Sanatan Dharma and Hinduism are NOT the same thing I have been observing that the words Sanatan Dharma and Hinduism are used by many well intentioned writers and bloggers almost interchangeably. And while I am ready to accept that […]
Posts on Hindu Culture
Weaponizing Yoga I
“When knowledge is weaponized, it is made opaque and useless, and the human race suffers. Modern Consumer Yoga is responsible for Weaponizing Yoga.” *
“When one attacks or destroys the knowledge of something, this may be called “epistemic violence.” — Baba Rampuri
Towards Defining Yoga II
Defining yoga depends entirely on the context in which the word “yoga” is used. Modern western discourse (outside some pockets of the academy) is mostly not about thinking at all-its about control and commodification- modern “yoga” […]
Practice & Truth in Yoga III
“But the fact of the matter is the horse is out the barn. Call it junk, industrial or corporate yoga—these Tupperware parades of cultural coercion have been clawing at the landscape since the early 1980s like […]
Fetishizing Yoga IV
I find very few people in the New Age, Yoga, and Spiritual movements questioning the very foundations of their ideologies and beliefs, and although enchanted by Indian culture, are no different in their structure of thinking about these things, meaning, using the same discourse as the people who give us the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, to come to their New Age conclusions.
