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    Vasishta Yoga Samhita (Sanskrit: योगवासिष्ठम्, IAST: yoga-vāsiṣṭham; also known as Maha-Ramayana, Arsha Ramayana, Vasiṣṭha Ramayana, Yogavasistha-Ramayana...
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    Vasishtha (redirect from Vasistha)
    Vasishtha (Sanskrit: वसिष्ठ, lit. 'most excellent', IAST: Vasiṣṭha) is one of the oldest and revered Vedic rishis or sages, and one of the Saptarishis...
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    Rama (section Yoga Vasistha)
    external fate imposed by the gods. – Yoga Vasistha (Vasistha teaching Rama) Tr: Christopher Chapple Yoga Vasistha is a Sanskrit text structured as a conversation...
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  • method of Yoga. — Vasistha to Rama, Yoga Vasistha 6.1.12–13, Rāja yoga Bhakti yoga Cittabhumi Jnana yoga Karma yoga Shinshin-tōitsu-dō, Japanese yoga Knut...
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  • the Yoga Vasistha, as it appears in Swami Venkatesananda's translation. The same stories are included in the Moksopaya, on which the Yoga Vasistha was...
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    incorporating elements from the yogic tradition and texts like the Yoga Vasistha and the Bhagavata Purana, culminating in Swami Vivekananda's full embrace...
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    Kriya Yoga (Sanskrit: क्रिया योग) is a yoga system which consists of a number of levels of pranayama, mantra, and mudra, intended to rapidly accelerate...
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    Jnana yoga continues through the later chapters of the Devi Gita. Bhakti yoga Diamond Sutra Perfection of Wisdom Ramana Maharshi Yoga Vasistha Yoga Sutras...
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  • Kalpa (Vedanga) studies in the Vedic era. Kamashastra (Kama Shastra) Yoga Vasistha Moksopaya (mahayana uttaratantra shastra) Artha Shastra, financial affairs...
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  • Raja yogas are Shubha ('auspicious') yogas in jyotish philosophy and tradition. They are believed to give success and a grand rise in career or business...
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    Upanishads, the twenty Yoga Upanishads and related texts (such as Yoga Vasistha, composed between the sixth and 14th centuries CE) discuss yoga methods. Alexander...
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    Ashtanga yoga (Sanskrit: अष्टाङ्गयोग, romanized: aṣṭāṅgayoga, "the eight limbs of yoga") is Patanjali's classification of classical yoga, as set out in...
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  • Shankara's commentary on Fourth Vyasa Sutra, Swami Vivekananda The text Yoga Vasistha explains the need to understand Maya as follows, Just as when the dirt...
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    "yoga of action", the others being Jnana yoga (path of knowledge), Rāja yoga (path of meditation) and Bhakti yoga (path of loving devotion to a personal...
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    that the medieval Indian yoga scene was dominated by the various other texts such as the Bhagavad Gita and the Yoga Vasistha, texts attributed to Yajnavalkya...
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    he refers to the Jug-Basisht which is the Persian translation of the Yoga Vasistha, a syncretic philosophic text. The translation was done during the Mughal...
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    Ashtanga Yoga The Intermediate Series: Mythology, anatomy and Practice. New World Library. pp. 41, 134. ISBN 9781577319870. Srivatsa Ramaswami (2000). Yoga for...
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  • BCE[citation needed] Abhinavabharati, 950 – 1020 CE[citation needed] Yoga Vasistha, 750 CE List of historic Indian texts Sangam literature Manusmriti Oberlies...
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    to the Yoga Vasistha. "Read the Yoga Vasistha," he would say, "Swamiji’s philosophy is fully expounded in that scripture." The Yoga Vasistha is a dialogue...
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    Scriptures". Uddandi was well-versed in classic texts on Yoga and Vedanta, and recited texts as the Yoga Vasistha and Kaivalya Navaneeta in Ramana Maharshi's presence...
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  • Bṛhaspati, Parāśara, Vyāsa, Śaṅkha, Likhita, Dakṣa, Gautama, Śātātapa and Vaśiṣṭha. Yājñavalkya gives the list of total 20 by adding two more Smritis, namely...
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    from, the yogic tradition and texts like the Yoga Vasistha and the Bhagavata Purana. The Yoga Vasistha became an authoritative source text in the Advaita...
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  • Resurrection. Princeton University Press. p. 86. ISBN 0-691-02064-7. Yoga Vasistha Yoga Vasistha Garga Samhita (59) González-Reimann, Luis (2018). "Cosmic Cycles...
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    Natha Sampradaya (redirect from Nath Yoga)
    Nepal. A medieval movement, it combined ideas from Buddhism, Shaivism and Yoga traditions of the Indian subcontinent. The Naths have been a confederation...
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  • as Naga Mani, or on the forehead of the Makara.[citation needed] The Yoga Vasistha, originally written in the 10th century CE, contains a story about the...
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    also described in the Yoga Vasistha, a syncretic work which may date from the 6th or 7th century CE, and shows influences from Yoga, Samkhya, Saiva Siddhanta...
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  • over time through Yoga, through conscious shaping of inner self, one's desire, sense of moral responsibility and through practice. In Yoga school of Hinduism...
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    that it is ancient and recognizable by Yoga (meditation on one's self). This is one of the earliest mentions of Yoga in ancient Sanskrit literature, in the...
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    Tantra (redirect from Tantric Yoga)
    such as Yoga and Shaktism. The term "yoga" is broadly attributed to many traditions and practices, including the western assumption that yoga is synonymous...
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    of time.[citation needed] Kali, also called Kalaratri, is called in Yoga Vasistha as Prakṛti or "all of nature". She is described in the text, state Shimkhanda...
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