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Re: A Critique of Yoga Forms [Re: Kickle] * 1
    #12379234 - 04/12/10 04:00 PM (13 years, 9 months ago)

A little note for those interested...Though I couldn't bring myself to read this entire thread...

Patanjali is NOT the originator of yoga...it is said that he synthesized practices that existed before him into what we now call "classical yoga"...in which asana (seat of the sage) is simply referred to as a comfortable position for meditation. It wasn't until roughly 600-800 year later that an asana form was given, and it was not until the nath yogis of the middle ages that Hatha Yoga emerged as a path not to spiritual liberation but to bodily Immortality. The present day asana yoga that is practiced in America, India, and around the world is only about 100-150 years old. The ancient Yogis were not contortionists or simply spiritual meditators...they were portrayed as fiendish individuals, similar to  sorcerers, who would terrorize people through the use of black magic that centered around blood (sometimes human) sacrifice, sexual cults, and efficacious ritual in general. Their concentration was solely on material gain, not spiritual liberation.

Some books:
David Gordon White- Kiss of the Yogini, The Alchemical Body, Sinister Yogis

This guy a a leading scholar in the field and teaches at one of the top Religious Studies programs in the US...UC Santa Barbara.

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Re: A Critique of Yoga Forms [Re: kcobra15]
    #12379241 - 04/12/10 04:01 PM (13 years, 9 months ago)

I am curiously intrigued by this mention of immortality...


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Re: A Critique of Yoga Forms [Re: deCypher] * 1
    #12380089 - 04/12/10 06:16 PM (13 years, 9 months ago)

check out The Alchemical Body...


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Re: A Critique of Yoga Forms [Re: kcobra15]
    #12380092 - 04/12/10 06:17 PM (13 years, 9 months ago)

highest yoga tantra, I GUESS


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Re: A Critique of Yoga Forms [Re: deCypher] * 1
    #12380111 - 04/12/10 06:20 PM (13 years, 9 months ago)

lol who knows ???


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Re: A Critique of Yoga Forms [Re: p4kSouL]
    #12380113 - 04/12/10 06:21 PM (13 years, 9 months ago)

Not me, that's for sure.  Anyone got some online links for this impatient reader??


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