There was a very disturbing display of old women doing fake yoga infront of the stage in downtown pittsburgh in the Market.
I don't know what motivates people to do this, en masse infront of everyone like a exhibitionist. It's turning into that Chinese problem with the old women doing Tai Chi aerobics, even while the city is burning.
It's such a insincere, fake only for show form of yoga. It's the weakest, lowest level of spirituality possible. Weak minded drivel. Should be banned.
And what made it more annoying, only thing I could hear was a guy playing aome bagpipes. He didn't know what he was doing.
I can see why this disturbs you, I think, bit don't let it bother you too much. At least doing this fake yoga kept them from causing real harm to society for a while :)
How can you concentrate on doing yoga when everyone is walking around and past the class? Also, the guy in the white shirt is wearing socks. You can easily tell he's a newbie. I've been doing yoga for over 15 years and the majority of people who come to class and do yoga in their socks are beginners. I have been to an outlet mall where a yoga class was held outside and people were walking around with shopping bags.
@Motzu There are lot of movies in Hindi & other Indian languages available for Hindus. So they prefer those. What I learned is that English lacks the vocabulary to explain many terms and concepts of ancient Indian Culture.
@ABCDEF7 You'd be surprised, actually. Just you are unaware of alot of stuff from alot of very different eras when India had contact with the west, and what traditions influenced what, so you wouldn't know what translations to look at for picking vocabulary. If I told you some you'ld look at me like I was a alien asking what it had to do with vedanta, others qould make you hyperventalate at first and anger you. Would take a long time to explain how it all interrelates. A very long time. But it exists.
@Motzu Definitely I am not aware of everything and every interaction. But I might be aware of few aspects that western people can't see it from Indian perspective. Nor they are aware of everything from original Indian perspective. Many people and information that travelled to west was intentionally modified to adjust for absorption by the west. Most westerners just know the modified version. In few cases even the westerner philosophers and translators modified things because of their biasedness. I am following an organisation who is working on revealing truths about the knowledge transfer from India to west.
Lol.. I like your way of humour. These facts will not surprise me, you can share few.
@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout I actually did that in the Army for four years, and was told I was a Comanche (my unit was politically incorrect named after Indian tribes, C comoany was comanche). Plus my 1SG was a actual Indian.
