Dear teacher, people who attend yoga classes reportedly have the eye of insight opened by the fourth session. They can leave their bodies and see everything.
In Islam, by contrast, this requires extensive spiritual discipline and observance of many religious rulings. What is the difference between the two?
Answer 3310
Yogis, through their yoga sessions, exercises, stretches, postures and breathing practices, are engaged in worshipping various deities!
Yoga is far too powerless to open anyone’s eye of insight!
What opens in yoga are certain portals and fissures deep within the human brain—or, in more scientific terms, a form of stimulation of the body’s endocrine glands. Although yoga does stimulate the human spirit, this activity is not directed towards spiritual elevation.
Opening portals and windows within a person to the unseen world does not mean that the soul has been set free to soar or ascend. Breaking free of the body’s confines does not always mean that the spirit is taking flight; it may instead lead to a spiritual free fall. In more dangerous cases, it can expose the body’s spiritual system and place it at the disposal of devils and jinn.
The improper activation of the body’s endocrine glands may weaken a person’s inner faculties, while devils steal away their spiritual energy.
Islamic spiritual disciplines have no equal. Their aim is to attain spiritual graces, not to open a window onto the unseen. The wayfarer journeying towards God seeks nothing in worship but God’s good pleasure. The path of servitude accepts no condition or aim that is not directed towards God. God Himself opens the eye of the heart and grants people insight. This opening does not mean only visual revelations; it also encompasses profound states of the heart, an intense warmth in one’s connection with the All-Merciful, and sacred attractions—all without equal or counterpart.
Sincerity in worship brings one closer to union with God. Making worship conditional or turning it into a transaction extinguishes the sincerity of servitude.
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