Yoga is a timeless wisdom, not bound to history or geology and popularized tantric literature more than a 1,000 years ago. Yoga delves into the spiritual and mystical realms of oblivion and infinity; it's a fascinating mind journey pursuing all angles of the imagination and reality. The infinite aspects of religion and the occult weaves its way into the zealot minds of its advocates.
Some Hindu advocates claim the spirit is infinite, and when its body dies, the soul is released into another body or the infinite realms of sheer bliss, where its body is nourished on tranquility and love as opposed to food and water.
"Yoga Mythology" refers to all religions as mythology, including Jainism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christian Mythology.
Do you think you're not living in some sort of mythology? Gradually we're living in a world of ideologies transmitted through our educational, intuitional and social media outlets constructed on a day-to-day basis. (Devdutt Pattanaik / Matthew Rulli)
God, nor justice is a universal concept. Fact is everybody's truth based on measurable evidence. Fiction is nobody's truth based on fantasy, yet myth is somebody's truth and establishes a cultures word views.
"Yoga Mythology" doesn't condemn any religion, it simply points out their philosophy's. Hinduism is the only major religion that has many books, and many gods, 330 million to be precise. Christianity has the Bible and the "Book of Mormon" while books on Hinduism would fill one shelf in every library in America.
The Hindu view of god has more to do with the evolution of the mind rather than the rules.
Tapasya is a Hindu word, and it means to churn the fires of our minds and burn the knots out of our brains. I so loved reading "Yoga Mythology." My Sister Linda gave my this book, and its words are teachers and transmitters of living knowledge.
"Yoga Mythology" details many yoga poses, but its words did it for me. Without goddess, there cannot be god. Learn to dance with a lady, rather than seek to control her. This 2019 book is mostly about Hinduism with occasional detours into Buddhism, Jainism and Christianity while fueling the flames of the mind.
Humans have been around for about a million years, and the written word has only been popular for about 2,300 years. "Yoga Mythology" also details the sensory control needed for true yoga, to have complete control of the restless mind, a patience I'll never have, nor the desire to be honest, but this book was a marvelous mind journey.
Yoga is a psychic unity for truth and exquisite beauty, a gateway to combating the demons of ignorance and imagined memories and releasing the mind into its pristine state. Hinduism is a spiritual reality without rules, nor judgements, only karma to dictate one's fate in eternity.
Fantastic theories on the body and soul, and if you're really interested, read page 197 in this book.
Four and a half stars easy for "Yoga Mythology," and thanks again Linda for giving me this book.
Mark Izzy Schurr
