Can We Co-create !

" ' Co-create' is an inspiring word and an adventurous idea it signifies ! The objective is 'Dharma- Yoga' another fabulous and promising idea !

Charles Savage,a management and economics professor from Munich,Germany and his yoga teacher C S R Prabhu,a known IT scientist from Hyderabad last year and this year came to Kurukshetra to verify our faith and trust in the words of the Bhagavadgita which was born here more than 5,000 years back.

The miseries of the world are due to our lack of awareness of the efficacy and supremacy of Dharma which is the Nature-God-ordained doctrine of life,which does not bind us,but rather sets us free from bondage and self-inflicted limitations.Yoga is alleviating human afflictions,physical and mental,to a great extent and is looked upon with reverence and reliability.There are many Yoga-s everywhere,in the scriptures and now in contemporary practice.But the Yoga of Dharma,Dharma-Yoga is the very pivot as viewed by CSR Prabhu,who has also worked on ancient aeronautics found in Samskrita.Our positive value-based response to the world happenings to create a better and joyously and blissfully livable world is for Prabhu 'Dharma- Yoga' !

Charles Savage 71 asks : 'Can we co-create such conditions that we may 'live lightly and lively according to our self-projected practical values of Dharma-Yoga' ? He calls such a life style as 'low-carbon' as we are not consumptive beyond our/nature's means.He wants to discuss the best in religions,but he mainly draws from the Gita,Veda and Upanishads.He compares Draupadi's predicament at Duryodhana's court as that the mother earth (Gaia in Greek) is faced with at the hands of her own children all over the globe.Prabhu added that all can re-discover this essential goodness and Dharma in their own religions.

On 25,26 & 27 February we had good interaction with the two at Shrikrishna Museum and Samskrita Shodha Parishad in the Sanskrit Department of Kurukshetra University.Now it has taken the form of a certain pro-active forum and foundation named Dharma-Yoga International having chapters at Hyderabad,Bangalore,Munich and Kurukshetra.

Kurukshetra came to be designated as Dharmakshetra by Lord Vishnu when the sage-king Kuru ploughed the land of Brahmavarta and sowed eight seeds which were part and parcel of his own corporeal body purified by sacrifices.The legandary eight seeds are : Tapas (penance),Satya (Truth),Kshamaa (Forgiving),Dayaa (Kindness),Shaucha (Purity),Daana (Charity),Yoga (Spiritual Mastery) and Brahmacarya (Control of Senses).These eight are symbolic of practical Dharma in life.In the great epic Vyasa is in utter pains seeing the unhappy turn of events and speaks out : 'Here throwing up my arms I proclaim in distress,but none does lend an ear to me.I emphasize that out of Dharma(Condut) alone Artha (Resources) and Kaama (Desired objects) emerge ! But why is that Dharma not being practiced ?'

Can Dharma-Yoga bring some peace to the ailing and dying spirit of humanity ? Only our sustained efforts and future can tell ! "