Yoga¶
Literature, 1958
Exercise for people who are a bit too precious to make themselves undergo any strenuous effort. Also, profound.
Yoga (“union”) is Hindu pantheism; not exercise. Although it found its way into the US via the transcendentalists (Swami Vivekananda’s tours, along with Emerson and Blavatsky), it was the English translation of 1954 “Le Yoga: Immortalite et Liberte” by Romanian Mircea Eliade which found its way onto the bookshelves of musicians and artists in the lead-up to the Counter-Culture.
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