Vol-5-6: Yoga Concordance/Based on Yogopanisads
Kaivalyadhama humbly presents the Yoga Concordance VoL I as a mark of attainment of another milestone in its history in the field of yogic research. This is the result of meticulous efforts made by the staff members of Philosophico-Literary Research Department towards the planning and preparation of this Concordance.
As will be evident from the Introduction of this book, originally the work was to be presented comprising all the seventy selected yogic Texts. But in order to make it more user friendly and handy for those who are interested in understanding the concept analytically, we have prepared this Volume only on the basis of five Classical Hathayogic Texts. The subsequent Volumes to be published in due course of the time, comprising rest of the Yogic Texts are expected to throw more and more light on yogic concepts analytically.
Though the work based on all the selected seventy Yogic Texts was ready with the Department nearly six years ago but its publication was delayed due to following reasons-
a: Paucity of fund for its publication.
b. Specific computer software in Devanagari script for the arrangement of data.
The above quoted reasons apparently seem to be different but somehow they are inter-linked. In this connection we are highly thankful to the Ministry of H.R.D., Govt. of India, and its representatives Shri A. K. Singh, the then Director, Department of Education, Shri S. S. Sharma, Director, Finance Division and Mrs. Sharda Ali Khan, Deputy Secretary (Education) who had visited our Institute during the year 1999, by being influenced by the uniqueness and significance of this work, were gracious enough to help financially towards the expenditure of its publication. And accordingly, the Institute received the initial grant of Rupees Two Lacks Fifty Thousand (Rs. 2, 50, 000/-) from H.R.D., Govt. of India.
The Project was also appreciated and supported by the then Director of Central Council of Research in Yoga and Naturopathy, Dr. Naresh Kumar Brahmachariji, who not only acknowledged its significance but also provided a token financial assistance of Rupees Seventy-Five Thousand (Rs.75,OOO/-) towards its publication. This gave us impetus to work more fastly for the sake of its publication.
The responsibility of developing specific Software Program for our purpose was given to Access Consultancy, Pune, who through their experts' Research and Development, were finally successful in developing the program compatible to our requirements with certain limitations which were overcome manually by the staff-members of the Department. We are thankful to Access Consultancy for their efforts.
Shri O. P.Tiwari, Secretary, Kaivalyadhama S.M.Y.M. Samiti, deserves special thanks who always prefers to remain behind the curtain yet working as source of inspiration in every step of the development of not only the Institute as a whole but also the individual projects like this work.
My special thanks are due to Dr. B. R. Sharma (Ph.D.) Asstt. Director of Research whose able guidance to the Research team is successively turning into final form of this work.
Our thanks are also due to Mr. Subodh Tiwari, Administrator, S.A.D.T. Gupta Yogic Health Care Centre for helping the Department in finding competent computer programmer.
All the past and present staff-members of different Departments of Kaivalyadhama are thanked for their direct/indirect contribution towards the preparation and completion of this work.
We thank the Library Staff of the Philosophico-Literary Research Department who were always ready to provide relevant Texts requested during the preparation of the present Concordance.
We are also thankful to Mrs. Nazima K. Saudagar, Computer Operator of this project, for her promptness towards the computer related work of the Concordance.
Last but not the least, our special thanks go to Shri Nitin Tanpure, Prop. ACE Enterprises, Pune, whose painstaking swiftness and efficiency only could enable the publication of this Concordance within the stipulated time.
Finally I would like to draw the attention of the scholars and researchers working in the field to go through this endeavor, first of its own kind and benefit us through their positive suggestions (if any) towards improvement of its presentation and we assure that the same will be taken care of during the publication of its subsequent volumes.
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