in the 1970s, manickam researched on yoga as a means for finding christ, thereby espousing the cause for a christian yoga and its contribution to indian christian spirituality. during the successive decades, research scholars have also espoused the cause of yoga as a means to find oneness with jesus christ. justin o'brien (1996), finds that oneness with god could be attained only through jesus christ for which he quotes swami rama, who found that yoga was the only means in attaining it. susan bordenkirche (2006) has called for a christ-centric yoga while cyprian consiglio, osb cam. (2015) had strived for a revisitation of indian spirituality as strived by bede griffiths, osb cam., henri le saux, osb and others with special reference to yoga.