Yoga and me

Today is International yoga day.

Yoga is ancient healing and meditation practice in India. Every Indian knows its befits for well being of a person as well society. IT was being promoted lately by many Saints to elsewhere in world but Modi after becoming prime minister of India in 2014 has done enormous campaign to make it international festival and got 21st Jun declared as International Yoga day. Modi will be remembered to give this gift to world and make world a healthy place.

I was in Cairo on a international assignment from my company Schlumberger since 2004. I used to work for long hours on computer to process and interpret well log and seismic data to help discover Oil and Gas by Middle East and African operators.

It was 2006 winter and i developed severe pain in my neck and same radiating to my left hand. I visited all big hospitals in Cairo and they all advised surgery for disc replacement. I was having sleepness nights with the thought of surgery involving spine.

My friend Udham Singh, who was RSS pracharak while he was in India but then in Cairo, advised to buy Yoga book or watch yoga YouTube videws and do yoga. I was from very early days was very much against yoga as I considered it very boring, slow, and so not capable of doing much good. But since my situation was really bad so though of giving it a try and bough a yoga book. I knew few ASANs but from book learned many more and for 6 months did continuous daily yoga religiously. Almost on daily basis i was seeing improvements in my condition. My whole family - my wife, my daughter, and son do it together and have many memories about who did/does what in different ASAN postures.

I am working fine on computers and without any pain and no surgery. At times due to many reasons if yoga is not done for few weeks and I see symptoms of stress/pain in my body - I again start with regular routine. Today also we had 2 hrs yoga session with full family and enjoyed every bit of it with the silent promise of keep doing it on regular basis.

Modi deserves praise and respect for his efforts to make YOGA mainstream worldwide.