DG White published: This reinvention of the Yoga Sutra as the foundational scripture of “classical yoga” runs counter to the pre-twentieth century history of India’s yoga traditions…and [when, for centuries,] other forms [my emphasis] of yoga (Pasupata Yoga,* Tantric Yoga, and Hatha Yoga) dominated [were foundational for] the Indian yoga scene. Yoga Sutra; A Biography, pp. xvi-xvii According to the Pasupata Sutra and the Ganakarika Sutra, the Lakulisha Pasupata* yoga sect [150 - A. D.] practiced an ecstatic ritual including “… dancing [charismatic, shaktipat-awakened proto- asanas] consisting of [all possible] motions of the hands and feet: upward, downward, inward, outward and shaking motion … a sacred sound produced by the contact of the tongue-tip with the palate [nabho and khecari mudras, the summit of hatha-yogic maturation]. . . [and] after the dance [sic] when the devotee has again sat down and is still meditating on Siva,” an “inner worship” and “prayer.” Collins, C., The Ritual and Iconography of Shiva at Elephanta, quoted in Sovatsky, 2014, pp. 246-247
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