yogin (yogin)

(Language: Sanskrit)

Short Description: Literally, “one who is yoked or joined;” a practitioner of yoga

Long Description: Literally, “one who is yoked or joined;” a practitioner of yoga, especially a form of yoga involving meditative and ascetic techniques designed to bring the soul and body into a state of concentration or meditative focus.

Sources: The Fullness of God: Frithjof Schuon on Christianity, by Frithjof Schuon, edited by Dr. James S. Cutsinger