International Yoga Day: Attempts to disassociate it from Hinduism

As the world celebrates the International Yoga Day, it’s one other event for motivated people to aim to applicable Yoga and disassociate it from Hinduism. While ‘Yoga is not Hindu’ has turn out to be a suitable slogan for important sections of the ruling elite no matter their ideological orientation, there are a few of a selected ideological bent who’re extra obsessed with it than others.
Simultaneously, the opposing camp embraces the slogan of falsities as a result of they don’t need to be perceived as ‘communal’ by any means. They would a lot slightly allow Yoga to be disassociated from Hinduism. On the International Yoga Day, it was the official mouthpiece of the Congress occasion that led the assault on the cultural ethos of the nation with sermons declaring that Yoga is just not Hindu.
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Abhishek Manu Singhvi, one other senior chief of the Congress occasion, peddled the identical narrative and argued that chanting Om wouldn’t strengthen Yoga and neither would chanting the title of Allah weaken the follow.
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In Kashmir, college students carried out the Surya Namaskar with Kalima. The Surya Namaskar is carried out to pay respect to the Sun Deity. It is unclear how can one thing be referred to as Surya Namaskar when the practitioner is reciting incantations that deny the existence of the Sun God.
Surya Namaskar with Kalima?
The reality of the matter is Yoga is intricately associated to Hinduism. It is actually a Hindu follow. Yoga is conceptualized as a religious follow by which one can attain divinity. Yoga is just not merely carried out for bodily and psychological advantages, which there are lots of, its core goal is religious.
Too many individuals are keen to concede the purpose that Yoga is just not Hindu as a result of they think about it to be a gesture of goodwill which they anticipate to be reciprocated in different areas. What they don’t realise is that the ulterior motive behind such proclamations is to disclaim any optimistic contribution by Hinduism to the world.
Anything good about Hinduism, materialists, secularists and Islamists will declare that it has nothing to do with Hinduism. In doing so, they’ll cut back Hinduism to casteism and oppression and intolerance and the whole lot evil that exists on the earth.
Such antics usually are not solely restricted to Yoga. Secularists and Islamists have gone to the extent of declaring that even Lord Ram is just not a Hindu God. Their argument is that Indian Muslims think about Rama ‘Imam-e-Hind’ and subsequently, Rama doesn’t belong to Hindus alone.
What they did right here is that they stripped Lord Ram of divinity, from a God he’s decreased to being an Imam. From being the God of an idol-worshipping multiethnic pluralistic faith, He is decreased to being the ‘Imam’ of an iconoclastic religion. And but, they anticipate us to be grateful to them for it.
It is identical thought course of that’s utilized to Yoga. They strip Yoga of divinity after which anticipate us to be grateful to them for it. A few years in the past, Pinarayi Vijayan, the Chief Minister of Kerala, accused others of making an attempt to mislead folks by claiming that Yoga is Hindu. He mentioned that not one of the postures are linked to any faith.
Unfortunately, he’s not the one one. It is a lot better for everybody concerned if folks don’t carry out Yoga in any respect in the event that they imagine practising asanas of the Hindu fait goes towards their non secular tenets. The Constitution of India does assure freedom of faith to everybody in any case.
Why ought to Hindus should exit of their solution to relinquish their declare to their ancestral heritage simply to accommodate those that don’t want to have something to do with Hinduism? Our ancestors made nice sacrifices to guard our traditions and cross it all the way down to their descendants. And right here we’re anticipated to sacrifice all of them on the altar of the false promise of secularism.
Then there are those that declare that if Yoga is Hindu, then gravity is Christian. First of all, one is an invention whereas the latter is a discovery. So there can’t be any equivalence between the 2. Since that rebuttal is simply too apparent, the National Herald claims that if Yoga is Hindu, then Kung Fu is Confucian and Taekwondo is Buddhist.
Kung Fu and Taekwondo usually are not core non secular practices to realize divinity. So that argument falls flat as effectively. It is pertinent to notice right here that the makes an attempt to disassociate Yoga from Hinduism come from the identical camp that denies Lord Rama’s Janmabhoomi in Ayodhya or that there are quite a few different Mosques constructed on the positioning of main Hindu Temples. They usually are not buddies of Hinduism who make such arguments, and Hindus ought to keep away from falling into their entice.
Hinduism is just not solely a lifestyle
The fountainhead of all such disastrous concepts lies within the declare that ‘Hinduism is a way of life’. Motivated people float the declare that Hinduism is just not a faith in order that they’ll then proceed to impose restrictions on Hindu non secular practices and traditions and disassociate Hinduism from it.
For occasion, aside from the makes an attempt to secularise Yoga, makes an attempt have been made to violate the traditions of the Sabarimala Temple and the justification that was used is that there isn’t a scriptural sanction for such a practice.
But that argument fails to understand that Hinduism is intrinsically totally different from monotheistic religions. While the latter depends on texts for the premise of their practices, Hinduism is primarily depending on actions, that’s, rituals, festivals and traditions.
The logical conclusion of such an argument is that nothing is crucial to Hinduism and it’s principally a rootless religion. Once that argument is accepted, the whole lot else follows.