Prabha Shares

 Recently, the General Assembly of the United Nations, approved December 21 as the World Day of Meditation. It was proposed by Liechtenstein and supported by countries like India. Earlier, India proposed June 21 to be celebrated as the World Day of Yoga and it was approved as well. Yoga and meditation go hand in hand. These two things have been an integral part of Indian culture. If we trace through the history of Yoga or meditation in India, a few believe that it was first introduced during 5000 B.C. But since literary sources will not be available dating back to that period, we don’t have solid evidence. Even the prehistoric cave paintings depict only the social life of those times, but there is no proof for the practice of Yoga or meditation.  The most acceptable point of Yoga and meditation is that they belong to the vedic period. It is when social practices started getting printed as literary texts. Upanishads talk about Dhyana, which is meditation. But it would’ve been t...

International Yoga Day is being celebrated on 21 June since 2015 after the recognition by the United Nations. So on this day, I would like to share my experience which I went through in the few days of my yoga journey. I have been into both Yoga and Gym, somewhere I have a feel that Yoga score a little bit more than the gym workouts. It was during my last attempt at the civil services exam when I joined Yoga for loss of weight. Rohini Manoharan , a charming young lady with a beautiful smile always on her face was my instructor. The positive vibes she possessed were the real catalyst during our yoga sessions and that is where I realized that getting a proper guru is the foremost thing in the Yoga. Completely Natural Yoga has its origin in our very own land India which is a boon provided by the great guru Patanjali . Now yoga has reached every nuke and corner of the world and to our wonder, it is practiced more by others than us. All you need to do yoga is a piece of pure cloth or yoga ...