(Image source from: Murli Manohar Joshi says “Yoga decreases the rape rate”})
Another definition to stop rape and that has been made by Murali Manohar joshi. Veteran BJP leader MM Joshi has sparked a controversy by saying that yoga will bring down rape cases.
“I believe if yoga comes into the life of common people, then the daily incidents of rape, I would not say, they will cease to exist, but there will be definitely be a decrease in them” said Joshi.
"It will create a new way of thinking amongst men and women. Changing the way one feels for a human body...that the body is such a machine which nature has given us for some larger work... people's attention will go towards this," he said.
He also said that Muslims do yoga five times in a day and termed “Prophet Mohammad as the greatest yogi”
"Our Muslim brothers do yoga five times in a day. The postures of 'namaz'...in that two or three postures, even you will be able to tell (which are they).”
"That is why I think Mohammad sahab was a great yogi. As this prescription is of praying to god...connecting it to yoga, he could not have done it without practicing yoga," he said.
Speaking during a seminar on “The Iyengar way- Yoga for the new millennium”, he referred to an experiment to cite the effect of yoga which was conducted in New York and it was found that the crime rate in New York had come down.
-Smrutirekha
