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silently do the work without any aspirations, without any ambitions, without any hopes.
It is a tremendous responsibility for which I need to share my burden with somebody. There are many people who have given blood and sweat to work for the cause of yoga, for the mission of yoga and for Paramahamsaji. I find the most outstanding among them is just one person. One person has taken personal care, has given personal attention to each and every aspect of the convention and I find that person to be the right one to share my burden in looking after the management of the ashram. That person is Swami Gyanprakash Saraswati.
You are the witnesses that today Swami Gyanprakash becomes the acharya of the Bihar School of Yoga. I can concentrate more and more in serving humanity. I can concentrate on serving our guru, without the limitations that an institution can have on an individual. Although we will be sharing the burden of the management of the institution together, Swami Gyanprakash has more responsibility than me.
Our aim is just to dedicate ourselves, not to chase after achievements, because our inspiration is our guru, Paramahamsa Satyananda, who has given an example and guidance to us. When he knew that we were going to celebrate his Tyag Jayanti he sent this message: "Niranjan, Namo Narayan. I send my good wishes for the Convention, you call it Tyag Jayanti. I call it samarpan muhurat, the moment of dedication. It was that time, an auspicious moment in my life, which I experienced fifty years ago in the presence of my guru, Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj. To this day, I have always remembered it as a great moment of dedication."
It is that message which we are bringing into our lives today, here and now, and it is that moment of dedication that we remember with reverence and happiness and joy as we bow our heads before our guru who has always said that dedication is everything. Once you dedicate yourself, all achievements are just results of that dedication. So do not look towards achievements as something great. If we find some achievement in our life, we consider it to be a very great thing for us. We say, "Oh, I have achieved this, I have done that." Even in the state of realization there is a euphoria, there is an ego, "'I have become realized."
But that has not happened here. Paramahamsaji says that the only thing worth carrying in your heart is the remembrance
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