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OP here. I think you've correctly zeroed in on the issue with the question, "If there is some practice of whatever sort that is shown to have positive benefits outside of its religious or cultural traditions, is it ok to appropriate?" And it's indeed a difficult question, or else we wouldn't have debated it! Obviously you have your opinion on the answer to this question, and while I think you do have good reasons for your opinion, in my mind the objection keeps coming up, "Then don't call it communion." 
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Two issues here:  first, your fellow Hindus don't all agree with you and think of yoga as only the religious experience.  Therefore, you can't speak with authority for how Hindus feel.  I believe that both you, I, and my Catholic friend do yoga - just getting different things out of it.  Second, you run into an issue of closing the barn door after the horses have escaped.  In English, yoga means religious/spiritual practices as well as non-religious practices and "hot body" practices.  It is too late to demand a more narrow definition.  The time to do so was when the word was coming into the lexicon and even then it might have been too late.

It's been nice chatting with you but I am done with this topic from my end.  Best wishes to you.[/quote]

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