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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A Hindu discipline aimed at training the consciousness for a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquillity.
  2. n. A system of exercises practiced as part of this discipline to promote control of the body and mind.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One of the branches of the Hindu philosophy, which teaches the doctrines of the Supreme Being, and explains the means by which the human soul may obtain final emancipation from further migrations, and effect a junction with the universal spirit. Among the means of effecting this junction are comprehended a long continuance in various unnatural postures, withdrawal of the senses from external objects, concentration of the mind on some grand central truth, and the like, all of which imply the leading of an austere hermit life.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Any of several Hindu discipline aimed at training the consciousness for a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquillity; especially a system of exercises practiced to promote control of the body and mind.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A species of asceticism among the Hindoos, which consists in a complete abstraction from all worldly objects, by which the votary expects to obtain union with the universal spirit, and to acquire superhuman faculties.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. Hindu discipline aimed at training the consciousness for a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquility that is achieved through the three paths of actions and knowledge and devotion
  2. n. a system of exercises practiced as part of the Hindu discipline to promote control of the body and mind

Etymologies

  1. From Sanskrit योग (yoga, "yoking, union"), from Proto-Indo-European *yewg- (“to join”) (whence also English yoke). (Wiktionary)
  2. Hindi, from Sanskrit yogaḥ, union, joining. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • bilby involuntary. May 15, 2011

  • oroboros "In Chapter 61 of Pathways Through to Space, Franklin Merrell-Wolff makes the bold assertion that physics can be a path to mystical Realization..."

    --Tom McFarlane in Physics A Peculiarly Beautiful Path To Yoga

    Jun 30, 2008

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