Each of the eighteen chapters of The Gita is titled ‘yoga’. These are then bunched together to give us three types of yoga: behavioural (karma), emotional (bhakti) and intellectual or cognitive (gyana). So what does the word ‘yoga’ exactly mean? Colloquially, Indians use the word ‘jog’ for yoga. In astrology, jog means alignment of the stars that results in favourable conditions for an activity. From jog comes the word ‘jogadu’, the resourceful individual, a word typically used in the eastern parts of India for one who is able to create alignment and connections in a world full of misalignment
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