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Medical Overview


CORE TERMS

Yolk	:	germ, nucleus of an egg
Vitellus	:	(Latin) yolk
Vitelline	:	yolk sac
Vita	:	life
Vitals	:	vital organs


RELATED TERMS

Yoga	:	teacher
Yoke	:	restrain, binding
Yugam	:	(Latin) enslave
Jugum	:	germ, nucleus of an egg
Conjux	:	(Latin) spouse, husband or wife
Conyuge	:	(Spanish) spouse
Conjugate	:	union
Gemma	:	(Latin) jewel, gem, germinate
Yema	:	(Spanish) yolk
Yellow	:	gold like bright color

The terms YOKE - YOLK open two landscapes, one is medical and the other, presented here, is humanistic.

Yoke in Sanskrit or Jugum in Latin imply "to join", thus to restrict. In Spanish con"yuge" means spouse, or someone who no longer is free but restricted or "yoked" by marital vows.

"Yolk" or "Vite"llus in Latin, refers to the "Yellow" of the egg where the "Vita" or life of the chick is located.

Yoga and the master yoga represented by Shiva provoke several synthetic views of the mystery of "energy engendering individual forms of life".

YOGA was described by Kapila, a philosopher of the 7th century B.C. as a system "by which the mind knows". The "yoga" practice seeks the total mental and physical discipline or Nirvana so that the mind becomes immune to material and psychic stimuli so that it can concentrate on achieving communion or unity with its creator or the supreme deity.

Shiva as Yoga.

Some would say that originally, yoga had to do with a method or discipline developed by sages or yogi to reach a mental state "by which the mind knows". Later, yoga became a philosophy seeking "the ultimate synthesis" to help human creatures to reach for their creator. Put in another way, yoga is a discipline that may help a seeker to become "yoked" or linked with the "supreme spirit".

Regarding Shiva, Lord of yogis, this deity controlled it's sexual appetite and it's erect linga or penis filled with unspent seed - emblematic of the timelessness of creation. Some hold that Shiva achieved having many children without seed or sperm, an example of immaculate conception.


Linga Shiva (Phallic).		Shiva with his lover and spouse Pravati on their "vehi"cle or "Vaha"na.

Christians know of the famous verse in Greek by Isaiah ... "Behold, a "parthenos" shall conceive and bear a son ...". "Parthenos" (maiden, young woman, girl or virgin) was translated by Christians into Aramaic to solely mean "virgin". In 1854, Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferreti, as Pope Pius IX, decreed the immaculate conception a matter of faith. This radical Pope, did not much consult Bishops as is customary in matters of dogma. Also, he excommunicated all Mexicans who upheld their constitution. In 1870, after the defeat of Napoleon III by Bismark and no longer having the protection of French troops, Pius IX surrendered his temporal powers to the nascent Italian Republic while declaring the Papacy as infallible in matters of church. After Benito Mussolini restored the Papacy, the Vatican managed to become the only religious organization to be represented in the United Nations.

Annunciation - Immaculate Conception

Pope Pius IX declared immaculate conception a matter of faith and himself to be infallible.

Some Europeans reduce Yoga philosophy to the practice of a type of gymnastics or Asana stressing special body positions to facilitate spiritual meditation. However, there are many facets to yoga ways:

Niyama or being vegetarian and eating very little or "half stomach";

Yama or purity of life by avoiding lying, adultery and other sins;

Asana or adopting dignified durable body postures that promote mental concentration;

Pranayama or calm breathing and imperturbability by disregarding hearing and seeing;

Dharana or total concentration on a visible point and eventually on God;

Dhyana or willful "stream of thoughts" without distractions nor fantasies;

Samadhy or emptiness until its culmination in Shunyata or release from "ego" and achieving openness to God, a philosophy of ultimate synthesis.

Shiva, the master yoga also is the Lord of "timeless dance of life", a cycle of birth, growth, development, decay and death. The biologic and medical vistas emanating from yoga, yoke and yolk yoke are presented in a related overview.

Shiva is engaged in a timeless dance of life, creation, destruction and death often depicted as a dance within a ring of fire, crushing ignorance represented by a dwarf underfoot, beating a drum with one of its many hands to sustain the rhythms of life while with another hand it offers soothing as well as death."