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The winners’ list of Padma Awards 2017 has been announced today and it includes Olympic winners PV Sindhu and Sakshi Malik, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Murli Manohar Joshi, cricketers MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli, Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharad Pawar and Gymnast Dipa Mehta among others. Padma Awards, which is among the highest civilian awards of India, are conferred to people from various fields like engineering, science, social work, trade and industry, sports, medicine, etc. The awards are divided into three categories, namely Padma Shru, Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan. The award ceremony is held on the Republic Day every year. One of the Padma Bhushan awardees this year is Swami Niranjana Nanda Saraswati, the founder of Satyananda Yoga. Here are five things you need to know about Swami Niranjana Nanda Saraswati. (ALSO READ Yoga for glowing skin: 5 yoga poses for glowing, clear, fairer skin).
1. Swami Niranjana Nanda Saraswati was born in 1960 in Rajnandgaon in the state of Chhattisgarh. He started living at the Bihar School of Yoga at the age of four with his guru Swami Satyananda Saraswati.
2 It was through yoga nidra that he received his spiritual and yogic sciences training. Yoga nidra is a state of consciousness between sleeping and waking or a form of meditation where your body is relaxed. The yoga nidra practitioner can become aware of the inner world if follows certain instructions.His initiation into Dashnami sannyasa happened in 1971 after whioch he travelled across the world and established Satyananda Yoga centres and ashrams in North and South America, Australia and Europe.(ALSO READ These 10 photos of Indian yogini Natasha Noel will inspire you to start doing yoga).
3. His initiation into Dashnami sannyasa happened in 1971 after whioch he travelled across the world and established Satyananda Yoga centres and ashrams in North and South America, Australia and Europe.
4. Swami Niranjana Nanda Saraswati came back to India in the year 1983 to manage the Yoga Research Foundation, Sivananda Math and Bihar School of Yoga at his guru’s behest. In 1994, he founded the first university of yoga, Bihar Yoga Bharati and in 1995, he was declared as the spiritual preceptor and a successor of Swami Satyananda Saraswati.(ALSO READ Best yoga poses for flat tummy: Practice these 5 yoga asanas to reduce belly fat).
5. In 2000, he established the Yoga Publications Trust in Munger in Bihar. He has also written many classic books on the Upanishads, tantra and yoga.
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