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chakras(7)

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(tantric) occult energy centers only consciously perceived through yogic perception: baseline cakra, root cakra, naval cakra, heart cakra, throat cakra, third eye, guru cakra

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Koshas(5)

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(vedanta) coverings of the Self: food sheath, breath, mind, understanding, bliss sheath

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5 Skandhas

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(Buddhist) No-self, instead Self is only a label for these five configurations characterized by impermanence: form, feelings, conceptions, dispositions, consciousness

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Yoga Sutra

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Goal: Differentiate purusha from parkriti/ MANY conscious beings, one single nature

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Shankara(Ahimsa)

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Moral pull: value of other/ Ahimsa practiced in thought, word, and deed

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Jaina, Acaranga Sutra

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Moral pull: Practice the ‘highest good’ –> If I do not like pain, others do not like pain because others have a Self too. Every Self has MORAL RIGHTS

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Shantideva (Mahayana)

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Moral pull: Value of others/ compares different beings with different parts of the body and emphasizes their similarity/ DIFF LIMBS=1BODY

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Bhagavad Gita

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Karma+Bhakti; It is not the act itself but the emotions and thoughts behind that create Karma

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Upanishads

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Goal:Atman=Brahman/ Discovering the Self is discovering the ultimate reality. Brahman is the ultimate reality

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Large Sutra on Perfect Wisdom(6)

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6 Perfections (1) Charity (2) morality (3) patience (4)energy (5) meditation (6)wisdom

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Abhinavagupta(4)

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Kashmair Shaivism: Kula and the 5ms/ Supreme nondualist

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5 Ma-karas

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Abhinava: (1)fish (2)meat (3)sex (4)intoxicants (5)mudra

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Rasas(8)

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Abhinava:Universal emotions part of the soul making experience/ (1)sexual feeling (2) laughter (3) grief (4) anger (5) energy (6) fear (7) repulsion (8) wonder

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Kularnava Tantra

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Abhinavagupta; 8limb yoga is a group prescription /practiced the 5 ma-karas in his kula

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Mirabai

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Woman/Vaishnava Bhakti/ poet/ speaks of herself as Krishna’s wife, waiting lover

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Vivekananda

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Neo-Vedanta: religious inclusivism exhibited by Hiduism

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Satyananda

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Everybody should have access to yoga (caste,gender,marital)/Mental computer/Physiological ego, the reticular activating system/Prescribes ‘codes’

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B.K.S. Iyengar

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TREE OF YOGA/Inventor of a form of Hatha Yoga/ Uses props such as straps, blocks, and chairs

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Aurobindo (Reincarnation)

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Synthesis of Yoga/ Neo-vedanta, Tantric/ Creation’s purpose is for individual’s to realize their connection with Brahman/ Double soul in matter: Ego(desire soul) and genuine soul/ Reincarnation aids in soul making and psychic personality/ ALL YOGA ON THE PATH TO PSYCHIC TRANSFORMATION

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Hatha Yoga Pradipika

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Uses mudras, mantras, pranayama, and bandas to aid in raising the kundalini energy

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8 Limbs of YS

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(1)Yama (2)Niyama (3)Pranayama (4)Pratyahara (5) Asanas (6) dharana (7) dhayana (8) Samadhi

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Yamas(5)

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Social restraints: ahimsa, truthfulness, non-theft, sexual restraint, non-possessiveness

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Niyamas(5)

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Personal restraints: cleanliness, self-acceptance, asceticism, self-study, relating to one’s higher self

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Debunking accounts for mystical yogic experiences (4)

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Freud: Wish fulfilling; helps restrain super-ego formation/ Durkheim: religion as social cohesion/ Marx: religion as an escape; effect of historical(economic) circumstances/ Materialist: product of the brain’s biochemistry, i.e. O2 deprivation is Samadhi

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Holistic health

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Tantra: Chakra alignment/ Hatha Yoga in West looked upon as a sport; west fails to acknowledge the other aspects of Yoga/ i.e. Tantra NOT just sex, Yoga NOT just asanas

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Sahridaya(5)

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(pertaining to Rasa) Must be: critically responsive to the rasa, noble, learned, virtuous, impartial

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Abhinava vs. YS

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Abhinava and YS: Transcend duality aspect (ie AG 5ms)/ Differ: Divine action is possible, YS: Purusha and prakriti are completely different

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Why be moral?

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(A) To get good births for good karma in previous lifetime

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Criticisms to “why be moral”

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Passiveness, vagueness of flaw/or good deed (talk about hobo, and the caste system–> lack of compassion) (war, good for $ bad for soldiers)

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Aurobindo (on pain)

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If brahman=bliss, why do we suffer? (A) pain is instrumental in soul-making AND the ends justify the means

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Tantra Goal(2)

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Transcend dualities, access kundalini

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Vedanta

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become an avatara

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