Thread by @leelaraagam

I don't even know where to begin with this; but let's just start with false equivalence, shall we?
When Newton identified gravity, he was *shunned* by the Catholic Church. Notwithstanding the fact that Newton was a Christian.
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shunned *anything* scientific. A struggle that continues, in some fronts, even to this day. (Ask the Evangelicals about the creation of earth. LOL.)
So the true statement would be that Yoga is as Hindu as the Adam & Eve story is Christian!

How can @SadhguruJV or anyone
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deny Yoga its Hindu roots? By cutting of its Hinduness (or Hindutva!), you are essentially denying it, its soul. And not only that, you are facilitating the billion-$$$ Yoga-industrial-complex that runs on the very basis that Yoga is non-Hindu.

And if your aim behind
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"secularizing" Yoga is to make it more universal / popular, well then it's even more important to emphasize the Hindutva of Yoga! Because minus the Hindu theology, Yoga is just another "form of exercise." You are simply reducing its scope. A travesty. "Ghor paap."
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I am failing to understand this desire to isolate Yoga (& Ayurveda, and mediation) from Hinduism? Why? To appeal to the Abrahamics? At the end of the day is it just about $$$?

We are already hearing that Onam is not Hindu. Deewali is now so deeply secularized that people
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don't even know why it's celebrated! Forget Naraka Chaturdashi (Google it yo!), even those who believe that it's a celebration of Ram returning with Sita Devi after defeating Raavan, get into caste conversations (forgetting that Raavan is actually a Brahmin!). But I digress.
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When we don't fight for ownership, we (inadvertently?) fall into the trap left by the others (especially Christians) and make ourselves vulnerable to appropriation & inculturation. (Google Yeshu Namaskar. And then throw up a little.)

So @SadhguruJV ji. STOP. Please STOP.🙏
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Otherwise Hinduism will simply get reduced, in the popular narrative, to the "3 Cs".
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