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Title: Yoga Powers - Extraordinary Capacities Attained Through Meditation and Concentration Series: Brill Indological Library No 37 Author: Knut Jacobsen 533 pages English ISBN 13 978-9004212145 2012 South Asia, religion, yoga This book is about a neglected topic in the research on yoga and south Asian meditation traditions: the yoga powers, the extraordinary capacities that, according to many south Asian religious traditions, are gained by the yoga practice of meditation and concentration Yoga powers are forms of extraordinary knowledge, such as awareness of previous rebirths, knowing the minds of others, seeing distant and hidden things, and remarkable abilities such as the power to become invisible, enter others’ bodies, fly through the air, and to become dis- embodied for a period of time, which are traditionally thought to be attained as yogins progress in their practice This is not a minor issue in the textual traditions of yoga Sharing Widget |