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SOME ASPECTS OF JAINA YOGA IN THE TENTH
CENTURY
The tcrm Yoga has scvoral meanings. Lexicographers like Apte note as many as 38 meanings of it, besides enumerating many compound words formed with it. Union, contact, concurrence, employment, trick, mode, consequence, yoke, remedy, .magic, maxim, skill, etymology, concentration of mind, deep meditation, contemplation of spiritual object etc, are some of its meanings. Compund words like Yogaksema, Yoganidrā, Yogakanya, Yoganatha, Yogacūrna, Yogavāhi, Daivayoga etc. are interesting and some of them are replete with colourful bits of information of ancient Indian mythology and culture. Hence the meaning of the term Yoga depends on the context in which it is used. Here our concern is with yoga in the religio-spiritual context, which can broadly be defined as religious or spiriiual exertion for altaining salvation, perfection of final beautifude.
Elaborating further, Yoga is interpreted as a psycho-philosophic discipline, well equipped with pragmatic system and technique which has been for long employed in India for reaching religious and spiritual goals. In simple words, as technology is related to the present day science, Yoga was related to philosophy
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