Do you ever think about how the secularization of yoga could easily happen to Sufism? It already has to Rumi. You can’t really understand his work through currently popular English translations. Both yoga and Rumi as known in American consciousness are basically inventions. https://twitter.com/persianpoetics/status/1261745279860080641">https://twitter.com/persianpo...
I connect them here because there& #39;s a common thread - removing God and religious text or practice in favor of a deculturized "spirituality" that evokes probably similarish feelings without having to actually answer to the traditions that they came from.
Read the thread for some info on why Rumi translations are really inaccurate and also @rozina_ali& #39;s classic piece on the subject if you havent already https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-erasure-of-islam-from-the-poetry-of-rumi">https://www.newyorker.com/books/pag...
The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi

Rumi is often called a mystic, a saint, an enlightened man. He is less frequently described as a Muslim.

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-erasure-of-islam-from-the-poetry-of-rumi
And yes, this whole proces of stripping context is absolutely racist/colonial
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