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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Expressing concern over the automation of human conduct in age of technology, she hoped yoga could make a significant contribution towards bringing man to his natural self. This realization had already dawned upon the materialistic west, and the former Soviet Communists who were driven to intensive research confirming the beneficial effects of yoga.
The aroma of saffron is felt all around Munger town today and, especially at the Polo Ground, where a strange serenity prevails even in the presence of thousands of delegates who are seen promoting peace rather than discord. Delegates drawn from 32 foreign countries and from all parts of the country were earlier welcomed by Paramahamsa Niranjanananda, president of the Bihar School of Yoga.
Three spiritual stalwarts graced the inauguration session. They were Swami Chidananda Saraswati, president of Divine Life Society, Rishikesh; Swami Rasajanandaji, Ramakrishna Mission, Calcutta, and Swami Poonyanandaji Maharaj, Mahamandaleshwar of Niranjani Akhara, Varanasi.
Swami Chidandananda asked the audience a very direct question as to whose sovereign domain the world was before man existed, what was the place of worship and who were the followers or the followed?
Vedanta, he said, had revealed that some supreme power existed even then and, in
fact, this power remains in everybody in the form of the soul. The science of yoga, he said was the way to realize this eternal truth. For achieving this, there could be so many ways as prescribed by so many religions, and one should not find contradictions in them. Swami Rasajanandaji recalled that Swami Vivekananda had said that every being was potentially divine. Man could realise his potentiality by the measure of yoga, he said.
Swami Poonyanandaji Maharaj of Varanasi, referring to Patanjali's philosophy of rajayoga, said that the modifications of the mind could be scientifically manipulated to attain full mental faculties.
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Intelligence was the only boon which gave man superiority over animals, and it was the goal of yoga to brush up intelligence and make it radiant. He called upon the delegates to explore yoga's 'tremendous powers, to bring unity among men having diverse and different faiths.
Yoga was all encompassing and not repugnant to anyone, he added. The efforts put in by Paramahamsa Satyananda in this direction would be appreciated by the generations to come in making yoga philosophy the basis for scientific pursuit and reprogramming of life.
Mr. Ashok Kumar, Divisional Commissioner and Chairman of the Reception Committee, hoped that the delegates