On January 11th, 2016, I started a daily practice of writing a joke meditation of the day called Cracked Pot Meditations. I was still recovering from the treatment of cancer, and I was having very challenging cognitive issues, so I chose just to put something simple and easy to write every day. Posting it to the blog allowed me to have some accountability. Some of those meditations were poorly written and unedited. I have gone back and begun editing these and adding an illustration, starting with the April 27th meditation. I hope you enjoy.
Meditation for August 7th
Yoga is for Nazis
Yoga is a popular Eastern form of meditation practiced by hippies across our great country. They will incorporate many Hindu religious practices to enhance their yoga practice.
First off, to understand the Hindu religion, one must understand the Hindu caste system.
There are four castes: Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas & Shudras. The Brahmins are the priestly class, and often the whitest and most Aryan, or Persian, while the Shudras and later the untouchables are the darker-skinned Indians from the southern part of the sub-continent.
The Brahmins also used a swastika as a symbol of luck and auspiciousness. You were lucky if you were at the top of the caste system, practicing yoga: white.
In the Hindu caste system, it is believed that the Brahmins are a higher form of human over the other, darker-skinned castes; therefore, they are direct conduits to all the gods.
The Buddhists and the Jainists adopted the caste system and the swastika into their own religious rituals.
The Nazis adopted the idea of Aryanism and the Swastika when they took power in Germany.
They believed that the early Aryans were white, blonde-haired, blue-eyed gods who created modern civilization before being bred out by the impure.
Heinrich Himmler was even a massive advocate of yoga and encouraged his SS soldiers to practice it, for it was the pursuit of the real ‘Aryan’ people. He even carried on his person a battered copy of the Bhagavad Gita, which he used as inspiration, with all its tales of terror and morbid cruelty.
There is more to the role that yoga played in the Holocaust. Still, there is limited space in a meditation to expound on how the Nazis used yoga, Aryanism, the caste system, and the swastika for one of the twentieth century’s greatest monstrosities against humankind.
Therefore, yoga is for Nazis.
Namaste, mein Fuhrer.
Prayer
Here are some chants to do if you are going to be a Nazi and practice yoga:
OM Saha Na Vavatu
Saha Nau Bhunaktu
Saha Viryam Karavavahai
Tejasvi Navadhi Tamastu
Ma Vidvishavahai
OM Shanti, Shanti, Shanti
-May we be protected together
-May we eat together
-May we create strength against anyone different from us
-May our intellect be superior to anyone else (especially those who do Pilates)
-May there be only hostility towards those different from us
-Om, war, war, war
Namaste
-What up, whitey? Keeping it white?
Lokah smasta sukhino bhavantu
-May the entire universe be filled with just us and our kind
Jai Sri Sadguru Maharaj Ki. Jai!
May we overcome all who are different than us. Victory to us!
Craft
Try some regular ole stretching.
Goal
Sometimes we don’t know the whole story of something that looks innocent enough and cool enough that we dive in and make it our entire lives, and don’t realize that it isn’t as great as it seems.