Boxing Cassius Clay Cassius Clay was born in 1942, of a poor black Christian family in Louisville, Kentucky. He was an aimless adolescent roaming the streets with friends when he discovered boxing, one of the only sports open to a black athlete in America at that time of strict segregation. Young Cassius took to boxing and eventually rose to fame. In 1964 he converted to Islam and changed his name to Muhammad Ali. He tells us here how he got into boxing in the first place. I was twelve years old, and me and Johnny Willis, my closest buddy, had been out riding around on our bikes, when Johnny suddenly remembered the Louisville Home

Sri Aurobindo Message In their more superficial aspect they [sports and physical exercises] appear merely as games and amusements which people take up for entertainment or as a field for the outlet of the body's energy and natural instinct of activity or for a means of the development and maintenance of the health and strength of the body; but they are or can be much more than that: they are also fields for the development of habits, capacities and qualities which are greatly needed and of the utmost service to a people in war or in peace, and in its political and social activities, in most indeed of the provinces of a combined human endeavour

Page – 14 Ayurvedic Concept of Health Definition of health and disease Dhatus consist of vata, pitta and kapha; rasa, rakta, mamsa, medas, asthi, majja and sukra; and upadhatus like rajas, etc. Any deficiency or excess in the normal quantity of the dhatus causes vikara or disease. Equilibrium of these dhatus, on the other hand, is prakrti, that is health. Absolute equilibrium of the dhatus, in fact, is not possible. For example, kapha invariably gets vitiated in the first part of the day and night, immediately after taking food and during childhood. In the similar other circumstances, pitta and vata also invariably remain

Notes Glossary Light year — the distance which light travels in a year (about 6,000,000,000,000 miles) (six thousand millions miles) Morphological class — a biological classification by form, especially outer form and inner structure of living organisms and their parts. Diatheses — belonging or pertaining to an individual from birth; resulting from one's heredity or prenatal development. Substratum — the substance in which qualities adhere; a basis, foundation, ground; an underlying layer. Lumen — the cavity or channel within a tube or tubular organ. Auricle — either of two chambers of the heart,