Biography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda and the Origins of Modern Yoga
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Introduction This book is not actually a biography— at least not in the traditional sense of the word. It is not the story of a ...
2 Introduction estate they take up on America’s urban street corners, the Yogi remains an elusive figure. The apprehension expre ...
Introduction 3 science of becoming mentally serene, and, being an avowed celibate, never keeps a harem. The piece profiled three ...
4 Introduction which the Yogi found himself in the first few decades of the twentieth century. Chapter 1 traces a broad history ...
Introduction 5 This is with good reason, since the origins and nature of yoga are hotly contested commodities. As I am writing ...
6 Introduction White’s definition thus effectively encompasses everyone from the stock- charac- ter Yogis of folk narratives who ...
Introduction 7 of physical fitness and the modern pre- occupation with sculpted bodies perform- ing g ymnastic exercises cannot ...
8 Introduction characteristic of a deity. Through this process, the yogin or yoginī becomes radically “other”— which is an affir ...
Introduction 9 of consciousness, or the origin of superhuman abilities, they did have something very similar. In the Yogi’s case ...
10 Introduction The above also begins to hint at another crucial thing that happened when actual flesh- and- blood Yogis began s ...
Introduction 11 templates were adopted subjectively, either consciously or subconsciously, while others were simply imposed on t ...
12 Introduction his highest potential. Man turned up to eleven, so to say. Just so, the supernat- ural is not herein treated as ...
Introduction 13 largely replaces Yogi. In his proper South Asian context, the guru is a teacher in a lineage of (often highly ri ...
14 Introduction are drawn primarily from the Middle East, Iwamura’s mostly swing to the Far East, but neither captures appropria ...
Introduction 15 Singer, “Americans tended to take over and exaggerate ... the prevailing European images of India.”^26 In other ...
16 Introduction A Note on Gender and Sexuality It is hardly necessary to state that the Yogi is, essentially by default, male. H ...
Introduction 17 Such representations can generally be organized according to the following para- digm: Yogis may tend to be femi ...
18 Introduction makes cameo appearances in a number of studies ranging from the impact of New Thought^40 on early American yoga ...
Introduction 19 and, second, the shift from more metaphysically based and holistic under- standings of yoga to the mass populari ...
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