Abstract:
In the 21st century, environmental conservation is being discussed in various platform
considering the endanger of environmental pollution and hazards to the human community
and other beings. Environmental impact is increasing by natural disaster as well as human
activities in the contemporary society. Every religion in the society has very much
environmental concerns and ecofriendly philosophy in their doctrine through describing
cosmology, creation theories, interconnectedness of the gods and the nature, creatures and
human. Moreover, yoga has eight ethical principles to stimulate human activities and
safeguard the environment. By this means religions and yoga preserve the natural
environment. Humankind is spiritual, their negligence, failure of following the religious faith
rightly and busy with their day to day activities also triggers them to exploit and pollute the
natural environment. The yoga is one of the ancient religious wisdom. now practicing yoga
has been becoming viable means to console human mind, physical fitness and happy life in
the busy society. Protecting environment, in the sense of yoga, has not been communicated to
the present world by the researchers even many research carried out regarding the
environmental conservation in various dimensions. Therefore, this research aims at
identifying the yoga practice and demonstrating the yogic perspective of the environmental
conservation and recommending the basic principle of yoga to stimulate and to simply observe
the yoga in their life. Thus yoga practices will lead the individual for the attitude and
behavioral change and control the adverse effect of human activities on environment. This
research hypothetically analyzed data related to the literature on yoga sutra, textbooks,
journals, research articles on environmental issues, and reached the conclusion that practicing
yoga comparatively would be a useful mean to minimize the environmental hazards due to
the human activities and optimizing the environmental conservation through changing the
individual mind set.
