Titbits from Karma Yoga ‘Do What You Have To Do'
Yoga and Total Health|May 2020
Ikigai, it’s the new buzzword word I suppose these days (Maybe not quite, it would be the coronavirus by the time we go to print). Once I was told, “Kisi Bhi Shabd Ke Aage ‘Aa’ Laga Do, Fir Hum Indians Usey accept Kar Lete Hai”. (Anything ending with ‘aa’ becomes famous in India). Yog becomes Yoga, Ayurved becomes Ayurveda.
Pooja Shah
Titbits from Karma Yoga ‘Do What You Have To Do'

The point is, that once foreigners accept a philosophy, we Indians also start thinking it must be something worth following. And the recent or if I have been late to catch the bandwagon, the IT world is Ikigai (loosely translated to the thing that you live for). My first reaction to hearing the meaning was Bhai, Apni Bhagavad Gita Kya Buri Hai.

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