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March 2018 Edition of Power Politics is updated.         March 2018 Edition of Power Politics is updated.
Issue:Mar' 2018

The Power of Yoga

A natural path to healthy life !

Swami Maheshwaranan

Salutation to the Cosmic Light. Lord, lead us from the unreality to the reality Lead us from the darkness to the light Lead us from the mortality to the immortality Let peace prevail in the whole world

We know what is going on in the world. The situation in the world is very critical. Can we ourselves do something? How Yoga can help in giving good governance and prevent violence? And through which way can the individual contribute to world peace? It is possible to do so by using and practising the ancient wisdom, known as YOGA.
Thanks to Prime Minister Narendra Modiji's great work and merit, Yoga now is known, valued and accepted throughout the world. June 21 is declared as International Day of Yoga, with the unanimous vote and approval of the United Nations. Each year the IDY is celebrated with public

Yoga is a universal principle. It is the principle which balances the entire universe. All stars, planets, sun, moon, visible and invisible, all elements are balanced in this universe by some principle, and that we may call Yoga.

Yoga events in India and every country in the world. Prime Minister Modiji himself sets a good example by his presence and active participation in public Yoga presentations and international Yoga conferences in India and abroad. Many thanks to the Prime Minister for spreading light, spirituality, peace, wisdom, happiness and health through Yoga around the world!
Many thousands of years ago, the Rishis, wise men and seers of India, achieved the highest knowledge and oneness with the Supreme. They revealed the science and techniques of the Yoga-practice.
They taught us one of the most ancient spiritual ways: the Sanatana dharma, with deep insight into the Divine, by observing the noble ideals of ahimsa (non-violence), tolerance and love for all living beings.
Sanatana Dharma is the firm fundament of Yoga. In this way it is the answer to violence, aggression and fighting which is spreading very fast throughout the globe. Yoga is a universal principle. It is the principle which balances the entire universe. All stars, planets, sun, moon, visible and invisible, all elements are balanced in this universe by some principle, and that we may call Yoga. When balance takes place, harmony appears. When there is harmony, then union or unity begins. Literally, Yoga means union or unity, oneness. Create harmony and realise the oneness. Oneness of the individual self with the cosmic self. This is the final goal of Yoga.

International yoga day Yoga plays an important part in our lives – not only for Indians but for everyone. Yoga means to join the soul with the creator and seek salvation through meditation and physical application. Yoga is not a religion, based on acceptance of particular gods, dogmas, revelations and religious structures. It is based on the reverence of dharma which is the rule of law and the ethic of the age.
Despite colour, religion, caste within castes and regions, India has maintained its tolerance. Yoga and Hindu religion upholds the virtues of truth, love, compassion, kindness, tolerance, self-discipline, inquisitiveness and benevolence. Yoga promotes a sense of loving other human beings as much as you love yourself.
Yoga spreads the message of universal brotherhood. The concept of the entire world as a single family, Vasudeva kuthumbakam is enshrined in India. India has the most ancient and rich in culture, traditions, philosophy and concepts. It has endeavoured to secure the well-being of humanity and universal brotherhood. Yoga philosophy expounds universal welfare, development of divine virtues and attainment of spiritual success.
Yoga deals with the life of all humans and creatures of this world and also of the other worlds. The objective of Yoga is to take the humanity to the highest peak of human development and achieve the stage of supreme salvation that is described as moksha (liberation

Thanks to Prime Minister Narendra Modiji's great work and merit, Yoga now is known, valued and accepted throughout the world. June 21 is declared as the International Day of Yoga, with the unanimous vote and approval of the United Nations.

of the "wheel of life and death"). The reverence for life, which is the essence of birth and death cycle and the ability to see God in all things, living and non-living, is the uniqueness of Yoga philosophy. If we will think and respect the trees to be holy, we will not cut them and destroy the forests. If we think that all life is holy, all our problems would not be here. But we have gone astray.
So we even don't respect the humans. Practice of Yoga creates harmony and balance in our life, in our family and the surrounding. When we become ill, there is an imbalance in the body. When we have psychic or emotional problems, there must be some imbalance in our life. Yoga provides us a very natural and practical approach to a healthy and successful life in harmony with the nature and the environment. It offers techniques for harmonizing body and mind, purifying our consciousness, and achieving atma gyana, selfrealization.
Yoga consists of four branches that correspond to seekers' various dispositions. Bhakti Yoga is the path of love and devotion for those who seek the Divine through worship and prayer. Karma Yoga is the path of action and service. Gyana Yoga is the path of knowledge and wisdom through philosophy and
discrimination between reality and unreality. And Raja Yoga is the path of self-discipline and self-mastery through practice and meditation.
Since more than four decades, in my lectures, seminars and annual World Peace Tours, the system Yoga in Daily Life has been popularized world over and has been accepted in Western countries as well where people often feel a lack of sense in life despite their high comfort and standard of living.
Yoga teaches us to master ourselves and our lives in every situation and every sphere. In fact, it is the perfect way to God. Yoga is not a religion, nor a cult, nor any theory or set of dogmas. Yoga is Reality. It is the ultimate truth. Yoga is older than our planet. It has been guiding the process of life since the very beginning of the universe.

P.M. on Yoga Day In the present time, when our Earth stands on the edge of destruction through us, the humans themselves, people in the whole world are looking out again for a way to a natural life style, for peace and harmony among all religions, cultures and nationalities. And this is the path that Yoga offers to the world.
In order to maintain that spiritual way of living and to get selfrealization, it is advisable for all of us to follow the way of Yoga. Yoga should not be lived separately from our daily lives. This is the very idea of the System "Yoga in Daily Life": to live twenty-four hours a day according to the principles, rules and regulations that were handed over to us by the ancient Rishis. These universal and divine principles are: understand, forgive, be tolerant, love, serve, believe, worship, meditate and realize. Yoga in Daily Life will surely lead you to achieve the ultimate goal. That is, to become one with God.
The work of all yogis is aimed to achieve world peace. All should be happy – sarve bhavantu sukhina. All means not only our family, or town, village or country, not only the humans, not only Indians, but the whole world and all creatures. What a noble thought! Rishis said: The whole world is the family of one

Practice of Yoga creates harmony and balance in our life, in our family and the surrounding. When we become ill, there is an imbalance in the body. When we have psychic or emotional problems, there must be some imbalance in our life. Yoga provides us a very natural and practical approach to a healthy and successful life in harmony with the nature and the environment.

God. If this consciousness is developed again in humans, definitely there will be world peace. Eventually, we have to start the multi-culture and multi-religious thinking. We have to bring together all religious leaders. Do we want to have a world in peace or to have a world in pieces? If we continue to fight among nations, cultures and religions we will have a world in pieces soon.
World Peace is possible only when religious and political leaders practise tolerance, recognition and respect for other religions, cultures and nations. Their prime duty is to awaken the consciousness of forgiveness, brotherhood and oneness, that we are all children of the one God.There is only one religion to which we all belong – Humanity.This is my message to create unity, understanding and brotherhood among people through Yoga and safe world through Yoga.
My sincere congratulations to the publishers, editors and journalists of Power Politics - in particular to my dear friend R C Ganjoo - for the 10th anniversary of this magazine. Their objective, interesting and informative articles and news are the most valuable and important part of independent journalism in India and the world.
I wish the Power Politics magazine a long lasting and bright future!