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this convention, to pay their regards to Paramahamsaji. Many leading cardiologists, physicians and yoga exponents are here to synthesize and find an answer to the problems of modern life through the ancient science of yoga.
Paramahamsa Satyanandaji not only founded these three important institutions, he also gave the world another Paramahamsa in the form of Paramahamsa Niranjanananda, as his successor. He heads the International Yoga Fellowship Movement and is president of the Bihar School of Yoga. At the age of 33, Paramahamsa Niranianananda has already becor an institution. He was born in 1960 and came to the ashram at the age of four. Thus, right from the start, he had his education and training under the guidance of his guru.
In this way he inculcated the best of the gurukul system, besides developing a deep perception of people and situations. At the age of ten, he was sent abroad where he led the life of a parivrajaka and propagated the yogic message throughout the world. He was recalled to India in 1983, and made the successor of his guru. He was initiated into the paramahamsa order by his guru at the stroke of midnight on 31st December 1989.
Paramahamsa Niranjanananda is not only the successor of his great master, but also the guide to thousands of seekers and devotees in India and abroad, whose lives he has transformed, directly or indirectly, over the years. He is an erudite scholar of the scriptures, and it is hard to believe that without having formal schooling, he speaks several languages and possesses a mind that is better than a computer.
For many of those who are not yet aware of the power of yoga, it would come as a surprise that he has imbibed much of this knowledge through the ancient technique of yoga nidra. At a level of consciousness, which he calls mind sight, he is able to visualize many subjects which may have been unknown to him earlier, and to speak on them with authority as if he had known them always. Paramahamsa Satyananda has said many times, in utter humility, "You know, Niranjan is taller than me, not physically only."
Paramahamsa Niranjanananda conceived of and organized this convention in order to celebrate the 50 years of his guru's renunciation. Paramahamsa Satyananda has envisaged yoga as the future culture and the guiding light of mankind in the coming century. The purpose of this world convention, on
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