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Yoga and meditation can contribute to developing a balance personality, enhancing one's emotional intelligence and managing stress. Yoga refers to the union with the "all pervading power" as well as to an attainment of inner harmony between mind, body, emotions and the spirit and the outer balance between social, material, career and family related aspects in an individual. Meditation is a process of attaining "thoughtless awareness" and not the often mistaken notion of mental process of developing "concentration". According to the Upnishads, meditation is the route to the highest knowledge (spiritual knowledge) when self-realisation, which is integration of inner self or spirit into the cosmic spirit, occurs. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the finding of science and given birth to a new civilization, new culture, new life style, new beliefs, new outlook and new morals. No one can deny that the concept given by science or scientist have so deeply influenced man's thoughts religious beliefs and morals and have, in fact, not left a single aspect or area of life untouched.