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Let's Try Yoga In Nigeria

Published in Nigerian Tribune
April 16, 1953
By J. A. Babalola

Nigeria has become a known figure in world activities. She is setting out gradually to manage her own internal affairs thought central and regional ministers.

If the men and women who control Nigeria’s destiny want this country to be a model for future generations to follow, the of yoga science is a vital importance for physical mental and spiritual development.

The question arises, “Can Nigerians in all the works of life make use of their study of yoga science?” I say, “Yes.”

Every human being is chiefly attracted to one of three types of magnetism: material, mental, or spiritual. The science of Yoga teaches the scientific method contacting spiritual magnetism, the source of mental and material magnetism.

Unless Nigerians learn how to contact God, the Spiritual Magnet of this complex universe, most of their wealth will be wasted useless desires.
As America and other western countries have specialized in industrial and material efficiency, so India is a specialist in spiritual efficiency.

Men like Mahatma Gandhi, the poet Tagore, Lord Buddha, Lord Krishna, Lord Shankara, Supreme Master Babaji, great Master Lahiri Mahasaya, Master Swami Sri Yukteswarji, Paramhansa Yogananda, and Vyasa, the author of the great Hindu scripture, Bhagavad Gita, possessed a fundamental background Yoga science. The India educational system has been saturated with Yoga philosophy.

Two international schools where Yoga is taught to Western and Eastern seekers situated in California and Bengal: Self-Realization Fellowship in Los Angeles, and Yogoda Sat-sanga Society in Dakshineswar. Paramhansa Yogananda, founder of these international schools, established residential high school with Calcutta University matriculation standards) with Yoga training at Ranchi, Bhihar, India.

It will be advantageous to all Nigerians if the study of Yoga science is included in the Nigerian educational system. The Western world needs the spiritual food of modern India as an important vitamin or protein that is indispensable in any diet. India too requires the industrial material efficiency of America and the west for balanced development.

Nigerian citizens need Yoga science as a tap-root of growth in all works of life in order to build up modern Nigeria. If many Nigerians become Yoga students and if we have many Yoga teachers in schools and colleges, moral laxity will be wiped out from our society.

There is an element Yoga philosophy in Moslem theology, unknown to many followers of the faith. It is also buried in the Bible of the Christians, especially in St. John’s Gospel and the Book of Revelation. The Science of Yoga is like a well brought up to the surface in the Hindu Bible of the East, Bhagavad Gita.

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