Yoga Sutras of Patañjali (IAST: Patañjali yoga-sūtras) is a collection of Sanskrit sutras (aphorisms) on the theory and practice of yoga – 195 sutras...
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Ashtanga yoga (Sanskrit: अष्टाङ्गयोग, romanized: aṣṭāṅgayoga, "the eight limbs of yoga") is Patanjali's classification of classical yoga, as set out in...
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and compiler of a number of Sanskrit works. The greatest of these are the Yoga Sutras, a classical yoga text. Estimates based on analysis of his works suggests...
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interpretation of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali in his book Raja Yoga. Since then, Rāja yoga has variously been called aṣṭāṅga yoga, royal yoga, royal union...
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comprehensive text on yoga, the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, date to the early centuries of the Common Era; Yoga philosophy became known as one of the six orthodox...
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'Kriya Yoga', the term used for 'practical yoga' in Yoga Sutras 2.1-27, Patanjali's work is conspicuously absent from his writings." The Yoga Sutras are...
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notes Larson. Patanjali's Yoga Sutras may be a synthesis of these three traditions. From the Samkhya school of Hinduism, the Yoga Sutras adopt the "reflective...
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Pranava yoga is meditation on the sacred mantra Om, as outlined in the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, and the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. It is also called...
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Pranayama (redirect from Yoga breathing)
and the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Later in Hatha yoga texts, it meant the complete suspension of breathing. The pranayama practices in modern yoga as exercise...
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Yamas (redirect from The Five Yamas of Yoga)
yamas were explained in detail by Patañjali in the Yoga Sūtras of Patanjali as the first step of the eight-fold path of yogic philosophy and practice for...
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compendium of ancient Vedic sutra literature that has survived, in full or fragments, includes the Kalpa Sutras, Shulba Sutras, Srauta Sutras, Dharma Sutras, Grhya...
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encourages mindfulness. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali describe yoga as having eight limbs, one being asana, the meditation seat. The sutras do not name any asanas...
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Pratyahara (category Eight limbs of yoga)
element among the Eight stages of Patanjali's Ashtanga Yoga, as mentioned in his classical work, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali composed in the 2nd century BCE...
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Asana (redirect from Yoga posture)
comfortable posture. Yoga Sutras 2:46 The Sutras are embedded in the Bhasya commentary, which scholars suggest may also be by Patanjali; it names 12 seated...
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Samyama (category Yoga concepts)
also Ashtanga yoga. Samyama, as Patanjali's Yoga Sutras states, engenders prajñā. Adi Yoga or Mahasandhi discusses the 'mūla prajñā' of "listening/studying...
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Samadhi (category Eight limbs of yoga)
Ashtanga Yoga tradition, it is the eighth and final limb identified in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. In Jain meditation, samadhi is considered one of the last...
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Dhyana in Hinduism (category Eight limbs of yoga)
powers emerging within the yogi, states sutra 3.23. The meditation technique discussed in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is thus, states Mircea Eliade, a means...
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in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali as a result. Iyengar Yoga (like Iyengar's Light on Yoga) has the following invocation to Patanjali: The yoga scholar Suzanne...
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Baba Hari Dass (section Yoga tradition of Patanjali)
the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, the Bhagavad Gita, Samkhyakarika, and Vedanta Panchadasi, collections of aphorisms about the meaning and purpose of life...
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Raja Yoga is a book by Swami Vivekananda about "Raja Yoga", his interpretation of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras adapted for a Western audience. The book was...
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on the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali. Rudra Press. ISBN 978-0915801695. Jha, Ganganatha (trans.) (1907). The Yoga-darsana: The sutras of Patanjali with the...
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Jainism is comparable with that of the Brahma Sutras and Yoga Sutras of Patanjali in Hinduism. In an aphoristic sutra style of ancient Indian texts, it presents...
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Akashic records (redirect from Memory of Nature)
Alice, ed. (1997) [1927]. The Light of the Soul: Its Science and Effect: A Paraphrase of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. New York: Lucis Publishing Company...
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B. K. S. Iyengar (category Indian yoga gurus)
the author of many books on yoga practice and philosophy including Light on Yoga, Light on Pranayama, Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, and Light...
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Diamond Sutra Perfection of Wisdom Ramana Maharshi Yoga Vasistha Yoga Sutras of Patanjali See for example H. W. L. Poonja, who regarded knowledge alone to...
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Ishvarapranidhana (category Yoga concepts)
is mentioned in the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali as follows: Sanskrit: शौच संतोष तपः स्वाध्यायेश्वरप्रणिधानानि नियमाः ॥32॥ – Yoga Sutras II.32 This means "Śauca...
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Vritti (category Yoga concepts)
given in Sutra 1.2 of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: "yogasch chitta vritti nirodha". I. K. Taimni translates this as: "Yoga is the silencing of the modifications...
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Prakṛti (section Yoga Sutras)
origin in prakriti. — Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 13, verse 19 In the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, prakriti is described as encompassing the entire cosmos including...
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Edwin Bryant (Indologist) (redirect from The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture)
ISBN 0-19-514891-6 (hbk.) ISBN 0-19-514892-4 (pbk.) Edwin F. Bryant, The Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali: A New Edition, Translation, and Commentary with Insights from...
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