@PloughBooks 5/ Freedom wasn't merely demanded from empire, but cultivated. Liberation became sadhana. Yoga often functioned less as private spirituality than as revolutionary formation. The revolutionary became servant, seeker, patriot and disciplined actor: half monk, half soldier.
@GabrielSaidR The first image, frontspiece to Raimon Panikkar's 'The Intrareligious Dialogue'; where the second portrays the legendary 1219 encounter between St. Francis and the leader of the Muslim army, Sultan Malek al-Kamil, at the height of the 5th Crusade. The medievals, a stepping stone.
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It happened after some days, perhaps as the fruit of an intense and sustained meditation, that a vision appeared to this ardently devoted Man. In this vision it was manifested that by means of a few sages versed in the variety of religions that exist throughout the world it could be possible to reach a certain peaceful concord. And it is through this concord that a lasting peace in religion may be attained and established by convenient and truthful means. —Nicolai de Cusa De Pace seu Concordantia Fidei 1,1 *
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Miniature of St. Francis and the leader of the Muslim army, Sultan Malek al-Kamil, embracing.