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Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat asked to ignore the shortcomings for now and work together to combat the COVID-19 induced crises in the country.
“We have to work together forgetting all differences. We have to halt the discussions on the shortcomings for now, we will get time for that later. Currently, we need to work as a team,” Bhagwat said on Saturday while addressing the concluding session of the five-day ‘Positivity Unlimited’ campaign organised by the COVID Response Team (CRT), an outfit formed to provide aid to the sick and the vulnerable.
The people and the government became complacent after the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, he said and urged citizens to help the society and practice yoga and Ayurveda.
“We all lost track after the first wave. The people, the governments, the administrations, everybody knew… The doctors too were warned but everybody still lost track. That’s why we are facing this situation today. Now, discussions are underway about a third wave. But do we get scared? We cannot,” he said.
While urging people to practice yoga and Ayurveda, Bhagwat said: “We know we are the people of Bharat. We know that the cycle of ‘Jeevan Jara Maran’ keeps going on. The way we change old, soiled clothes, the same way, humans leave the old, unusable body and attain a new body in order to move on. We know these things and the situation cannot scare or upset us,” he said.
Meanwhile, Bhagwat also urged people to not fall for unscientific remedies being spread in the name of Ayurveda.
“Ayurveda is a proven science in itself. There are several remedies that are suggested in Ayurveda traditionally. There is no harm in resorting to Ayurveda. But in the name of Ayurveda, several baseless claims go around. No such claims should be paid heed to till they are experienced by the masses, are scientifically proven and vetted by shastras,” he said.
Bhagwat said that the country is staring at a severe economic and financial crisis and the citizens need to start uplifting poorer and unorganised sectors to prepare for the same.
“In the future, a crisis of employment, economy, and financial backwardness is going to arise. We will have to start preparing for it,” he said.
Bhagwat said that while several evils of the society came to the fore amid the pandemic, several positives also emerged where people came to each other’s help and rescue.
