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Yoga hinged on that cosmic power which people worshipped as the supreme being through different shades of opinions and religions.
The convention began with the chanting of prayers and struck a sublime note when the participants said "Om" in chorus thrice. Each time the echo died down in the holy Ganges flowing behind the sprawling yoga school atop the hillock.
Earlier, Paramahamsa Niranjanananda, head of the Bihar School of Yoga, founded by his guru, Paramahamsa Satyanan- daji, welcomed the participants.
During the four day convention, eminent scholars, spiritual personalities, doctors and scientists, will deliver discourses.
Prominent among them are included the Vice Chancellor of the Delhi University, Professor U. Baxi; Justice Ranganath Mishra of Cuttack; Mme. Micheline Flak from France, Dr. H.S. Wasir, head of the department of cardiology, AIIMS, New Delhi; Dr. H.R. Nagendra, director of Vivekananda Yoga Institute, Bangalore, and yoga experts Dr. Swami Karmananda and Dr. Swami Shankardevananda, both from Australia.
The Hindustan Times Patna
2.11.93
HIGHLIGHT SCIENTIFIC ASPECTS OF YOGA : KIDWAI
MUNGER, Nov. 1 - Dr. A. R. Kidwai, Governor of Bihar and also the chancellor of the universities of Bihar, announced here toda that a broadbased . yoga center would be established soon under Bhagalpur University to promote the practice of yoga based on research. The scheme, he said, has already been sanctioned by the University Grants Commission.
Inaugurating the world yoga conference at the sprawling Polo Ground, Dr. Kidwai stressed the need to highlight the scientific and philosophical aspects of this oldest and traditional practice in this country which promised to become the new culture of the
world tomorrow. Yoga, he said, did not only help strike a balance between the mind and the body, but was also conducive to the development of a spiritual outlook so as to overcome worldly problems.
Mrs. Krishna Sahi, Union Minister of State for Industries, speaking on this occasion said that delegates drawn from different religions of the world who had congregated under the banner of yoga, had sufficiently proved Paramahamsa Satyananda's prophetic words, "Yoga is the culture of tomorrow”. Yoga, she said, had been handed down to mankind not as a religion, but as a way of life.
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