Yoga Day Announcement All Maharishi Invincibility Centres worldwide to celebrate
International Day of Yoga Founded by the United Nations 21 June 2015 It is a pleasure to invite all Sidhas and Meditators to join this special event to commemorate the United Nations International Day of Yoga. The annual event was proposed by the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, and major celebrations will take place for India in New Delhi, and for the United Nations in New York City. 21 June is the solstice – midsummer day in the Northern Hemisphere, and midwinter day in the Southern Hemisphere – a traditional day to celebrate, and now we can add the theme of International Day of Yoga to our celebration, and bring Maharishi’s unique vision of Yoga to our Meditators and Sidhas, to the press, and to our country. The Eight Limbs of Yoga Most people understand Yoga mainly in terms of asanas (physical postures or exercises). However, Maharishi’s enlightened vision of Ashtanga Yoga (the Eight Limbs of Yoga) illuminates that the eight limbs grow together on the basis of the experience of Samadhi, Transcendental Consciousness. The reality of Yoga (unity) is to be created on all levels – body, mind, consciousness, society, and even World Peace. An opportunity This is an opportunity to highlight everything Maharishi taught us about Yoga in his supreme vision of integration of life, and what Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam has brought out in terms of Yoga in the physiology, to celebrate it, tell others, and enjoy spreading the influence of wellbeing for all mankind. See Maharaja-ji’s profound message below. The International Day of Yoga calls for an upsurge of unity in world consciousness. For this purpose, Maharishi’s global organization will hold events everywhere on that day to enliven the true value of Yoga in every country. We celebrate the simultaneous growth of unity in every area of life through contact with that level of unity that is fundamental to everything. Celebrate with Meditators and Sidhas at Maharishi Invincibility Centres There will be Coherence Day events with a National conference call to celebrate the International Day of Yoga throughout the United Kingdom. Please see the email of 11 June about the National Coherence Day, and please call your TM Centre for details of your local event. On the conference call, which will begin at 2.30 pm, Raja Peter will be speaking on the significance of the International Day of Yoga, and Dr William Sands, Dean of the College of Maharishi Vedic Science at Maharishi University of Management, will speak on 'The True Meaning of Yoga'. Facebook page The International Day of Yoga is being celebrated in Maharishi Invincibility Centres in 115 countries around the world where Transcendental Meditation is taught. Group photos from the Coherence Day events and brief report will also be added tohttps://www.facebook.com/intlyogaday21june –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Message from Maharaja Adhiraj Raja Raam on the International day of Yoga, 21 June 2015 Yoga Day will no doubt become a milestone in human history, particularly if highlighted as the day of Unity. Yoga is unity between mind and body, between the individual and society, between all societies, between all nations and between all individual values of culture, tradition, belief systems, and racial differences. Yoga brings together all separate and even apparently conflicting and opposite values. The dynamics of creation and evolution require some things to move up, others to move down. Some aspects of nature are dry and some others are wet; some cool, some hot. When balanced they create the steps of transformation and evolution. Yoga is that aspect of Natural Law, that aspect of Veda, which guarantees that all diversity is progressing on the basis of supreme Unity. As brought to light by Maharishi, Yoga is not only one of the 40 aspects of Vedic science, which like all others make a profound theoretical contribution to knowledge, but it also has a practical aspect which allows every individual to directly experience and live supreme unity within diversity. Yoga Asana helps to balance the physiology and strengthen the body, thus promoting a healthy body for a healthy mind and improving mind-body coordination. This is unity between mind and body. However, the technologies of Yoga in the Vedic tradition, particularly as brought to light in the west by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi with Transcendental Meditation, while improving all aspects of mind, body, behavior and society, take the individual and society to the field of all unity – the unified field of all the Laws of Nature. Science today has glimpsed that field by showing that at the basis of all that is material and physical there are progressively more unified fields of electromagnetism, grand unification and ultimately the one Unified Field. Yoga in its ultimate technology allows every individual to transcend all differences, and to reach and directly experience that field as one's own self. It is on this grand basis that all differences become a joy to creation and never a source of conflict. Yoga is therefore for everyone. It is a science and technology of health, balance, peace, and supreme unity in diversity. That is why Yoga Day can be celebrated by all peoples and traditions of the world. Yoga is a science and technology of living well within oneself and well with all others no matter how different they can be from each other on the surface level of existence. Jai Guru Dev