A week ago, on my way home, passing through San Francisco Airport (SFO), I was exhausted with a little time on my hands. Thinking I might find a quiet chapel, which almost all airports used to have, I was instead confronted by signs directing me instead to a yoga room. I peeked inside, and sure enough, there, in pretzeled positions, were travelers in various stages of yogic enlightenment. Most folks, especially liberal, New Aged Californians, wouldn’t think much about this. To me, it was more than an acquiescence to multiculturalism; it was a vivid sign of the times. When people today want peace, rest, and tranquility, they don’t pray to a transcendent deity. They evoke the yogic god within, align their chakras, and awaken the Kundalini power at the base of the spine. And they get demons.
Spare me. I’ve heard all the idiot arguments of so-called Holy Yoga, Yoga for the Soul, and Praise Moves, and Yahweh Yoga (all claiming incongruously to be “Christian”). It’s hard for me to charitable and gracious to these deceptions which are the result of abject, willing ignorance. My book Larson’s Book of World Religions (To order CLICK HERE.) has 35 pages of references to yoga, all heavily documented from original Hindu sources. Those who really want the truth can read the book. No need to repeat all its contentions here; but it’s obvious I’m not talking off the top of my head through some religiously, legalistic mindset.
Briefly consider these few points I extract from the book:
- One of the supreme texts of yoga declares, “The aim of all yoga is realization of the Absolute Brahman” [Hindu demon-god]. The aim is to unite with a demon, one that I’ve cast out many times from advocates of yoga.
- Famed Hindu mystic Swami Vishnudevananda, who helped to bring yoga to the west, wrote, “The aim of all yoga practice is to achieve truth wherein the individual soul identifies itself with the supreme soul of god.” But what god???
- My book states: “The postures are designed to condition the mind to experience altered states of consciousness. Each pose is presumed to be tuning the body, glands, and psychic nervous system to a level of spiritual susceptibility and altered awareness.”
There isn’t enough space here to address the fallacy that Yoga (which in Hindi
means “union or yoked with god”) can be casually dissociated from its
pagan origins simply because some willingly deceived Christian yoga instructor
redefines its intent. Almost every week, I pick up the spiritual collateral
damage of those who got sucked in to this lie of “Christian” yoga and
became demonized. I know of no legitimate exorcist or deliverance minister who
approves of such nonsense. Get my book. Read all I have to say. Enroll in our
International School of Exorcism® (CLICK HERE to enroll.) and get educated to the
real battlefront of spiritual warfare. And tell everyone you know that yoga is
a direct pathway to spiritual oppression that is not easily removed.
An encouraging word: IN HIS HOLY PRESENCE
Psalm 24:3 asks an important question: “Who may stand in His holy place?” In other words, who may have the right to enter into God’s presence, for now and for eternity? The answer comes quickly in the next verse: “He who has clean hands and a pure heart.” That verse has other qualifications, but just consider the “clean hands” and “pure heart” part. In many churches today, serving God is made to seem so easy with little real commitment. But abiding with Christ is more than a warm feeling from a couple of worship songs. It involves real sacrifice, holy living, and a transparent conscience. Ask yourself today if you are really ready to stand in His holy place.!
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