MORARJI DESAI NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF YOGA
MORARJI DESAI NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF YOGA Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga (MDNIY) is an autonomous organisation under the Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India. MDNIY is a focal institute for planning, training, promotion and coordination of yoga education, training, therapy and research in all its aspects. The main vision and mission of the institute is ‘Health, Harmony and Happiness for all through Yoga’. The emblem of the university is a person seated in a yoga posture in reddish brown colour in a backdrop of rising sun. It is surmounted by its name in Devanagari and supported by its acronym at the bottom. On the yoga motif its motto ‘समत्वं योग उच्यते’ (Shloka 48, Chapter 2, Srimad Bhagavad Gita) is written in Sanskrit. It means ‘Evenness of Mind is the Yoga’