Learning should be a continuous process, says President Kovind

Learning should be a continuous process and none should think that they have mastered everything, President Ram Nath Kovind said on Sunday, during a visit to noted spiritualist Sri M's Satsang Foundation ashram here in Chittoor district in Andhra Pradesh.

Interacting with Yoga trainees and teachers of the ashram in this town, about 130 km from Tirupati, he said life is full of challenges and Yoga would be useful to overcome them.

The President said he always preferred to advise people to take life as a school and try and learn all their lives.

"If anybody says I am absolutely confident and I have nothing to learn and I am a complete man then that is a wrong notion," he said.

Earlier, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, along with some of his cabinet colleagues, welcomed Kovind who landed in a helicopter at around 11.55 AM here, a state government press release said.

During his maiden five-hour long visit to the sprawling Ashram of Sri M, a 'Padma Bhushan' awardee, Kovind inaugurated a Yogasala and Bharat Yoga Vidya Kendra and declared open a 'rangashala', a recording studio.

The president laid the foundation for a 38-bed Swasthya Hospital for the benefit of students, staff, family members, and Sugali tribal community from nearby villages.

He planted a sapling on the occasion.

Kovid interacted with trainees and teachers on 'Kriya' yoga and about their personal experiences in yoga classes.

Later, he offered prayers at a small shrine of Lord Shiva in the ashram.

Before leaving, he interacted for a while with the children of Satsang School in the ashram campus.

He enquired about their mother tongue and advised them to pursue their studies effectively without abstaining from classes to reach higher positions in life.

Kovind also paid a visit to Sri Ms Satsang ashram run "The Peepal Grove School" at Sadum, about 70 km from here.

After opening an indoor badminton court at the school, the President flew to Bengaluru enroute to New Delhi.

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