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Yoga as a Path Towards Social and Individual Perfection

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Yoga is very much propagated and claimed in the context of achieving physical well-being because its beneficial effects on our body are well known.  This ensures that yoga not only does not lose its popularity but continues to gain more and more new followers. But yoga is much more and that is why everyone finds in it what they are looking for to improve their life.  But yoga, as we have already said, is not only that. This is a philosophical discipline that has become a lifestyle based on renunciation and mastery of the mind, body, and senses.  It is also a discipline that oscillates between science and metaphysics to which many researchers and Indologists have dedicated themselves, such as an excellent philologist and psychologist, a connoisseur of Indian culture and philosophy, Leon Cyboran (1928-1977), author of the Mystery of Yoga, who tried to carry out an arrangement of the system, revealing its mystery. On this occasion, he considered it opportune to distinguish b...
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Yoga, Samkhya, Śhiva and Third Gender

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Man in his existence is exposed to various vicissitudes that alongside passing joys involve so much pain, which can be alleviated if not completely overcome only thanks to certain religious, ascetic, or meditative practices that bring their followers to greater awareness and union with the Absolute. Knowledge of this has characterized Indian thought practically since the dawn of time, being already present in the civilization of Mohenjo Daro and Harappa, that is, of the Indus Valley dated to around 2500 BC and considered one of the largest and oldest civilizations in the world. It was there that the seal representing a man in mulabandhāsana position, practiced in hatha yoga to control sexual desire, was found. It is therefore certain that the first inhabitants of Sindh, the pre-Aryans already knew yoga and practiced it. The figure on the seal defined by some scientists simply as a yogi by others interpreted as proto-Śiva in its ascetic aspect, in this case exactly as Adiyo...
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