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contribution to their theocratic conception, mainly) could not be explained otherwise
assumed considerable importance Brahmins after the Vedic period. Most likely, all these
concepts harappianas religio-sas-Nonda contrast with those of the Indo-Europeans were
retained, with the inevitable regressions in layers "popular" at the margins of society and
civilization of new teachers Aryan language: de alii emerged in successive floods during
the subsequent synthesis leading to the formaei6n of Hinduism.
CONCLUSIONS
At the end of this work, imposing several general observations. It attempts to summarize
all of the above for us, or to address the summary of each chapter. The important thing is
to get some facts first piano, starting with this: Yoga is a specific dimension of the spirit
in-gave such an extent that wherever they have reached the Indian culture and religion,
are also more or less pure Yoga (see Note IX, 1). In India, Yoga has been integrated and
valorized by all religious movements, both Hindus as "heretical." The Yoga diferenjtes or
non-Christians in India cretistas modem is another proof that Indian religious experience
as a necessity requires the yogic methods of "meditation" and "concentration". For Yoga
has ter-mined, as we have seen, to absorb and integrate all kinds of spiritual and mystical
techniques, from the most elementary to the most complex. The generic name of yogisdesignates
both saints and mystics and the magi, the orgiastic and vul-gares fakirs and
witches. Each of these types of magico-religious behavior also correspond to a particular
form of Yoga.
To get to 'be what it is, for many centuries, a body that is pan-Indian spiritual techniques,
it was necessary to respond fully to the Yoga the deeper needs of the Indian soul. We
have already responded in that way to this need, pointing to a reaction against the
metaphysical theorizing and excesses of ritualism fossilized, represented the same
tendency toward the concrete, to personal experience, which is located in the popular
devotion expressed in the bid and the bhakti. There is always a form of Yoga when it
comes to experi-ence to reach the sacred or perfect mastery over himself,
which is the first step towards world domination magic. It is a rather significant that the
noblest mystical experiences, as well as the most daring magical wishes are carried
through the technique zan yogi, or, more precisely, that Yoga can fit either one or the
other path. Several hypotheses could account for this. The first invoke the two spiritual
traditions which, after multiple stresses, and at the end of a long ta-area synthesis,
ultimately formed the Hindu: the religious tradition of the Indo-European Aryan language
and tradition of the aborigines (quite complex, as we saw and including elements
Dravidian, Munda, protomunda and harappianos). The Indo-European structure provided
a patriarchal society, an economy ministry and the worship of the gods of heaven and the
atmosphere, in a word, the "religion of the Father." The pre-Aryan aborigines knew and
agriculture and urban planning (the Indus civilization), and in general terms involving the
"religion of the Mother. Hinduism, as it is presented from the twilight of the Middle
Ages, represents the synthesis of these two traditions, but with marked predominance of
aboriginal factors: the contribution of Indo Asianise end up being radically. The Hindu
religious means victory of the soil.