Sometimes when I'm writing I have a feeling that perhaps some people may think I am a bit too hard line on the issue of practise of yoga as a process of healing and the practise of drinking and smoking as a process of the opposite of healing.
All I can say about that is that I myself do not drink alcohol and I do not smoke. I used to but don't anymore. So of course there is that old adage, 'judge not lest ye be judged'. Which to be honest I find annoying. When people tell me I am judging them it could well be true. But I am only judging them from the perspective of the idea that they are supposed to be practising yoga and I have never read anywhere in any of the yogic texts that you do your practise and then go and get 'wasted' on booze. Surely the true point of practise is to see beyond the constraints of the neurotic small mindedness of the current trends and see the underlying deeper reality.
When I went for a walk last summer and saw one of the main teachers from a nearby yoga center drinking a bottle of wine by the neck and smoking I did wonder if it was a joke! And on some level of course it was. But why would 'I' want to go to a so called yoga class taight by an idiot like that! This same person who the week before had been prattling on about Shiva and the mantra's thereof.
Give me a break!
It is very disappointing (on some level) for me to witness the vapidness of the yoga world today and the rubbish that is spoken about it.
A 'vested interest' in keeping the profits up are the main the drive of some of the yoga centers operating today, you've only got to look at the timetables to see the endless list of 'yoga teachers' to know full well that quality is certainly being compromised by quantity.
But hey we've got to earn a living right! Even for some if it means talking bollox and wasting people's time under the guise of teaching them something. Maybe it would be a better idea to go on the piss after all!
Hari Om Ananda
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