Effect of patanjali yoga sutra on personality development: A randomized controlled trial

Abstract

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali describes a wise process of living that promotes balance and harmony. The study evaluates the personality development or positive changes from the physical to the spiritual through the Patanjali Yoga Sutra.A randomized controlled trial included 200 participants (age – 21-25 yrs.), both gender physically fit for the yoga module. Participants were undergraduate students from Ambala, Haryana. Participants were equally randomized to each group (100). The researcher used structured and planned intervention methods for the experiments—the practice of techniques given in Tools for data collection werestructured questionnaires (Demographic data), Vedic Personality Inventory (VPI), andageneral health questionnaire (GHQ-28). Results were analyzed as per intention to treat analysis. and GHQ's Total scores differed statistically significantly (p-value < 0.000) in both groups. We found greater improvement in the YG compared to the CG. Sattva score in YG increased dramatically from 30.70 (8.635) to 49.99 (15.137), simultaneously increasing from 30.01 (10.508) to 41.94 (13.667) in CG. ' score in YG significantly reduced from 37.12 (13.318) to 27.68 (9.043) and decreased significantly from 41.94 (13.966) to 30.01 (10.508) in CG. Tamas's score in YG significantly reduced from 37.22 (10.669) to 22.34 (10.780), whereas it was the same as 28.20 (10.453) in CG. The results have shown that practice has improved the personality of young, healthy volunteers by increasing their Sattva Guna and reducing their and