TIRUPATI: After impressive research work done by Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha (RSVP) on Yoga, the Central Government and University Grants Commission (UGC) have sanctioned two regular courses - Bachelor and Master of Science in Yoga on par with other main stream courses, but in Sanskrit. From this academic year, the RSVP will start BSc Yoga and MSc Yoga. “This is not like other so-called Yoga courses, but what the sages said in Sanskrit and practised in ancient times, will be taught through these courses,” RSVP Vice-Chancellor V Muralidhara Sharma told Express.
He said that in the name of teaching Yoga, substandard, unworthy and jerry-built teachers, institutions have come up and the UGC wants to introduce a standardised course, and Sanskrit has acquaintance with Yoga, so Sanskrit-based Yoga course has been designed.
Scientifically proven
“People have to understand that there is deep, rich philosophy behind Yoga practice and that Sanskrit is the language by which that philosophy lives, breathes and flows,” he said. The RSVP has scientifically proved with the collaboration of US-based university its benefits through a 40-day Yoga course and collected the brain function of individuals, through EEG and other next-gen methods by their own faculty.
At the same time, the RSVP is running Yoga classes for people suffering from chronic diseases after segregating them as diabetic, BP and spine related ill health patients, since last year.