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René Descartes: A Yogi?

Sujantra McKeever finds striking similarities between Cartesian and yogic thought.

One of history’s greatest philosophers was, by my estimation, also a great yogi. The Frenchman René Descartes (1596-1650) is often called ‘the father of modern philosophy’. He sat in his room and contemplated the mysteries of the mind. Yoga follows the same course to wisdom and understanding.

Descartes was a man shaped by his times.

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