Asking people to make Yoga a people’s movement Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath appealed to all people to practise yoga on the International Yoga Day on June 21 saying it not only gives a person a good health but it also makes an individual mentally and spiritually sound.
The Chief Minister, who inaugurated a yoga camp at the Gorakhshnath temple in Gorakhpur on Thursday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should be thanked for taking Yoga to an international level. “Once it has got UN approval more than 200 countries observe the International Yoga Day which shows how yoga is helpful for the mankind,” he added.
Adityanath said though in India people are still not so much enthused about yoga but in foreign countries people are running after it. “Yoga is a crazed in western world. We have a habit of deriding Indian culture. But Yoga is one which had kept Indian flag flying high. It is a known fact that Yoga makes one mentally sound and helps us to achieve our goal,” he said.
The Chief Minister said that just 15 minutes of Pranayam can benefit people. It takes away stress and gives mental stability. It increases decision making power of a person and helps him to achieve new highs.
He also asked people to join the International Yoga Day by doing yoga between 0630 hrs and 0800 hrs anywhere in the state. “In lucknow, more than 55,000 people would join with the Prime Minister to do yoga. It will be a mega event never seen before in Uttar Pradesh and I expect people in Gorakhpur too should do Yoga,” he said and added that on that day all the UP ministers would be in the districts to join the people in yoga.
Earlier, the Chief Minister worshiped at the Gorakshnath temple and even met the people to hear their problems. later, he left for Darbhanaga in Bihar, where he addressed a public meeting and inaugurated the Modi Fest on the completion of three years rule of the NDA government.