International Day Of Yoga: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said yoga offers a guiding light for global peace in times of widespread conflict and instability.
Addressing the event for the 11th International Day of Yoga at Visakhapatnam’s RK Beach, the Prime Minister called on the global community to usher in a new chapter – ‘Yoga for Humanity 2.0’ – where inner peace becomes a shared global priority.
Amid a vibrant backdrop of over three lakh participants performing the Common Yoga Protocol (CYP) along the coastal stretch, PM Modi underscored yoga’s potential to replace tension with resolution and conflict with cooperation.
“Unfortunately, today the entire world is going through tension and unrest. Instability has been increasing in many regions. In such times, yoga gives us the direction to peace. Yoga is the pause button that humanity needs to breathe, to balance, and become whole again,” PM Modi stated.
Prime Minister Modi urged nations to move beyond seeing yoga as a personal discipline and instead adopt it as a means of fostering global unity and partnership.
Extending his greetings on the 11th International Day of Yoga, Prime Minister Modi said yoga is more than physical exercise – it is a holistic way of life that fosters balance, well-being, and unity.
“Yoga, in simple terms, means to connect. It has connected the world,” the Prime Minister noted.
A journey that began in 2014 at the UN
Recalling India’s 2014 proposal to the United Nations to observe 21 June as International Yoga Day, he highlighted the unprecedented support it received from 175 countries in record time.
“This support was not just for a resolution, but it was the collective effort of the entire world for the well-being of humanity,” PM Modi remarked.
He further added, “After 11 years, we can now see that yoga has become a part of the lifestyle of crores of people around the world. Whether it’s the steps of the Opera House, the peak of Mount Everest, or the vastness of the sea, every place echoes the same message: Yoga is for everyone and belongs to all. Yoga is for everyone, beyond boundaries, backgrounds, age or ability.”
The Prime Minister shared moments of pride, mentioning visually impaired students learning Yoga Shastra in Braille, astronauts practising yoga in space, and children participating in Yoga Olympiads in rural villages.
PM Modi also acknowledged the performance of yoga aboard Indian Navy ships stationed off the Visakhapatnam coast.
‘Yoga For One Earth, One Health’
Emphasising this year’s theme, ‘Yoga For One Earth, One Health’, PM Modi said it echoes a deeper message of interconnectedness.
“The theme for this year’s International Day of Yoga is ‘Yoga For One Earth, For One Health’. This theme reflects a deep truth: The health of every entity on Earth is interconnected. Human well-being depends on the health of the soil that grows our food, the rivers that give us water, the health of the animals that share our ecosystems, and the plants that nourish us. Yoga awakens us to this interconnectedness, leads us on a journey towards oneness with the world, and teaches us that we are not isolated individuals but part of nature,” the Prime Minister noted.
The event witnessed the presence of several dignitaries, including Andhra Pradesh Governor S Abdul Nazeer, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, Deputy CM Pawan Kalyan, Union Minister of State for Health Prakash Jadhav, central ministers K Ram Mohan Naidu, Chandrasekhar Pemmasani, Bhupati Raju Srinivasa Varma, state ministers Nara Lokesh and Satya Kumar, and MPs D Purandeswari and M Bharat.
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