On the commercial side, yoga bracelets, rubber stamps, posters, women tops, ornaments, necklaces, prayer flags, mandalas, pendants, wall decorations, mobiles, stickman figures, etc., have come into market. Market forces are always out to cash on the international observation by selling theme-based gift items and souvenirs.
According to Shrimad Bhagwad Gita, three form of Yoga - Karma Yoga, Gyan Yoga and Bhagati Yoga - can be practiced for liberation from the pangs of the birth-n-death cycles as propagated by Vedic culture. Also, earlier, Buddhi Yoga - a system of methods for development of human consciousness, which follows raja yoga practice - was common.
Yog asanas are a small spec of yoga practice. It is held that a person is said to achieve yoga or become yogi, if he or she achieves the union with the Self. Yoga strives for creating a perfectly disciplined mind that is free from all desires to get absorbed in the Self alone without any externalization
I personally feel that ancient yoga was authentic, and now with its commercialism, cultural superficiality and pseudo-spirituality brought in by various yoga studios, it has moved away from its real essence.
The design of the stamp features the logo of the International Day of YOGA.
The design of the stamp features the logo of the International Day of YOGA.
PM Modi Leads Yoga Session, India Sets
Guinness Records: 10 Developments
NEW YORK: India created two world records on International Yoga Day with the yoga performance at Rajpath led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi: The record for largest yoga class, with 35,985 people, and the record for most nationalities participating in a single yoga event - 84.
Source : http://www.ndtv.com/
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