How Meditation Works | Classical Yoga vs Tāntrik Yoga

About this episode

The episode discusses the concept of meditation within the Patañjali Yoga tradition and compares classical yogic meditation with Tāntrik meditation.

There are many ways to understand the word "meditation." Given that this is one of the central modalities of spiritual life and given the ever increasing interest in meditation, I felt a definition and discussion around meditation to clarify what it is and isn't in the Patañjali Yoga tradition would be helpful. More importantly, after we sketched out the basics of classical yogic meditation (i.e concentration practice), we then compared it to Tāntrik meditation to show how the Tāntrik traditi...

People in this episode

Host: Nishanth Selvalingam

Topics covered

• meditation
• classical yoga
• Tāntrik yoga
• spiritual life
• concentration practice

Keywords

• meditation
• Patañjali Yoga
• Tāntrik meditation
• classical yoga
• spiritual life
• concentration practice

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Patañjali Yoga, Tāntrik meditation, classical yogic meditation

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