Purusha: Permanent Universal Awareness
Prakrti: Transient Field of Becoming
Buddhi: The Real reflected in the world of illusion
Ahamkara: Personal Ego
Manas: Consciousness of Matter
Yoga a living organism, not a rigid system
India is Yoga’s body
Yoga belief: Humans suffer due to ignorance
Yoga belief: There is a solution to suffering
Yogi attains superhuman powers, siddhis
Yoga requires sacrifice
Enlightenment
Yoga, a timeless evolving tradition with no beginning
Yoga’s earliest history: fertility cults of Mohenjo Daro
1500 BCE Aryan influence
Tolerant Brahmins include Yoga under their umbrella
Brahman, absolute God, equivalent to Atman, inner Self
With Samkhya Yoga attains a philosophy and Brahmanism a technique
Tantra completes the intercourse
Popular Theism vs. Elite philosophy
Classic Yoga - no action: Gita - must act
Gita includes worship, puja, as a technique for common man
Gita for all: Classic Yoga for ascetic elite
Gita: any discipline becomes a Yoga
Classical: Eight-limbed discipline, Astanga Yoga
Tantra: transformation through the body
Self-identification with Sakti, the Divine Mother
Purusha & Prakrti one, not two
Comparison Classical Yoga and Tantra
The West embraces Yoga’s Body
The West rejects Yoga’s Mind
An essence of Yoga’s Mind – only for the select few