The first days attendance was overwhelming. A hall full of at least 200 participants turned up. The discourse was about one aspect of yoga called karma yoga. Swami Muktirupanandaji explained the need for having different kinds of yogas - man is diverse, with diverse interests and proclivities. Uniformity is for machines and uniformity is death he said. This is why we need different paths to the truth, a path that suits our mental make up.
He then went on to expound on the Yoga of action - Karma yoga! He explained how we should carry out each action, with complete absorption, with no thoughts of anything else besides the task at hand. When we finish with it, we should not let our mind linger on it - rather detach ourselves. When challenegd by a member of the audience that thoughts occur on their own and its not we who force it our conscience, he explained this is where meditation and mediatational techniques help!
After this our master-instructor Mr. Atul Deshpande conducted a workshop of some basic yoga techinques. We then split the crowd up into groups of 10 and each of us volunteer instructors helped fine tune the techniques for the participants. I think they were mighty pleased with the dedication of the volunteers. They all said they would be back the next day with more family and friends. All the techniques taught were from our three month Basic Course syllabus.
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