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about this desfigu-rado Gorakhnath a rich mythology and folklore sectarian magic (see
below, p. 288), but fairly strong evidence suggesting that here was in close relation with
the Vajrayana. Also as we shall see, hathayoguis treaties refer to sexual practices
advocated by the Buddhist Tantrism.
Gorakhnath passes author of a treatise, now defunct, Hathayoga, and a text which was
preserved, the Goraksasataka. A review of the latter, the Goraksa paddhati explains the
word hatha (literally, "violence, violent effort"), ha - sun, tha = moon, the union of Sun
and Moon Yoga serious (according to other texts, ha-thau - surya candrau - pranapanau).
See you soon. That this interpretation corresponds perfectly to the tantric doctrine. The
call Kanphata Hathayoga to their own discipline, but that. Word soon move to designate
all the recipes and traditional disciplines by which it came to dominate the body
perfectly. Anyway, hathayoguis treaties depend on cuelquier form of literature
Gorakhnathayoguis (or pre-stretched as such). It has a fairly large number of texts
(Briggs Gorakhnalh and the Kanphata Yogis, p. 251), but outside the Goraksasataka only
three texts of interest to our investigation: 1) Hathayogapradipika (for Svatmarama
Svamin, probably of the fifteenth century - uses and reproduces many verses of
Goraksasataka) 2Q) Gheranda satnhita (certain Gheranda, Bengal vais-nava; broadly with
Lahya-Pradipika) 3V) Siva samhita (longer than previous-contains 517 verses, and more
elaborate philosophically ) Tantric yoga is strongly malz by Vedanta. Of the three texts,
the H Y-Pradipika seems to be the oldest based, according to the tradition, the
Hathayoga, now lost treatise dia.ls
Buddhist influences are easily recognizable. Hathayoga -
13 Fitz-Edward Hall, A Contribution Towards an Index to the Bibliography
of The Indian Philosophical Systems (Calcutta, 1S59), p. 15. Tions about the editions and
translations of texts hathayoguis, see Neta VI, 8.
Pradipika vocabulary used to Madhyamika (eg the term Sunya) and the first verse of the
strong holds Siva samhita Buddhist coloration (ekamjnanam nityamadhyantasunyam ...).
Vedanta is mixed with yoga, but takes up little justificacidn philosophical lugar14 in
these shorter writings, devoted almost entirely to recipes techniques. The states of
consciousness for the different exercises are mentioned only very occasionally and in
rudimentary form. The authors are absorbed mainly by the physics and physiology of
meditation. There thirty-two asana Gheranda described in samhita, and fifteen in the H
Y-Pradipika; Siva samhita mentions 84 asana, but only addresses four. They focus on
magic and hygienic value, through certain asana is tece Robust health and "conquer
death" are obtained through other siddhi.16Los sayings: "destroys old age and death,"
"conquer death" ( mrtyumjayati) illustrate the true meaning and the final orientation of all
these techniques. The gra Gheranda enshrined samhita five stanzas to pratyahara, while
devoting the 96 stanzas and a hundred to pranayama mudra. We will see at once that
certain physiological mentioned details regarding the discipline of breaths are interesting,
however.
The Hathayoga attaches great importance to the "purification" preliminary, of which
distinguishes six classes: dhauti, basti, neti, nauli, trataka, Kapalabhati (HY-Pr. II, 22).
The most used are the first two. The dhauti literally "cleaning" is divided into several
classes and subclasses: "internal cleansing", cleaning of teeth-ing, rectum, and so on.
(Gheranda samhita, I, 13-44). The most effective is the dhauti karma (HY-Pr., II, 24):
swallowed a long piece of cloth that is left some time in the stomach (see also Theos