If brahmacharya is definitely such a pillar of yoga, then how come yoga thus riddled with gender scandals? Exactly why do reports like William Broad’s “Yoga and Intercourse Scandals, no real surprise right here” actually capture our very own interest?
I think a lot of which comes from the impact of religious rehearse with commercialism.
Sex sells. We would be in assertion if we were to imagine that the recent interest in yoga from inside the West is strictly because our very own yearning for spiritual sustenance. It is true that our consumerist culture has established the spiritual hunger which causes all of our wanting. But usage try our very own social practice, and far of pilates has been repackaged and marketed to you as treat food—easy spirituality to relaxing our very own hunger pangs. We easily omit the much less palatable bits like “celibacy/sexual self-control.”