The truth behind yoga.

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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"Demonic forces are behind these supernatural experiences of seeming peace, light, and supernatural knowledge and powers."

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[–]LarrySwinger2 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

The Yoga Sutras aren't 'the scripture of the yogis'. That's a completely Abrahimic perspective. Yoga is a technique that can be practiced regardless of one's religion, and the Yoga Sutras are its most popular and authoritative handbook. It isn't even considered smrti.

The article says that Ishvara is the name of some god. I can see how it makes that mistake, as Shaiva use it as an epithet for Shiva and Vaishnava as an epithet for Vishnu. But unto itself it's a concept and it primarily just means God.

In general, sources that oppose a tradition on religious grounds are not the most reliable. If you want to learn about yoga, read the primary texts, which are the Yoga Sutras in this instance, it's a good place to start. Although the website is accurate in asserting that yoga is incompatible with Christianity. Hindu philosophies contain a lot of foreign concepts. You can't believe in both the rapture and samsara.

[–]Canbot[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Yoga is sold as a low impact exercise and meditation, which is clearly not the whole story. I was never into yoga so I have no reason to look into this furthur, but this is definitely enough to prove that the official story is bullshit. Yoga clearly had a religious component. It clearly has a very old religious history. Your claims about what that is, especially in the face of these old texts, is not credible.

I post this just to inform people that there is more to the story than they have been told. Everything should be taken with a grain of salt, but there is enough here to warrent concern. Especially if your kids are participating in yoga at school or camp, which is a very common thing. In the world we live in the people who take care of our kids need to be watched carefully because they can't be trusted.

There is a very strong anti christian sentiment in media and society, at least from those in authority. I would not put it past those people to purposefully rebrand a religious pracrice and try to sell it as a harmless activity. They are doing the same thing with satanism. The church of satan pretends to be a harmless, tongue in cheek, social group. They have also opened up satan clubs in schools.

In this context your dismisal of this concern is dumb.

[–]LarrySwinger2 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Don't get me wrong. I'm not contending anything else it says in the article. Yoga is a spiritual tradition and by technique I meant one of achieving union with the divine, just as it says in the article. But the article made it seem like Yoga is a religion like Christianity or Buddhism, and that there's a group of people to whom the Yoga Sutras is what the Bible is to Christians, that's what I'm contending. This is the kind of misunderstanding that arises from sources who write about a tradition with the intention of refuting it. That's why it's better to stick either to academic sources, or sources written by people who practice authentic yoga. And by that I mean people who have a guru, for example in the Iyengar tradition, not in a gym. At the very least, pick read someone whose interest in yoga is genuine.

[–]Canbot[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

academic sources,

These days that is nothing but pre approved propaganda curated by the "elite". Academia has no credibility.

[–]LarrySwinger2 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You can't dismiss all of academia outright and I have found it to be minimally compromised in the field of Religious Studies. My professors actually tended to be the voice of reason who'd point out propaganda that's being fed by the news media. I read the same things in academic texts as I hear from Hindu believers. And it makes sense, since there's an emphasis on respecting people of different cultures. If they misrepresented Hinduism, there'd be a backlash from people in India.

Anyway, feel free to point out something about which Academia is misrepresenting yoga or Hinduism in general.

[–]JewsAreOfColor 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Christians stole so much from paganism that they have no right to attack any other religion on any grounds whatsoever.