Yog or Yoga?
How do you pronounce Yoga?
Everybody pronounces it incorrectly, even majority of the people from India do not know what is the correct pronounciation of Yoga. If you ask anybody, they will promptly say it as “Yo – Gaa”. That is not correct. The correct pronounciation is just “Yog” just like the “Ga” sound in “Jog” (jogging activity). There is no stretching of the “AA”.
So how did this corruption occur?
I think when people refer to Yoga they are just referring to the yoga positions which is the physical component of yoga. Yoga positions is called as Yoga-Asanas which is shortly pronounced as Yogasanas. Slowly I believe people dropped the last few letters in their pronounciation and still refer to Yoga (Yo Gaa) which means the yoga positions.
The word yoga is derived from the Sanskrit root yuj (~~) meaning to bind the yoke. It is the true union of our will with the will of God.
yuj –> yog –> yogaa –> ??
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