A Perennial Digression

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Yoga is Not Demonic

Yoga is Not Demonic

Yoga and the Christian Tradition

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What is hatha yoga? - Get to know the yoga of the Sanskrit source texts

"Yoga" (योग) is a Sanskrit term meaning "yoke" or "union" and is, technically, one of the six orthodox darshanas, philosophical schools or systems, of what is now collectively called Hinduism. Yoga has a plurality of definitions in classical Indian literature: Katha Upanisad 6.10-11, for example, defines yoga as "firm restraint of the senses," by means …

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