Re: Is Yoga a Hindu tradition

Wasn't yoga --the exercise + meditation kind-- brought to the West in the late 1800s? As I remember, aren't there 5 kinds of yoga mentioned in Vedic texts --is that right?

From: vishalsagarwal <vishalagarwal@...>
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, February 26, 2011 5:09:02 PM
Subject: [tied] Is Yoga a Hindu tradition

Whereas some IE scholars see the IE roots of Yoga, a new group wants to deny completely its Hindu heritage, effectively projecting it as a modern practice and snapping any potential links with the PIE heritage.

Recently, the post-modernist cum Leftist writer Meera Nanda wrote an article denying that Hathayoga can be called Hindu or Vedic. A brief rebuttal to her essay (linked in the rebuttal) by Swaminathan Venkatraman (BOD, HAF) is now provided at

http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/international/the-audacity-of-ignorance

Sincerely,

Vishal Agarwal