By Indo Asian News Service | IANS
India Private Limited/Yahoo India News – 10 minutes ago
United Nations, June 21 (IANS) The
International Day of Yoga was a perfect platform to bring the world together in
a spirit of unity and harmony, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said
here on Sunday.
Addressing the International Day of
Yoga celebrations at the world body, which was attended by UN Ban Ki-moon,
Sushma Swaraj thanked the 192 other members of the UN for their support which
allowed the India resolution declaring June 21 as the International Day of Yoga
to be adopted by consensus.
"In a world increasingly
divided by what the great poet Rabindranath Tagore called 'narrow domestic
walls', Prime Minister Modi had a vision of India's ancient treasure that would
do the opposite - that would, through the notion of holistic health, and a
conscious search for the self, seek to bring us all together.
"Yoga literally means to join,
to unite, and we see the International Day of Yoga as the perfect platform to
bring the world together in a spirit of unity and harmony," she said.
Sushma Swaraj said yoga was not a
religion and should not be seen as belonging to any particular religion.
"It is a science, the science
of well-being, the science of integrating body, mind and soul, the science of
actualising our true potential."
She said tens of thousands of New
Yorkers performed yoga at Times Square.
"Millions of others all across
the world in 192 nations joined them in their own unique national celebrations
of this historic day.
"By celebrating the
International Day of Yoga together, we celebrate our common humanity. We are
recognising that we have shared opportunities. We are also acknowledging our
sense of a shared global fate," she said.
By celebrating the International Day
of Yoga at the UN, she said, "I believe we send a powerful message about
men and women living in harmony with each other and also in harmony with
nature".
She expressed confidence that yoga
can become "a potent tool for the UN to promote the message of brotherhood
and amity in the finest Indian tradition of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam. The entire
world is one family, and we can unite it with yoga.
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