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life and lives in the real world is not affected by anything. This is why the Sufi saints of Islam have said:
Agar dil diya to is qadar parvaredigar dilde. ki ranj kee ghadee ko bhi khooshi se gujaar den.
With the right inner disposition, with happiness and joy, I shall be able to tide over even an hour of sorrow. In the same way, Nanakdeva says, "Who is victorious in the world? He who does not consider human suffering to be a suffering". Even if sorrow comes, laugh, enjoy, because you are established in that tattwa which is anandamaya, full of bliss. That supreme being is of the quintessence of pure bliss: Anandam Brahma iti divyajnanat, and yoga can only enable you to establish yourself in that supreme state.
This internal condition is the gift of yoga. This is why the inspiration has been given to the world, to mankind, by Paramahamsa Satyananda to follow a yogic way of life. By his renunciation, the gift of peace and well being has been given to the world. In the name of this great Paramahamsa, in whose honor this four day World Yoga Convention has been organized, I pray:
May the grace of the Lord give the fullest 100% success to this great International Yoga Convention, held under the auspices of the golden Jubilee of renunciation of Paramahamsa Satyananda, the founder of this great Bihar School of Yoga and the International Yoga Fellowship Movement. May this convention have full success and may God continue to shower his divine grace. May our beloved, holy master, Swami Sivananda Maharaj, continue to keep his protective hands and mercy over us, and may he continue to shower his choicest blessings upon the Bihar School of Yoga, upon all the yogashrams and the yoga mitra mandals, and upon the proceedings of this convention.
Out of this convention and out of the future work of the Bihar School of Yoga and the International Yoga Fellowship Movement, may there come about a new era for the evolution of mankind throughout the world. Through yoga and through knowing oneness of spirit, may there come about a spirit of brotherhood, a spirit of unity and harmony, a spirit of mutual love and goodwill in all people. May the twenty-first century not repeat the mistakes of the twentieth century, which gave us two global wars and so much suffering and disturbance. May
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