I Hate Wine

शराब एक ऐसा तरल पदार्थ (लिक्विड) है जिसमे शरीर के लिए आवश्यक प्रोटीन आदि कोई भी तत्त्व नहीं होता यकर्त उसे पचा नहीं सकता. इसलिए उसे सीधे हर्दय में पंहुचा देता है हर्दय में खून के साथ मस्तिष्क की ओर चल पड़ता है फलतः वह शराब के दुस्प्रभाव में आ जाता है उसके ज्ञान एव तर्क तंतुओ की क्षमता नष्ट हो जाती है वाणी, हाथ-पैर की क्रिया, द्रष्टि आदि सभी इन्द्रिया अनियत्रित हो जाती है जब शराब गुर्दों में पहुच जाती है, तब यह विष गुर्दों की कोशिकाओ को खरोचता रहता है, जिनसे उनमे खुरदरापन आ जाता है इससे केल्सियम जमने लगता है और रक्त प्रवाह में बाधा पहुचने लगती है इससे गुर्दे में दर्द भी बढ़ता है और यहाँ की कोशिकाये मोटी भी हो जाती है इन दो बीमारियों के लिए स्थाई निवास बनाकर ही शराब शरीर से बहार निकलती है अतः असामयिक म्रत्यु से बचने के लिए यह व्यसन छोड़ना अति आवश्यक है
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हँसिए और जीवन को मधुर बनाइये

खिल खिलाकर हँसना, हास्य विनोद, मुस्कराट मनुष्य के शावास्त्य को ठीक बनाने की अचुत दावा है शारीरिक, मानसिक स्वास्थ्य के लिए भी हँसना एक महत्वपूर्ण साधन है हँसना जीवन का सौरभ है अपने आप से कुंद कलिका जब खिलखिला उठती है, तो उसका सौंन्द्र्य देखते ही बनता है मनहूसों का दिल उसकी और आकर्षित हो उठता है जीवन की विभिषीकाओ से दग्ध मनुष्य के लिए भी वे कुछ क्षण नवजीवन के प्रेरणा केंद्र बन जाते है बाल शुलभ मुस्कराट, हँसी विनोद के सम्पर्क में आकर निराश, नीरस व्यक्तियों में भी जीवन की स्फुरणा जाग पड़ती है साथियों के हास्य विनोदमय कहकहे के बीच उस समय मनुष्य अपने दुःख एव अवसाद की अनुभतीयो को भी तीरोहीत कर देता है

The Martyrdom Of Amrita Devi and Khejarli Massacre !!!

The Bisnois narrate the story of Amrita Devi, a Bishnoi woman who, along with more than 366 other Bishnois, died saving the Khejarli trees. Nearly 2 centuries back, Maharajah Abhay Singh of Jodhpur required some woods for the construction of his new palace. So the king sent his soldiers to cut trees in the nearby region of Khejarli, where the village is filled with the large number of trees. But when Amrita Devi and local villagers come to know about it, they opposed the kings men. The malevolent feudal party told her that if she wanted the trees to be spared, she would have to give them money as bribe. She refused to acknowledge this demand and told them that she would consider it as an act of insult to her religious faith and would rather give away her life to save the green trees. This is still remembered as the great Khejarli sacrifice. Some Bishnois who were killed protecting the trees were buried in Khejerli village near Jodhpur, where a simple grave with four pillars had been erected. Every year,in September, the Bishnois assemble there to commemorate the extreme sacrifice made by their people to preserve their faith and religion.

भले पधारो पामणा.. आडी़ ती घणों घणों मुजरो...राजी खुसी हो ?

भले पधारो पामणा.. आडी़ ती घणों घणों मुजरो...राजी खुसी हो ?
मालवी जाजम को यो चिट्ठो आपको अपणों हे.जमानो बदली रियो हे.मोबाइल ओर कंप्यूटर जिन्दगी में एसा घुसी ग्या हे जेसा अपणा घर का परंडा ने चुल्हा.बदलती दुनिया में अपण के भी बदलनो पड़ेगा.तो म्हाराद नाना संजय का मन में यो विचार आयो कि अपण अपणी मालवी मे एक चिट्ठो सुरू करां इना काम में म्हारा लाड़का पोता छोटू (वणिको स्कूल को नाम पार्थ हे)ने भारी मदद करी.वीकें म्हारा आसीस.म्हारो आखो जीवन मालवी का काम में ग्यो हे..पण अबे भी लगे हे कि खूब काम बाकी हे.मालवी जाजम का ई पानणा अपणी माड़ी सरीखी मालवी को माथो ऊचो करे ..एसी म्हारी मानता हे.आप भी अणी काम में मदद करो ..म्हारे अपणी मालवी रचना,गीत,लोकगीत,कविता,बारता,जनम,मरण,परण का गीत लिखी पोचाओ..अपणे इण मालवी जाजम का चिट्ठा पे जारी करांगा..मिल बैठ बाचांगा ने राजी वांगा.आपका घर का दाना-बूढा के म्हारो पांव-धोक .नाना-नानी के माथे हाथ फ़ेरजो.जै रामजी की.

थोडी़-घणी.
साठ बरस की हुई गी अपणी नईदुनिया इमें बाँचो खूणो मालवी निमाडी़ को.हर शनिवार..रंगत आपकी मीठी बोली की.मान आपकी मालवी को.

Aarti

Why Bishnois bury their dead bodies

Why Bishnois bury their dead bodies instead of cremating them, like most of the Hindu communities? It is because the wood which is used for cremation is derived from cutting down green trees and it is against there consciousness.

"Sar santey rookh rahe to bhi sasto jaan"

In Khejarli Massacre, Amrita Devi - a Bishnoi women and other local villagers hugged the trees while the soldiers of Maharajah Abhay Singh of Jodhpur did not stopped to chop them down along with the trees. At this stage Amrita Devi spoke these words :
"Sar santey rookh rahe to bhi sasto jaan"

(If a tree is saved even at the cost of one's head, it's worth it).

Jambhehsawar Bhagwan

Birth :- Vikram Samwat 1508 Bhadrapad Vadi 8 (Year 1451) (Midnight of Shri Krishna Janmashtami in Kritica Nakshastra)
Place :- Village: PipasarDistrict: NagaurState: Rajasthan
Father :- Thakur Shri Lohat Ji Panwar
Mother :- Hansa (Smt. Kesar Devi)
Uncle :- Shri Pulho Ji Panwar(Jambho Ji has made him first BISHNOI)
Aunt :- Smt. Tantu Devi
Grand Father :- Shri Rawal Singh Ji Sardar (Rolo Ji)(He was among 42nd ancestor of Maharaja Vikramaditya)
Nana Ji :- Shri Mohakam Singh Ji Bhati (Khileri)
Nanihal :- Village Chhapar, District Churu, Rajasthan
When Shri Jumbheshwar Bhagwan were 7 years old, he started taking cows for grazing to the nearby forests. He utilized his seclusion as a cowherd for observing people, plants and trees, forests and animals. It was during this period that he understood the quality of life in .the arid conditions of the Thar Desert.Chet Sudi Navami, Vikram Samwat 1540: Father Lohat Ji Expired.Five months after mother Hansa also expired.In the age of 34 years, he left home and went to Samarathal Dhora. Established BISHNOI religion on Kartik Vadi 8, Vikram Samwat 1542.He left this world on Migsar Vadi Navami, Vikram Samwat 1593 at “Lalasar ki Sathari”. He cleverly packaged a set of 29 rules (This is how BISHNOI name came inplace as ‘BIS’ is twenty and ‘NOI’ stands for nine) by which his followers must live. He was born in a Rajput clan, given to warring and conquests. He saw poverty and social discord. Convinced that man can succeed only by taking care of nature, and not by coveting the fruits of another man's labours. Visited across country for 51 years and shown lots of miracles to Kings, Rich & Poors etc. At times, he astounded people around him with words of knowledge and wisdom. Shri Guru Jumbheshwar Bhagwan walked the barren wilds of Rajasthan, showing how man can live in peaceen in those lands, provided he cared. He was a great saint and philosopher of medieval India. He raised his voice against the rituals and formalities of Hinduism. Born in a well-to-do Rajput family in 1508 in Pipasar village of Nagaur district, Jambhoji was the only child of his parents. As a child, he was so quiet that his fellow villagers thought him to be dumb. When he was 18 years old, he met another famous saint - Gorakhnathji. It is believed that Gorakhnath Ji influenced the thoughts of Jambho Ji considerably. After the death of his parents, he renounced his entire property and shifted to Samrathal sand dunes. This is the place that saw the birth of Bishnoi sect. He imparted knowledge to his followers and propagated his faith. He was against all social and religious barriers. His close study of desert had made him realize the important role played by trees and other forms of vegetation.

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Bishnoi

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"The Bishnois are practicing naturalists and are world's first environmentalists"Unique blend of ecological sense and religious sensibility, over centuries, is Bishnoi's faith's cornerstone. We worship nature in all its manifestations. Not the ripe, yielding nature of ancient pagan societies, but the ruthless and demanding desert where a desolate horizon meets a blazing sky. Our women suckle motherless deer, our people die to save trees, go hungry to provide food for animals and live a strictly sattvic (simple) life advocated by our guru Shri Jumbheshwar Bhagwan. Bishnoi, a religion of peace, is based on 29 (BISH: 20 & NOI: 9) principles including compassion for all living beings, cleanliness, devotion, vegetarian diet and truthfulness. We never cut green trees but wait for trees to die on their own or fall down during storms. Even though much of our standing crop is eaten by deer herds, we never ever chases deer away. We consider it a great pride to be able to die saving trees or animals. Bishnoi men in villages can easily be distinguished by their large white turbans, while Bishnoi women wear earth colours and have a particularly ostentatious nose ring. Cattle rearing and agriculture are dominant pursuits of Bishnoi people. Bishnoi sm is widely practiced faith or religion that is built on the holism of nature. Bishnois are wholly and solely devoted to nature, and to conservation as the pivot of human life. Bishnoi people live, not in the bucolic splendour of some green valley, where nature may seduce you to love her; but in the arid, desolation of north-western India where nature requires a struggle by man to even survive. The 500 year faith of the hardy Bishnois, has many lessons for the modern man. For over half a millennium, the Bishnois have evolved their life-style into a religion that fiercely protects the environment. It is not a religion that has a heritage of myths, miracles, a book, ornate temples or priests. While Jainism , founded in 1542, believe in and practice complete non-violence to all living creatures; Bishnoi community have been the largest contributing factor to the survival of wildlife in the region.The Bishnois, estimated to be around 6 million, spread over Rajasthan, Gujarat, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, are a practical, wise people who hold lessons for everyone. Our mission to protect is so deeply engrained in our psyche that the women have even breast fed orphaned black buck fawns, that they may survive and protect all kinds of insect life. Innumerable Bishnoi men and women have given their lives to defend trees and animals from heavily armed poachers. Bishnois also bury chinkara that die and mark the graves with stones. Shri Jumbheshwar Bhagwan was a great saint and philosopher of medieval India. He raised his voice against the rituals and formalities of Hinduism. Hei imparted knowledge to his followers and propagated his faith. He was against all social and religious barriers. His close study of desert had made him realize the important role played by trees and other forms of vegetation. Below are Some of principles to live by, totaling 29 in all, by Shri Juru Jumbheshwar Bhagrwan. From that number 20 [bis] plus 9 [no], comes the name of the religion. Anybody can hardly find a more secular creed than Bishnois !!!·-Never cut a green tree, but wait for a tree to age and die and then use it as timber.-Bury your dead simply, so that the earth assimilates the flesh - and you save too, the wood needed for a casket or a cremation.-Practice cleanliness and a high level of hygiene, for these will guard you from disease.-Protect wildlife - they too play a role in maintaining soil fertility and in holding the balance of harmful and beneficial life forms.-Conserve water for use by man and animals, by building tanks everywhere.-Practice vegetarianism and be addicted to nothing - alcohol, tobacco or even tea!-Do not expect or seek, alms or subsidy, from king or government; believe in self-help!-Let women, those founts of life, wear bright clothes of red or orange and the men white, as a symbol of undiluted devotion to the faith.-If ever you must choose to be violent, may it be in defense of a tree, an animal or your convictions; for this, even embrace death with cheer.Bishnoi Is have been true to their master's wishes. Bishnoi people can be seen living their values. The mud floors are plastered with cow dung to keep vermin away. The interiors are airy and clean. Men, women and children exude robust good health. There is a granary to guard their rations, and a sump for stored water . There is an easy paced dignity to life here.

Lover of Wild Animals !!!

Their villages are easily distinguishable with plenty of trees and other vegetation, and herds of antelopes roaming freely near their homes. The fields are ploughed with simple ploughs using bullocks or camels and this causes minimal damage to the fragile desert eco-system. The Bishnois keep only cows and buffaloes as rearing of sheep and goats, which devour desert vegetation, is taboo. They do not sell dairy products, and do not raise sheep or goats for slaughter. The Bishnoi do not allow their dogs to kill the wild animals, especially the black bucks. Cats are well taken care of and the Bishnoi appreciate that they kill snakes and rats who eat their grain. They feed the cats yogurt and milk. The Bisnois maintain groves, locally known as orans, for the animals to graze and birds to feed. Orans serve as important recharger of rain water in the aquifers in the desert, where every single drop of water is precious. In most orans, particularly in western Rajasthan.

विशनोई धर्म के २९ नियम

विशनोई धर्म के २९ नियम :-
१. तीस दिन सूतक रखना
२. पॉँच दिन का रजस्वला रखना
३. प्रातःकाल स्नान करना
४. शील, संतोष व शुद्धि रखना
५. प्रातः, साय संध्या करना
६. साय आरती, विष्णु गुण गाना
७. प्रातःकाल हवन करना
८. पानी छानकर पिए व वाणी शुद्ध बोले
९. इंधन बीनकर व दूध छानकर ले
१०. क्षमा - सहनशीलता रखे
११. दया - नम्रभावः से रहे
१२. चोरी नहीं करनी
१३. निंदा नहीं करनी
१४. झूठ नहीं बोलना
१५. वाद - विवाद नहीं करना
१६. अमावस्या का व्रत रखना
१७. भजन विष्णु का करना
१८. प्राणी मात्र पर दया करना
१९. हरे वर्क्ष नहीं काटना
२०. अजर को जरना
२१. अपने हाथ से रसोई पकाना
२२. थाट अमर रखना
२३. बैल को बधया न करना
२४. अमल नहीं खाना
२५. तम्बाकू का सेवन नहीं करना
२६. भांग नहीं पीना
२७. मधयपान नहीं करना
२८. मांस नहीं खाना
२९. नीले रंग का वस्त्र नहीं पहनना

उनतीस धर्म की आखडी हरदे धरियो जोय
जम्भेशवर किरपा करी नाम विशनोई होई

Khejarli Sacrifice

Throughout our long history, we have shown our readiness to die for our beliefs. The most celebrated episode took place as recently as 1737 in the village of KHEJARLI, near Jodhpur. The land around this village was, as it is today, makes for a pitiless landscape. Scant rainfall allows but four months of farming. People share the grains they raise with animals in need. Central to their lives is the khejari tree [prosopis cineraria], which is almost the only tree that rises to some height, yielding shade, fodder and ultimately some timber. Gazelles and black-buck roam with abandon, confident that the folks all around are the loving kind. Peacocks amble with leisure. On a warm and sunny morning of September 1737, in Khejarli, a village near Jodhpur, Amrita Devi, a Bishnoi woman and mother of three daughters was busy with her daily chores like churning milk for extracting butter. Her husband like other men folk of the village was away working in the fields. Suddenly she heard the sound of some one cutting a tree. She wondered who had dared cut trees in a Bishnoi village. She left her work and came out to enquire. Girdharidas Bhandari, a senior officer of Jodhpur State, mounted on a horse, was ordering his men to cut trees. Around him many village elders had gathered. They all urged the officer to stop the cutting of trees in their village as it was against the Bishnoi religion to cut or allow anyone else to cut any green Khejri tree. Girdharidas was adamant, and told the gathering that the wood was needed to burn lime. And conveyed that this was an order of the ruler, so nobody should try stopping him. Amrita Devi’s heart was crying because she knew that this tree had served as the lifeline of her family and many others who were trying to live life in this harsh climate. riven by her emotions she ran and clung to the tree that was being axed. ‘Cut my body before felling the tree’ she cried. The woodcutters stopped as they did not know what to do but Girdharidas ordered his men to cut off her head. Amrita Devi was mercilessly axed along with the tree. Her bold sacrifice inspired her three young daughters Ashi, Ratni and Bhagu. Following her steps they too clung to the tree and were hacked ruthlessly. One after the other 363 Bishnois sacrificed their lives. For every tree that fell a Bishnoi man, woman or child laid down their life. When the news of this brutality reached the ruler of Jodhpur, he immediately stopped the massacre. But by now the entire Bishnoi community had revolted and they threatened to leave the state if they were not allowed to pursue their faith and religion. The Maharaja realized the gravity of the situation and apologized for the grave mistake committed by his officer. He issued a royal decree engraved on a copper plate, prohibiting the cutting of trees and hunting of wild animals in any Bishnoi village in Jodhpur State. There is probably no parallel to this, in the history of conservation. Today, in KHEJARLI there is an eerily silent orchard and a temple in it, to commemorate the day those 363 Bishnois engraved a message in the conscience of mankind.

The Tale of Bishnoi's

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Today Marwar is a treeless waste of sand and rocks. The only growing things are shrubs, a few tufts of short rough grass and an occasional stunted ber or babul tree. But incredibly you can, even in this desert, come across the odd village with groves of well grown khejdi trees. This cousin of the babul is the kalparvriksha, the tree that fulfills all wishes. A full grown camel can enjoy a midday siesta in its shade, its foliage nourishes goat, sheep, cattle and camel; its pods can be made into a delicious curry, and its thorn guard the farmers' fields against marauding animals.Once upon a time the desert of Marwar had not yet conquered the vast territory over which it holds sway today. Even though the climate was the the same as it so today, the land was covered by thousands upon thousands of khejdi trees, and there was plenty of ber, ker, and sangri. These plains were home to thousands of antelopes, blackbuck, chinkara and nilgai; and on this bounty lived the tribal Bhils.About three thousand years ago, hordes of cattle keepers began to pour into India from West and Central Asia. Some of them spread into Marwar. The Bhils resisted their encroachment, but the invaders had horses and superior weapons and preety soon, took care of the Bhils. In any case the land appeared boundless and the Bhils retreated a little towards the Aravallis. The population of Marwar was on the increase. But as centuries passed, the large herds if cattle began to effect the vegetatio. The seedligs and sapligs were grazed dow and had little chance to grow. Invaders and the trial Bhills found less ad less to sustain themselves. Finally, the thirteenth century AD saw fthe final coquest of the Bhils by the Rathores of Kanauj. The Rajputs now ruled the whole of Marwar. In the year 1451 AD during the reig of Rao Jodhaji, one of the bravest of the Rathore kings, an extraordiary child was born i the village of Pipasar. His father was the headman Thakur Lohat and his mother was Hansadevi. The boy was called Jamali. As a little boy, he was given the task of lookig after his father's herd of cattle ad sheep. It was great fun to take the animals out grazing, lie in the shade of a khejdi tree and watch the herds of blackduck. Jamaji was fascinated by the lithe grace of this handsome antelope, and thought that there was no sight more enthralling than a fight between two well-grow stags. When Jambaji was twenty-five years old, a great disaster overtook the whole regio. The small quantity of rain that used to come regularly ceased altogether. The worst sufferers were the cattle. In the first year of drought, they could eat the bajra straw stored in the houses. The second year was very bad. There was ot a blade of grass left standing anywhere. People hacked at any trees thay could find and fed the animals on the leaves, but even so there was not enough browse for all the hungry aimals. And the drought cotinued for eight cosecutive years.The people had hacked and hacked the last bit of foliage from all the trees, which finally began to dry up. When the stored grain was exhausted people ate khejdi pods and the flour of dried her seeds. When this too was exhausted, they tore the bark off the sangri trees and powered and cooked it. They hunted every one of the starving blackbucks, and finally they abandoed all hope and migrated in masses. Tens of thousands of cattle perished on the way. By now the whole country was barren. There was not a tree in sighy for miles toghter, nor a single cow, or a blackbuck. The only people to hold on were big landlords like Jambaji's father with huge stores of bajra that somehow lasted through the difficult times.Jambaji was much affected by this drought. Many were the nights he spent in wakefulness because of the suffering he saw around him. The dying cattle, the starving children : they haunted him day and night. And finally, at the age of thirty-four, he had a vision. He saw man intoxicated with his own power, destroying the world around him. And he decided to change it all. If life was to flourish again in this desolate land, Jambaji saw man would have to live in a different way, and according to different tenets and beliefs. Jambaji wanted the earth to be covered once again by an abundance of khejdi, ber and sangri trees, he wanted herds of blackbuck to frolic again, and he wanted men to work for this. Jambaji knew the way to achieve this, and he began to broadcast his massage in the year 1485.His message included twenty aine basic tents. Its two major commandments were a prohibition against the cutting down of any green tree or the killing of any animal. Jambaji's message of humanity and respect for all living things was eagerly accepted. His teachings prompted the inhabitants of hundreds of villages to reclothe the earth with its green cover.Jambaji's followers were called Bishnois or 'twenty-niners' (bis=twenty, nou=nine) because they adhered to Jambaji's twenty-nine precepts. They preserved the trees around their villages and protected blackbucks, chinkaras, peafowl and all other birds and animals. Gradually their territory became covered by trees, their cattle had adundant browse, their land recovered its fertility and the Bishnois became a prosperous people.But outside their territory, all continued as before. The land was still being stripped of its green cover and the desert was spreading. The ninth descendant of Jambaji's contemporary Rao Jodhaji now occupied the throne of Jodhpur. In the sixth year of his reign in 1730, this maharaja, Abhay Singh, decided to construct a palace for himself- a beautiful palace made of the famous red sandstone of Jodhpur. This would need a lot of lime. Limestone is, of course, quite abundant in this trast, but it had to be cured, and the lime kilns would need a lot of fuel.It was not an easy job to get so much fuel in the desert. But as luck would have it, there was a large settlement of Bishois just sixtee miles from Jodhpur. These people had accepted Jambaji's precepts nearly two and a half centuries ago and had nursed hundreds of khejdi trees near their village. And there was excellent limestine too near one of their villages-Khejadali. Abhay Singh's Diwan ordered that the lime kilns be started near Khejadali to begin the contruction of the palace.But when the workers got ready to cut the trees for fuel, they found that the Bishnois would not let them touch the trees. Their khejdi trees must left alone, to cut these green trees was a violation of their religion. The workers returned to Jodhpur. The Diwan was enraged. What insolence! He persinally accompanied the workers on horseback to Khejadali village and ordered that the trees be cut.The axes were raised and the whole village gathered. They begged that their religion be not desecrated. They pleaded for the preservation of trees that their ancesrors had nurtured over generation. But the Diwan was determined: the trees must be cut to fuel the lime kilns. He ordered the workers to go ahead. But the Bishnois were determined too, and the most determined among them was a veritable incarnation of Durga - Amritadevi, the wife of Bishnoi Ramkhod. The trees will never be cut down unless you cut us down first, she said, and calling to her three daughters to join her, they clasped four of the trees. The Diwan fumed and ordered that all four of then be cut down with the trees. The axes fell and the brave women were cut to pieces. But Bishnois were not to be cut down with them. The news of this massacre spread rapidly and thousands of Bishnois rushed from their eighty-four surrounding villages to help their brave brothers and sisters. Altogether 363 Bishnois sacrificed their lives to guard their sacred heritage.The Maharaja's men, who had never imagined that things could come to such a pass, were now truly frightened. They rushed back to Jodhpur to report the happenings to Abhay Singh. Abhay Singh saw clearly that the might which had successfully challenged the power of Aurangzeb, could do nothing in the face of such moral courage. He personally, rode to Khejadali to mend matters. He assured the weeping, agonised mass of thousands of Bishnois that from now on he would fully respect their religious principles. A copper plate inscribed with this promise was presented to the Bishnois. Henceforth, the inscription said, no green tree would ever be cut near Bishnois village, nor would any animals be hunted in their vicinity.Two and a half centuries have passed since this episode. Bishnois have now been guarding the trees, giving succour to the wild animals of Rajasthan, Harayana and Madhya Pradesh for nearly five centuries. Everywhere else, the green cover of the Indian subcontinent has been ravaged and continues to be destroyed at an ever accelerating pace. The thousands upon thousands of blackbuck that once roamed the Indian plains have all vanished without a trace. But near the few Bishnois villages the greenery not only persists, but also is ever on the increase and around their villages the blackbuck roam as freely as in Kalidasa's time near the ashram of sage Kanva. Akbar was so amzed to see these herds of fearless blackbull near Bishnois temples that he personally recorded his wonder at witnessing a scene from satyayuga, the age of truth, in this kaliyuga, the corrupt present.The sight is even more astonishing for us today than it was for the emperor Akbar four centuries ago, for the Bishnois continue to hold on to their magnificent obsession to this day. At the village Khejadali where the Bishnois passed the supreme test of fire, there is one ancient Khejadi tree which escaped that massacre. Two years ago, the Bishnois planted 363 more trees around it in memory of their 363 martyrs. And these trees, being nurtured with love as they are growing fast. Every year there is a religious fair at this spot five days before the full moon in the month of Bhadrapada. It is an occasion which every tree lover of India should witness at least once in his lifetime