Gorakhnath and the Kanphata Yogis c17.149
Gorakhnāth and the Kānphaṭa Yogīs c17.149
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c17.149
Bhattacharyya says¹ that Tāntric culture presupposes Rāja and Haṭha Yoga. He also holds that historically the Buddhist preceded the Hindu Tantras; and that the latter are dependent upon the former. While, on the one hand, Rāja and Haṭha Yoga give control over the mind and body, Tāntric practices, on the other, confer various magic powers, contingent upon the deities worshipped and the mantras employed.