Season 1 - Rapture & Knowledge

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In this episode:

• Texts and biases that affect the way modern yoga is understood
• Sacrificial triad in the Brahmanas
• a story about Prajapati, the primal creator god
• Hatha yoga as the ‘yoga of the pot’

Reference readings for season one -

Ardor, Roberto Calasso

The Advaita Worldview, Anantanand Rambachan

The Alchemical Body, David Gordon White

The Bhagavad Gita, S. Radhakrishnan

The Bhagavad Gita, Winthrop Sargent

Biography of the Yoga Sutra, David Gordon White

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Edwin Bryant

The Principal Upanishads, S. Radhakrishnan

The Roots of Yoga, Mallinson and Singleton

Yoga Body, Mark Singleton

The Yoga Tradition, Georg Feuerstein