Comments on: Who Owns Yoga

By: Rahul

Rahul — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:55:56 +0000

Chopra and others like him (Like the various Yoga journals) who make millions out of the modern American spiruality industry are deathly afraid that the truth that Yoga is part of the Hindu Dharma, will severly dent their revenue stream since Hinduism in US has been painted only in negative “Cash, Curry and Cow” terms. These guys will advance silly argumets to dissociate yoga and other spiritual concepts from Hinduism, while shamelessly exploiting these same very ideas to enrich themselves.

If Yoga cannot be called not Hinduism, why then karate is called as Japaneese and Kung-Fu is called as chineese ?

By: Vinit

Vinit — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 19:28:11 +0000

What is this Indo-Aryan theory? It is a fractured theory proposed buy the Brits… First lets debate and comprehensively prrove the Indo -Aryan theory and then talk about pre or Post Indo Aryan invasion… More so.. I would advise Deepak Chopra to first proove whether Shiva is mythological or not :).. cause he cant ecplain why he chopped of his sions head and then killed an elephant baby to replace the head…Isnt this TRIBALISM that he was reffering to in his NYTimes ecerpt?

By: Venkataramana Bhagavati

Venkataramana Bhagavati — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 21:39:03 +0000

Dear Sir,

I totally agree with your views that modern yoga owes a lot to the “Shiva cults”. It does not matter weather they are pre-Indo Aryan or Aryan. The fact is that they are “Shivite” (we can call Shaivism a branch of Hindusim).

I want to draw you attention to the fact that all the great Hatha yogis belonged to Nath Sampradaya (Gorakhnath, Matsendranath, Tamil Siddhars etc).

The standard texts of Hatha yoga are :

(1) Hatha-yoga Pradipika
(2) Gheranda Samhita
(3) Shiva Samhita
(4) Tirumatiram ( an ancient Tamil text of Saivite lineage. It is probably the oldest.)

The modern students of yoga must have every right to know about “Nath Sampradaya” and have access to the texts, to figure it out for themselves.

In the end, I think that the historical sages of yoga deserve at least that much recognition (if not Guru bhakti)…..

Scientifically speaking the “asanas” originate in the above mentioned texts only.

By: Vinit

Vinit — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:29:19 +0000

I guess Vedic Period that Deepak chopra is alluding to is related to the 4 Vedas (Rig Ved, Saam Ved, Yajur Ved and Atharv Ved).. I ask Mr Chopra, which religion in the world claims the Vedas to be theirs? Christianity? Islam? Jainism? Buddhism? None of the above.. Only Hinduism claims the Vedas and the 108 Upanishand, Puranas and Samhitas to be theirs….. As far as Shiva is concerned and his family including his son who is elephant faced Ganapati riding a mouse, Karthikey flying a peackock, and his sena of beasts and Bull Nandi is absolutely Hindu Origin. No other religion except Hindus and Tibbetian buddisht worship Shiva. Shaivism/Vaishnavism are all hinduic so called mythological gods by the west:)..Its good to hear from a once desciple of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi the fake Deepak Chopra that he no longer calls Shiva and Hinduism a Mythology :).
Mr Chopra you have exposed yourself here, I used to think you are a true New Age Guru, but you are only a money making fake Guru as we have plenty around this holy science…
In a way it is good that the world is taking on Hindu practices, but trying to invent some imaginary link of Yoga to their own religion which obviously has nothing to do with Yoga is an act of deceit and ungratefulness to the Hindu Teachers and Saints who taught these Yogic techinques to these deceitful folks…whateveerrr..what matters is peace and an end to the debate that my God is the best 🙂 and my religion the best :)….
I wish to quote Ramakrishna Paramhansa here with utmost humility which aptly explains this phenomena of hijacking Yoga as Sufi/Islamic/Christian teaching:

[Ramkrishna Kathamrita, Chapter 3, Vol. 2, compiled by Mahendra Gupta]
“Only Hindu religion is the eternal religion. The newer religions you see around you were created at per God’s will and will be abolished by God’s will, but will not last long. So I say salute TO ALL. But Hindu religion existed since eternity and will continue to exist forever”.

By: CHARANJEET SINGH LAMBA (astral`scientist : gnosiologist : exegete)

CHARANJEET SINGH LAMBA (astral`scientist : gnosiologist : exegete) — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 05:37:05 +0000

Greetrings…

Yoga is always misjoindered and mispresented with many a things to be ever in stream of misology. The currency of Yoga is not to be valued so easy that one gives it and the other can extol of having the same. Even to earn a respectable bread & butter for living all of life, we endeavor to seek Education for multiple years of exercising self and yet turn out only with plain Qualifications. Then to learn and live a more esoteric subject of life what must be the efforts & gravity of intent to exercise all avails to incorporate into ones understanding.. Yoga is transcendental knowledge..?

Lets explore Yoga more precisely and concisely by entrusting all of self to the expertise of the selected-few who are good adepts and seasoned learner themselves. “Mastery of knowledge prevails with the self in servitude to Master, whereas to grow beyond what is mastered is true Mastery”.

Laconically, Yoga is an exquisite unison of Art & Science to avail the beatitude in self by experiencing the the unifiability of ” Body : Mind : Heart : Soul”

Good`Luck to all concern… God bless All, Divine

CHARANJEET SINGH LAMBA
astral`scientist : gnosiologist : exegete