WORLD RELIGIONS

RELIGIONS

HINDUISM

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What popular physical activity has origins in Hindu ideas and practice?
A
Football
B
Cricket
C
Jazzercise
D
Yoga
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Where does yoga come from? Yoga’s origins can be traced to northern India over 5, 000 years ago. The word yoga was first mentioned in ancient sacred texts called the Rig Veda. The Vedas are a set of four ancient sacred texts written in Sanskrit.

Detailed explanation-2: -Bhakti Yoga–(pronounced something like “bhak tea") devotion, love, (the Christian way), most popular of the four ways. 1. God is conceived as otherness; separateness (total rejection of the view that the God you love is your Self).

Detailed explanation-3: -Yoga is a spiritual discipline rooted in Hindu philosophy and is universally available to anyone without any coercion, pressure, or requirement to change one’s religion. Asana is a component of Yoga, albeit the most physically-centered part, and means pose, posture, or manner of sitting.

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