{"id":3830,"date":"2012-01-21T09:41:51","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T04:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/?p=3830"},"modified":"2012-01-21T09:41:51","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T04:41:51","slug":"recall-yoga-mats-depicting-deities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/madhumati\/recall-yoga-mats-depicting-deities\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Recall yoga-mats depicting Deities&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Radhe Radhe !\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Perturbed Hindus have asked for the immediate withdrawal of yogamats carrying images of Hindu deities sold by a Germany based firm Yogistar, calling it inappropriate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that Hindu deities were meant to be worshipped in temples or home shrines and not to be trampled under one\u2019s feet while doing yoga.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, argued that these deities were highly revered in Hinduism and inappropriate usage of Hindu deities or concepts for commercial or other agenda was not okay as it hurt the devotees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Hinduism was the oldest and third largest religion of the world with about one billion adherents and a rich philosophical thought and it should not be taken lightly. Symbols of any faith, larger or smaller, should not be mishandled, Rajan Zed stressed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Yogamats Hindu devotees would find inappropriate included those carrying images of Hindu deities Shiva, Lakshmi and Ganesha, which are classified as \u201cYogamatte G\u00f6tter-Edition\u201d with each carrying a\u00a0\u00a0price tag of\u00a0\u00a024.90 Euros (about 1623 Indian Rupees). Based in Wiggensbach (Germany) with contact information given in Wendelins (Germany) and branch in Switzerland, its Gesch\u00e4ftsf\u00fchrer (managing director) are listed as: Matthias Beck, Uwe Haardt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Yogistar Vertriebs with tagline &#8220;designed fur yoga&#8221;, which sells online at \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/yogistar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">yogistar.com<\/a>\u201d, also carries yoga related tops, pants, shirts, leggings, jerseys, CDs\/DVDs\/Videos, blocks, belts, bottles, bags, stools, T-shirts, books; besides malas, meditationshockers, meditation timers, netis, teas, ayurvedic kajals, meditation cushions, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radhe Radhe !\u00a0 Perturbed Hindus have asked for the immediate withdrawal of yogamats carrying images of Hindu deities sold by a Germany based firm Yogistar, calling it inappropriate. \u00a0 Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/madhumati\/recall-yoga-mats-depicting-deities\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-madhumati"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3831,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830\/revisions\/3831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}