Vatican's Exorcist: Yoga Is Satanic
The devil is in Harry Potter, too, says the demon fighter.
Yoga is the work of the devil, according to a man who claims to have banished evil spirits from 70,000 people. Gabriele Amorth, the Vatican's chief exorcist, says yoga leads to a belief in Hinduism, and "all eastern religions are based on a false belief in reincarnation," the Telegraph quotes him as saying. The elderly priest, speaking at a film festival in Italy this week, said practicing yoga leads to evil "just like the Harry Potter books," which he believes promote black magic.
"In Harry Potter the devil acts in a crafty and covert manner, under the guise of extraordinary powers, magic spells, and curses," said Amorth, who was at the film festival to introduce a new American exorcism movie, The Rite, which stars Anthony Hopkins as a Jesuit priest. The exorcist—whose favorite movie is The Exorcist—believes the devil can even be found in the Vatican itself, pointing to the sex scandals engulfing the church as evidence. Top yoga practitioners, meanwhile, say they don't know what possessed Amorth to make such absurd statements.
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"Top yoga practitioners,
"Top yoga practitioners, meanwhile, say they don't know what possessed Amorth to make such absurd statements."
k a r m a...
I will be the last being to hate anything or anybody... if you hate something or somebody, watch out, it, they are going to hate you back or somebody will... at least that seems to be the karmic reaction in the non God conscious, material conditioned mind. Although in the material conditioned world even us God conscious beings struggle to be peaceful at times...
Radhanath Swami is an expert, in not hating... follow his cues, worth a million... Maha Mantras... better not to hate and be karmic than to have to burn it off later under emergency conditions of a karmic reaction attack.
For that matter with all the hate and karma hurled at the GBC I think as a whole they do a marvelous job of transcending these type of things...
My response would be a loving,"hey Gabriele Amorth, let's burn off some karma... Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare... ad infinitum"
If one places his mind in
If one places his mind in good things, you will do good and see good in everything.
Otherwise, if one focuses on evil, he sees evil in everything.
But as we live in Kali-Yuga, one, I believe, should have an unbiased view on life, and focus on the things that matter.