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   Trent Hogan

   September 28, 2021 at 4:12 am

   This is some of the best information on the yogic tradition online. Thank you YA and Seth Powell.

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   yogayantra Dominique

   September 28, 2021 at 5:08 am

   On what do you base your saying, "yoga is 5000 years old."? thank you for your references. The Yoga tradition doesn't come from the Vedas, and what looks like "yoga" in the Vedas may not have led to later Yoga. It is clearly said in the introduction of the Upanishads translated by Sarvapelli Radhakrishnan and many others texts. Yoga comes from the shramana tradition, right?
   I am glad that you quote The Origins of Yoga and Tantra by Geoffrey Samuel, and the Roots of Yoga, remarkable book.
   The natural sitting postures of any person who has never had a chair is siddhasana, sukhasana or padmasana: I have seen these in China (countryside), Borneo island (with the Dayaks) and other places that have never heard anything about yoga.
   According to Shyam Ranganathan in what is my favourite translation of the Sutra, the yamas of Patanjali are totally identical in names and order to those of the Jains with whom he communicated. The intro of this book is remarkable.

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   yogayantra Dominique

   September 28, 2021 at 5:50 am

   more than 6 minutes of introduction. That's far too much for me. Bye now, i get back to my books

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   Deepali R

   September 28, 2021 at 5:57 am

   Look forward to the next 2 parts. Seth always comes up with very informative and dynamic perspective to Yog.

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