Архив рубрики: Yoga History

Yoga has a complete message for humanity. It has a message for the human body. It has a message for the human mind and it also has a message for the human soul.

Swami Kuvalayananda

Hatha yoga is based upon feasibility of spiritual and psychical enhancement by means of developing one’s body, reveal of its hidden potential aimed at providing conditions to get oneself prepared for perception of reality and “supreme truths”. In Greece it was referred to as the “way of somatic people”, i.e. people of body, substance.

A.     G. Safronov. “Psycho-practices in Mystical Traditions from the Antiquity to the Present”

Swami Kuvalayananda – a yogi, a thinker, a philosopher, a scientist, a social and political activist, one of initiators of the Indian National Independence Movement. The man whose active work promoted the spread of Yoga to the West, favoured its popularization among population masses. The majority of his works were dedicated to scientific study of ancient practices and their effect on human body and mind. And it was due to these works that for the first time ever in its history Yoga happened to be taken “seriously” by demanding academic communities and Western intellectuals.

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