Re: Is Yoga a Hindu tradition

Even traditionally, many kinds of Yoga are enumerated - Bhakti yoga, Laya Yoga, Mantra Yoga, Hatha Yoga etc.

Here is Part II of HAF response:

http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/international/disguised-hinduphobia

Now Mark Singleton is working on a book concerning 'global geopolitics' of Yoga. That book will have a chapter on CA Textbook controversy, HAF, links with Sangh Parivar, and other chapters on Hindutva etc. So you can well imagine his own agendas.

Vishal

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
>
> 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
>