We have our own history exactly as it ought to have been for us. Those who have eyes to see, find a luminous history there, and on the strength of that they know the nation is still alive.
But that history has to be rewritten. It should be restated and suited to the understanding and ways of thinking which our men have acquired in the present age through Western education.
– Swami Vivekananda
Sage Dattatreya divides yoga into mantrayoga, layayoga, hathayoga and rajayoga. Hathayoga is further divided into the yoga of munis and siddhas.
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.
The metaphysics of yoga is purely Vedantic but the methods of reaching the goal are different in Vedanta and yoga.
The text teaches a technique called śāmbhavi mudra, to achieve a state of no-mind.
A vast yogic sculptural treasure lay forgotten in hundreds of early temples across India. Here are a few important ones.
