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7 Point Program

All World Gayatri Pariwar is devoted to cultural, ethical, moral and spiritual awakening of the masses. Development of divinity in mankind is its foremost goal and avowed objective. To accomplish this goal it is working on the following seven programs.

1. Awakening Divinity Within Oneself

Worshipping the deity of human life, and awakening the divinity within us through three-fold path of Upasana, Sadhana and Aradhana. The meanings of these three terms are explained as follows:

Upasana means “sitting in the vicinity of divine virtues, divine thoughts”. This is practiced by:

• Worshiping God as per one’s faith
• Meditating and contemplating upon the eminent glow of divinity
• Reading and pondering over the thoughts and works of great personalities who lived with divine glory

Sadhana is the spiritual endeavor of self-refinement. This requires:

• Observance of self-restraint
• Efforts for improvement in behavior, conduct
• Transaction of duties

Sadhana can be practiced easily by adopting the sadhanas of aatm-bodh and tatva-bodh taught by Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya (Gurudev). The sadhana of aatm-bodh is to be practiced only for 10 to 15 minutes every morning before leaving the bed, and the sadhana of tatva-bodh is to be practiced only for 10 to 15 minutes every night before going to sleep. Morning aatm-bodh sadhana is aimed at thinking and doing feasible planning of what is to be done, to become a better human in the hours to come. Evening tatva-bodh sadhana requires sincere self-analysis and pondering over the positive and negative actions during the day. These simple practices are powerful tools for uprooting evil traits from life and inculcating divine virtues within oneself.

Aradhana means the service of the world, regarding it as the live manifestation, the beautiful creation of the Almighty. Donating some time, talents and material resources for altruistic services – especially for inspiring righteous thinking and awakening self-confidence in people – is an essential discipline to be followed by everyone associated with All World Gayatri Pariwar.

Sanskars

2. Education

The program for Education focuses on both Shikshaa and Vidyaa, i.e., ideal blending of moral refinement and intellectual development with school education.

Gurudev, Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya designed a new school-education syllabus, emphasizing the need of revising the existing system, to make it more rational, dynamic, relevant and useful in assuring a happy and bright future to the world. He also justified the importance of incorporating vidyaa in the updated system of shikshaa, and gave practical guidance for doing so at the primary, secondary and higher levels of education. He devised specialized value-based syllabus for this purpose, to suit the gamut of students having different backgrounds and mental and intellectual levels. The primary and pre-secondary education offered in the school of All World Gayatri Pariwar at Shantikunj, Haridwar, sets a living example of how this syllabus can be successfully implemented with the innovative methods of teaching suggested by him.

The special syllabus and mode of examination of Bhaartiya Sanskriti Gyaan Pareekshaa (An examination testing the knowledge of Indian Culture), organized by the mission in thousands of schools in India every year, has been very successful in creating cultural awareness, and clarifying the concept of vidyaa among children.

The progress of any nation is dependent on the fully developed personality of its citizens, of which youth comprise a significant proportion. The personality of youth is highly influenced by education. However, worldwide, the current education system is not structured to develop the personality of students, and does not guide them towards a purposeful path of life, through which they can live happily and peacefully, as well as be competent enough to fight difficulties. In the olden times, universities such as Nalanda and Takshashila accomplished the task of guiding students in the right direction, by imparting spiritual knowledge on a practical basis, i.e. how ideals can be incorporated in personality considering the prevalent trends in the society. In the 21st century, All World Gayatri Pariwar has taken up this challenging task by establishing the Dev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya (Divine Culture University) – A University for the Cultural Renaissance of the World. You can read more about this University at DSVV

3. Health

Ayurveda (The Ancient Indian Medical Science) is believed to be the oldest repository of diagnostic, pharmaceutical and therapeutic knowledge. This Vedic science draws upon an integral approach to healthcare by considering the physical, mental and deep emotional well being simultaneously. All World Gayatri Pariwar is conducting innovative research in Ayurveda, cultivation of Himalayan herbs and production of effective medicines. Various branches of western and alternative systems of medicines are also being synthesized here.

Yagyopathy (Applications of Yagna for Healing) has been found very effective in the cure of both physical ailments and psychosomatic disorders like anxiety, depression, guilt, insomnia, etc. Yagna (A process of offering oblations to the sacred fire along with chanting of Mantras) renews the brain cells, revitalizes the skin, purifies the blood and prevents growth of pathogenic bacteria. Mental peace, emotional stability and creative development of the mind are the psychological benefits. Yagna is basically a healing process, as is clear from the following example.

*Diabetic Treatment: The urine sugar level of some acute diabetic patients was found to be totally absent and the level of blood sugar was reduced to normal just after two to three weeks of daily agnihotra (Yagna) (From the book “The Integrated Science of Yagna”, compiled by Dr. R. R. Joshi, Publisher – Yug Nirman Yojna, Mathura, 1999).

4. Self-reliance

The one year swaavalamban vidyaa (self-reliance) course and training programs of self-reliant and moral education with spiritual refinement, offered by All World gayatri Pariwar at Gayatri Tapobhumi, Mathura, have been very successful in generating dedicated, disciplined and talented batches of young men and women, who are committed to altruist service for cultural elevation and global welfare. The well educated but unemployed youths, rather than suffering depression, and waiting for the government and other bodies for help, may also get new guidance from this kind of self-reliant vidyaa.

Self-reliant development of rural India through Adarsh Gram Teerth Yojna (Movement for the creation of ideal villages): Special shramdaan (collective labor) programs are organized by All World Gayatri Pariwar in rural parts of India – including the tribal bases in the interior – for ‘teaching by doing’. Programs like health and hygiene, literacy and reformative activities, and encouraging participation of villagers, are emphasized. Community services are also conducted through social functions, and mass participation in agricultural and small scale industry based developmental programs. Special emphasis is given to the use of cattle based resources and other local resources.

5. Women Empowerment and Awakening

Naari Jaagaran Abhiyaan (Women Awakening Movement) has been an integral part of the social reconstruction program of All World Gayatri Pariwar. Most remarkable has been its initiatives to revive the glory of women from the religious platform. In the Hindu society, where since the medieval times women were kept behind the veil, and were not supposed to chant Vedic mantras, we can now see hundreds of women priests chanting Vedic mantras, conducting all kinds of Vedic religious rituals, and guiding thousands of men and women. Not only that, they are leading many of the social reformative activities of the Pariwar. Groups of women (Brahmvaadini Tolis) go to different parts of the country and organize special 3-4 days social awareness programs for uplifting women’s condition.

Women’s education and cultural ascent are given impetus under this movement, so that the better half of the human society can play its role more efficiently and effectively. Several self-employment schemes under the self-reliance development programs of All World Gayatri Pariwar are women-oriented.

6. Protection of Environment

The huge industrial complexes, rapid urbanization, deforestation, air and water pollution, ozone-depletion, radioactive wastes etc., have disturbed and destabilized the natural harmony of human, animal and plant life cycles. The ecological imbalance caused by these criminal acts of the so called ‘civilized man’ has resulted in a disastrous threat, not only to the human survival, but also to life as a whole on our planet. Yagna has been found to be a viable cure for the ecological imbalance. Experimental studies have shown that yagna or agnihotra creates a pure, hygienic, nutritional and healing atmosphere. Researchers from the field of microbiology have observed that the medicinal fumes emanating from the process of agnihotra are bacteriostatic in nature, i.e. they eradicate bacteria and micro-organisms, which are the root causes of illness and diseases. The following quotes by renowned scientists are noteworthy:

• “Burning sugar and its smoke has a significant effect in purifying the atmosphere. It kills the germs of T.B., measles, smallpox and cow-pox” – remarks Prof. Tilward.
• A Russian Scientist named Dr. Shirowich mentions – “if cow’s ghee is put into the fire, its smoke will lessen the effect of atomic radiation to a great extent”.

The following example further illustrates the capability of yagna in fighting environmental pollution.

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh, India) Gas Tragedy and Agnihotra
The tragic incident occurred on the night of December 3, 1984 when the poisonous MIC gas leaked from Union Carbide factory at Bhopal. Hundreds of people died and thousands were hospitalized, but there were two families – those of Shri Sohan Lal S. Khushwaha and Shri M. L. Rathore, living about one mile away from the plant, who came out unscathed. These families were regularly performing agnihotra (havan). In these families nobody died, nobody was even hospitalized despite being present in the area worst affected by the leakage of the toxic gas. This observation implies that agnihotra is a proven antidote to pollution. (English Daily – “The Hindu” of 4th May 1985; news item under the heading ‘Vedic Way to Beat Pollution’.)

Everyone is aware of the disasters of deforestation. The only solution to this crisis is to create an awareness and enthusiasm in the people to plant more and more trees. All World Gayatri Pariwar is running programs for planting trees in several districts of India.

7. Deliverance from Addictions & Eradication of Evil Customs

Under the reformative projects of Yug Nirman Yojana (Movement for the Reconstruction of the Era), All World Gayatri Pariwar has successfully worked in many parts of India towards eradication of blind faith, religious fundamentalism, addictions, insane customs like dowry, expensive marriages and funeral rites, etc. Mass awareness about these problems is created by the organization of large-scale deep (lamp) yagnas, religious functions and Pragya Puran Kathas (Narrations of the scripture – Pragya Puran).

All World Gayatri Pariwar’s programs for Psycho-Social Engineering include:

• Transformation of Personality through special educational and Sadhana Satras (sessions).
• Activities of National Reconstruction: Eradication of Blind Faith, Ignorance and Illiteracy.
• Three months Yug Shilpi Satras (sessions for training Yug Shilpis, i.e. the persons who are capable of reconstructing the Era): Practical training for grass-root work in the rural areas, and for psychological and educational uplifting of the masses.

Following is an example of relief from Drug Addictions through agnihotra: An officer, 25 years in age, who had been a poly drug abuser in the past, was selected for the study by Lt. Col. G. R. Golecha, a senior advisor in the psychiatry division of the Indian army. The patient was at that time addicted to heroin for 2 years. He had undergone some de-addiction courses, twice in the past, with no benefit, and had become de-motivated and resistant to such methods. He was then introduced to agnihotra. The practice of agnihotra resulted in improving his motivation to abstain from smack, and showed significant decrease in his urge for it within a few weeks.

Conduction of marriages without any dowry, constraints of caste or community, and expensive celebrations has been a remarkable social reformative activity of All World Gayatri Pariwar. On an average, the marriages performed under this noble drive have saved Rs. 5 billion of the Indian society since the past decade. As per the records up to the year 2000, 1691 ideal marriages were performed in Shantikunj, Haridwar 700 during various Ashwamedha Yagnas, 108 in the Shraddhaanjali Samaaroha (Program organized to pay homage to Gurudev); and 400 in the world-wide Sanskaar Mahotsavas (Programs where various sacramental rites and ceremonies are performed for inculcating divinity in oneself). The number of such marriages performed in the Shaktipithas (Centers of All World Gayatri Pariwar at various places) is around 10 thousand per year.