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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I tried yoga years ago because my physio therapist said it was an excellent way to stretch.  For me, personally there was nothing more to it.

There was no intent to insult anyone's religion, I just needed to stretch some damn tight muscles.  [/quote]

Fair enough, I have no problem with you tending to your health concerns. It's not about "You have to be Hindu to do yoga" or "Only Hindus can do yoga", it's about, "I'm a non-Hindu benefiting from a Hindu practice" and being mindful of that. Most people say, "Yoga isn't Hindu, so I can practice it without being Hindu." We're saying the attitude should be, "Yoga is Hindu, but I can practice it without being Hindu as long as I'm mindful of what it is I'm doing."

Tight muscles do need to be stretched; nothing wrong with that![/quote]

Yoga classes in the US are about as Hindu as the average Chinese restaurant is authentically Chinese or the average Mexican restaurant is authentically Mexican.

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Which is the entire point of this thread.

By the way, American Chinese restaurants are still [i]called[/i] Chinese restaurants. Same goes for Mexican restaurants. The food is still acknowledged as Chinese or Mexican.

Yoga is Hindu and should be acknowledged as such.[/quote]

So thats all you want? An acknowledgement that its Hindu? Okay its Hindu. I'm still going to do it though.[/quote]

Yes. That's the point of this entire thread. People think that in order to do yoga without being Hindu, they have to consciously strip yoga away from Hinduism, which is what has been going on. Hindus don't give a shit if non-Hindus do yoga; we are not an evangelical religion. We [i]do[/i] give a shit if you do yoga and then tell us that it's not a part of our religion.

Feel free to do yoga and be a non-Hindu. Just don't tell us that yoga itself isn't Hinduism. It seems simple, but you'd be surprised how much deep resistance there is to even granting that acknowledgement - it's evident in your post about Chinese restaurants and in all the stubborn denial and misplaced, terrible analogies in this thread.[/quote]

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