NCERT Solutions for Class 5th The World Around Us Chapter 10 Story 2: Yoga—India's Gift to the World! — Discuss

Because it needs almost nothing, it can be done by almost anybody, and it helps with exactly the problems people have today. Those three reasons together explain it better than any one of them alone.

Talk about these points in your group:

1. It costs nothing. No machine, no ball, no ground to hire, no team to collect. A mat and a little floor space are enough. A person can do it at home, in a park or on a roof.
2. Anybody can do it. A child, a grandmother, a farmer, a person in a wheelchair — each can do the part that suits them. You do not have to be young, strong or fast.
3. It helps with today's troubles. Many people now sit all day, look at screens, and sleep badly. Yoga stretches a stiff body, eases back and neck pain, and the slow breathing calms a worried mind.
4. It works on the body and the mind together. Most exercises train only the body. Yoga also teaches you to sit still, breathe slowly and pay attention. People value that.
5. Indians carried it with them. Travellers, scholars and teachers from India shared yoga wherever they went, and Indians who settled in other countries kept practising it. Neighbours watched, asked, and joined in.
6. It belongs to everyone. You do not have to change your religion, your food or your language to practise it. That made it easy for people in very different countries to accept.
7. Books, films and then the internet. Once a thing can be watched on a screen, it can be learnt in a village in any country on the same evening.
8. The United Nations put it on the calendar. Since 2014, 21 June is the International Day of Yoga. A fixed day every year, with millions doing it together, made it known even to people who had never heard of it.