Today's word is hatha yoga. We all know that it's the original tradition of yoga. But again many of us mispronounce it as hatha yoga. That's entirely wrong. The word meaning of hatha is dead or has been killed. For example, aswatama hatha kunjaraa, which is a sentence from the great epic Mahabharata, which means kunjara, an elephant named aswatama, is hatha, is dead or has been killed. So when we say hatha yoga, what we are actually meaning is a yoga that has been dead or has been killed. I'm sure we don't mean that at all. So the right pronunciation would be hatha yoga. And hatha yoga is the original tradition of yoga, second to the ashtanga yoga of sage patangeli. Hatha yoga strongly emphasizes on preparing the physical, as well as the chronic body for the higher and advanced level of yoga practices in order to reach the ultimate goal of yoga.