Yoga - does it help an individual to be healthy?

Tuesday, January 23, 2007
YOGA----DOES IT HELP AN INDIVIDUAL TO BE HEALTHY ?
Remember BABA RAMDEV and his organisation holding yoga camps across the country in 2006 which were made famous by Mrs Brinda Karat alleging human bones utilization in preparing auyurvedic medicines ??? Baba Ramdev has become famous after that allegation and even went to England to demonstrate yoga. But the central question which i feel is that---Yoga---Does it help an individual to be Healthy?? Or is it an exercise just like other exercise but has been glorified by politicians and citizens of this country [ INDIA] because many feel it to be an answer to Western Exercises ??? I think many Indians like yoga not because that it can cure disease or any mental tension but because it has become fashionable for Indian people to display some traditionality, so yoga popularized by Baba Ramdev has became a handy tool to be played upon.Westerners patronage yoga as long as they have a feeling of betrayal from their own countrymen . But the truth about yoga is that it is like any other exercise of any other country . It has no capability to cure any disease or give any lasting mental relief to any one. Interestingly yoga camps has been effectively used by many Indian industrialists to fool the common man into believing that its a great natural medicine when the truth is that every open air exercise/physical activity apart from yoga gives the exerciser a relief from pain[ inside its body] and re--circulates the congested blood vessels.So what actually Baba Ramdev mean ?? Propagation of Hindu way of life.But what patrons of Baba Ramdev does not realize that average income levelled Indian do know that an ancient religion like Hinduism do not authorizes Baba Ramdev to propagate Yoga because Baba Ramdev has not told Indian people the truth about YOGA---which is-----ITS AN ORDINARY EXERCISE AND CANNOT CURE DISEASES.
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Posted By Siddhartha Deka Comments (1) Health
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K.Venugopal Tuesday, January 23, 2007 8:08:16 PM
Dear Siddhartha Deka, Baba Ramdev was already popular before the Red Lady took swipes at him, but lost her credibility in the process. Why think of Yoga as being in competition to Western exercises? Both have their merits. You could say that Western exercises are for the sprint and Yoga for the marathon. All exercises are good for health, both from the preventive as well as curative aspects. The higher aspects of Yoga lead to spiritual consciousness. Yoga is Hinduism in practice.