One person who came across some statements made by a well-known Hindu supporter raised this question.
Apparently, this Hindu supporter who has written tens of books on threats to Hinduism from ‘outsiders’ has objections to non-Hindu Yoga Gurus coming up with their own versions of Yoga.
According to this scholar, these non-Hindu Yoga Gurus distort Yoga by replacing some of the essential aspects of Yoga to suite their own religious affinities. One of them is the chanting of the sound OM during Yoga practice.
This is quite a tricky question. It could potentially lead to unending debates. Most Buddhists believe that Buddha did say that the soul does not exist.
And many a so-called ‘rationalist’ rally behind Buddhism because it rejects the concept of soul!
BeforeI get into the question answer session, let me make a quick announcement.
The fourth part of my audio book “The Ultimate book on Yoga” is now available. It is titled “Part 4 of The Ultimate Book on Yoga: How do Yoga postures work?”.
It is a one-hour long audio available in most stores and some libraries. You may not find it in amazon/audible though, since they don’t support parts.
If you have ever wondered how Yoga postures help in improvement of health, this is the book for you.
This book investigates into the reasons how Yoga postures enhance health. That would not only satisfy your curiosity but also helps you in performing these postures in the right way to reap the full potential of Yoga. So, please have a look, I mean lend an ear 😉. You will surely find some interesting things about this aspect of Yoga which you probably were never aware of.
As usual, use the link https://books2read.com/UltimateYoga to find this book in your favorite store. This link would take you to the first part of the series. Some stores may list the current part explicitly as a book in the series titled “The Ultimate book on Yoga”, some may show it as other related books. In some stores you may have to explicitly search for it using the title in the search box. I am sure that you will find this book very interesting and useful.
Now let us get back to our regular question answer session.
Today’s question is “Is Samadhi some form of brain malfunction?”
That is a tough question which can potentially shake the roots of many Yoga enthusiasts 😉 People who are determined to rubbish spiritual experiences and all types of spiritual practices keep quoting all sorts of ‘evidences’.
They argue that the experience that one goes through in advanced stages of meditation are nothing short of some weird happenings in the brain.
