T his 21st the world observes the second International Day of Yoga, a celebration of the unity between an enlightened spirit and a healthy body. Calling for adoption of the Day at the United Nations General Assembly in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had emphasized that by changing our lifestyle through this ancient Indian tradition, we could fight current challenges like climate change. He clarified that “yoga is not about exercise, but to discover the sense of oneness with the self and the world”. Popularizing yoga becomes essential at this stage when human life has been completely taken over by materialism. Today, a ‘bhogi’ lifestyle that thrives on rapid consumption and greed, and pursues pleasure and power, has become the natural way to be. Such has been the race to accumulate resources that we have broken natural laws and trespassed all boundaries. We can see the climax of it all in the form of deteriorating public health, global warming, massive arms sales, corruption...