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Central: Khajuraho, Delhi Office: No. 6, Behind Gulab Bhawan, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi-110 002, Phone: 011-40110455, Communication Office: F-31, Sector 6, NOIDA, Gautam Budh Nagar-201301, U.P. Phone: 0120-4879800 & 4879900, Lucknow Office: 4th Floor, Sahara Shopping Centre, Faizabad Road, Lucknow 226016. Telephones: 0522-2346443, 2346444, 2346445. PNS n RANCHI N TPC Coal Mining Headquarters, Ranchi recently organised a training programme on “Gender Sensitivity” through MS Team online mode. The training was inaugu- rated by Malancha Mathew, GM (HR), CMHQs. Addressing the participants, she spoke of empowerment of women that can be achieved through independence. Gender equality is the need of the hour and one should refrain from distinguishing between male and female, said Mathew. Amit Kumar Dubey, Head of Mines Safety, CMHQs on the occasion brief interaction focused on the safety of women workforce in coal min- ing sites and he added that any suggestion in making the working environment safe is always welcome. The faculty of the pro- gram was Arunima Patra, Tanvi Consultancy Services Pvt Ltd. The course module covered Gender Awareness, Gender Equality, Vishakha guidelines 1997, POSH Act 2013, Case studies and Questions answer session. The unique feature of today’s train- ing was enthusiastic partici- pation of all female dumper operators deployed in Pakri Barwadih Coal Mining Project, Hazaribag. Participants from Pakri Barwadih , Talaipalli and Coal Mining Headquarter partici- pated in the training. Participants were found inter- active and the training was appreciated by all. Gender Sensitivity training organised at NTPC CMHQs Sandhya Nayyar I n the perennial wisdom tra- dition of India, Guru holds a sacred place unmatched even by God Himself. For the one who forges the path is to be revered more than the desti- nation itself! If all the gods are wroth, and yet thou are satisfied with me, I am safe in the fortress of thy pleasure. And if all the gods protect me by the parapets of their bless- ings, and yet I receive not thy benediction, I am an orphan, left to pine spiritually in the ruins of thy displeasure. These soulful words emanated from Paramahansa Yogananda for his guru, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri. Paramahansa Yogananda, who belongs to the pantheon of God-realized souls that Mother India keeps begetting in every era, was born in Gorakhpur on January 5, 1893. Known the world over as the author of the best-selling spiritual classic, “Autobiography of a Yogi”, he is also revered as the “father of Yoga in the West” for his pio- neering work in spreading India’s ancient wisdom in the western world. We are all familiar with the couplet attributed to Sant Kabir wherein he says if his guru and God were standing in front of him, he would first bow down to his spiritual Master for: It is only by the Guru’s grace, that I have been able to meet my Divine Beloved. The protective grace of a realized Master is not confined to one lifetime, but continues through incarnations until the disciple reaches emancipation. This deathless love is sublime- ly expressed by the ever-living Master, Mahavatar Babaji when he meets his disciple Lahri Mahasaya in the Himalayan wilderness. Yoganandji elo- quently translates his words in Autobiography of a Yogi: You slipped away and dis- appeared into the tumultuous waves of the life beyond death…Though you lost sight of me, never did I lose sight of you…Through gloom, storm, upheaval, and light I followed you like a mother bird guarding her young… The guru who takes on this tremendous responsibility of training a disciple does not temper it with leniency. A cod- dled and cosseted disciple will never ever be free of his many psychological kinks acquired as the soul journeysover many incarnations. But such disci- pline is hard to take. It is a fire rite in which the crude ore of the disciple’s worldly con- sciousness is mercilessly puri- fied of all dross, until the soul- gold blazes forth with the light of God’s wisdom. As Yoganandaji confesses: As he (my guru) laboured at this titanic transformation, I shook many times under the weight of his disciplinary hammer. Through the guru’s unselfish motives the grateful disciple gets a glimpse of divine love; unconditional, limitless, eternal, even if at times seem- ingly harsh. The disciple even- tually understands that the guru was metaphorically discovering and uprooting every diseased tooth in his jaw, to make him an unobstructed channel for the Divine. The Guru sees the beau- tiful angel-soul hidden in the crude block of ego-stone of the disciple, and deems it his duty to chisel the stone until the angel comes forth. The Guru-disciple rela- tionship is a friendship purified in the fires of unswerving loy- alty, faith, and surrender. It is a friendship that remains unfazed by errors on the part of the disciple, for it is then that the guru’s help is most needed. Adi Shankaracharya declares the guru as peerless, nay tran- scendental, for even a philoso- phers’ stone could only turn iron into gold, not into anoth- er philosopher’s stone. The venerated teacher, on the other hand, creates equality with him- self in the disciple who takes refuge at his feet. The guru holds nothing back in this colossal meta- morphosis, until the disciple realizes that it was God Himself who manifested as the Guru to lead him to salvation. Yoganandaji concludes his ode to his Guru with these words: O Guru, thou didst lift me out of the land of bewilderment into the paradise of peace.My slumber of sorrow is ended, and I am awake in joy. Dissolving forever our fini- tude, together we shall merge in the Infinite Life. O Immortal Teacher, I bow to thee as the speaking voice of silent God. I bow to thee as the divine door leading to the tem- ple of salvation. The love and reverence he had for his Guru, transformed Yogananda into a Jagadguru, with countless followers all over the world who feel the presence of a living manifestation of God in him. The weight of his divinity automatically bows their heads before him. Today is the 128th Birth Anniversary of Paramahansa Yogananda. Guru: Speaking Voice of Silent God The love and reverence Paramahansa Yoganandahad for his Guru, transformed him into a Jagadguru, with countless followers all over the world who feel the presence of a living manifestation of God in him. The weight of his divinity automatically bows their heads before him. Today is the 128th Birth Anniversary of Paramahansa Yogananda