Yoga in Modern Hinduism - 9781138080591

Taylor & Francis

Yoga in Modern HinduismHarihar?nanda ?ra?ya and S??khyayoga\nAuthor(s): Knut A. Jacobsen\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138080591, 978-1138080591\nSynopsis\nThe S??khyayoga institution of K?pil Ma?h is a religious organisation with a small tradition of followers which emerged in the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century in Bengal in India around the renunciant and yogin Harihar?nanda ?ra?ya. This tradition developed during the same period in which modern yoga was born and forms a chapter in the expansion of yoga traditions in modern Hinduism.\n\nThe book analyses the yoga teaching of Harihar?nanda ?ra?ya [tel] and the K?pil Ma?h tradition, its origin, history and contemporary manifestations, and this traditions connection to the expansion of yoga and the Yogas?tra in modern Hinduism. The S??khyayoga of the K?pil Ma?h tradition is based on the P?tajalayoga??stra, on.