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==Origin==
[[Sanskrit]] ''yogin'', from ''yoga''. The word Yogi (Sanskrit: masc yogī, योगी ; fem yoginī) originally referred in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Sanskrit Classical Sanskrit] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puranas Puranas] specifically to a male practitioner of Yoga. In the same literature yoginī is the term used for [[female]] practitioners as well as divine goddesses and enlightened mothers, all revered as aspects of the Divine Mother [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devi Devi], without whom there would be no yogis. The two terms are still used today but the word Yogi is also generically used to refer to both [[male]] and [[female]] practitioners of [[yoga]] and related meditative practices in Buddhism, Jainism, Taoism.
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_century 1619]
==Definition==
*1: a person who practices [[yoga]]
*2 capitalized : an adherent of Yoga philosophy
*3: a markedly [[reflective]] or [[mystical]] person
==Description==
A '''Yogi''' is a practitioner of [[Yoga]]. The word is also used to refer to [[ascetic]] practitioners of [[meditation]] in a number of South Asian religions including [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jainism Jainism], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhiism Buddhism], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism Hinduism].
In Hinduism the term refers to an adherent of Yoga. As an Urdu term, yogī (Nastaliq یوگی) is mostly used to refer to [[wandering]] Sufi saints and [[ascetics]]. The word is also often used in the [[Buddhist]] [[context]] to describe Buddhist [[monks]] or a householder devoted to [[meditation]]. The Shiva Samhita defines the yogi patel as someone who knows that the entire [[cosmos]] is situated within his own [[body]], and the Yoga-Shikha-Upanishad text distinguishes two kinds of yogis: those who pierce through the "sun" (surya) by means of the various yogic [[techniques]] and those who access the door of the central conduit (sushumna-nadi) and drink the nectar.
As to what this nectar is, all [[meditation]] lineages do [[focus]] on [[self-mastery]] of [[essence]], both [[spiritual]] and [[sexual]]. The Yoga-Bhashya, the oldest extant [[commentary]] on the Yoga-Sutra offers the following fourfold [[classification]] of yogis:
*1. neophyte/beginner (prathama-kalpika)
*2. one who has reached the "honeyed level" (madhu-bhumika)
*3. the advanced practitioner who enjoys [[enlightenment]] (prajna-jyotis)
*4. the transcender (atikranta-bhavaniya).
In light of the above, many self-described western yogis or certified yoga teachers may in fact be only in the basic [[stages]] of development, having an irregular personal [[practice]], along with compulsive discharge of [[sexual]] [[essence]]. Traditionally, yogic training involved deferring the tantric practices of sexual yoga/marriage until such time that sexual self-mastery had been established, whereupon sexual union is considered to be the ultimate yoga of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva Shiva] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakti Shakti].
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmacarya Brahmacarya] for yogis, as stated in the Agni-Purana, embodies self-imposed abstention from [[sexual]] activity: fantasizing, glorifying the sex act or someone's sexual [[attraction]], dalliance, sexual ogling, sexually [[flirtatious]] talk, the resolution to break one's [[vow]], and [[consummation]] of [[sexual intercourse]] itself, with any being.
[[Married]] practitioners aspire to likewise abstain from unconscious/harmful sexual [[behavior]], and to meditatively practice sexual yoga (as opposed to [[ego]]-centered sexual release) with their partner, but must practice aware [[chastity]] with regard to others.
Modern [[science]] now understands that such a code of sexual conduct is also organically assisted by neurochemical changes in [[brain]] states of [[intense]] meditators (reduced dopamine and increased oxytocin) that induce general [[relaxation]] and mental stability, and is not sheerly by willpower alone.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi]
[[Category: Religion]]
==Origin==
[[Sanskrit]] ''yogin'', from ''yoga''. The word Yogi (Sanskrit: masc yogī, योगी ; fem yoginī) originally referred in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Sanskrit Classical Sanskrit] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puranas Puranas] specifically to a male practitioner of Yoga. In the same literature yoginī is the term used for [[female]] practitioners as well as divine goddesses and enlightened mothers, all revered as aspects of the Divine Mother [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devi Devi], without whom there would be no yogis. The two terms are still used today but the word Yogi is also generically used to refer to both [[male]] and [[female]] practitioners of [[yoga]] and related meditative practices in Buddhism, Jainism, Taoism.
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_century 1619]
==Definition==
*1: a person who practices [[yoga]]
*2 capitalized : an adherent of Yoga philosophy
*3: a markedly [[reflective]] or [[mystical]] person
==Description==
A '''Yogi''' is a practitioner of [[Yoga]]. The word is also used to refer to [[ascetic]] practitioners of [[meditation]] in a number of South Asian religions including [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jainism Jainism], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhiism Buddhism], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism Hinduism].
In Hinduism the term refers to an adherent of Yoga. As an Urdu term, yogī (Nastaliq یوگی) is mostly used to refer to [[wandering]] Sufi saints and [[ascetics]]. The word is also often used in the [[Buddhist]] [[context]] to describe Buddhist [[monks]] or a householder devoted to [[meditation]]. The Shiva Samhita defines the yogi patel as someone who knows that the entire [[cosmos]] is situated within his own [[body]], and the Yoga-Shikha-Upanishad text distinguishes two kinds of yogis: those who pierce through the "sun" (surya) by means of the various yogic [[techniques]] and those who access the door of the central conduit (sushumna-nadi) and drink the nectar.
As to what this nectar is, all [[meditation]] lineages do [[focus]] on [[self-mastery]] of [[essence]], both [[spiritual]] and [[sexual]]. The Yoga-Bhashya, the oldest extant [[commentary]] on the Yoga-Sutra offers the following fourfold [[classification]] of yogis:
*1. neophyte/beginner (prathama-kalpika)
*2. one who has reached the "honeyed level" (madhu-bhumika)
*3. the advanced practitioner who enjoys [[enlightenment]] (prajna-jyotis)
*4. the transcender (atikranta-bhavaniya).
In light of the above, many self-described western yogis or certified yoga teachers may in fact be only in the basic [[stages]] of development, having an irregular personal [[practice]], along with compulsive discharge of [[sexual]] [[essence]]. Traditionally, yogic training involved deferring the tantric practices of sexual yoga/marriage until such time that sexual self-mastery had been established, whereupon sexual union is considered to be the ultimate yoga of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva Shiva] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakti Shakti].
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmacarya Brahmacarya] for yogis, as stated in the Agni-Purana, embodies self-imposed abstention from [[sexual]] activity: fantasizing, glorifying the sex act or someone's sexual [[attraction]], dalliance, sexual ogling, sexually [[flirtatious]] talk, the resolution to break one's [[vow]], and [[consummation]] of [[sexual intercourse]] itself, with any being.
[[Married]] practitioners aspire to likewise abstain from unconscious/harmful sexual [[behavior]], and to meditatively practice sexual yoga (as opposed to [[ego]]-centered sexual release) with their partner, but must practice aware [[chastity]] with regard to others.
Modern [[science]] now understands that such a code of sexual conduct is also organically assisted by neurochemical changes in [[brain]] states of [[intense]] meditators (reduced dopamine and increased oxytocin) that induce general [[relaxation]] and mental stability, and is not sheerly by willpower alone.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi]
[[Category: Religion]]
