On the occasion of the Golden Jubilee World Yoga Convention 2013, Munger, the Bihar School of Yoga is pleased to present The Golden Collection, a compilation of the first publications of Sri Swami Satyananda Saraswati. Originally published in booklet format during the 1960s and 1970s, their modest nature made the wealth of the ancient science of yoga accessible to one and all. Some volumes of The Golden Collection are of a different nature.They present tributes paid to Sri Swami Satyananda over a period of fifty-five years. From I 954 onwards people expressed their recognition, gratitude and love:These volumes are a chronicle of devotion to the extraordinary man and his mission.
Volume 6 of The Golden Collection, is the tribute paid to a young sannyasin. In 1954, on the occasion of Sri Swami Satyananda's thirty-first birthday, gurubhais, guests and visitors of the ashram in Rishikesh published a volume of tributes, The Life andWork of Swami Satyananda.They speak of the qualities of this young swami who expressed his spiritual awareness in the excellence of his day-to-day activities of ashram life. It is clear that even at this young age, his greatness was recognized for he was an inspiration to all who came into contact with him