QuoteReplyTopic: Yoga and its philosophy, a mystery yet unveiled ? Posted: 22-Jul-2018 at 14:11
It is believed that Yoga thrived in the Indus Valley civilization, one of the cradles of civilization in north-west of Indian subcontinent. But possibly its first practices dates back to early Neolithic age and it is guessed that these practices had some affinities with prehistoric rituals as Shamanism, some sort of witchcraft for healing. So the origin and development of Yoga is still unclear. Even Hindus cannot claim that Yoga belongs to their religion because its origin and its development predates Hinduism. Instead Hinduism possibly adopted some of the ideas and practices from the ancient Yoga. Also the fact that there are many cults, diversifications and discernments in Yoga implies that nobody has enough recognition of ancient or real Yoga as well as its entire history. Indus Valley civilization and its major cities such as Harappa and especially Mohenjo-daro has not been actually discovered until about 1920 when the ruins of the cities and some artifacts were unearthed by archaeologist. so the history of the cities, where Yoga thrived, is also unclear.
But the mystery of Yoga is not just for its origin and formation. The historians tell us the civilization where Yoga thrived culminated at about late third millennium BC and suddenly demised at about early second millennium BC, for some doubted and even controversial reasons.
Findings from the Indus Valley civilization especially Mohejo-daro bears some implications about the living of their people. Urban facilities such as developed water distribution networks and sewerage systems tells us that sanitation and purification was an important part of their living, as it is also one the main instructions in Yoga. Those findings suggest more implications about the living and culture of the people lived in those cities that possibly unveil more facts about ancient Yoga that may seem weird for the spirituality of Yoga and even our nowadays norms and moralities. But these implications remain vague and uncertain, until more findings, if ever achieved, unveil more mysteries of that wonderful civilization and ancient or real Yoga and possibly its unknown wonderful philosophy .
The meaning of life is in the search of meaning of life .
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