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All the jewishness and ritual described in the article is nothing new to orthodox hinduism which has more than Jewsim, the way to dress, speak,eat, be vegetarian, marriage, rituals…Jewism would pale by comparision. The question of idolatory is explained this way-when you love someone, you hold his/her pic in front of you and sigh and wish you were near. Same purpose is erved by idols in hunduism. Yoga is not a religion-Its a way of life since millenia. Some people who didnt conform with orthodox hindus were unfairly driven out as the fifth caste. They migrated to Israel. Theosophy’s Madame Blavatsky calls Israelis the chandalas who came away from India.Hence the close resemblance of orthodox Jewism and Hinduism. From this ancient way of life -Sanatana Dharma(Universal Faith)the breakaway people came away, and from their new vantage point, called the original faith-Hinduism and the land India. The breakaway people forget their origins and called the original land-‘Those people near the river Sindhu’ as Hindus.The original practitioners of this faith dont have a religion, no India,no book, no spiritual founder-because it was from the ‘beginning’.Everything was nature.
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How a Modern Orthodox Jew Struggled with Yoga and Judaism
Posted by Wettemann on 03/04/10 at 02:59 PM
Very interesting! I have friends who have even changed their religion, some Jewish, to Sikhism in the Kundalini Yoga tradition and worked privately doing hatha yoga, with no philosophy attached, with an Orthodox Jewish man last year and found it very uniquely challenging.He admitted to being very cerebral so that made it a challenge to have him relate to the physical asanas in general; very interestingly different than anything else in my 25 yrs of teaching.