Even as early as 3000 B.C. the first to recognize the virtues of physical culture not merely as an aid to good health but as the essential requisite to moral, mental and psychic rlevation were the scientific yogins the ancient pioeers of personal and general hygiene, sanitation,physical education, preventive medicine and autogenic therapy.
It stands to reason, however, that the mere antiquity of Yoga or its physical culture cannot per se dorm the basis of recommendation for its in the light of our modern scirnces, that it is the education.
The limited scope of this work precludes the various systems which certainly is being undertaken in other volumes of this series. What at best, therefore, could be done for the outstanding advantages of yoga in health and disease especially in relation to the specific needs of a woman.
Fundamental Objectives: Abstract and applied metaphysics credit yoga with many transcendental ideal and achievements. These aside, even if sience were to be accepted as a proof positive, the yoga education of the physical is able to supply unlimited evidence of its relative superiority. To explain briefy the fundamental objectives of the yoga physical culture are
i)The acquirement of good health, after elimination diseases should there be any.
ii)The maintenance and enhancement of physical well-being, after the natural harmony between the various organs has been once again re-established.
iii) The cultivation of immunity against disease.
iv)The acquisition of gradual control over both the voluntary and involuntary functions of the body.
v)The utilization of such control to strengthening the moral,mental and spiritual purposes and achievements of life
vi)With the aid of all these, to defer old age and deth till the Ultimate Reality is seen face to face
