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Yoke First, Posture Later: What the Rigveda Actually Says About Yoga
The oldest surviving use of the word yoga has nothing to do with mats or breathing. It means backing two horses under a wooden crossbar before dawn. Following that word from a Bronze Age harness to Patanjali reveals a stranger and better story than the one on the studio wall.
The Long-Haired One: Reading the Keśin Hymn (RV 10.136) and the Vedic Roots of Ecstasy
A close reading of the Rigveda's strangest seven verses, where wind-girdled ascetics fly with the gods and drink poison beside Rudra. What this hymn does and does not tell us about the origins of yoga, asceticism, and ecstatic flight in ancient India.