YOGA
A JOURNEY TO FIND OURSELVES
YOGA
A JOURNEY TO FIND OURSELVES
YOGA, a journey within to purify our soul, a spiritual practice
to entail mastery over the body, mind and emotion. It teaches
us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot
be cured. The word “yoga” is taken from Sanskrit word “yuj”
which means “to unite”. Thus yoga means union of individual
with parmatma, the universal soul. Yoga has many paths and
each path has enlightenment like love and devotion (as in
‘bhakti yoga’), selfless work (as in ‘karma yoga’), knowledge
and discernment (as in ‘janana yoga’) or in eight limbed system of disciplines emphasizing meditation (as in ‘raja yoga’).
Apart from spiritual goals, the physical postures of yoga are
used to alleviate health problems, reduce stress and make the
spine supple in contemporary times. Yoga is a very precious
gift to the world given by our nation. In view of its connection
with India’s ancient root and its acceptance throughout the
world, our Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi suggested
United Nations General Assembly to celebrate June 21 as International Day of Yoga, as this is the longest day of year in
the northern hemisphere and has special significance
throughout the world. Surprisingly, this proposal was supported by 177 member states in UNGA and thus adopted
without a vote. This year, June 21, 2015, first International
Day of Yoga created many records. A total of 175 nations cosponsored the resolution and had the highest number of cosponsors ever for any resolution of such nature. In India,
about 35,985 people, including the Indian Prime Minister and
a large number of dignitaries from 84 nations met at Rajpath
in New Delhi and performed 21 yoga asanas for 35 minutes.
STUDENT
STUDENT
MEMBERS
MEMBERS
THIRD YEAR
Abhishek Singh
Abhishek Yadav
Ankita Jaiswal
Antra Saxena
Deeksha Sharma
Dhawal N. Asthana
Lisha
Prerna Arya
Ravikant
Ritvik Verma
Shubham Chand
Siddharth Sagar
Srijan
Vishal Tiwari