A Wisdom Archive on Yogin

In contemporary English yogin is an alternative rendering for the word yogi, a human being who is committed to the practise of yoga, usually in the more authentic sense of one who is bound by a code of moral conduct and restraint (including celibacy) with a view to the realization of moksa (liberation). Both words tend to conjure up the stereotypical image of a semi-naked Indian ascetic with long hair but throughout the East, the words are often used to describe Buddhist monks or any lay person who is devoted to meditation. Yogins or Yogis in that sense are not necessarily fully enlightened as the following defini ...

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Yogin - One who is devoted to Yoga.

 
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Famous yogins from different ages.
 
From "Kundalini Yoga" by Sri Swami Sivananda
 

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Yogin: Male yogi.

 
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Yogin:
Yogin. See: Yogi.

 
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Yogi yogin (Sanskrit) Feminine yogini. A devotee who practices a full yoga system; the yogi state is that which, "when reached, makes the practitioner thereof absolute master of his six ''principles,'' he now being merged in the seventh. It gives him full control, owing to his knowledge of Self and Self, over his bodily, intellectual and mental states, which, unable any longer to interfere with, or act upon, his Higher Ego, leave it free to exist in its original, pure, and divine state" (TG 381).
 
More commonly, a practitioner of one or more various subordinate branches of yoga. There are many grades and kinds of yogis, and the term has become in India a generic name for every kind of ascetic. "In some cases, yogins are men who strive in various ways to conquer the body and physical temptations, for instance by torture of the body.
 
They also study more or less some of the magnificent philosophical teachings of India coming down from far-distant ages of the past; but mere mental study will not make a man a Mahatma, nor will any torture of the body bring about the spiritual vision -- the Vision Sublime" (OG 183).

 
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Rsi-yogins.
 
See RISHI-YOGIS

 
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Maha Yogin (Sanskrit). The "great ascetic". A title of Siva.

 
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Raja Yogin, Raja Yogi (Sanskrit) A devotee who practices raja yoga.

 
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Brahman-yogins. See YOGI

 
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 Yogi/yogin: one who practices yoga

 
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Yogi:
Yogi (n): one who practices yoga; one who is  established in yoga.

 
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 Yogadandasana: the yogin's staff posture

 
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