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Re: Question about yogas and margas.
In article <44ujao$iqo@babbage.ece.uc.edu>, Anshuman Pandey
<apandey@u.washington.edu> wrote:
>
> I recently read in a general text on Hindu precepts about the four yogas:
> bhakti, karma, raja, and jnana. Are these four "yogas" actually "margas"
> and properly called bhakti marga, karma marga, yoga marga, and jnana marga?
>
> Secondly, where do such yogas as kundalini, hatha, and kriya fit? Are
> these margas as well, or are they subsets of yoga marga?
IMHO the definition of margas and their number varies so I would not try to
shoehorn every practice into these. What is easy to say is that the
practices of hatha yoga, laya yoga, kriya yoga and much of kundalini yoga
can all be traced to a common lineage in books such as the Hatha Yoga
Pradipika and the Shiva Samhita.
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