Yoga Yoka

The word yoga means "union, “to yoke” or “unite.” Hindus and Buddhists practice yoga in order to yoke the divine consciousness (soul) of the individual, with the “divine” or “supreme” being. (God)

Yoga is said to awaken the spiritual “serpent power” found residing and unawake or dormant inside a person until such a connection is made, through yoga experience of yoking yourself to one who can show you the way, your guru. This serpentine power is known as Kundalini.

Kundalini is believed to reside at the base of the human spine coiled "like a serpent," and when the yogi, (male practitioner) or yogini (female practitioner) awakens their consciousness to this serpentine power through yoga's various contemplative practices, this power is released within them, supposedly giving the practitioner stress relief, renewed energy or energy of a psychic or libidos nature. Most literature on the subject of yoga and kundalini says that before beginning yoga, a person must be “initiated,” by a guru who is specially trained in such techniques. The new initiate then may receive a "mantra" to repeat during meditation or yoga practice.

The sound of the mantra is a special vibration, supposed to cause the new yogi’s thoughts to cease, and allow for "transcendence" into a new “higher” dimension of spiritual consciousness where the initiate may have "spiritual experiences."

Yoga, and in particular Hatha Yoga, is also said to be a system of purification. Yogis teach and are expected to believe that when yoga is practiced diligently and with great dedication, especially over a long period of time, the body, and the soul will be cleansed of impurities. Yoga is more than mere exercise. Yoga is religious, and yoga is spiritual, a way to "remove or free mankind from his condition of "sin."In Ashtanga Yoga, the purpose is to burn away the “six poisons of the heart,” which is believed to then enable "the light of the inner nature to shine forth."

As people in America reject the gospel of Jesus being the only savior, the popularity of yoga and yoga-like classes is growing in America. People are eager to do spiritual works and focus on being a better person, living a better life, receive vitality, renewed energy and peace promised by those who market yoga to the public. In America, yoga is often marketed like a product. It's an exercise, or maybe even meditation, as an addendum to your already preferred religion, and so we see terms like “Christian Yoga” being coined. But Yoga is not intended to be anything “Christian.” It is not rooted in the wisdom of God found in the scriptures or in Christ, it is rooted in the kundalini, serpent power.

It was the serpent who beguiled Eve and caused Adam and Eve to sin against God. The serpent of Eden deceived them and every man born since than day has suffered and died. Plagued by the serpents poisno, what will be our remedy? Kundalini? God's Word tells us that only one man, the son of man named Jesus Christ has ever crushed the serpents head, put an end to the effect of thatsin has done. Jesus Christ was raised from death to life, and he was sinless. Christian Yoga, is a bit of a contradiction. Christians are to be yoked not with a yogi or a guru, but with Jesus. Yoga, is no substitution for the power of Jesus Christ. After all, Jesus, by his death and resurrection crushed forever the sting of the crafty serpent. He crushed the head of the venomous creature whose bite produced death for all mankind.

The clear teaching of scripture that forgiveness comes by God’s grace through faith, and not of our doings or in ourselves. The Christian simply yokes himself by faith to Jesus and what HE did and all one has to do is call on him in truth. It is not a secret mystical mantra, but words spoken in truth, an uttering of the heart from tender lips, to Gods, omnipresent ear.