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How to Be a Yogi - 6 Steps - WikiHow
How to Be a Yogi. Yoga refers to traditional physical and mental disciplines that originated in India. The word is associated with meditative practices in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.
http://www.wikihow.com/Be-a-Yogi
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Yogi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A yogi is a practitioner of yoga. The term "yogi" is also used to refer specifically to Siddhas, and broadly to refer to ascetic practitioners of meditation in a number of Indian religions including Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi
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Hindu Wisdom - Yoga
The word yoga is derived from the root yuj, which means to unite or to join together. The practice of yoga may lead to the union of the human with the divine - all within the self. The aim of yoga is the transformation of human beings from their natural form to a perfected form.
http://www.hinduwisdom.info/Yoga_and_Hindu_Philosophy.htm
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The Yogi and the Hindu | Asia Times
India took a significant step to the right with the state-sponsored carnival of the first International Day of Yoga, which was held on Sunday in New Delhi. Yoga has nothing to do with politics, and cutting across religion, culture and nationality it has had practitioners, many of whom might even make claim that it helped them calm the mind and tone up the body.
http://atimes.com/2015/06/the-yogi-and-the-hindu/
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The Hindu Book of Astrology
The Hindu Book of Astrology, by Bhakti Seva, full text etext at sacred-texts.com.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/astro/hba/hba16.htm
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Are Yogis Hindus?
Hinduism as a term is not very old, not more than about 1000 years old. The term first appeared during the time Muslims invaded India (about 1200-1000 CE).
http://www.elephantjournal.com/2010/05/are-yogis-hindus-and-how-old-is-hinduism-anyway/
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Gorakhnath - Britannica
Hindu master yogi who is commonly regarded as the founder of the Kanphata yogi s, an order of ascetics that stresses the physical and spiritual disciplines of Hatha Yoga.
http://www.britannica.com/biography/Gorakhnath-Hindu-yogi
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Yoga - Just Exercise or a Hindu Religion?
Lighthouse Trails Research Project's Home Page exposing Contemplative Spirituality.
http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/yoga.htm
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Hinduism - Wild Yogi
Dr. Mark Dyczkowski is one of the world's foremost scholars on Tantra and Kashmiri Trika Shaivism and has lived and worked in India for close to forty years.
http://wildyogi.info/en/tags/tagsen/hinduism
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Yogis of India
Maharishi Patanjali is the 'father of Yoga' who compiled 195 Yoga Sutras that became the foundation of Yoga philosophy.
http://idayofyoga.org/index.php?route=information/information&information_id=23
