Yog means samadhi which is a realisation of god. Patanjali rishi, who had full command over yog because of his divine knowledge of Vedas and great power of yog, states in his Yog Shastra Sutra 4/30 that the main motto of practising ashtang yog is to reach the stage of samadhi by attaining perfection, right from yam, niyam, asan, pranayaam, pratyahaar, dharnna, dhyan to samadhi. It destroys the sorrows, illusion and effect of previous and present lives’ deeds.  Patanjali rishi further states in his Yog Shastra Sutra 4/29 that the yogi attains dharmamegh samadhi and realises god’s existence. Naturally the said vedic preach condemns the present thought of self-proclaimed yog teachers, who mostly preach asan, prannayaam and meditation to improve health.

It is sad that India, the land of rishi-munis, has stopped studying Vedas and knowing eternal vedic culture, which includes yog philosophy resulting in decline in peace and brotherhood. In fact, the said culture is universally applicable to all the human beings being the preach of almighty god in Vedas and not by man. For the last 2,000 thousand years, we have created our own paths of worship, which mostly do not tally with Vedas. This has broken the eternal, traditional vedic worship and yog philosophy, which has been fruitful for human beings. In this connection, samved mantra 744 preaches to follow eternal vedic worship philosophy, which was being followed by our forefathers.

Due to the ignorance of Vedas, we have forgotten the fundamental law. If anyone would go against the laws of Vedas, s/he will have to face sorrows. We have also forgotten the origin of yog philosophy, which are four Vedas.

By breaking the eternal tradition of first listening to original form of yog philosophy from Vedas, unauthentic and commercialised form of yog philosophy has come into practise. Therefore, everybody must first learn Vedas otherwise the true form of worship and ashtang yog philosophy, which traditionally has been taught in India, will never be gained.

If some yog teachers claim to preach complete ashtang yog philosophy, they mostly extract money from people and  don’t preach daily agnihotra. Such practise is unauthentic and not beneficial for people.

We will also have to pay our attention towards atharvaved mantra 11/3(2)/32 and patanjal yog darshan,  which preach that main motto of four Vedas and human life is to realise god. In the present scenario, mostly yog gurus have diluted the motto of human life and teach to improve health through asan, pranayaam, meditation only, which is unauthentic.

On one hand, it is a matter of pride and joy that recently the world has celebrated June 21 as International Yog day but on the other hand, it is a matter of concern that the true and eternal form of ashtang yog, preached by god in Vedas and adopted by our ancient rishi-munis, for which India attained the title of vishwa guru, is not being taught or spread.  

Ashtang yog philosophy emanates directly from Vedas and they emanate directly from God. Therefore, in the absence of vedic knowledge, the real form of it under the eternal process of acharya-disciple tradition is not possible.

Yajurved mantra 7/8 inspires — Oh! aspirant, desirous of yog philosophy, you are accepted with eight parts of yog philosophy to practise and become a perfect a yogi.

Ved gurus and intellectuals must approach government to provide vedic education for a period of at least 20-30 minutes right from the primary schools to university level to educate our children. Only then we can bring back the title of vishwaguru and establish Ram rajya in our country otherwise a destroyed culture can knock down the country.