Guest guest Posted January 25, 2006 Report Share Posted January 25, 2006 > > It seems wrong to conclude on the basis of all names, listed below, that > > everything is bonafide and under control. We all know that it can be > > seen otherwise too. Of course. ********************* "There's nothing "Vaisnava" about this brand of home-grown yoga, made up by the guy who's selling it. "Normal"? Yes, it's normal: life is full of opportunities for the cheaters and the cheated to get together...." ********************* You are not saying - "Hey fellows, what do you think of this." You call him a cheater and the people who attend his course cheated. I was trying to raise a doubt that the devotee in question, who chants 16 rounds a day, follows four principles, and is not a ritvik or anything but an ISKCON devotee, does not deserve such condemnation without investigating further (unlike me who gets the GBC of Belgium wrong). Also, he never calls it Vaishnava Yoga as someone stated. Read his blurb and he says: "By offering a Vaisnava brand of yoga to the general public atma yoga is creating new friends of Krishna, temple supporters, and aspiring devotees." And what makes this a Vaishnava brand of yoga? - no doubt he includes mantra meditation. Like there is a vaishnava sanscrit book where people learn sanscrit by using the names of Lord Visnu, which pleased Lord Chaitanya - somehow induce people to chant. I agree, names of important people do not guarantee that the course is bone-fide. But why assume it is not? It might be, it might not be. Not knowing, how can we call the devotee a cheater? I am not so much defending his Yoga Course, as questioning whether we have enough information to denounce it. > It is not fair to take some hatha-yoga-course, and then whole > Radhadesh college under it, and then say, that such things must certainly > be bonafide, because of all senior vaishnavas lested. You are quite right. There is not enough information for me to say it is bone-fide, or for you to say it is not. Do you agree? ys Antardwip das Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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