(^88) YOGA AND TOTAL HEALTH • January 2018YOGA AND TOTAL HEALTH • January 2018
Paramhamsa Madhavdasji was a
teacher and a Yogi. Very strangely, for
such an individual at an advanced age
of 120, before he went to sleep he would
like to be assured that the animals in
the cattle shed had been provided
with proper meals. As a Yo g i he did not
have to worry about cattle, yet if there
was a sick cow, he would himself go
in the night to attend to it. When Shri
Yogendraji was with him for learning
yoga, Madhavdasji found that from
the 700 or so people who were around
him, some of them were jealous that
Madhavdasji was taking a lot of interest
in him. Even though he was a Yogi,
he was worried that they may harm
Yogendraji. So he made a rule that the
food that was kept in the plate for him
should also be kept for Yogendraji.
Both ate from the same plate to be
sure that nobody played any mischief.
This was the sense of responsibility.
A good politician like Lal Bahadur
Shastri - an ordinary individual, poor
- became the Prime Minister of the
country. When he died, his bank
account showed that he had only a
few hundred rupees. He was not busy
in collecting money. On the contrary,
when the war broke out against
Pakistan, even though he had a heart
problem (because of which he died)
he would still make it a point every
morning, during the wartime, to call
the Generals to his residence one by
one. Since he had a heart problem he
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Dr. Jayadeva Yogendra in Parisamvada
Responsibility