Daud aur Chintan Mandal (Jogging and Thinking Club)

 

Sadbhav Mission

 

Friends,

        Sadbhav Mission has been working for 35 years. Our thrust has been on developing grassroots resistance against sectarianism. We publish magazine and books, distribute fliers, organize workshops and lectures, carry marches. We also used to hold weekly meetings in few places. During 1992-2004 we formed an Ekta Pachayat in Indira Colony at Yamuna Pushta, New Delhi.

        I feel there is need for a regular activity that can attract youth, working age groups and senior citizens. Based on my own experience with jogging, that I started at the age of 36 in 1984 and continue (occasionally) even now, I think jogging could be a regular activity that can attract youths as well as elderly people. I present my proposal for your kind consideration. Those who feel convinced, may write to me. We can form a core group and hold a meeting to initiate this activity.

 

Best regards

 

Vipin Tripathi

9717309263   

 

                                     Daud aur Chintan Mandal

(Jogging and Thinking Club)

 

V.K. Tripathi

 

            Jogging is an enjoyable practice. It helps you keep healthy without going to a doctor. It also helps mental health by keeping pressures off your head. Jogging with a thought free mind uplifts soul and springs creative ideas.

            Jog individually (not in a group). That saves you from gossip and gives you opportunity to be one with nature, to see clouds, trees, birds freely. Also, jog with a rhythm. Initially you may get tired after jogging half a kilometer. But in ten days, you will be able to jog for 4 km. Keep your mouth closed while jogging, breathe through the nose. Jogging activates lungs, regulates blood circulation, and increases the capacity of the body to fight disease. After jogging, you may drink lemon shikanji (neeboo pani). 

            Once a week, jog in a group for half an hour and talk for an hour informally (no gossip) on self and social concerns. It will build friendship among the group. You will be able to sublime prejudice in society and promote insaaniyat (humanism). It will serve a great societal need to curb sectarian politics and corporate dominance.

            For high school and college students (boys and girls alike), anxious about admissions and career, it will be a refreshing relief. Whatever course of study comes your way, take it up with involvement. Focus on understanding. It will bring fascination.   

For retired people, this activity will give a purpose of life and save them becoming a fodder to sectarian trap promoting prejudice through gossip and playing cards. They can be a silent career of revolution that the country needs to liberate shrines of sectarian control and economy of corporate dominance. We may draw lessons from Sufi-Saint movement and the freedom movement. In Juhapura (Ahmedadad) I saw a Senior Citizens Club. Members walk to the meeting point and hold daily meetings and hold structured and openminded discussions on relevant issues. They participated in several of our programs on communal harmony.

For those in other ages, including the ones in jobs, jogging and thinking will be satisfying. They will enhance their sensitivity and creativity. Those who have academic temperament, affinity towards students and are driven by truth, nonviolence and creativity, may aspire for teaching. Through teaching your subject with interest, you can motivate students to shake off prejudice and strive for freshness, freedom and equity.