Yoga. Immortality and Freedom

The book of an outstanding historian and the phenomenologist of Religion Mircea Eliad has long become a classic in studies of such a fundamental and unique phenomenon as Indian yoga. The author represents the yoga as a holistic, multi-faceted, comprehensive spiritual university, different elements of which correspond to different cultural levels, states of consciousness and even the layers of a traditional society. Eliad traces the origins of yoga in the Wednesday of the autochthon, the Dooric population of India, emphasizes primarily on its" reports" and non-classical "branches, concerns an important yoga with shamanism in the context of his scientific creativity with shamanism, conducts parallels between the Indian yoga and spiritual traditions of other regions World. Yoga from the specific school of Hindu philosophy becomes an initiative space in which the search for adept, passing through the tests, is attached to the values ​​of immortality and freedom and acquires the status of Jianmuktes - "released during life"