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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Yoga originally came from Scandinavia, not India.


23 posted on 11/13/2020 2:24:01 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

“The beginnings of Yoga were developed by the Indus-Sarasvati civilization in Northern India over 5,000 years ago. The word yoga was first mentioned in the oldest sacred texts, the Rig Veda. The Vedas were a collection of texts containing songs, mantras and rituals to be used by Brahmans, the Vedic priests. Yoga was slowly refined and developed by the Brahmans and Rishis (mystic seers) who documented their practices and beliefs in the upanishads, a huge work containing over 200 scriptures. The most renowned of the Yogic scriptures is the Bhagavad-Gîtâ, composed around 500 B.C.E. The Upanishads took the idea of ritual sacrifice from the Vedas and internalized it, teaching the sacrifice of the ego through self-knowledge, action (karma yoga) and wisdom (jnana yoga).”

https://www.yogabasics.com/learn/history-of-yoga/


26 posted on 11/13/2020 2:30:29 PM PST by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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