Ground Reality

PEOPLE LOVE peace of mind and relaxed body amid the ever-growing clutter and cutthroat competitions around the globe. In a determined bid to accomplish the twin objective, many resorts to meditation while scientists are trying to unravel  the scientific rationale behind it. T here are varied types of mediation, And various preachers practice different techniques.  More researches are needed, say experts, before m editation can be advocated as a sure-fire  method for healthy body and mind. A latest study, published by Lancet, Says Transcendental meditation – the effortless thinking of a mantra, without concentration or contemplation, to produce a settled, psychophysiological state of restful alertness – might help decrease the severity of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to a randomized controlled trial of 203 US veterans with PTSD published in  The Lancet Psychiatry  journal. Another study on mediation a few months back had f...

 By Neeraj Bajpai Strong winds were buffeting a humongous white tent where an avalanche of thought provoking sentences was quietly pummeling minds of a sea of humanity.  At Kanha Shanti Vanam on the  outskirts  of Hyderabad recently, A  Simpleton,clad in yellow kurta, was sailing against tide of technology intensively contemporary life styles, and was profusely batting for use of technology like a salt in a lentil soup. Standing upright in front of a motely assembly of about 35,000 people who had just finished an hour long mediation to mark Birth anniversary of The Ramchandra Mission’s revered master Parthasharthy who had passed away three years ago, Senior Bureaucrat Laxmi Narayana, IPS was speaking with conviction while articulating his perception of life on the harsh ground realities. He spoke about tension ridden lives of people, caught in cleft stick of daily pressures and pulls both at working places and domestic fronts and panacea for ...