| ❖ மக்கள் நூறாண்டு உயிர்வாழ்க்கை - 1 ❖ |
Only a few hold to the view that man has infinite possibilities in store, if he would only care to exercise his will, and that according as he energizes it or leaves it dormant, does he either lengthen it or leaves it dormant, does he either lengthen his life's duration or shorten it to a span. These few are mostly the adherente of the yoga system of philosophy. In ancient times not only but so in Greece, the followers of Kapila and Patanjali, and Pythagoros practised strict yogic modes of living and thinking and eventually enjoyed a long life extending to hundred years and more.
But in recent times when the practice of yoga and therewith the natural ways of living and the loftier ways of thinking had the more fallen into disuse, as the people became more and more illiter- ate, ignorant and aggressively selfish indulging in animal passions and aggressively selfish indulging in animal passions and morbidly craving fpr innatural fllds and drinks, the human life also has become hideously short. Most horrible forms of disease have multiplied and great sufferings and countless premature deaths do occur. Still they pass unnoticed simply as ineviable occurrences. The yogic mode of living has even come to be looked upon as belonging exclusively to the ascetic few.
But, towards the end of the last century Saint amalinga in Southern India and Saint RamaKrishna and his great and illustrious disciple Swami Vivekananda in Northern India had, by their impressive teachings and thrilling lectures, revived the study and practice of Yoga to an appreciable degree and showed how all who are willing might share in the benefits of Yoga.
Still earlier in far-off countries Newton the great discoverer of scientific laws, struck deeply by the fact If the wonderfully long life led by some men-especially by Thlmas Parr who lived 153 years, and Henry Jenkins 169, devoted his attention to a study of the habits
