thanks ...

[Guest guest]

.... to the many who expressed supportive comments

here and in email during the recent ugly spate of gay

bashing. om namo narayana! nice to see that brand of

ignorance fading away through its own flimsiness. om namah

sivaya! om aim saraswatyai namah!<br><br>just proves that

this is in the main a lovely, sattvic board, mirroring

the beauty of sri jois's and other gurus' tireless

dedication. the physical body's an illusory bag of meat, the

subtle body an illusory confluence of energy, the causal

body an illusory precipitator. individuals are no more

separate from each other than a wave from the ocean. we

are one. pure, universal consciousness is the only

reality. tat twam asi.

[Guest guest]

"this is in the main a lovely, sattvic board..."<br><br>thank you; your saying

it may make it true.

[Guest guest]

Can you cite the comments, or even one comment, you feel deserves the lable of

"gay bashing"?<br><br>?

[Guest guest]

ah, the ubiquitous invitation to act as pro bono

librarian to bigots. please. the disingenuousness of your

latest message is appalling, but not unexpected. from

your gratuitously stereotyping opening comment that

gay men see everything "through the prism of gay

sex," to the pejorative slinging of "queers,queens,"

and the various forms of gay-baiting accompanying

them have been obvious to all at the club, and many

have commented intelligently, with endless restraint

born of a genuinely sattvic life. yoga is the treasure

of treasures. hackneyed right-wing rhetorical tricks

pose all the threat of a caged mouse.<br><br>no yoga

sadhana accommodates this sort of behavior, which one

would expect to encounter among fundamentalist

christian zealots, not students of vedic philosophy. yoga

philosophy is not evangelical christianity. brahmacharya is

a scientific practice to utilise on one's own, not

a commandment by which to judge others. at most the

jesus of the bible echoes teachings on ahimsa of the

buddha. he interpreted vedic teaching and introduced a

kind of reform hinduism to the society of his time,

which was dominated by a corrupt aristocracy

hypocritically citing religion to hold onto power, scriptural

justifying persecution of whole classes of innocent people.

sound familiar?<br><br>as previously stated, the

christian coalition is as much threatened by the

proliferation in the west of yoga and vedic thought as the

proliferation of gay rights. any who have had the pleasure of

observing the same tactics used to attack both have noticed

that familiar odor.