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Yoga is ancient, no doubt, the word being much more ancient, in all probability, than the system of thought and techniques of control which go by that name. It is both an art and a science, an art because of the skill involved in the physical and mental practices. The scientific part has, unfortunately, not yet been explored fully. It was only nearly sixty years ago that Swami Kuvalayananda, for the first time, inspired by the idea that the processes described in the yoga texts were full of scientific implications, started subjecting the yoga techniques to scientific experimentation and scrutiny. Some information has so far been gathered in the laboratory founded by him, and published in the journal “Yoga Mimamsa”;. But what is actually done so far is too insufficient, and many facts concerning the various yoga techniques are still shrouded in mystery. Absence of sufficient research is perhaps the main reason why yoga has not yet come to be recognised as a science as such. The field of yoga is still largely in the hands of men who are far from having developed a scientific attitude. Everybody seems to be understanding and propagating yoga in his own way, posing to be the only one who knows it properly and authoritatively, and blaming and hating others in the field as psudo-yogis, or the like. There are very few people who are real yogis. It is very necessary to convert yoga from an ancient art to a modern science. Only then we shall be able to do justice to it as the panacea for human miseries. Till then it would not be easy for an honest seeker to obtain proper guidance and instruction in the field of yoga.

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