{"id":14999,"date":"2016-06-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2016\/06\/13\/no-suryanamaskar-this-yoga-day-om-not-compulsory\/"},"modified":"2016-06-13T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T12:00:00","slug":"no-suryanamaskar-this-yoga-day-om-not-compulsory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2016\/06\/13\/no-suryanamaskar-this-yoga-day-om-not-compulsory\/","title":{"rendered":"No Suryanamaskar This Yoga Day, Om Not Compulsory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deccanchronicle.com\/nation\/current-affairs\/080616\/no-suryanamaskar-this-yoga-day-om-not-compulsory-govt.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, INDIA, June 8, 2016 (Deccan Chronicle): Suryanamaskar asana will not be part of this year&#8217;s Yoga Day celebrations and chanting of Om won&#8217;t be compulsory even though yoga is incomplete without it, Ayush Minister Shripad Naik said on Wednesday about the June 21 event which is expected to entail a collective cost of hundreds of crores of rupees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Suryanamaskar asana&#8230; last year also we had not taken it. It is a complex exercise. It is difficult to do in 45 minutes and for people who are new to the exercise. Therefore we have not kept this one,&#8221; Naik, whose ministry is the nodal agency for organising the annual celebrations, told the media. <\/p>\n<p>Naik also dismissed the controversy related to the chanting of Om during the event and it has not been made compulsory. &#8220;There is always some opposition whenever some good work is done. There is no opposition this year to it. We have not made it compulsory&#8230;. We have made those people who are opposing understand this and it seems they have understood,&#8221; he said but added &#8220;without OM, yoga cannot be complete.&#8221; Chanting of Om has also been a matter of controversy, with Muslim bodies saying members of their faith cannot do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, June 8, 2016 (Deccan Chronicle): Suryanamaskar asana will not be part of this year&#8217;s Yoga Day,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}