Light on Yoga: The Bible of Modern Yoga by B. K. S. Iyengar

Light on Yoga: The Bible of Modern Yoga B. K. S. Iyengar ebook
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Page: 544
ISBN: 9780805210316
Format: pdf

Miraculous Net http://www.living-light.net/cms/. It's really Modern globalizing yoga, which is gradually extracting itself from a Indian religious heritage that in some of its forms holds some of these same values, is saying something completely different. It's also arguable that literalist readings of the Bible don't mesh with the approach to the body that we find in yoga practice But I don't want to get into a theological discussion about itThough, in this case, it brings up also what you talk about in the book as a certain puritanical "tenor" of yoga in America that has carried through to modern day practice. A religion that worships, serves, and seeks salvation from gods that are not the God of the Bible is in direct conflict with Christian worship, service and salvation. It stated that “spiritual restlessness of modern life” was leading people to “seek interior peace and psychic balance in religious movements and techniques which are not of the Christian tradition. Yoga, from the word “yuj” As the legendary Yoga guru B.K.S Iyengar aptly points out in his famous Light on Yoga, " Some asanas are also called after Gods of the Hindu pantheon and some recall the Avataras, or incarnations of Divine Power." It is disappointing to .. Numerous asanas seemed modern in origin, and strongly overlaped 19th and early 20th century Western exercise traditions. When Mary observed the children in the kindergarten yoga class being instructed in the asanas, chanting, meditation, and the Namaste salutation to the universal Light, she recognized the children were receiving religious/spiritual instruction in the ancient Vedic One-ism of yoga. [4] http://jdisciple.wordpress.com/2009/06/27/what-does-the-bible-say-a. It's been ten In this light, the issue runs much deeper than whether or not Christians compromise their allegiances by donning hot-pants and chanting. Light on Yoga is known as modern bible on Yoga. With critical discernment, this hard-hitting and informative DVD explores the ramifications of dismissing yoga's core spirituality, and blending Biblical terminology and precepts with eastern meditative techniques and practices. Yoga is a modern Pagan Religion and their ultimate purpose is (beside making the guru's very rich) to enslave all population through deception, in it's ultimate form: The New Age. They claim that if biblical Christians use yoga to look within for divinity, they're more likely to find hell. On “The Lighthouse” website, self-described as a Christian Bible Based Cult Awareness Center, people are warned that Yoga is not in harmony with Christianity: “Yoga, in To make the demonic connection automatically puts the naysayer in the light of fanatic.