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The Shiva Sanhita or the Hathayoga Pradipika
...There is another class of persons who have assumed this honored and sacred title, and who by their bigotry and ignorance have proved a great stumbling-block to the progress of this science. I mean the Hatha yogis, those strange ascetics who by inflicting tortures and exquisite pains to their flesh, hope to liberate their spirits. Through a mistaken idea that mind and matter must necessarily be opposed to each other, they have evolved a philosophy of torture, whose fundamental doctrine seems to be:—the greater the power of spirit, the less you are pained by tortures. Some of these persons are seen sitting in the same posture for years together, their legs half paralised by unuse; some are seen with their hands upraised, which they never bring down, and which wither away and become a dead stalk; while others, in their supreme contempt of nature and every thing natural, prefer to pass severe winter among snows, and the burning days of summer surrounded by fire. These persons by their misdirected energy and enthusiasm have already done a good deal of mischief. They have engendered a belief among ordinary minds that yoga is perfectly unattainable without austerities, that persons not prepared to fight with their physical nature such severe struggles as these Hatha yogis, should never expect to make any spiritual progress....
...The Hatha Yoga cannot be obtained without the Raja Yoga, nor can the Raja Yoga be obtained without the Hatha Yoga....
...The Yogi, desirous of success, should keep the Hatha Yoga in great secrecy, it becomes fruitful while kept secret; revealed, it loses its power....
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