{"id":795,"date":"2020-06-10T14:08:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T14:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/?p=795"},"modified":"2020-06-10T14:10:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T14:10:18","slug":"forceful-yoga-of-the-sun-and-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/?p=795","title":{"rendered":"Forceful yoga of the Sun and Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The term <em>ha\u1e6dha-yoga<\/em>\u00a0as &#8220;an effort or force&#8221; has very ancient roots associated not only with the ferocious cults of <em>Yoginis<\/em>, but also with earlier sources originating in the <em>Vedas<\/em>. And the understanding of\u00a0<em>ha\u1e6dha-yoga<\/em>, as the <em>yoga<\/em> of the Sun and Moon, borrowed by such <em>n\u0101thas<\/em> as\u00a0<em>Gorak\u1e63an\u0101th<\/em>\u00a0and others from the <em>kaula<\/em> <em>tantra<\/em> teachers like <em>Matsyendran\u0101th<\/em> and\u00a0<em>\u0100din\u0101th<\/em>. If you look at popular dictionaries, then \u0939 &#8216;<em>ha&#8217;<\/em>\u00a0is identical to\u00a0<em>Vi\u1e63\u1e47u<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>\u015aiva<\/em>, especially <em>Bhairava<\/em>, which indicates annihilation. In <em>jyoti\u1e63a <\/em>(the Indian astrology), in addition to Mars and Saturn, the Sun can also be considered as one of the aggressive planets. In\u00a0<em>ha\u1e6dha-yoga<\/em>, the Sun is a fire eating the nectar of life and leading to death consequently. This is all symbolism indirectly indicating the Sun. If you look at \u0920 &#8216;<em>\u1e6dha<\/em>&#8216;, one of the meanings is \u201cdisk of the moon\u201d in the\u00a0Monier Williams\u2019s dictionary. Also, the\u00a0<em>b\u012bja<\/em>\u00a0\u0920\u0902 &#8216;<em>\u1e6dha\u1e43<\/em>&#8216; in tantrism is used as the <em>mantra<\/em> of nectar, which essentially indicates the nature of the Moon. The Moon has a creative nature, and the Sun is destructive one, together they harmonise each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The term ha\u1e6dha-yoga\u00a0as &#8220;an effort or force&#8221; has very ancient roots associated not only with the ferocious cults of Yoginis, but also with earlier sources originating in the Vedas. And the understanding of\u00a0ha\u1e6dha-yoga, as the yoga of the Sun and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/?p=795\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230,83],"tags":[210,31,232],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haha-yoga","category-yoga","tag-haha-yoga","tag-yoga","tag-yoga-of-sun-and-moon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}