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upon God's. The real miracle is when a person moves according to God's wishes and not otherwise.
This rains dampened some spirits, left some in a state of now-what-next-ness, and energized others. The whole schedule went topsy-turvy, several presentations were cancelled.
Several doctors spoke at the convention and the trend increasingly indicates a move towards polypathy, a multi-disciplinary approach to health that does not reject any system, but rather, incorporates all. The teaching of yoga to prison inmates; yoga cure for cancer and AIDS; yoga and stress; yoga in education, and other topics as well as the invitation to spiritual life through several traditions and not by one road only, were areas of some of the presentations. Then too, the idea of non violence in not only the food aspect (aahaara), by adoption of vegetarianism, but in thought (vichaara), conduct (achaara) and in relation to others (vyavahaara) was touched upon.
We lived in the midst of what a friend called a 'tyranny of coupons' requesting a pass or badge for each entrance and meal. But another friend responded, "Why not look at its positive side, the need to be alert and aware and remember to carry your various coupons that allow you to enter this gate, that space, or get your food." . I had never eaten food with so many people. Under the colorful shamiana, this one raised near the school, with plates in hand, heading towards a corner and spreading out on the grass evoked a great sense of togetherness.
As usual a lot happens at the periphery of any convention, new alliances are made, people with similar interests find each other, the otherness seems less odd; by proximity and inspired listening new evocations happen.
Every day one noticed someone's pretty hair being sacrificed to the blade of the barber, and the shaven heads under the sun, the brick-colored (geru) kurtas and the recently introduced yellow attire created a new collage of images.
The following questions occurred to me. Can an event like this touch people's lives? Can it help them to adopt a new way of living, a different mode of looking at themselves? What are the post-convention resolves going to be like?
When he heard the expectations of the degree of comfort of the citified people, Paramahamsa Niranjanananda said
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