Nath Sampradaya

This source names Nath Sampradaya directly: "and tantric master credited by the Nath Sampradaya as the teacher of Gorakhnath and, with him, a founding figure of the lineage's synthesis of tantra and hatha yoga."

The Nath Sampradaya developed within the Shaiva tantric milieu, tracing its teaching to Shiva through Matsyendranath and Gorakhnath.

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The Nath tradition is where the hatha yoga literature that maps the centres of the subtle body took shape, and the map is a working part of its practice rather than a diagram.

The Nath lineages are transmitted from guru to disciple, and the guru is the practical authority in a tradition with little institutional structure otherwise.

The Nath texts treat the sound of the breath as a repetition already under way, which is what makes the practice a matter of attention rather than of effort.

Perfection of the body through hatha yoga is the Nath Sampradaya's own central doctrine.

Dramatizes Guru Gorakhnath, the Nath Sampradaya's own founding master, personally restoring and initiating Prince Puran as an ascetic disciple, the tradition's own account of how it draws a new yogi into the order rather than a generic Hindu legend with no specific tie to the Nath order.

Non-injury is held in the Nath tradition as the first of the restraints.

The self is held in the Nath tradition to be identical with Shiva, and the practice is the means by which that identity is realised in the body.

Devotion has a place in the Nath tradition, in the veneration of the lineage teachers, and it is not the tradition's means: the means is the discipline of the body.

The absolute is held in the Nath tradition to be Shiva, and Gorakhnath's lineage traces its teaching to him.

Giving is held in the Nath tradition, and the alms that support the wandering ascetic are its daily form.

Dharma is held in the Nath tradition, with the renunciant's discipline standing above the householder's obligations.

The teaching lineage is central in the Nath tradition, and initiation from a teacher of the line, with the split ear and the ring, is what constitutes membership.

Karma is held in the Nath tradition.

Liberation in the Nath tradition is sought in this body and this life, as a perfected and deathless state rather than as a condition entered after death.

Merit and demerit are held in the Nath tradition.

Collected absorption is held in the Nath tradition as the end of the hatha yoga sequence, reached through the body rather than around it.

Transmigration is held in the Nath tradition, and the perfected body is presented as the way out of it.

Ascetic heat is central in the Nath tradition, and the practices for generating and retaining it are described in its texts in physiological terms.

The observances are held in the Nath tradition and stand with the restraints at the head of its yoga texts.

The restraints are held in the Nath tradition and stand at the head of the hatha yoga texts the lineage transmits.

Ignorance is held in the Nath tradition as what the discipline removes.

A chosen deity is held in the Nath tradition, with Shiva as the deity of the lineage and Gorakhnath himself venerated within it.

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