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    problematic." Michele Desmarais summarized a wide variety of dates assigned to Yogasutra, ranging from 500 BCE to 3rd century CE, noting that there is a paucity...
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  • interpretations and literature that discuss Raja yoga often credit Patañjali's Yogasūtras as their textual source, but many neither adopt the teachings nor the...
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  • that one should see the Self by yoga. —Yoga Yajnavalkya Like Patanjali's Yogasutras, the Yoga Yajnavalkya describes the eight components of yoga; however...
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  • pain-giving as joy-giving, and the non-Atman as Atman. — Yogasutra 2.5 In verses 2.19-2.20, Yogasutra declares that pure ideas are the domain of Atman, the...
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  • is moksha, the soteriological goal in Hinduism. Book 3 of Patanjali's Yogasutra is dedicated to soteriological aspects of yoga philosophy. Patanjali begins...
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    scholars narrowing this period down to between 2nd and 4th century CE. The Yogasutras is one of the most important texts in the Indian tradition and the foundation...
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    different meanings. Desmarais states that Isvara is a metaphysical concept in Yogasutras. It does not mention deity anywhere, nor does it mention any devotional...
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  • metaphysical concept in Yogasutras. Īśvarapraṇidhāna is investing, occupying the mind with this metaphysical concept. Yogasutra does not mention deity...
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  • सुखदुःखपुण्यापुण्यविषयाणां भावनातश्चित्तप्रसादनम् — Yogasutra 1.33; "Patanjali Yogasutra". SanskritDocuments.Org. Martin G. Wiltshire (1990). Ascetic...
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  • Pflueger, Lloyd (2008). Knut Jacobsen (ed.). Person Purity and Power in Yogasutra, in Theory and Practice of Yoga. Motilal Banarsidass. pp. 38–39. ISBN 978-81-208-3232-9...
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    Bhasya). His Vivarana (tertiary notes) on the commentary by Vedavyasa on Yogasutras as well as those on Apastamba Dharma-sũtras (Adhyatama-patala-bhasya)...
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    were two alternate ways of imagining God during the bhakti movement. The Yogasutras of Patanjali use the term Ishvara in 11 verses: I.23 through I.29, II...
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  • speaking truth, the fruits of action become subservient to him (patanjali yogasutras, sutra number 2.36), "The face of truth is covered by a golden bowl. Unveil...
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    " Rukmani, T. S. (1993). "Siddhis in the Bhāgavata Purāṇa and in the Yogasutras of Patanjali – a Comparison". In Wayman, Alex (ed.). Researches in Indian...
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    It is described in numerous Upanishads of Hinduism, and in Patanjali's Yogasutras - a key text of the Yoga school of Hindu philosophy. Dhyāna (Sanskrit:...
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    Purity, and Power in the ϒogasūtra". Person, Purity, and Power in the Yogasūtra. BRILL. pp. 38–39. doi:10.1163/9789047416333_003. ISBN 9789047416333....
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    verse 1.27 of Pantanjali's Yogasutra links Om to Yoga practice, as follows: तस्य वाचकः प्रणवः ॥२७॥ His word is Om. — Yogasutra 1.27 Johnston states this...
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    this principle is found in Hindu texts such as the Bhagavad Gita and Yogasutras, in a number of Buddhist Mahāyāna works, as well as Jain texts. The raising...
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  • Buddhist Studies, 15, 16–22 Klostermaier, K (1984). "Time in Patañjali's Yogasūtra". Philosophy East and West. 34 (2): 205–210. doi:10.2307/1398919. JSTOR 1398919...
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    creator God. Whicher explains that while Patanjali's terse verses in the Yogasutras can be interpreted both as theistic or non-theistic, Patanjali's concept...
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    Rukmani, T. S. (1993). "Siddhis in the Bhāgavata Purāṇa and in the Yogasutras of Patanjali – a Comparison". In Wayman, Alex (ed.). Researches in Indian...
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    yoga, generally in terms of a selective Vedantic reading of Patañjali's Yogasutra (de Michelis 2004). The effort was largely successful, and many modern...
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    and meditation in the format similar to but simpler than Patanjali's Yogasutra. It discusses who is a true yogi, and what it takes to reach the state...
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  • ISBN 978-0415648875, page 39-41; Lloyd Pflueger, Person Purity and Power in Yogasutra, in Theory and Practice of Yoga (Editor: Knut Jacobsen), Motilal Banarsidass...
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  • No. 5 Yamas Yogasūtra 2.30 cf. Ethics of Jainism 10 Yamas Śāṇḍilya Upanishad, Svātmārāma 1 Ahiṃsā (अहिंसा): Nonviolence 2 Satya (सत्य): Truthfulness (Not...
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  • (undated; author); Gabriel Pradīpaka & Andrés Muni (translators) (2007). Yogasūtra. Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20071222115211/http://www.sanskrit-sanscrito...
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    Sanatana, Asuri, Vodhu and Pancasikha. Patanjali, the Yoga scholar, in his Yogasutra-bhasya wrote Kapila to be the "primal wise man, or knower". The Buddhist...
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    is moksha, the soteriological goal in Hinduism. Book 3 of Patanjali's Yogasutra is dedicated to soteriological aspects of yoga philosophy. Patanjali begins...
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  • Viṣṇusmṛti). At the personal dharma level, this includes many chapters of Yogasutras. Artha: Artha-related texts discuss artha from individual, social and...
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  • Phenomenon, Vienna University Press; and Pradeep P. Gokhale (2020), The Yogasūtra of Patañjali: A New Introduction to the Buddhist Roots of the Yoga System...
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