Rahul Gandhi's dig at PM Narendra Modi amused me. It was about what Rahul perceives as Modi's non-fulfilments of the several promises he made to the people.
However, his insinuatory remarks were not plain, simple or straight forward. Instead if performing, Modi would be doing yogic acrobatcs on Rajpath.
Rahul may have good reasons to allege non-fulfilment. But what is the implication of pooh poohing Yoga in his alluding Yoga with Modi's non-performance, if any?
We are not aware what Modi means when he promotes Yoga on the international platform or on the home turf. That will become obvious in the days to come. What we are given to understand, Modi himself is a Yoga practioner, as even Nehru was, but the difference between these two practioners is very clear. Nehru never talked about Yoga as a way of life and treated it as plain and simple acrobatcs. Modi rightly defines Yoga and even Gita as way of life.
What do politicians mean or say, has been an enigma. Are Modi's antics too nothing but enigma? Only time will tell, but as of now, Rahul owes an answer.
What Rahul understands by the term Yoga? Acrobatics or physical culture? Or something wholistic? Like Nehru, Rahul's mental programming is rooted in non-Indian cultures of the west. That does not imply Rahul's complete alienation from Yogic culture as is/was Nehru's case. Fortunately or unfortunately, the scientific dimensions of Yoga are better defined and known in the west. It may seem affront, but fact remains, Yoga was furst exported to the west, as until late seventees, even Indians misconstrued it as something meant for saints or sages or renunciates, and firbidden for the Grihastas, especially women, as it might interfere with the Bhoga-orientation of the material life.
The above obsession was broken by several Indian Yogis, who travelked abroad fro door to door and from shore to shore, including Swami Satyanand Paramhams, Maharshi Mahesh, Swami Rama, and many others who picked up the cue from what Swami Vivekananda and Swami Yogananda had initiated and had left behind for the newer generations to pusue.
Coming back to the pivotal question, what is Rahul's outlook and comprehension about Yoga? That which Nehru himself misconceived as a practitioner, or that which Rahul might have inbibed in the west about the Scientific and Emperical side of Yoga?
Can some one elicit? By means of sharing the post with onward sharing request?
However, his insinuatory remarks were not plain, simple or straight forward. Instead if performing, Modi would be doing yogic acrobatcs on Rajpath.
Rahul may have good reasons to allege non-fulfilment. But what is the implication of pooh poohing Yoga in his alluding Yoga with Modi's non-performance, if any?
We are not aware what Modi means when he promotes Yoga on the international platform or on the home turf. That will become obvious in the days to come. What we are given to understand, Modi himself is a Yoga practioner, as even Nehru was, but the difference between these two practioners is very clear. Nehru never talked about Yoga as a way of life and treated it as plain and simple acrobatcs. Modi rightly defines Yoga and even Gita as way of life.
What do politicians mean or say, has been an enigma. Are Modi's antics too nothing but enigma? Only time will tell, but as of now, Rahul owes an answer.
What Rahul understands by the term Yoga? Acrobatics or physical culture? Or something wholistic? Like Nehru, Rahul's mental programming is rooted in non-Indian cultures of the west. That does not imply Rahul's complete alienation from Yogic culture as is/was Nehru's case. Fortunately or unfortunately, the scientific dimensions of Yoga are better defined and known in the west. It may seem affront, but fact remains, Yoga was furst exported to the west, as until late seventees, even Indians misconstrued it as something meant for saints or sages or renunciates, and firbidden for the Grihastas, especially women, as it might interfere with the Bhoga-orientation of the material life.
The above obsession was broken by several Indian Yogis, who travelked abroad fro door to door and from shore to shore, including Swami Satyanand Paramhams, Maharshi Mahesh, Swami Rama, and many others who picked up the cue from what Swami Vivekananda and Swami Yogananda had initiated and had left behind for the newer generations to pusue.
Coming back to the pivotal question, what is Rahul's outlook and comprehension about Yoga? That which Nehru himself misconceived as a practitioner, or that which Rahul might have inbibed in the west about the Scientific and Emperical side of Yoga?
Can some one elicit? By means of sharing the post with onward sharing request?
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