Advantages of fasting & Vedic Writings

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Advantages of fasting

 

On the occasion of World Health Day, some of the speakers at a meeting

organised by The Indian Red Cross Society bemoaned the indiscriminate

dumping of traditional practices in the name of modernity.

 

President of Health India Foundation

 

C N Deivanayagam pointed out the advantages of fasting and even using

homemade kajal and how they helped in maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

 

As for doctors, the difference between then and now was vast. Earlier

they were treated as `Gods', he said, as they never turned away any

patient.

 

He stressed the importance of not just dedication but practice to make

the needle go in smoothly while giving injections.

 

Seminar on Vedic writings

 

At a seminar on Vedic writings on Sunday, speakers dwelt on the

influence of Vedas in common man's life and how they were taught word

of mouth and not written until long after.

 

The speakers came up with explanations for commonly used phrases and

traced the origins of music that linked cultures across the countries.

Similarly, there are plenty of theorems waiting to be decoded.

 

For a lay listener it was a journey back in time. One wondered if the

language had words for mobile phone and computers too.

http://www.hindu.com/2006/04/11/stories/2006041117810300.htm