Nath
नाथ nātha“Lord”; the honorific of the Nāth yogis, an order of Śaiva ascetics identified with haṭha yoga and the pursuit of an immortal, perfected body.
Where this term appears
- Tantric Alchemy: The Quest for the Immortal Body Lineages
…e of mercury, pursued for centuries in the workshops and caves of the Nath and Siddha yogis, and it deserves to be understood, because although it never once achieved either of its impossible goals, the pursuit…
- What is Shaivism? Lineages
…ascetic orders who keep the fiercest edge of the tradition alive, the Nath yogis with their split ears and the Aghoris of the cremation ground.
- What is Shaktipat? Lineages
The guru-centred lineages, from Kashmir Shaivism to the Nath yogis, place all of this inside initiation.
- What is Shaktism? Lineages
Narendra Nath Bhattacharyya, in his History of the Sakta Religion, argues the other way, for a Shaktism with its own deep and partly independent roots reaching back into indigenous and pre-Aryan goddess worship…
- Kamakhya: The Temple of the Goddess Temples
Nath attributes the earlier destruction instead to Husain Shah's invasion of the Kamata kingdom in 1498.
- The Four Streams of Hinduism Essentials
And there are the older ascetic orders behind them all, the Pashupatas , the Kapalikas , and the Nath yogis of Gorakhnath who shaped hatha yoga.
- What is a Sampradaya? Philosophy
In Tantra and in the Nath and other yogic lineages, much of the teaching was never written down in full at all, and what was written was sealed with a deliberate obscurity that only an initiated teacher could o…
- What is Ayurveda? Essentials
…venth century, through rasa-shastra , the alchemical tradition of the Nath and Siddha lineages, and they reach the mainstream canon with the Sharngadhara Samhita around 1300 CE.