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The Bhagavad Gita clearly mentions in
verse 29 of Chapter IV, the theory of Kriya
Yoga, the technique of God -communion
that Lahiri Mahasaya gave to the world in
the nineteenth century. Kriya Yoga
Pranayama or life control teaches man to
untie the cord of breath that binds the soul
to the body, thus scientifically empowering
the soul to fly from the bodily cage into
the skies of omnipresent Spirit, and come
back, at will, into the little cage. Thus by
Kriya Yoga Pranayama or life control the
soul can be released from identification
with the body and united to Spirit.
Pranayama is derived from two Sanskrit
words ---prana (Life) and ayama
(control). Pranayama is therefore life control
and not "breathe control". The broadest
meaning of the word prana is force or
energy. In this sense, the universe is filled
with prana; all creation is a manifestation
of force, a play of force. Everything that
was, is, or shall be, is nothing but the different
modes of expression of that universal
force. The universal prana is thus the
Para-Prakrati (pure nature), the immanent
energy or force which is derived from the
Infinite Spirit and which permeates and
sustains the universe.
This present Gita verse deals with two
specific functions of life force in its differentiations
as prana and apana . There are
two main currents in the body. One, the
apana current, flows from the point
between the eyebrows to the coccyx. This
downwardly flowing current distributes
itself through the coccyx center to the sensory
and motor nerves and keeps the consciousness
of man delusively tied to the
body. The apana current is restless and
engrosses man in sensory experiences.
The other main current is that of prana,
which flows from the coccyx to the point
between eyebrows .The nature of this current
is calm; it withdraws inwardly the
devotees attention during sleep or in the
wakeful state, and in meditation unites the
soul with Spirit in the Kutastha Center in
the brain . There is thus an opposite pull
exercised by the downwardly flowing current
(apana)and the upwardly flowing current
(apana). Human consciousness is
pulled downward or upward by the tug-of
-war between these two currents to bind
or release the soul.
From the opposite pulls of the prana
and apana currents in the spine, the
inhalations and exhalations of breath are
born . When the prana current goes
upward, it pulls the vital breath laden with
oxygen into the lungs. There prana quickly
distills a quantity of necessary life force
from the electronic and lifetronic composition
of the oxygen atoms. The refined
energy is sent by the prana current to all
bodily cells. Without such replenishment
of pure life force, the cell would be powerless
to carry on their physiological functions;
they would die. The life energy distilled
from the oxygen also helps to reinforce
the life-force centers in the spine and
at the point between the eyebrows, and
the main reservoir of life energy in the
cerebrum. The surplus oxygen from the
Gauri Chabbra
A picture tells a story, they say, A photograph
is worth a thousand words. It isa powerful mediumIt
can make you smile; sober you down, make
you laugh, make you excited. In short, it can tell
a story. If you think you can weave a story through
an image then photography is the best career for
you. It is a medium of self-expression. The eye of
a photographer is what makes a photograph.
If photography is your avocation, you can make
it into a profitable vocation. With the development
of communication in India, the advertising industry
and the fashion industry have grown and with
the media boom, digital photography is now a profession
which has a great commercial value. It has
become an important part of both print and electronic
media. Photographyasacareer in India
offers a plethora of opportunities and an escalating
growth trajectory.
Education Qualifications and skillset:
There are no specific academic requirements
for full time courses; however, candidates who
have passed 10+2 are eligible for a degree/diploma/certificate
course in this field. Various colleges
across India offer photographyasa subject. Are
you creative and imaginative? Do you have an
eye for aesthetic detail and composition? Do you
enjoy presenting things visually and communicating
ideas to others through photographs? Is photography
more than a hobby to you and do you
feel a ripple of excitement when you imagine displaying
your art to others? If your answer to all
these questions is yes, then this passion can offer
you a lot as a profession.For photographyasacareer,
one needs to have that extra quality, an interest
in visuals; one must be creative and be able
to communicate stories and ideas through photographs.
Career Cursor:
Photography involves both variety and assortment
as far as forking pathways of career options
are concerned. You may make a mark for yourself
in the following fields:
Photojournalism:
As a photojournalist or a press photographer,
SACRED SPACE
KRIYA YOGA
inhaled breath is carried by the blood
throughout the body ,where it is utilized by
the five vital pranas in various physiological
processes. It is thus said that the
human breath knots the soul to the body
.It is the process of exhalation and inhalation
resulting from the two opposite spinal
currents that gives man perception of
external world. The dual breath is the
storm that creates form-waves (sensations)
in the lake of the mind. These sensations
also produce body consciousness
and duality and thus obliterate the unified
soul consciousness. Yogis therefore reasoned
that if the body did not decay and
toxins did not collect in the cells ,breathing
would not be required; that scientific
mastery of breath by preventing decay in
the body would make the flow of breath
unnecessary and provide control over life
and death. From this intuitive perception
of the ancient rishis came the science and
art of pranayama, life -control. Pranayama
is suggested by the Bhagavad Gita as
a universally suitable method for man to
use to release his soul from the bondage
of breath.
Kriya Yoga pranayama stops the bodily
decay associated with apana , manifest
in the exhaling breath ,by fresh oblations
of life force or prana, distilled from the
inhaling breath. This practice enables the
devotee to dispel the illusion of growth and
decay of the body as flesh; he then realizes
it as made of lifetrons. The body of
the Kriya Yogi is recharged with extra energy
distilled from breath and reinforced by
the tremendous dynamo of energy generated
in the spine; the decay of bodily tissues
decreases .This lessens and ultimately
makes unnecessary the bloodcleansing
function of the heart. When the
pulsating life of the heart pump becomes
quiet, owing to non pumping of venous
blood, exhalation and inhalation are no
longer needed. The life force, which was
you will be required to supply pictures to national
and local press. You need to have journalistic
qualities and must know what makes a good news
picture besides being able to write captions, have
good communication skills and be able to work
with reporters. This kind of photography is best
done instinctively. Hence, you need to be spontaneous
and know what kind of a picture would best
illustrate your article. If you are adventurous and
willing to work under difficult conditions when
needed, you can be the best photo journalist.
Nature and wildlife photography:
Much doth my heart to think, what man hath
made of Man. In this world, when everyone is
lamenting about the depletion of Mother Nature,
you can revive the love for Nature by being a
Nature Photographer. You can capture the perfect
sunsets and waterfalls in your camera then
this is definitely an option that you could consider.As
a Nature and wild life photographer, you will
taking photographs of animals, birds, plants and
landscapes. If you love adventure and enjoy taking
pictures of trees, sunsets, lakes, etc., capture
the animal kingdom and plant life in its most natural
and habitual form. This kind of photography
is a part of Nature photography which also covers
landscapes and scenery
Fashion photography:
To be a part of this glitzy and glamorous world,
you must have knowledge about latest fashion trends
and you should be willing to be experimental and creative.It
is the field where one works for fashion houses,
designers or individual models. With the boom in
the fashion industry the demand for fashion photographers
is high
Event Management and wedding photography:
This includes taking pictures of people individually
or in groups. You can either work for someone
or work in a studio of your own.The subjects
range from children to pets, functions to social
events etc. You can also specialize as wedding
photographers.
Forensic Photography
Forensic photography rings a bell about crime
patrol. You would be required to click photographs
at crime scenes from all possible angles with great
emphasis on details in order to help the police or
detective agencies.
Freelancing
To be working as a freelancer, you need to
have great management skills and the ability to
work independently. You might not know where
the next job is coming from andthere will be the
hassles of keeping accounts. But, you can beyour
own boss and find, shoot and sell your own
photographs.
Scientific Photography
As a scientific photographer, you need to be a
part of scientific publications and research reports.
dissipated in cellular, nervous, respiratory,
and heart action, withdraws from
the external senses and organs and
unites with the current in the spine .The
Kriya Yogi then learns how to commingle
the upward flowing life current
(prana) into the downwardly flowing
current (apana) and commingle the
downwardly flowing current (apana)
into the upwardly flowing current
(prana). He thus neutralizes the dual
movement, and by will power withdraws
both currents into one revealing
sphere of spiritual light at the point
between the eyebrows. This light of
pure life energy scintillates from the
cerebrospinal centers directly to all the
bodily cells, magnetizing them, arresting
decay and growth ,and making
them vitally self-sustained, independent
of breath or any external source of
life. So long as this light is flowing up
and down as the two battling currents
of prana and apana ----the breaths of
inhalation and exhalation ---they lend
their life and light to the sensory perceptions
,and to the mortal processes
of growth and decay . But when the
Yogi can neutralize the downward and
upward pull of the spinal currents, and
can withdraw all life force from the senses
and sensory motor nerves, and can
keep the life force still at the point between
the eyebrows, the cerebral light gives the
yogi life control or power over prana (Kriya
Yoga pranayama). Life force withdrawn
from the senses becomes concentrated
into a steady inner light in which Spirit and
Its Cosmic Light are revealed.
When breath ceases in the Kriya Yogi,
he is suffused with an incomparable bliss.
He realizes then that it is the storm of
human breath that is responsible for the
creation of the dream wave of the human
body and its sensations; it is breath that
causes body consciousness.
When with cessation of breath and the
quieting of the heart the life force is
switched off from the senses, the mind
becomes detached and interiorized, able
at last to perceive consciously the inner
astral worlds and supernal spheres of
divine consciousness.
In the first stage of ecstasy by Kriya
Yoga, the yogi perceives the soul blessedness.
By higher ecstasies that come as a
result of complete mastery of the breathless
state, he realizes the physical body
to be made of lifetrons that are surrounded
by a halo of grosser electroatomic
cells. The yogi perceives the illusion of the
body dream dematerialized into the reality
of god. By experiencing the reality of
the body as prana or lifetrons, controlled
by the thought of God, the yogi becomes
one with Him. With that divine consciousness
the yogi is able to create, preserve,
or dematerialize the dream atoms of his
body or of any other object in creation.
Attaining this power, the yogi has the
option of leaving his physical dream body
on earth to gradually disintegrate into cosmic
atoms; or he can keep his dream body
on earth indefinitely like Babaji.
CAREER COUNSELLING
Photography as a Career Option
Adarsh Ajit
'Some things are beyond evaluation. Home is
one among them'.
Manoj Sheeri, a KPS officer, in his debut book
of stories, Khushbo-e-Kashmir has tried to bring
issues of diverse forms of love into a universal profile
but under local covering. He has also exposed
the rotting socio-cultural ethics in his stories.
In 'Gold Medal', Ghulam Mohi-u-din, a peon of
a district hospital toils hard to make his son, Ikhlaq,
a doctor. He spends everything, at the cost of his
financial security, on him, as he considers his son
as a treasure of treasures. Ikhlaq completes the
course and gets a gold medal. His father frames
the medal and puts it on a front wall. Unfortunately
he receives the first shock from his son when he
comes to know about his intensions to leave the
valley and work in Saudi Arab. Reluctantly, he
allows Ikhlaq to take his everything to Arab except
the gold medal. Mohi-u-din gets another shock on
hearing the news of his son's marriage in Arab.
Dejected and depressed Mohi-u-din expresses his
dismay.
'Had I not educated my son, he would have been
here with me'
Even on hearing the news of the ill health of his
mother, Ikhlaq does not come to see them. Mother
dies. Out of continued shocks, Mohi-u-din spits
on the medal as if he was spitting on his son's face.
The trauma, miseries, tortures, struggle for survival,
dispersal, the unprecedented increase in
inter-caste marriages and erosion of cultural values
are depicted in the story October 2002 in which
Heemal, a central character, and a displaced Kashmiri
Pandit woman goes through the unusual experiences
of her most sorrowful years of displacement.
An interesting story has been built on a Hindu
woman who is blind and is living lonely in a big
house in Kashmir. Ali develops relations with her
and becomes frequent visitor to her house. Ali is
a militant and the blind woman is unaware about
it. One day, police raids the house and finds arms
and ammunition there. The two, Ali and the blind
woman, are arrested. A new, mostly unpredicted
reality comes out. Ali and the blind woman are
ready to die for each other as they are bonded
together in a son and mother relationship. Police
does not buy this story and failing to unravel the
truth, they treat them as mentally imbalanced and
send them to a lunatic asylum.
The story Doctor Sahab unveils the conditions
that compel Dr. Avtar Krishen to prepare for leaving
the valley. He cures the militant and the army
men get suspicious and begin enquiry. He attends
to injured army man and is suspected by the militant
organizations. Despite all odds, he proves to
be a true and dutiful doctor who treats all, irrespective
of colour, creed, section and community. He is
now thought as an indispensable asset for the people.
Suspicions against him cease and he is loved
by one and all. He abandons the idea of leaving
Kashmir.
Toofan is the story of a beautiful fisherwoman
who dreams to become another Habba Khatoon,
in wait of a king to marry her. She leaves selling
The areas that it covers are biology, medicine,
chemistry and engineering. You have to have
domainknowledge and interest to be a part of this
field.
Pay Packet:
If you are looking for a fat pay packet at the
start, you are mistaken .Asa beginner, the financial
benefits are low but as you improve, these
benefits increase. It is acareer which requires
patience and a never-say-die attitudeOne has to
be very brave to start off as a freelancer. You would
rather begin by working in a studio. One can start
as an assistant to senior photographers in which
you'd be paid Rs 3500 to Rs 6000. Once you are
established, you would be paid as per the assignment.
The range can be from Rs 10,000 to Rs
30,000. Fields like commercial photography pay
higher compared to the other fields. Beginnings
can be made at Rs. 15,000 which may grow over
a period of time.
To be a successful photographer you need to
be dedicated and hard-working. It is a fast-paced
profession. One must be ready to meet the needs
of the clients or audience.
For queries contact gauri_nagpal @yahoo.com
WHO IS SHE?
Very smart and beautiful
Very sweet and cheerful
So hardworking and dutiful
I respect her with heart full
Whether morning or afternoon
I see her, always on the boon
Running from rain, hiding from
sun
Changing this corner or to that
one
So, keep and so, calm
Away from any charm
For her only work is the worship
Dwell smiles always on her lips
Lovely her life style, priding her
work
She is a nightingale, she is the
skylark
She is the source of pious inspiration
She is my breathing and respiration
Everyday like honeybees
New life, to me she gives
She is another school of knowledge
Who is but this great living college?
Look outside near our college
gate
An old woman selling chocolates
Who cannot walk, on her legs?
But yet she works and not begs
fish as she
hopes that
Shaukat, the
son of a shopkeeper
loves
her and will be
informing her
soon about it.
But her dreams
shatter when
she receives
the news of
Shaukat marrying
another girl.
On that day, she
does not come
home. Searching
every corner
and every tide
of the lake, her
parents think of
her committing
suicide. But
amazingly she
appears again next morning only to sell the fish
afresh.
Apna Apna Karb is a story of Ghar Devta narrating
different tales of vacant houses of a mohalla
to a thief who takes shelter on verandah there.
Ghar Devta pleads him to unlock the door and free
him so that he searches the masters of the house
who have left this mohalla due to rising atrocities.
On hearing the incessant cries, sighs, robbery,
rapes and negative trends in this mohalla during
the night the thief comments:
'This is not a mohalla but a hell'.
Ghar Devta replies to him:
'This was not a hell. The mohalla was no less
than a heaven'
In Ghar, Abdul Rahim, a carpenter, wants his
aspirations to be fulfilled by constructing his own
house. On the advice of a teacher called Master Ji
he insures the new house which is extremely stunning,
architecturally unparallel and technically perfect.
The insurance surveyor estimates the policy to
the sum of Rs 5 lakhs, the highest in the rural areas.
Cross firing engulfs the vicinity. Rahim's house guts
to rashes. After coming out of the shock he visits the
insurance company along with Master Ji. The manager
rejects the claim terming it too high to be sanctioned.
Rahim revisits next morning. The manager
hands over Rahim to the police. The police think him
as a weird man, gone mad due to losing of a home.
Mater Ji succeeds in releasing him on bail. Rahim
collects the pieces of wood in the remains and
makes a model of his house. He goes gain to the
insurance office. Claim is settled. Manager appeals
him to donate the model to the company and he
allows it on a condition. He suggests them to write
on the model:
'Some things are beyond evaluation. Home is
one among them'.
On the whole the book, Khushbo-e-Kashmir, is
a successful endeavour of the author. There are a
few plots that have procedural errors. The craft of
stories gives obvious perfume of Kashmiri soil.
Sheeri has not missed any beautiful gesture of scenic
Kashmir. Sheeri's stories straightway pursue
the social feature. Mohamad Zaman Azarda in his
foreword comments:
'The stories are the mirror of socio-political and
economical lives'.
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza
WHAT I LOVE ABOUT YOU
The sparkle in your eye,
The warm of your skin,
The touch of your hand,
The naughtiness in your smile.
That body near mine,
The beating of your heart,
And the magic of your touch.
It is for all these reasons and
more,
Why I Love You Sooo Much........
MEHAK SHARMA
JAMMU
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 03, 2013 (PAGE-3)
BOOK REVIEW
Slices of Socio-political Life
Name of the book: Khushbo-e-Kashmir
Name of the author: Manoj Sheeri
Pages: 110
Price: Rs 200
Institute Scape:
A number of institutes and universities
offer certificate and diploma courses in photography.
Some also offer it as three year integrated
courses and subsidiary subjects.
Below is a list of these institutes.
Degree courses in Photography (B.A. 3 year
integrated)
* Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Orissa
* Pune University, Poona
* Fergusson college, Pune( B.A. Degree
Course in photography)
Diploma Courses (one year)
* Kashi Vidyapeeth, Varanasi
* Ravishankar University , Raipur
* Sri Venkateshwara University, Tirupati
* Southern Film Institute, Thiruvallam, Thiruvananthapuram
(1 year certificate course)
Other institutions are:
* International school of photography, New
Delhi
* Academy of Photography, Kolkata
Photography as a subsidiary subject:
* Film and Television Institute of India, Pune
* Film and Television Institute of Tamil Nadu,
* India International Photographic Council,
New Delhi
* MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia, Jamnagar,
* National Institute of Design, Allahabad, UP
* St. Xavier's Institute of Communication, St.
Xavier's college, Mumbai
* The Film and TV Institute of Tamil Nadu,
Chennai.
INNER VOICE
SUNDAY
A Sunday is so typical
When dad is around
The morning starts
With a loud TV sound
One groan from my sister
And another from me
Doesn't melt his heart
To let us sleep for a
Minute or three
Mom tries to catch up
On her wee bit of sleep
For she knows dad is there
To make a cup of tea
But once we are all up
It all seems so bright
For that's the only day
When dad has all the
Time!!!!!!!
Dhanak Bansal
Akhnoor
TRICOLOUR
Displaying the tricolour
I wanted to say
How independent
How self-dependent
We are here today
And I wanted to say
How we feel important
How we look with enthusiasm
Displaying the tricolour
I wanted to know
Why people in large number
Are gathering under
This tricolour that is with me.
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Christ School Poonch