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The goal of yoga is enlightenment . That's it. Yoga was originally developed to lead the practitioner to freedom from suffering ... (continued)

Yoga's Greater Truth

By Mark Singleton

A scholar embarks on a quest to trace the roots of his yoga practice back to their source. What he finds confounds him, and, ultimately, provides him with a glimpse of yoga's greater truth.

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This Hindu goddess, consort of Shiva, proves that dignity and smarts prevail.

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Mental yoga reveals the mind's nature and its filters and is an important part of physical yoga practice.

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