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International Day of Yoga – 21 June, 2025 at Haridwar University

In the age of endless notifications, yoga is the stillness we seek. As our world grows increasingly hyperconnected, it’s easy to lose touch with our deeper Self. On this International Yoga Day 2025, themed “Yoga for Self and Society,” we at Haridwar University affirm yoga as not just a tradition but a transformation — from anxiety to awareness, from isolation to integration.

Whether you’re a student under pressure, a content creator seeking meaning, or a young changemaker battling burnout, Yoga and Heartfulness Meditation provide simple, powerful tools to live with greater clarity, resilience, and compassion.

Let us embody yoga — in how we speak, how we listen, and how we serve. Let us lead from the heart. Yoga is not an escape — it is a return to life’s sacred rhythm.

Warm wishes for International Yoga Day. — Dr. Aadesh K Arya, Pro Vice Chancellor
Haridwar University

Why Yoga Is the Spiritual Oxygen for Today’s Youth

oday’s generation faces challenges previous generations never imagined — not just physical, but psychological, emotional, and existential:

• 📱 Digital Fatigue – Notifications and noise have become the background music of our lives.
• 🧠 Mental Health Struggles – Increasing cases of stress, anxiety, and identity crisis.
• 🤳 Image vs. Identity – A widening gap between how we look and who we are.
• 👤 Loneliness Despite Visibility – A world of likes, but a lack of love.
• 🕰️ Hustle Without Harmony – Speed without direction, work without inner joy.

Yoga answers these not with trends, but with timeless truths. It revives the soul’s wisdom. It helps us balance ambition with awareness, productivity with peace, and performance with purpose. And among the most transformative approaches today is the Heartfulness Meditation practice — a method of Raja Yoga tailored for modern lives.

Heartfulness: Yoga of the Heart

Heartfulness Meditation is a heart-centered approach to yoga and life, rooted in the tradition of Sahaj Marg (the Natural Path). It integrates meditation, yogic transmission (Pranahuti), and inner cleaning to help individuals experience their own divine essence — not as theory, but as lived truth.

“As the heart is purified, the soul shines forth.”

Unlike external pursuits, Heartfulness invites youth to close their eyes and open their hearts — to feel the sacred presence within and realize that peace is not found, but revealed.

Modern Youth, Real-Life Examples, and the Yogic Path

  • 🔹 The Student Battling Exam Stress
  • A 20-year-old student, anxious before exams, sleeps poorly and feels mentally drained.
  • 👉 A simple 15-minute Heartfulness meditation before sunrise, followed by gentle pranayama, relaxes the nervous system and opens the heart to calmness and clarity.
  • 🧘 Heartfulness shifts the student’s focus from fear of failure to faith in self.
  • 🔹 The Influencer Searching for Meaning
  • A social media influencer receives applause from the world but feels unseen inside.
  • 👉 Practicing evening Heartfulness Cleaning removes emotional impressions (samskaras), restoring inner lightness and genuine joy.
  • 🧘 Yoga reminds them: True influence radiates from inner integrity, not online identity.
  • 🔹 The Corporate Intern Juggling Deadlines
  • A 24-year-old professional at a startup feels overwhelmed, stuck in performance pressure.
  • 👉 Adding Heartfulness relaxation techniques and mid-day pauses for conscious breathing boosts focus and nurtures inner balance.
  • 🧘 Yoga becomes their anchor amidst the storm of deadlines.
  • 🔹 The Young Changemaker Facing Burnout
  • A youth activist works day and night to create social change but feels emotionally fatigued.
  • 👉 Through Karma Yoga and Heartfulness prayerful introspection, they reconnect with divine surrender and find inner resilience.
  • 🧘 Yoga transforms effort into sacred offering, and change into a compassionate journey.
  • From Inner Peace to Outer Impact: The Yogic Way Forward
  • Yoga is not limited to mats or mantras. It is a life practice, a spiritual path, and a societal force. When we connect to the stillness within, we bring calm to the chaos outside.
  • Let us remember:
  • • 🌸 When the heart is at peace, relationships heal.
  • • 🌿 When the mind is clear, decisions align with dharma.
  • • 🔥 When the soul is awake, society moves toward harmony.
  • This is the essence of Yoga:
  • Self-transformation that leads to social evolution.
  • A Message to the Modern Soul
  • Dear seeker, dreamer, doer, or believer —
  • The world may ask you to be perfect.
  • Yoga asks you to be present.
  • You don’t need to escape to the Himalayas.
  • Just return to your own heart.
  • Sit quietly. Breathe gently. Listen deeply.

Within you is a light older than stars. A silence louder than sound. A love deeper than all longing. That is your true self — revealed through yoga and realized through Heartfulness.

Practice Yoga — Live It

Let yoga be your breath, your compass, your offerinThis International Yoga Day: Don’t Jusg. Let it show in how you listen, how you speak, how you serve, and how you rest. Let every action be rooted in stillness, every thought in kindness, every breath in presence

Yoga is not a break from the world — it is the divine rhythm of life. Start from the Self. Flow into Society. Merge with the Supreme. This is Yoga. This is Heartfulness. This is the Future.

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