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Yoga

Yoga (UK: /ˈjəʊɡə/, US: /ˈjoʊɡə/; Sanskrit: योग 'yoga' ⓘ; lit. 'yoke' or 'union') is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines that originated with its own philosophy in ancient India, aimed at controlling body and mind to attain liberation (moksha), as practiced in the Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist traditions. Modern forms of yoga…

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related to Islam · 32
Yoga → Al-Biruni, Al-Biruni's, Although Al-Biruni's, Amritakunda, Arabian Peninsula, Arabic, During, Early-11th-century Persian, Hinduism, Hindus, India, Indian, Islam, Islamic, Malaysia's, Malaysian, Malaysian Muslims, Minority Islamic, Muhammad Ghawth, Muslims
related to Christianity · 21
Yoga → Aspects, Christian, Christianity, Eastern, English, Fundamentalist Christian, Hindu, Hinduism, In, Jesus-centric, New Age, Previously, Roman Catholic Church, Sanskrit, Some Christians, Such, The, The Vatican, This, Vatican
related to history · 20
Yoga → According, BCE, Between, Buddhism, Buddhist, CE, Hindu, India, Indian, It, Jain, Patanjaliyogasastra, Speculations, The, The Middle Ages, There, This, Upanishads, Vedic, Western
related to Classical yoga · 16
Yoga → CE, Classical, Hinduism, Ishvara, Its, Moksha, Patanjali, Rāja, Sāṅkhya, Sāṅkhya's, The, The Classical, Unlike Sāṅkhya, Upanishads, Vivekananda, Yoga Sutras
related to Classical era (200 BCE – 500 CE) · 14
Yoga → BCE, Buddhism, CE, Gupta, Hinduism, Jainism, Key, Mauryan, Patañjali, The Indic, Visuddhimagga, Yoga Sūtras, Yoga-Yājñavalkya, Yogācārabhūmi-Śāstra
related to In Advaita Vedanta · 14
Yoga → Absolute, Adi Shankara, Advaita, Advaita Vedanta, Brahma Sutras, Brahman, Consciousness, In Advaita Vedanta, It, One, Qualities, The, Upanishads, Vedanta
related to Earliest references (1000–500 BCE) · 12
Yoga → Atharvaveda, BCE, Brahmanas, Brahmanic, Brahmanism, Jain, Techniques, The, The Rigveda's Nasadiya Sukta, The Vedas, Vedas, Vedic
is a · 11
Yoga → cognate of the English word, generic term for techniques aimed at controlling body and mind and attaining a soteriological goal as specified by a specific tradition, inhibition, integral part, integral part.Medieval hatha yogaThe first references to hatha yoga are in eighth-century Buddhist works, means to attain, nondual state ... as the union of the lower self and higher Self, significant practice in Tantric Buddhism.Tantra yoga practices include postures and breathing exercises, sum of all activities of mind, synthesis of indigenous, union of the individual self
related to Etymology · 9
Yoga → According, Buswell, Flood, Jones, Later, Lopez, Ryan, The, The Sanskrit
related to Laya and kundalini yoga · 8
Yoga → According, Georg Feuerstein, Khechari, Kundalini, Laya, Self-Consciousness, Shambhavi, The

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sutras meditation practices buddhist buddhism early bce traditions hindu also texts according practice body upanishads first century mind hatha jain

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Yogais acognate of the English word0.90text
Yogais ageneric term for techniques aimed at controlling body and mind and attaining a soteriological goal as specified by a specific tradition0.90text
Yogais asynthesis of indigenous0.90text
Yogais ameans to attain0.90text
Yogais ainhibition0.90text
Yogais anondual state ... as the union of the lower self and higher Self0.90text
Yogais aunion of the individual self0.90text
Yogais asum of all activities of mind0.90text
Yogais asignificant practice in Tantric Buddhism.Tantra yoga practices include postures and breathing exercises0.90text
Yogais aintegral part.Medieval hatha yogaThe first references to hatha yoga are in eighth-century Buddhist works0.90text
Yogais aintegral part0.90text
Yogapart ofa non-Vedic system which includes the Samkhya school of Hindu philosophy0.85text

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