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=What is Physical Education?=
Physical education means chiefly the combination of all exercises for the sake of the growth and upkeep of the body and <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/general-messages-and-letters#p60</ref>
has three principal aspects: (1) control and discipline of the functioning of the body, (2) an integral, methodical and harmonious development of all the parts and movements of the body and (3) correction of any defects and deformities.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/physical-education#p3</ref>
It teaches the cells to be conscious. But to develop the brain, it's study, observation, intelligent education—especially observation and reasoning. And naturally, for the whole education of the consciousness from the standpoint of character, it's yoga.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/09/september-28-1968#p40</ref>
==Why is Physical Education Important?==
Sports help the body to prepare for the Transformation. And therefore
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/general-messages-and-letters#p60</ref>for us spiritual life does not mean contempt for Matter but its divinization. We do not want to reject the body but to transform it.<ref>
http://incarnateword.in/agenda/08/april-3-1967#p3
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If there is impurity and insincerity within, the outer change will not be effective; but if there is a sincere inner working, the outer change will help it and accelerate the process.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-danger-of-the-ego-and-the-need-of-purification#p45</ref>
=What is Hathayoga?=