Sadhvi niranjan jyoti biography of rory

Religion: Instant Energy
Monday, Jul. 26, 1976

"In this country they have Father's Day and Mother's Day, and they
might as well have a Guru's Day," said the small, closely cropped
Indian dressed in a red wool ski hat, red silk robes and red knee
socks. He was himself a notable guru, Muktananda Paramahansa. So, last
week at a secluded retreat that was once a Catskill Mountains resort
hotel in upstate New York, more than 2,000 followers staged a day-long
celebration in honor of the man they consider a saint.

There were prayer sessions from which rose chants of Sanskrit verses.
Then the blue lights in the meditation hall dimmed, and the faithful
swayed rhythmically to and fro. Finally, Muktananda proclaimed (in
Mindi, a Hindi dialect), "Now is the auspicious hour of the auspicious
day. The sun and moon are strong." That heralded the main event: the
marriage of 16 couples, the women in saris, with garlands of flowers.
The guru, who is licensed to perform weddings as a minister in an
ordination mill called the Universal Life Church, blessed the rings
and said, "May you live together in love."

Muktananda, 68, known to his followers as Baba (father), is America's
newest fashionable guru. With 62 centers in North America besides the
Catskills ashram, he has attracted more than 20,000 devotees since his
arrival in 1974. He has also received respectful visits from such
celebrities as California Governor Jerry Brown, Singers James Taylor
and Carly Simon, Anthropologist Carlos Castaneda and Astronaut Edgar
Mitchell. At home in India, too, he has a considerable following.
There are centers of his disciples all over the subcontinent. He will
return there this fall in a chartered Air India 747, together with 400
American devotees and a pet bull terrier. But this is undoubtedly not
his last sojourn in the U.S. Says the guru: "Americans are good,
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Devdiscourse News Desk | New Delhi | Updated: 10-02-2023 17:35 IST | Created: 10-02-2023 17:35 IST

The Union Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Ms. Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today informed, that the Government takes various steps from time to time to augment domestic availability and control increasing food prices. These steps, inter-alia, include releases from the buffer to cool down prices, imposition of stock limits, monitoring of stocks declared by entities to prevent hoarding as also requisite changes in trade policy instruments like rationalization of import duty, changes in import quota, restrictions on exports of the commodity etc.

In order to manage the overall food security of the country and control the increasing prices of foodgrains the Government amended the export policy of wheat from free to prohibited category on 13th May 2022 for restricting export of Indian Durum Wheat, and from 12th July 2022 the export of atta (wheat) is subjected to the recommendation of Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) on export of wheat. Further, the export of broken rice has been banned , and export duty of 20% imposed on non-Basmati rice except for parboiled rice w.e.f. 9th September 2022. 

The Government has also decided to offload 30 lakh metric tons of wheat under Open Market Disposal Scheme (OMSS) and sales to State Governments, Kendriya Bhandar, National Consumer Cooperative Federation (NCCF), National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd. (NAFED), State Cooperatives/ Federations etc. to cool down the prices of wheat and atta.

To augment domestic availability and moderate the prices of pulses, import of tur and urad have been kept under 'Free Category' till 31.03.2024 and import duty on masur has been reduced to zero till 31.03