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Indian celebs tweet special messages on Yoga Day

| | 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."

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."

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

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.

 

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