Written by, June 21 -- Ramala Sarma

Ever since the United Nations declared 21 June as the International Day of Yoga in 2014, millions of people across the globe have gathered to practice yoga on this day. Images of basic asanas, limb-twisting creative postures, breathing exercises, and meditation sessions flood newspapers and social media. Yet amid this celebration, an important question often remains unasked: What is yoga ultimately meant to unite?

The Bhagavad Gita provides an answer that is both simple and profound. Yoga-which literally means union-is often understood as the union of body and mind. Yet the idea of union points to something deeper: it is a gradual reconciliation of an inner split within us, the space between what we d...