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The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

Origin of Yoga : Why the World Needs an International Yoga Day | Sadhguru

The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

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Society & Culture, Hinduism, Life Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Education, How To, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Science, Spirituality, Mental Health, Religion

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🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Spoken six years ago,  today’s world is beginning to realize that wellbeing can come from within. With a groundbreaking vote from 177 countries, the United Nations declared June 21st as the International Yoga Day. Sadhguru explains why the time is ripe to spread yoga and nurture an inclusive consciousness among all the 7.2 billion people on the planet. Conscious Planet: https://www.consciousplanet.org Sadhguru App (Download): https://onelink.to/sadhguru__app Official Sadhguru Website: https://isha.sadhguru.org Sadhguru Exclusive: https://isha.sadhguru.org/in/en/sadhguru-exclusive Inner Engineering Link: isha.co/ieo-podcast Yogi, mystic and visionary, Sadhguru is a spiritual master with a difference. An arresting blend of profundity and pragmatism, his life and work serves as a reminder that yoga is a contemporary science, vitally relevant to our times. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The coming year is a historic event in many ways.

0:10.4

The United Nations has declared the world International Yoga Day.

0:16.6

Over 15,000 years ago, since Adiyogi, many things have happened in terms of propagating

0:26.7

yoga in terms of reaching out.

0:31.2

Many administrations in the form of kings took to yoga.

0:36.4

But the first time the head of a major nation on the planet is talking about yoga in public,

0:44.0

in international fora.

0:46.0

And I invite you to dress me silly, Mr. Prime Minister.

0:50.5

This could be a kind of a foundation stone to make scientific approach to the inner

1:11.2

well-being of the human being.

1:12.8

A world I think that if you want to be well, you don't have to seek heaven's help.

1:20.2

You can turn inward and fix it.

1:25.4

This is the message when you say there is an international yoga day.

1:31.8

This is what it means.

1:33.1

The world is beginning to accept.

1:36.4

Human well-being is not in heaven, it's within us, it's a tremendous step for the world.

1:43.2

And for the first time, 177 countries get together to pass a resolution.

1:50.4

Never before in the history of United Nations, 177 countries have voted for anything.

1:59.9

I wanted to understand this is lived for over 15,000 years without any kind of one organization

2:06.9

pushing it or forcing it simply because of its efficacy.

2:11.6

Because it works, it's lived.

2:19.1

Today, nearly 2 billion people on the planet are doing some form of yoga.

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