The Aniruddha’s Institute of Sports and Bonsai Sports
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Part of
‘Ramrajya’ pravachan that Parampoojya Sadguru Shree Aniruddha
Bapu (Dr. Aniruddhasinh Joshi) delivered on Thursday 6th May 2010
at Shreeharigurugram.
Now for a subject that is wonderful and one that I
am fond of. I am referring to ‘Sports’.
Param
Pujya Shree Aniruddha Bapu
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Children
hardly seem to play today. There is just one child in the family and not
two any more. There are just about two children in the whole building.
Whom are they supposed to play with? What with tuition classes and that
too right from class one! Expecting them to study, bury their heads
in notebooks all through the day is no less than an atrocity. Barely
has the child come in the fifth class and he is burdened with
responsibility. If it is a boy, the expectations weigh heavier than in
case of the girl child. They are both, in any case, bogged down by
pressure. Children have to play, frisk around freely. Leave alone the
children, have the men above thirty present here, played a game or a sport
once a week? May be once a year? Raise your hands if you have played three
hours in the day once in the week. I am not talking about
playing carom or chess at home. I mean Kabaddi, Football, Cricket and
the likes. All right, I am happy.
Women
especially, just do not play at all. In the olden days the women used to have
the ‘mangalaagour’ (मंगळागौर) but not anymore. All that the woman does
today, is gossip and slander. As for the men, they sit around in the
Shivaji Park and chat. Incidentally, I heard about the rule that in view
of the pollution, Shivaji Park will no more be open for
public meetings as they make use of loud speakers (sound amplifiers).
It is the prohibition of excessive talk and gossip that ought to be
implemented – that would be beneficial.
What goes on
in the house next door? Whom did the wife of XYZ elope with? These are
things we are interested in. Men are no better than women. Why do we not
learn to play a sport instead? You are bound to ask, “Bapu, where in
Mumbai do we find the open space to play?” The one who really wishes to
play, will find the place. Do you understand?
If you have
the will to play, you will end up finding the way too and automatically.
But over and above all of this, I have set up an institute which is the
result of research for ten long years. ‘The
Aniruddha’s Institute of Sports and Bonsai Sports’. The bonsai
plant is a small or reduced version of the original big tree. Like we have
the Bonsai version of the Banyan tree, we have the bonsai version of a
sport.
When I
worked as an R.M.O. at the Nair Hospital, My friend and I used My cot to
play Table tennis in My room that measured 10feet x 12feet. I got a
special folding table made. I placed My cot in the centre of the room. The
table folded at the hinges. I just had to open it out, pin up the net in
the middle and enjoy a game of table tennis. What I mean to say is,
if you want to play, you surely can manage even in small spaces. You can
even play cricket and wherever you want to. It is just that you must know
to play. In our home, My children played with Me, with Suchit, with Sameer
even in the living room or on the sly in the study as small as 120 square
feet, if their Mother happened to be in the living room! Yes indeed
we can play and without breaking vessels or shattering glass. That is
precisely why the Institute. ‘Play to your heart’s content.’ French
cricket, Squash, Hollow-squash, Ping pong are known sports and they also
classify as Bonsai sports in a way.
Matches of
sports like Kabaddi, Kho-Kho, Cricket will be arranged and the different
centres of our organization will play these matches. However, there will
be no rivalry or competition because the teams will be charted out as
follows: If for example, centre ‘A’ and centre ‘B’ are to play a
cricket match, team ‘Aniruddha’ will consist of 6 players each
from the two centres and team ‘Suchit’ too will have 6 players
each from the two centres. This pattern of charting teams
will eliminate the possibility of rivalry between centres and consequently
also rule out jealousy, resentment and conflict. It will at the same time
promote sportsmanship and the team spirit.
Moreover,
the more you play, the sharper your brain. All play and no work means
wasting the brain and all work and no play means rotting the brain. Hence
both work and play in appropriate measure is what we must strive for.
Playing a sport makes you positive, sporting, confident and gives
you the grit and the guts to take on work or responsibility. Men and
women should both play. Play when you are in your forties, in your fifties
and even in your sixties. In fact if you have been playing until your
fifties, there are better chances that you will be active and alert in
your sixties as well; if you do not, you might end up with a bobbing head.
As the chief of this institute
we have a strict disciplinarian, a stringent person, i.e. Dr. Aniruddhasinh Dhairyadhar Joshi. He has
one message for all, ‘study and play; play and study’.
Bapu & Suchitdada playing Badminton Doubles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqeSkr6kf1wBapu and Nandai playing Badminton
Bapu Playing Cricket
Aniruddha Bapu, Aai and Suchitdada Playing Cricket
"Family which plays and prays together, stays together”
Around two
years ago, under this Institute, Sadguru Shree Aniruddha. Bapu formed a study
group including 19 people and named them as Bonsai Sports Engineers. The work
of this study group consists of developing and designing of various games,
finding out new games, modifying old games in such a way that can be played by
people belonging to any age group, creating various versions of a game so that
it can be played anywhere, even at home. Under the guidance of Sadguru Shree
Aniruddha. Bapu this group has started with a pilot project i.e. a gaming
activity at various centres.
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