Diwali, Swami Vishnu-devanandaji's Mahasamadhi & Yoga Kongress

I'm about to leave the Yoga Vidya ashram in Bad Meinberg where I have stayed a week and had a wonderful stay as usual.

The occasion was the annual Yoga Kongress (conference) touching the topics of yoga, meditation and peace.

It was my first time being and teaching at this conference. Altogether there were about 500 folks in the ashram including the staff. The attendees had up to 11 or 12 consecutive yoga classes or lectures to choose from in some time slots. Very exhilarating with many Ph. D.s and bright speakers in action.

I got to speak the first evening about Swamiji and how his life was a merging of yoga, meditation and peace.

At the beginning of the weekend we had a puja since it was Diwali and it coincided this year with Swamiji's mahasamadhi, so it was all very auspicious.

On Saturday afternoon I gave a talk on the 'secret of mind control' which was very well attended even though there were 10 other attractive lectures at the same time.

In conclusion it was a very good experience and I'm really glad I came. The weather was quite cold and miserable this week but this morning we had the first 'real' snow and it's kind of white on the roofs, cars and fields but not on the roads.

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