The main aim of yogic exercise is the change of the biochemical
balance of the organism through pressuring the glands-a result of the
unnatural yogic positions. This pressure causes a dangerous outpouring
of hormones which may cause: altered sensorial perception, barrenness,
pressure, bronchial hernia, diabetes, sexual complications, cancer,
madness and suicide...
Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me a sinner.
Here are some various critiques by people who describe themselves as Orthodox. That remains to be seen, of course; but there may be some interesting or useful points to consider. Some of the views are not entirely opposed to any use of yoga whatsoever, whilst others affirm that it is entirely demonic and the Orthodox Christian ought to have nothing to do with it whatsoever. One of the articles stresses that Yoga is rooted in sex cult religion. In the comments below the article a writer comments that they were unable to find any proofs or references to that effect in any online sources. I can say that the best proof is found in photographs of hindu temples in India. I learned about them as part of my religious studies degree in university. Hindu temples are covered with carvings in stone of extremely filthy and exceedingly replete with graphic content where the positions are unmistakably yogic. I think that suffices as proof in spades.
http://www.iocs.cam.ac.uk/resources/tex ... ianity.pdf
http://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2013/06 ... ctice.html
I believe the evil practice to which you are referring, Matthew, is tantra. Those are tantric poses featured in the statues outside Hindu temples. Yeah, terrible, aren't they ?
It is not yoga : it is WORSE by far ! That is an even more unappealing and dangerous practice which ALSO became popular in certain quarters such as hippies, leftists, flower children, etc.
Yoga is probably tame by comparison but it also is useless really for a person who cares about preserving their purity.
How many of those are around now today in the West ?
Look around at how most people are automatons, going with whatever is the latest fad. They don't even know WHY they are participating. But : "everyone else" has a yoga mat, so why not keep up with their peers ? They probably feel this slightly exotic practice salves their conscience that they are 'doing something' for their so-called spiritual self ?
No one in this category could stand to be left behind the flow of contemporary trends.
I suspect all the adulation of Gandhi is linked with this spread of yoga. I never liked Gandhi at all : my teetch clench at the sound of his name. But with a film about him made some years ago and many in the mainstream as well as New Age mentalities hearkening to the [PTBe] call for worship of the Indian 'hero', then yoga would make such people feel like 'part of India' and hence closer to the ideals espoused by 'the cool' Gandhi.
Someone could do a good study on how exactly this was all orchestrated by the same old forces that manage every other 'fashion' in modern history.
The book by the late Father Seraphim Rose, Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future, deals extensively with Hinduism, Buddhism, and Yoga.
It is the religion the future, and can even been seen in the latest papal video which espouses Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism as one religion of love.
This so called papal Year of Mercy will be a Year of Apostasy. Already, this papal video has proclaimed this one world religion of unchristian love.
Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me a sinner.
Barbara wrote:I suspect all the adulation of Gandhi is linked with this spread of yoga. I never liked Gandhi at all : my teetch clench at the sound of his name. But with a film about him made some years ago and many in the mainstream as well as New Age mentalities hearkening to the [PTBe] call for worship of the Indian 'hero', then yoga would make such people feel like 'part of India' and hence closer to the ideals espoused by 'the cool' Gandhi
I agree ... Ghandi if the truth were known would likely be little more revered than some obscure small-time hindu cult figure.
Maria wrote:The book by the late Father Seraphim Rose, Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future, deals extensively with Hinduism, Buddhism, and Yoga. It is the religion the future, and can even been seen in the latest papal video which espouses Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism as one religion of love. This so called papal Year of Mercy will be a Year of Apostasy. Already, this papal video has proclaimed this one world religion of unchristian love.
What else is new...? 
Matthew, I remembered after I wrote that yesterday about the dark figures on the Hindu temples that, studying tourism in India, I noted with disbelief that ALL the brochures displayed one of those temple sculptures. Khajuraho, their location, was turned into a major destination for Westerners. Isn't that sick ? No one ever heard of Khajuraho EITHER, just like Gandhi. Only because of this dark promotion aimed at supposedly depraved Western visitors did Khajuraho become a "carved in stone" destination for Western tourists. To put a terrible 'temple' on par with, for example, the Taj Mahal, the immortal monument to devotion for one's family and spouse, was certainly juxtaposition inspired by the demons pictured in the Khajuraho sculptures !
As for Mohandas Gandhi, much information surfaced to counter the 'hero' image so carefully built up by the Western propaganda machine. He was really a strange person, to put it politely. Those negatives about him were all brushed under the carpet. Then subsequent non-violent resistance leaders were molded into following Gandhi's example.
See how the 'myth' of one individual could be employed to create a plethora of imitators ? One can speculate as to the reason, but surely the British occupiers, military and civilian alike, had suffered so many casualties from the Indian Mutiny [also called the Sepoy Mutiny] 1857 through 1859 that perhaps they themselves connived behind the scenes to create this new model.
