Some people, however, question why we should prefer yogasanas to other exercises such as gymnastics, wrestling and popular games. What is wrong about doing these exercises and what is very special about yogasanas? The following points will answer their queries:

1. Other exercises have very little impact on the mind and sense organs, while the asanas improve mental power and help in controlling the sense organs.
2. Yogasanas improve our resistance power against diseases and do not allow any external matter to accumulate in the body. In this way, they keep the body free from the diseases.
3. For sports and other exercises, we need considerable space and several persons. Asanas on the other hand can be performed in relatively little space and all by oneself. All that we need is a carpet or bed sheet. But we must learn them first from a person who knows the technique well.
4. Our youth depends upon our spine which controls the entire nervous system and blood circulatory organs. Greater the elasticity in the vertebral column, greater will be vigor and longer the life.
5. Other exercises have little impact on the character of a person. But yogasanas not only improve body health, they also have a sobering effect on the mind. They build up mental and ethical powers. The mind becomes balanced and peaceful. This in turn brings about equanimity and sattvic ideas.
6. In fact, yogasanas, pranayama and six yogic practices of purification are a panacea for all ills. They have a unique power to throw waste products out of the body. They can therefore be depended upon for physical and mental well-being.
7. Yogasanas increase the elasticity of our body and make the body more active and supple. The blood circulation takes place more smoothly and properly and the body becomes capable of more work. We look young in spite of our age. Other exercises, on the other hand, make the muscles stiff and hard. The body becomes stiff and the old age comes sooner.
8. Besides having physical, mental and moral effects, yoga system leads a man to spiritualism. No other system has such wide-ranging impact on human body, mind, brain and intellect.