Volunteers, students urged to clean Ganga

Tribune News Service

Haridwar, May 28

Various functions were held on the 25th death anniversary of Gayatri Shantikunj founder Pandit Shri Ram Sharma Acharya at Shantikunj and Dev Sanskriti University here today.

Shantikunj ideologue Dr Pranav Pandya urged volunteers and students to actively work towards cleaning of the Ganga, as just pinning hope on the Central or state government to clean the holy river was not sufficient.

Pandya said the Ganga cleaning drive needs to be carried out round the year. Practising yoga too was necessary as only healthy people could clean the river.

“Ganga-Gayatri paves the way for salvation and it can be attained through meditation and yoga. Regular chanting of the Gayatri hymn, practising of yoga and praying before the Ganga instil in us immense spiritual strength. When lakhs of people get this positive energy, it only paves the way for betterment of society and global peace,” said Pandya.

Shail Jiji, spiritual mentor of Shantikunj, said both Gayatri and Ganga are deities of sentiments and on the occasion of Ganga Dussehra, we should take a pledge to purify our inner soul too.

Translated literature works of late Pandit Shri Ram Sharma Acharya in Hindi, Oriya, Malayalam, Telugu and Marathi languages were also released on the occasion.

Prior to the function, Dr Gayatri Kishore Trivedi and Dinesh Patil amid the presence of a large number of Gayatri Shantikunj devotees performed rituals.