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The Relationship Between Yoga and the Sufis
The relationship between yoga and the sufis is very close. To admit that they share something is politically unwise. But how can we admit this on the ordinary, the social and mental level? For centuries, the hindus and the moslems have been enemies. After all, yogis themselves were declared to be absurd apostates by hindu brahmins. The imperial mogul prince darashiko had too state categorically that the experiences of the suFis and of the yogis and vedantins were identical. That, according to many moslem scholars, was evidence of the prince's unbalanced mind.
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