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JAMMU: As a part of ongoing celebrations of Yoga Mahotsav, a lecture on ‘Yoga for Mind’ was organized at the NMCN Hall of GMC, Jammu.
Dr. Shashi Sudan Sharma, Principal and Dean, Medicine was the Chief Guest on the occasion. In her address, she said that in the present times almost everyone faces stress in daily life but the health care workers during the last three years have faced much more stressful situations than the common citizen in the society. She further said that a fit mind in a fit body can serve the ailing humanity in the best possible manner to achieve the overall objective of holistic health which is the concept followed in our country for thousands of years. Dr Arvind Jasrotia, Professor and Dean, Faculty of Law and Registrar, University of Jammu, who is well known for his special passion for Yoga and Vedanta, delivered a soulful and enlightening lecture on the subject. Prof. Jasrotia said that the cultural and spiritual heritage of India is both vast as well as rich covering all aspects of human life. The source of such heritage lies in the Upanishads. The ancient Indian mystics, having realized the innate divinity, infinitude, luminosity and blissfulness of the self, revealed fundamental principles of this perennial philosophy to the seekers of truth who had gone to them with questions of deep spiritual import about the nature of life itself. Quoting extensively from Swami Vivekananda and Upanishads, he said that spiritual humanism expounded by these sacred teachings are intensely practical deriving its strength from the divinity that pervades all. People should develop the spirit of humanism gradually until it unfurls and blossoms into a divine. He cited verses for the ‘Mundkopanishad and Mandukya Upanishad’ and discussed the three states of consciousness and how the waking, dreaming and deep sleep appear in one pure consciousness and at what stage the world appears as reflection of one’s own real self. He also referred to the concept of gross, subtle and causal bodies and ways to transcend them. He said that when we become one with the pure consciousness then whole world appears as manifestation of the same self and action performed in the world becomes yoga. He also briefly touched the yoga of the Bhagvad gita. Dr Rakesh Bahl, Professor, Department of Community Medicine compered the programme.
