Yoga Didn’t Originate In India?

 Yoga is commonly believed to be a practice started by Sadhus and Sanyasis of India in the ancient times, but it is not true. One will be surprised to know that first yoga exercise had been introduced in Baghdad in Iraq and later in Iran and Moracco. This was stated by Munger-based Yoga Ashram and Bihar School of Yoga head Swami Niranjananand Saraswati while delivering a lecture at Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library on Sunday.

From there, he said, this was practised in Christian states and then came to India where Sadhus and Sanyasis preserved it. Swami said all the literatures published by his institutions are also translated in Persian and sent to Iraq and Iran which are certified by the governments of those countries. Every year people from those countries also come to Munger, he added.

Swami said what is shown on TV and preached and practised by various yoga gurus was not real yoga. He said about 5,000 years back Maharishi Patanjali had described yoga as a discipline and a source to keep human mind in peace. Read the full article here

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