Many people think that it is exaggerating to think that yoga or meditation are sin. They do not understand why it is a violation of the first God's Commandment: "I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me." (Exodus 20:2-3)

Person who indulges himself in eating probably does not even think that he is breaking the first Commandment of God's moral law (by looking for salvation in the food). His non-awareness of the fact does not change the truth that he is looking for salvation in eating.

"For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things." (Philippians 3:18-19)

If we rebuke person who indulges in eating for his sin, that person could justify himself that he will eventually die of starvation. Or, a person who is exercising yoga breathing could say that he has to breathe anyway, so why could not he do it in a healthy and useful way. So the problem is in the function of what we are doing. If we are doing something in order to please ourselves spiritually, than by doing this we are breaking first Commandment of God's moral law.

Only unsatisfied person is desperately looking for happiness and pleasure. If we are really relying on God and accepting His salvation, we are not going to make some other actions to save ourselves "a little bit more", as if God could not help us completely. Then our actions are not going to be selfish and egocentric.

Some actions are no doubt unnecessary e.g. meditation and therefore no doubt sinful. Other are necessary and that is why they represent a very smart temptation as a person can cover up his selfish and self-righteous motives with it. The person who indulges in eating can eat healthy and with moderately but at the same time to be a glutton. Proud and self-righteous person can do good deeds and think it is the reason of his righteousness before God.

If they would come to know God's character in a better way through His word, many people would realize that they are tired and burdened, and that they were looking for comfort and salvation in many necessary as well as in unnecessary doings.

ROLE OF SUPERSTITION

Until a man with his obstinacy has succeeded to suppress the voice of his conscience, he has been receiving through it the truth that it is a sin to look for salvation in meditating or in some other method. This divine truth is in conflict with man's sinful nature and it results in feelings of fear and guilt. The Satan is smartly trying to extinguish this truth.

When man discards the testimony of the Spirit and violates the first Commandment of God's moral law with any "technique", Satan has right to the sinner because of the committed sin, and sometimes Satan attacks the sinful person with such an evil that he destroys him or her completely. Then, in order to suppress the voice of conscience of his victim, he induces the sinner that the cause of the failure in some "technical" error. That is how the sinner suffers and burdens himself on a wrong plane, misunderstanding the spiritual cause of his or her problem.

Satan came up with different ways of superstition trying to mislead different minds. Here are some examples:

"Everything is going bad because of your horoscope!"

"Someone did the magic to you. You should find your talisman!"

"I got up on my left leg, that's the cause why everything is going wrong!"

Of course, some cheats can be subtle:

For example, when one attendant of transcendental meditation got his mantra (a word wich causes magic reactions by repeating) it was said to him "not to reveal this mantra to anybody, because it could be very bad for him". Before the demons show their power over their medium on psychical and spiritual plane and destroy him visibly, they induce him to violate a rule (to reveal his mantra to someone else or similar) in order that he thinks, when troubles appear, that the problem is in breaking a "technical" rule, instead in the separation from God - in breaking the moral law.