anaya Banerjee has dealt at length, Nehru addressed the relevance of Vedanta Philosophy.  Immediately as Narendra Modi gained his position in getting the UN declaration 21 June as the International day, Congress that ruled India for over 60 years, suddenly felt the jolt. Stories surfaced on the initiative of Nehru in including YoGa as a part of health education. His pictures in YoGa posture rolled out of dust.  

For Nehru, YoGa seemingly was nothing more than exercise. If the quotes found here and there are true, -

“Among my exercises one that pleases me particularly is the Shirshasana, standing on the head with the palms of the hands, fingers interlocked, supporting the back of the head, elbows on the floor, body vertical, upside down. I suppose physically this exercise is very good; I liked it even more for its psychological effects on me. The slightly comic position increased my good humour and made me a little more tolerant of life’s vagaries.”

The “Comic Position” as he narrates cannot be taken so lightly, though another quote renders a better narrative on the insight of Nehru:

“The Yoga system of Patanjali is essentially a method for the discipline of the body and the mind leading up to psychic and spiritual training,”

 

If Nehru intended to get YoGa as a subject of health education in India, how did the Government of India fail to take a single step in over sixty year sixty years of Congress Regime?

Truth is that Nehru and the Congress was caught in the electoral diplomacy of religious appeasement.   YoGa and the Indian knowledge systems under the political consideration became the proprietary and property of the Hindus. Vedas, YoGa Sutras, Tantras, Astrology, Siddha, Ayurveda all became Hindu traditions and ancient knowledge. A conflict was created to prove that these scriptures have no scientific base, and are only for religious purposes.

Political system of India, after the theocentric partition had no strength to declare that these knowledge systems are Indian and every citizen of the country have to know and understand the cardinal testaments and treatises indigenous to India. That is where secularism of the Country would have had a meaning and sense of belonging. Secularism is not about giving preference and special status to religions, but in creating a sense of belonging to the cardinal foundation of what India is. Indianness or Bharatiyata is deep rooted in the inheritance of the country. The freedom through partition of India meant it.

The fear of a conflict and communal divide over enforcing anything of Indian origin in the governmental system could be seen as a reason to exclude the Indian systems out of the government.  However it completed the destruction of the scientific base and values of Indian Systems that began with the conquests from the west, beginning with the Macedonians and ended with the British. However, Germans are said to have safeguarded some valuable scriptures, which they took out of the Indian Subcontinent.

The system of YoGa, is not limited to the YoGasanas, including the Comic Position of Nehru.  YoGa is set into motion by creating and expanding the human faculties and by creating an independent system of biological timing of one’s own.  Two basic theories are Criticality of Limitation and Self-supporting –Self Sustaining control mechanisms that are precisely a YoGi. The chronological impacts and impairments of time do not affect a Yogi, so does the weather and the changing seasons.

The system of faculty development of a YoGi is set into motion with the development of the Biogenic Energy field. This leads to the development of the probe system, which is an extra cranial function. The biogenic energy system is modulated into an Emitter and Collector or Vikshepa and Akshepa mechanism. The signals received do not have a language and are transcribed and translated into one’s own language. The system used in all such information is called Dhwani, a complex Sound laid along a time scale.  

If at all YoGa is to be a part of the health Sciences, as a subject for MBBS or BAMS,   should it be for the health of the doctors? Or to prescribe some Aasanaas for patients in certain cases? Or is it for cultivating certain Indian Values?

If a systematic approach is made in incorporating the system of YoGa, the answer would be a big “No” for all the questions.

The basic purpose and objective of YoGic System as a curriculum would be to develop the probe system. It would enable the Doctors to see the whole energy spectrum of the patient and can have a preliminary diagnosis. This is what the Dashan or Darshanam. Here in conversation is to confirm the symptoms.  If further required would be Sparshan or Sparshanam. The touch of the neuromuscular Plexus or Naadi. The touch enables us to get into the history of the patient and more on the genesis of the pathologic condition. Depending on the state of evolved faculties, the doctor can see the probable developments that can happen for 4 to 6 months or more. If all these processes of diagnosis are not satisfactory, he can go for tests or Pareeksha.

Darshanam, Sparshanam, Bhashanam and Pareeksha are the four stage diagnoses of a practitioner of healing. A YoGi is a Siddhi on its own.  It would be like an internship of practicing the YoGic system to develop Siddhis, and to be an efficient practitioner.  A doctor would have to sit against facing the sun and as the patient walks in, the spectrum becomes visible. There is a marked difference between the Biogenic Energy Field Vision of   the YoGic Siddha and kirlian photograph or polygraph, and the Aura.  Colour pattern identification and opaque zones, and the thoughts of the patient all become clear in the YoGic Vision. The time of a thought and the crystallization into a language and whether any deviation between the thought and expression can all be understood by the YoGic Siddha.

It needs the entire YoGa Sutra to be decoded and translated into proper disciplines along with the therapeutic formulations.  If the Government and the influential intellectuals who are advisory to the government consider it as philosophy and the Aasanaas alone would be the ultimate, nothing can change.

Delinking the Indian Systems from the Brahminical and Religious domains and to work out the scientific base and derivations from the YoGa Sutra and Vedas, needs a strong will and determination of the Political leadership. Sruti as they are have their own formation and codes.  The resonance based application that is set into a dynamics begins with Gayatri, which can control the environment.

May India arise and awaken into a realm of new Vision and Dimension.

 

 

 

LEADERSHIP - Planned Economic Growth

 

DIED WITH MUCH DIFFICULTY

 

In real life greatness is realized after death, when people feel a vacuum.  Values and worthiness of a Person/nel is felt after they relinquish the offices.

 In Politics, has anyone felt about such a vacuum after a Prime Minister or the President demits their offices? When people elect and continue to reelect, is it absolutely based on the value and worthiness of the goods and services delivered?

No autobiography of those who are considered as “Great” talks about their death with a ‘Great Difficulty’. From rags to riches is the portrayal of the trajectory, great leaders read under the street lights, walked miles to borrow a book, did labor, worked on daily wages to earn a living and to study, and as  street vendor…

The fame and rising to power is the death of   people, who have hopes for a better living through them.  The desires and urges of the elite peers and those at the grassroots are the same. The first tier is across the table where the last of the peers are mere spectators and listeners.  As long as the first and the last remain so, the leader has got his value and worthiness.

The effectiveness of the leadership is the dynamics of holding both the ends at the place. Those who sit across the table are those who have a share in the control over the factors determining the subsistence of power. Those who have the financial strength to have the strength of their voice to keep the eyes and ears of the leadership open and the distance gradually narrows down. From shaking hands to breakfast and working dinner meetings. The equation in this case is devoid of consistency or equilibrium of any kind. Most or all of these have the largest workforce in the country.  The failure of corporate power in diverting the workforce into a consolidated vote bank in the electoral process is the main reason for their assertiveness in political power on the economic ground.

Nearly 20 largest employers in the private sector with over 18 lac employees. Average family strength of India if taken as 6, Total electoral strength of these establishments would 1.08 crore direct voters. Indirect employment in such a case may average not less than   800 persons, including street vendors, Taxi- auto drivers, workshops, general sales and store keepers and a labor force in the peripheral fringes, adding the strength of the electorate to 16000, enough to be a decision maker in the constituency. The industrial establishments itself can have as many as 15 Lok Sabha Constituencies. If Industrial and Institutional establishments scattered at different states create electoral constituencies and send well versed managerial persons with sound knowledge in planning and coordinated development, it would be a new beginning in the country.   

An industry employing ten thousand persons would be adequate to create an economic centre and regime within itself.  Demand for housing, food, essentials, tobacco, alcohol, health services, hospitals and transport and other public utilities. The labor requirement extends to Home services like home maids, gardeners, and small farming communities.

Where did our industry and administration fail?

The administration gives clearance for design, pollution Control, Industrial waste disposal and safety standards. Chemicals or raw materials which are transported into and out of the factory premises would require a separate environment along with the transit of persons. Further, the visitors, trading groups all will contribute towards the swinging population. Entertainment, recreation and open places for people to rest, children to play, Educational facilities, workshops, skilled, semiskilled and unskilled human resources all gradually will grow in strength.  The concept of spacing is positioning of people within an administrative structure. This forms the basis of Administrative management. Energy requirement and the trajectory of growth in energy requirement for the growth in production and productivity should have its own positioning in a planning process.  The crunch of natural resources and the sourcing out and such futuristic costs will bring burden on the administration.  Sewage, potable water, water requirements for cleaning and irrigating public parks, household gardens , automobiles,  washing and other utilities of domestic and commercial processes would also grow proportionately over the period of time. If the production escalates beyond a calculated time period, the pressure factor on the administrative system also will collapse.

Such a collapse of administrative plan failures becomes evident in every city and township in India.  The best examples are Bangalore and Pune.  The Peenya industrial estate began in the 1970s as a trendsetter in India. By mid 1970s the high precision technologies that took entry in India was the beginning of futuristic nuclear, space and avionic technology development.   Hassan the nearby district grew phenomenally in the next decade; the district has as many as over 3200 manufacturing units, beginning with the Space for ISRO. The total number of educational and Professional institutions in the district altogether may not be found in some states of India.

Nearby Coimbatore in Tamilnadu state is another indicator in the steady Industrial growth, beginning in the latter part of 19^th century.  Tirupur, before truncating from Coimbatore District became the centre of Textile Industry, Coimbatore grew as a major industrial centre manufacturing heavy machineries, Diesel Engines, printing press and several electrical and electronic components. Coimbatore – Tirupur-  Nagapatnam  became another major hub for  industrial Production and Information Communication Technology.

Indore, Devas, Gwalior, Bhopal, Jabalpur and Sagar developed at a pace that could bring Madhya Pradesh to the green belt of Industrial Production and employment. Every major industry has their foot print in Madhya Pradesh.  Mandideep becomes a unique experiment in Industrial growth in the deep interior of India. 

How does the administration cope with the fast pace of Industrial growth?  

Detailed Project report of any Industrial unit should have led into the existing societal structure, amenities and facilities available in the Project Area.  All DPRs talk loud about the land, resources, climate, and factors favourable for the unit, scope of employment followed by technical details, feasibility, viability, market, marketing strategies and the budgeting.   Wherever displacement of inhabitants is required it would address the rehabilitation and financial incentives to establish in the relocated areas.

All the Industrial centres had a humble beginning, bringing in workers and expertise drawn from other places of the state and from the state.  A new cultural zone and alien food and living habits take its roots. Slowly, other industries are attracted.  From the 1980s, Industrial Centres, Industrial Growth centres, Industrial estates, Industrial parks and economic zones have become a part of the Urban Development and Industrial planning of almost every state.

Few square kilometer areas of Agricultural lands are acquired and divided into Industrial areas, Institutional Areas, Residential and Business Areas.   Lanes and by lanes and roads within these demarcated zones do not hold the traffic requirement  once the area becomes 60% or little more fully developed. Main connecting roads become congested and the expansion of National and State Highways do not correspond to the load of traffic at peak hours. 

Indian society does not rely on public transport. Most of the public transport systems have a minimum comfort level and prolonged waiting time.   In the past 20 years the ownership of automobiles. The growth of Production and sales of passenger vehicles in India was not proportional to surface area growth and traffic holding capacity of the roads, India had no projection of a long term planning in the infrastructure and administrative planning. By the time facilities are upgraded, the requirement would be far ahead and the imbalance widens. The expenditure of the government in infrastructure development leads to loans and borrowings, interest and repayment pressures.   The wrong and defective planning of decade would lead to a   negative growth and fiscal constraints in every plan period,

India never had a long term budgetary projection for 50 years with a decadal and four year term of Governments and annual plans accordingly. 

India needs an effective local Planning, Administration and Resource Management system that are functional and self-sustaining.  The process should have come into force from 1952, the time when the financial system began to collapse.  The political system relied on intellectual faculties who were excellent theoreticians with adequate practical experience to defeat the five year plans they had conceived. The rolling plan period was the right time for India to wake up from the sleep, yet failed.

India does not fall under a generalized economic theory. India was never a poor country or the people would not have faced hunger and poverty. We have a political leadership that does not have any basic idea of Policy making and has an executive that lives in a world of illusions.  What they think is the best, and then comes a scholastic class of academicians who can address any issue, and are good in quoting and interpretation. India missed Original ideas, initiatives and innovations.

 

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