On the second day of the ongoing advanced yoga camp being held at Patanjali Yog Peeth, 2500 yoga trainees of Nepal-based Patanjali Yog Samiti have learnt ways to balance body and mind under the guidance of the Yoga guru Baba Ramdev. The camp would continue five days, the organisers said. The celebrated yoga exponent exhorted the Nepal natives to contribute in the building of a healthy society and a robust nation through practising yoga steadfastly. He said that the camp is also meant to further boost the age-old ties between Nepal and India.
Addressing the yoga trainees, Baba Ramdev said, “Seeds of both good and evil residing in our body, Yoga helps good thoughts to overpower the bad ones. Yoga is not only a panacea for physical ailments it is useful too for the more complicated psychosomatic and hereditary diseases. Besides, such camps would definitely bring the people of the two countries closer. ”
Dwelling on the essence of Yoga, he said that it helps foster a complete balance in life. “Satva, Rajas and Tamas must be perfectly balanced. Happiness dwells in a mind which is rightly balanced and prosperity follows a balanced life. All that the Patanjali group has achieved are thanks to its relentless propagation of Yoga and Karma Yoga.”
Cautioning the yoga practitioners against the possibility of their going astray, away from the destined path of Yoga, Baba Ramdev said that those who are practising Yoga and Karma Yoga must be on their guard all the more as their fall means a fall for dharma and culture their nation embodies and it brings disrepute for those who are mentoring them. “Attainment of purity in one’s character is the most precious thing that one can achieve in life,” he said.
Speaking on the occasion, Acharya Bal Krishna said that Yoga helps one probe the mysteries of life. “Yoga unites all as it integrates an individual to the cosmos,” he said. Dwelling on the hoary cultural ties that have knitted the two nations together for millennia, he said that Nepal and India have remained culturally unified since the time of lord Buddha, Maharshi Valmiki, Mata Janaki and King Janak.
