Vedr.: yoga? ... and then back to atheism :o)

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> Pamho, agtSP!

>

> >Exactly. If you want to teach yoga and attract people to KC, then do it

> >with

> >integrity: that means via a bonafide system, not something you dream up

> >yourself. That reeks of opportunism and "me-ism."

>

> Or at least the students should be VERY clear on what the purpuse of this

> atmayoga is: Physical wellbeing and maybe a little more psychological

> balance, but not any real spiritual insights. This should be VERY clear to

> the students. And then you can tell them that if you want spiritual

> insights or knowlegde, then we have another proces - bhakti yoga.

>

> One other very important point is: Which kind of people is it that we

> attract to ISKCON using these methods? Many of them are probably polluted

> with mayavadi philosophy and new age philosophy. Whenever a person joins

> ISKCON that person brings some material pullution into ISKCON. So the

> question is: Can we really handle this pullution?

>

> Are there any of these atmayogis who have actually taking initiation in

> ISKCON and realized that this atmayoga is just a preaching scheme to

> attract people, and that it's actually a waste of time seen from the

> spiritual perspective?

 

Another thing is that all these help or self-help programs or bridge

programs as they are called in ISKCON are not designed for devotees. They

are designed for people who cannot or will not readily accept Srila

Prabhupada's program of sadhana bhakti. So they have nothing to do with

devotees and should be stopped being advertised amongst devotees as if they

were somehow beneficial for devotees' spiritual development.

 

Nobody is against devotees performing yoga to maintain bodily health and all

that, I do it myself, but to advertise it as something that we need to

elevate ourselves to bhakti is simply nonsense. Nothing will elevate us to

bhakti except the process Srila Prabhupada taught us.

 

 

ys. jdd