Munger residents celebrate Padma Bhushan for Niranjanananda

People in Munger are celebrating the bestowal of Padma Bhushan award on Yoga proponent and head of Bihar Yoga Bharti, Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati.
Commissioner of Munger N C Jha, Deputy Inspector General of Police Barun Kumar Sinha and District Magistrate Udai Kumar Singh visited Swami Niranjanananda yesterday to congratulate him.
"It is a great news for all of us as Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati has dedicated his life to yoga and to teach as how to lead a healthy life not only in Munger and Bihar, but in many foreign counties as well," Shashi Bhusan Verma, Secretary of Managing Committee of the Bihar Yoga Bharti, said today.

The DM said it was a great honour not only for Bihar Yoga Bharti, but for the citizens of Munger as well.
Born in 1960 at Rajangaon, now in Chhattisgarh, Niranjanananda had visited Munger Ashram in 1964 as a four-year-old and refused to go back home. He told his parents that he was destined to serve humanity through yoga at Munger and stayed back at Munger refusing all allurements, Verma said.
After travelling across the world as a representative of Munger Yogapeeth, Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati was anointed as its chief in 1995.

Verma said Niranjanananda Saraswati was part of a committee of NASA to suggest how yoga can help astronauts keep good health during space voyage.

Verma claimed that 29 countries, including France and Australia, have adopted yoga propagated by the Munger school.
Besides propagating yoga, Munger Yoga Bharti under the leadership of Niranjanananda has been giving free education and promoting creativity among thousands of poor students in more than 25 villages in Bihar and Jharkhand.
The Munger school of Yoga recently developed "special yoga capsules" comprising concise 4-5 asanas on chronic diseases like diabetes, Asthma and Blood Pressure.