SAMKHYA-YOGA MEDITATION: PSYCHO-SPIRITUAL TRANSVALUATION
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Yoga is Mankind's oldest known, yet still continuing "spirituality". Evidence of Yogic practice may be found among the ruins of Harappa of the ancient Indus Civilization (c. 2,500 B.C.); yet Yoga is still being practised today not only in India but throughout Asia and even in much of our contemporary European and American world. So flexible is this tradition that we are now accustomed to speak with ease of Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Taoist and, more recently, even of Christian forms of Yoga. What, however, is the essence of the "Spirituality" of Yoga? What does a Yogi seek when he sets out on a path of Yoga "discipline"?
References
Mircea Eliade, Yoga: Immortality and Freedom, Bollingen Series No.56. and ed. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969), p.15.
Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation (London: Burns and Oates, 1962), pp. 5-6.
Gerald Larson. Classical Samkhya: A~ interpretation of it" History and Meaning (Varanasi: Motilal Banarsidass, I969). p. 224.
