Yoga

Boy, am I ever excited to start yoga! "Real yoga" - at a Hindu temple. My nerves are up as a I wonder if it will be different than the hot yoga I'm used to. So decided to research the difference between "standard yoga" and Hindu yoga thinking I might find a simple explanation like "Hindu yoga is more intimately entwined with the spiritual practices  of Hinduism, while 'standard' focuses on the physical positions and relaxation, with no specific religious references." Instead, I came across articles like this one:

It is wrong to deny yoga's Hindu origins.

While I do respect the concern about the commercialization of religious/spiritual beliefs, or even any beliefs that are not fully understood by the "taker" (this is an entire book on it's own), I was also appalled by how quickly such a question could turn into heated debate or become focused on bashing other religions.  Disgusting (Note: avoid the comments section of most articles). The content of some of the posts actually outweighed the question at all - clearly those commenters practicing yoga, either "truly"  or as Western "buyers" have missed some foundational lessons of yoga, or at least  the lessons that I have understood from the practice - calmness, tolerance, acceptance, and discipline.Take a deep breath and reflect before you start writing negative comments in an article about yoga - or maybe - go do some yoga!

Anyways, this is my response to the article and the comments:

Yoga without spirituality is like kneeling without praying. Both are useful sometimes. 

I thought it was witty...