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Zagreb (Croatia), June 18, 2025 (ANI): Speaking on PM Narendra Modi's visit to Croatia ahead of International Yoga Day, Yoga Guru Mahamandaleshwar Swami Vivek Puri on June 18 said that many people started to understand that Yoga is not just an Indian tradition but a tradition of all humans. “It is important for us that the Prime Minister of India is coming here, especially for us practising Yoga and following Sanatana Dharma because he started the International Yoga Day... With this day, many people started to understand that Yoga is not just an Indian tradition but a tradition of all humans... This visit is a great opportunity to show that India is not a poor or dirty country, and that India, in fact, is a great country.... India is changing. India is laying out so many kilometres of highways per day. That is something that people in Europe, especially Croatia, need to know,” said Swami Vivek Puri.

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00:00We are practicing yoga here in Croatia for many, many years.
00:04I have been here in Croatia for more than 45 years.
00:09And we are teaching yoga. We have yoga in daily life system.
00:13And for us is very important this first coming of one Prime Minister of India.
00:22A few years ago President of India was here, but now we have an opportunity to be with Modiji,
00:30who is for us, especially for us who are practicing yoga and who are with Satsanathan Dharma,
00:37is important because his action in that way because he starts with the International Yoga Day.
00:50Yoga was also in previous time very popular in Croatia, in ex Yugoslavia also.
00:58But with the Yoga Day more people start to understand what is the yoga,
01:04that yoga is not something from India, it's not only Indian stuff,
01:09but it's something that is, I must say, the tradition of all human, because that is the Satsanathan Dharma.
01:17How is Croatia ready to just welcome PM Modi here?
01:21Yes, yes, you see that so many people are here.
01:24And really, especially because now is a few days before Yoga Day.
01:31And we already started a whole week and we will, till 21st, have in Croatia in 60 cities a day of yoga.
01:41Only in Zagreb we will have in a few different places.
01:46And the Hindu religious society also will have a yoga day in our big ashram near Zagreb.
01:53And it is a really great opportunity also to show the Croatian people that India is not anymore some country which is a poor country.
02:05It is not the country what missionaries said that we need to give money to, that is a dirty country.
02:12No, we need, really we need to show that India is a great country, going to the universe, going to the moon, so many satellites.
02:22That is the, showing the India, that is the power of India economically, politically, that is the real, I think, meaning of coming here of Modi.
02:35India is on the fourth place in economy.
02:38Yes.
02:39Yes.
02:40Yes.
02:41Right now.
02:42Yes.
02:43Yes.
02:44Yes.
02:45Yes.
02:46Yes.
02:47You have a great advantage because you have a young generation.
02:53I am so many times visiting India in these 45 years when I am in yoga.
03:00And I visit our ashram in Jadan and et cetera.
03:05But I saw that India is really changing how many kilometers of the highways per day is making.
03:15That is something what we need to know here in the Europe, especially in the Croatian.
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