Vayam Ayurveda

We are for ayurveda. Ayurveda is for us.

Ayurveda:

aayusha: veda: - ayurveda:

Swasthasya Swasthya samrakshnam

To maintain the health of the healthy.

aaturasya vikara prashamanam

To heal the problems of the ill.

sukhasajnakam arogyam

Happiness is health.

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Less known facts about India

As I was surfing on the web, I stumbled upon this video on youtube, titled "SHOCKING FACTS ABOUT INDIA !" ..Here's what I saw:
True there are so many such facts that are not known to us.
Another video I saw during this course of time showed the growing progress of India. I am sharing this video here to counter those people who say "All this is a matter of the past" after seeing the above video. Brothers, sisters, and well wishers of India - we need to spread such messages in order to take away the misconceptions in people's minds about India. India has always been, and continues to be an innovator, an inventor, a leader.


Jaihind

Monday, October 22, 2012

Common Language

We Indians proudly speak about our Unity in Diversity. But how many of us bother to maintain this? All of us want to, but we miss something somewhere, unknowingly. Unity in diversity means not only standing together as one country, but also being able to communicate effectively in a group of diverse people, and make everyone feel comfortable with the communication. This does not require us to attend special courses for the improvement of communication skills. Neither does it require us to understand intense theories. It is just one simple rule - Common language, common topic. That is all it takes to achieve a comfortable conversation.
It happens in daily life, that when there is a group of people speaking one language, excluding one member, the one member feels left alone because he is most likely not going to understand/feel comfortable with the conversation because the majority of the group is likely to talk in the language they know. Instead, why not talk the same topic in a common language (Which in most cases would be English)?
Let's take the example of the video above. It is a commercial advertising Cadbury Celebrations. It has a great message in it. It deals with the same simple rule - Common language, common topic. It is very simple, and when implemented, it can make Steve feel comfortable. That's the rule we must follow in daily life. We live in a country where we can very easily come across a person from another state in ours, and it is our responsibility that the person doesn't feel out of place.
Why not make a promise this Diwali? Let's ensure that we use a common language and talk common topics that can be understood by everyone in the room.

Jaihind

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

65 years of Independence

Yet another sunrise, yet another day - to smile, enjoy and live. But there's more today - It's India's 65th Independence Day, certainly a day that should instigate a proud feeling in the hearts of Indians.

 On this day, I would like to share a photo I came across. Let us salute the great personalities who made our national flag shine at the London Olympics. - Let us congratulate from our heart - Vijay Kumar, Saina Neiwal, Mary Kom, Gagan Narang, Yogeshwar Dutt and Sushil Kumar for making us all feel proud.

My day began with a flag hoisting function, where I got to hear some words of wisdom.

"We do not need an exclusive day to think about our nation. It must be every day, every minute that we are conscious that we are citizens of India" 

This is popularly said, and (unfortunately) unpopularly followed. Let's try following it. From now.

"There is a lot to think about our nation - there are things to be happy about, and things to be sad about". This is what I got to hear today.. and it is certainly something that is very true. Let's think of things to be happy about today, and things to be sad about on the other days of the year - with an objective of doing something towards betterment. If we're going to merely thinik about it, we will be among the group that just thinks and criticizes. Instead, we'd rather not think. Let's think. and act. now.

Jaihind

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Grabbing inspiration

It is amazing how we can grab inspirations from almost anything and everything in this world.

Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam, who is known for his simplicity despite his great achievements, maintains a page on facebook called "A.P.J. Abdul Kalam", through which he connects with the public. The youth enjoys interacting with him through his page.

Yesterday, I found this photograph accompanied by these inspiring words on his page:


Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam in front of a Baobab tree
Yesterday, I arrived at the MCTE campus around 8 pm. I took a walk around the campus. I came across a very special tree. It is Baobab tree, which is at the One Tree Hill (in pic). I am told this tree, popularly called as five fingers, is over 200 years old and sits on the highest point of Mhow (Indore). I was thinking, this tree has been giving life for 2 centuries to so many humans, animals and birds. In 200 years it would have given over 3000 kg of life giving oxygen to us. It would have been a protector and abode to thousands and thousands of birds. It would have given shelter from hot sun and rain to countless animals and humans. The 200 year old smiling tree has a message for all,
“Giving brings happiness to us”

If I was told about this tree, I would have probably just been amazed about it's life span and it's adaptability to all the conditions it would have had to face in these 200 years. But Dr. Kalam sees something more.

Well, may be that's why great people are great people.

Jaihind

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Bill against child sexual abuse

This is great news for people who worry about social issues in India. The parliament has passed a bill protecting children from sexual abuse. (Full story found here)


The recently launched television programme "Satyamev Jayate" has been focusing on child sex abuse and has interviewed victims and spread awareness. Towards the end of the episode and after the episode, the "Satyamev Jayate" team urged people to write in, in order to show our support for a law protecting children from sex abuse. And the impact was seen on May 22, 2012, when the parliament passed the bill.

An article on the world wide web, said:  The bright side the bill will allow special courts for speedy trial of cases and harsh punishment which may include life term for the offenders. This is great news for people who feel "Bill is of no use until the courts function quicker", because usually, cases do not get resolved as quickly as expected.

There are two things required for a reform to happen - a strong law, and a change in attitude. And both these are instilled by "Satyamev Jayate". When film stars create such movements to support a cause, it certainly creates a change. Let's hope that this good work continues and gives fruits constantly.

Jaihind

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Going beyond feeling sorry

It is a disgrace to watch a cruelty happen and not react. Every now and then, we hear of cruelties, and we feel sorry for the victims - for a few minutes, and then move on with our routine. But how does that help? Did that feeling create a change? Did that feeling give back the victims what they lost? Let's go beyond feeling sorry.

Let's begin here- we need to petition the Hon'ble Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, asking her to take action against slaughter of baby goats in a temple in Erode, Tamil Nadu.
Every year, thousands of baby goats are slaughtered brutally at a temple festival at Erode in Tamilnadu. Let's act now, by signing the petition against this act. Here is the petition: http://www.causes.com/causes/666039-to-the-hon-chief-minister-of-tamilnadu-state-india-stop-mass-murder-of-baby-goats-at-poosariyur/actions/1653534

Sign. Share. That's how we begin.

Jaihind


Friday, April 27, 2012

Hate speeches

Yes, I am a patriot. But that doesn't mean I believe that India is the best country in the world in every aspect. And this doesn't mean that I am a person who says India is the worst country. Every country has pros and cons, and so does India. Being citizens, it is our duty to rectify the demerits and develop and publish the merits. But many of us do not seem to be doing it, although we all realise that this is important. We have from somewhere developed this misconception that just by speaking and publishing the merits and demerits of our country, our duty is done. But do we go beyond?
What is worse, people who experience the harshness of the darker side of the country seem to conduct hate speeches, rather than trying to fight against evils and overcome the hardships. But where does this lead? Mere creation of anger and hatred? Instead, shouldn't we be doing something that rectifies the flaws of a region and develops it for the better?
One such community on facebook called "The Reality of India" is a community that conducts hate speeches and posts gruesome pictures. They only seem to be publishing the demerits. This does not appear like an attempt to change things for the better. When this is the case, we must BLOCK the page. There may be one hundred good and bad things about India. We need to attend to them, rather than just speaking about them. This does nothing good. It only creates hatred.
The admin of this community seems to be clever. The admin (calls self as an Indian woman) seems to have anticipated 'blocks', and so has created a number of facebook pages with the same name (It is my guess that the admin for all these pages is the same, because the picture is the same and the content is similar.), each with different categories such as 'Community', 'Athlete', 'Biotechnology', etc. Worse, one of the categories was 'Government Official', which I strongly believe is fake.
PLEASE BLOCK THESE PAGES NOW.
Steps to block:
1. Open the page "The Reality of India"
2. On the right hand side, you will find "Like", near which is another drop down icon designed like a wheel. Click on it.
3. On the drop down that appears, click "Report page"
4. Choose "Hate Speech"
5.Choose "Targets a race of ethnicity"

Being Indians, it is our duty and responsibility to stop such activities. I was very happy to see pages like "Response To "the reality of india" page" which publish the merits of the country.
Please block such pages/websites. We need thousands of people to block, so that facebook deletes this page. We need to spread the word. Now.

Jaihind

Monday, March 12, 2012

Privacy please!

Indian families and individual privacy - this seems to me an impossible combination in most of the Indian families.
Mobile phones are kept in everyone's reach. Anyone in the family can read texts and see the log of any family member..just because we're a closely knit family, does it mean we won't have personal conversations with friends? - isn't it natural to have conversations that we don't want anyone else to read? It can be anything at all - discussing ambitions, hobbies, books ..but some people are just not comfortable letting others read them. And I feel it's absolutely fine to have private conversations.
Secondly, books, private use and other such areas are easily meddled by others of the family. I just hope there are no incidents of people reading others' personal diaries...
There may be so many other factors which I'm not enumerating now. I personally feel that there needs to be some amount of privacy in the house ...perhaps not so much that people go wayward. But the basic privacy I feel is lacking...at least in many families I know.

What do you feel?

Jaihind