Yoga and Total Health — February 2018

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of Egyptian Theurgry, Akkadian Tulla,
intuitism and Chinese Taoism were
prevalent amongst the primitive
inhabitants of their respective places,
but it is very difficult to ascertain which
of these practices were first influenced
by the other. It is, however, quite
possible that during a certain period
of intellectual evolution, people in
different countries might have been
busy investigating the higher aims of
life and the various means of attaining
them. At least in case of the Hindu yoga,
the references of Yogic symbolism in
the Vedas, Brahmans, Arayankas and
the earlier Upanishads quite clearly
indicate that the practice of yoga
existed in some form of knowledge
even before the Vedas came into
writing.