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.
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@ABCDEF7 Cities and Sports Teams in the US rent out the names of places to businesses at the highest bidder, as long as it isn't too immoral. Thats the logo for a local bank. The week before it was a green logo for "Picklesburgh", for pickle celebrations, because for whatever reason people think Pittsburgh is famous for it's pickles, even though they are co sumed here at the same rate as everywhere else. Before that it was the Furries (evil hellish despots from the netherworld), and before that Ukrainian Military was playing some eastern european banjo.
@Dignaga So they are just here to grab the attention of passers by to their brand. Definitely their intention is not to spread the yoga or spirituality. They would not be concerned that they are representing in yoga in wrong sense.
@ABCDEF7 West did briefly flirt with yoga, a early buddhist school operated in ancient antioch in the Pyrrhonist school of skepticism, but it appears to of been disregarded under the principles of Pyrrhonism itself. So we never really had a physical dimension to it, but kept the scientific skepticism. It also never merged with our proto-vedanta school (Neo-Platonism has alot of features with primitive vedanta, historians of philosophy like to introduce this to older vedanta scholars who are usually shocked to find similarities) and our schools of non-duality likewise kept seperate from both and died out (they also popped back up on occasion). So the three never merged like in India.
What we call yoga is at best a lazy stretching exercuse to at worst a very, very shallow attempt at spirituality. May be the laziest religion ever created.
As to why they gotta be the center of attention, I'm too introverted to comprehend, but analytical enough to be deeply annoyed, like on hiking trails. They pick the weirdest spots to do it too, always gotta be a eyesore and in the way.
@Dignaga I know that yoga is not taken in the right sense in the west. The yogic perspective has also changed and is continuously changing in India to what westerners think, because of dying good old ashrams and the popularity of western ideas among new generations.
I am follower of Advaita Vedanta (non-duality). Not sure about Vedanta and non-duality schools, but I think it's dying. I follow Swami Sarvapriyananda, who is head of the Vedanta Society of New York. He is a great teacher of Advaita.
@Dignaga I have listened many stories about the Adi Shankracharya. I even know one Shankracharya personally. That's a complete movie. I will watch it later. Thanks for sharing.
@ABCDEF7 Yeah, after you are done with your translation of the bhagavad gita, if you can properly subtitle the movie? Whoever did jt just describes the movie, not precisely what is said. Most hindus can't as it is a sanskrit movie.
@Dignaga 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.
@Dignaga 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.
