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Furthermore, yoga can be applied to make a person a better man, a better human being, to develop an all-round personality. That is what we have been trying to achieve in using yoga education in schools. Over the last twenty years in our work with students, particularly in the residential schools with the Andhra Pradesh hill tribes, we have found that yoga techniques have worked wonders. Such people have become beautiful blossoming flowers of this country. What do we do there? We address the total personality development and fourfold consciousness, physical, mental, emotional, intellectual and spiritual, as well as civic sense, patriotism, and service (seva).
Paramahamsaji has said of this total approach, "Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man." Now the schools have started carrying out their own research. The government, the central government and the state government, have started requesting us to train teachers. The Delhi corporation has trained nearly forty teachers, Madhya Pradesh, seventy teachers, Goa, eight hundred teachers and in Karnataka last year we trained nine hundred teachers. We have developed a syllabus to develop personality, eyesight improvement, voice culture, hearing development, memory development, IQ development, creativity development and emotional culture. The most vital thing is to develop emotions. Ultimately it is bhakti that the person should develop into the state that Ramanand Sagar was mentioning. Similarly, for the corporate world we have the stress management program and for those people who want to go deeper into spirituality we have a program of advanced spiritual retreat.
Currently, we are trying to devise ways to measure prana and kundalini shakti properly as discussed this morning by Dr. Tompkins. If we can do that, then it is going to be one of the greatest achievements for yoga. This is how yoga is being used for the total development of human beings; validation through long term scientific research, using all the equipment and instruments available today in the modern world. You are most welcome to come to Vivekananda Kendra Yoga Research Foundation, twenty miles from Bangalore. We have a nice campus called Prashanti Katerum with a physiology laboratory, neurophysiology laboratory, biochemical laboratory, psychology laboratory and a bioelectrography labor
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