The “spiritual” world today is often filled with superficial replicas of real tradition.
For instance, yoga has become more about image and fitness than about true discipline. Now, anyone with a 200 or 500-hour training certification can claim to be a “teacher.” This might be enough to become a practitioner, but it’s a long way from mastery. And before the influence of Krishnamacharya-often regarded as the father of modern yoga-yoga wasn’t designed for mass appeal in the way we see today. What we see now are often watered-down practices, losing the depth and roots of the real tradition.
Consider the popular color-coded chakra system: while widely accepted, it’s actually a Western, Theosophi...