Involving Yoga with Politics is not a Good Idea

Yoga, the way it has been described in classical scripts like Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra, aimed at attaining a higher philosophical standard. The asanas that make the body supple allow a practitioner to adopt the poses allowing to utmost concentration as in meditation. The yoga that India assiduously promotes as a health and fitness regime is the asanas-based exercise. Many Indians as well as foreigners practice Yoga to stay fit just like people who prefer go to the gymnasium. A wonderful celebration is held on International Yoga Day, designated by the UN.

The secular form of yoga has nothing to be related and reasoned about with religion, it is involved more with philosophy and a state of mind. Irrespective of whether if people can master yoga to get on to the higher plane of mind control, it will remain a popular fitness regime. It’s futile then to politicise it to the extent of seeing which leaders support yoga and which don’t. Surely, to take yoga as a fitness regime of an individual is a personal choice.