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| A '''yogi''' (], feminine root: ''''']''''') is a term for a male practitioner of various forms of spiritual practice. In contemporary ] ''yogin'' is an alternative rendering for the word ''yogi''. <ref></ref> | A '''yogi''' or '''yogin''' (], feminine root: ''''']''''') is a term for a male practitioner of various forms of spiritual practice. In contemporary ] ''yogin'' is an alternative rendering for the word ''yogi''. <ref></ref> | ||
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For other uses, see Yogi (disambiguation).
A yogi or yogin (Sanskrit, feminine root: yogini) is a term for a male practitioner of various forms of spiritual practice. In contemporary English yogin is an alternative rendering for the word yogi. In Hinduism it refers to an adherent of Yoga. The word is also often used in the Buddhist context to describe Buddhist monks or a householders devoted to meditation. Chatral Rinpoche for example is a famous wandering yogi from Tibet.
The Shiva-Samhita text defines the yogi as someone who knows that the entire cosmos is situated within his own body, and the Yoga-Shikha-Upanishad distinguishes two kinds of yogins: those who pierce through the "sun" (surya) by means of the various yogic techniques and those who access the door of the central conduit (sushumna-nadi) and drink the nectar. According to Ravi Shankar, Yogis can levitate and make their bodies disappear..
References
- Translators Notes: Note 1: Yogin is Sanskrit and yogi is Hindi.
- The Shambhala Encyclopedia of Yoga, Shambhala Publications, Boston, 2000 p.350
1-2. Feuerstein, Georg. The Shambhala Encyclopedia of Yoga, Shambhala Publications, Boston, 2000 p. 321, 350.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wood, James, ed. (1907). The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
