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Saiva sages who wove the threads that tied India into a common idiom and religion of Saivism

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Showcasing some of the earliest sculpture of the great Natha yogi Matsyendranatha.

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Old temples reveal the rich tapestry of religious life in medieval Maharashtra.

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A vast yogic sculptural treasure lay forgotten in hundreds of early temples across India. Here are a few important ones.

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The text teaches a technique called śāmbhavi mudra, to achieve a state of no-mind.

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Journey of a medieval Shaiva centre from Pashupata-Kalamukhas to that of Virashaiva-Lingayats.

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With the collapse of the Gupta Empire, Saivism became the dominant religion of India.

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The metaphysics of yoga is purely Vedantic but the methods of reaching the goal are different in Vedanta and yoga.

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The Hatha-yoga corpus of texts unequivocally proclaims that the goal of yoga is the union of atman with paramatman. Academics tend to de-emphasize this aspect.

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Why should you love yourself the most? Yajnavalkya and Buddha have different answers.

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The logic school of Hindu philosophy, Nyaya, flourished for 2000 years before dying out during the late Mughal and early British rule.

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In the eternal playground of Krishna, bhakti is a drama and every emotion of a devotee is a rasa.

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Sage Dattatreya divides yoga into mantrayoga, layayoga, hathayoga and rajayoga. Hathayoga is further divided into the yoga of munis and siddhas.

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Amritasiddhi makes pioneering advancement in our understanding of the origins of Hatha Yoga.

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Who is Shiva? Can he exist without Shakti? But who is Shakti if not Shiva?

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Kashi and its famous Vishvanatha Temple was destroyed multiple times and yet every time it rose up from the ashes.

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Nilakantha Dikshita, a prolific 17th century poet, wrote a delightful poem cataloguing the fallen characters of the Kali age.

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JUB makes important breakthroughs in our understanding of Om, prana, meditation and rebirth.

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Mantras in Hinduism are associated with the primal uncreated sound called the Vac, the creatrix of the universe.

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A devotee who knows the symbolism and philosophy behind the iconography would be better equipped to meditate on his chosen form.

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There were more than seventy different kind of professions during the Vedic period!

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Due to the sponsorship of Sena kings, Bengal witnessed a massive revival of Hindu culture, art and literature during the 12th century.

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