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Source: ORA: Amanaska (king of all yogas): A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation by Jason Birch1) Cremation-ground practices are rejected by the Amanaska Yoga treatise.—The Amanaska replaced the graduated systems of yoga, usually consisting of various auxiliaries, with one technique called Śāmbhavī Mudrā and the practice of Samādhi. Indeed, the Amanaska’s rejection of the auxiliaries of Yoga, complex metaphysics and philosophical systems, mantras, Brahmanical and non-Brahmanical asceticism, the cremation-ground practices of the Kāpālikas and sect-identifying signs, distinguish it markedly from pre-tenth century CE Pātañjala and Tantric Yoga.
2) The Cremation Ground is denoted by the Sanskrit term Śmaśāna, according to the 17th century Kaulagajamardana (“crushing the Kaula elephant”) authored by Kāśīnātha or Kṛṣṇānandācala.—Accordingly, [as Īśvara said to Pārvatī]: “Listen, O Pārvatī, I shall give a critique of the Pāṣaṇḍas. Knowing this, a wise man is not defeated by them. [...] He who wears ash from the cremation ground (śmaśāna) and delights in wine and flesh; he who performs such [rites] as bathing and the junctures for [mere] worldly rewards; and he who is the vilest [of them all,] having become a hater of Viṣṇu, destroys everything; [all of them] are called Pāṣaṇḍas. [Now,] my dear, hear about the Kāpālika. [...]”
Yoga is originally considered a branch of Hindu philosophy (astika), but both ancient and modern Yoga combine the physical, mental and spiritual. Yoga teaches various physical techniques also known as āsanas (postures), used for various purposes (eg., meditation, contemplation, relaxation).
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