Yoga For Health, Happiness and Liberation

Synopsis

This book is authentic yoga. It is compelling and full of yoga information. This book is a must for the yoga enthusiast. It is written in a very simple and direct way. It discusses breathing techniques, breathing techniques with Mudra Yoga and with Mudra Yoga in depth. It defines the goals of yoga, the important postures and benefits, yoga in Patanjali Yoga Sutra, yogic diet and vegetarian recipes. It teaches relaxation techniques, how to meditate (Raja Yoga), and how to be happy and live dynamically. It also teaches you how to do yoga prayers, Mantra yoga (Bhakti Yoga), yoga practices (sadhanas), and other yoga techniques. It talks about the miracles of the Guru. This book is spiritually inspiring.

- Meeta Gajjar Parker, Author’s Daugher, writes:

The book is about all aspects of yoga shared with one family. There are yoga postures with me practicing yoga at the age of 4 and then at 20 and now at 40. My father brought yoga to Delaware in the 60's and has taught yoga for 38 years. My Mother was a yoga teacher also (she passed away 20 years ago) and I'm a yoga teacher. I'm on the cover of his book on yoga.

Author Biography

Yogi Bharat J. Gajjar

Bharat is the Yogi who has been accredited with bringing Yoga to the State of Delaware. He is a disciple of H. H. Swami Vishnu Devananda Maharaj (Swamiji) who gave him and his wife their mantra initiation. Bharat and his wife, Anandi Narayani Ma (2/6/34 – 3/9/84), opened the Sivananda Yoga Center in 1965, which was located at 2307 Baynard Blvd., Wilmington, Delaware. They taught Yoga, and had a Satsang (Spiritual meeting) every Sunday for 38 years until the building was sold in 2003. Bharat volunteered his time and gave all the revenues generated from his yoga classes to the center for the promise of maintaining its continuity and spreading the word of his Guru. The proceeds from the sale of the Sivananda Yoga Center were used to open many one-room schools in villages in India where there presently are no schools. He has been volunteering teaching yoga at Baylor Women’s Correctional facility since 2002. Bharat is an authorized Hindu Priest and performed Hindu weddings since 1967. He has given seminars and workshops on meditation, yoga, marriage and Hindu philosophy in Delaware and still gives Mantra initiations.

Bharat has an ongoing Yoga Television program since 1990 with a viewer ship of about 20,000. He participated as a teacher of the Bhagavad Gita at the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Ashram, Bahamas, for a month, upon the request of Swamiji. Bharat also volunteered to teach yoga and meditation at the children’s VHP of America summer camp for over 10 years.

He also recorded two Mantra tapes and has distributed over 5,000 copies of his “Jaya Ganesha Mantra,” Kirtan music tape free to students who have greatly enjoyed it.

Bharat J. Gajjar was born on June 19th, 1931 into a business family in Ahmedabad, Gurjarat, India. He and his wife are the parents of Ajay B. Gajjar and Meeta Gajjar Parker. Bharat came to the US in 1952 and graduated Philadelphia University, Pennsylvania, where he taught as a Professor from 1990 to 2002 in the graduate school. He has been awarded 20 textile patents and retired from DuPont DeNemours Company in 1992 after 35 years of service. He was a member of the Toastmasters International club for 40 years and he was a District Governor of the club once.

Bharat feels the blessings of his Gurus