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the best and most recommended is the path of Yoga: "Yoga is superior to asceticism
(tapas), superior even to science (jnana) exceeding sacrifice "(VI, 46).
It is the triumph complete) of yogic practices. Not only are accepted by the Bhagavad-
Gita, the summit of Indian spirituality: it is carried first piano. True, this Yoga is
esterified pu remnants of their magic (the rigorous asceticism, etc.). And that the most
important of his old techniques, pranayama, unem-pefia only a negligible role. It is also
true that meditation and concentration become, here in tools of the unio mystica with tiios
is revealed as a Person. But, however, the acceptance of yogic practices for the mystical
and devotion visnuita 8 demonstrates the considerable popularity of these practices, as
well as his Indian ecumenism. The *: Krishna's words amount to validaci6n, before the
whole Hinduism, a Yoga of devotion "of the yoga technique regarded as purely half
hindu to obtain the mystical union with the personal God. A huge part of modern
literature published yogi in India and abroad finds its theoretical justification in the
Bhagavad-Gita.
8 See, for example, the role of Yoga in the very important "cult" Pan-caratra (Bhagavata),
Note IV, 5.
CHAPTER V
BUDDHISM YOGA TECHNIQUE
THE PATH OF NIRVANA AND THE SYMBOLISM OF THE INITIATION
During the period of study and asceticism, Sakyamuni corocio
both doctrines and practices Samkhya Yoga. Arada Kalama Vaisali teaching to a kind of
Samkhya Preclassic and Ra-maputra Udraka explained the rationale and objectives of
Yoga (see asva-Ghose, Buddhacarita, XII, 17; id. Saundarananda, XV, XVII; Majjhimanikaya,
I, 164 ). If the Buddha rejects the teaching of these two masters, it is because
of obesity. Of course, most of the canonical texts allege the existence of an unbridgeable
gulf between the Enlightened One, his teachers and his contemporaries. Is this a polemic
position be corrected. The Buddha himself proclaimed that he had found the old road and
had traveled "(Samyutta Nikaya, II, 106; see other references in Coomaraswamy,
Hinduism and Buddhism, p. 45 et seq.). The "old way" out of time, was that of liberation,
of the Undead, and also the path of yoga. As I wrote in 1900 Emile Senart, the Buddha
does not repudiate the con-together of the Indian ascetic tradition and contemplative, but
the whole "is in the field of yoga who has elevated the Buddha, anything new that has
entered el, has been formed in the mold of Yoga "1
The Awakened is so opposed to ritualism and asceticism brahmanitj exaggeration and
metaphysical theories. Therefore takes, Ahon-giving, criticism already made by the
contemplative upanishad -
i E. Senart, Bouddhisme et Yoga (Rev. Hist. Relig., November 1900
p. 345-364). References to Yoga in relation to Budisroo, Note V, 1.
aicos fossilized against ritualism and excessive asceticism (tapas) on the other hand,
opposes the pretension-represented mainly by the classical-Upanishad obtain the
salvation single-mind awareness for the path of metaphysics. At first glance, the Buddha
rejects both the orthodox Brahmin and the rich theological tradition of the Upanishads as
the many "heresies" mystical-ASCE-tics desarroliadas the margins of Indian society. Yet