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India -- pt. 2: Foundations of Hinduism

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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A New Form of Devotional Worship

Yoga, it seems, has sroots in the vedas. It was then probably elaborated into a sort of multi-dimensional bodily practice. These different spiritual and meditative disciplines are often taught at monasteries. The ashrams became the base for a new form of devotional worship that emphasized internal, emotional or mystical union with the divine. This movement came to be called bati - which originally means something like attachment. Bate promotes ecstatic devotional practices centring particularly on music.

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