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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YOGA INSTITUTIONS ESTABLISHED BY PARAMAHAMSA SATYANANDA
Sri Shashibhushan Verma
Paramahamsa Satyananda was born in the foothills of the Himalayas in 1923. His spiritual experiences began at the age of six. At the age of nineteen, he renounced his hearth and home in search of a guru. His spiritual quest led him to Swami Sivananda. For the next twelve years he served his master as a sannyasin disciple. After completing his ashram training, he took to parivrajaka life for nine years and finally settled in Munger where he had the vision of his mission.
This led to the foundation of the International Yoga Fellowship Movement and the Bihar School of Yoga in 1963. Here he began numerous programs for imparting training to sannyasins and householders alike in the techniques of yoga, which he himself had practised and perfected.
He refined the practical sciences of yoga and tantra to meet the needs of modern man and dedicated himself unceasingly to their propagation among the people of all countries, races, religions and cultures. He inspired more than 125 major yoga ashrams in 25 countries of the world with several thousand yoga centers, which are now spread throughout the length and breadth of the globe as the living monuments of Paramahamsaji's dream.
It is heartening to note that over 600 delegates from 30 countries viz. (1) Australia (2) Czechslovakia (3) Ireland (4) Italy (5) Norway (6) South Africa (7) Great Britain (8) Finland (9) France (10) Germany (11) Greece (12) U.S.A. (13) Yugoslavia (14) Russia (15) Mali (Africa) (16) Cuba (17) Austria (18) Bulgaria (19) Colombia (20) Israel (21) Lithuania (22) Nepal (23) Netherlands (24) Norway (25) Tanzania (26) Romania (27) Singapore (28) Slovenia (29) South Korea and (30) Togo, besides delegates from 20 states of India are participating in this convention, which is a great tribute to that legendary seer.
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