Walking on the pavements of the main thoroughfare in the Thiruvananthapuram city, an advertising board caught my attention, “Federation cup yoga championship”. Decadence creeps into societies clandestinely, without anyone taking a serious note of it and is often taken for modernity. A philosophical system, which clearly mentions ways and means to still the mind in order to achieve an unconditional absolute peaceful state of being, is reduced to a mere contortion exercise competition. The saddest and ludicrous state of affairs is the wider meaning of yoga getting hammered and shaped as merely ‘posture’. Now yoga means a physical posture. In competition, there is rivalry, stress, shameless desire to beat the other, to excel the other in a materialistic sense, and then get drenched in the euphoria created by the sense of a win mixed with the sadistic joy of defeating the other. It is a tragedy, that yoga too entered this realm of competition.