Yogi

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Un yogi yogin es un termino para los que practican yoga. En Sanskrit yogin es para hombres y yogini es para mujeres. Estas designaciones están mayormente reservadas para avanzados practicantes. La palabra "yoga" - de la raíz Sanskrit yuj - es generalmente traducida como "union" o "integración" y puede referir a una union con lo divino, o a la integración de cuerpo, mente y espíritu.

En la Cuarta Manera enseñanza de Gurdjieff la palabra yogi es usada para denotar específicamente el paso de desarrollo mental, comparado con la palabra fakir, que Gurdjieff usa para el paso de desarrollo del cuerpo y monk que usa para el paso de desarrollo de lo emocional.

[editar] Yogis Notables

• Mata Amritanandamayi Guru venerada por sus seguidores en su tiempo de vida como la Madre Divina que enseño, bendijo, conforto, comprendió, e ilumino de la conciencia y existencia de Samadhi, como su parte humanacomo parte de un dios. Siglos atrás, aquellos individuos incluían Mirabai de la tradición Bhakti.

• Shankaracharya de la tradición Jnana Yoga, y Patanjali, formalizo el sistema de Raja Yoga.

• Ramakrishna Paramahamsa y Sarada Devi (1836-1886), un Bhakti Yogi, trajo un renacer al yoga en India. Un devoto de su madre Kali y un maestro para Advaita Vedanta, el predico que "todas las religiones llevan al mismo objetivo." Su esposa, Sarada Devi, fue llamda la reencarnación de la Madre Divina y adorada por el y sus discípulos como tal.

• Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902), discípulo de Ramakrishna, es conocido por introducir a la filosofia del Yoga a muchos en el oeste, así como un revigorizante Hinduismo en un contexto contemporaneo durante los problemas de libertad en India.

• Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (1872-1950) translated and interpreted Yogic scriptures, such as the Upanishads and Bhagavad-Gita. His epic poem Savitri is a treasure of Hindu Yogic literature, among the longest poems ever written in English. He also founded an Ashram in Pondicherry, which continues to propagate the practice of Integral Yoga, which is Aurobindo's synthesis of the four main Yogas (Karma, Jnana, Bhakti and Raja).

• Swami Sivananda (1887-1963), fundador de la Divine Life Society vivió la mayoría de su viad en Rishikesh, India, después sirvió como fisico en Malaysia. Él sintió que la enfermedad era en verdad un problema con el espíritu de la persona y vio la cura en la practica del Yoga. Escribió 300 libros sobre varios aspectos del Yoga, religión, filosofía, espiritualismo, Hinduismo, moral y ética, higiene y salud. Fue un pionero Yogi en traer el Yoga al Oeste, y a través de todo el mundo. Su dicho era: "Sirve. Ama. Regala. Medita. Purifica. Realiza." Uno de sus discípulos fue Swami Satchidananda.

• Neem Karoli Baba (????-1973) Santo para India del Norte conocido en el oeste por ser de unos americanos que viajaron a India en los 1960s y 1970s, que fueron responsables por la proliferación des u nombre en el oeste hasta su regreso. Estos discípulos incluyen al autor Ram Dass, yogis Bhagavan Das y Baba Hari Dass, y los músicos Jai Uttal y Krishna Das. Fue un discípulo de larga vida del bhakti yoga, y motivaba el servicio a otros como la más alta forma de incondicional devoción a Dios.

• Swami Satchidananda (1914-2002), founder of the Integral Yoga Institute International was from a devout and privileged South Indian background. From early life practiced Yoga and applied practical problem-solving in his work and service. He installed the first electrical system, water pump and photo shop at Rishikesh at his Guru Sri Swami Sivananda's Ashram. Plucked from obscurity to the West by Conrad Rooks and Peter Max, he landed in New York to Flower Power disciples in 1966, expanding his service to a worldwide interfaith movement.

• Swami Sivananada Radha Western disciple of Sri Swami Sivananda based in Canada, celebrating beauty and author of Hatha Yoga tome and whose disciples embody peaceful and loving manners.

• Indra Devi Former Russian royalty, raised in the West, studying in India under Krishnamacharya only after orders from the reigning Maharaja admitted her into the class. Krishnamacharyaji was very harsh on her "So she would leave sooner." This per her dialogue in Virginia in 1991. She was an early Hollywood celebrity Guru and was teaching actively practically until her death in her adopted Argentina.

• Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888-1989), taught at Mysore Palace from 1924 until 1957, and then in Chennai until his death in 1989. He is known as the teacher of four of the most influential yogi gurus who have subsequently spread yoga knowledge throughout the world: Sri K. Pattabhi Jois (1915-present), B.K.S. Iyengar (1918-present), Indra Devi (1899-2002) and his own son T.K.V. Desikachar. The lesser-known Srivatsa Ramaswami ia his longest-serving student outside his family. See Krishnamacharya's yoga.

• Yogiraj Swami Bua (1888?-Present), founded the Indo-American Yoga Vedanta Society in 1969. He received the titles of "Yogiraj" and "Maharaja of Hatha Yoga" from Swami Sivananda.

• Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), a practitioner of Kriya Yoga, taught yoga as the underlying truth behind Hinduism and Christianity. He moved from India to the U.S. in 1920, where he spent the rest of his life. Yogananda founded the Self-Realization Fellowship in Los Angeles, in 1925. His book Autobiography of a Yogi, published in 1946, continúes to be one of the best-selling books on yoga. It was instrumental in introducing yoga and meditation to the West.

• A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896-1977) popularised Bhakti Yoga in many countries through his movement, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, (popularly known as the Hare Krishna movement) which he founded in 1966. His followers, known for enthusiastic chanting in public places, brought Bhakti Yoga to the attention of many westerners. It may dismay many to learn the movement does not give women any spiritual authority to teach their scriptural versions, nor do they allow women to become ordained monastics, men hold a patriarchal hold upon all the higher echelons of this organization.

• Gopi Krishna (1903-1984) was a Kashmiri office worker and spiritual seeker who wrote best-selling autobiographical^[1] accounts of his spiritual experiences. He wrote frequently about the nature of kundalini and was important in introducing this concept to a wider western audience.

• Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1917-present) is the founder of the Transcendental Meditation movement, which came to great public knowledge when the Beatles studied it for a short time in the mid-1960s, and still has many followers today. Although not a traditional yoga, it is clearly following that tradition and its goals.

• P.R. Sarkar also known as Baba (1921-1990), founded the socio-spiritual organization Ananda Marga (the path of bliss) in 1955. Based on tantric yoga, his teaching emphasizes social service in the context of a political, economic and cultural theory; or "self-realization and service to all."

• Swami Vishnu-devananda (1927-1993) Founder of the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres, Swami Vishnu-devananda, was a world authority on Hatha Yoga and Raja Yoga. He originated the Sivananda Yoga Teacher Training Course in 1969 - a certification now common in Yoga practice in the West. Swamiji was also known as the "Flying Swami" for the different peace missions he accomplished around the world.