yogin

Examples

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• Consider, for example, the following passage on the "waking sleep" of the yogin, a common theme in mystical literature in both the West and the East.

  Academic text (1999)

• As a devoted yogin, she spent years studying ancient texts to deepen her understanding of yoga as a spiritual discipline.

• "The yogin thus becomes homologized with the gods...

  Academic text (1990)

• After a few years' stay at Manali, Muttusvami Dikshita became the disciple of Chidambaranatha Yogin and joined his teacher on a pilgrimage to the holy city of Varanasi.

  Academic text (2001)

• Drawing on the conviction born in these states and working out of his discovery of his own coincidentia oppositorum, Eliade would use, however consciously, these experiences as models to write about the Tantric yogin in his doctoral thesis and later, in his more theoretical books, about the nature of religious experience in general.

  Academic text (1999)

• In his carnival, Mr. Z had an Indian fire-eater, a "yogin" (from India) who could walk and sit on burning coals, Tom Thumb, a Giant, a Dancing Hog, and some poor Negro with certain of his insides on the exterior of his body by the age of only 22.

  Fiction book (1999)

• The yogin practiced meditation daily, seeking spiritual insight and inner peace.

• During the retreat, the yogin shared his knowledge of breathing techniques and their effects on mindfulness.

Synonyms

Y

yogi

vsyogin

23 6.8

A person who practices yoga to reach deep spiritual understanding

includes general spiritual practice and sometimes gaining special powers

Y

yogini

vsyogin

1 7.7

A woman who does yoga and can do difficult poses

is neutral for any practitioner and includes spiritual discipline and insight

How Advanced

yoga guru

1 4.9

yogin

9.3

Surface Forms

Etymology