Yoginis | Who they are and why to be cautious
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- Namaste! I'm Dr. Robert, and today I'm exploring the fascinating and powerful world of yoginis.
While the term "yogini" is often used to describe a female yoga practitioner, the true yoginis are a unique class of deities worshipped extensively between 700 AD and 1200 AD. These deities are closely associated with the Shakti tradition and are often depicted in circular, open-to-the-sky temples.
The yoginis, typically numbering 64, represent the full range of Shakti in the universe. Each yogini temple features different sets of these goddesses, with the best-preserved temple located at Hirapur, India. However, yoginis are not to be approached lightly; they are powerful, liminal beings who require great reverence and caution in worship.
For more on this intriguing topic, I recommend the books "Yogini Cult and Temples" by Vidya Dehejia and "Kiss of the Yogini" by David Gordon White.
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Dr. Robert Svoboda is the first Westerner ever to graduate from a college of Ayurveda and be licensed to practice Ayurveda in India. During and after his formal Ayurvedic training he was tutored in Ayurveda, Yoga, Jyotish, Tantra and other forms of classical Indian lore by his mentor, the Aghori Vimalananda. He is the author of over a dozen books and has served as Adjunct Faculty at the Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque, NM, and at Bastyr University in Kenmore, WA.
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Talk about synchronity Dr. Robert. I am on a train enroute Bombay, I was just standing at the door, watching the scenery and various stations go by. I crossed a station named Hirapur. Nice name I thought (It means means the town of diamonds as Heera=diamonds). The train didn't stop at the station though, it moved on. I pulled out my phone and scrolled through my UA-cam feed. I click upon your video. And lo and behold I find your video upon the Yogini sect and their famous temple in Hirapur.
Bhagwan truly works in mysterious ways!! Om Nama Shivaya ! ❤🙏
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I love it when that happens. It's personal and impersonal at the same time. Beyond belief and goosebumpy.😊
Waooo ❤
Thank the UA-cam algorithms that suggest UA-cam feed based on location.... 😂
@@user-el4yq5bf4j maybe but also the person is on that train maybe from another country passing by with an interest to know about the subject at hand and their phone on at that time.
I once saw a monastery in a movie location. 3 years later I was at that location unbeknown to me.
A year later it popped up on TV and I realized I had gone there maybe because the movie location was so powerful I was led to it by a higher mind. All before UA-cam or Internet
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जय मां . Yoginis are them self forms of goddess but they serve as special attendants of root forms of goddess shakti.
thank you 🙏🏼 also cool shirt
Yes. I love the shirt ❤
Cool guy 😎
The Dr Dude ❤
Fake mails and ids
Like Rajarshi Nandy says...their research is good but the conclusions are wrong since they never do Sadhana . He's so right.
What do you mean ??? Rs is a sadhaka...
The more I read your books and hear your videos the more I am amazed at your knowledge! Please accept my Shashtaanga Namaskar🙏
Har Har Mahadev!!! Jai Ma Durga!!! Jai Sri Aghori Vimalanandaji!!! ❤️❤️❤️🕉️🕉️🕉️🔯🔯🔯
I was so curious about yoginis and MaaTara devotional worship, thank u for sharing ur insight ❤🔥
Please speak on the Bangladeshi Hindus being Slaughtered,
Dr.Robert, what should we do in face of such unimaginable Hatred?
Get organized and defend yourself as best you can.
@@taylenvila3915 The Indians have done that for the last 1000 years,
And now the Communists and the Left have taken away the ability of Bangladeshi Hindus to even defend themselves
Pick up arms and payback in kind...अहिंसा परमो धर्मः, धर्महिंसा तदैव च:
there is a yogini tample called akali bhardapur. birbhum, west bengal. her roof was never settled, no matter how many time it was construct, it will collaps, now i understand
Yes, one must approach the yogini very cautiously 🙏🏻
Im sense how?
Namaste From Colombia
Shirt game is on point
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I have that first book you mentioned. Thank you for mentioning the yoginis.
Thank you for the video..this is exactly what I wanted..and im grateful the universe has shown me this..
Thank you. Do you consider the 64 yoginis/dakinis to be metaphorical depictions of DNA? I've been wondering how they relate to the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching, which are speculated to relate to 64 combinations of codon in human DNA. But, haven't found any info on this with regard to yoginis/dakinis.
Your comment opened different doors for me.. thank you
actually no
codons are not specified to 1 protein ( 1 specific domain)(im a med student in india)
and the i ching are reflections of the centre
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the yoginis have their OWN personalities and ways to please them to get to the primary devi
Insightful and enlightening. Lots of thanks to you.
How awesome that someone talks about it thank you!
I was very curious about yoguinis yakshinis and apsaras.
I never worshiped them because many of my indian friends say they are evil🤔
Excited for Aghora part 2 and 3 for audible!
Fascinating.. appreciated... Humble Namaste 🙏
Thank you so much. 🌻
There’s also the chausat yogini temple in jabalpur. Spectacular but vandalised.
Great video. 🙏
Yoginis are Highway to reach at destination fast and eairly but not to stay long hence stay humble and cautious don't cross the Busy Highway until you don't know the rules it may be fatal for you and for others 😞
Pranam Sir. So very impressed with your knowledge on sanatan dharma. I have read your book Aghora.. it's mind blowing and absolute beauty. Thanks for sharing this.
Namaste dear Robertji 🙏
Can You shine Your Light on the meaning and significance of the Gayatri Mantra ☀️
Thank You so much ❤
Dionisij
Holland
Jai Maa! ✨💖✨
Fabulous explanation.
Thankyou Sir
I have hung out with people who identify as female and do yoga and thought they were watching my back and got into so much trouble!
Try and find people that identify as being sane.
It is said that Sai Baba of Shirdi was blessed by the Yoginis
Whats a difference between rakini, dakini, yakini, hakini etc?
I don't see the benevolent/non-benevolent (here meaning wrathful?) distinction as indicative of some intrinsic morality. Wrathful Great Goddesses like Kālī or Bhairavī or Chinnamastā are only benevolent under very specific circumstances and could be viewed as amoral when applying subjective human moral concepts onto a primordial death-power that cyclically destroys entire universes. If a benevolent goddess like Lakṣmī blesses a brutal tyrant with abundant resources, that also seems morally questionable. What's good for the wolf is bad for the deer and vice versa, but the two species rely on each other to evolve when their populations are relatively balanced.
I find that many entities that humans interpret as evil or chaotic or amoral have their own moral values that work for them given the nature of who and what they are, but which are culturally very different from what modern humans typically think of as morality and which may be scary and/or dangerous to the underinformed.
Regarding Goddess Lakshmi blessing tyrants -- neither she nor any other god can refuse. It is the dharma (nature) of gods to bless those who perform the rituals correctly and ask them with a sincere heart. They cannot choose to do otherwise. I would think that the laws of karma come into play for the tyrant in the "Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it" category. In that the very wealth that he is blessed with becomes his curse in some way, maybe because he has to lie awake at night stressing about it, or his own son might steal it away from him etc.
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Excellent comment and equally good response.
Shakespeare: "nothing is either good or bad but thinking makes it so".
In Hinduism, there is no concept like good or evil like the Abrahamic religions. You can kill someone in spite or in order to protect a loved one. It depends on what your Dharma is and the Karmic repercussions leading to it. Devatas granting boon to even the Asuras is also part of the Leela (Divine Play), especially by the Trimurti's (although I haven't heard of Vishnu granting boons to Asuras). It's mostly Brahma and Shiva who grant the boons provided the right procedure has been followed. The Bhava and Guna of each Deity is also different. Tamasic deities if worshipped, one must exercise extreme caution. Rajasic you can slack a little bit while Saatvik you can be carefree and it wouldn't matter.
Thank you Dr Svoboda🌷✨️🐍🌈🕉🪷
You're so welcome!
Very Informative! Thank You!
Jai Ma
Jai Ma 🙏
Thank you so much for the book sir.....😊😊
I was able to go to one of these Temples and its great to have the context now because I had no idea of this when I was there. There was a Pundit there, I made a little donation expecting nothing because I just wanted to show some support and as soon I did he started to do some Puja for me I know not what.
there was Murtis of 64 Yoginis , I was suprised any were more intact because so there was so much damage. I can guess who and why.
Thank you I needed this sir
Thank you for the teaching.
How can one tell the difference between yogini and dakini?
Same thing
Yess....??
Namaste from Serbia
Jay maa chtuhshastee yogini
Wow. That was some great info on Yoginis.
Glad you enjoyed it
Very interesting.
Har har mahadev 🙏
Hirapur temple is now well worshipped though most Murtis are broken.
Thank You .. 🕉🔱
Har Har Mahadeva 🕉🕉🕉🔱🔱🔱
Thanks
Sir..We are benefitting from your knowledge.🙏
lol he just recycles what he learns from real hindu gurus, plus he distorts it. he is a crypto.
Treat them right they'll treat you right.
The look and pause at 4:48 was so intense.
Want to know more about Yoginis. 🙏.
A question: so can we conclude that a Yogini temple anywhere on earth will never have a roof?
Where does one find the rules of engagement? How does one pacify (one of) these Yoginis and approach her? Are they to be treated as mothers or teachers or something else? Please Dr Robert, consider doing a longer talk on this subject. Many thanks for this video and the book recommendations. Sri Matre Namaha. 🙏Shivaya Namaha 🙏
Only as Mothers.
Is there any specific reason that 64 yogini temples are always in a circular shape
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Can you go deeper into them in a video
Dr, if Gods and goddesses are universal then why are these ancient temples ony in indian subcontinent, Asia etc, why not in other far off countries, like Russia, Europe, America, Canada, Africa,
Does it mean their zone of power is limited to a certain geography?
Pardon my ignorance 🙏 if my question sounds so.
I would highly appreciate receiving an answer 🙏
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Joy ma
Want to know about such facts about bhairav please❤
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Sir can you make a video on what you've written as "Aghori Baba ki Stick" in your books, I couldn't find any context about it
So how does Yogini workshop in Hinduism differieniate from Buddhist? I've understood VarjraYogini to be Chinnamasta (a high goddess) so that changes things in the translation between the two (for example).
is kateri ma a tamil yogini?
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Mahavidyas
Damn that was the best majik pitch i ever heard.
You were Ranu in your previous birth
There are no yoginis, swamini. Those are feminist created words.
Please don't exhibit your ignorance here. There are other places where you will find like minded ones. Move away
Sounds like purgatory 😂
Sounds like where your going
You know that place?
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