It is often said jivantu avadghnyah ta me vishasya dushanih meaning
that let cows live without slaughter for their whole life-they remove poison and toxins.
The eight limbs of Yoga according to Patanjali are:
Yama focuses at internal purification or moral code Niyama focuses at external purity or personal discipline Asana deals with the performance of various postures of Yoga Pranayama is breath control Pratyahara result in withdrawal of sense organs Dharana is concentration Dhyana is meditation Samadhi is the final state of spiritual absorption Nobel Prize winner Elizabeth Blackburn, University of California at Los Angeles, found that 12 minutes of daily yoga meditation for eight weeks increased telomerase activity by 43 percent, suggesting an improvement in stress-induced aging. Similarly, Sophia Dunn of Kings College London, Yoga and meditation are tools for enabling us to swim in difficult waters. r. Abdul Kalam: In 3000 years of our history, people from all over the world have come and invaded us, captured our lands conquered our minds. From Alexander onwards, the Greeks, the Portuguese, the Mughals, the British, the French, the Dutch, all of them came and looted us, took over what was ours. Yet we have not done this to any other nation. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them. Why? Because we respect the freedom of others. India welcomed all the religions with open hands only to be stabbed by Muslims and Christians. According to Elst, Muslims have massacred as many as 80 million Hindus between the years 1000 and 1525. Hindu Kush mountain is the testimony to that cruel and barbaric slaughter of Hindus. Hindu Kush means slaughter of Hindus. Millions of Hindus, who refused to be converted to Islam, were taken to the top of this mountain and killed only to see the blood flow from the mountain to the streets below. One of the Afghan historians, Kondamir, had written that as many as 1,500,000 Hindus were killed by Muslims in one of their invasions in the city of Heart in Afghanistan. Also school text books should also include as to how Krishna Janma Sthala was destroyed, how Ayodhya was converted to Babri Masjid, how Kashi Vishwanath Temple was destroyed and built Mosque in front of the Temple, and how more than 2000 Temples were converted to Mosques. George Santayana, a Spanish-born American author of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, said that, Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it. Let us not repeat the mistakes, let us not forget our forefathers, let us not overlook our rich cultural heritage and let us not be the cause to sacrifice the lives of our children and grandchildren.