Cessation and integration in classical yoga

Asian Philosophy 5 (1):47 – 58 (1995)
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Abstract In this paper I challenge and attempt to correct conclusions about Classical Yoga philosophy drawn by traditional and modern interpretations of Patañjali's Yoga?s?tras. My interpretation of Patañjali's Yoga?which focuses on the meaning of ?cessation? (nirodha) as given in Patañjali's central definition of Yoga (YS 1.2)?counters the radically dualistic and ontologically?oriented interpretations of Yoga presented by many scholars, and offers an open?ended, epistemologically?oriented hermeneutic which, I maintain, is more appropriate for arriving at a genuine assessment of Patañjali's system (dar?ana) of Yoga

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Yoga: immortality and freedom.Mircea Eliade - 1969 - [Princeton, N.J.,: Published by] Princeton University Press [for Bollingen Foundation, New York. Edited by Willard R. Trask & David Gordon White.

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