Thank you. What a wonderful, concise lecture to reinforce and clarify my own readings . Lovely!

i spent years with the idea..externally informed , that practicing Tibetan Vajrayana/Tantra and Hatha Yoga were 2 distinct traditions and was early on advised not to mix traditions. I have practiced both and mixed them ! experiencing only enhancement and no inner conflict. So interesting to hear here of some of the earliest known texts associated with Hatha Yoga and their roots in Buddhist Tantra. Things got written down at the time of the emergence of the monasteries. The monastic centres organised , systematised and controlled practices. There is a strong theme of the control of male sexual energy. Celibacy, asceticism. The dangers of the enticing feminine ! Hence we hear almost exclusively of yoga as relating to the male in these texts. How wonderful that this resulted in the writing down of things but how important to realise that this process of writing things down changes or distorts the content. It selects out what does not serve the current system or hierarchy. It feels to me that we can only know all that has never been written down through our own direct practice, somehow this brings us to the inner knowing. What has been written will be so helpful too, but ultimately we go beyond this and off the map into the territory. The part towards the end of the talk on the Raja Yogi/King is interesting with its parallels with the Crazy Wisdom Yogi and the knife edge that stands between liberation that is beyond duality (dualistic morality) and the corruption that can arise from the misuse of power. Thanks James, much appreciation for your work as a yogi- academic.

What an incredibly interesting and informative lecture! Thank you for posting it on KZfaq.

This is a wonderful lecture, thank you for uploading!!!

Great lecture, so informative !! Thanks so much

Where is the second day lecture video? James Mallinson talks in this video about doing a second lecture the next day and going deeper - where is it?

You are doing very good on hathyoga thank you for that

Amazing lecture..

Enlightening. Interesting.

wonderful

Thank you

Enjoyed this lecture immensely. Thank you. It is so very fascinating. Please post more of your lectures.

Great book James, really helped me with my own sufi practises. 🙏

Starts at 6:01

this guy is a legend.

Look forward to meeting James.

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Good professor and Mahanh ji, Nice research, I think experience is different than written text. But your face is telling that you are innocent by your heart. Good referencing and contextualize presentation. No problem, inapite some error, but you are dealing with Large subject area. No holistic presentation is possible on such issue. Good job. Compilation of various text. 64 Yogini temple is an example of women's participation, even Kamakhya temple in Guwahati and Tarapith in West Bengal is famous tantrik site. Where you can see many women, even the man who practice tantric tradition, they chant many women goddesses such as Mata Bagalamukhi. There are several examples. Good work.

I watched this documentary with him and Dominic West. I watched his familiarity and interactions with the sadhus. what a way to repay the civilisation that welcomed you as one of their own. India made 'Sir' James Mallinson, a Mahant. He was showered with garlands, love and had his feet touched. He went on to get $5m to trace the roots of hatha yoga from the EU. And what did he give back to India? A signature in support of the Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference

If mahant is here what abt his akhada then?

Is there any equivalent to bindu that a woman can help cultivate? Can a women also raise precious bodily fluids to the head? I would hope such an imporant part of hatha yoga practise would be accesible to women as well.

r u smoking chillum in UK James ?

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So far western Gujarat on the border with India 21.45 . Gujarat is in India and the western part too.

Buddhism comes from oldest religion sanatan darma (now you guys were calling it Hinduism) it’s a way of life. Please don’t tell your fictions if you don’t know. I don’t trust foreigners, they always misguide Hinduism and India.

Since you are not a Hindu James what is your religion?

Mostly incorrect translations. I have read his Amritasiddhi text, and his translations are funny, not only erroneous. My apologies, Mr Mallinson, but you have not done any justice at all to the text.

The woman in the audience is self apologetically asking ' not many women' etc. Obviously she has not read abt Parvati's penance or ubhaya bharati and sankara or krishnamacharya's wife who was a yoga practitioner.

Hinduism is not a religion. Its like way of dicovering your ownself. Even vedas are just part of hinduism which were written 5000-8000 years back. The work on vedas is old as 15000 years. So its not easy to understand the things. Budda did study from several years from indian gurus and then meditated and got bodhitva. Several practices are there like hath yoga ,tantra, mantra,yantra,samdhi,dyan, aghor,vipasyana,for reaching several objectives. There is no authorr of hinduism unlike bible and quran or buddhisim. Its Just like physic.

Hopefully the speaker will point out that today's "yoga" is totally false.

Umm…there was no one alive when Jesus was claiming to be Christian. Jesus wasn’t Christian.

James, Your remark about Sri Krishna showed a very low intellectual understanding of the Sanatan Dharma, aka Hindu Dharma! Ask British Museum to return all stolen original Hindu religious scriptures and manuscripts back to India! Those are belongs to Indian heritage of knowledge system!