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Asparsha Yoga :
It is a strange form of yoga and is based on “Non-Touching". In principle it is practice of detachment, remaining aloof from all contacts, various ties, attachment to worldly affairs. The practitioner lives as a recluse. There is stress on purity of thought, speech, all body actions and of surroundings. In extremes it implies that even touching things, people including close relations will pollute. In course of time the spiritual ideology of detachment degenerated into untouchability and got entrenched as a social discrimination and religious dogma in Hindu society. In spite of strict legal provisions against untouchability it still continues. As yoga it is now only in scriptures.
