With the ongoing attacks on Hindus and anything Hindu with the backing of western left-wing liberal media covering and justifying the crimes, the far-right Islamists attacked a Yoga Day celebrations organised by the Indian embassy in the Maldives today. [...]
In 2006 we had met Swami Ramdev over an issue about his organisers charging too much money for a yoga session with him but according to him it wasn't in his hands.The organisers wouldn't meet us so we ended up having an interesting discussion with him about Indian political corruption and the popularity of Yoga [...]
What next that even Hinduism is not part of Hinduism ? New Delhi: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said yoga cannot be identified with any religion and people who think so lack integrity, coordination and balance. The Minister said yoga has a universal appeal and more than 170 countries, including 66 Muslim nations, [...]
How do your favorite Star Wars characters find inner peace? Yoga of course. Vader Yoga. Yoda Yoga. Boba Yoga. We all know Yoga is 1,000’s of years old. But we didn’t know that the Hindu ancient secrets were known in a galaxy far far away… 1. The Vader Series 2. The Leia Yoga Series [...]
a whole industry has grown up in the name of ‘secularism’, ‘progress’ and ironically ‘tolerance’ to disassociate yoga from being Hindu. In this warped universe, Hinduism and the term Hindu only gets associated with Sati, caste, rape, human sacrifice and other ‘savagery'. [...]
Yoga has become a diverse phenomenon throughout the world from spiritual gurus and meditation methods to physical fitness programs. Yet there is no doubt that Yoga as a term and as a movement overall has its roots in the Hindu and Vedic tradition over the last several thousand years and its prime texts like the [...]
June 9, 2015
Vamadev Shastri
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There could be no more appropriate day for honoring Yoga throughout the world then on June 21, the day of the summer solstice. Yoga’s connection with light and with the Sun goes back to Yoga’s very origin thousands of years ago in India. The system of Yoga philosophy or Yoga Darshana, on which the Yoga [...]
June 4, 2015
Vamadev Shastri
Archives, Spirituality/Culture
Humour with a good point [...]
January 19, 2015
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The Problem While yoga is growing at a rapid pace within the western world, its association with Hinduism is all too frequently becoming lost, disregarded and more importantly disrespected. This has been repeatedly illustrated within the corporate world through the introduction of items such as the “Hindu deity toilet seat cover” and Hindu deity shoes [...]
The usual Christian rhetoric about satanic and demonic forces trying to take control paranoia but at least Christian Fundamentalists even know its Hindu. [...]
August 3, 2013
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