Happy International Yoga Day 2024: The art of healthy living, Yoga, which originated in India, is now a global phenomenon with millions of people celebrating the ancient practice across the world on International Yoga Day 2024 on June 21.
International Yoga Day 2024: International Yoga Day 2024 will be celebrated worldwide on June 21 to promote the benefits of yoga in physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. PM Modi will mark this year’s International Day of Yoga on June 21 in Srinagar.
Each year, International Yoga Day adopts a specific theme to focus the celebrations and activities around a particular aspect of yoga. The theme for 2024 is “Yoga for Self and Society.”
Centuries ago one of the most popular Sanskrit poets Bhartrhari, while highlighting the specialty of Yoga, said:
धैर्यं यस्य पिता क्षमा च जननी शान्तिश्चिरं गेहिनी
सत्यं सूनुरयं दया च भगिनी भ्राता मनः संयमः।
शय्या भूमितलं दिशोSपि वसनं ज्ञानामृतं भोजनं
एते यस्य कुटिम्बिनः वद सखे कस्माद् भयं योगिनः।।
Meaning that by regularly practising Yoga, a person can imbibe some very good qualities like courage which protects like a father, forgiveness as possessed by a mother & mental peace which becomes a permanent friend. Through regular practise of Yoga truth becomes our child, mercy our sister, self-control our brother, the earth becomes our bed & knowledge satiates our hunger.
