Impact of Yoga and Meditation Among the Student Community

There is large number of methods of Yoga catering to the needs of the different types of people in society and to bring about the transformation of the individual. As Swami Vivekananda told; “Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work or worship or psychic control or philosophy by one or more or all of these and before. This is the whole of religion” -Swami Vivekananda In fact, yoga is not a religion; it is a way of living whose aim is ‘a healthy mind in a healthy body’. A piece of yoga practice every day will definitely make student community gain more physical strength and get rid of all physical difficulties and diseases. With this mental strength, student community can come out and fight against all discrepancies with increasing self-confidence. They will thus become more powerful than ever before. Yoga can empower in the following four ways like Physical Health Empowerment, Emotional Empowerment, Mental Health Empowerment and Spiritual Empowerment. All these can be attained through yoga practices that include Yogasana, Pranayama and Meditation. These simple but powerfully uplifting intervention programmes can instill self confidence in students, renewing their sense of joy, spirit of integration and communal kinship

Deciphering the Role of Oxygen Vacancies on Structural, Electrical, and Magnetic Properties of Fe-Substituted Strontium Titanate

A comprehensive investigation of incorporation of Fe into SrTiO3 is reported. SrFexTi1-xO3- (x=0.0 - 0.3) powders are prepared via solid state route. X-ray diffraction (XRD) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) techniques are used to analyze the phase formation, surface chemistry, and electronic structure while scanning electron microscope (SEM) is employed to investigate the surface morphology and microstructural properties. The electrical and magnetic properties are studied at room temperature (RT) to explore the effect of iron substitution on the current conduction and magnetic phase transformation. XPS results indicate the presence of mixed valence state as Fe content increased resulting in considerable enhancement of oxygen vacancies. Moreover, a continuous decrease in Fermi level (FL) is observed as Fe concentration is increased. The increment in Fe concentration leads to variation of current-voltage (I-V) characteristics from linear to non-linear. Magnetic measurements demonstrate three behaviors; an intrinsic diamagnetic behavior (x=0.0, 0.05) followed by ferromagnetic behavior (x=0.1, 0.2), and finally a paramagnetic behavior (x=0.3) due to transition metal impurities and defects. These studies have been used to establish correlation between the evolution of oxygen vacancies emanating from Fe-substitution on structural, electrical, and magnetic properties