Yoga Sagar

SR No.: 014011
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Paramhamsa Satyananda
Publisher: Bihar School of Yoga Munger
Publication Year: 1994
Total Pages: 436
Language: English
Classification: Seminar & Articles
File Size: 24 MB

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MISSION FOR RESPONSIBILITY
TO MEMORY Prof. Upen Baxi
I wish to say how greatly I am honored by this yoga uttsava, this festival of yoga, this carnival of consciousness. When it rained yesterday afternoon I thought of the Beatles, and the famous Woodstock concert. I thought we had a yogic Woodstock here! As a representative of Delhi University, home of a great biodiversity of 62 colleges, 70 departments, 200,000 students and 15,000 faculty members, I have the honor to bring greetings to the entire International Yoga Fellowship fraternity on behalf of my colleagues and karmachari students. I also hope that no matter where I may be in the stream of time, Delhi University and other Indian universities will cooperate with you to realize the great vision that underlies the foundation of the International Yoga Fellowship - to create an international open gurukul or yogic university. I hope that this vision which is on the way to being less than nirakaara (formless) will become sakaara (with form) under the able leadership of Paramahamsa Niranjanananda.
As an individual I do not deserve the honor of being here. The real honor must go to my wife as it was she who brought me to your Swamiji, Paramahamsa Satyananda. She was amongst his first few disciples. Her purvashram name was Vishwaprem. I am not a disciple of Satyam, as I still call him. I think he would acknowledge that he is not my guru either; but I love him, I adore him, I play with him, I am impertinent with him. I claim an equality with him which I know does not belong to me but which I know he used to acknowledge. It is a relationship of unequal equals, of friends. It is a relationship which in my experience has no parallel. Therefore, before I begin, I say pranam to him.
This occasion is marked by a presence which is also an absence, an absence which is also a presence. I refer, of course, to Satyam, who is both here and not here. I believe his presence in
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