Yoga Day 2018: How India's answer to western fitness regimes originated
A text dating back to early medieval India considers yoga an activity that can lead to the liberation of one's soul or 'moksha' Current Affairs News : Yoga has been India’s answer to fancy fitness regimes followed in the west. It has spread to all parts of the world to such an extent that we celebrate the International Yoga Day. Almost every Indian city has something planned to celebrate on this day. While the Prime Minister practices yoga in Dehradun with over 50,000 people, Vice-President Venkiah Naidu will be the chief guest at a yoga day event in Mumbai. Yoga day is being celebrated in other locations like Hyderabad too. But here’s the irony- Yoga must be done in a secluded place, says the Kurma Purana (Kurma Purana Part II, translated by Ganesh Vasudeo Tagare, published by Motilal Banarsidaas in 1982), an early medieval Indian text. It lays down few more rules for the practice of yoga. The text has prescribed specific locations where...