Priest Denounces Yoga – Fr.
Chris Alar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZqFJoDlnQk&t=201s
OK friends, the battle is on. See my book:
Of all religions, Fr. Chris, you have to pick on Yoga? And your synopsis of it is all wrong.
It’s the Catholic
Church, once again, wanting to control everyone & everything.
Yes, there are things wrong with the world, crimes, drugs,
bad religions, the Patriarchy, corrupt men running institutions, corrupt laws
created by men, Satanic worship, hatred, violence, lots of bad things – but not
Yoga.
Yoga & Hinduism came out of ancient scriptures called
the Vedas – which are a large body of religious texts originating in ancient
Your assessment
of what is taught in Yoga is wrong. I
have studied many yoga greats & had them as my gurus. Ramakrishna, Baba Muktananda, Swami
Nityananda & my last one Ramana Maharshi.
They teach various styles of
The Catholic Church is claiming to be the one & only
Church that represents God rightfully.
But this cannot be said of any one Church. Yes there are whackadoodle religions all over
the world – I could name Mormons on top of that & Jehovah’s Witnesses. There are some to stay away from. The Catholic Church is great in many ways,
not so great in others.
The
And
as long as humans existed, even when they were still halfway monkeys, they
wanted to worship something as a Creator or Source. Religion is created to try to understand
& relate to God.
But
none of us knows all the answers or secrets of God, even if we see Her ‘face to
face.’ We’re still tiny little creatures
of Her & we look through a glass darkly on earth. In Heaven we know this, that God is Love,
& so are we.
Yoga
is a terrific science or religion, choose what you want to call it. It has many forms, we who seek God are all
yogis. There’s one I picked up from
Muktananda, who said worship the Self, not the human self, but the God Self
within. Yes, Jesus said we are
Gods. Not the flesh, the Divine Nature,
created in the image & likeness of God, & when we reach that
consciousness or understanding or
Now Christians have a special bond
with Jesus. It’s all about Him, &
Him alone. Not so with yoga. We see all our great Gurus as God – we say,
‘The Guru is God.” So yes, we see Jesus
as God, but also other Gurus. If they
are really evolved, we call them Incarnations.
To
us, Jesus was a reincarnated Hindu/yogic Guru.
The three wise men came from
And
there is the BBC documentary on You tube, “Jesus in
The
message Jesus Christ taught to humanity was the same as Buddhism – he was a
reincarnated Buddhist Guru, You have a problem with Buddhism also?
You
also mentioned ‘Witchcraft.’ I thought
the Inquisition was over. The Catholics
turned Wicca into a dirty word, associated with the demonic & evil spells –
all lies against the Women of God who were the Healers, Shamans &
Counselors of their day. The Catholic
Church put women out of business so they could control everything. And you’re still picking on them? The Pagans are a harmless agricultural,
worship of God through Nature religion. They
are down to earth, Marija Gimbutas says even Lithuanians in her day would kiss
the earth & thank Mother God in the Spring & during harvest.
From
Pete Jackson:
As for Fr. Chris Alar and the Catholic Church
in general, they have a MAJOR blind spot in that regard, and they are very
close-minded. They really put the "dog" in
"dogmatic", lol. Tyrannical indeed, as though the evil Inquisition
had never fully ended in their minds. In fact, it wasn't until very recently
that the
Rasa adds re the ‘new age’ realms:
Some of these practices are nothing more than delving into one's unconscious mind: Like Tarot Cards. That's all it is. It is not sinister or evil. As far as 'opening portals' when innocent people inquire about things it does NOT automatically invite the demonic....We all have an unconscious, we all have inner senses, we all have some psychic abilities. These are not demonic. Unless the person has a bad heart & is evil, these are just natural things. Don't get hysterical about it.
I might add, psychic things are to the
male-dominated religions, evil & sinister because men have less of these
abilities. It's more so women than men who are psychic. So of course, if it's a
woman thing, it has to be bad, doesn't it - To the men as they can't do it.
Since men denigrate, degrade & push down women, anything associated more
with women becomes a 'bad thing.'
Excellent work as usual, Rasa! This one came out excellent, and you have clearly won the debate IMHO. People often fear what they don't understand. He will probably be speechless reading this. Keep up the great work!
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Pete
Also, I read the most likely charlatan's comment, and I would like to add that while it is technically true that in the past century or two, many newer poses (asanas) borrowed from calisthenics and gymnastics and Indian wrestling and stuff like that were indeed incorporated into the current versions of Yoga, and especially since the 1960s, she is also quite wrong since none of that has anything to do with demons or the "occult". She really seems to be projecting, I think.
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