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WORLD CONVENTION ON YOGA OPENS
MUNGER, Nov. 1 (PTI) four-day world yoga convention began here today with an impassioned appeal to the people to adopt yoga to save mankind from annihilation.
said yoga had immense beneficial potential for today's society beset with innumerable problems and tension.
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Speakers, including scholars from various walks of life, expressed the view that yoga alone could usher in lasting peace for all-round development of the world.
They were addressing the inaugural session of the convention held after a gap of 20 years by the internationally reputed Bihar School of Yoga here to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of the renunciation of Paramahamsa Satyananda.
In his address, the Bihar Governor, Dr. A.R. Kidwai, announced that the University Grants Commission had agreed to start a full-fledged department of yoga in Bhagalpur University. He said the precepts and practices of yoga embodied the wisdom distilled through centuries of humanity's quest for a perfect life with spiritual, mental and physical harmony within oneself and also within the society and nature.
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The Union Minister of State for Industries, Mrs. Krishna Sahi,
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She said that the commercial and technological progress of the past few decades and the worldwide trend towards a market economy had pushed social and moral values to the background with consumerism becoming the dominant force.
She said the trend had been accentuated by political and social systems which seemed to reward commercialized individualism. She said the increasing concentration on wealth and power led to social disharmony. Yoga could make a significant contribution to ease such a situation as it was a complete way of life.
In his address, which kept 10,000 odd delegates from India and abroad spellbound, Swami Chidananda Saraswati of the Divine Life Society (Rishikesh) said that yoga promoted peace and goodwill among individuals, societies and even nations.
After inaugurating the convention by lighting the traditional lamp, he said yoga taught people to transcend all narrow barriers and achieve the ultimate in life.
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