04/04/2026
“Science has advanced to the extent of sending man to the moon and bringing him back. The science of medicine has progressed beyond imagination. Transplantation of the heart and kidneys is performed and artificial tongues enable man to speak. In spite of this, physical ailments as well as emotional diseases are sapping the life force of man throughout the world. Man is drifting away from his fellow men. Suspicion, doubt, competition and the struggle for survival have been intensified, stresses and strains have increased and selfishness has taken root instead of selflessness for the betterment of man. No doubt the administration of drugs helps to relieve pain, stresses and strains, but it leaves behind worry, anxiety, depression and sorrow. What is it that keeps man away from pain and sorrow? Health of the body, mind and soul alone can make man live happily from birth to death. Health alone can enable man to die nobly and majestically. Health is not a commodity which is gained by swallowing pills. It has to be earned by hard work and discipline. One has to exercise in order to keep the muscles, the organs, the nerves, the glands, the flow of blood and the systems of the body in proper condition.The entire human system should be well regulated like the rising and the setting of the sun. Then the mind becomes free from the shackles of the body and detached from the dictates of the senses and is attached to the source of all knowledge, all actions and all emotions, that is atma (the Soul).”
BKS Iyengar
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