{"id":27781,"date":"2014-12-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gurudev.artofliving.org\/work\/uncategorized\/un-declaration-june-21-world-yoga-day\/"},"modified":"2024-11-17T18:43:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T13:13:02","slug":"un-declaration-june-21-world-yoga-day","status":"publish","type":"work","link":"https:\/\/gurudev.artofliving.org\/de\/work\/leadership-ethics\/un-declaration-june-21-world-yoga-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar speaks on UN Declaration of June 21st as World Yoga Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\np.yogathon-2014 figure, p.yogathon-2014 figure::before { background:none; max-width:200px; }\n<\/style>\n<p>I congratulate Hon. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the United Nation\u2019s declaration of World Yoga Day. It is very difficult for any philosophy, religion or culture to survive without state patronage. Yoga has existed so far almost like an orphan. Now, official recognition by the UN would further spread the benefit of yoga to the entire world.<\/p>\n<p>India is the land where yoga was born and we must finally take the responsibility to spread it everywhere, starting from classrooms. This will help young people to move away from gun culture and violence.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"\/?p=1589\" title=\"Yoga: Stilling the mind\">Yoga is a lifestyle<\/a> and should not be mistaken for only asanas.<\/strong> A disease-free body, quiver-free breath, stress-free mind, inhibition-free intellect, obsession-free memory, ego that includes all, and soul which is free from sorrow are the signs of a perfect yogi. As Krishna said in the Bhagvad Gita, <em>\u201cSamatvam Yoga Ucyate\u201d<\/em> \u2013 equanimity in the individual is a sign of yoga.<\/p>\n<p>When Art of Living programs started in the early 80s, yoga was seen as being practiced by freaks and Himalayan yogis standing upside down or on one leg. That is one of the reasons why we called our program, the Art of Living, a generic term that people could relate to across races, religions and cultures. It was Paramhansa Yogananda, and then Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who brought respectability to yoga in the West. In the last 3 decades, the Art of Living has taken yoga to 152 countries and has 26,000 yoga teachers worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dbk7QLS3XgQ<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gurudev.artofliving.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Meditation-in-Mongolia.png\" alt=\"Meditation in Mongolia\" width=\"100%\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1599\" \/><\/p>\n<h5><em>Mongolia\u200b &#8211; Gurudev&#8217;s Visit to Mongolia\u200b, September 2011 &#8211; 5000 People Meditating<\/em><\/h5>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1597\" src=\"https:\/\/gurudev.artofliving.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/World-culture-festival-yoga.png\" alt=\"World culture festival yoga\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<h5><em>Germany\u200b &#8211; 30th Anniversary of the Art of Living at the Berlin Olympic Stadium<br \/>\n1000 Yogis Performing Sun Salutation &#8211; July 2011\u200b<\/em><\/h5>\n<p class=\"yogathon-2014\">Join the world in the Yogathon Challenge<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yogathon.org\/\" title=\"World Yogathon 2014. Join Now.\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width:200px !important;max-height:200px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/gurudev.artofliving.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sri-sri-ravi-shankar-art-of-living-yogathon.jpg\" alt=\"Yogathon 2014\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1604\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I congratulate Hon. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the United Nation\u2019s declaration of World Yoga Day. It is very difficult for any philosophy, religion or culture to survive without state patronage. Yoga has existed so far almost like an orphan. 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Now, official recognition by the UN would further spread the benefit of yoga to the entire world.","twitter:creator":"@Gurudev","twitter:image":"https:\/\/gurudev.artofliving.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/ArtofLiving-colorlogo.png"},"aioseo_meta_data":{"post_id":"27781","title":null,"description":null,"keywords":null,"keyphrases":null,"primary_term":null,"canonical_url":null,"og_title":null,"og_description":null,"og_object_type":"default","og_image_type":"default","og_image_url":null,"og_image_width":null,"og_image_height":null,"og_image_custom_url":null,"og_image_custom_fields":null,"og_video":null,"og_custom_url":null,"og_article_section":null,"og_article_tags":null,"twitter_use_og":false,"twitter_card":"default","twitter_image_type":"default","twitter_image_url":null,"twitter_image_custom_url":null,"twitter_image_custom_fields":null,"twitter_title":null,"twitter_description":null,"schema":{"blockGraphs":[],"customGraphs":[],"default":{"data":{"Article":[],"Course":[],"Dataset":[],"FAQPage":[],"Movie":[],"Person":[],"Product":[],"ProductReview":[],"Car":[],"Recipe":[],"Service":[],"SoftwareApplication":[],"WebPage":[]},"graphName":"","isEnabled":true},"graphs":[]},"schema_type":"default","schema_type_options":null,"pillar_content":false,"robots_default":true,"robots_noindex":false,"robots_noarchive":false,"robots_nosnippet":false,"robots_nofollow":false,"robots_noimageindex":false,"robots_noodp":false,"robots_notranslate":false,"robots_max_snippet":null,"robots_max_videopreview":null,"robots_max_imagepreview":"large","priority":null,"frequency":null,"local_seo":null,"breadcrumb_settings":null,"limit_modified_date":false,"ai":null,"created":"2024-11-23 01:12:44","updated":"2025-06-23 06:29:51","seo_analyzer_scan_date":null,"focus_keyword":null,"additional_keywords":null,"truseo_locale":null},"aioseo_breadcrumb":"<div class=\"aioseo-breadcrumbs\"><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/gurudev.artofliving.org\/de\/\" title=\"Home\">Home<\/a>\n\t\t<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb-separator\">&raquo;<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/gurudev.artofliving.org\/de\/work\/\" title=\"Work\">Work<\/a>\n\t\t<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb-separator\">&raquo;<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/gurudev.artofliving.org\/de\/work\/leadership-ethics\/\" title=\"Leadership and Ethics\">Leadership and Ethics<\/a>\n\t\t<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb-separator\">&raquo;<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\tGurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar speaks on UN Declaration of June 21st as World Yoga Day\n\t\t<\/span><\/div>","aioseo_breadcrumb_json":[{"label":"Home","link":"https:\/\/gurudev.artofliving.org\/de\/"},{"label":"Work","link":"https:\/\/gurudev.artofliving.org\/de\/work\/"},{"label":"Leadership and Ethics","link":"https:\/\/gurudev.artofliving.org\/de\/work\/leadership-ethics\/"},{"label":"Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar speaks on UN Declaration of June 21st as World Yoga Day","link":"https:\/\/gurudev.artofliving.org\/de\/work\/leadership-ethics\/un-declaration-june-21-world-yoga-day\/"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gurudev.artofliving.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/work\/27781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gurudev.artofliving.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/work"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gurudev.artofliving.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/work"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gurudev.artofliving.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gurudev.artofliving.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gurudev.artofliving.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/work\/27781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gurudev.artofliving.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gurudev.artofliving.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"work-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gurudev.artofliving.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/work-categories?post=27781"},{"taxonomy":"content-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gurudev.artofliving.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-tags?post=27781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}