Victory and the God of Death, TRR: Episode and Posture 20

TRR: Episode and Posture 20

Title: Victory and the God of Death

You’ve learned the meaning and application in the use of the term yoga---but what about the oldest context, and what does it have to do with yoga today? Join us for this, another closer look if yoga is mentioned in the Bible, and more.

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#Yoga , #Breathwork , #Meditation , #Visualization , #Deception , #Paganworship

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Welcome to The Returning Raven: Clarity Points for Truth, where we discern how pagan worship, specifically yoga in all its forms and philosophies, infects and impacts the church, the family and you. It’s time to get out of the grey, and into the Light...to worship in truth!  

Today we are moving forward in my book, Unearthing Yoga’s Ancient Roots: Exposing Sorcery and Its Transcultural Reach and will be going over Posture or Chapter 20 titled: Victory and the God of Death 

Where we'll be doing a quick review of terms and worldview so you stay tracking, and briefly touch again on the difference between prayer and magic.

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I’m your host Dr. Alana Arguello. Today we  will also look at the historical meaning, context and application of …yoga! Expounding on Chapter 19 in my book, Unearthing Yoga’s Ancient Roots: Exposing Sorcery and Its Transcultural Reach, available on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DQVJ4QR4

Dr. Arguello takes a literal, historical-grammatical view of the Word of God.

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Dr, Arguello's Book: Unearthing Yoga’s Ancient Roots: Exposing Sorcery and Its Transcultural Reach (Amazon's weblink below):

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DQVJ4QR4

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For Book and Show Information videos, as well as 10 Myths: Introducing the Yoga You Don’t Know, please visit Dr. Arguello’s website and media:

https://www.thereturningraven.com

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Host: Dr. Alana Arguello (Apologist, Author)
TRR Managing Media Editor: JA

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Transcript

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Welcome to The Returning Raven, Clarity Points for Truth, where we look closer at the yoga you don't know. The one with hidden forms, worldview, sorcery, and philosophy that clouds and deceptively influences culture, church, family, and you. I'm Dr. Alana Arguello. It's time to leave the fog, get out of the gray, and into the light. Join me today at The Clarity Point. Hello, welcome to The Returning Raven, Clarity Points for Truth. I'm your host, Dr. Alana Arguello. I'm really excited to share posture, or chapter 20, titled The God of Death and His Chariot, from my book Unearthing Yoga's Ancient Roots, Exposing Sorcery and Its Transcultural Reach, available on Amazon. Previously, we discussed gods and chariots, as well as considered how words matter and what yoga has meant historically. Its use and application in cultures and sacred text reveals its consistent theme of a false gospel that is in direct rebellion to the true gospel. And we looked at how it connects to meaning and application in the various forms of yoga that are practiced today, with some consideration into how its philosophy is impacting hearts and minds, even on those that don't practice one of its many forms. You may have been surprised by the meaning and application of yoga in episode 16, Predatory Witches. Now we are going to really focus in on the meaning of yoga's hitched up to chariots and draft animals, yoke to yoga, how its ancient meaning developed and is reflected in the system of yoga you understand today. Buddhist and Jans engaged in forms of what we call yoga well before it officially became a term for the systematic yoga we understand today. But even the term yoga began to appear with increasing frequency between 300 BC and 400 AD. However, the earliest use of the term yoga is found in the Vedas nearer 1500 BC. In the more ancient usage, it was closely linked to the word that meant to step or stride within a context of to mount an assault or advance in a rush or charge in wartime. One sacred text applies yoga as the yoking devices and equipment for a war chariot, like animals, horses, or bullocks and harnesses. Indoologist and yoga scholarship demonstrates a link between yoking to a draft animal and a sort of vision quest of the mind towards some transcendent object. In other words, it was meant for an external journey of a warrior in war or someone that went on an internal journey. Historically, Chiyats hitched to draft animals for war originated in ancient Mesopotamia around 3000 BC. This leads to the possibility that the forerunners of the sacred writings of the Vedas had contact with that region between 2000 and 1500 BC, if not earlier. Yogis could be wanderers or warriors. The warrior yogi aimed for and willed his death to earn a place with the gods. In a sort of mirroring of these warrior yogis, the Vedic priests, who were ritual specialists, would practice internal visualization of themselves on their chariots going back and forth on a journey of ascent and descent to pierce the disk of the sun. So the pagan priest of yoga tried to reach the same goal as the warriors out on a journey of war via exercises of imagination within. Instead of real life war, the struggle could be played out through internal exercises, coupled with maybe some external exercises of their body, but all in a controlled space where they're controlling their mind and willing life. Later in a sacred text around 200 to 400 AD, the warrior would be described as yoked or hitched to yoga, as a divine chariot would carry him through the sun to heaven where the heroes and gods resided. Again, the Vedic priest would eventually visualize and meditate to be these warriors on war chariots, yogas, as an internal journey, an imaginative means to link the mythic divine to themselves. Eventually, yoga would get linked with the opposite of war, a word meaning peace, to signify yoga as both war and peace. While the two terms always stood in opposition, they represented the ritual process of yoga. The direct term yoga captured the movement part of yoga, and the new context added being still in repose. This is why in yoga you see a combination of movement postures or dynamic exercise matched with sitting poses or still breathing. The chief aim, whether the real ancient warriors or the visualizing yogi priest, was a willed death to not be born again, so they could find a place with the gods and heroes. The warriors, the external journeying ones, and the yoga meditative visualizing ones, did not will their death as a personal sacrifice, but instead the goal was victory over death. Again, we see yoga historically tied to a false gospel. It's not the one and only Jesus that conquers death, but you and everyone else can practice yoga and gain your own victory over death. A text dating to the third century BC records the systematic account of yoga given by the god of death to a young ascitic. Within this account, the god of death used the writer and the chariot to describe the self, body, mind. We may compare this thought with Plato's chariot allegory, which he uses to describe the soul-body dualism issue. To be able to get to the afterlife or the world of heaven, soma sacrifice. Soma is an important word that we will address later. For now, see if you notice or hear that word in the culture today. So the yogi, to get to the afterlife, the yogi must ritualistically travel past the sun on a chariot. Daily in a sacrificial program meant to be difficult. You are to struggle in the practice to ascend and descend daily till you conquer death and are free from this elusive world. It is difficult because the performance of yoga in sacrifice and release, ascend to heaven and descend or return, must be done to completion every day. And the text informs us that the other gods are pleased and satisfied when you do the work of sacrifice of yoga for yourself. They are pleased when you work for your salvation. Let's pause and let that sink in for a moment. They, the pagan gods of yoga, which in yoga, you are them and they are you as all God. But they want you to work for your own salvation and believe that you can do enough to get it and have victory over death and be God. Recently I've had some people ask me about pranayama yoga, breathing exercises. I address it in throughout the book, but for now, understand that during the third and fourth centuries AD, yoga practice, while keeping visionary exercises, also developed the external to be within the deepest parts of a person. One such development, for example, was to move the external seven solar winds to the notion of inner breaths. The ancient form of yoga and its translation into the imaginations of the Vedic poets would carry forward in the East in the way of gaining secret hidden knowledge of the nature of the true self. During the time of the first thousand years after Christ, yoga techniques became a means for projecting the mind into higher worlds and into higher states of consciousness. Interestingly, Hindu and Buddhist cultures witness this phenomenon simultaneously. This practice would set the stage for the development of yoga physiology and the little self and higher self within. And spells or formulas, mantras would get laced into the programmer system as well. Now, I briefly mentioned Plato earlier. As we move forward, you'll be given many details regarding the migration of Eastern thoughts and practices. But for now, simply understand that Greece and the East were already in exchange with Alexander the Great and others during this time frame. What does that mean for you if you're a Christian? It's important for you to understand that there was an exchange of information, systems, and worship practices of East and West before and during the New Testament times. In other words, Eastern yoga, even in a systematic form, it before, during, and after the earthly incarnation and ministry of Jesus Christ. And the East was already in trade and bringing in its specific pagan influence to the region of the disciples, apostles, and early church. Now that you know this of history and trade, and again, you'll learn more specifics later as I give you details on the subject, I pray when you read your New Testament authentically and in historical context, when you read Paul and Peter, you'll have eyes to see and ears to hear. When maybe loved ones or professing Christians try to tell you yoga is not warned about in the Bible, when you take the word as truth and a historical document and understand how cultural anthropology has been illuminated by archaeology, then you now get that they just cannot intelligently or rightly make that claim. But what will prove even more that this is trench warfare, that there's some serious deception happening with yoga, is that too often, when presented with facts and truth, those, even Christians caught in the spell and ensnared by yoga, will still kick against the goats, will still push back, sometimes in anger or mockery. They will dig their heels in, ground themselves, that no, that's not what yoga means for me. That's not what it is today. It's time to wake up, church. Double double toil and trouble, fire burn, and cauldron bubble. What cunning craft is this thing called yoga? Church, please choose this day, whom you will serve and get the pagan worship out. Thank you for joining me today on the Returning Raven. I'm your host, Dr. Alana Arguello. I'll see you at the next Clarity Point for Truth. Thank you for joining me today on the Returning Raven. I'm Dr. Alana Arguello. For a closer look again at truth, I'll see you at the next Clarity Point.