INTERNATIONAL YOGA DAY: PM Modi emphasises Yoga’s role in promoting global peace and interconnectedness

STC NEWS MONITORING DESK
SRINAGAR, JUNE 21 (STC): Prime Minister Narendra Modi today led the 11th International Yoga Day in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. He emphasised Yoga’s role in promoting global peace and interconnectedness. He called for Yoga to be a movement for humanity 2.0, advocating for collective health and harmony worldwide.
Pitching Yoga as a means of promoting peace amid the ongoing conflicts across the globe, PM Modi said “Unfortunately, today the entire world is going through some tension, unrest, and instability have been increasing in many regions. In such times, Yoga gives us the direction of peace. Yoga is the pause button that humanity needs to breathe, balance, and become whole again.”
PM Modi stated how Yoga serves as a personal discipline and encourages a shift from individuality to community, offering a vital pause for humanity to find balance and completeness.
Explaining the International Yoga Day theme for this year, ‘Yoga For One Earth, For One Health’, PM Modi said, “Human well-being depends on the health of the soil that grows our food, the rivers that give us water, the health of the animals that share our ecosystems, and the plants that nourish us. Yoga awakens us to this interconnectedness, leads us on a journey towards oneness with the world, and teaches us that we are not isolated individuals but part of nature.”
The Prime Minister also highlighted the importance of Yoga in science and research.“For the expansion of Yoga in the world, India is empowering the science of Yoga through modern research… We are also encouraging evidence-based therapy in the field of Yoga.”
Talking in the context of Yoga for health, the PM said, “Delhi AIIMS has done a good job.Its research has shown that yoga has a critical role in the treatment of cardiac and neurological disorders, and it also plays an important role in women’s health and mental health.”
Advocating for a worldwide movement through yoga, PM Modi said, “Come, let us all together make Yoga a mass movement. A movement that takes the world towards peace, health and harmony. Where every person starts the day with yoga and finds balance in life. Where every society is connected to yoga and free from stress. Where yoga becomes the medium to bind humanity together. And where Yoga For One Earth, One Health becomes a global resolution.”
He extended greetings to the people from across the world on this occasion of International Yoga Day. “Today, the entire world is performing Yoga. Yoga simply means to add, and it is an immense pleasure to see how Yoga has connected the entire world,” he said in his speech on the occasion.
(Inputs from Agencies)