Era of Covid-19 Pandemic: Yoga contemplation and medical mystery

Year 2020, Volume: 6 Issue: 2, 88 - 100, 30.06.2020

Prem Sıngh Vikas Chaurasia

https://doi.org/10.31459/turkjkin.745955

Cited By: 1

Abstract

Yoga is a complete science, a complete lifestyle, a complete medical practice and a complete spiritual education. The secret of the popularity of yoga is that it has never distinction from the narrowness of gender, caste, class, community, region and language. Any seeker, thinker, recluse, practitioner, brahmachari, householder can get benefited by attaining the same. It has proved useful not only in the creation and upliftment of the individual but also in the all-round development of the family, society, nation and the world.Yoga is the solution to the stress, disturbance, terrorism, lack and ignorance of modern human society. Yoga is a wonderful technique to bring man on the paved path of positive thinking which was invented by the intelligent sages of India, millions of years ago. Maharhi Patanjali performed it in the form of Ashtanga Yoga, disciplined, edited and executed. A healthy person and a happy society can only be created by going in the condition of yoga. Yoga is not only the discipline of ascetics, recluse and yogis who live in cave, but it is also very much needed for the general householder. It is a matter of surprise that we are ready to exploit our financial, physical and mental by falling into a two-hundred-year-old allopathic medical system. For millions of years, we remain indifferent to old yoga, remain ignorant, which is not only authentic but also teaches free treatment.

Keywords

Allopathic, Ashtanga yoga, brahmachari, spiritual education, stress, yoga

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