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Yoga
When we think of yoga, we all think this image of a concentrated, sitting against a wall in the lotus position and meditating deeply for hours. But yoga is not just a meditation practice during which performs physical contortions and figures imaginable. It is first and foremost a philosophy, a teaching that leads the individual to a healthy lifestyle and peaceful. Therefore it was exercised by the Indian yogis and Tibetan monks from more than 500 years BC. BC, before being transmitted from one generation to the common people through the sage. But it believes its origins over 5000 years.
The most important writings found reports of yogic precepts are the Bhagavad Gita, which means Song of God. It identified the different types of yoga and their individual philosophy. Even then, yoga was practiced according to the needs of various castes. Indulge in yogic thinking, meditation, yoga was available to the practitioner the means to achieve self-realization and absolute escape the cycle of reincarnation. It was a ticket to eternal rest in some way.
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