YOGA

Yoga:

Yoga refers to traditional physical, mental, and spiritual disciplines focused on public education and awareness of perfect spiritual insight and calm, which originally comes from India. The name is associated with meditative practices in Hinduism  Buddhism and Jainism.


Within Hinduism, the word yoga is used to refer to one of the six Orthodox (āstika) schools of Hindu philosophy.; yoga can be found in Buddhism ideas in the early sermons of the Buddha; While in Jainism, yoga is the sum of all activities — mental, verbal and physical.

Yoga Sutras of Patanjali:

Yoga in Hindu philosophy is the name of one of the six Orthodox Philosophical schools. The Yoga philosophical system is closely connected with the Samkhya school. Yoga school as prepared by the Sage Patanjali accepts the Samkhya psychology and metaphysics, but is more theistic than the Samkhya, klassifikationssyn by the addition of a divine entity to the Samkhyas twenty-five elements of reality. 


Parallels between Yoga and Samkhya were so close that Max Müller says that "the two philosophies were in popular parlance distinguished from each other as Samkhya with and Samkhya without a Lord ...." Intimate relationship between Samkhya and Yoga is explained by Heinrich Zimmer:

Yoga and Samkhya:

Patanjali Yoga systematized views and bring them back in the light of the metaphysics of Samkhya, which he adopted, with minor variations. In the early works display the principles of Yoga with Samkhya ideas.Commentary on the Yoga Sutras of Vyasa, also known as "Samkhyapravacanabhasya", brings the intimate relationship between the two systems.

Yoga agree with the essential metaphysics of Samkhya, but the difference is that while knowledge that keeps the center of the Samkhya is Liberation Yoga, a system of active endeavour, spiritual discipline and dedicated action. Yoga also introduces the concept of God. The system is sometimes called "Samkhya" Patanjali Seshvara unlike Samkhya, Kapila "Nirivara.


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