Yoga is first mentioned by name in some 2,500-year-old Hindu religious texts called the Upanishads, but this is actually a term relating to a method of strapping horses together -- literally the origin for our word yoke. The Upanishads use it as a metaphor for a mental prayer technique, but as far as all those weird stretches are concerned, the texts mention exactly one physical posture, and that posture is pretty much sit in a way that makes meditation comfortable. So the word yoga might describe an old Hindu teaching, but then so does the word avatar, and nobodys claiming that the James Cameron movie reflects an unbroken line of ancient sacred tradition.
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 06:09:19 +0000
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