Let's make International Yoga Day memorable: PM Modi
He also underlined that Yoga is an apt way of contributing to the world peace.
The upcoming 3rd International Yoga Day should be made a memorable one, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday, while underlining that it is an apt way of contributing to the world peace.
He said yoga should be made a part of daily routine by the people to have tension-free lives. In a message ahead of the Yoga Day on June 21, Modi said yoga inter-connects the world like various parts of a body.
"On 21st June, the world will come together to mark the 3rd #YogaDay. Let us all make this occasion a memorable one," he tweeted. "Yoga is integrating the world. Come, become a yogi in the movement to make Yoga popular & create a better & healthier society," he said in another tweet.
In a video message posted along with the tweets, the prime minister said the people around the world want to live a life free of tensions, troubles and ailments.
"People want to live a happy life and this can be possible only through yoga," he said. Yoga can make it possible for a person to have a balanced lifestyle mentally and physically, he said.
"Yoga can arouse the inner conscience of a person," Modi said.
He asked all yoga practioners to take a pledge to teach it to the maximum number of people so as to contribute to the world peace.