Yoga is one of the the more popular system of exercise and breathing from India. It advocates two distinct paths which merge into one later on. The first path is a simple system of exercise and mediation and the second is the path to being one with the allmighty.Unfortunately this simple exercise and mediation system has some controversy around it. Firstly Communism frowns on Yoga and so does Islam. Most of them do not wish even to accept the tangible benefits of Yoga exercises as well.
Now a needless controversy is created by Father Gabriele Amorth. This man for years was the Vatican's chief exorcist, though he is no longer in that chair. He is an Italian and has made a bizzare comment that the practice of Yoga is 'evil'. He has compared it to satanic worship. He seems to have reached this conclusion after years of study and realized that Yoga leads to the worship of Hinduism. He futher feels that Yoga is part of all eastern religions and is Satanic in nature for creating a false belief in re-incarnation.
He further added that Yoga is satanic in nature like reading the books of Harry Potter, which are also satanic. The father appears to have got his facts wrong and the Yoga institutes in Rome have not taken lightly the comments of father Amorth and have opposed his observations. They felt his crticizm is illogical.
Yoga practioners in Italy have also asked the Vatican to condemn this statement. It will be interesting to read what my friends have to say about it.
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