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6.11.93
The Hindustan Times SILENT BLESSINGS TO YOGA
ASPIRANTS
RIKHIA (Deoghar), Nov 5 - This office as the acharya of Bihar small hamlet, barely seven km School of Yoga and paved the from Baidyanathdham Shiva way for Swami Gyanprakash to temple, inhabitated mostly by take over subsequently. Relintribals, has suddenly become quishing the acharya's office will vibrant with hundreds of yoga also enable him to take up more aspirants pouring in by whatever tours to spread the precepts and mode of transport they could practices of yoga. He also gave a manage at Munger, where the call to the yoga volunteers to confour-day World Yoga Conven- tribute 15 days in a year so that tion has just concluded. These the goal to take yoga from door visitors are mostly illustrious re- to door and shore to shore may searchers and spiritual seekers be achieved. drawn from 32 countries and
Dr. Brian Thomson, an from different parts of India. Australian psychiatrist of 30 They queued up and moved
years standing, appeared as a silently into the four walls of a speaker at the morning session newly built ashram, the new on the concluding day. Before he abode of Swami Satyananda commenced his adddress, he narSaraswati, who has taken kshetra rated the story as to how and sannyasa and taken strictly to the why, having a roaring practice of life of recluse.
7,000 per day, he became inThe disciples received the itiated by Swami Satyananda silent blessings of the Parama- Saraswati 17 years ago. The hamsa who did not speak a word delegates were emotionally about yoga and advised that they moved when they came to know should rely wholly on the system that it was not the doctor alone of yoga and the institution who took to diksha but it was his which could cater to their needs. whole family which continues to Earlier the spiritual congregation be dedicated to the cause of yoga, concluded late last evening at spreading it in Australia. Munger with a resolve to rededi- He later learnt the techniques cate to the cause of humanity and and in time Dr. Thomson, now upliftment of human conscious- Dr. Swami Vivekananda, is healness by promoting healthy physi- ing all his patients by yogic techcal, mental and spiritual growth niques successfully and has his of oneself and the surroundings whole family pursuing the cause on specific lines and not on of yoga as sannyasins. In his admyths. Swami Niranjanananda, dress he gave the scientific basis on this occasion, renounced his and efficacy of yogic techniques
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