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Yoga is an Indian spiritual path aimed at achieving the union with the Supreme Consciousness. Some yogas go beyond it and aim at the spiritual transformation of the entire human nature and obtaining immortality even for the physical body. A practitioner of Yoga is called a Yogi (male) or Yogini (female). Outside India, yoga is mostly associated with the practice of asanas (postures) of Hatha Yoga or as a form of exercise.

Swami Vivekananda condenses various paths of yoga into four main streams. ‘Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity within by controlling nature, internal and external. Do this by work or worship or psychic control or philosophy – by one or more or all of these – and be free.’