Laughter If Gandhi took a yoga class

That's very funny. But I don't think Gandhi had to worry about a mortgage or credit card debt.
Or maybe that's why he sold all his clothes and went around in a bed sheet.
 
He may not have had to worry about a mortgage or debt but he worried about a whole nation's freedom from Imperialism & the partition of a great country into two countries & the terrible violence that would follow.

What he wore is a 'dhoti' a traditional item of clothing still worn by many Indians even today. His was special as he wove the cotton himself on a traditional spinning wheel as a protest against the British who were buying cheap cotton from India, exporting it back to the UK & then sending it back to India to be sold to the locals at exorbitant prices.

He was a great soul & a wise man, a man who practised Yoga in its truest form. The father of modern India.

Mala
 
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It's funny (more the instructor's role than Gandhi's) and sad at the same time... how far most westerners are removed from the real essence of yoga.
 
@Ollin I think that is the purpose of the video. Not so much laughing at Gandhi but more at the instructors, the way yoga is learned & is being taught The sarcasm about the names of the poses, what is being worn, the idea of fasting highlight the whole superficiality of what essentially is a way of life & how little understanding there is about the many components that make yoga what it is.
 
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