Why Whites love Hinduism and its Yoga?

[Ken2234]

Beacsue Yoga was ancient Vedic philosophy that would unlock the meridian points in the body aka Chakra. The Vedic came from the Hyperboreans (Japhethians) and they had an ancient city near Kush called Bactria. Most of the Hindu / Jainism religion is biased off our ancient religions.

[Ken2234]

Europeans don't have any connection with it, anymore than Africans do. Also, white people make a mockery of Hinduism. They think hatha yoga is Hinduism.

Not true

Go read this book and tell me if you still think that



The Arctic Home in the Vedas - 1903
by Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Or




The Origin of the Aryans. Hardcover – 1898
by Issac Taylor (Author)

[Vigilance]

My yoga studio offers these types of yoga forms. I go to them all at various times during the month, but I like the Ashtanga the best. There is nothing particularly religious about any of it, though.

Short Form Ashtanga
Foundations of breathing, sun salutations and postures.

Ashtanga
​A disciplined sequence of postures using the breath and movement together to create heat that purifies the body, nervous system and mind.

Vinyasa
​Vinyasa is a method of yoga that involves synchronizing the breath with a progressive series of postures. A process producing intense internal heat and a profuse, purifying sweat that detoxifies muscles and organs.
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Slow Flow
​This class is meant to serve all students. It articulates breath and movement in a form of a slow flowing sequence. Students awareness of their own body develops, strengthens and opens within its natural boundaries.

Yoga isn't just about "bodily movements" and "physical exercise" its a philosophy/belief system. Yoga is one of the 6 major schools of Orthodox Hinduism (Sat Darshana). A school of Hinduism is an Orthodox(Astika) school so long as 1) it has its own sutra text (which Patanjali did) 2) pays at least lip service to the infallibility of the Vedas and has room for it in its scholastic expositions.

Patanjali is a big figure scholastically even in modern Hinduism. If you are a serious Hindu guru, you should be having some knowledge of it. ISCKON websites even link to the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Adi Shankaracharya even did commentary on the Yoga Sutras.

I myself found some gems in the Yoga Sutras which I did not find anywhere else. So in my opinion its a pretty good text.

I don't think there are any purely Yoga school lineage continuing communities anywhere today. But much of it is absorbed into modern Hinduism. Vedanta is the only surviving and widely spread school of Hinduism today.

What do you think of when you see this even as an uneducated Westerner? you will think "this must be some Yoga pose"


well that reflex sums it all up for me. Actually that pose(is one of the poses) is used by Hindu ascetics to acquire "spiritual powers".

This relief in Mahabalipuram depicting the episode in Mahabharata, where the main protagonist Arjuna does "spiritual austerities" to appease Lord Shiva so that he can get special powers and weapons.

[Farmagud]

Read the Bhagavad Gita. In a way, I am still torn between Vishnu (Lord Krsna) and Christ.
Hinduism, or sanatana dharma, to me is the clear cut way to moksha in life. However, I at the same time I feel a strong connection to Christ and the Trinity.
I guess I am a Christo-Hindu

[ChristianMed]

They see it as outside the norm of traditional white America, which is something they do not like.

[x54xx]

They see it as outside the norm of traditional white America, which is something they do not like.

Whites are weird in states like Washington, New York and California. They are more receptive to Hindu temples being erected in town, funded by the Indian community. The church attendance is low in those states, mainly in the upper class suburbs. haha.

[ChristianMed]

Yah its all an part of the delusional upper class utopia mentality.

[x54xx]

Yah its all an part of the delusional upper class utopia mentality.

Upper class Whites in those states know more about Yoga and Hinduism than they do about Jesus or the Bible. It's embarassing since they are ashamed of their roots.

[Div1]

Other than the retarded hippy liberal whites. Serious white pagans are very interested in Sanatana Dharma, and its forebearer "Vedic Paganism". Other than perhaps Norse Paganism, Vedic Paganism offers the most complete doctrine. The Vedas are considered the books originally created by the Gods themselves, that's how old they are. And they were carried by the Aryan invaders into the Indian subcontinent.

The key difference between the two is that in Vedicism Indra is still considered the supreme God, where he was demoted due to his supposed "insolence" in later Sanatana Dharma writings.

[NordicStarseed84]

It benefits health, body and spirit.

Hinduism is GREAT!! It is both profoundly spiritual and philosophical. I have downloaded many of the fundamental Texts of Hinduism: The VEDAS, UPANISHADS, the MAHABHARATA and RAMAYANA, and also many of the PURANAS, which are still very little known in the West, unfortunately! All of these are fascinating, wonderful and uplifting reading!... I am just starting to study all of this, though. For a good introduction, I have read Swami VIVEKANANDA(his book on "Jnana-Yoga" is amazing!)and SRI AUROBINDO's Works. This entire Tradition is incredibly rich and profound. No wonder that so many European Philosophers were so interested, indeed, FASCINATED by it!... And yes: YOGA is a wonderful bodily and spiritual practice. It's too bad that the versions practiced in the West are so impoverished, in comparison to its original richness and variety!