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... OM namashchaNDikAyai ..

 

In the 2/2003 Yoga Journal, Douglas Brooks discusses

Classical, Advaita Vedanta, and Tantric approaches to Yoga.

Following are some of his words, directly on-point with recent

"debates" on this message board:

 

"In the Tantra-based yoga...philosophers such as the great

Abhinavagupta and those practitioners of the goddess-centered

Srividya traditions maintained that al of reality is the Divine

expressing itself. This Divinity includes all temporal and

material realities, including anything we experience as negative.

Yoga, according to the Tantric philosophers, empowers us to

experience every facet of ourselves as a manifestation of the

Divine. Our recognition that the self of ordinary experience is

none other than the same true Self that is present as the infinite

forms of the universe occurs at every level of our experience,

from logic to emotion. This One Self appearing as the Many

does not diminish the value of the material world nor does it

make our emotional or intellectual experience irrelevant by

dissolving it into pure Oneness, as Classical Yoga or Advaita

Vedanta can seem to do. Rather, the Tantric position maintains

that yoga means we are free to experience everything as Divine

because we are free from the misconception that our mortal

experience is a barrier to the immortal. Thus for the Tantric

tradtion, we are not so much bound by our limited experience as

we are simply informed by it; this is a gift of experience as well

as the insight that yoga provides. ...

>From its origins, yogis have debated rationally and with deep

emotion what yoga's purpose truly is and how we might best go

about reaching our goals. But no matter what goals we set for

ourselves or what understanding we create from our human

experiences, yoga asks us to bring all of ourselves--our body,

emotions, and thoughts--to its practice. In this sense, yoga truly

lives up to its literal meaning, "union." ...."

 

... OM namashchaNDikAyai ..

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