Appropriation and Digestion
Take a look at systematic appropriation, digestion, Inculturation, indigenization, alteration of Hindu devatas, scriptures, rituals, festivals, temple architecture, dance forms, music, drama and more by Christians. Every component of Hindu culture and life is being targeted!
As Hindus, we dance and sing our philosophy. Our highest literature is our philosophy. Our culture is never separate from our religion. When one says Namaste it is culture and it is also religion and also it is religious wisdom that we have got to back up religion.
When the Lord of Nritya Sri Ganesha and Sri Nataraja are quietly removed out of Rangamancha, when in the ‘Bharata Natyam’ Sri Vishnu and Sri Shiva mudra is replaced by Jesus mudra, when in the traditional lamp the Shankha, Chakra, Gada, Padma, and Hamsa is replaced with a Cross, when the famous bhajan ‘Krishna Nee Begane Baaro’ is changed to ‘Yesu Nee Begane Baaro’, when the devotion is taken out of the Nritya then it is called ‘Christian Bharata Natyam’. One may argue why Christian Bharata Natyam cannot be devotional? The Answer is simple. One who has left one’s own religion and has appropriated its culture will never be able to fill his heart with devotion. When one leaves his religion the culture leaves that individual too.
The Christian Bharata Natyam has presented at the Vatican a few years ago. This appropriation, indigenization, alteration, digestion, and inculturation is happening for many years. The Vatican accepts and even promotes such inculturation to retain and protect converts in their own comfort zone.
What is Inculturation?
The Oxford Dictionary defines Inculturation as the gradual acquisition of the characteristics and norms of a culture or group by a person, another culture, etc. Simply put, Inculturation is the adaptation of Christian liturgy to a non-Christian cultural background.
What is Appropriation?
1. A deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner.
2. The action of taking something for one’s own use, typically without the owner’s permission.
What is Digestion?
1. The absorption of ideas
2. The process of absorbing or the state of being absorbed
What is indigenization?
1. The infusion of indigenous ideas, values, peoples, symbols, aesthetics, procedures and an authentic history into an organization so that it is as thoroughly a product of indigenous imaginations and aspirations as it is of western or settler ones.
2. The fact of making something more native; the transformation of some service, idea etc. to suit a local culture, especially through the use of more indigenous people in the administration, employment etc.
3. Bring (something) under the control, dominance, or influence of the people native to an area.
What is Alteration?
1. Change that does not affect the basic character or structure of the thing it is applied to
2. The process of making a change in the appearance or form of something
2. The process of making a change in the appearance or form of something
Appropriation of Hindu Temple Architecture(Devalaya Vastushastra)
Churches are being built like temples to fool the Hindus and convert them.
Here is how they copy HINDU TEMPLE ARCHITECTURE BUT it is a REAL CHURCH :
Christian fraud …Churches built to look like hindu temple
This is the picture of a Church which is located somewhere in Andhra Pradesh or Tamil-Nadu, Have you ever seen a Church like this? This is a clear case of Plagiarism where the Missionaries have built a Church in a Hindu temple style, to lure the innocent masses
Is this the future of India? How can you be so blind ??
Christian Dhvajastambha
An example of digestion from #Kerala. temple type Kodimaram (flag staff- Dhvajastambha) now seen in most churches
Nasrani:
Holy Oil Lamp in front of the Church
सब चोरी का माल है … ॐ को हटा कर क्रॉस लगा दिया ….यह है इसाई लोग ?
Hindu lamp with a cross
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Appropriation of Devatas
Call it inculturation, digestion, appropriation, indigenization or trickery. Hindus are fooled into believing that Christ is just another Devata, Mother Mary is a Devi. Their idols are made to appear like Hindu gods. Missionaries perform Hindu like rituals. Poor gullible Hindus fall prey to it. All Hindus must learn from Sarna Tribals (Vanavasi) to protest against missionaries.
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God, Son, and Holy Ghost created to look like Brahma, Vishnu, and Mahesh.
Take a look at Jesus sitting on Sri Vishnu’s Shesha.
Look carefully. This is Jesus (Shantivanam, Trichy) & not a Hindu God – Trickery for converting Hindu
God, Son, and Holy Ghost created to look like Hindu Trinity
Disgusting move by Xtian Missionaries…
Another disgusting move by Xtian Mis when I
saw a Buddha ob cross !!
Gullible and desperate villagers are told that their traditional gods are actually corrupted versions of Christ; that the venerable saints and sages of India’s past were really Christians; the three horizontal stripes traditionally drawn on the foreheads of Shiva devotees stand for the Holy Trinity.
In Nasik from 1960 worshiping Lord
See what in Jesus’ hand? Copycats
Ghar Wapasi of Jesus Christ or what?
Now Jesus has taken the form of Lord Muruga
how Jesus as a yogi is being used for conversion propaganda
jesus is now portrayed as a yogi for conversion purposes in India, not to honor yoga and Hinduism. you will not find Jesus as a yogi at the Vatican or in any Catholic churches outside of India. my examination.
The Jesus as a yogi story is sadly becoming one of the main conversion ploys in India.
meditating Jesus | meditating Jesus in India
Chaturbhuja Jesus? Jesus Yogi
Jesus is depicted as Hindu god Lord Vishnu or Rishis. And notice the right image plagiarizing ancient and powerful Surya Namaskar as “Jesus Namaskar
From Mumbai … Jesus after being punished because of his sins … becomes a Yogi and now sit on side of the road to fool more people !!!!
इसाई इतने गिरे हुए …हर जगह झूठ और धोका ……इनके सामने तो मुसलमान कुछ भी नहीं
Mary being portrayed as Sri Lakshmi with lotus and elephants
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Matter of Convenience
The Vatican forced a Catholic priest in Spain to resign for welcoming Sri Ganesha inside his church
Madrid: A Catholic priest in Spain was forced to resign on Monday, a day after he welcomed a Hindu procession into the cathedral.
As per reports, local Hindus, carrying out a Ganesh Chaturthi procession, originally wanted to leave some floral offerings at the entrance of the church as a gesture of respect to Christians. However, Vicar General Father Juan Jose Mateos Castro opened the doors of the church for the idol Ganesha and the procession.
The video of the incident has gone viral on social media.
However, it did not go down well with the power holders. In a statement on Monday from the diocese, Bishop Rafael Zornoza Boy apologized and expressed “deep sorrow for this unfortunate fact that has caused damage, confusion or scandal in the Christian community.”
The statement added that Castro “recognizes that it has been a mistake to allow the entrance of these images and that it has never intended to venerate anything (but) our true and only God, since (his) intention was only to accept the show of respect that the Hindu community wanted to do to the Christian community and the Patroness of Ceuta, making a floral offering outside the temple, and not to celebrate any kind of religious act together.”
El vicario de Ceuta, amonestado por permitir la entrada de imágenes hindúes, presenta su dimisión
The Vatican welcomes Sri Ganesha carried by Mary in India’s church to fool Indians to convert them
Is it a matter of convenience for the Vatican?
Ganesha being carried by Mother Mary in Surat, Gujrath
Such pictures are seen during ‘Ganesha Utsavam’ to fool poor Hindus to convert them
Now Mary is carrying Sri baby Ganesha. A Perfect example of alteration to fool Hindus.
Looks like Church is planning another trick to fool on Ganesh Chaturthi … jesus as Ganesh or
This picture is seen during ‘Ganesha Utsavam’ to fool poor Hindus 
Jesus Mary Mandir!
See how these conquerors & their sepoy army (breaking India forces) want Mary Mata to replace Bharat Mata. Kancha Ilaiah called this dream the “Post-Hindu India”. Their sepoy army is getting more audacious. This is their slogan to celebrate Independence Day.
Vande Mataram digested into Christianity by Tamil Church. Scenes of violence & social oppression to fan the flames of breaking India forces. Pls, share this.WATCH & RT. Vande Mataram adapted by Tamil Christian Church into breaking India song with violent scenes.
Vande Mataram Yesuvin Bharatham – Tamil Christian Song – YouTube
Sri Krishna is carrying the cross?
Is Sri Krishna a Santa? Nonsense
River God: A mural at a church in Rishikesh shows Jesus bathing in the Ganges
Jesus in Ratha (Chariot) reminding Kurukshetra :
This Statue of Jesus Christ is placed at St. Alphonsus church, Dwaraka, Kozhikkode Road, Wayanad Kerala, in this picture Christ can be seen in the chariot is sheer Plagiarism, here Christians have tried to depict Jesus as Yogendra Maharaj Shri Krishna, Christ’s statue has been placed in the same manner. Where in the bible it is mentioned that Jesus used to ride on a Chariot?
One more technique In Hare Ram Hare Krishna. They made it Hare Yeshu to lure Hindus
In Kenya, a White dressed up as Jesus is doing conversions of Native people! Missionaries can do anything !!
What is this? Jesus JHULA or what?
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This stupidity is happening in INDIA
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Appropriation of Hindu Clothing
Meditating Jesus wearing saffron clothes!
Evangelical groups claim Jesus to be a yogi on for purposes of conversion
At the Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth at Pune, the images of Mother Mary and Jesus Christ have been made to look Indian
Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth, a Christian Institute for Philosophy and Religions
Thousands of Christian Theology colleges are popping up all over Indian cities. This one is in Pune Maharashtra
http://jdv.edu.in/
By Shevlin Sebastian
Photos: The large mural behind the altar; Fr. Alex Gnanapragasam, the treasurer of the Jnana Deepa Vidyapeeth; Mother Mary in a Maharashtrian saree
Near the entrance of the post-graduate block of the Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth, a Christian Institute for Philosophy and Religions, at Pune, a surprise awaits the visitor. There is a statue of Mother Mary holding the Baby Jesus, but with a difference. She is draped in a sky-blue Indian saree, with a gold border.
“This is a Maharashtrian saree,” says Fr. Alex Gnanapragasam, the treasurer of the Vidyapeeth, which is run by the Society of Jesus. There is another innovation: Mary is standing on an open lotus. “The lotus is India’s national flower,” says Fr. Alex. “We wanted to combine the elements of Christianity and Hinduism so that God can be better understood through one’s culture.”
CHRISTIAN CHURCH FOOLING PEOPLE IN CHENNAI
Maria wearing Sari
Catholic Chapel, Thomas Town.
Everything is “Hindu”ised here. From names of buildings to dress to window pane drawing to gopura (top of Chapel)… I mean everything! Building names are Sacchidananda, Brahma Vidya, Shanti Sadan etc. You won’t find a saree wearing Mother Mary sitting in padmasana, with an Indian dressed baby Jesus like this anywhere else in the world.
Virgin Mary carrying baby Jesus and wearing with sari and flowers. One more way to attract Hindus, trying to show sameness then Later convert them
Sarna Tribals
It’s an attempt to convert Sarna tribals to Christianity. India protests over ‘tribal’ Virgin Mary and baby Jesus
A new statue which shows Virgin Mary and baby Jesus as tribals have been installed in a church in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, sparking off protests from non-Christian tribal groups.
Mary and Jesus
A file photo of tribals protesting against the installation of a statue of Mother Mary wearing a red-border sari and holding baby Jesus Christ the way tribal women do by tying babies to a white cloth, in Ranchi. Photo: Diwakar Prasad/Hindustan Times 
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Appropriation of Hindu Festivals
This Elephant parade was a Hindu tradition now Cross is on TOP and Hindus are sleeping
This used to be a HINDU festival… now just Christian Parade
Nasrani dance form Margam Kali :
A Nasrani church Festival rally :
Nasrani festival:
Jesus and Mary Yatra! Really Sick and disgusting way to show sameness. Your thoughts?
Bommai Kolu
Bommai Kolu/ Bomma Golu/ Bombe Habba is a doll and figurine display festival celebrated during the festival of Navratri in Southern India, it is customary in the states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh… A Hindu tradition now tarnished by Christian …Golu mad up of Jesus…Why these Christian converts do this?
Have you seen any Hindu trying to disrespect a Christian festival …?
Recent conversion strategy is to absorb all native practices but substitutes only the God. See the Jesus Golu for Navaratri https://t.co/ws3GZ34ehj”
This is called ” Yesu Yatra” Another cheap imitation by the cunning Christian Missionaries to woo the illiterate Hindus 2017 teertha yatra Balak Yeshu Mughalsarai
In Punjab, a new trend has started instead of “Prabhat Feri” “Mary Mata Feri” taken out by Xtian Missionaries
माँ मैरी की यात्रा ?? सिर्फ भारत मे यह सब बेवकूफी चलती है सेकुलरिज्म के नाम पर
माँ मैरी की यात्रा ?? सिर्फ भारत मे यह सब बेवकूफी चलती है सेकुलरिज्म के नाम परIt is called Color Run. Christians are trying to copy Holi festival.
In the western countries, Hindus always wished ‘Merry Christmas’ to Christians but Christians never wished Hindus a ‘Happy Deepavali’. But now what a crafty and designing way to wish us!! Images like this are being circulated on the internet to bring Jesus into Hindu celebrations.
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Appropriation of Hindu wedding ritual. Jesus in India is much more desperate to get more followers than people on Twitter. Varmala in Church.
अब मंगलसूत्र में भी जीसस को घुसा दिया है …. यह गिरे हुए लोग … दीमक की तरह से पुरे हिन्दू समाज को खोखला कर रहे है
Appropriating Hindu Vidyarambham by Christian clergy. Yeshu Puja? Another trick by Church to lure Hindus?
Yeshu Puja …they want to copy everything so that Hindus can be fooled
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http://video.genfb.com/1922387751374742
This is Christian PUJA by removing Krishna/Ram murti and replacing that with Jesus JUST to attract more Hindus?
Christa Puja ….foreign missionaries replacing Krishna with “Christ” .. one more way to fool HINDUS. Only the Tilak is missing!
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Appropriation of Hindu Scriptures(Vedic Chanting) and Yagnya
using Hindu Vedanta to sell Christianity to Hindus …. disgusting
Jesus Sahasranamavali. Now this instead of Vishnu Sahstranama they created a Christian version
Vishnu Sahasranama: Missionaries now have
Jesus Sahstranama One more tactic to convert!
Sample of Inculturation
Celebrant:
Om Shri Yesu Bhagavate, Namah
Om Shri Deva Putraya Namah
Om Shri Sat Purushaya Namah
Om Shri Yesu Abbishiktaya Namah
Om Shri Sad Guruve Namah
Om Shri Taraneshaya Namah….
Om Shri Deva Putraya Namah
Om Shri Sat Purushaya Namah
Om Shri Yesu Abbishiktaya Namah
Om Shri Sad Guruve Namah
Om Shri Taraneshaya Namah….
Congregation:
Amen. You are the Fullness of Reality, One without a second, Being, Knowledge, Bliss! Om, Tat, Sat!
Prasad Mantra:
Celebrant: This is the Bread that came down from Heaven; whoever eats this Bread will never die.
This is the cup of immortal nectar; whoever drinks of this cup will live forever.
For the Lord says, “He will have eternal Life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
Do you believe this?
This is the cup of immortal nectar; whoever drinks of this cup will live forever.
For the Lord says, “He will have eternal Life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
Do you believe this?
Cong: Yes, Lord, we believe, for you have the words of eternal Life.
Naamajapa (After taking Communion):
Jesu Om, Jesu Om . . .
Ishwara, Ishwara . . .
Ishwara, Ishwara . . .
Prayers:
OM! The Supreme Lord may protect us all.
The Supreme Lord may diffuse the fruits of knowledge upon us.
May we find the strength to achieve the highest knowledge!
This study will conduct us to Truth!
May nobody of us has ever feelings against another.
OM: Shanti! Shanti! Shanti!
These are excerpts taken from a complete prayer conducted during the Order of the Mass for the Monastic Meeting in Petersham, Massachusetts in October 1977. The occasion, convened to lay the foundation for the formation of Monastic Interreligious Dialogue in North America, was sponsored by North American Benedictine and Cistercian Monasteries of Men and Women. Interreligious Dialogue and Inculturation are “Twin Strategies” adopted by the Church to plant the Cross all over and to Christianise non-Christian nations. The ritual shown above is just a sample of this Inculturation technique.
Kristubhagavatam: a Mahakavya in Sanskrit based on the life of Jesus Christ
Most disgusting… I have no words to describe this abhorrent idea – Christian Bhagavatam Kristubhagavatam
Jayabharatam – Trivandrum, 1977 – 446 pages
Early life
Plakkiyil Chacko Devassia was born in a Syrian Catholic family, Plakkiyil, on 24 March 1906 at Kodamalore, in Kottayam District, Kerala.
Kristubhagavatam: A Mahakavya in Sanskrit based on the life of Jesus Christ(Sanskrit: क्रिस्तुभागवतम्; Kristubhāgavatam or Kristu-Bhāgavatam) is a Sanskrit epic poem on the life of Jesus Christ composed by P. C. Devassia (1906–2006), a Sanskrit scholar and poet from Kerala, India. For composing the Kristubhagavatam, Devassia won several awards, including the Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit (1980). Composed in 1976 and first published in 1977, the poem consists of 33 cantos and over 1600 verses. As a Mahakavya, it represents the most prestigious genre of Sanskrit epic poetry, characterized by ornate and elaborate descriptions.[1]
Gayatri Mantra Chanting
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These hypocrites always try to copy our culture & befool innocent villagers & tribals for conversions. If they are so much impressed by #Hinduism then why not do #GharVapsi , Strict action required against them @PMOIndia
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Every Hindu chant Sri Venkateshwara Suprabhatam early morning.
Sri Venkateshwara Suprabhatam By MS Subbulakshmi
But…..What? Jesus Suprabhatam?
Bible-in-Sanskrit
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The Upanishad is a Hindu scripture now it has become Christian scripture.
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Christhu Bhagavadgita
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Devuni Charitra
యేసు చరిత్ర Yesu Charitra – Jesus Total Story in Telugu (History)
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Appropriation of Hindu Ashram System
Easy way of fooling poor uneducated Hindus
Christian Ashram a perfect example of appropriation!
Entrance– Sacchidananda Christian Ashram
Anjali Ashram: Christ-centred in an Indian Way
Dhyanashrama
Excerpts from Arun Shourie Site…….
Body-Counts Have Become Big, Compelling Business— Arun Shourie
A minor footnote: Operation World is published by one of the most active missionary publication houses — its name? Om Publishing, Carlisle, UK!
That name tells a larger tale. Missionary publications set out how the dress of the clergy, how the ambiance in churches, how Christian ritual are to be “indigenised” so that people do not continue to look upon the church as foreign. Stating that the Cardinal President of the Consilium, His Eminence Benno Cardinal Gut, has accepted the proposals of the Catholic Bishop’s Conference of India, a circular of Archbishop D. Simon Lourdusamy informed churches in the country,
“(1) The posture during Mass, both for priests and the faithful may be adapted to local usage, that is sitting on the floor, standing and the like; footwear may also be removed.
(2) Genuflections may be replaced by the profound bow with the Anjali hasta.
(3) A pachanga pranam by both priests and faithful can take place before the liturgy of the Word, as part of the Penitential Rite, and at the conclusion of the Anaphora.
(4) Kissing of objects may be adapted to local customs, that is touching the object with one’s fingers or a palm of one’s hand and bringing the hands to one’s eyes or forehead.
(5) The kiss of peace could be given by the exchange of Anjali hasta and/or the placing of the hands of the giver between the hands of the recipient.
(6) Incense could be made use of in liturgical services. The receptacle could be the simple incense bowl with handle.
(7) The vestments could be simplified. A single tunic-type chasuble with a stole (angavastra) could replace the traditional vestments of the Roman rite….
(8) The corporal could be replaced by a tray (thali or thamboola thattu)….
(9) Oil lamps could be used instead of candles.
(10) The preparatory rite of the Mass may include: ….(b) the welcome of the celebrant in the Indian way, e.g. with a single arati, washing of hands etc.; (c) lighting of the lamp….
(11) In the Offertory rite and at the conclusion of the Anaphora the Indian form of worship may be integrated, that is, double or triple arati of flowers, and/or incense, and/or light….“
(2) Genuflections may be replaced by the profound bow with the Anjali hasta.
(3) A pachanga pranam by both priests and faithful can take place before the liturgy of the Word, as part of the Penitential Rite, and at the conclusion of the Anaphora.
(4) Kissing of objects may be adapted to local customs, that is touching the object with one’s fingers or a palm of one’s hand and bringing the hands to one’s eyes or forehead.
(5) The kiss of peace could be given by the exchange of Anjali hasta and/or the placing of the hands of the giver between the hands of the recipient.
(6) Incense could be made use of in liturgical services. The receptacle could be the simple incense bowl with handle.
(7) The vestments could be simplified. A single tunic-type chasuble with a stole (angavastra) could replace the traditional vestments of the Roman rite….
(8) The corporal could be replaced by a tray (thali or thamboola thattu)….
(9) Oil lamps could be used instead of candles.
(10) The preparatory rite of the Mass may include: ….(b) the welcome of the celebrant in the Indian way, e.g. with a single arati, washing of hands etc.; (c) lighting of the lamp….
(11) In the Offertory rite and at the conclusion of the Anaphora the Indian form of worship may be integrated, that is, double or triple arati of flowers, and/or incense, and/or light….“
An evangelical Internet site exults in how that ministry consciously avoids overturning the beliefs and practices of the target-peoples, how instead it ensures “deculturisation” over an extended period by introducing into their awareness what it terms “functional substitutes” for those beliefs and practices. So much so that it commands its own logo too on this ground! We have not replaced the lotus, “which is supposed to be the seat of the Indian gods,” it reports, we have entrenched the Cross in it! While addressing the ignorant and illiterate in India this ministry will point to the lotus, while addressing the potential donor its selling-point is the opposite : “The inference is,” the site informs that donor, “that the historical Christ and the Cross must ultimately take the seat of these mythological deities and thereby Christianity should become deeply rooted in the culture of India.”
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During the two hundred years of British Raj, many western scholars became very interested in studying Hindu philosophy. The Christian scholars realized immediately how deep and complete the Dharma philosophy was, how it was in total agreement and harmony with material science and how it was unorganized but so organized! They were so impressed upon by its tenets and declarations that they started learning and writing extensively about it. Perhaps they wished that they had such beautiful philosophy!. They wanted it all but the superiority of exceptionalism and Universalism of Christianity would not allow them to accept Dharma concepts by recognizing and respecting the source and also the History centric Nicene Creed would stop them at a point from believing in certain laws or tenets. They decided to have it all without damaging and leaving their religion. Many Christians started appropriating and digesting Sanatana Dharma. ‘Christian Ashram’ was a new tactic where every aspect of Hinduism was appropriated. It was the height of stealing!
When a Christian monk sheds the white and starts wearing orange and yellow ocher robes, where Yesu Sahasra nama Archana, Yesu pooja, Yesu ashtottara namavali, Yesu Bhajans and Yesu japa is done, where BrahmaVishnumahesh look alike four face Yesu idol is kept in a Temple look alike Church, where Christian meditation is taught, where Vedas and Bhagvad Geeta is taught, where fasting is done for lent and feast, where a Church is called an Ashram, where Sanatana Dharma is taught as Christianity and where the highest appropriation and digestion of Hinduism is done by erasing and destroying the source is called a Christian Ashram. This is simply an arson, death, and destruction of our Dharma. This is an aggressive movement by Christians to convert people in India. ’tis the epitome of inculturation and digestion and is a perfect trap for gullible Hindus. Christian Ashrams are popping up all across India. Such Ashrams get foreign funding. Mostly from American Christian Funds. We need to start to learn Hindu Sanatana Dharma as Hindus or one day we might have to learn Christian Sanatana Dharma as Christians. As responsible Hindus, we must protest this inculturation to protect our Dharma.
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Ashram Movement of Christians in India
Fr Bede Griffith: Saccidananda Christian Ashram
Inauguration of Saccidananda Ashram at Shantivanam. Henri Le Saux
Monks of Kurisumala Chriatian Ashram
Malayattor Kurisumudy 
Francis Acharya : Kurisumala
a Mass in the Trappist monastery of Kurisumala called Bharatiya Pooja. Spanish Jesuit Fr. Peter Julia,(Shilananda) 
Fr Louis(Swami Gnanajyothi ) : Anjali Christian Ashram Present Acharya Guru
Rayappa Kasi OMI Anmodhaya Chrisian Ashram, Kancheepuram, India. Rayappa Kasi : Anmodhaya
John Martin Sahajananda
Atmajyoti Christian Ashram Priests
Ishalaya/Franciscan Ashram came to birth in 1986 with a team of four sisters.They were Sr.Teresa Dominic(Tara), Sr. Mary John
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Rangoli at Ishalaya
Franciscan Missionaries of Mary- Ishalaya
Meditation at Ishalaya
Vidyavanam Ashram Chapel interior
The Novices had a very enriching prayer experience at VIDYAVANAM ASHRAM, Bhutenahalli, near Bannerghatta from 11- 16 November 2012 under…
The Novices had a very enriching prayer experience at VIDYAVANAM ASHRAM, Bhutenahalli, near Bannerghatta from 11- 16 November 2012 under…
Matridham Christian Ashram
Christ Bhakta – a CATHOLIC spiritual movement – in Northern India – Varanasi – a city holy to Hinduism
Fr Anil Dev of Matridham
The Rev. Guruji (Fr.) Joe Mary M. Lobo, Founder of Sri Christa Sharan SociaDevelopment Society (SCS)
Sri 
Ashram 
Sat Tal Christian Ashram Centre
Sat Tal Christian Ashram Centre Dr. E Stanley Jones 
SatTal Christian Ashram 80th Anniversary
Christian Ashrams in India
Shantivanam Christian Ashram
Anjali Christian Ashram
Saccidananda Ashram
Anmodhaya Ashram
Sadbhavana christian Ashram
Atmajyoti Christian Ashram
Matridham Chriatian Ashram
SatTal Ashram
Ishalaya Christian Ashram
Sri Christa Sharan Ashram
Jeevan Dhara Christian Ashram
Tabor Christian Ashram
Bethany Christian Ashram
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Christian Ashrams in India
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Some excerpts from following web site
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
– Since 1980, in accordance with the Vatican 11 document Nostra Aetate, Camaldoli has hosted the Jewish-Christian Colloquium, promoted by our community together with the lay Association for Friendship among Jews and Christians.
– For more than twenty years we have engaged in dialogue with Hinduism and Buddhism, hosting “Monastic Exchange” programs organized by Buddhist associations and the Benedictine dialogue commission (DIM-MID). Our monks Bemardino Cozzarini and Thomas Matus have often been in India, facilitating the incorporation into our congregation of Saccidananda Ashram, founded in South India by Fathers Jules Monchanin and Henri Le Saux and later guided by Father Bede Griffiths.
– Father Thomas Matus is also a consultor for the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue and teaches a course on Hindu and Buddhist monasticism at the Benedictine Faculty in Rome.
The “eldest” of our communities outside Italy is in India, where the presence of the Church dates back to sub-apostolic times. Saccidananda Ashram, Shantivanam, in Tamil Nadu did not, of course, begin as a Camaldolese community. It was founded on the feast of Saint Benedict, March 21, 1950, by Father Jules Monchanin, priest of the diocese of Lyons, and Father Henri Le Saux, monk of the Abbey of Kergonan in France. They took Indian names (respectively Parama-Arupi -Ananda and Abhishiktananda), donned the orange robes of the Hindu monks, and prayed in Sanskrit and Tamil. After Father Monachnin’s death in 1957 and Swami Abhishiktananda’s departure for the Himalayas in 1968, the Ashram was guided by an English monk Father Bede Griffiths. In 1980 he became a member of our community, and until his death in 1993 continued to form a group of young Indian men, who are working toward building the monastic community at the service of the Ashram, which retains its special characteristics in accordance with ancient India tradition and the vision of the three founders.
In recent years two Indian women have made their solemn monastic profession as Camaldolese nuns. One has lived for many years next to Shantivanam and has established an ashram which expands Shantivanam’s capacity for receiving guests in a quiet, contemplative atmosphere. The other has just completed construction on a monastery near Mysore (Jfianodaya Ashram). Soon she will be joined by two more Indian women, currently in Rome preparing for their solemn vows.
– For more than twenty years we have engaged in dialogue with Hinduism and Buddhism, hosting “Monastic Exchange” programs organized by Buddhist associations and the Benedictine dialogue commission (DIM-MID). Our monks Bemardino Cozzarini and Thomas Matus have often been in India, facilitating the incorporation into our congregation of Saccidananda Ashram, founded in South India by Fathers Jules Monchanin and Henri Le Saux and later guided by Father Bede Griffiths.
– Father Thomas Matus is also a consultor for the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue and teaches a course on Hindu and Buddhist monasticism at the Benedictine Faculty in Rome.
The “eldest” of our communities outside Italy is in India, where the presence of the Church dates back to sub-apostolic times. Saccidananda Ashram, Shantivanam, in Tamil Nadu did not, of course, begin as a Camaldolese community. It was founded on the feast of Saint Benedict, March 21, 1950, by Father Jules Monchanin, priest of the diocese of Lyons, and Father Henri Le Saux, monk of the Abbey of Kergonan in France. They took Indian names (respectively Parama-Arupi -Ananda and Abhishiktananda), donned the orange robes of the Hindu monks, and prayed in Sanskrit and Tamil. After Father Monachnin’s death in 1957 and Swami Abhishiktananda’s departure for the Himalayas in 1968, the Ashram was guided by an English monk Father Bede Griffiths. In 1980 he became a member of our community, and until his death in 1993 continued to form a group of young Indian men, who are working toward building the monastic community at the service of the Ashram, which retains its special characteristics in accordance with ancient India tradition and the vision of the three founders.
In recent years two Indian women have made their solemn monastic profession as Camaldolese nuns. One has lived for many years next to Shantivanam and has established an ashram which expands Shantivanam’s capacity for receiving guests in a quiet, contemplative atmosphere. The other has just completed construction on a monastery near Mysore (Jfianodaya Ashram). Soon she will be joined by two more Indian women, currently in Rome preparing for their solemn vows.
Final Propositions Synod Bishops call for a new wave of Evangelization in Asia – by John Thavis
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – In a list of final propositions, the Synod of Bishops for Asia called for a new wave of evangelization on the continent, one that emphasizes Christ as Savior but recognizes Asian ways of expressing the faith.
The propositions firmly placed the church on the side of Asia’s “teeming millions” of poor and disadvantaged, particularly women and children, and said Catholic institutions should help empower them.
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – In a list of final propositions, the Synod of Bishops for Asia called for a new wave of evangelization on the continent, one that emphasizes Christ as Savior but recognizes Asian ways of expressing the faith.
The propositions firmly placed the church on the side of Asia’s “teeming millions” of poor and disadvantaged, particularly women and children, and said Catholic institutions should help empower them.
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The document said the authentic values of all Asian religions – including Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism – find “their fullness and realization” in Christ, and this belief must be at the center of all the Catholic Church’s activities.
The synod said the moment has come to “commit all of the church’s energies to a new evangelization” in Asia. Sharing the faith in Christ is “the best service we can make” to the people of the continent, it said.
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While endorsing dialogue with other religions and respect for their beliefs, the document said Christians engaged in such dialogue must retain a “clear Christian identity.”
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The Bible deserves greater prominence in the church’s pastoral and missionary activities, the synod propositions said, because sacred Scriptures have the power to touch the hearts of people, even those of other faiths.
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He concluded his remarks by calling on the “sister churches” of the first world to increase their role in Asia. They can be involved in monitoring trade to protect weaker nations; promoting the human side of the business, and canceling or reducing the debts that strangle many Asian countries. Only in this way, can we build the “civilization of love” called for by the Holy Father? Archbishop Daniel Acharuparambil of Verapoly pointed out that the minority of Catholics in Asia is brought about because all five of the great religions of the world strongly oppose the change of religion. Since Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism are very strong in the various countries of Asia, it follows that Christianity will have problems making inroads.
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Sannyasins or Swindlers
Sita Ram Goel wrote this in 1988, and he would not be surprised to learn that
Christian priests and monks in America have adopted the very same tactics to … pastoral course Syro Malankara
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Evangelization and Inculturation
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Appropriation of Hindu Sannyasins (Monks)
Christian Brahmacharis and Swamis
I heard about missionaries who dress in orange robes to look like swamis. Gullible and desperate villagers are told that their traditional gods are actually corrupted versions of Christ; that the venerable saints and sages of India’s past were really Christians; that the three horizontal stripes traditionally drawn on the foreheads of Shiva devotees stand for the Holy Trinity; that the Upanishadic prayer that includes “Lead us from darkness to light” was meant as a cry for Jesus to save them.
Christian Sanyasis!!!!!!!
Who are These? Christian Brahmacharinis!
Padres as Brahmins, Munivars, and Iyers. St.Thomas Christianity in India
Christian Missionaries dressed like Hindu Monks. Christian Missionaries dressed like Sanyasis
Does anyone call it #Safronization? NO, Its how church #plagiarize. Pic from Malayattoor. Anything left for #Hindus?
Christian Conversion Mafia goes SAFFRON… But only to Fool Hindus to accept Jesus as their Lord
Every possible strategy—fraud, allurement, deception, used by the Christian conversion mafia to fool people & destroy their traditions.
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Appropriation of Hindu Satsang
Yeshu or Christian Satsang
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Appropriation of Hindu Nritya (Dance) Form
As Hindus, we dance and sing our philosophy. Our highest literature is our philosophy. Our culture is never separate from our religion. When one says Namaste it is culture and it is also religion and also it is religious wisdom that we have got to back up religion.
When the Lord of Nritya Sri Ganesha and Sri Nataraja are quietly thrown out of Rangamancha, when in the ‘Bharata Natyam’ Sri Vishnu and Sri Shiva mudra is replaced by Jesus mudra, when in the traditional lamp the ShankhaChakraGadaPadma and Hamsa is replaced with a Cross, , when the famous bhajan ‘Krishna Nee Begane Baaro’ is changed to ‘Yesu Nee Begane Baaro’, when the devotion is taken out of the Nritya then it is called ‘Christian Bharata Natyam’. One may argue why Christian Bharata Natyam cannot be devotional? The answer is simple. One who has left one’s own religion and has appropriated its culture will never be able to fill his heart with devotion. When one leaves his religion the culture leaves that individual too.
The Christian Bharata Natyam has presented at the Vatican a few years ago. This appropriation, indigenization, alteration, digestion, and inculturation is happening for many years. The Vatican accepts and even promotes such inculturation to retain and protect converts in their own comfort zone.
Take a look at systematic appropriation, digestion, Inculturation, indigenization, alteration of Hindu scriptures, rituals, festivals, dance forms, music, drama and more by Christians
What is Inculturation?
The Oxford Dictionary defines Inculturation as the gradual acquisition of the characteristics and norms of a culture or group by a person, another culture, etc. Simply put, Inculturation is the adaptation of Christian liturgy to a non-Christian cultural background.
Bible-based Kathakali… Another fraud
Watch Sonal Mansingh from 8:05 to 14:40
Krishna Ni Begane Baaro
Explore this and see what’s going on!!!
Tamil Christian Bharata Natyam
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Appropriation of Shastriya Sangeet(Hindu Classical Music)
Raga, Soora, Taala, Vadyam and even words like Devadideva, Jesus Bhava Geet, Jesus bhajan, Christian Keerthanam, Christian Aaradhna, Christian Prarthna. Everything is appropriated
Sis. Persis John
Sis. Svania Niroj
Bro Agathiyan
Abraham Charles
Pastor Jacob Koshy
Isravelin Rajave
TAMIL CHRISTIAN SONG – ISRAVELIN RAJAVES Gnyanasekar
Ummai Allamal Enaku Yaar Undu உம்மை அல்லாமல் HD
Roshini
Issac Williams
TAEnnai sumapathanal Iraiva_ Tamil Christian SongsMIL CHRISTIAN SONG UMMALAE MUSICIAN OF ZION ISSAC WILLIAM
Abraham and Anand Garu
Pr Darwin Ebenezer
Philomena
Benny Joshua
Ps. Reenu Kumar
Pastor Lordson
Pastor Roy Mathew
Pastor John Jebaraj
Pastor John Wesley and Ramesh Yesaiah
Pastor A Yesudhas
Pastor Alwin Thomas
Ankur Narula
Pastor Gabriel Thomasraj
Siluvai Nadhaar
Pravin Kumar
Tamil Christian Songs
Urdu Christian songs Masihi Geet
Gujarati Christian Bhava Geet and Bhajans
Malyali Christian songs
150 Popular Malayalam Christian Songs and many more………………..
Telugu Christian songs
Telugu Christian Songs and many more………………..
Kannada Christian songs
Non-Stop Kannada Christian Devotional Songs and many more………………..
Marathi Christian songs
MARATHI CHRISTIAN WORSHIP SONGS NONSTOP and many more……………..
Bengali Christian songs
Stutee Aradhana (Full Album Jukebox) Oriya Christian Songs and many more…….
Assamese Christian Songs
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Appropriation of Hindu Natya(Drama)
Retelling the tale of Christ through Yakshagana
Bible Yakshagana was a hit in Karnataka in the 1970s – now, it’s considered ‘Christian propaganda’
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Really Sick and disgusting way to show sameness @RajivMessage your thoughts?
Jesus being sneaked inside Hindu garb, aesthetics, aagama, philosophy:
  ‘Maha Chetana’ revised version of yakshagana prasanga presented
    “Mahachethana” Yakshagana Tala Maddale programme at Attur St. Lawrence Church
‘Maha Chetana Yesukrista Mahatme’ , first published in 1976, is set for relaunch with some revisions
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Appropriation of Sanskrit Grammar and Digestion of PaniniPLEASE ACKNOWLEDGE DEBT TO PANINI. Panini’s Sanskrit grammar has been meticulously studied for over a decade for the specific purpose to develop computational linguistics. That is what makes simultaneous language translation possible:
http://gadgets.ndtv.com/…/google-working-on-universal-trans…
GADGETS.NDTV.COM
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In Hinduism Guru is revered as God. No disciple will take the credit for the knowledge given by his Guru. The disciple will be indebted and grateful to his Guru throughout his life.
What is Computational Linguistics?
Why Sanskrit is the most Scientific language and loved by NASA? Find out yourself – HawkFeed
The whole world is going gaga over Sanskrit due to Panini’s Grammar Engine. Panini’s grammar makes it easier and faster to translate one language to the other on the computer. This is the key to future and the main reason why the west is teaching Sanskrit to their young ones as early as possible.
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The idea of describing the structure of language using rewriting rules can be traced back to at least the work of Pāṇini (ancient Indian Sanskrit grammarian and a revered scholar in Hinduism who lived sometime between the 7th and 4th century BCE).[1][2] His notation to describe Sanskrit word structure notation is equivalent in power to that of Backus and has many similar properties.
John Backus, a programming language designer at IBM, proposed a metalanguage of “metalinguistic formulas”[5][6][7] to describe the syntax of the new programming language IAL, known today as ALGOL 58 (1959). His notation was first used in the ALGOL 60 report.
BNF is a notation for Chomsky’s context-free grammars. Apparently, Backus was familiar with Chomsky’s work.
Further development of ALGOL led to ALGOL 60. In the committee’s 1963 report, Peter Naur called Backus’s notation Backus normal form. Donald Knuth argued that BNF should rather be read as Backus–Naur form, as it is “not a normal form in the conventional sense”,[9] unlike, for instance, Chomsky normal form. The namePāṇini Backus form was also once suggested in view of the fact that the expansion Backus normal form may not be accurate, and that Pāṇini had independently developed a similar notation earlier. Backus–Naur Form
The idea of describing the structure of language using rewriting rules can be traced back to at least the work of Pāṇini (ancient Indian Sanskrit grammarian and a revered scholar in Hinduism who lived sometime between the 7th and 4th century BCE).[1][2] His notation to describe Sanskrit word structure notation is equivalent in power to that of Backus and has many similar properties
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Ingerman(1967) in ACM communications mentions why “Backus-Naur Form” should be renamed “Panini-Backus Form”. Rick Briggs of Nasa and Noam Chomsky hail Panini as a father of modern linguistics. It is said that BNF is a notation for Chomsky’s context-free grammar. Apparently, Backus was familiar with Chomsky’s work. This proves that Backus had Panini’s background.
The Backus-Naur form is basically a “morphed form” of Panini’s rules governing the Sanskrit language – ashtadhyayi.
Since it is traditional in professional circles to give credit where credit is due, and since there is clear evidence that Panini was the earlier independent inventor of the notation, may I suggest the name ” Panini-Backus Form” as being a more desirable one?
Listen to author of ‘Geek Sublime’ Vikram Chandra from 7.00 to 12.20 minutes
A 17th-century birch bark manuscript of Panini’s grammar treatise from Kashmir
Following are all Indian blogs explaining how great Panini was. Not a single non-Indian blog except Rick Briggs of Nasa and the creators of ‘blog Ashtadhyayi’ mention Panini. It is only us who are patting our backs. When will West start giving due credit to India, Sanskrit and Panini’s grammar?
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Samskritam IT and AI
Sanskrit is 100% phonetic. NASA America’s Space Program is actively looking at Sanskrit in relation to I.T. and artificial intelligence. Sanskrit and computers are a perfect fit. The precision play of Sanskrit with computer tools will awaken the capacity of human beings to utilize their innate higher mental faculty with a momentum that would inevitably transform the mind. In fact, the mere learning of Sanskrit by large numbers of people in itself represents a quantum leap in consciousness, not to mention the rich endowment it will provide in the arena of future communication.
An only western blog where Sage Panini’s name is mentioned!
Articles about CL and AI in Western Media has no mention or even a trace of either ‘Sanskrit’ or ‘Panini’. Panini and Sanskrit have been already digested and appropriated by the West.
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Books By Indian Professors
Universities in India got sold in return for the big grants given by the US.
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What is the real reason to learn Sanskrit in the west? Is it really spirituality?
When asked by an Indian reporter about learning Sanskrit in British schools the teacher and the student gave various reasons such as Sanskrit has brilliant linguistic training where one uses all parts of one’s mouth and so it helps to pronounce words with clear diction (the accent, inflection, intonation, and speech-sound quality) and Sanskrit scriptures are inspiring philosophical concepts. Spiritual benefits are also quite high due to learning Ramayana and Mahabharata.
Western teachers and children are definitely interested in diction and linguistic training as Sanskrit has more and complete consonant sounds. But do you really believe these teachers and students care for Hindu spirituality and inspiration from Puranic stories? Are you not surprised why Vatican and Christian clergy is ignoring these Christian children chanting Vedic Hindu Hymns with a Namaste Mudra? It is all a matter of convenience. This is called digestion of Panini’s Sanskrit grammar to master computational linguistics and appropriate it. And we get so emotional about westerners learning and chanting Sanskrit! Hope these kids as grown-ups keep the reverence for Sanskrit- Sankriti and do not take a U-turn to follow in footsteps of W. Doniger, S. Pollock, Courtright, J. Kripal, Jeffrey lott and many such.
UK
Ireland
Australia
Germany
The summer school in spoken Sanskrit at the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg,
He has taught seventeen summer school courses in spoken Sanskrit at Heidelberg University, three at Lausa
USA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuL2acgx3mE
China
Professor Huang Baosheng with a newly released Sanskrit Chinese textbook
A class in session at Peking University with renowned Indian Sanskrit scholar Satyavrat Shastri teaching Chinese graduate students. Photo: Ananth Krishnan | Photo Credit: Ananth Krishnan
India
Mother India before British Raj
Mother India during the British Raj
During British Raj Macaulay broke our Vedic backbone…
Following Text is quoted from one of his letters to his Father, Kindly click here to read original letter to his father
In a letter to his Father, he wrote:
”No Hindoo, who has received an English education, ever remains sincerely attached to his religion. Some continue to profess it as a matter of policy, but many profess themselves pure Deists and some embrace Christianity. It is my firm belief that, if our plans of education are followed up, there will not be a single idolater among the respectable classes in Bengal thirty years hence. And this will be effected without any efforts to proselytize without the smallest interference with religious liberty; merely by the natural operation of knowledge and reflection. I heartily rejoice in the prospect.”
The life and letters of Lord Macaulay
In a letter to his Father, he wrote:
”No Hindoo, who has received an English education, ever remains sincerely attached to his religion. Some continue to profess it as a matter of policy, but many profess themselves pure Deists and some embrace Christianity. It is my firm belief that, if our plans of education are followed up, there will not be a single idolater among the respectable classes in Bengal thirty years hence. And this will be effected without any efforts to proselytize without the smallest interference with religious liberty; merely by the natural operation of knowledge and reflection. I heartily rejoice in the prospect.”
The life and letters of Lord Macaulay
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Mother India
Confused Indian youth after Independence
Sanskrit should be our first choice in schools. Hope children in India start chanting at least daily prayer slokas instead of futile Bollywood and Hollywood rock and pop songs.
Why is Sanskrit so controversial?
German out, Sanskrit in Ideology before education?
Sanskrit the solution to solving India’s linguistic divides?
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Appropriation of Hindu Yoga
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No, to any Yoga by Christian Clergy
No, to any(Hindu or Christian) Yoga by Protestant Christian Clergy
Protestant Church
No, to any(Hindu or Christian) Yoga by Orthodox Christian Clergy
Orthodox Church
Yoga and Orthodox Christianity – Ancient Faith RadioYoga and Christianity – Institute for Orthodox Christian Studie
No, to any(Hindu or Christian) Yoga by Catholic Christian Clergy
Catholic Church
No, to any(Hindu or Christian) Yoga. Articles by Christians
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Articles on Christians and Yoga
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Yes, to only Christian Yoga by Christians
Yoga Digested!
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Christian Yoga in Church
Christian Yoga in the Churches
Christian Yoga Retreats
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Christian Yoga Books, outfits and mats
Christian Yoga Books, outfits and mats
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Muslim Yoga
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Yes, to only original Yoga by Christians
Mysore 1934. pattabhi jois has said that that’s him in Kapo underneath Krishnamacharya in Blue, it seems more likely however that it may be him in pink.
Yes, to only original Yoga by Christians
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Something other than Christian Yoga
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A Hindu View of Yoga
Yoga is not a religious practice
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Yoga is Hinduism
