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Book: Yoga Studies in Five Minutes

Chapter: 60. What is the Relationship between Yoga and Capitalism?

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.46402

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The relation between yoga and capitalism is not an assimilation of one static system (yoga) to another (capitalism); rather the relation is a response to ever changing socio-economic developments. Perhaps the power of yoga’s symbiotic socio-economic relationship to capitalism lies in its potential to revolt against capitalist exploitation.

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