Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
You read it right! Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced that in order to stop global warming, the people of the world need to change their lifestyles – by doing more yoga.
The Daily Caller reported on a United Nations-sponsored speech in which Modi specifically recommended yoga as a way to combat climate change.
“Yoga awakens a sense of oneness and harmony with self, society and nature,” Modi said. “By changing our lifestyle and creating consciousness, it can help us deal with climate change and create a more balanced world.”
Promotion of yoga is very much a part of Modi’s agenda – but he’s talking about the real thing, not the “bastardized” western version that so many Hindu’s find offensive.
Modi went on to say that his vision of a change in lifestyle as a way to combat global warming was the reason why he encouraged the United Nations General Assembly to declare June 21 as the International Day of Yoga.
Just imagine what would happen if the Pope called upon the people of the world to participate in an International Day of the Rosary to combat global warming. The “progressives” of the world would start tearing out their collective hair and run shrieking into the sunset.
But we’d stand a better chance of defeating global warming through the intercession of Our Lady than with all of the consciousness-raising yogi masters in the world combined.
After all, it’s just exercise, isn’t it?
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