Being a training Christian myself, there are only a few issues in Yoga that battle with Christianity. Some critics argue that Yoga and Christianity can’t co-exist, and but we all know that Yoga will not be a faith.
Nonetheless, that is dependent upon your opinion. Lately, I used to be studying about somebody who claims Kundalini is “new age witchcraft.”
Sorry to say, one other particular person lately acknowledged, “Good Christians ought to keep away from the satan’s train,” in reference to Yoga.
Are the Salem witch trials nonetheless so near our hearts? These claims are attention-grabbing as a result of ministers and monks have been training meditation for hundreds of years, with none complaints.
I suppose, if somebody devoted sufficient time to meditating on unhealthy ideas, meditation can be a foul expertise.
To be sincere, it relies upon upon what you meditate about; and in fact, inside some faculties of Yoga, Hinduism, or Buddhism is taught. For me, this has at all times been a battle, as I like Yoga, however don’t have any need to vary my religion.
The various teachings of Yoga and meditation, are non-sectarian. Now, if Yoga had been a faith, which wouldn’t it be? The rules of Yoga are common.
The Yamas and Niyamas are comparable, in precept, to the Ten Commandments, however as a Christian you’ve the proper to choose and select what you need from Yoga. You even have the proper to keep away from sectarian ashrams.
Yoga follow, and meditation, give many Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, and Moslems, a more in-depth connection to God, however there’ll at all times be somebody who feels tempted to vary their religion.
Let’s be sincere, the individuals who fear a few sudden change of religion are, for probably the most half, rooted in two distinct camps of thought.
1. Somebody who’s on the fence about their very own faith and never fairly positive the place they actually stand.
2. Extreme intolerance of any thought that’s new or may lead to opening the thoughts.
Let’s cease the intolerance now. When you’re driving in your automobile, ready in line, or come face-to-face with somebody who’s totally different from you, please set an instance to your kids and provides the opposite particular person a break.
