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Environmental Conservation through Yoga Practice and its Relevance to Contemporary Society

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dc.contributor.author Sachithanantham, P.
dc.contributor.author Thavapraba, S.
dc.date.accessioned 2016-10-24T05:08:06Z
dc.date.available 2016-10-24T05:08:06Z
dc.date.issued 2016
dc.identifier.citation Sachithanantham, P. and Thavapraba, S. 2016. Environmental Conservation through Yoga Practice and its Relevance to Contemporary Society. 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences (3rd ICSS), 30th September - 01st October 2016, Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. p 88. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/14709
dc.description.abstract Environmental conservation is being discussed in various platforms in the 21st century. Every religion in society has many environmental concerns and ecofriendly philosophies in their doctrine related to describing cosmology, creation theories, the interconnectedness of gods and the nature, creatures and human. Yoga has eight ethical principles to stimulate human activities and safeguard the environment. In this way, religions and yoga help produce ideas that can lead to the protection of the natural environment. Humankind is spiritual, and their negligence or failure to follow the religious faith properly due to their busyness in their day to day activities leads them to exploit and pollute the natural environment. Yoga is an ancient religious wisdom. Practicing yoga is becoming a viable means to consoling the human mind, physical fitness and happy life in contemporary society. Protecting the environment through the philosophy of yoga has not been communicated to the present world by the researchers even though much research is carried out on environmental protection from various angles. Therefore, this research aims to demonstrate the yogic perspective of environmental conservation and recommend basic principles emphasing the importance of observing yoga. Thus, yoga practices will lead the individual towards attitudinal and behavioral change and control the adverse effects of human activities on the environment. This research analyzed data related to the literature on yoga sutra, textbooks, journals, research articles on environmental issues, and reached the conclusion that practicing yoga would be a useful way to minimize the environmental hazards due to human activities and optimizing environmental conservation through changing the individual mindset. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka en_US
dc.subject Yoga Practice en_US
dc.subject spirituality en_US
dc.subject environmental conservation en_US
dc.subject humankind en_US
dc.subject nature en_US
dc.subject ecofriendly en_US
dc.subject cosmology en_US
dc.subject creation theories en_US
dc.subject religion en_US
dc.title Environmental Conservation through Yoga Practice and its Relevance to Contemporary Society en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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