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Tom Billinge

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Tom Billinge grew up in England enveloped in Ancient Greek mythology. Between trips to his mother's homeland of Cyprus and going on his father's field trips to Crete, Tom was surrounded with archaeology and Greek culture from a young age. After graduating with a degree in archaeology, he moved to Asia, where he explored temples and immersed himself in the martial and spiritual traditions of the East.

Following several years travelling the world and writing for a living, Tom returned to the West with a longing for something deeper. This eventually brought him back to his roots and the Greek mythology of his childhood. Re-reading the hero myths of his ancestors, Tom began to see a common thread that ran throughout them. There were hidden messa
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“The term krátu, which is also related to tapas, is used in the Vedas to mean many things: victorious force, heroic strength and ardour, courage, delight in battle, power, strength, majesty, and intelligence. It essentially translates to “energy of the ardent warrior” and is used with regard to Indra in particular, the god who forced his way to heaven through tapas.”
Tom Billinge, WarYoga

“Sweat is rasa; while it cannot be transformed in the way that other bodily fluids can, it is the outward sign of transformation. Sweating is the first stage of creating the yogic body and allows the yogin to act like Prajāpati, purging the old body to create a new one. It is the result of tapas. The Vedic sacrificer also sweats to shed his old body in order to create a sacrificial body worthy of making the sacrifice. In Āyurveda, the kuṭī-praveśa treatment induces sweat in order to rejuvenate the body.”
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“Everyone else is conquered by the body, but the body is conquered by yogīs, so they are not subject to the fruits of their actions, such as pain, pleasure, and the like. “When the yogī has conquered the senses, mind, intellect, desire, anger, and so forth, he has conquered everything. Nothing can trouble him. After the gross and other elements have risen in series, the body composed of its seven constituents is slowly burned by the fire of yoga.”
Tom Billinge, WarYoga

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