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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leadership, and the residents of Munger for hosting and looking after the mammoth group of 7000 delegates from India and abroad.
I would like to place on record my praise for the rare act of courage and the presence of mind displayed by you during the critical moments when the heavens opened up to shower their blessings on the convention. Had you not broken out in song and efficiently pacified the panic-stricken crowd, over 100 lives would have been lost and many more would have been injured. It is evidence of God's protective hand being over the assembly of the convention while putting the delegates to the acid test.
Om Tat Sat
Yoga Center, Goa
Dear Swami Niranjananandaji
Hari Om,
I congratulate you for the excellent management of the World Yoga Convention which I was privileged to attend from 1st November 1993. The response by a large number of participants from abroad, from different parts of the country and also from the local population was indicative of the success, and the extent of the personal regard and respect for you and for the Bihar School of Yoga and the International Yoga Movement that prevails.
After the heavy rains on the opening day of the convention, to commence the session on the following morning exactly at 9 a.m. was something that had to be seen to be believed. Even in a large organization with substantial resources, such a phenomenon doesn't occur.
At all the sessions, which were in mixed languages, some in Hindi but largely in English, the silence was total, even though'I am sure many in the audience did not follow what was said in English and depended on the Hindi summing up. The quality of the experience and the data presented by different speakers was very high. I hope in due course that
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Jamshedpur