Hindus disappointed at UK church banning yoga group
Rajan Zed pointed out that yoga was the repository of something basic in the human soul and psyche. About 16 million Americans, including many celebrities practice yoga.
ACCORDING TO reports, Bridge Methodist Church in Radcliffe, near Manchester (UK), banned an over-50s yoga group which has paid £60 a week for the last about ten years and met there twice a week, fearing its classes could be spiritually confusing. Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, further said that yoga, referred as “a living fossil”, was a mental and physical discipline. For Patanjali, author of the basic text, the Yoga Sutra, yoga was a methodical effort to attain perfection, through the control of the different elements of human nature, physical and psychical. Rajan Zed pointed out that yoga was the repository of something basic in the human soul and psyche. About 16 million Americans, including many celebrities practice yoga. Yoga never had any formal organization and yoga practice had been handed down from one guru to the next. Zed argued that turning this yoga group of older people away from the church resulting in it becoming homeless was simply “un-Christian”. Church authorities should act like a shepherd to this flock as Jesus Himself said that he had sheep from other pastures, he added.
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