The world is changing fast. The anxiety level of the people of the world is at the highest level. The problem is that people are being misled on many ancient philosophies of the world. Throughout the world the ancient original civilizations lived a simple life based on respecting ancestors, worshiping sources of life such as sun and moon, and respecting earth. The modern religions destroyed those natural sources of faith. This problem is acute in countries where organized religions were preached to create a homogenous faith based communities. These communities were trained to ostracize and punish everyone outside their communities. Their focus is and always has been to increase the community with scant regard for original religion or culture of the land. These corporate entities thrive on community membership. Gradually, they began representing the government because they were a convenient tool for voter campaigns in modern democracies. Their focus was to gain allegiance to the community over the land and nation.
The real Yoga is something not suitable for their communities because it creates an intelligent discerning mindset which is in sharp contrast to their agenda. Since Asana (posture) is known to give therapeutic benefits, they began calling Asana as Yoga to generate money. The whole purpose was to undermine the real Yoga. Most Yoga studios do not offer the full Yoga experience because that is challenged by the Abrahamic communities as religious. The Abrahamic religious communities don’t want to reduced their monthly subscription revenues. The real Yoga will dent their revenues because people will be self driven to search for solutions.
The real Yoga begins from Veda.
All Vedic knowledge is known as the knowledge of Yoga as confirmed in Bhagavad Gita. The purpose of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra was to follow the teachings of Bhagavad Gita or Veda. When we begin to learn real Yoga then automatically our real physical health also begins to improve. The western experiments with Yoga is not just foolish but also insulting to the original practices of Yoga. Movements such as wine Yoga, Goat Yoga, and any other consumption of drugs in the name of holistic practice is just fraud on the original purpose & practice of Yoga.
Many authentic places of Yoga do exist in the west in many places such as Zeb Yoga in Pittsburgh. They have lessons for beginners as well as advanced practitioners. They also understand the real purpose of Yoga. The difference between them and the rest is that they try to go behind the purpose of Yoga and separate it from the Asana. To understand Yoga you need to first begin accepting the fact that Body, Mind, Intelligence, Atma, Parmatma, Prakriti and Kala (Time) are separate topics in Yoga. The self identification with body is a wrong start on the path of Yoga. Hatha Yoga is the first step for most western practitioners. Yoga means independence from all ideologies and becoming situated as Atma in practice and reality.
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Books:
Karma: How to tame it? (sattology) https://a.co/d/csTUtnM
Transcending the Mind: Yog Sutra As It Is (Sattology) https://a.co/d/60qDV2v
The Hindu Bible: Sattology https://a.co/d/6zHq7t3
The Gita: Sattology https://a.co/d/diaV84O
