Pat Robertson warns a viewer of the insidious spiritual danger lurking in yoga studios. We were among the first to re-report on the threat to American moral fiber known as yoga pants. Today, I join Pat Robertson in sounding the alarm yet again. Slutty pants aren’t the only peril brewing in yoga studios across this great land. Your diabolical ‘barking frog’ and ‘leaping dog yawning’ poses are actually a spiritual snare for the unwary. You may be seeking flexibility and fitness, but before you know it, your yoga instructors Becka and Cyndi will have you chanting and praying to a Hindu god…And Pat doesn’t get a dime from that organization.
As you have surmised, Pat shared his wisdom about yoga with a caller on Tuesday’s ‘The 700 Club.’ In this episode, a viewer turned to Pat when she found herself in Santa Fe, the center of New Age spirituality and such. Her daughter wants to take a yoga class, but Pat has to sign off on it first…And it’s such a good thing he weighed in!
Robertson said yoga tricks people into “praying to a Hindu deity.” They achieve this sneaky end by having participants repeat mantras in ‘Hindu’ – which Pat seems to believe is a language. The danger, he explained, is “you don’t know what the Hindu says, but actually it’s a prayer to a Hindu deity and so it sounds like gibberish.” Robertson further elaborated. “So you’re saying ‘kali, kali, kali,’ but you’re praying to a Hindu deity.” In summation, Pat kills the young girl’s dreams. “Stretching exercise is cool, praying to a Hindu deity is not too cool” declared the king of cool.
Apparently, Pat garnered this knowledge during the sixties, when he and the Beatles hooked up with a Swami in India. The drugs. The music. Pat’s memory is understandably hazy. Of course yoga has long been a part of Hindu spirituality, but modern American yoga is as free of ‘gibberish’ and ‘deities’ as a Zumba class. But beware of ‘the pants.’