Comments on: Yoga Beef: Deepak Chopra vs. Aseem Shukla on Yoga, Hinduism and Western Egos

By: Suneil

Suneil — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:35:54 +0000

Being a Hindu and listening to a “profiteer despicable “Hindu Chowpada” spreading is cowdung philosophies to “flacky,retarded pale westerners” makes me laugh. My question is, USA the country with a borrowed language, hochpotch borrowed culture, borrowed ides from the ancient world, borrwoed religious values can question the authenticity of Hindu culture and Yoga. Americans or for that matter any other person in this world has no right to ask any question about India,Hinduism,Veda,Yoga, Ayurveda so forth and so on. I challenge “Mr Chowpada or Chkaram Chutiya” to come to India and discuss your new age Yoga and philosophy. Mr. “Profiteers” do what you do here in USA and give a journey of bliss “to the flackeies of the world”. Americans you don’t know Yoga, you will never know yoga. Don’t claim something which is not yours, if you do that then you will be reminding us of your forefathers trecherous way of looting, cheating, raping, robbing and slavery of modern times. A birth of a Hindu is starts with Veda and it ends in Veda. Remember that.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 05:33:55 +0000

In India, they laugh their asses off, whenever “Deepak Chopra” is mentioned. The attitude towards DC in India is, ” Allright, let’s see what that old fraudster DC is up to now ! ”

DC is a perfect example of why one should not even attempt to put a New-Age Spin on the sublime, priceless 5000-year Hindu Wisdom and Way-of-Life. One falls hopelessly on one’s ass, when one attempts to do so.

There is nothing New-Age about Hinduism ! It’s old, yet as relevant as ever.

I think Jay Leno should have the last word on DC : ” What would happen if Oprah were to marry Deepak Chopra ? She would become Oprah Chopra !”

By: show up and shut up « linda's yoga journey

show up and shut up « linda's yoga journey — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 15:35:48 +0000

[...] yoga/Hindu wars started in the articles by Deepak Chopra and Aseem Shuklah that YogaDork posted here and here. I think the comments are longer than the articles [...]

By: Oprah is a Dharma Seer (?)

Oprah is a Dharma Seer (?) — Fri, 27 May 2011 15:04:33 +0000

[...] http://www.yogadork.com/news/yoga-be…-western-egos/ Deepak shoots back!First, yoga is a spiritual discipline in India, and always has been. The aim of the practice is liberation. When liberation occurs, the yogi is freed from the religious trappings that enclose Yoga. Those trappings have always been incidental to the deeper aim of enlightenment. Secondly, yoga did not originate in Hinduism as Prof. Shukla claims. Perhaps he has a fundamentalist agenda in mind, but he must know very well that the rise of Hinduism as a religion came centuries after the foundation of yoga in consciousness and consciousness alone. Religious rites and the worship of gods has always been seen as being in service to a higher cause, knowing the self. Beneath Shukla’s complaints one detects the resentment of an inventor who discovered Coca-Cola or Teflon but neglected to patent it. Isn’t that a rather petty basis for drawing such a negative picture? Most Indians, when they contemplate the immense popularity of yoga in the U.S. may smile at the pop aspects of the phenomenon but feel on the whole that something good is happening. Shukla regards the same scene with a withering frown. I also met a muslim who claims everything is described in the Koran including how to determine the speed of light, missile technology, obstetrics, To each their own I suppose! Sat Sri Akal. [...]

By: Sushama Londhe

Sushama Londhe — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:53:13 +0000

For an indepth look at Yoga – visit

http://www.hinduwisdom.info/Yoga_and_Hindu_Philosophy.htm

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What Was Your Top Yoga Story of 2010? Vote! — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:09:48 +0000

[...] Yoga Beef: Deepak Chopra vs. Aseem Shukla on Yoga, Hinduism and Western Egos [...]

By: lalu

lalu — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 13:44:07 +0000

But Deepak said, yogi does not required religion.

By: chris

chris — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:16:49 +0000

Ahh, that Deepak Chopra !

Hinduism is more than 5000 years old. There is nothing ‘New-Age’ about the ancient wisdom of Hinduism. It’s very real, it’s very deep, it’s very down-to-earth, and it’s very relevant. It has provided spiritual sustenance to Billions of Humans, and continues to do so.

On the other hand, Deepak Chopra is the very embodiment of ‘New Age’, and not in a nice way.
DC, he does not represent, know what I’m saying ?

But, I’ll grant that DC does make for good entertainment. If DC were to start a TV Channel, he could call it ‘ The Hindu Entertainment TV’; HET, you know –> kinda like BET, but Brown, instead of Black.

Meanwhile, from the Jay Leno monologues :
“What would happen if Oprah were to marry Deepak Chopra ?
She would become Oprah Chopra”.

By: Yoga Swan

Yoga Swan — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:16:40 +0000

“Yoga (all forms) is based on Universal Truths/Laws…”

So is the Sanatana Dharma, i.e Hinduism, another name of Yoga The objectified and personified Yogic states of psycho-physiology are the deities and ritual frame work of Vedas.

The person who think Yoga and Hinduism were not born of or shaped by each other is either a fool or a scoundrel. I think Deepak is the latter. The craze for white man’s approbation has blinded him to the fact he is fully aware of.

By: Bhairavi

Bhairavi — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:10:32 +0000

I’ll just say (or reiterate in some cases)…

even though Yoga came from (and is based on) a Hindu/Vedantic history and culture, it does not have to be inherently Hindu. Yoga (all forms) is based on Universal Truths/Laws…

so it really doesn’t matter if you believe in God, Buddha, Jah, or Hello Kitty…in reference to the Universe/Divine, it’s all the same thing just a different name and different guide leading to the same path of Universal Truth and Oneness.

In other words, it doesn’t matter what you have faith IN, as long as you HAVE FAITH.

Jai!