A yoga retreatant died from rabies after returning from Rishikesh to the United States.
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Will Moo tell his retreatants to AVOID all dogs including puppies when in Rishikesh? And that if they are bitten, cleaning the bite is not enough, they need to DROP EVERYTHING INSTANTLY and go get the series of rabies immunizations recommended to anyone who is bitten by a rabid animal or one suspected as such?
A paper on yoga tourism. A lot of it may apply to satsang tourism.
[icyer.com]
YOGA TOURISM IN INDIA
by
Kenneth Liberman, University of Oregon, USA
Or teach advaita.
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Will Moo tell his retreatants to AVOID all dogs including puppies when in Rishikesh? And that if they are bitten, cleaning the bite is not enough, they need to DROP EVERYTHING INSTANTLY and go get the series of rabies immunizations recommended to anyone who is bitten by a rabid animal or one suspected as such?
A paper on yoga tourism. A lot of it may apply to satsang tourism.
[icyer.com]
YOGA TOURISM IN INDIA
by
Kenneth Liberman, University of Oregon, USA
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...book-reading is kept to a minimum, and most serious texts that
elucidate the thought of Vedanta, Buddhism or Jainism are considered “too
heady.” That is because many of the people who are attracted to yoga are
vehemently anti-intellectual. The strategy of using the body and one’s 72,000
nerves in skillful ways to produce harmony - which is surely the genius of yoga -
attracts Americans who have mostly rejected analytic strategies. Yes, we have
bodies, but the point is to use them to gain more control over the mind, for the
object of a practice of yoga is to control the mind.
In Vivekachudamani (which
some attribute to Shankara) the sage himself cautions against “bookknowledge,” and yet Shankara is tendering this advice in a book. While the
Chandogya Upanishad asserts, “If speech were not there, there would be no
knowledge of virtue, truth and falsehood, good and bad, pleasant and
unpleasant. Surely speech makes all this known.”
Yet Swami Sivananda argues
correctly that since samadhi is “beyond the reach of speech and mind, you will
have to realize this yourself.” Hence, the study of texts is a necessary but not
sufficient part of swadhaya (self-study), yet most yoga tourists skip the text
study part, while offering glib anti-intellectual cants about the shallowness of
words and the need for “actual practice.” One expects more from people who
will teach yoga.
Or teach advaita.