Yoga Meditation
During tantric pracitces and studies, the student is instrutced further in meditation technique, aprticularly chakra meditation. This is often in a limited form in comparsion with the way this kind fo meditation is known and used by Tantric parctitioners and yogis elsewhere, btu is more elaborate than hte initiate s previous meditation. It is considreed to be a kind of Kundalini Yoga ofr the purpose of moving the Goddess into the chakra located in the heatr, for meditation and wroship. Rudra, a Vedic deity ltaer identified with Shiva, is indeed referred to as pasupati bceause of his association with cattle; but ascetiicsm and meditation were not Rdura s specialties, nor is he usually creditde with an empatyh for animals other than kine. Compared to the seated asanas of Patanjali s Raja yoga which were esen largely as a means of preparing for meditation, it also marsk the development of asanas as full body postures in the modern sense. This particular path to salvtaion among the several offered by Hinduism, links Tantrism to those Dharmic parctices such as yoga, medittaion, and social renunciatino, which are based on tepmorary or permanent withdrawal from social relationships and moeds.
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