Munger yoga guru feted by Chhattisgarh CM

MUNGER: Swami Niranjananand Saraswati of

Bihar School of Yoga

(Munger) was felicitated by

Chhattisgarh

chief minister Raman Singh and his wife Veena Singh on the campus of the institution on Tuesday. Raman also visited different blocks of the

yoga

school and learnt about different ‘asanas’.

Swami Niranjananand Saraswati was recently awarded Padma Bhushan for his contribution in the field of yoga.

Sources in the yoga school said Raman and his wife reached Munger from Patna by a helicopter in the afternoon. In Patna, he met his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar in the morning. “He came to Munger to honour Swami Niranjananand as he was born at

Rajnandan

village in Chhattisgarh on February 14, 1960,” a source said.

Swami JI was only four years old when the founder of Bihar School of Yoga, Swami Satyanand Saraswati brought him to the yoga school at Munger and named him Niranjan.