I cannot stop marveling at the way how deeply, almost at the archetypic level those various aspects of ancient Indian views \u2013 yoga, philosophy, grammar and medicine \u2013 happen to be intertwined. Here is the recent fact that has astonished me.<\/p>\n
As I have already written in one of my previous articles<\/a> almost all words in Sanskrit (except the borrowed ones) have derived from the so called verbal roots which complete list and classification have been drawn in \u201cDhatupatha\u201d directory that was compiled more than two thousand years ago. The specific feature of this book lies in the brief [definition] (consisting of one, two or \u2013 very rarely \u2013 three words) that every root is attributed with. In fact, it does not look like a modern defining dictionary but is rather a short hint\u2013reminder for those in the know. Or a kind of standard. And so I became concerned about the way the author defines the root that the word \u201cyoga\u201d has derived from. Today even those who are not quite initiated into grammar know this root to be \u201cyuj\u201d (\u092f\u0941\u091c). Having consulted \u201cDhatupatha\u201d we first of all find that there are two roots of this kind contained there (this, actually, not being a problem since these roots are referred to different grammatical groups yet their meanings are almost the same). And so, in order to define the first root the author has used the word SAMADHAU!!! That is, YUJ is Samadhi (the finishing \u2018au\u2019 is the case ending). And it is not the mystic state that Samadhi stands here for, but it is used in the meaning of \u201cputting together\u201d (the article on etymology of the word \u2018samadhi\u2019 can be found in next articles.<\/p>\n When defined for the second time, the root is determined as SAMYAMANE (that is, samyama) \u2013 the word that is known well in yoga and to my blog readers and that we shall come back to when analyzing the second chapter. But of course here \u201csamyama\u201d also means that \u201ctying up, holding together\u201d. Beautiful, isn\u2019t it!! Yoga is both Samadhi and samyama. In all senses and for all purposes!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I cannot stop marveling at the way how deeply, almost at the archetypic level those various aspects of ancient Indian views \u2013 yoga, philosophy, grammar and medicine \u2013 happen to be intertwined. Here is the recent fact that has astonished me. As I have already written in one of my previous articles almost all words… Continue reading An Aesthetically-Linguistic Note on Yoga and Samadhi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[234,200],"tags":[216],"class_list":["post-32457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sanskrit","category-yoga-sutra-en","tag-samadhi","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}