Tuesday, 12 March 2024 | PNS | RISHIKESH
In latest news from Uttarakhand, the fifth day of the International Yoga Festival (IYF) being held at Parmarth Niketan in Rishikesh focused mainly on how the divide widening in strife-torn human life can be bridged by the mediums of spirituality that includes yoga. Several celebrated ascetics, spiritual leaders and yogacharias dwelt on this theme while addressing the gathering of the yoga enthusiasts who converged here from across the world. They include the international director of Parmarth Niketan Sadhvi Bhagawati, disciple of Yogi Bhajan and founder of Yogi Bhajan’s first yoga centre in the United States Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa, Seane Corn and Anand Merotra.
While ruing the disappearance of the power of tolerance from the human society, Sadhvi Bhagawati said that this is the essence of yoga.
“It hasn’t been a quality in the west for some time, but lately it is getting much worse,” she said and added that the ‘all-about-me-ness’ is one of the most formidable blocks to spiritual growth. Echoing the same view, Anand said that the trend of outsourcing human intelligence to AI would increase in the coming days and dictate humans who to demonise. Invoking his guru, he said he had taught him not to be right but to be wise. Stressing on unity, Seane Corn said that none is free unless all are free. Gurmukh was critical of the present-day human hankering for likes and averred that feeling thankful in life was the most edifying and elevating sentiment of life.
