Yog really means any systematic and dedicated activity to achieve something physically, mentally and spiritually! Nowadays it loosely denotes physical training/exercise! Baba Ramdev called it Yog!
Shri Narendra Modi, PM of India, also performs Yog daily at dawn to keep himself healthy, energetic and calm. In his first speech to the United Nations he proposed to keep a National Yog Day which was accepted by them as June 21. On that day at 7am he will demonstrate Yog on TV together with thousands of school children, government officials and other men and women! It would be a memorable Yog Day in the world!
The human body is the highest stage of physical evolution but it is transitory and dies. Hence it can't be the aim of life. Next must be the mental stage. In this we should train and evolve our mind to attain nirvan! Nirvan means existence without vaan = body! That means we shed our human body, free our soul from the vicious circle of birth, life, death, old age, diseases and distress!
Upendra Kapadia
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