A day has been dedicated to Yoga the world over.

This sends my recollection back to early seventies. I had just joined the Searchlight and UNI as Bhagalpur Correspondent.

Since the age of five I have been a Yoga Practitioner under Paramhams Swami Satyananda, who inspired all his disciples to share with the world all the secrets that the science of Yoga and Tantra had in store for the welfare of mankind.

These disciplines had all through been held under closed fist, to be revealed only by the word of mouth, as between guru and disciple. This is still so with numerous spiritual institutions .

It was Swami Shivananda of rishikesh who was among the first few who broke this kind of reservation. 

Swami Satyananda was assigned the task of spreading yoga from door to door and from shore to shore. He left his guru rishikesh ashram in 1956 and travelled down to Bhagalpur's shiva Bhagwan family of his guru behen-bhai Adyawati Sahai-Nakulrshwari Sahai.

That is how he became our family member from whom not only me, but numerous people learnt initial practices of yoga, which we mastered after an Ashram named the Bihar School of Yoga was established in munger in 1963-64.

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