What's the difference between yoga and yuga?

Yoga


Definition:

  • (n.) A species of asceticism among the Hindoos, which consists in a complete abstraction from all worldly objects, by which the votary expects to obtain union with the universal spirit, and to acquire superhuman faculties.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Many speak about how yoga and surfing complement each other, both involving deep concentration, flexibility and balance.
  • (2) Photograph: Rex Features 'Voga' Vogueing + yoga, apparently.
  • (3) Our team of reporters have spent the last week on an intensive bikram yoga course in order to get themselves into the rather awkward position of having their ears to the ground, their eyes to the skies and their fingers on the pulse.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest On the Mat yoga pant by lulelemon.
  • (5) San Francisco Tenderloin map They could potentially gentrify this gritty, 50-block swath of downtown into condos, lofts, hipster bars, organic cafes and yoga studios, as has happened in other parts of San Francisco and the Bay area.
  • (6) Big musical acts (such as BB King, Keith Urban and Queens of the Stone Age) appear during the summer concert lineup but there are also drop-in yoga sessions, and hiking and biking trails wind through sculpted rocks and wildflowers.
  • (7) When I lived in New York, my local yoga centre would advocate veganism in terms I hadn't heard since I last went to synagogue ("godly") or spoke regularly to anorexics ("clean", "pure").
  • (8) I had jewellery, so I pawned all that, and I taught yoga – that paid the school fees.
  • (9) Within Jakarta itself the BRT is quite good,” says Yoga.
  • (10) Famously ascetic, teetotal and vegetarian, he meditates, practises yoga and shuns the trappings of office.
  • (11) His comments won him fans described as “Medvedev’s Girls”, who performed exercises on Red Square to promote yoga.
  • (12) This study examines the lifestyle and social structure of a yoga ashram and describes how they facilitate processes where residents learn to release and prevent stress in their lives.
  • (13) Millions of Indians tune in every day to watch Ramdev perform yoga exercises on his popular TV show.
  • (14) A review of the clinical evidence available indicates that yoga practice has proven most effective with a wide range of psychosomatic and psychiatric disorders.
  • (15) It’s not a strange side effect of Brexit malaise – it’s World Yoga Day.
  • (16) Thus, a combined practice of yoga seems to be beneficial on respiratory efficiency.
  • (17) Edward likes … yoga bag, around £20, from Brogamats .
  • (18) Many Muslim scholars say that yoga is against the fundamental tenets of Islam – to pray to the sun, for example,” said Asaduddin Owaisi, a Muslim member of parliament.
  • (19) I suggest to the swami that her form of yoga is a religion, but she rejects the term.
  • (20) The 27-year-old described how the couple had a quiet evening and retired to his bedroom, where he spoke to his cousin on the phone and she did yoga.

Yuga


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one of the four ages, Krita, or Satya, Treta, Dwapara, and Kali, into which the Hindoos divide the duration or existence of the world.

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