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The purpose of the study was to find out the impact of meditation with asana practices on mental skills and stress among men students. To achieve the purpose of this study, twenty (n=20) Men students were randomly selected from ST. Hindu College, Nagercoil, Tamilnadu, India. The age of subject's was ranged from 22 to 26 years. The selected participants were randomly divided into two groups such as Group 'I' underwent meditation and asana practices (n=10) and Group 'II' acted as control group (n-10). Group 'I' meditation and asana practices for five days with one session per day and each session lasted between 45 minutes for six-week period. Group 'II' was not exposed to any specific training but they were participated in regular activities. The data on mental skills and stress were collected and administered by standardized test. The pre and post-tests data were collected on selected criterion variables prior to and immediately after the training programme. The pre and post-test scores were statistically examined by the dependent-'t' test and Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) for each and every selected dependent variable separately. It was concluded that the meditation with asana practices group had shown significantly improved in psychological variables like mental skills and stress. However, the control group had not shown any significant improvement on any of the selected variables such as mental skills and stress.