Yoga teachers should have been on election duty

 

Yoga has become our most high-profile export after economic fugitives. So, it is only fitting that Patanjali's ancient science gets upskilled and election-ramp ready Only minor tweaking is required. The wisdom of our sages has OMGI-grade relevance from antiquity to eternity Besides, aren't Polls 2019 most suited for yogafication? All things Hindu are at the centre, Gir's lion is performing Simhaasana with all his might and coiffed mane, and Padmasana hopes to bloom forever after.

Bak bakasana is in full flow across party lines, but, as So does Chaturanga dandasana. If you're not chatur in all else, the Master is the past master. Money twists Tadasana into Wadasana Bhekasana becomes Bake- asana since the booth-march will be in searing summer Created for this edition is the Fake Asana. The CEC and Zuckerberg may say 'Out, damned Spotify! but 'All the algorithms of Etheria will not cleanse this insidious hand. Everyone wants to attain media-consciousness.

Three-party gathbandhan are being cobbled together, but may instead end in three-cornered fights. Either fits the Kapal bhat, skull illuminating is in the higher yogic classical Trikonasana, in poll alliances too, one arm will do the push, the other will have to bend to the side As for yoga's threefold union, all have thrown themselves body and soul into the campaign, mind is the iffy, if not totally waiting to exhale absentee, component.

Everyone-parties, leaders, candidates, workers- knows that to maintain a strong standing pose, backbends are also important. One might add that all parties are bending most over the Backwards.

There's one forward bend that's closer in attitude to the backbend. Adho mukha Svanasana, or the dog pose Alexander Pope's 18 century epigram-1am His Majesty's dog at Kew Pray, tell me Sir, whose dog are you?- remains a hardy perennial of politics in any time or clime

you get the danda Campaigns must have different strokes for different folks. So, Halasana will be deployed to assuage furious farmers. But no one has hal's' other meaning, i. e. solution.

Considering the falling bridges of Mumbai, the shaky BJP-Sena alliance may opt for Setu bandha sarvangasana Since this is partly a shoulder stand, one could ask which partner is standing on whose?

realm, in lower politics it's merely skullduggery Finally, every candidate hopes to achieve Ujjayi pranayama, the victorious breath. The rest of us are simply

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Courtesy:- Bachi Karkaria  and  Koshur Samachar 2019, May