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Indian celebs tweet special messages on Yoga Day

India Blooms News Service | | Jun 21, 2017, at 03:47 pm

Mumbai, Jun 21 (IBNS): Indian celebrities lit up Twitter on Wednesday morning by posting special messages on the occasion of Yoga Day.

Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty posted a video of herself performing the Bakasana and tweeted, "Bakasana, It's taken a lot of practice and it's finally happened! The harder the struggle the more glorious the triumph! #WorldYogaDay."

Bakasana, It's taken a lot of practice and it's finally happened! The harder the struggle the more glorious the triumph! #WorldYogaDay pic.twitter.com/5qbnk1sIWw
— SHILPA SHETTY KUNDRA (@TheShilpaShetty) June 21, 2017

Former Indian cricket Virender Sehwag tweeted, "You cannot always control what goes on outside, But you can always control what goes on inside. Yoga is the way.
#InternationalYogaDay."

You cannot always control what goes on outside, But you can always control what goes on inside. Yoga is the way.#InternationalYogaDay pic.twitter.com/stIzsEy4Bd
— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) June 21, 2017

Bollywood actress Amrita Rao tweeted, 'HAPPY #InternationalYogaDay2017 #IDY2017 #AmritaRaoQuotes."

HAPPY #InternationalYogaDay2017 ðŸ™ #IDY2017 #AmritaRaoQuotes pic.twitter.com/0Rl0NkAP1v
— AMRITA RAO (@AmritaRao) June 21, 2017

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, three years ago, had pursued the United Nations to declare June 21 to be marked as International Yoga Day.

This is the third edition of Yoga Day, which started in 2015 and is annually celebrated worldwide on Jun 21.

Derived from the Sanskrit word 'yuj', yoga is union of the individual consciousness or soul with the Universal Consciousness or Spirit.

The practice is 10,000 years old and originated in ancient India.

Traces of it can be found in the Rig Veda, the world's oldest surviving literature.

#Yoga #YogaDay #VirenderSehwag #ShilpaShetty #AmritaRao

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