In western society, fast life to have become an obsession in the modem age in real sense. Everything must be done quickly and expeditiously as if the test of man’s progress is the speed at which one travels and the pace at which one works or gets work done in one’s house, office or factory. The hectic life at breakfast speed that people lead in today’s world symbolises pace and progress no wheras in the olden time’s people used to have plenty of leisure and apparently endless time to do things, to rest and relax, to stand and stare they chose to undertake. At that time hurry and fustle were almost unknown. Consequently, life was calm, unruffled and peaceful which seems to have gone for good. In such a situation, western society is compelling the westerners to turn to India. For this very cause, yoga has now become very’ popular in the west.
