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Q&A: What's So Sacred About the Number 108?: Shiva Rea Explains the Significance of the Number 108 in Yoga and Hinduism

By YJ Editors — 2017

You may have read of people doing 108 Sun Salutations (Surya Namaskar) at the time of the spring equinox, or own mala with 108 beads. Here's why the number is considered so auspicious.

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Should Christians Do Yoga?

A few weeks ago, a Baptist minister in Texas started a rumble, or at least a small brouhaha, when he declared that yoga is not suitable for Christians. His point was that using the body for spiritual practice contradicts basic Christian principles.

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Sally Kempton
2010
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Welcome to the Wildness: or, Uncovering the True Heart of Yoga and Meditation

Every day, we have to do the impossible. We have to submit to the magic reboot of sleep and then get up and line up all our selves into a unified being and get on with it. Nearly every day, new qualities of our selves come online to join in with all the others. This is a creative act.

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Lorin Roche
2022
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How Yoga and Exercise Help with Addiction Recovery

Certain types of yoga can produce a natural “high” that can help those recovering from addiction. For Troy Jackson, yoga proved to be such a powerful recovery tool that he’s now a yoga teacher.

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Jake Panasevich
2021
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Prana: Demystifying Life Force Energy

Often, prana and life force energy are terms that are used interchangeably, but what does either actually mean?

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Sahara Rose
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Life Force Energy

Prana is described as the “breath of life” or “life force energy"; a subtle element or entity underlying the fabric of all of creation, animating sentient beings with consciousness and life.

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Yogiraj Gurunath
2012
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Dharma: The Social Order

Dharma is a concept of social order and duty that sustains the whole universe. A person’s placement in a caste (varna) and birth group (jati) is one element of dharma. Jati is historically also used to determine social interactions and marriages, as dharma guides every aspect of daily life.

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Pluralism Project
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Hindu Concepts

This article explains the Hindu concepts of Atman, Dharma, Varna, Karma, Samsara, Purushartha, Moksha, Brahman, Bhagavan and Ishvara.

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Gavin Flood
2009
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Find out How Hinduism Defines Dharma

Learn about the path of righteousness.

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Subhamoy Das
2019
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18 Major World Religions — Study Starters

Religion is so diverse and nuanced a subject that it’s nearly impossible to encapsulate all of the world’s major religions in just a few words. But we’re going to try anyway. This is an entry point for understanding the basics of the world’s major religions.

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TheBestSchools
2021
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Ancestor Worship in the Vedas

The Vedic people worshipped celestial beings known as devas. They also worshipped their ancestors known as pitras. The worship of these two sets of divinities complements each other.

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Devdutt Pattanaik
2021
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