A group of Hindus and human rights fighting for pluralism & secular society are critical of École Christine-Lesperance (ECL), a francophone elementary school in Winnipeg (Canada) under Franco-Manitoban School Division (DSFM), for reportedly renaming its “yoga” class as “movement” class. Some human rights activists came on social media to speak about the double-standards against Hindus […]
How Spiritual Experience has Transcended Religious Belief in Yoga
Many North Americans and westerners are turning to practices that promote spiritual experience rather than religious beliefs. One such widely practiced phenomenon that contributes to this transition from religious belief to spiritual experience is the practice of Yoga. Amidst this transition there are also many who have taken on Yoga without any religious beliefs preceding […]
Hindus Groups Lobby Health Insurers to Cover Yoga Since It Provides Many Provides Health Benefits
Hindus are asking health insurance companies to cover yoga in health plans. Calling including yoga in healthcare a “step in the positive direction”, distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada today, suggested all health insurers to incorporate yoga in the lives of their members. Zed, who is President of Universal Society of […]
Hindus Urge California Schools to Launch Yoga to Help Build Focus, Strength and Calm to Students
After a California appeals court ruled on April three regarding yoga classes in a school district, Hindus are urging all the California schools, public as well as private, to launch yoga for students. Calling introducing yoga a “step in the positive direction”, distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada today, suggested all […]
“Yoga” or “Not Yoga”- The Greatest Heist of the 20th Century
(CHAKRA) I was recently involved in a controversial group discussion over e-mail on the topic of Yoga. The contention was whether Yoga- that is widely practiced today in the Americas is really Yoga, or is it “Voga”- a term coined by a close friend to describe the practices abroad that no longer carry the essence […]
BBC Calls Yoga a ‘Fad’
BBC News-World website posted a video on January 10 under its “Watch/Listen”, which was titled as “Man behind yoga and other new age fads”. Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, pointed out that terming yoga as one of the fads, which was introduced and nourished by world’s oldest religion […]
The Origins of Yoga (Part 2) – Yoga Asana, the Ancient Hindu Legacy
By Sarvesh K Tiwari You can read Origins of Yoga – PART 1 here We have seen in the previous part how the identity of pata~njali, about which Hindus have never had doubts, is maliciously obliterated by the western commentators of yoga. Having obfuscated yoga-sUtra and having reduced its author to obscurity, next our western scholars […]
The Origins of Yoga (Part 1)
By Sarvesh K Tiwari (CHAKRA) On Pata~njali And His Works || namaH bhagavate pata~njalaye || “…we know little about the yoga author Patanjali. We know of Patanjali the grammarian and have good reason to date him to the 2nd century BC. Apart from the name, we have no solid reason for assuming that he was […]
Yoga as Anti-Hindu Invective
(CHAKRA) In the burning atmosphere of anti-Hindu hatred it is not surprising that strenuous attempts have been made to detach yoga from its obvious Hindu roots. At first this may seem incredible when one considers that it is more than just exercises. The mantras associated with the practice are evidently rooted in Hindu civilisation. Yet […]
Has Yoga been Hijacked?
By Aseem Shukla Swami Ramdev has helped spread traditional Hindu Yoga Washington, US – Nearly 20 million people in the United States gather together routinely, fold their hands and utter the Hindu greeting of Namaste — the Divine in me bows to the same Divine in you. Then they close their eyes and focus their […]