News Archive

Swamiji's great Rainwater Harvesting Project in Jadan (Rajasthan/India) is coming to a successful conclusion! The water basin, the talab, is nearly finished and awaiting rains to fill it! Jadan residents along with ashram's school children made prayers and pujas in talab and just minutes after that first clouds began to gather and rain started to pour heavily. Talab, being 140 meters long, 100 meters wide and 10 meters deep, was still only scarcely filled, but just enough to awake joy and hope in local people.

His Excellency T. P. Sreenivasan, who was the Ambassador of India to Austria for the last three and a half years, is soon going to leave Austria to attend to other duites. Being a great admirer of Mahamandaleshwar Paramhans Swami Maheshwaranandaji, he visited YIDL's international seminar in Vienna/Austria on June 19th 2004 to bid farewell to Swamiji and His disciples. At this occasion the Ambassador gave a beautiful and inspiring speech in which he thanked and hounoured Swamiji for His tireless spiritual, social and humanitarian efforts in Austria and world-wide.

Several Spanish Embassies have sent letters of gratitude acknowledging expressions of sympathy they received from the "Yoga in Daily Life" community. Messages of condolence and letters of support for the people of Madrid, following the bomb attack on March 11 2004, were warmly accepted and appreciated.

From June 4 - 7th 2004, Mahamandaleshwar Paramhans Swami Maheshwaranandaji payed his first visit to Ex-Soviet State Ukraine. The visit was a great success, Swamiji found there a large audience eager to learn about yoga and the wisdom of healthy and peaceful living. Many high representatives of medical, cultural and political institutions welcomed Swamiji and expressed their readiness for further cooperation.

On Friday 14 May 2004, the Divine Light of Mahaprabhuji was brought to London, England at the opening ceremony of the newest "Yoga in Daily Life" Centre, Sri Swami Madhavanandaji Ashram, in Queens Park – with Swamiji reminding us that this was at last fulfilling a prophecy made many years ago.

Our beloved Gurudev, Mahamandaleshwar Vishwaguru Paramhans Sri Swami Maheshwaranandaji began his Croatian Tour on May 5th 2004. He arrived in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, accompanied by his youngest disciple, Mahayogi Swami Avatar Puriji. This was going to be an eventful visit, especially marked by the 20th anniversary of YIDL in Croatia and its accompanying activities.

That was the title of the 3 days' workshop, which took place in Vienna/Austria during 16th and 18th of April 2004. The aim of the event, organized by Mahamandaleshwar Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda and "Yoga in Daily Life" was to show how to achieve and maintain health through the system of "Yoga in Daily Life". Valuable research work was presented in which modern scientific methods were used to connect to and back-up the ancient wisdom and technique of yoga. Both were proved to be highly effective in prevention and treatment of many modern ailments.

On March 25th 2004, His Holiness Vishwaguru Mahamandaleshwar Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda Ji was invited to Parliament House by the Premier of South Australia, His Excellency Mr. Mike Rann.

A UK-based online store selling yoga supplies will make a list of the 100 most popular books and announce the results directly to all participants and in the Yoga press. You are invited to recommend up to 3 of your most treasured books on: yoga philosophy, yoga masters and saints, meditation, asana, pranayama, mudra, kriyas, or any other books relating to yoga. The deadline for entries is 19 April, 2004.

On Tuesday, the 24th of February 2004, Mahamandaleshwar Paramhans Swami Maheshwaranandaji had started his World Peace Tour 2004. Swamiji will travel virtually around the world and will visit various continents and countries to spread the message of peace and tolerance among nations, religions and races. Almost each year new destinations are added to his schedule, this year these are South Africa and some countries of the former Soviet Union. Here you will find some highlights of Swamiji's tour and also some of his Vakyas.