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The Mahāmāyā Tantra probably first appeared within Buddhist tantric communities during the late ninth or early tenth centuries CE. Based on instances of intertextuality [note 2] it is considered to postdate the Guhyasamāja Tantra; and because it is less doctrinally and structurally developed than tantras such as the Hevajra Tantra, its origins are likely to precede that text, and it is ...
Yogamaya (Sanskrit: योगमाया, lit. 'illusory potency', IAST: Yogamāyā) is a Hindu goddess who serves as the personification of Vishnu's powers of illusion. [3]
Maya is neither illusion nor denial of perceived reality to the Yoga scholars, rather Yoga is a means to perfect the "creative discipline of mind" and "body-mind force" to transform Maya. [64] The concept of Yoga as power to create Maya has been adopted as a compound word Yogamaya (योगमाया) by the theistic sub-schools of Hinduism.
The Yoga Upanishads. The Adyar Library. Callahan, Daren (2007). Yoga: An Annotated Bibliography of Works in English 1981-2005. McFarland. ISBN 978-0786431625. Daniélou, Alain (1 August 1991). Yoga: Mastering the Secrets of Matter and the Universe. Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. ISBN 978-0-89281-301-8. Deussen, Paul (1 January 1997).
Unlike Advaita, the world of Maya is not regarded as unreal, since Maya is nothing else than a power of Ishvara. Ishvara is not only the creator of the universe but is the universe itself. Vallabha cites the Chandogya Upanishad sections 6.1 - 6.4, that Brahman desired to become many, and he became the multitude of individual souls and the world ...
In Hindu theology, arishadvarga or shadripu (Sanskrit: षड्रिपु; meaning the six enemies) are the six enemies of the mind, which are: kama (Desire/Lust), krodha (Anger), lobha (Greed), mada (Ego), moha (Attachment), and matsarya (Jealousy) additionally alasya (laziness).
Laya yoga is presented as the discipline of dissolution where the focus is on thinking of the "Lord without parts" all the times while going through daily life activities. [46] [49] The Laya Yoga, the second in the order of importance, is oriented towards assimilation by the chitta or mind, wherein the person always thinks of formless Ishvara ...
Gurus of Modern Yoga is an edited 2014 collection of essays on some of the gurus (leaders) of modern yoga by the yoga scholars Mark Singleton and Ellen Goldberg. [1]The book has been broadly welcomed by critics as a necessary introduction to some of these figures, though some of them have regretted the book's lack of an evaluation of recent research on the place of the guru in modern yoga, or ...