Apropos the article, "CEOs adopt yoga as stress buster" (June 21) by Raghavendra Kamath and M Saraswathy, practising yoga is crucial for combating stress and body ailments. Meditation and pranayama (breathing exercises) help calm the mind and prevent it from getting surrounded by ego, desire and fear. This helps one regain composure, boosts mental strength and wards off psychological disorders.
Likewise, yogic callisthenics, best suited for people in tropical countries such as India, keep the body fit and active. Late Paul Brunton, the British author of delightful, spiritual travelogues, wrote in his classic A Search in Secret India that once when he was complaining about the twisting and turning of the body required for asanas, he was told by a Tamil yogi: "... there are many nerve-centres scattered throughout the body, and each posture affects a different centre. Through the nerves we can influence either the organs of the body or thoughts. Those twists enable us to reach nerve centres, which otherwise might remain untouched." This sums up the significance of yoga.
C V Krishna Manoj Hyderabad
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