Huge news!!! Yoga is one step closer to being in the Olympics!
By the invitation of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), delegates from the International Yoga Federation participated in the GAISF congress held on July 20, 2018 in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Akif Manaf, the president of the International Yoga Federation taking action to engage in Olympics, has said: “We primarily took the first step in 2016 for yoga to appear as a sporting event in the Olympic Games. From that time, we have kept establishing essential contacts to make progress. Within this context, we participated in the GAISF Info-Day congress (Lausanne, Switzerland on July 20, 2018) and agreed upon the next steps with the GAISF authorities. Therefore, we can now announce to all Yoga sportsmen that thanks to the efforts of the International Yoga Federation, Yoga is now accepted as a sports branch internationally, and a new step has been taken for it to take place in the Olympics.”
Svadhyaya means “self education.” Education reveals all the good things inside the person. A person who implements Svadhyaya reads the book of his own life but at the same time writes and edits it. His viewpoint of life changes and he gains a broader perspective. He understands that the existence is not for selfish gratification but for self-sacrificing love.
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Paramahamsa Yogacharya Maha Yogi from the book “Yoga: What is it? What is it not?”
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Everything starts with the embrace. If you want others to accept you as you are, first you must accept yourself as you are. Accepting yourself will save you from selfishness. Now you're full of yourself instead of being full of self.
Selfishness is about being stuck with yourself. Self-acceptance is to get rid of this obsession. To accept yourself as you are is to be free of selfishness, and only then you can accept everyone as they are. ————————————————————————
Paramahamsa Yogacharya Maha Yogi (From the book What is sincerity and how to be sincere?)
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