Yoga and Religion

The heritage of humanity is yoga and its applications are universal. Yoga does not contradict any religion and can be applied while you are practicing any religion you choose. Yoga brings man to a supreme experience and it is the science of man. Each religion has components that have to do with your innermost essential being. The spirituality of this innermost being is what yoga is concerned with.

This spiritual reality has to do with a spiritual goal that you have had since before you were born. Yoga is the inner core of religion and concerned with the realization of God. You can use yoga as a path to a diving experience. If your inner spiritual core is dried up and has been neglected, you can revive it with yoga. What yoga does is restore your spirit and make your religion alive with in you.

One difference between yoga and religion is that yoga does not label man as a sinner. Yoga believes that man is God is trying to find his way home. Yoga believes that he is stumbling in the dark and moving in circles. Yoga shows man his way home. It puts light in the dark and tells him his way home. Yoga concerns itself only with God. It rejects the notion of hell, but also of heaven. Yoga is about God and our path to him.

Yoga s highly evolved and its techniques can be applied to anyone. All castes, creeds, nations, churches and sects can use its practical techniques. The other metaphysical concepts of religion are background and yoga is distinct from this background because of its techniques. Yoga itself is removed from any doctrine or dogma; actually it transcends religion. A Christian saint who sincerely loves God and contemplates about him until he actually realizes God would be yogis.

Yoga believes that God dwells in us all. Yoga provides a union with God and does not contradict any religious doctrine. Yoga does not demand that you name God in any particular way or that your follow any particular creed. You can repeat a divine name as a form of reflection, but yoga does not specify what that name should be.