Category: Yoga Guru
In my view these Vedic groups point more backward in time than they point forward towards yoga. I find it highly unlikely that these Vedic groups were proto-yogis. Instead …
So we witness here a cultural field of the Vedic society where more or less religious specialists tapped into the code and habitus underlying ascetic discourse and Shamanism. Like …
Various Vedic groups reflecting Shamanism and asceticism In the Vedas ascetic practices are often called tapas and we can see that austerity is central to the Vedic outlook. Reading …
In summary we realise that the list of competences ascribed to the ascetic specialist, like the capacity to engage with spirits and ancestors, presented as use-value, are in general …
Ascetic discourses then answer the question: what is the meaning of voluntarily enduring pain and of experiencing ASC, what does it signify? In answering this, the ASCs are often …