Definitions and Descriptions o f Y oga and Y ogi Primary Texts • “Yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of consciousness” - Patañjali's Yogasutra 1.2 • “Yoga is the unity ( ekatva) of one thing with another” - Mlinvij ayottara -tantra 4.4.1 Secondary Authors • In its proper historical and philosophical context... Yoga refers to South Asian Indian paths of spiritual emancipation, or self-transcendence, that bring about a transmutation of consciousness culminating in liberation from the confines of egoic identity or worldly existence (Whicher 6). • [Yoga is] the psychospiritual technology specific to the great civilization of India (Feuerstein 15; quoted in Whicher 6) • The word yoga serves, in general, to designate any ascetic techniqe and any method of meditation. [Yoga is] a livil fossil (Eliade, Yoga 4, 361). • Y oga constitu tes a specific dimension of the Indian spirit , to such a degree that, wherever Indian culture and religion have penetrated, one finds also a more or less pure form of yoga... The generic term, yogi, designates the saint and the mystic as well as the magician, the orgiast, and the common fakir and sorcerer. Each of these types of magic-religious behavior, more-over, corresponds to a specific form of yoga (Eliade, Patanjal i and Yoga 195). Eliade, Mircea. Patanjali and Y oga. New York: Schocken Books, 1975. Print. ---. Yoga: Immortality and Freedom . Trans. Willard R. Trask. 2nd ed. New York: Bollingen Series LVI/Princeton; Pantheon Books, 1958. Print. Feuerstein, Georg. Y oga: The T echnology of Ecstasy . Los Angeles: J.P . Tarcher, 1989. Print. Whicher, Ian. The Integrity of the Yoga Darana: A Reconsideration of Classical Yoga . New Delhi: D.K. Printworld, 2000. Print.

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Definitions and Descriptions of Yoga and Yogi

Primary Texts

Yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of consciousness - Patajali's Yogasutra 1.2

Yoga is the unity (ekatva) of one thing with another - Malinivijayottara-tantra 4.4.1

Secondary Authors

In its proper historical and philosophical context... Yoga refers to South Asian Indian paths of spiritual emancipation, or self-transcendence, that bring about a transmutation of consciousness culminating in liberation from the confines of egoic identity or worldly existence (Whicher 6).

[Yoga is] the psychospiritual technology specific to the great civilization of India (Feuerstein 15; quoted in Whicher 6)

The word yoga serves, in general, to designate any ascetic technique and any method of meditation.

[Yoga is] a livil fossil (Eliade, Yoga 4, 361).

Yoga constitutes a specific dimension of the Indian spirit, to such a degree that, wherever Indianculture and religion have penetrated, one finds also a more or less pure form of yoga...

The generic term, yogi, designates the saint and the mystic as well as the magician, the orgiast, and the common fakir and sorcerer. Each of these types of magic-religious behavior, more-over,corresponds to a specific form of yoga (Eliade, Patanjali and Yoga 195).

Eliade, Mircea. Patanjali and Yoga. New York: Schocken Books, 1975. Print.

---. Yoga: Immortality and Freedom. Trans. Willard R. Trask. 2nd ed. New York: Bollingen Series

LVI/Princeton; Pantheon Books, 1958. Print.

Feuerstein, Georg. Yoga: The Technology of Ecstasy. Los Angeles: J.P. Tarcher, 1989. Print.

Whicher, Ian. The Integrity of the Yoga Darsana: A Reconsideration of Classical Yoga. New Delhi:

D.K. Printworld, 2000. Print.