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THERE is no other scripture/ there is only 66 books in the Holy Bible. Anything more anything less is not of God. I know a lot of our Catholic brothers are not going to agree with me but sorry that's just the way it is. We just have to believe and except 66, or well the other whatever books. Guys let's not question the Bible. If we try to find the answers we cant. Only God has all the answers. That's why Christ said have a faith like a child. We are not to question the holy bible. God is good and he wouldn't give us anything less or anything extra. There are 66 I don't care what any human flesh says. My God Jesus Christ has left me with 66. DON'T QUESTION GOD

It has been said to steady the mind, calm the emotions, and tone the body. It claims that it is a way to Promote fitness, flexibility, and relaxation and It can be practiced in groups or by oneself at home. Hatha yoga exercises are taught as part of YMCA physical education programs, as health spa exercises on TV programs, and are incorporated into institutional churches on the assumption that these techniques are nothing more than benign physical exercises which condition the mind and body. It has come in under the guise of stress reduction. Touted as scientifically proven is more an assumption, that is really at worst, presumption. We probably all have seen Lilias on her PBS TV series introduce people to the benefits of this physical exercise. She has become an American icon for yoga, promising amazing affects from vitality, tranquility to greater concentration. Newsweek magazine reported that ?yoga classes are in demand at urban health clubs across the country, and longstanding yoga studios in New York, Chicago, and California report sharp rises in attendance in the past years. It is estimated that there are 10,000 yoga teachers in the United States, who teach between 4 and 5 million students a week. Newsweek also noted that ?such high-profile practitioners of the 6,000-year-old art as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raquel Welch (whose exercise videos are promoting yoga) Because Hollywood is involved it has brought it more attention.? Time magazine Also reported that the Berkeley-based Yoga Journal has nearly doubled its circulation over the past five years. The widespread teaching of yoga in America today, is probably, due more to a tolerant attitude toward the religions of other cultures than it is to an open mindedness about whatever wisdom may be extracted from it. It seems to the secular population that is being targeted to accept only that selected aspect of yoga which fits their naive notion. That what yoga is supposed to do, is to relieve stress and make a fit and beautiful body. Many participants merely presume that the exercises are neutral, harmless if they are not practiced with any spiritual intent. After all it only bodily exercise! But the fact remains that even physical yoga is inextricably united in the whole of Eastern metaphysics. I personally had practiced yoga and meditation and at times was quite dedicated. It was something I believed in, as I tried to work my way to be in tune with the universe as well as my body. From the philosophy I learned to be a vegetarian, thinking I was cleansing the temple for the energy to flow unobstructed. While vegetarianism can be helpful to some people that are unable to digest meat, it is not the optimum diet for all. This practice is ancient but can be traditionally traced to approximately the 200 B.C., To a man named Patanjali. Who is credited with being the originator of the yoga system. His work is a collection of many short terse sentences which convey the barest minimum of teaching about yoga. The rest was learned from his teacher personally. Little is known about him; he was supposedly a physician, Sanskrit scholar, a yoga practitioner (yogi), a teacher who lived in India. Some authorities believe that he was more of a cataloguer than an author, and that he did not originate this practice, but collected and edited the teachings from traditions and is credited for its revival. In one of the most authoritative Hatha Yoga texts, the fifteenth-century Hathayoga Pradipika, Svatmarama lists Lord Shiva, ( Hinduism's God called ?The Destroyer?) as the first Hatha Yoga teacher. There are many types of Yoga. Besides the Ashtanga Yoga of Patanjali, - the most famous forms of yoga are those described in the Bhavagad Gita,The Hindus sacred scriptures. The best-known part of the epic Mahabharata, The Gita mentions Karma, Jnana, and Bhakti Yoga. These are not different types of yoga but are different applications of yoga to daily life. Since Yoga means to unite they are all part of the whole. In addition to these, Hatha, Raja, Tantra, and Integral Yoga. The concept presented is the body contains a network of channels for divine and cosmic energy. Where these channels cross, they create pulse points of psychic and spiritual energy in the body known as chakras. There are said to be as much as 88,000 chakras throughout the human body, but ... of these, only seven are considered to be of supreme importance, Each has its own corresponding color, musical sound, psychological function, stone and gems, symbols, endocrine gland, internal organ, illnesses and ailments. Tantra, sometimes called Kundalini Yoga, is the worship of God as the Divine Mother; (for those who are femininely inclined) it stresses the union of the male and female aspects of the individual, To Wake the Snake. Tantra's most important and unique characteristic is its use of sexual imagery to portray enlightenment, the return to Oneness beyond duality of life. When Kundalini has been awakened, as a result of secret yogic techniques, she rises through the chakras of the spine slithering like a snake upward to reunion with Shiva at the crown of the head. When god and goddess unite in sexual embrace, enlightenment occurs, illusion vanishes, and there is only One. This rising Kundalini flow also causes one to go into an altered state of consciousness, as the heart chakra opens. This can be one of the most dangerous practices in yoga and is not to be underestimated in its ability to harm. Connected with the Kundalini practice is an elaborate occult system that sees the human body as integrated to within and without. The occultists world view is summed up by the statement as ?within so without.? The Beatles sang a song influenced by the Maharishi ?life flows within you an without you.? Yogis have the ability to slow down their breathing surviving on almost no oxygen and to remain motionless for hours, thus freeing themselves from the ?illusion? of this life. Without going into all the different aspects and functions of each yoga, l would like for us to examine the one most commonly practiced, Hatha yoga. The goal of advanced yoga students is to attain their highest possible degree of physical, mental, and spiritual integration. Ultimately to reach union with Brahma, the Hindu concept of the cosmic God. Although many in our country engage in yoga classes simply for exercise, it is a fact that yoga migrated to the west first as a spiritual discipline. At the time Vegetarianism and nonviolence were promoted quite successfully as key elements of yogic philosophy. It actually helped change the culture and promote the hippie lifestyle which later transformed and matured into the new age movement we have today. Today it is now popular to bring the children to Yoga classes to calm them down from their hyperactivity and get them under control. The typical American taking yoga classes has little or no idea of the how?s and why's of yoga's seeming effectiveness. Yoga is a series of exercises and postures (asanas) which are advertised as a way to tone up, reduce stress and experience tranquility. In the traditional understanding, physical yoga has a great deal more to do with the practitioner's invisible, ?subtle? body, than it does with the flesh and bones and muscles that encase it. While yoga does purport to first of all work on the muscular, glandular, and physical nervous systems, its real import, as Danielou says, is as ?a process of control of the gross body which aims at freeing the subtle body.? (Danielou, p. 18). This subtle body is extremely complex, but can be superficially described as consisting of 72,000 invisible psychic channels called nadis, which constitute an other-dimensional body that directly corresponds to the physical, or gross body. she subtle body is connected to the gross body at several points, which are the seven chakra points. Almost all those who practice new age therapies would be familiar with energy points called chakras. There is no Hinduism without its practice, so it is essential and spiritual. There is no yoga that is strictly aimed for the physical body, it is essentially spiritual because of its purpose. Yoga is used to escape from this unreal world of time and sense which is called maya, an illusion. The goal is to reach moksha, a Hindu Nirvanna. The word yoga is Sanskrit; it derives from a verbal root, yuj, meaning ?to yoke or join or fasten or harness, as in horses to a chariot; to concentrate the mind in order to obtain union with the Universal Spirit; to be absorbed in meditation.?' Its meaning in plain language is union or yoking with the God consciousness. Yoga being an intrinsic part of Hinduism. Swami Vishnudevananda, well known authority of Yoga, in his book ?The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga? explains the purpose of Yoga, ?It is the duty of each developed man to train his body to the highest degree of perfection so that it may be used to pursue spiritual purposes... the aim of all yoga practice is to achieve truth wherein the individual soul identifies itself with the supreme soul of God.? In the Hindu philosophy is taught that the ultimate reality is consciousness or energy (God-Brahman). Each individual soul (Atman) has seven energy centers known as chakras in his body that run along the spinal column. By opening up these energy centers aligning these chakras, for the energy to merge with the ultimate cosmic energy and to experience ?Atman who is Brahman.? Focusing on a series of stretching exercises, breathing practices, and meditation to reach a state of peace and harmony, this physical discipline is merely a means to an end. It is a spiritual exercise and the spiritual awakening is really the serpent power (Kundalini) an energy that when released streams up the spine, where tremors, spasms and sometimes violent shaking and twisting are experienced. The yoga positions are designed to reach the state of Samadhi, or a state of union with self as God. Physical yoga is an expression when its postures bring the subtle body into a specific alignment with the physical which will alter the consciousness of the participant. In other words one is practicing Hinduism when doing their Hatha Yoga exercises.

Hey I say if america wants to nuke them let them.I knoew GEORGE BUSH knows the Lord and I am sure he has prayerfully given it on to the Lord. But I SAY HEY EHY NOT.mAYBE SOME GOOD WILL COME OUT OF THIS WAR.like many will hopefully turn to the tru GOD

It is very important and we have to be alert in the word of God so that we can fight the good fight