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Posted on 04/11/2018 6:45:09 PM PDT by marshmallow
The Church’s Doctrinal Commission released a report on ‘Yoga and Catholic beliefs’. The practice is mandatory in schools. Hindu nationalists "try to exploit yoga to achieve their political and sectarian goals." The Church warns against equating “physical experiences stemming from yoga with the workings of the Holy Spirit.”
Mananthavady (AsiaNews/Agencies) – The practice of yoga is incompatible with Christian doctrine, this according to a report issued by the Syro-Malabar Church, one of the three rites of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI).
Published in the latest bulletin of the eparchy of Mananthavady, the paper by the Syro-Malabar Doctrinal Commission is titled ‘Yoga and Catholic beliefs’ (Yogayum Katholika Vishvasavum).
It notes that yoga and Christianity cannot go together and that Hindu nationalist groups (Sangh Parivar) "try to exploit yoga to achieve their political and sectarian goals."
It calls for a “re-reading of yoga” since the “government has moved towards making yoga compulsory in schools and present it as an inseparable part of Indian culture.”
This is not the first time that Syro-Malabar Bishops have spoken out on this matter. Last year they stated that "yoga is not a means to reach contact with the divine, although it may contribute to physical and mental health."
Yoga is a set of physical, mental, and spiritual practices that originated in India and spread around the world. It combines physical and breathing exercises. In Hinduism, it is also a spiritual journey to experience contact with the divine.
In Indian schools, yoga is compulsory and every year, on International Day Yoga (21 June), schools focus on activities and events dedicated to yoga.
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If God is omnipresent and omnipotent, are not all Gods a part of the same ONE God? No matter what name we call that component.
The Holy Spirit is God, Jesus is God,did not Jesus say to the Pharisees in John 10:
33 The Jews answered Him, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy; and because You, being a man, make Yourself out to be God.” 34 Jesus answered them, “Has it not been written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’? 35 If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken), 36 do you say of Him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? 37 If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; 38 but if I do them, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may [f]know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father.”
Should be” who are living through this.”
The only people practicing yoga in my mountainous area here in the West, are rock and mountain climber 20 something's who think they are in Napal.
People with a lifetime of experience in yoga’s native culture don’t understand it?
“St. Teresa of Avila, such as Fire Within, citing specific passages from St. Teresa that addressed similar practices in her time.”
Her books are fabulous. They are very accurate in describing the experience of God. I’ve read and studied them many times, especially the “Interior Castle.”
You’re seriously implying that the Christian posture of prayer comes from yoga?
I don’t hold my hands together like that to pray, though I was unaware of it’s ties to Hinduism. I’ve only seen people in paintings do that, or little children in movies. But then, I am not in a liturgical church that may teach things like that, though.
“People with a lifetime of experience in yoga’s native culture don’t understand it?”
I agree. I’ve been with Zen Masters, Tai Chi Masters and Yogis. Very few if any actually understood the impact of the practices as they related to improving consciousness flow in the soul.
Recently I was with an Abbot of a Benedictine Monastery. His heart radiated Love so strong I could feel it across the room. He knew God as that is the only way he could radiate like that. We could set next to each other saying nothing and hold a long conversation as we were ONE in Our Father.
That mudra is the perfect balancing of the masculine and feminine within self. Consciousness flow through the hands alternates fingers on each hand so that when combined they are perfect balancing energy flow within self.
This is what facilitates hands on healing with prayer.
Any time there are things like “soul travel” or communicating with other spirits, I would brand it as occultish. The Bible specifically warns against it. What most people, even Christians, don’t always understand is that evil spirits don’t appear evil at first. Satan himself is an angel of light, but a trickster. You have to look below the surface of everything. I tell anyone that asks to stay away from anything that involves communing with spirits.
“You’re seriously implying that the Christian posture of prayer comes from yoga?”
A universal truth is a universal truth no matter the religion. The postures and prayer ritual poses are older than yoga.
Many years ago I was doing a healing prayer while working on a Jewish man. I found myself automatically making a sign of the cross, something I had never done in any instance prior. (I was not Catholic)... I knew what I was doing though. I was diminishing the ego that was on the horizontal axis of the man’s soul which was blocking the vertical flow connection with God. It was like jump starting his connection with God. I could see and feel the energy of his soul and was just helping him get started.
I try to be careful when invoking the name of Jesus in prayer to append Christ. There are many males named Jesus; it's a traditional Hispanic name. And a few have been criminals. I never heard of European nations other than maybe Spanish-speaking to name a boy that. Maybe I don't know how the English Jesus translates into other languages though.
We may have some protection from such things but I read a self-appointed auttority in tongues who found himself dealing with a case of oppression/possession with an unclean or evil spirit by that name.
I think I learned that and much more in Occult ABC by Professor Kurt E. Koch. Much, but not all of it, is mirrored by some writings of Catholic Priests. Interestingly, Catholics go easy on water dowsing. That could be a real temptation if you need to drill a well.
What a bunch of hooey! And there is only one God, in 3 persons - God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
Peter tells us how to test spirits.
We are also told that discernment of spirits is a gift of the Holy Spirit that is given to some people.
I have met all three. We are all ONE. Jesus says that many times, most clearly in John 14
Why do you think Jesus described mankind as the good seeds planted here in this field called earth? Why do you think we call God our Father and we were made in His image? Just askin...
And then there are yoga pants.
“the good seeds planted here in this field called earth?”
I was referring to Matthew 13, Jesus explanation of the Tares in the wheat parable to His disciples.
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Thank you very much for sharing that link. I will use it often. Blessings
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