Yogic Reflections (Sharath Jois)
Yogic Reflections (Sharath Jois)
श्वास प्रश्वास योगेन दीर्घायुः प्राप्यते न
(Śvāsa praśvāsa yogena dīrghāyuḥ prāpyate naraḥ)
"Through the yoga of inhalation and exhalation, man attains long life"
- Trad. wisdom
I said the following in my post just now, earlier today, about the sudden death of yoga master Sharath Jois:
His father died at age 96.
That was wrong, I meant to say: His GRANDFATHER died at age 93.
Still pretty far up there though, longevity-wise. Good genes. Anyway, I consider this a candidate mRNA vaccine death til proven otherwise. For cases like this, I adopt the French/Japanese legal standard - the vaccine is guilty til proven innocent.
Here are some famous yoga or yoga-adjacent masters with their lifespans:
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888-1989): 100 years Known as "father of modern yoga"
B.K.S. Iyengar (1918-2014): 95 years Founder of Iyengar Yoga
K. Pattabhi Jois (1915-2009): 93 years Founder of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga
Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950): 78 years Developer of Integral Yoga
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1918-2008): 90 years Founder of Transcendental Meditation
Indra Devi (1899-2002): 102 years Known as "First Lady of Yoga"
Sri Yukteswar Giri (1855-1936): 81 years, strict guru of Paramahansa Yogananda
Satya Sai Baba (1926-2011): 85 years
They tend to be a long-lived bunch. To be fair, there are exceptions, famous yogi types who didn’t even make 60, such as Ramakrishna, Vivekananda, and Paramahansa Yogananda himself. And not all in the above lists were primarily Hatha (asana) centric guys. But you get the idea.
Here’s what the New York Times said about Sharath Jois:
On a typical day, Mr. Jois would awake at about 1 a.m. to train before starting to teach around noon, eating just a small bowl of oats and sometimes a “huge green smoothie”.
On Monday, Mr. Jois had taught a low-intensity version of Ashtanga yoga that he had recently developed, called the “Active Series,” to instructors from around the world at a seminar at the University of Virginia, Mr. Bultman said.
That afternoon, he went on a hike with about 50 students at Humpback Rocks, about a half hour from campus. Appearing fatigued, Mr. Jois was trailing the group when he sat on a bench about a third of a mile into the trail, and later fell off it, Mr. Bultman said.
Students’ attempts to revive him using CPR failed, and he was pronounced dead moments after emergency medical workers arrived.
The Humpback Rocks is described as a: 4.2-mile loop trail near Lyndhurst, Virginia. Generally considered a moderately challenging route.
I know this area. I’ve hiked around there, in-between many residential programs I’ve done at the Monroe Institute, just 20 minutes from that trail, near Charlottesville. This isn’t super dangerous or serious climbing stuff, nowhere near as badass as for example the Napali trail on Kauai coast. It’s not exactly the north face of the Eiger. Just gentle swells rising to foothill or gentle elevations of well under 5000 feet. Nor does it trigger altitude sickness as does, for example, the hike up Mauna Loa in Hawaii.
All this is to admit that yes, anything can happen to anybody at any time. Of course I understand that. Even young people have experienced sudden drop-dead syndrome long before the Covid rat poison mRNA vaccine ever came out. I get that.
But Jois is an unusual case. We can’t be sure if he was actually vaccinated, and if so with what crazy version of the soup. But I’d bet anything that there was a strict regulation in the Mysore shala that all students had to be spiked. And as a famous traveling teacher, he would’ve been considered a superspreader (a ludicrous designation) without it.
I don’t mean to be disrespectful at all. He was a great exemplar and teacher of the art. My comments may seem super crass, and are purely speculative. I don’t care. He was a public figure. If questioning his manner of death, dropping dead suddenly mid-field, mid-game, under mild exertion, like thousands of young American athletes (elementary, middle school, high school and college) have since January 2021 up to the present day, way beyond the expected background figures, if such questioning can save even one future life, isn’t it worth at least considering?
Something struck me as really odd during the era of the fake Covid pandemic. Yoga people should be stereotypically foremost in promoting all-natural health. Like, follow nature’s way, go Ayurvedic, yoga, green smoothies to be preferred over Big Mac and a Supersize Coke - that kind of thing. Alternative health.
And yet, when the diktat came down from Big Gov, Big Med, and “Brought to you by Pfizer” corporate media about the mRNA rat vax requirement, it seemed to me at the time that yoga types were among the very most vociferously eager to soak it all up and guzzle on down all the mind and body poison. Talk about almost literally drinking the Kool-Aid! That was mysterious to me. Why not more principled resistance and critical thought?
A good detective takes nothing for granted. An autopsy should be done. Perhaps it will find the signature disgusting and lethal long white rubbery clots filling Sharath’s arteries. Such clots have now been found in thousands of cardiac drop deads - but only since January 2021.