November 25, 2020

Standing Committee on External Affairs

"The event was jointly hosted by the Consulate General and Jaipur Foot USA Chairperson and founding director of VaYU Prem Bhandari.Addressing the virtual launch, Muraleedharan said Swami Vivekananda gave the message of universal brotherhood from the US and through the first of its kind yoga university outside India, the message of yoga will be broadcast from America to the world. 

The applications for fall 2020 semester are open with the first day of classes starting on August 24 in a virtual mode..He underscored that VaYU will involve top line research on yoga and further popularise it in America, where currently about 40 million people practice yoga regularly.Founded on the principles of Swami Vivekananda &China ICE MAKER wholesale prescription for universal welfare, VaYU will offer online graduate programmes based on scientific principles and modern research approaches to yoga.
New York: As part of the 6th International Yoga Day commemorations, the world's first yoga university outside India has been launched in Los Angeles, offering programmes that combine scientific principles and modern research approaches to the ancient Indian practice of yoga."“As the symbol of India's culture and heritage, yoga has become the means for unity # and brotherhood in the world. Through the medium of yoga, we can give the message of world peace,”" he said, adding that "yoga provides mental balance and emotional stability.”
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev said that the launch of the yoga university is a “matter of pride” and expressed confidence that VaYU will enhance India's pride for years to come in the field of yoga research.Bhandari said that Swami Vivekananda, “a monk from India introduced Hinduism to the western world through his historic speech in Chicago in 1893.In his message, Nagendra, well known as the yoga consultant to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said Swami Vivekananda “heralded the grandeur” of Indian yoga dimension to the world through his famous speech in Chicago in 1893.Chaudhary said yoga makes the human immune system very strong and is a bridge between the mind and body, which is very important in today's times. H R Nagendra is bringing to the western world the age old yoga science - Guru-Shishya Parampara by establishing this university.
 H R Nagendra, Chancellor of Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana (SVYASA) is the first Chairman of VaYU.“"It helped in making the US the adopted home of yoga,"” Chakravorty said, applauding the efforts of Nagendra and Bhandari for the initiative. Now, 127 years later, another monk from India Dr.He highlighted that Modi was instrumental in getting the UN to declare June 21 as International Day of Yoga, saying this further popularised yoga across the world.”He noted that in the years to come, VaYU “would produce best modern day yoga practitioners who would not only spread peace but make planet Earth a better place to live.In congratulatory messages, Indian spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar said in these trying times, the practice of yoga has kept life going and for the very first time, a university espousing yogic science is being launched in the US.The university will offer online master's program in Yoga. 
Best of the East is yoga and its applications and best of West is modern scientific research.VaYU faculty has been recruited from SVYASA, the first Yoga university in India.""We want to bring this integrated dimension of healthcare to world at large - allopathy and the AYUSH systems,” he said referring to the practice of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy.“Inspired by his teachings and the solutions he has given to meet challenges of the modern era, we took up this entire process of bringing yoga into the academic dimension,” he said.
The Vivekananda Yoga University (VaYU) was jointly launched on Tuesday by Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan and Chairperson of the Standing Committee on External Affairs P P Chaudhary during a virtual event held at the Consulate General of India in New York.Former Director General of Border Security Force K K Sharma said that yoga is the best system of exercise and recalled how he had introduced it in place of PT exercise and noticed a “perceptible improvement” in the overall physical and mental health of the force.He said the university will help thousands of yoga teachers in the US whose yoga education was limited to 200 or 500 hours of certificate programmes to progress further into university-based higher education.He noted that the university “combines best of the East and best of the West.
“Through the scientific appraisal of yoga, I'm sure millions more will get benefit of it,” he said terming the launch of the world's first yoga university outside India as a “milestone in the world of yoga.Eminent Indian yoga guru Dr.The launch comes within three months of receiving official recognition from the Bureau for Private Post-secondary Education, California to offer yoga-based higher education programmes in November 2019.”The university is a “prime example” of people to people connections between India and the US, he said.
It will facilitate collaborative research, credit transfers and joint programmes with multiple premier universities across the world.India's Consul General in New York Sandeep Chakravorty said that New York has deep ties with yoga as many years ago Swami Vivekananda spent time in the city and wrote books on yoga which popularised the Indian practice all over the world

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November 13, 2020

In the final analysis, all of us are seeking

The jiva has to be one with Brahman.Is limitation my essential nature? Please note that one’s essential nature is never a burden.Yoga is to join the jiva with Brahman. If you don’t have any desire for comforts or pleasure, why would you work? Even for simple sustenance of life, you have to work. There have to be two entities to "join”. Both actions and their results have limitations.

In the final analysis, all of us are seeking total freedom from all limitations. We use words like "merging”, but actually it is a discovery — I have been "that” all along! This is the meaning of "yoga” at the highest level. And "join” also implies that the two are separate and not connected yet.Yoga is a merger of the jiva with Brahman. You can call that liberation or moksha. In Vedanta, this state — let us call it a state — is known as Brahman. The mind, its abilities and intellect are also limited. Jiva is struggling to "become”. How do we do that? Are they like two hands or two objects? No.

The physical body is limited in time and space.Yoga is from the root yuj, which means "to join” or "to connect”.Vedanta talks about the joining of the individual being with the supreme. You are "that” already — tat tvam-asi. What we seek is a release from all sense of limitations. We MINI BAR refrigerators are also limited by various factors. The two distinctive qualities of any jiva are "doership” and "enjoyership”. Jiva cannot "join” Brahman in such a way that the two entities remain distinct. Each one of us is a limited finite being. A limited entity cannot become infinite through a process.

This discovery and abidance in "that” is called "yoga”. Since we can never be happy with so many limitations, we engage in activities to break them. It is the very goal of our human existence. Brahman, being infinite, does not have a limited form or specific qualities. Vedanta says that you cannot "become” Brahman, but you are already that! The very fact that you are struggling to become means it has to be your own nature. The individual feels that he is the performer of actions..The individual is called a jiva in Vedanta. So the jiva is a doer and enjoyer. So yoga is the discovery of our own true self as that infinite, everlasting bliss. Sorrow and agitation cannot be my nature, because I want to get rid of them and want to be free and infinite. Since all actions are done in order to get a result and enjoy it, the individual is also the experiencer and enjoyer of the results

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