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Book: Yoga Studies in Five Minutes

Chapter: 13. Do Yogis Want to Transcend or Transform the Body?

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.46355

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Unlike other yogic schools, which sought to transcend the body, haṭhayoga has always emphasised bodily functioning and a progressive perfectioning of its potentialities. Nonetheless, the haṭhayogin seeks an eventual state of total and eternal enlightenment, in which all physical limitations have been transcended.

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