Yoga Mythology, by Devdutt Pattanaik & Matthew Rulli

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Introduction

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nder the Pole Star, atop Mount Kailas, that mountain of stone covered with snow, the sun of curiosity blazed bright, causing the ice to melt and rivers of wisdom to flow. Shakti kept asking questions until Shiva broke his silence and revealed how the layers of the body may connect with the layers of the world and become a single fabric, unknotted, uncrumpled, joyful. The serpent around Shiva’s neck overheard this conversation that caused him to sprout many heads and hands; he eventually acquired human form and became known as Patanjali Yoga secrets revealed

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