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Playboy's naked yoga angers Hindu leaders

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By The Drum Team, Editorial

October 25, 2010 | 2 min read

Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner has come under fire from Hindu leaders outraged at the magazine's attempts to cash in on naked yoga.

Videos on Playboy's website showing Sara Jean Underwood, a scantly-clad former Playmate of the Year, performing yoga poses have angered Hindu elders who say they are an attempt to commercialise an ancient spiritual ritual.

"Hindus are upset over what is the misuse of yoga by Playboy for mercantile greed and we are urging the organisation to withdraw all its yoga-related products," said Rajan Zed, president of the Universal Society of Hinduism.

"Yoga is one of the six systems of orthodox Hindu philosophy and it is highly revered in Hinduism. It is a serious mental and physical discipline by means of which the human soul can unite with the universal soul."

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