INSTIUTIONS

Bihar School of Yoga

Official Web Site www.yogavision.net

email:bsy@yogavision.net

Address:Ganga Darshan, Munger, Bihar,India

Phone:06344-22430

Fax:06344-23169

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Bihar School of Yoga (BSY) was established in 1964 as the headquarters of International Yoga Fellowship. It aims to impart yogic training to householders and sannyasins alike. Since the first Yoga Teacher Training Courses which was held in 1968, the school has grown into a reputable International Training center of great renown.

The yoga School is situated at Ganga Darshan, which is built over a large hill overlooking the Utter vahini Ganga. Here, amidst an atmosphere of natural beauty, surrounding by scenic gardens,, green paddy fields and a majestic 180 degree panoramic sweep of the river Ganga, a new vision of yogic life is inspired.

The techniques of integral Yoga taught here are a synthesis of all approaches to personal development. Yoga Teachers Training, Yoga Health Management, Individual Sadhana, Hriya Yoga, Mantra Meditation and other advance courses are conducted by trained sannyasins on a group or individual basis for day and life residential students.

The Bihar School of Yoga has always been known for its excellent sannyasa training and was one of the first institutions to initiate and train female and overseas sannyasins on a large scale.

The institution houses a well-stocked Yoga Research Library with a large collection of books and data where most of the school’s publication of Yoga, health techniques and research are compiled. Ashram graphics, the modern printing press, prints all the BSY publications. It has a wide range of equipment's and is staffed and managed by the sannyasins and disciples of the ashram who do everything from typesetting to dispatch.

Conventions, tours, seminars, workshops and lectures help spread the yogic message “from door to door and from shore to shore”. In addition to these, trained sannyasins are ever ready to conduct organized conventions, seminars and lecture tours throughout all the India and the world. This provides a solutions for the Yoga minded people who find it impossible to undertake a journey to Munger or any of the branch ashrams.

Bihar Yoga Bharati
(World's First Yoga University)

Official Web Site
www.biharyogabharati.net
email:yoga@yogavision.net

Address:Ganga Darshan,
Fort Area, Munger,
Bihar - 811201,India

Phone:91+6344+22430 Fax: 91+6344+20169

Paramhamsa Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati, in order to preserve and regenerate the total scope of yogic science by combining academic and scientific methodology with a spiritual vision, established Bihar Yoga Bharati (BYB) as a charitable educational institution at Munger in the year 1994.
BYB offers scholars, scientist, doctors and yoga aspirants from all over the world a golden opportunity to work together to formulate on scientific basis for the growth, expansion and rapid integration of Yoga into modern society.
  Bihar Yoga Bharati is the first university of its kind to impart a comprehensive Yogic education with provision for MA, M.Sc., Mphil, Phd, DSc, Dlitt. The Undergraduate department offers a four month certificate course and a one year Diploma course in Yogic Studies. The postgraduate department offers a One year diploma in Yoga Ecology and Two year Master Course, MA in Yoga philosophy, MA/MSc in yoga psychology and M.Sc. in Applied Science.
Bihar Yoga Bharati offers complete, academics, yogic education and training in the traditional Gurukul or ashram environment. This combination of academics training and residential ashram lifestyle, helps the student imbibe the Yogic principles in an integral way. It ensure that, along with an intellectual yoga education, each student imbibes the spirit of seva (selfless services), samarpan(dedication) and karuna ( Compassion) for humankind.

KHAQAH RAHMANI is an institution internationally know where spiritualism is taught and practiced and purification of soul is done with a view to achieve salvation. It has a history of splendid and dignified deeds behind it in connection with service to humanity. It commands tremendous regards from both Muslim and Non-Muslim, nation wide and also in abroad.

People from every walk of life gather in large number on every second Saturday of the month to get blessings from the present Sajjada Nashee, Hazrat Maulana Mohammad Wali Rahmani and get rid of their troubles and difficulties.

This holy shrine was established over hundred year ago in the year 1901 by the eminent SUFI of all times namely Hazrat Maulana Mohammad Ali Mungeri (R.A.).

KHANQAH has contributed considerably in freedom movement in Bihar, Leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Jawahar Lal Nehru, Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar, had come here to generate the freedom movement. Shri Krishna Sinha, The first chief Minister of Bihar, took shelter for 22 days to run the freedom movement from this centre. After the death of Hazerat Munger (R.A), his great son, Hazrat Maulana Minnatullah Rahmani (R.H) become the Sajjada Nasheen and led the flame of freedom struggle. He was also jailed by the British Rulers.

Apart from those leaders, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan , Dr. Rajendra Prasad , Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, had also graced this institution with their presence from the time Recently in march 1991 at the death of Hazrat Maulana Minnatullah Rahmani (R.A.) Shri Rajeev Gandhi, Shri V.P. Singh and Shri Chandra Shakhar (the then P.M.) had come to pay their homage and tributes to this great soul.

JAMIA RAHMANI:

In this religious academic institution student are taught Islamic theology comprising of HADIS, FIQUAH, TAFASEER-QURAN,HIFZ, QUERAT ETC. to the highest standard (up to post graduate degree) as well as they are equipped with Islamic Discipline and culture, In fact knowledge is blended here with PRACTICE. It is a residential institution.

This renowned institution was also established by HAZRAT Maulana Mohammad Ali Mungeri (R.A.) in the year 1927. After his death his son namely Hazrat Maulana Minnatullah Rahmani (R.A.), the Founder General Secretary of “ All India Muslim Personal Law Board”, took over the command and brought multi dimensional progress to this institution in a very short span of time and gave it a new height and horizon touching the zenith of many glorious achievements.

Presently , Hazrat Maulana Mohammad Wali Rahmani, Sajjada Nasheen Khanque Rahmani , Munger is efficiently and effectively running this institution and it is smoothly marching ahead.

Jamia Rahmani has a magnificent library known as KUTUB KHANA RAHMANI with a sizeable collection of valuable books including rare manuscripts.

Really JAMIA RAHMANI Munger, Bihar , holds a very prominent position among the institution of Islamic Learning in India and abroad.

RAHMANI FOUNDATION:

The present Sjjada Nasheen, Hazrat Maulana Mohammad Wali Rahmani has added one more golden chapter to the history of KHANQUAH by starting Computer Education, Technical education and Health services specially for the ear and the Eye. This Foundation function in a beautiful palace located by the side of the holy river GANGA.

In fact KHANQUAH RAHMANI has been providing its services to all without- distinction of caste,creed and colour since the date of its birth.

SRI KRISHNA SEWA SADAN

This institution at Munger commemorates the diamond jubilee of Dr. Sri Krishna Sinha, then Chief Minister of Bihar, who comes from Munger. The foundation-stone of the building was laid on the 21^st December, 1947 by Shri Jairam Das Daulat Ram, the then Governor of Bihar. The institution has also published a book “Sri Krishna Abhinandan Granth” which was presented to the Chief Minister, Dr. S.K.Sinha by Shri Purushottam Das Tandan in 1949. A big library of books was donated by Shri Raghubar Narain Singh in the same year. The building is imposing and was completed in 1953. The institution was formally inaugurated by Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru on the 31^st October, 1953. Dr. Sri Krishna Sinha has donated his personal library consisting of about 17,000 books to the institution (1959). At the end of 1959 there were 41,000 books in the institution and the average daily issue of books was 106. As per counting of books done in 1983, there were total 69307 books in the library which consisted 26178 Hindi, 31865 English, 679 Bangla and 1387 Urdu, Persian and Arabic books.

Anjuman Hemayat –E- Islam (1888 A.D.)

The Anjuman at Munger was founded on Friday the 19^th October, 1888 (Barah safa 1306 A.H) by the Late Maulana Ali Hasan Saheb under the president ship of Janab Latafat Hussain Saheb. After the death of the former Khan Bahadur Shah Muhammad Yahya and Mallik Muhammad Israfil took up the responsibility of running the Anjuman on their shoulder. He donated some properties also to complete the building. Another addition in the building was made under the President ship of Shah Muhammad Yahya .Shah Muhammad Khalil-Ur-Rahman in spite of his old age and disability continued to take interest in the Anjuman. It is his illustrious son Shah Latifur Rahman who is the present Secretary of the Anjuman Hemayat-C-Islam and who take very active interest in the development and expansion of the Anjuman .

Objective

To maintain and look to the education and training of the Muslim orphans to enable them to stand on their feet. Secondly, to inculcate in them the religious feeling for the Almighty God and Prophet. Thirdly, to develop the feeling of communal unity and amity and tom train them on oriental cultural pattern and finally to discover means for their employment and progress.

Educational Position

At present the Anjuman runs the orphanage and a middle English School and a class of theology which prepares students to become Hifz (who can recite Koran extempore.).

At present there are five teacher, two staffs and 203 students of whom 33 get both board and lodge.

The middle school cater to the need of the Anjuman boys and after that arrangements are also made through the Anjuman for their Secondary education in M.W. High School (Maulanagar Waqf).

EDUCATION

Nearby Munger Fort there is a tomb of Mullah Muhammad Sayed Asharaf, a poet who was preceptor of the Princess Zebunnissa. It is understood that Mullah Muhmmad Sayed Ashraf attracted disciples from distant places beyond the limits of Munger and Bihar.

From the accounts of Francis Buchanan, (who surveyed this part of the country In 1810-11) it appears that the incidence of education in Munger was not very encouraging.

The same Francis Buchanan further writes that the teaching of the Hindi Sciences, viz. Grammer, Law, and Metaphysics were done in the Hindu pathshalas. He gives warm tributes to an Astronomer of Munger whose name was Gauri Dutta Pathak, ‘the most sensible man that I have been able to find in that vicinity’. Sir Pathak used to prepare almanacs. The Government records of Bhagalpur division show that the Government of Bengal had taken up Vernacular education in the forties of the last century. In Munger district – Munger, Shekhpura and Teghra were considered suitable sites for Vernacular school in the district of Munger. Accordingly the first school was started at the sadar Station Munger. This school was started at Munger in the month of June, 1846in the Fort area with 12 students and one teacher on a monthly salary of Rs. 20/- Shah Yahid-ud-din began his work as a teacher who had received his education at Bhagalpur at the hands of Moulvi Muhammad Hanif of Moulana Chowk and he taught Arithmetic, Geography, History, Arabic, Persian and Urdu Languages.

In December, 1849 the Government desired to convert these Vernacular school into additional Zila School. The Educational Dispatch of 1854 ended all the Vernacular School and amalgamated them to the secondary school established in different districts. W.W.Hunter in his statistical accounts of Munger of 1877 writes that the number of aided Government school was 8 in 1856 – 57, 11 in 1860-61 and 15 in 1870-71.

Zila School

The oldest school in the district is the Government English School, Munger now Zila School. It was founded in 1854. Gradually there were 229 school in the district attended by 6675 pupils by 1882 the number of school in the had risen to 2755 and of pupils 230403. Since ten in 19^th and 20^th century the number of school have grown up enormously.

The two girl schools – Baijnath Girls School and B.R.M. School Madhopur are there in Munger town.

R.D. & D.J. College

In the sphere of higher education the Diamond Jubilee College, presently R.D.& D.J. College was started in the year 1898 and in celebrated its centenary celebration in 2002. The R.D. & D.J. College is the second oldest college under the Bhagalpur University. During the decade of 1980-90 Munger College added P.G. teaching in most of the departments and presently there are 16 departments – 4 in the science, one in the commerce and 11 in the Arts faculties which are running P.G. Classes.

Amongst the distinguished members of this college, Dr. K.P.Mitra was a distinguished historian, Sri K.K.Sharan an eminent scholar with his leanings to literatures, and Sri K.N.”kapil” who was a literary figure and got many book in Hindi to his credit. He was the Editor of a Hindi Journal “Prachi” and one of the important editors of “Srikrishna Avinandan Granth.” He had a long tenure and remained principal of the college for 25 years. Dr. U.P. Verma, who succeeded him, was a great scholar of his subjects Economics & Commerce and has several books to his credit.

Among other colleges in Munger town mention mist also be made of J.M.S. college, Munger, J.R.S. college, Jamalpur B.R.M. college, Munger and R.D.S.Y. college, Munger.

Shift in the field of Education specially of secondary level the role and functioning of Notre Dame Academy at Munger and Jamalpur has been quite satisfactory. The Notre Dame is run by American Roman Catholic Mission and imparts education according to the syllabus of C.B.S.E. New Delhi. A Kendriya Vidyalaya has also been established at Jamalpur. There is Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya in Kharagpur also.

There is Vishwanth singh Institute of Legal studies has made rapid progress. It has got a magnifying 4 strayed building which can accommodate four to five thousand students in a shift.