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The Times of India
04.11.93 YOGA COMES TO AID OF AIDS VICTIMS MUNGER, November 3 - The this disease. four-day World Yoga Conven- She claimed that one of her tion which began here on Mon
students who joined her Centre day had some good news for
in October last year was HIV those suffering from the AIDS
positive. Now after nine months virus. Swami Pragyamurti Saras
he had started showing signs of wati, the director of Yoga Center in London, in a spell-binding
improvement. Such is the power speech today claimed that yoga
of yoga, she claimed. According had proved a boon for people to her, 90 percent of the AIDS suffering from this dreaded dis- patients attending her Center are ease. She has worked on a num- male homosexuals, besides three ber of cases and said her claim or four drug addicts. was based on her experience.
The present World Yoga As a matter of fact, the meet has been organized to comsociety does not accept those memorate the Golden Jubilee of people and they ultimately get tyag (renunciation) by Parama alienated, she said Such isolation hamsa Satyananda. The convendevelops a sense of self-hate tion is hosted by the Bihar School among them. Yoga changes this of Yoga which was formed by attitude and they begin to love
him in 1964. Prominent among themselves. Besides, some par
those who attended today were
the chief of the army staff, ticular kinds of asanas help them in revitalizing their immune sys
General B. C. Joshi, and noted
film maker, Ramanand Sagar. tems. Thus there is a possibility. of treating those suffering from
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| SR No. | 014011 |
| Book Title | Yoga Sagar |
| 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 |