Yoga Day: Prez Mukherjee inaugurates Yoga demonstration at Rashtrapati Bhavan
The official Twitter handle of the President tweeted, "#PresidentMukherjee inaugurated a mass yoga demonstration to commemorate the 3rd International Yoga Day at Rashtrapati Bhavan today."
Yoga events are expected to be held across 180 countries on Wednesday, media reports said.
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.
Image: twitter.com/RashtrapatiBhvn
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