yoga200Yoga (with additions from relevant faith documents).

Yoga is to be rejected!

Yoga is a practice or doctrine anchored in Hinduism that involves a series of mental and physical exercises.... Yoga brings about a profound change in the human state of consciousness through the control of body and mind, so that the yoga practitioner achieves a state of mind beyond time and place. Through yoga, the flow of conscious thoughts is to be stopped by means of physical and mental techniques and all mental energies are to be united in order to attain spiritual perfection. Through long and persistent practice, the soul is freed from its attachments and senses so that the divine can penetrate the ego, which has been emptied of the sensory world.

The goal of every form of yoga is the union or becoming one between our human self and the divine world soul Brahman. The Hindus use the Self to refer to the divine essence of every creature. Brahman is the supreme and ultimate reality: without form, inexpressible, not recognisable and not recognising; neither personal nor impersonal; both creator and the totality of creation. Brahman is everything and everything is Brahman. Salvation means for the Hindu to realise or accomplish that he himself is Brahman, that he and the whole universe are one and the same being. Brahman is everything and at the same time nothing. It encompasses both good and evil, life and death.

Hatha yoga is about assuming the correct posture in the form of attuned yoga postures. This is followed by breathing exercises, which are the preliminary stage for directing one's mental attention inwards and detaching oneself completely from the sensory world. One falls into an increasingly meditative state of rest . . . .
Hatha yoga, which consists of certain physical exercises (asanas) and breathing exercises and is used by many for physical exercise or relaxation, is to be rejected, because yoga is a unity, a whole and cannot be separated into mental and physical yoga.

We thus place blockages in our way towards the grace and power of God, of spiritual receptivity. We are prevented from living in the full Christ power. Only after complete renunciation can we feel and recognise this restriction. But not every physical exercise we do has to do with yoga. We can balance and relax our bodies through gymnastics and therapeutic exercises. But if we really do yoga exercises or yoga postures, we have to know that they do not only have an effect on the physical level, but also on the mental and spiritual level.

Syllable names (mantras), such as the well-known "Ohm", mean invocations of pagan gods or spiritual beings; these are worship sounds of certain deities. Accordingly, the background should also be noted: mantra meditation serves as a means to connect with the deity. A magical effect is expected from the use of the mantras. Possibilities of influence thurogh negative forces are given.

Courses are sometimes even offered under the name "Christian yoga". But there is no such thing as Christian yoga!
Even children are being introduced to yoga nowadays. A 9-year-old boy tells us after a stay at a country school: "We did morning yoga with sun prayer every day". . .


R.R. Maharaj, an Indian Brahmin priest, guru and yogi, who was worshipped as a god by the Indian population, finally converted to Christianity due to the occurrence of inner and outer conflicts, contradictions in his mystical experiences and insights and the resulting disappointments. He writes in excerpts in his book "The Death of a Guru":

  • Those who seek only physical exercise had better do gymnastic exercises, for no component of yoga can be separated from the philosophy that lies behind it.

  • I thought about the fact that so many drug addicts have had the same experiences as yogis through Eastern meditation. Drugs, therefore, produce a similar state of consciousness as meditation. This allows the demons to act on the nerve centres. This triggers these supernatural experiences, which are nothing more but pretences. The same evil spirits that had led me deeper and deeper into meditation to take complete possession of me also stand behind the drug movement, and with the same diabolical aim. It became clearer and clearer to me that the drug cult, meditation, free love, the rebellion of the youth in the hippie movement were all part of the same satanic strategy.
    What horrified me most was the discovery that the whole philosophy of this counterculture was fundamentally Hindu: the same lies of the oneness of all life, vegetarianism, the notion of constant upward evolution to oneness with the universe, and the assertion that everyone must find their own way.

  • Many young people also practised Transcendental Meditation and the various types of Yoga. Their whole way of thinking was clouded by Eastern mysticism. Almost all began to believe in reincarnation, which excluded belief in the resurrection of Christ: for the two are incompatible. My concern grew as I realised that Satan was working to completely infiltrate the West with Eastern mysticism. Few Christians seemed to see through this strategy and fight it.

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