Sarah Palin's Candidacy - Politics and Yoga???

[Guest guest]

Copied below are Yogiji's words* on the very politically charged

subject of a Woman's right to choose.

Yogiji was a humanist, and so he would invariably rub elbows with

"politics". This is a short read!

 

ABORTION

 

If it is medically or socially

required that an abortion should be performed, it should be done. We

are not

going to lower the status of motherhood. It is not the woman per se, it

is the

status of the mother which matters, and if that pregnancy lowers the

mother's

status, we do not want the mother to deliver a child. Period.

The cry of "right of life"

is religious nonsense. What do you mean by "right of life"? Tomorrow

the State may pass a law that every woman who becomes 24 years old must

adopt a

child or bear a child. They don't want any abortions because they want

their

membership to outnumber that of every other religion. It is a neurotic

approach, a tribal approach, and is inappropriate for more highly

civilized cultures.

It is no more than a ridiculous ritual. It is a direct disgrace to

women. Does

it mean that tomorrow you are going to tell a woman that she cannot

remain

single, that she must be artificially inseminated or participate in a

test tube

baby? God does not place the soul in the

fetus until the 120th day. There is a reason for that. Even God

wants to

have planned parenthood. This nonsense of "right of life" is being

laid down in the name of God. There is no reason why you must bear a

child if

you are mentally, socially, economically, and religiously unprepared.

Don't

bring anyone to this earth if you cannot handle it. It is most

unrighteous. As

a human being it is your responsibility to deeply search yourself to

know the

capacity of your nervous system, the depth of your ability to love and

understand, and the degree of balance between your inner thoughts and

values

and their expression in your environments. If everything tabulates in

the

positive, then plan for a child.

 

Yogi Bhajan

 

 

 

 

* From the "Ancient Art of Self Healing"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Forwarded Message ----

Patrick <pfears

fjessop514

Friday, September 12, 2008 4:19:40 PM

Re:Sarah Palin's Candidacy

 

You have to be a real jerk to bring

politics in to Yoga!