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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UPGRADING THE MORAL ETHICS
OF INDIA Swami Sivapremananda Saraswati
First of all I want to wish great success for this World Yoga Convention, because it is a recognition of a lifetime's dedication and hard work of my gurubhai Paramahamsa Satyananda Maharaj, whom I have known in Sivananda Ashram, living with Paramguru Swami Sivananda Maharaj from 1945 to 1957. In 1957 he left on a parivrajaka life for nearly nine years before he came to Munger and organized this institution in 1964, the rudiments of Bihar School of Yoga, as I understand.
I left India. Paramguru Sri Swami Sivananda Maharaj's instructions to me were to go to America in 1961. I have propagated yoga in South America in three countries. The Sivananda Yoga Vedanta center has three institutions in South America affiliated with the Divine Life Society. Because I am a senior monk of the Divine Life Society and directly related to the headquarters in Rishikesh, I represent these three institutions which are in Buenos Aires (Argentina) Montevideo (Uruguay) and Santiago (Chile).
My longterm experience of Paramahamsa Satyananda, for twelve years, makes me very close to him. We were very close personally and even now we are as close as ever before. So, I wish him great success with all my heart. His spirit of tyaga (renunciation) and tapasyaa (austerity), is unsurpassed and beyond belief, because at the height of his success he renounced everything which he had created and rededicated himself for the highest spiritual goal. There stands a great school, now known universally as a great center of learning of yogic knowledge, a great institution for medical research through yoga, and a great institution for the service to the poor through the Sivananda Math, which are the fruition of his labor of love for the mission. This was his nature even when I knew him in the 1950's, so it warms my heart.
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