Ishan Shivanand compares modern yoga studios to a veteran watching Rambo and hating the fake portrayal of soldiers. Real yoga is spiritual awakening, not performance or fitness. Studios teach it like acting instead of transformation.
Long ago, I was sitting with my friend and we were watching a movie called Rambo. It is about a soldier who goes into the jungle, who's fighting. Now, the buddy with whom I was watching the movie, he was a real veteran. He has seen real action. And when we both started to watch the movie together and we were seeing on film what a Hollywood veteran does, the real veteran looked at the TV screen And he started to complain. He said, "What nonsense! Real soldiers don't act in this manner." He was frustrated to see the Hollywood soldier because he was a real soldier. The same sometimes happens with me when I go to a yoga studio and they just teach yoga as exercise. Then even I think to me what the soldier thought to the Hollywood soldier. At what is this? This is not the correct picture.
