[Urbanstudy] The Saddest Weeks In The Environmental History Of India

[Bharati Chaturvedi]

Yes - and  it also shows how our understanding of yoga is also rather reductionist. A key feature is to control one's desires, and mind, which of course, comes to mean consume less and to crave for less. 

But that bit is of course sidelined in most people's understanding of yoga, including those who teach, quite often. Increasingly, I've been hearing yoga teachers suggest that one should breathe and so on to calm down, but still go on handing on to our riches. I find that really fascinating-a sort of yoga for consumers. 



Bharati Chaturvedi
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On Sep 30, 2014, at 12:35 PM, Kabir Khan <kabirkhan1989 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> The Saddest Weeks In The Environmental History Of India
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> Mr. Modi’s recent speech, which received a standing ovation from the Indian delegation in a largely empty United Nations General assembly, is a representation of our collective ignorance. The popularly elected Prime Minister hinted that yoga is a way to mitigate climate change. One is not sure whether he was ridiculing the threat of climate change or mocking the ancient science of Yoga. This is not the first time Mr. Modi has shown his ignorance about climate change. His past statements are well documented where he declared that climate is not changing, our lifestyle is.
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> A request out of utter humour was posted on the Indian Youth Climate Network Page – “Our sincere requests to our ‘popular’ Prime Minister- please don’t make unnecessary linkages. Yoga is good for health but definitely not a strategy of mitigating climate change. Changing in lifestyle as you stated is needed and should start from your own very self, maybe you should learn from your counterpart in Uruguay. Too much to ask for, is it?!” received absurd responses, which were later removed by the admin.
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> Many of them actually made connections between yoga and climate change mitigation. According to one of the commentator, yoga helps to still the mind, and that ways we can face climate change. Most people who read it were not able to make any sense of it. It shows our collective ignorance and failure of scientific understanding. Continued here.....
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