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In what respect?

It looks beyond the culture that it is in. It is similar to positive psychology that studies how people can be happier. It sees that some people approach God by devotion. But others approach God through study like learning the bible. Then others approach God through meditation. What is God to the yogis? This answers that question. Wikipedia says, under Yoga Philosophy, "In all branches of yoga, the ultimate goal is the attainment of an eternal state of perfect consciousness." Sigmund Freud was familiar with this. Sigmund Freud described an "oceanic feeling" as a sense of limitless and unbounded oneness with the universe.

These are altered states of conscousness that are attained without drugs. In Positive Psychology they call it flow where a person can feel a state of extreme euphoria where time stops. The Beatles learned TM (Transcendental Meditation). Raja means king. Meditation is called raja yoga. The Pope meditates everyday so he is practising raja yoga. Jet Li is a national treasure of China. He also meditates everyday. He is a Buddhist.

So the yogis do not say that Jet Li is good and that the Pope is crazy or vica versa. They are both practising raja yoga just like the Beatles.