More than 50,000 enthusiasts, along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday performed Yoga at the Forest Research Institute campus in Dehradun,
The ancient Indian discipline has emerged as the most powerful unifying force in a strife-torn world, said Modi, adding that yoga has shown the world the way from “illness to wellness” and is enriching lives across the globe
“Yoga has become the biggest mass movement across the globe in the quest for good health and wellbeing, which is crucial to the creation of a peaceful world,” the prime minister pointed out.
“Dehradun to Dublin, Shanghai to Chicago, Jakarta to Johannesburg, Himalayan highlands or sunburnt deserts, Yoga is enriching millions of lives all over the world,” he said. “Yoga fosters amity in societies which can form the basis of national unity.”
He reportedly said the proposal for the Yoga Day at the UN was accepted in record time with a majority of nations supporting it. “Today people all over the world have come to look upon yoga as something which belongs to them,” a PTI report quoted Modi as saying.
He also asked people to learn to honour their own legacy and heritage if they wanted the rest of the world to respect them.
“If we don’t take pride in our own legacy and heritage no one else will. We should not hesitate in honouring the gems of our own heritage,” Modi added.