ABOVE: UNITED NATIONS ADOPTS YOGA DAY, JANUARY, 2015
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INDIAN LEADER PROMOTING YOGA
BY DAVID CLOUD http://www.wayoflife.org/friday_church_news/16_27.php
(Friday Church News Notes, July 3, 2015, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) -
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi led a massive yoga session in New Delhi on International Yoga Day, June 21, a day he has pushed for since coming to power last year. He sat in front of tens of thousands of other Indians posed in yoga positions and chanting “Om.” Yoga is one of India’s most successful exports, said to be a $27 billion industry in America. In a speech beforehand, Modi said, “This program is only about human welfare, about freeing the universe from stress and about spreading the message of love, peace, unity, and goodwill” (“Yoga Day,” ReligionNews.com, June 22, 2015). If that were true, India would be an entirely different country, for the birthplace of yoga is anything but filled with love, peace, unity, and goodwill! As for love and peace and unity, consider the way that Modi’s Hindu friends in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) have treated Christians and Muslims in murderous rampages! Yoga is a Hindu concept of attuning oneself with one’s own godhood; and when tested by the Bible, it is found to be a dangerous spiritual practice that can connect the individual with demons masquerading as angels of light. Before I was saved in 1973, I was a member of the Self-Realization Fellowship Society, a Hindu organization based in Los Angeles, and I practiced meditation. I also practiced hypnotic techniques that are alleged to take one back to his past lives. We agree with Laurette Willis, who practiced yoga for 22 years before she came to the truth in Jesus Christ. She told the Religious News Service that yoga left her vulnerable to psychic influences that she believed to be demonic. She said, “Yoga led me down a false rosy path. It opened the door to 20 years of involvement in the New Age movement.”
