Thursday, August 25, 2016

International Yoga Day

Recently Rio Olympic is finished. Olympic being one of my favourite sports event I very closely follow it. This event unites people across the globe. We witness some extra-ordinary performances which surpass human skills. We witness some heart touching moments apart from sport performances which elevates human values. It is the celebration of the human spirit.


On that note I thought of writing something on International Yoga Day.

Yoga is Life.  Yoga uplifts every human being, its for everybody beyond race and religion. To lead a happy, healthy and successful life is everybody's right and man is constantly looking for it. International Yoga day certainly holds importance to know Yoga is the way to achieve it.

Yoga means in union.  Union of body, mind and spirit. It brings harmony in all levels and brings out the best of human values. Just like sports it needs practice, patience and perseverance. With practice once you start getting glimpses of beautiful experiences you fall in love with it and you start enjoying just like a game. The beautiful thing about Yoga is, it is for everybody, be a sportsman, be a doctor, an artist, an engineer, a professional etc etc, it brings best of skills in you.

It helps you to lead a healthy life and also prevents from any forthcoming illnesses. It has also got healing powers. Yoga can overcome many diseases where most of the medicines fail.

Meditation is one of the limbs of Yoga. It bring clarity and calmness in mind. It also brings the emotional balance which leads you to have healthy loving relationships. As founder of Art of Living, Gurudev Sri Sri Ravishankar says no matter how busy we are, for our dental hygiene we do brush daily, like that for our mental hygiene, we should meditate daily, no matter how busy we are. International Yoga is certainly reminder for that.

Yoga is a science of self realisation, it is the science of connecting to inner most core of human being. As self encompasses everything, Yoga benefits in each and every facet of life (good health, peace of mind, better decisions, loving relationships). Yoga brings back you in your true nature which is peace and love, with full enthusiasm.

In this era where man is struggling with stress and violence, certainly International Yoga Day reminds everyone to surpass this stress and celebrate the life with peaceful, loving mind.
It brings in memory lines from Michael Jackson's song,
                  "Heal the world for the better place for you and me and the entire human race"
For the coming generations it is the path to create heaven on earth. Just like the olympic, International Yoga day is the celebration of human spirit to realise our dream "Vasudhiav Kutumbakam - One World Family".

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