Swami Ramdev to teach Yoga in Pakistan

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Re: Swami Ramdev to teach Yoga in Pakistan

@Faruk Khan

Yoga originated on Pakistani soil not Indian and it has nothing to do with Hinduism, Yoga is older than Hinduism but was later incorporated into Hinduism who added a few unnecessary Hindu practices to it and hence it came to be associated with Hinduism.

India and Pakistan share a common heritage but India should stop acting like the "original" or the "big brother" because just as there wasn't any Pakistan back then there also wasn't an India, it was just South Asia which was renamed to something different every time a different dynasty made it a part of their kingdom.

Yoga is not just a physical excercise like everybody thinks. It is something more. It is more concerned with spirituality. You may say it was invented by vedantists or followers of vedas and those very vedantists or followers of vedas are now called hindus. By the way, if anyone calls us vedantists instead of hindus, i have no problems with that.

The very popularity of yoga in the west is attributed to people like paramahamsa yogananda, patthabhi jois, Deepak chopra and some more. By the way patthabhi jois is from my city. Yoga talks of things like kriya yoga, ashtanga yoga etc involving completely sanskrit terms. When the language is sanskrit, it is quiet obvious, to whom it is linked to. So in every way it is linked to hinduism or vedantists.
moreover, the very ancient sanskrit texts including that of yoga, are preserved and maintained at the sanskrit research centre in melkote taluk of my city.

Besides, i dont want to take any pride of it, just because i am a hindu or vedantist. Yoga is universal. Anyone can learn it.