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Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu addressing a gathering after inaugurating centenary celebrations of Yoga Institute, in Mumbai today said that a combination of Work, Knowledge and Devotion relent extraordinary results.

He added that Yogic philosophy has all the properties to fight lifestyle problems of the modern days. Maharashtra Governor - Ch. Vidyasagar Rao and other dignitaries were present on the occasion.



The Vice President said that Yoga embodies a holistic approach to well-being and has physical, emotional and spiritual dimensions.

The Vice President said that this worldview has ethics as the underlying bedrock of a harmonious, sustainable lifestyle. The components of this yogic philosophy form the ethical principles that are so universal: Non-Violence, truthfulness, non-stealing, fidelity to one's partner and not being avaricious, he added

The Vice President said that Yogic Philosophy advocates purity of mind, speech and body, contentment, acceptance of others, perseverance, self-study, self-reflection, contemplation of the Supreme Being.

He further said that among its other facets are the posture, breathing exercises, abstraction, concentration, meditation and liberation.

Clearly these aspects of the yogic philosophy cover both the physical as well as the metaphysical and the spiritual and the vision is so uniquely comprehensive and eminently practical, he added.