The Collaborative Dictionary

Yogi \Yo"gi\, n. [Skr. y[=o]gin.] A follower of the yoga philosophy; an ascetic. [Spelt also yokin.] --Whitworth. [1913 Webster]

Word Net

Yogi

1 United States baseball player (born 1925) [syn: Berra, Lawrence Peter Berra, Yogi Berra]

2 one who practices yoga and has achieved a high level of spiritual insight

Moby Thesaurus

Albigensian, Brahman, Catharist, Franciscan, Ramwat, Sabbatarian, Trappist, Waldensian, abstainer, adept, anchorite, anthroposophist, ascetic, bairagi, bashara, bhikhari, bhikshu, cabalist, dervish, esoteric, fakir, flagellant, guru, hermit, mahatma, mendicant, mystagogue, mystic, pujari, pundit, puritan, purohit, sannyasi, supernaturalist, theosophist, transcendentalist, vairagi, yogin, yogist

English

Pronunciation

• (RP) /ˈjəʊɡi/
• Rhymes: -əʊɡi

Noun

1. Someone, typically a Hindu, who has achieved a high level of spiritual insight, often through the use of yoga

Related terms

• yogini

Translations

For other uses, see Yogi (disambiguation)

A yogi (Sanskrit, feminine root: yogini) is a term for a male practitioner of various forms of the path of Yoga, maintaining a steadfast mind, the process of transcending the lower self through daily practices. In contemporary English yogin is an alternative rendering for the word yogi. This word is often used to describe Buddhist monks or a householder who is devoted to meditation.

The Shiva-Samhita text defines the yogi as someone who knows that the entire cosmos is situated within his own body, and the Yoga-Shikha-Upanishad distinguishes two kinds of yogins: those who pierce through the "sun" (surya) by means of the various yogic techniques and those who access the door of the central conduit (sushumna-nadi) and drink the nectar.

References

1-2. Feuerstein, Georg. The Shambhala Encyclopedia of Yoga, Shambhala Publications, Boston, 2000 p. 321, 350.

External links

• The Biography of a Yogi and Devotee of Shiva

See also

• Yogini
• List of famous Yogis
• List of yoga schools