Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said he had not anticipated the enormous enthusiasm from across the globe for his call which had led the UN to declare June 21 as the International Yoga Day last year.<br/><br/>In a video message ahead of the second International Yoga Day on Tuesday, Mr Modi asserted that yoga was much more than a physical exercise.<br/><br/>He said, the support and participation of the people last year and as well as this year redeems the commitment to nurture and promote Yoga and reaffirms yoga as an exemplary manifestation of 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam'.<br/>Maintaining that Yoga is much more than a physical exercise, he said, it enables people to access a new dimension of the self.
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Did not anticipate such enormous response to my call for Intl. Yoga Day: PM Modi