Is it a habit for you to pray, or your own thoughts are already so pure
as you don't need a special moment to pray?
Are you washing your hands often?
Are you washing your teeth often?
Do you bath yourself often?
Do you wash your food, your cloths, your eyes,
but your SOUL?
How often?
And HOW?
2007-12-19 09:15:03 · 13 answers · asked by :)(: 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Is it enough to read a lot, to learn a lot?
Are you afraid to look closer at your inner?
Is it like an illness - your soul - that you consider it's better to not consider it?
2007-12-19 09:23:22 · update #1
Sorry Ammassridhar, but I don't agree with you about: as "For the soul, Guru is the care taker"
I think for your soul, most than for anything else, YOU are the care taker, and only you. Never live your soul in other one care, but you are the only owner responsible for, as your body, your mind, as well, as God makes us attentive about.
2007-12-21 06:33:48 · update #2
I pray an average of 0.0000000000 times per year.
2007-12-19 09:17:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I pray at least once a day. I talk with God and ask him for wisdom the second I get into a pickle.
I never looked at praying as 'washing' my soul. I don't 'wash' my soul, God does. I suspect that you have unwittingly fallen prey to zealotry. You have become a yoga zealot.
As Tom Wolfe said in his book "A Man IN Full", 'we are but vessels of clay with a spark of the divine in us.'
Our clay will return to the dust it came from but that spark of the divine is the one thing God can't take away from us. It is how we use that spark that makes us or breaks us. Yoga will keep the clay flexible but it does nothing for my spark. (of the Divine). Are you assuming that by not praying my thoughts won't be pure? If so why? Because I have news for you. The only one with totally pure thoughts is God. Every one of us is sullied with some of the clay that we are made from. So even when we pray our thoughts are not pure.
Are you assuming that praying is a habit? If so what is wrong with this 'habit'? I don't see anything wrong with it. Try not to follow any one dogma too much. In addition try not to prosetilize others with your yoga religion if you must do yoga. The world will be a better place for it.
2007-12-19 09:50:37 · answer #2 · answered by Wisdom Seeker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Praying is a relationship you have with God. I pray alot in my car or when my friends need to be lifted up . I wouldn't trade it for yoga but i feel that yoga is a Great way to let go of stress. You body can focus on what is going on in your life and you release it physically. I love God and i love me so what ever helps you stay focused on what matters Happiness and God then do it. For me living for Christ is a life style so it comes natural ya know be blessed i pray everyday because with out God in my life i am nothing and have nothing no real love.
2007-12-19 09:20:54 · answer #3 · answered by DEEDDLE 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thanks for the worthy question to be answered.
Now I am off from the path of yoga. But keeping myself with the prayers and singing devotional songs. Since the mind isn't yet pure, lot of sadhana is to be done.
Are you washing your hands often?
Yes
Are you washing your teeth often?
Twice or thrice brush the teeth...
Do you bath yourself often?
Only Once
Do you wash your food, your cloths, your eyes, but your SOUL?
For the soul, Guru is the care taker ...
2007-12-19 09:25:49 · answer #4 · answered by ammassridhar 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take this YOKE apon you. Jesus said it, so you are right on target. Yoga means "to yoke." It is to seek the kingdom first.
The Kingdom is Within you. Jesus said it.
Worship in Spirit. Jesus said it.
But of course the Origianl Kingdom Gospel has been overtaken by Paul's blood for sin gospel. Too bad.
The Gospel Jesus preached was the right one. This resource explains the difference between the two.
Great question. Thanks for asking it.
2007-12-19 09:23:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Prayer is seeking answers to lifes questions outside yourself. Yoga and meditation is seeking this answers from within. So it depends on how you were raised and what you belive to be true in regards to what you should be doing.
2007-12-19 09:25:34 · answer #6 · answered by disorder74 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yoga does not include the idea of a dirty soul. Patanjali is very clear that the internal consciousness is always pure, but becomes covered by delusion (mental, not spiritual).
2007-12-19 09:20:36 · answer #7 · answered by neil s 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I already do yoga.
I'll pass on the prayer.
2007-12-19 09:18:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Constantly.
2007-12-19 09:18:37 · answer #9 · answered by Starte Christ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
can we do tantric yoga?
edit: as for washing my soul - I try to keep it from getting dirty at all, but do a little "soul cleansing" whenever I can get out in nature
2007-12-19 09:17:42 · answer #10 · answered by bregweidd 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋