Mission of My Life

Swami Satyananda Saraswati

I have one resolution in my mind which is perhaps the mission of my life. That is to take yoga from door to door and shore to shore.

Children must learn yoga at school, prisoners must have yoga classes in jails and everybody must be qualified in yoga before they are granted employment. It must also be compulsory that every boy and girl knows yoga before they get married. Maybe a time will come when employment officers ask prospective employees, ‘Where is your certificate of yoga from a Satyananda Yoga Ashram?’

In the medical field, there is still an enormous amount of work to be done. Doctors must expand their knowledge of yoga and accept that in many cases yoga is more effective than medicine. Just as there are chest clinics, cancer clinics and so on in all hospitals, yoga clinics must also be established and sustained by doctors who are fully qualified in yoga therapy.

In the field of communication, television stations must feature a one hour morning program on yoga practices every day or at least once a week. With audio and visual guidance, people can practise yoga in their homes before going to work or to school. In magazines and newspapers, just as there is a section for women, a section for sports and so on, there should be a section for yoga, even if it is only a few lines. I am sure this would speed up the process of evolution in the general strata of society.