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THE ATMIC AGE
Gajapati Maharaj, Sri Divya Singh Dev
This humble servant bows down to you all, since I am only a servant and have come to contribute to this great celebration in the capacity of a student, only because of Paramahamsa Niranjanananda's grace. The experiences that I have gathered over the span of the last few days cannot be described in words. The feelings generated in the last four days can never be erased from my life. The preachings and blessings showered upon us by the sages and saints were not only for this occasion, but have formulated a program for reshaping our lives, our personalities and our characters.
If we do not think seriously over these teachings, do not take them to our hearts and implement them in our daily life then they will not benefit us. So let us take a pledge in this auspicious moment of the Paramahamsa Satyananda Tyag Golden Jubilee celebration that we may all walk with full determination on the path of yoga and sadhana, so that our lives may be filled with yoga and saturated with sadhana. Our commitment to this resolution shall be a true offering from the innermost core of our beings to that great personality.
To our devotees coming from different corners of the world, I would like to say that, brothers and sisters, with the divine grace of Param Poojya Swami Satyananda Maharaj, we have been knitted together into one great spiritual family. He has brought us together with this golden invisible thread of spiritual love. And that is our true relationship, that is our only relationship, that is the lasting relationship. That is the relationship which will give us peace, eternal peace. The differences that exist are only at the level of body, at the level of mind, at the level of intellect. They are very secondary. Our real relationship is one of the soul.
So from the atomic age we have to now progress to the 'Atmic age', the 'O' being deleted. That will be the beginning of a new era, the dawn of a new era and the light has been shown to us by Param Poojya Swamiji Maharaj. As his devotees, as his
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