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| Yoga Schools | Among such directions of yoga it is possible to mark the next ones: khatha-yoga, which is based mainly on the development of physical and physiological functions of organism, it is involves four stages; then radzha-yoga - trains the development of the higher psychical functions; it is a karma-yoga, which is related to harmonic development of social, public relations of an individual; it is bhakti-yoga, related to perfection in emotional life, love to neighbour, to nature, to God; and the last one Jnana-yoga, which studies development of man thought, extending scopes and possibilities of his cognition. Such directions as, Raja-yoga, mantra-yoga, Tantra-yoga, and also Tibet yoga are less known.
In China and Japan practical yoga cooperates with Buddhist philosophy and altered into dzen-buddizma. As a result we can observe missionary activity of Vivekananda, the student called Ramakrishna, which becomes very popular in the USA and develops its new directions.
In our times there is the most popular direction in yoga called an Integral yoga— system, studying the necessity of the synthetic use of methods in yoga, which could be implemented in the conditions of dynamic social life other integral life. At the synthesis of such systems there is a danger of mechanical association of elements from different directions, for example, karma, khatkha and radzha-yogi.
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