Word: yoga
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Violinist Yehudi Menuhin took time out from a punishing European concert tour to climb Switzerland's 9,757-ft. Mt. Schilthorn. delighted his wife and companions after the six-hour ascent by standing on his head at the peak and running through his yoga exercises...
...Gita prescribes three paths for the soul's union with God: karma-yoga, the way of action, Jnana-yoga, the way of knowledge, and bhakti-yoga, the way of love. The poem is set in the frame of bloody battle, a great battle on the plain of Kurukshetra. The hero, Arjuna, is downcast because he must fight against men who, he suspects, are his brothers, even though they are foes, and the god Krishna givers Arjuna advice. Krishna persuades Arjuna that it is permissible to fight, indeed, that he must fight, so long as the struggle serves no selfish...
Bhave practices karma-yoga, the way to God through action in the world: "You must perform every action sacramentally, and be free from all attachment to results." It is not to be undertaken with out first mastering the other yogas, learning control of the body, the breathing and the mind; learning concentration through love and devotion by prayer; gaining knowledge by meditation...
...handsome Hindu named Narayan Acharya left a wife, a five-year-old child and a promising political career, to follow "an inner urge to do penance and bring peace to the world." Wandering through the Himalayas, he practiced the mystic arts of yoga, learned to do without food and water for long periods at a time. According to one admirer, Narayan even mastered the trick of levitation, and once flew for three miles through a Nepalese jungle. In the same jungle Narayan had himself buried alive for 24 hours, and survived to tell newsmen of the milky white "soul light...
...consider yourselves experts. You can rear back any time of the day or night and give out the very last word on the exploding of the hydrogen bombs, on old tribal customs in Afghanistan . . . on the making of cheese or women . . . on religion, politics, music, art, football, yoga-anything . . . Mark even knows how to get every place he's going . . . I've driven miles and miles in the wrong direction, all the time urging him to stop and inquire the way and he all the time barking, 'Relax, damn it. I know where I'm going...