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Newspaper Reports
The Times of India
5.11.93 WORLD YOGA CONVENTION ENDS MUNGER, November 4: The the contention. The Swami, who second World Yoga Convention is an Englishman and the director concluded here today with the of the Satyananda Yoga Center in adoption of a yogic charter under Wales, had gone back to England which it was resolved that during in 1985 after a fifteen year stint at the next eleven years, every vil- the Bihar School of Yoga. At that lage and town of this country time nobody in England, he would be covered by yoga expo- claimed, knew much abut yoga, nents trained for the purpose. but now 95 percent of the people The present director of the Bihar knew about yoga and 20 percent School of Yoga, which hosted the actually practised it in England, convention, would himself he added. undertake an all-India tour from
Today, Swami Anandananda next year which will take him to from Italy described his exevery nook and corner of the perience of using yoga for curing country.
physically and mentally retarded The convention also resolved persons. Dr. Brian Thomson from that one thousand volunteers Australia, a psychiatrist, said that would be drafted for the pur- he turned into a sannyasin 17 pose. The 33 year old director of years ago. A psychiatrist with the school, who had been thirty years experience, he said adopted by Swami Satyananda his entire family had taken to Saraswati, founder of the school, yoga and had found it to be an when he was only four years old, exhilarating experience. A doctor told TOINS that in his absence from South Africa described yoga the school would be looked after as biological engineering. by Swami Gyanprakash Saras- Acharya Mahamandaleshwati, a sannyasin from Colombia, war Swami Vidyananda Giri who is now 29 years old and has from Rishikesh lauded the role of already spent twelve years in the the Bihar School of Yoga and school.
demanded that it be given The penultimate day of the university status. Literally it was convention yesterday was stirred a convention of gargantuan up by a delegate who lamented proportions. Thousands of that in no country had even one people, including delegates from percent of the population been 32 countries, a galaxy of made conscious of yoga. How- celebrities, besides so many sanever, Swami Nischalananda from nyasins, attended the four day England today strongly refuted long World Yoga Convention
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