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The Yogīs’ Latest Trick
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David Gordon White's wide-ranging scholarship on tantra, yoga and alchemy has inspired many students and scholars to undertake research in those fields. White worked as an assistant to Mircea Eliade and his doctorate from the University of Chicago was in History of Religions. His research methodology, true to this scholastic heritage, is not as deeply rooted in textual criticism as that of the current vanguard of scholars working on tantra and yoga, whose philological studies rarely reference his work. The accessibility of his books and articles, however, together with his engaging writing style and the excitement that imbues his scholarship, mean that indologists specialising in other fields, and authors addressing non-scholarly audiences, frequently draw on his publications. White's prominence in the study of yoga and tantra requires all scholars working on those subjects to address his work.
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“Its hat .hayoga involves the cultivation and preservation of bindu, semen.”
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“in the Dattātreyayogaśāstra it is used once, disparagingly, to refer to the practitioner of mantra-repetition.”
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“The first text of the Goraks .a tradition to teach a hat .hayoga called as such is the c. fourteenth-century Yogabīja.”
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“The mumuks .u yoga tradition of hat .hayoga, which is espoused by the Rāmānandīs and Daśanāmīs, has been the predominant variety of yoga practice for at least five hundred years and is the basis of much of the yoga practised in the West, but it is completely ignored or overlooked by White in Sinister Yogis.”
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“The one doctrinal (as opposed to hagiographical or devotional) Sanskrit text composed by Nāths after the formalisation of their order, the c. eighteenth-century Siddhasiddhāntapaddhati, does not teach hat .hayoga; on the contrary, in its more avadhūta moments it scorns it.”
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“Members of both these ascetic orders, and their forerunners, have practised a liberation-oriented hat .hayoga, in contrast to the siddhi-oriented yoga of the Gorakhnāthīs, since at least the time of composition of the first hat .hayoga texts and probably for much longer.”
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“The yoga of one of the earliest texts of the Goraks .a Yogī tradition, the thirteenth-to fourteenth-century Vivekamārtan .d .a, is a visualisation-based Kun .d .alinī yoga (which originated in the Paścimāmnāya Kaula tradition) overlaid onto the bindu-oriented physical hat .hayoga of the Dattātreyayogaśāstra.”
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“The earliest references to an organised Yogī order date to the late sixteenth century.”
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“None of the important schools of hat .hayoga in India today has a Nāth guru; the majority are affiliated with the Daśanāmī Sam .nyāsīs.”
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“To this day the Nāth Yogīs' association with yoga is little more than in name: I have tried in vain to find any adepts of hat .hayoga among today's Nāths.”
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“To this day the Nāth Yogīs' association with yoga is little more than in name: I have tried in vain to find any adepts of hat .hayoga among today's Nāths.”
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“They have been almost completely ignored in scholarship on hat .hayoga, even though all the many Sanskrit texts on hat .hayoga and commentaries thereon composed or compiled since the fifteenth century have been written by scholars of these traditions.”
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“None of the important schools of hat .hayoga in India today has a Nāth guru; the majority are affiliated with the Daśanāmī Sam .nyāsīs.”
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“They have been almost completely ignored in scholarship on hat .hayoga, even though all the many Sanskrit texts on hat .hayoga and commentaries thereon composed or compiled since the fifteenth century have been written by scholars of these traditions.”
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“I do not know of a single Sanskrit text on hat .hayoga or commentary written by a member of the Goraks .a Yogī tradition since the Hat .hapradīpikā.”
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“But this is not borne out by our sources.”
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“The mumuks .u yoga tradition of hat .hayoga, which is espoused by the Rāmānandīs and Daśanāmīs, has been the predominant variety of yoga practice for at least five hundred years and is the basis of much of the yoga practised in the West, but it is completely ignored or overlooked by White in Sinister Yogis.”
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“Even after that time, notwithstanding occasional localised Nāth influence, there is little evidence of a truly unified pan-Indian Yogī order until the establishment of the Yogī Mahāsabhā at the beginning of the twentieth century.”
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“in the Śivasam .hitā (3.61) and Dattātreyayogaśāstra (99) it is said that the yogi in the ghat .āvasthā can turn objects into gold by smearing them with his faeces and urine.”
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“In the Dattātreyayogaśāstra alchemy is said to be one of the obstacles to success in the practice of yoga (52).”
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“The impressive campus around the Gorakhnāth mandir at the Nāth headquarters in Gorakhpur is a fine example of a flourishing nijī sthān.”
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“Chapter Four, for example, contains the following: p. 129 utkrāmanta for utkrāmantam, parākranti for parākrānti; p. 130 purus .a is described as kūt .asthā; p. 282 n. 60 ātmanātmānam is said to be a compound; p. 141 Kauśītaki for Kaus .ītaki; p. 143 pravis .t .hā for pravis .t .ā; p. 144 nāna for nānā”
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“By the beginning of the nineteenth century, as part of the consolidation of their order under the tutelage of Gorakhnāth, the Nāth Yogīs had begun to distinguish themselves from other ascetic orders by wearing their earrings through holes cut in the cartilages of their ears, not in the lobes (hence their somewhat pejorative appelation kānphat .ā).”
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“The tilak, the moustache with an absent or perhaps tied-back beard, the earrings through the earlobes and the sword are of a piece with contemporaneous images of Sam .nyāsīs of the Giri order.”
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“contrary to received opinion, there are no records of Nāth Yogīs ever having been militarised in the manner of the Daśanāmī and Rāmānandī nāgās”
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“White regularly repeats these attributions in his works.”
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“in the Śivasam .hitā it is one of various siddhis achieved through prān .āyāma when practised in the second stage (ghat .āvasthā) of yoga.”
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“But these Yogīs were in fact the willing and complicit beneficiaries of the semantic confusion which has caught out White and many other scholars.”
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“This conflation of yoga with its siddhis is evident from the first chapter of the book, a survey of literary evidence of yogis getting up to no good.”
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“But White's logic for dismissing it as not being yogic is flawed.”
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“As the heirs to the Paścimāmnāya sādhaka tradition they pursued siddhis through means such as tantric ritual, mantra-repetition, alchemy and visualisation-based layayoga.”
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“Meanwhile ascetic orders which did practise the physical techniques of hat .hayoga but were quite separate from the Yogīs were flourishing from at least the early medieval period. 32”
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“The Yogasūtra itself lists various supernatural powers which the yogi can attain through his yoga practice.”
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“In the Pātañjala and hat .ha yoga traditions (which coalesced in texts composed from the sixteenth century onwards, such as Śivānanda Sarasvatī's Yogacintāman .i), siddhis have been said to be impediments to the ultimate aim of yoga, liberation, since the composition of the Yogasūtra in the fourth or fifth centuries ce.”
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“s well as varying the criteria for what constitutes yoga to suit his thesis, White cherrypicks his evidence to do the same, citing passages that support his argument while ignoring those in the very same texts that would argue against it.”
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“in the Yogasūtra's vibhūtipāda, parakāyapraveśa is said to result from loosening the causes of bondage and understanding the workings of the mind”
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“These Yogīs were yogis as magicians.”
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“So parakāyapraveśa is not yoga practice itself; it is one of its results.”
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“It seems to me to be plausible to suggest that some of the yogic features of the practice were already present at the time of the Mahābhārata before it was taught in later yoga texts.”
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“The overriding problem with White's thesis that yoga, or at least yogis, were”
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“White's conflation of Paścimāmnāya sādhakas, who came to be known as Yogīs and who included alchemists among their number, with practitioners of hat .hayoga is partly responsible (see also note 31) for the thesis of his 1996 monograph The Alchemical Body, namely that”
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“Its 'sinister' connotations and its use as a caste name by a variety of low-status groups including snake-charmers and Muslim devotional singers have led to its being eschewed as a title by even the Nāths themselves (as noted by White on p. 223), as well as by higher-status Yogī castes in Rajasthan who now also call themselves Nāths.”
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“While Daśanāmīs and Rāmānandīs will happily refer to themselves in conversation as yogīs and the word is used frequently in their liturgies, as a sect name it has long been the preserve of the Gorakhnāthīs.”
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- Not matchedcites White on p. 223
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“Its 'sinister' connotations and its use as a caste name by a variety of low-status groups including snake-charmers and Muslim devotional singers have led to its being eschewed as a title by even the Nāths themselves (as noted by White on p. 223), as well as by higher-status Yogī castes in Rajasthan who now also call themselves Nāths.”
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In the paper
“The mumuks .u yoga tradition of hat .hayoga, which is espoused by the Rāmānandīs and Daśanāmīs, has been the predominant variety of yoga practice for at least five hundred years and is the basis of much of the yoga practised in the West, but it is completely ignored or overlooked by White in Sinister Yogis.”
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In the paper
“This is predicated upon a historiographical model not dissimilar to that employed in early analyses of Buddhism in which Gorakhnāth established a pan-Indian Yogī order that has been in slow decay ever since.”
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“Members of another bhakta sam .pradāya, the Dādūpanth, also combined the practice of yoga with a devotional attitude.”
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“Kr .s .n .adās Payohārī is remembered in the Vais .n .ava tradition as a yogi par excellence.”
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In the paper
“Many works on hat .hayoga show it to be quite distinct from alchemy.”
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“Bhakta yogis have in fact long been a common feature of the Vais .n .ava devotional tradition as evinced by the ninth or tenth-century Bhāgavatapurān .a.”
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- Not matchedcites [45]
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“The Yogisampradāyāvis .kr .ti (Yogī 1924), which assimilates a tradition of nine Nārāyan .as headed by the divine yogin Dattātreya with that of the nine Nāths”
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“the first text to teach a system of hat .hayoga and call it as such”
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In the paper
“It is in fact almost certainly of a Daśanāmī Nāgā Sam .nyāsī.”
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In the paper
“A parallel can be drawn with the mentions of ascetics standing on their heads (or at least hanging upside-down) in the Mahābhārata (see e.g.1.26.2, 3.185.5,12.126.18,13.3.9,13.7.11).This practice is nowhere therein explicitly associated with yoga, but more than a thousand years later the headstand became an iconic yogic āsana.”
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- Not matchedcites Mahābhārata
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“In texts of the hat .hayogic corpus this distinction is reproduced and the word sādhaka is rarely used to refer to the practitioner of hat .hayogic techniques”
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- Rests on an assumption: In many tantric texts a distinction is made between the sādhaka, who has undertaken the third highest of the four tantric dīkṣās and practises mantra-repetition for siddhis, and the yogin, whose practice is separate from this system, and for whom liberation is usually the main aim.
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“He says (p. 89) that they”
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“Both these assertions are made notwithstanding the fact that neither s .ad .aṅgayoga nor the sus .umnā is mentioned in any other text until the seventh century. 21”
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- Not matchedcites Niśvāsatattvasaṃhitā
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“On the next page he says that”
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In the paper
“In 25 of 26 witnesses the chapter is called yogavidhih .; one calls it yogakathanam.Nowhere in any manuscript colophon, nor in the chapter itself, is the compound yogavidah .to be found.”
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- Not matchedcites Pune critical edition
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“Thus, on page 196, he mentions a passage in the Jayākhyasam .hitā in which yogins are described as evil beings.But no mention is made of the same text's 33rd pat .ala, which teaches a six-limbed meditative yoga, by means of which the yogin may achieve mukti.”
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- Not matchedcites Jayākhyasamhitā
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“In the same text (p.45) yoga is said to happen as a result of vijñāna, sam .yama and tapas, and (p.48) to be the root of knowledge, the essence of asceticism, abiding in goodness, the destruction of dualities and free from hatred and passion.”
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- Not matchedcites Bhagavadajjukīya
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“The Gorakhbān .ī, to which recent scholarship ascribes a date of the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries, 23 is said to date”
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- Not matchedcites Offredi 1999
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“The last chapter of Sinister Yogis is predicated on White's theory that an original siddhi-based yoga and its yogis declined progressively to the point where it has now almost disappeared, having been eclipsed by a sanitised, rational”
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“Certain key words are consistently misspelt (both in Sinister Yogis and in White's 2009 article): jina is found everywhere, including in the index, as jīna; pāda (as in a textual division of a tantric work or the Yogasūtra) as pada; nikāya as nikaya.The same is true of important Hindi terms: akhād .ā is everywhere ākhād .a; Kumbh(a) Melā is Kumbhā Melā; and the long final -ī of sect names such as”
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In the paper
“The Dattātreyayogaśāstra is the first text to teach a systematised hat .hayoga and call it as such.”
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- Not matchedcites Dattātreyayogaśāstra
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In the paper
“Neither the Vivekamārtan .d .a nor a contemporaneous work on yoga also attributed to Goraks .a, the Goraks .aśataka, 33 calls its yoga hat .ha. 34”
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- Not matchedcites Vivekamārtaṇḍa
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- Not matchedcites Gorakṣaśataka
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“but that text in fact trumps alchemical practice with the yogic technique of aṅgamardana, in which the body is subjected to techniques paralleled, in both name and manner, by those of alchemy (Khecarīvidyā 2.72-79, on which see Mallinson 2007, p. 220 n. 328).”
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- Not matchedcites Khecarīvidyā 2.72-79
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“Payohārī Jī's yogic mastery was not exceptional in the Rāmānandī tradition.”
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In the paper
“Yet White does the same, conflating Muslim fakirs with Hindu yogis throughout Chapter Six and adducing reports of bizarre practices undertaken by holy men of any sort to support his argument that yogis were sinister.”
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“While many nijī or private Nāth establishments have, over the years, met their end-as is the nature of monasteries dependent on their residents' charisma to attract patronage-others, especially the pañcāyatī establishments controlled by the Mahāsabhā, are flourishing.”
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“The mumuks .u yoga tradition of hat .hayoga, which is espoused by the Rāmānandīs and Daśanāmīs, has been the predominant variety of yoga practice for at least five hundred years and is the basis of much of the yoga practised in the West, but it is completely ignored or overlooked by White in Sinister Yogis.”
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In the paper
“The one doctrinal (as opposed to hagiographical or devotional) Sanskrit text composed by Nāths after the formalisation of their order, the c. eighteenth-century Siddhasiddhāntapaddhati, does not teach hat .hayoga; on the contrary, in its more avadhūta moments it scorns it.”
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- Not matchedcites [37]
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“Its current mahant, Yogī Ādityanāth, is the BJP MP for Gorakhpur”
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In the paper
“The final chapter of Sinister Yogis charts the supposed demise of the yogi (i.e. the Nāth Yogī).”
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In the paper
“the c. 1450 ce Hat .hapradīpikā compilation includes twenty verses from the Dattātreyayogaśāstra”
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In the paper
“On pp.108-109 White concedes that the word yoga went through a semantic shift in the first half of the first millennium ce”
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“Recent editions of the Yogabīja and Amanaska(yoga) from the Gorakhpur Nāth mandir attribute both texts to Goraks .anātha although there is nothing in the manuscripts of either to connect it with the Nāth tradition.”
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In the paper
“but credits Matsyendra, Goraks .a and other mahāsiddhas with hat .hayoga's invention and makes no mention of Dattātreya.”
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“The picture is said in its caption to be of a Nāth Yogī.”
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In the paper
“is in fact a twentieth-century account of the Yogī order, drawing in places on older texts but written in the first person by one Candranāth Yogī.”
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In the paper
“This is because they did not practise much yoga (or at least the clearly visible methods of hat .hayoga).”
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In the paper
“White rightly associates these siddhi-oriented yogis with the order which from perhaps the early eighteenth century came to be known as the Nāths, but whose members, heirs to the Paścimāmnāya sādhaka tradition that originated in the Deccan, were before then known simply as Yogīs.”
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In the paper
“In Sinister Yogis, White makes no reference to this distinction and reproduces the conflation of the sādhaka and the yogin found in some Śākta works, such as the Brahmayāmala, 14 thereby compounding his conflation of siddhis and yoga.”
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- Not matchedcites Brahmayāmala
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- Rests on an assumption: In many tantric texts a distinction is made between the sādhaka, who has undertaken the third highest of the four tantric dīkṣās and practises mantra-repetition for siddhis, and the yogin, whose practice is separate from this system, and for whom liberation is usually the main aim.
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“Elsewhere (p.32), White cites a passage from the Bhagavadajjukīya in which by means of yoga (yogena) a yogi enters a young woman's corpse.But, again, his entering the corpse is not yoga, it is the result of yoga.”
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- Not matchedcites Bhagavadajjukīya
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“Rather than let the reader decide its merits for him-or herself, he coerces the reader to accept his opinion.”
§ The Yogīs' Latest Trick 1 > Abstract
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“White suggests (p.46) that the practice of vajrolīmudrā, in which the yogin (or yoginī) draws liquids up through the urethra, is part of rājayoga, adducing Amanaska 2.32, 24 the import of which is in fact that those who practise various esoteric techniques including vajrolīmudrā will not achieve physical perfection without rājayoga.”
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- Not matchedcites Amanaska 2.32
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“White's interpretations of the contents of texts are often erroneous too.”
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In the paper
“The yogis described have achieved magical powers as a result of their practice of yoga and other techniques, which they then put to evil ends.The powers are not the practice.”
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In the paper
“There is little in the way of new textual research and, where drawn on directly, editions are used uncritically: no variant readings are noted nor manuscripts consulted.”
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“hanges in the referents of the words yoga and yogin (and the latter's vernacular derivatives) lie at the heart of a methodological problem which afflicts Sinister Yogis: it is often unclear whether White is exploring the history of the word yoga or of yoga itself.”
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In the paper
“The Yogīs' appropriation of hat .hayoga and adoption of the guise of hat .hayogins has, as noted above, happened for various reasons, in some of which the Yogīs have themselves been complicit.”
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In the paper
“Dādū composed a text on bodily yoga, the Kāyābelī”
§ The Yogīs' Latest Trick 1 > Abstract
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In the paper
“Its 'sinister' connotations and its use as a caste name by a variety of low-status groups including snake-charmers and Muslim devotional singers have led to its being eschewed as a title by even the Nāths themselves (as noted by White on p. 223), as well as by higher-status Yogī castes in Rajasthan who now also call themselves Nāths.”
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- Not matchedcites White on p. 223
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- Not matchedcites [39]
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In the paper
“The alchemical and hat .hayogic traditions do share some esoteric vocabulary, but this shared terminology is simply drawn from a pool accessed by adepts of a broad range of traditions, from the Kashmiri exegetes of Śaivism to the Sants.”
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In the paper
“which is claimed in its preface and by others, including White (1996, p. 408 n. 183), to be a translation into Hindi of a Bengali translation of a Marathi work written in the thirteenth century by Jñāndev”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites White (1996, p. 408 n. 183) source
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In the paper
“the seventeenth-century Dādūpanthī scholar-poet Sundardās wrote extensively on yoga in his Sarvāṅgayogapradīpikā and Jñānasamudra.”
§ The Yogīs' Latest Trick 1 > Abstract
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In the paper
“In spite of these well-known bhakta yogis, bhakti and yoga are often thought to be incompatible”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [44] source
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In the paper
“in the Bhaktamāl of Nābhadās, which was composed in about 1600, he is described as a mahāmuni whose seed was turned upwards (ūrdhretā -the condition of the yogi who has mastered his bindu) and who was waited on by kings.”
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- Not matchedcites [41]
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In the paper
“certain features of the Dattātreyayogaśāstra and the Śivasam .hitā show that they were affiliated to two ascetic traditions which in the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries formally coalesced, with other lineages, to form the Daśanāmī Sam .nyāsī sam .pradāya, and from subgroups of which it is likely that the Rāmānandīs seceded, probably at some point”
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- Not matchedcites Dattātreyayogaśāstra
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- Not matchedcites Śivasamhitā
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In the paper
“His disciple Kīlha and grand-disciple Dvārkādās are remembered as great yogis who conquered death (just as Gorakhnāth does in a variety of Nāth legends), with Kīlha being said in Nābhādās's Bhaktamāl to have used the power of his yoga practice to exit his body through the aperture of Brahmā at the top of the skull.”
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- Not matchedcites [42]
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“Yogī can still have 'sinister' connotations in Hindi, but that role is better played by jogī, the latter also carrying with it associations of low social status.”
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plaincorrelationalSingle case- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“It is easier to distinguish between these two types of yogin in vernacular languages.”
§ The Yogīs' Latest Trick 1 > Abstract
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Probably not a substantial claim.
The paper relies on this without support.
In the tantric traditions, siddhis are the main aim of the initiate.
“In the tantric traditions, on the other hand, siddhis are the main aim of the initiate.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The most common means of attaining siddhis in tantric traditions is mantra-repetition.
“Various means of attaining them are taught, but the most common is mantra-repetition.”
The paper relies on this without support.
When haṭha yoga practices started to be codified in Sanskrit texts in the eleventh or twelfth centuries, it was soon appropriated by Kaula tantric traditions that brought their bubhukṣu emphasis on siddhis with them.
“When the hat .ha variety of yoga practices started to be codified in Sanskrit texts in the eleventh or twelfth centuries, it was soon appropriated by Kaula tantric traditions that brought their bubhuks .u emphasis on siddhis with them.”
The paper relies on this without support.
In many tantric texts a distinction is made between the sādhaka, who has undertaken the third highest of the four tantric dīkṣās and practises mantra-repetition for siddhis, and the yogin, whose practice is separate from this system, and for whom liberation is usually the main aim.
“In many tantric texts a distinction is made between the sādhaka, who has undertaken the third highest of the four tantric dīks .ās and practises mantrarepetition for siddhis, and the yogin, whose practice is separate from this system, and for whom liberation is usually the main aim.”
The paper relies on this without support.
That these Nāth Yogīs were the originators and foremost exponents of haṭhayoga is a given of all historical studies of yoga.
“That these”
The paper relies on this without support.
The Yogasūtra was composed in the fourth or fifth centuries CE.
“since the composition of the Yogasūtra in the fourth or fifth centuries ce.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The Dattātreyayogaśāstra is a thirteenth-century text.
“This is evinced in texts such as the thirteenth-century Dattātreyayogaśāstra and the fifteenth-century Śivasam .hitā.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The Śivasamhitā is a fifteenth-century text.
“the thirteenth-century Dattātreyayogaśāstra and the fifteenth-century Śivasam .hitā.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The Vivekamārtaṇḍa is a thirteenth-to fourteenth-century text.
“the thirteenth-to fourteenth-century Vivekamārtan .d .a”
The paper relies on this without support.
The Yogabīja is a c. fourteenth-century text.
“the c. fourteenth-century Yogabīja.”
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In the paper
§ The Yogīs' Latest Trick 1 > Abstract
“Chapter Six contains a useful survey of travellers' descriptions of yogis and fakirs which builds on and complements those of Pinch (2006) and Singleton (2009).”
§ The Yogīs' Latest Trick 1 > References
“31. Singleton, Mark, Yoga Body. (New York, 2010).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- MALLINSON, J.
- Affiliations
- University of London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- MALLINSON, JAMES
- ORCID
- MALLINSON, JAMES
- Venue
- Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2013-12-03
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 165-180
- ISSN
- 0035-869X (ISSN-L)
- 2051-2066
- OpenAlex
- W1982060743
- Cited by
- 13
- References
- 29
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2023: 3 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 4 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1
- Type
- book review
- Language
- en
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- Locations
- Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (publishedVersion)
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- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Indian and Buddhist Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Study and Philosophy of Religion
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
- Keywords
- Tantra, yoga, alchemy, textual criticism, philology, Mircea Eliade, history of religions, Indology
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