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    Incredible Connection: The Unlikely Entanglement of Yoga, Harappa and Eastern Island.
    Incredible Connection: The Unlikely Entanglement of Yoga, Harappa and Eastern Island.
    Incredible Connection: The Unlikely Entanglement of Yoga, Harappa and Eastern Island.
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    Incredible Connection: The Unlikely Entanglement of Yoga, Harappa and Eastern Island.

    By Janusz Meyerhoff

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    What do Yoga - a profound spiritual system or a series of physical exercises, the Harappa, or Indus Valley Civilization, a civilization, worlds apart from all other societies, and Easter Island (Rapa Nui), a tiny speck in the enormous Pacific Ocean all have in common? Separated over four thousand years and thousands of kilometers, yet they all share a very peculiar and unique connection.
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    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateJun 8, 2013
    ISBN9781304117885
    Incredible Connection: The Unlikely Entanglement of Yoga, Harappa and Eastern Island.

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      Incredible Connection - Janusz Meyerhoff

      Incredible Connection: The Unlikely Entanglement of Yoga, Harappa and Eastern Island.

      INCREDIBLE CONNECTION

      THE UNLIKELY ENTANGLEMENT OF YOGA, HARAPPA AND EASTERN ISLAND

      COPYRIGHT

      Copyright Janusz Meyerhoff

      2013 First Edition

      ISBN 978-1-304-11788-5

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      FOREWORD

      What do Yoga - a profound spiritual system or a series of physical exercises, the Harappa, or Indus Valley Civilization, a civilization, worlds apart from all other societies, and Easter Island (Rapa Nui), a tiny speck in the enormous Pacific Ocean all have in common?  Separated over four thousand years and thousands of kilometers, yet they all share a very peculiar and unique connection.

      YOGA

      Yoga is a spiritual discipline which originated in ancient India. In Vedic Sanskrit it means: to add, to join, to unite, or to attach. The ultimate goal of yoga is Moksha which means: liberation, end of suffering, release from illusion, the cessation of perturbation of consciousness, etc. although the exact definition, depend on the different philosophical disciplines. Various traditions of yoga are also found in Hinduism, Buddhism Jainism and Sikhism. For example, in Buddhism the equivalent of Moksha is Nirvana.

      Specifically, yoga is one of the six astika, schools of Hindu philosophy:

      Nyaya (the school of logic)

      Vaisesika (the atomist school)

      Samkhya (the enumeration school)

      Yoga, (the school of Patanjali)

      Mimamsa (the tradition of Vedic exegesis)

      Vedanta (UttaraMimamsa, the Upanishad’s tradition)

      The following texts will be dedicated to some of the most important schools of yoga:

      A) Karma yoga: The yoga of action.

      B) Bhakti yoga: The yoga of devotion.

      C) Jnana yoga: The yoga of knowledge.

      D) Raja yoga: Yoga Sutras of Patañjali (who lived around 150 BC)

      Patañjali systemized different schools of yoga into one consisting of eight steps (Raja yoga). Each step should be practiced consecutively. For example: Many yoga students begin with meditation having no idea what that word means.

      1. Yama: The five abstentions – Ahimsa: (non-violence) – Satya: (Truth and not lying) – Asteya:

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