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href="https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogasutra" title="Yogasutra – Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="Yogasutra" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Alemannisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%BA%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7" title="يوغا سوترا – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="يوغا سوترا" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-as mw-list-item"><a href="https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%9E%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF%E0%A7%B0_%E0%A6%AF%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%97%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%82%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A7%B0" title="পতঞ্জলিৰ যোগসূত্ৰ – Assamese" lang="as" hreflang="as" data-title="পতঞ্জলিৰ যোগসূত্ৰ" data-language-autonym="অসমীয়া" data-language-local-name="Assamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>অসমীয়া</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%9E%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B0_%E0%A6%AF%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%97%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%82%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0" title="পতঞ্জলির যোগসূত্র – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="পতঞ্জলির যোগসূত্র" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bh mw-list-item"><a href="https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BF_%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%97_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0" title="पतंजलि योग सूत्र – Bhojpuri" lang="bh" hreflang="bh" data-title="पतंजलि योग सूत्र" data-language-autonym="भोजपुरी" data-language-local-name="Bhojpuri" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>भोजपुरी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%99%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B0_%D1%81%D1%83%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0" title="Йога сутра – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Йога сутра" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioga_sutra" title="Ioga sutra – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Ioga sutra" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pata%C5%88d%C5%BEaliho_j%C3%B3gas%C3%BAtra" title="Pataňdžaliho jógasútra – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Pataňdžaliho jógasútra" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swtr%C3%A2u_Ioga_Patanjali" title="Swtrâu Ioga Patanjali – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Swtrâu Ioga Patanjali" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogasutra" title="Yogasutra – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Yogasutra" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogas%C5%ABtra" title="Yogasūtra – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Yogasūtra" 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class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Patanjali.jpg/220px-Patanjali.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="308" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Patanjali.jpg/330px-Patanjali.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Patanjali.jpg/440px-Patanjali.jpg 2x" data-file-width="476" data-file-height="666" /></a><figcaption>Statue of <a href="/wiki/Patanjali" title="Patanjali">Patañjali</a>, its traditional snake form indicating <a href="/wiki/Kundalini" title="Kundalini">kundalini</a> or an incarnation of <a href="/wiki/Shesha" title="Shesha">Shesha</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The <i><b>Yoga Sutras of Patañjali</b> (<a href="/wiki/IAST" class="mw-redirect" title="IAST">IAST</a>: Patañjali yoga-sūtras)</i> is a collection of Sanskrit <a href="/wiki/Sutra" title="Sutra">sutras</a> (<a href="/wiki/Aphorism" title="Aphorism">aphorisms</a>) on the theory and practice of <a href="/wiki/Yoga" title="Yoga">yoga</a> – 195 sutras (according to <a href="/wiki/Vyasa" title="Vyasa">Vyāsa</a> and <a href="/wiki/Krishnamacharya" class="mw-redirect" title="Krishnamacharya">Krishnamacharya</a>) and 196 sutras (according to others, including <a href="/wiki/BKS_Iyengar" class="mw-redirect" title="BKS Iyengar">BKS Iyengar</a>). The <i>Yoga Sutras</i> were compiled in the early centuries CE, by the sage <a href="/wiki/Patanjali" title="Patanjali">Patanjali</a> in India who synthesized and organized knowledge about yoga from much older traditions.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWujastyk201133_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWujastyk201133-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFeuerstein1978108_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFeuerstein1978108-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETolaDragonettiPrithipaul1987x_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETolaDragonettiPrithipaul1987x-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i>Yoga Sutras</i> is best known for its reference to <i><a href="/wiki/Ashtanga_(eight_limbs_of_yoga)" title="Ashtanga (eight limbs of yoga)">ashtanga</a></i>, eight elements of practice culminating in <i><a href="/wiki/Samadhi" title="Samadhi">samadhi</a></i>. The eight elements are <i><a href="/wiki/Yamas" title="Yamas">yama</a></i> (abstinences), <i><a href="/wiki/Niyama" title="Niyama">niyama</a></i> (observances), <i><a href="/wiki/Asana" title="Asana">asana</a></i> (yoga posture), <i><a href="/wiki/Pranayama" title="Pranayama">pranayama</a></i> (breath control), <i><a href="/wiki/Pratyahara" title="Pratyahara">pratyahara</a></i> (withdrawal of the senses), <i><a href="/wiki/Dh%C4%81ra%E1%B9%87%C4%81" title="Dhāraṇā">dharana</a></i> (concentration of the <a href="/wiki/Citta" class="mw-redirect" title="Citta">mind</a>), <i><a href="/wiki/Dhyana_in_Hinduism" title="Dhyana in Hinduism">dhyana</a></i> (meditation) and <i><a href="/wiki/Samadhi" title="Samadhi">samadhi</a></i> (absorption or stillness). The main aim of practice is <i><a href="/wiki/Kaivalya" title="Kaivalya">kaivalya</a></i>, discernment of <i><a href="/wiki/Purusha" title="Purusha">purusha</a></i>, the witness-consciousness, as distinct from <i><a href="/wiki/Prakriti" class="mw-redirect" title="Prakriti">prakriti</a></i>, the cognitive apparatus, and disentanglement of <i>purusha</i> from <i>prakriti's</i> muddled defilements. </p><p>The <i>Yoga Sutras</i> built on <a href="/wiki/Samkhya" title="Samkhya">Samkhya</a> notions of <i>purusha</i> and <i>prakriti</i>, and is often seen as complementary to it. It is closely related to <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a>, incorporating some of its terminology. <a href="/wiki/Samkhya" title="Samkhya">Samkhya</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yoga" title="Yoga">Yoga</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vedanta" title="Vedanta">Vedanta</a>, as well as <a href="/wiki/Jainism" title="Jainism">Jainism</a> and Buddhism, can be seen as representing different manifestations of a broad stream of <a href="/wiki/Asceticism" title="Asceticism">ascetic</a> traditions in ancient India, in contrast to the <a href="/wiki/Bhakti" title="Bhakti">Bhakti</a> traditions and <a href="/wiki/Srauta" class="mw-redirect" title="Srauta">Vedic ritualism</a> which were prevalent at the time. </p><p>The contemporary Yoga tradition holds the <i>Yoga Sutras of Patañjali</i> to be one of the foundational texts of classical <a href="/wiki/Yoga_(philosophy)" title="Yoga (philosophy)">Yoga philosophy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhicher199849_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhicher199849-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-stuartsarbacker195_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stuartsarbacker195-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the appropriation – and misappropriation – of the <i>Yoga Sutras</i> and its influence on later systematizations of yoga has been questioned by <a href="/wiki/David_Gordon_White" title="David Gordon White">David Gordon White</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhite2014xvi–xvii_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhite2014xvi–xvii-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who argues that the text fell into relative obscurity for nearly 700 years from the 12th to 19th century, and made a comeback in the late 19th century due to the efforts of <a href="/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda" title="Swami Vivekananda">Swami Vivekananda</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Theosophical_Society" title="Theosophical Society">Theosophical Society</a> and others. It gained prominence as a classic in the 20th century.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhite2014xvi–xvii_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhite2014xvi–xvii-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Author_and_dating">Author and dating</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Author and dating"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Author">Author</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Author"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The colophons of manuscripts of the <i>Yoga Sutras</i> attribute the work to <a href="/wiki/Patanjali" title="Patanjali">Patanjali</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETolaDragonettiPrithipaul1987xi_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETolaDragonettiPrithipaul1987xi-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhite201434–38_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhite201434–38-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The identity of Patañjali has been the subject of academic debate because an author of the same name is credited with the authorship of the classic text on Sanskrit grammar named <i><a href="/wiki/Mah%C4%81bh%C4%81%E1%B9%A3ya" class="mw-redirect" title="Mahābhāṣya">Mahābhāṣya</a></i> that is firmly datable to the second century BC. Although some scholars argue that this is the same Patanjali who authored the <i>Yoga Sutras</i>, the two works are completely different in subject matter, and <a href="/wiki/Indology" title="Indology">Indologist</a> <a href="/wiki/Louis_Renou" title="Louis Renou">Louis Renou</a> has shown that there are significant differences in language, grammar and vocabulary.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Before the time of <a href="/wiki/Bhoja" title="Bhoja">Bhoja</a> (11th century), no known text conflates the identity of the two authors.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dating">Dating</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Dating"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Philipp A. Maas assessed Patañjali's <i>Pātañjalayogaśāstra</i>'s date to be about 400 CE, based on synchronisms between its arguments and those of <a href="/wiki/Vasubandhu" title="Vasubandhu">Vasubandhu</a>, on tracing the history of the commentaries on it published in the first millennium CE, on the opinions of earlier Sanskrit commentators, on the testimony of manuscript colophons and on a review of extant literature.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMaas2013[[Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_page_number_citations_from_August_2020]]<sup_class="noprint_Inline-Template_"_style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i>[[Wikipedia:Citing_sources|<span_title="This_citation_requires_a_reference_to_the_specific_page_or_range_of_pages_in_which_the_material_appears.&#32;(August_2020)">page&nbsp;needed</span>]]</i>&#93;</sup>_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMaas2013[[Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_page_number_citations_from_August_2020]]<sup_class="noprint_Inline-Template_"_style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i>[[Wikipedia:Citing_sources|<span_title="This_citation_requires_a_reference_to_the_specific_page_or_range_of_pages_in_which_the_material_appears.&#32;(August_2020)">page&nbsp;needed</span>]]</i>&#93;</sup>-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This dating for the <i>Pātañjalayogaśāstra</i> was proposed as early as 1914 by Woods<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and has been accepted widely by academic scholars of the history of Indian philosophical thought.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Edwin_F._Bryant" class="mw-redirect" title="Edwin F. Bryant">Edwin Bryant</a>, on the other hand, surveyed the major commentators in his translation of the <i>Yoga Sūtras</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBryant2009_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBryant2009-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He observed that "Most scholars date the text shortly after the turn of the Common Era (circa first to second century), but that it has been placed as early as several centuries before that."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBryant2009xxxiv_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBryant2009xxxiv-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bryant concluded that "A number of scholars have dated the <i>Yoga Sūtras</i> as late as the fourth or fifth century CE, but these arguments have all been challenged. ... All such arguments [for a late date] are problematic."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBryant2009510,_notes_43–44_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBryant2009510,_notes_43–44-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>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 of evidence for any certainty. She stated the text may have been composed at an earlier date given conflicting theories on how to date it, but latter dates are more commonly accepted by scholars.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Compilation">Compilation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Compilation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <i>Yoga Sutras</i> are a composite of various traditions.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFeuerstein1978108_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFeuerstein1978108-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETolaDragonettiPrithipaul1987x_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETolaDragonettiPrithipaul1987x-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWujastyk201133_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWujastyk201133-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The levels of samādhi taught in the text resemble the Buddhist <i><a href="/wiki/Jhana" class="mw-redirect" title="Jhana">jhanas</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPradhan2015151-152_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPradhan2015151-152-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECrangle1984[[Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_page_number_citations_from_August_2020]]<sup_class="noprint_Inline-Template_"_style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i>[[Wikipedia:Citing_sources|<span_title="This_citation_requires_a_reference_to_the_specific_page_or_range_of_pages_in_which_the_material_appears.&#32;(August_2020)">page&nbsp;needed</span>]]</i>&#93;</sup>_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECrangle1984[[Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_page_number_citations_from_August_2020]]<sup_class="noprint_Inline-Template_"_style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i>[[Wikipedia:Citing_sources|<span_title="This_citation_requires_a_reference_to_the_specific_page_or_range_of_pages_in_which_the_material_appears.&#32;(August_2020)">page&nbsp;needed</span>]]</i>&#93;</sup>-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Feuerstein, the <i>Yoga Sutras</i> are a condensation of two different traditions, namely "eight limb yoga" (aṣṭāṅga yoga) and action yoga (<i><a href="/wiki/Kriy%C4%81" title="Kriyā">Kriya yoga</a></i>).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFeuerstein1978108,_Quote:_"As_I_have_shown_in_my_own_detailed_examination_of_the_Yoga-Sûtra,_this_great_scripture_could_well_be_a_composite_of_only_two_distinct_Yoga_lineages._On_the_one_hand_there_is_the_Yoga_of_eight_limbs_or_ashta-anga-yoga_(written_ashtângayoga),_and_on_the_other,_there_is_the_Yoga_of_Action_(kriyâ-yoga)."_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFeuerstein1978108,_Quote:_"As_I_have_shown_in_my_own_detailed_examination_of_the_Yoga-Sûtra,_this_great_scripture_could_well_be_a_composite_of_only_two_distinct_Yoga_lineages._On_the_one_hand_there_is_the_Yoga_of_eight_limbs_or_ashta-anga-yoga_(written_ashtângayoga),_and_on_the_other,_there_is_the_Yoga_of_Action_(kriyâ-yoga)."-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i>kriya yoga</i> part is contained in chapter 1, chapter 2 <a href="/wiki/Sutra" title="Sutra">sutras</a> 1–27, chapter 3 except <a href="/wiki/Sutra" title="Sutra">sutra</a> 54, and chapter 4.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFeuerstein1978108_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFeuerstein1978108-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The "eight limb yoga" is described in chapter 2 sutras 28–55, and chapter 3 sutras 3 and 54.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFeuerstein1978108_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFeuerstein1978108-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are numerous parallels in the ancient <a href="/wiki/Samkhya" title="Samkhya">Samkhya</a>, Yoga and <a href="/wiki/Abhidharma" title="Abhidharma">Abhidharma</a> schools of thought, particularly from the 2nd century BCE to the 1st century AD, notes Larson.<sup id="cite_ref-l4345_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-l4345-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Patanjali's Yoga Sutras may be a synthesis of these three traditions. From the Samkhya school of Hinduism, Yoga Sutras adopt the "reflective discernment" (<i>adhyavasaya</i>) of <i>prakrti</i> and <i>purusa</i> (dualism), its metaphysical rationalism, and its three <a href="/wiki/Epistemology" title="Epistemology">epistemic</a> methods to gaining reliable knowledge.<sup id="cite_ref-l4345_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-l4345-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From Abhidharma Buddhism's idea of <i>nirodhasamadhi</i>, suggests Larson, Yoga Sutras adopt the pursuit of an altered state of awareness. However, unlike Buddhism, which avoids stating whether self and soul exist, Yoga is physicalist and realist, like Samkhya, believing that each individual has a self and soul.<sup id="cite_ref-l4345_27-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-l4345-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The third concept that Yoga Sutras synthesizes into its philosophy is the ancient <a href="/wiki/Sannyasa" title="Sannyasa">ascetic</a> traditions of isolation, meditation and introspection, as well as the yoga ideas from the 1st millennium BCE Indian texts such as <a href="/wiki/Katha_Upanishad" title="Katha Upanishad">Katha Upanishad</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shvetashvatara_Upanishad" title="Shvetashvatara Upanishad">Shvetashvatara Upanishad</a> and <a href="/wiki/Maitri_Upanishad" class="mw-redirect" title="Maitri Upanishad">Maitri Upanishad</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-l4345_27-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-l4345-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to Wujastyk, referencing Maas, Patanjali integrated yoga from older traditions in <i>Pātañjalayogaśāstra</i>, and added his own explanatory passages to create the unified work that, since 1100 CE, has been considered the work of two people.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWujastyk201133_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWujastyk201133-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Together the compilation of Patanjali's sutras and the Vyasabhasya, is called Pātañjalayogaśāstra.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWujastyk201132-33_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWujastyk201132-33-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Yogabhashya"><i>Yogabhashya</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Yogabhashya"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <i>Yogabhashya</i> is a commentary on the <i>Yoga Sutras of Patañjali</i>, traditionally attributed to the legendary Vedic sage <a href="/wiki/Vyasa" title="Vyasa">Vyasa</a> who is said to have composed the <a href="/wiki/Mahabharata" title="Mahabharata">Mahabharata</a>. This commentary is indispensable for the understanding of the aphoristic and terse Yoga sutras, and the study of the sutras has always referred to the <i>Yogabhashya</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some scholars see Vyasa as a later 4th or 5th century AD commentator (as opposed to the ancient mythic figure).<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Vyasa is, however, not the only commentator on the text. Another well-known commentator on the <i>Yoga Sutras</i> is <a href="/wiki/Vachaspati_Mishra" class="mw-redirect" title="Vachaspati Mishra">Vachaspati Mishra</a>, who had also written commentaries on other schools of Indian philosophy such as Vedanta, Samkhya, Nyaya, and Mimamsa. After Vyasa, it is believed that Vachaspati Mishra’s commentary is the "next most authoritative."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBryant2009xli_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBryant2009xli-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other commentators include <a href="/wiki/Bhoja" title="Bhoja">Bhoja Rāja</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vijnanabhiksu" title="Vijnanabhiksu">Vijñānabhikṣu</a>, and Rāmānanda Sarasvatī. Vijñānabhikṣu, according to Bryant, wrote the "most insightful and useful commentary after that of Vyasa's." Bhoja Rāja and Rāmānanda Sarasvatī's commentaries follow the previous commentaries, without expanding much on what their predecessors have said. <a href="/wiki/Swami_Hariharananda_Aranya" title="Swami Hariharananda Aranya">Hariharānanda Āraṇya</a>, in contrast to the above figures, is a modern commentator on the text. Bryant explains that, even though "his is a standpoint exposed to Western thought", it is still "thoroughly grounded in tradition".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBryant2009xlii–xliii_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBryant2009xlii–xliii-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Scholars hold that both texts, the sutras and the commentary were written by one person. According to Philipp A. Maas, based on a study of the original manuscripts, Patañjali's composition was entitled <i>Pātañjalayogaśāstra</i> ("The Treatise on Yoga according to Patañjali") and consisted of both <i>Sūtras</i> <i>and</i> <i>Bhāṣya</i>. This means that the <i>Bhāṣya</i> was in fact Patañjali's own work.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMaas2006_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMaas2006-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The practice of writing a set of aphorisms with the author's own explanation was well known at the time of Patañjali, as for example in Vasubandhu's <i>Abhidharmakośabhāṣya</i> (that, incidentally, Patañjali quotes). These research findings change the historical understanding of the yoga tradition, since they allow us to take the Bhāṣya as Patañjali's very own explanation of the meaning of his somewhat cryptic sūtras.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMaas2006_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMaas2006-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i>Yogabhashya</i> states that 'yoga' in the <i>Yoga Sutras</i> has the meaning of 'samadhi'. Another commentary (the <i>Vivarana</i>) by a certain Shankara, confirms the interpretation of <i>yogah samadhih</i> (YBh. I.1): 'yoga' in Patañjali's sutra has the meaning of 'integration'.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This Shankara may or may not have been the famed Vedantic scholar <a href="/wiki/Adi_Shankara" title="Adi Shankara">Adi Shankara</a> (8th or 9th century). Scholarly opinion is still open on this issue.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_29-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Contents">Contents</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Contents"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="Ashtanga"></span> </p><p>Patañjali divided his <i>Yoga Sutras</i> into four chapters or books (Sanskrit <i>Pada</i>), containing in all 196 aphorisms, divided as follows:<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWoods2003[[Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_page_number_citations_from_October_2017]]<sup_class="noprint_Inline-Template_"_style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i>[[Wikipedia:Citing_sources|<span_title="This_citation_requires_a_reference_to_the_specific_page_or_range_of_pages_in_which_the_material_appears.&#32;(October_2017)">page&nbsp;needed</span>]]</i>&#93;</sup>_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWoods2003[[Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_page_number_citations_from_October_2017]]<sup_class="noprint_Inline-Template_"_style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i>[[Wikipedia:Citing_sources|<span_title="This_citation_requires_a_reference_to_the_specific_page_or_range_of_pages_in_which_the_material_appears.&#32;(October_2017)">page&nbsp;needed</span>]]</i>&#93;</sup>-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEIyengar2002[[Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_page_number_citations_from_October_2017]]<sup_class="noprint_Inline-Template_"_style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i>[[Wikipedia:Citing_sources|<span_title="This_citation_requires_a_reference_to_the_specific_page_or_range_of_pages_in_which_the_material_appears.&#32;(October_2017)">page&nbsp;needed</span>]]</i>&#93;</sup>_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEIyengar2002[[Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_page_number_citations_from_October_2017]]<sup_class="noprint_Inline-Template_"_style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i>[[Wikipedia:Citing_sources|<span_title="This_citation_requires_a_reference_to_the_specific_page_or_range_of_pages_in_which_the_material_appears.&#32;(October_2017)">page&nbsp;needed</span>]]</i>&#93;</sup>-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Samadhi_Pada">Samadhi Pada</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Samadhi Pada"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>Samadhi Pada</b><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWoods2003_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWoods2003-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEIyengar2002_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEIyengar2002-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (51 sutras). <a href="/wiki/Samadhi" title="Samadhi">Samadhi</a> is a state of direct and reliable perception (<i><a href="/wiki/Pram%C4%81%E1%B9%87a" class="mw-redirect" title="Pramāṇa">pramāṇa</a></i>) where "the seer" (<i><a href="/wiki/Purusha" title="Purusha">Purusha</a></i>, pure consciousness, the Self) abides in itself. Samadhi is the main technique the yogi learns by which to calm the workings of the mind, whereafter <b>Kaivalya</b>, the isolation of 'the seer' from the impurities of the mind, is attained. The author describes yoga and then the nature and the means of attaining <a href="/wiki/Sam%C4%81dhi" class="mw-redirect" title="Samādhi">samādhi</a>.</li></ul> <dl><dd><ul><li>This chapter contains the famous definitional verse (YS 1.2): <i>"Yogaś citta-vritti-nirodhaḥ"</i> ("Yoga is the restriction of the fluctuations of mindstuff").<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWoods2003_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWoods2003-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When the mind is stilled, the seer or real Self is revealed:</li></ul> <dl><dd><dl><dd>1.3. Then the Seer is established in his own essential and fundamental nature.</dd> <dd>1.4. In other states there is assimilation (of the Seer) with the modifications (of the mind).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaimni196116-17_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaimni196116-17-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li>YS 1.33–39 mentions seven practices to still the mind, the seventh being meditative absorption (YS 1.39), which is further explained in YS 1.40–51 and YS 3.1–12.</li> <li>YS 1.23 offers an alternative, less arduous method to attain samadhi via the path of <a href="/wiki/Bhakti" title="Bhakti">bhakti</a>, or surrender to <a href="/wiki/Ishvara" title="Ishvara">Ishvara</a>. Some scholars believe this to be Patanjali's "favored" approach.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBryant2009161_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBryant2009161-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sadhana_Pada">Sadhana Pada</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Sadhana Pada"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>Sadhana Pada</b><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWoods2003_37-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWoods2003-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEIyengar2002_38-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEIyengar2002-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (55 sutras). <a href="/wiki/Sadhana" class="mw-redirect" title="Sadhana">Sadhana</a> is the Sanskrit for "practice" or "discipline," aiming at discriminative discernment, to discern the Seer (consciousness) from its objects and the hindrances. Here the author outlines two systems of Yoga: <i><a href="/wiki/Kriya_Yoga_school" title="Kriya Yoga school">Kriyā Yoga</a></i> and <a href="/wiki/Ashtanga_(eight_limbs_of_yoga)" title="Ashtanga (eight limbs of yoga)"><i>Aṣṭāṅga Yoga</i> ('Eightlimbed Yoga')</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Kriya_Yoga">Kriya Yoga</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Kriya Yoga"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Kriya_Yoga_school" title="Kriya Yoga school">Kriyā Yoga</a></i> in the Yoga Sūtras is a preparation for <i>Aṣṭāṅga Yoga</i> (with three special elements of the Niyamas (2nd limb)):<sup id="cite_ref-yogajournal.com_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yogajournal.com-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <dl><dd><dl><dd>2.3 <i>tapas</i> – austerity<sup id="cite_ref-yogajournal.com_41-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yogajournal.com-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd> <dd>2.4 <i>svādhyāya</i> – self-study of the scriptures<sup id="cite_ref-yogajournal.com_41-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yogajournal.com-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd> <dd>2.5 <i>īśvara praṇidhāna</i> – devotion to god or pure consciousness<sup id="cite_ref-yogajournal.com_41-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yogajournal.com-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Ashtanga_Yoga">Ashtanga Yoga</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Ashtanga Yoga"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Ashtanga_(eight_limbs_of_yoga)" title="Ashtanga (eight limbs of yoga)">Aṣṭānga Yoga</a></i> is the yoga of eight limbs. In chapter 2, five "indirect aids" for purification and aiding insight are outlined:</li></ul> <dl><dd>1. <i>Yama</i> – restraints or ethics of behaviour; Yama consists of: <dl><dd>1.1 <i><a href="/wiki/Ahimsa" title="Ahimsa">Ahimsa</a></i> (Non violence)</dd> <dd>1.2 <i>Satya</i> (Truthfulness)</dd> <dd>1.3 <i>Asteya</i> (Non stealing)</dd> <dd>1.4 <i>Brahmacharya</i> (Chastity)</dd> <dd>1.5 <i>Aparigraha</i> (Non possession)</dd></dl></dd> <dd>2. <i>Niyama</i> – observances; Niyama consists of: <dl><dd>2.1 <i>Saucha</i> (Cleanliness)</dd> <dd>2.2 <i>Santosha</i> (Contentment)</dd> <dd>2.3 <i>Tapas</i> (Austerity)</dd> <dd>2.4 <i>Svadhyaya</i> (Selfstudy)</dd> <dd>2.5 <i><a href="/wiki/Ishvara" title="Ishvara">Ishvara</a> Pranidhana</i> (Devotion to the Lord)</dd></dl></dd> <dd>3. <i>Āsana</i> – A physical posture in which one can be steady and comfortable.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd> <dd>4. <i><a href="/wiki/Pr%C4%81%E1%B9%87%C4%81y%C4%81ma" class="mw-redirect" title="Prāṇāyāma">Prāṇāyāma</a></i> – control of the <a href="/wiki/Prana" title="Prana">prana</a>(breath)</dd> <dd>5. <i>Pratyahara</i> – withdrawal of the senses</dd> <dd>6. <i><a href="/wiki/Dh%C4%81ra%E1%B9%87%C4%81" title="Dhāraṇā">Dhāraṇā</a></i> – concentration</dd> <dd>7. <i><a href="/wiki/Dhyana_in_Hinduism_(Self-knowledge)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dhyana in Hinduism (Self-knowledge)">Dhyāna</a></i> – meditation</dd> <dd>8. <i><a href="/wiki/Sam%C4%81dhi" class="mw-redirect" title="Samādhi">Samādhi</a></i> – absorption</dd></dl></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Vibhuti_Pada">Vibhuti Pada</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Vibhuti Pada"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>Vibhuti Pada</b><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWoods2003_37-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWoods2003-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEIyengar2002_38-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEIyengar2002-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (56 sutras).<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Vibhuti is the Sanskrit word for "power" or "manifestation". In chapter 3, the last three limbs of <i>Aṣṭānga Yoga</i>, known as <a href="/wiki/Samyama" title="Samyama">samyama</a>, are outlined:</li></ul> <dl><dd><dl><dd>6. <i><a href="/wiki/Dh%C4%81ra%E1%B9%87%C4%81" title="Dhāraṇā">Dhāraṇā</a></i> - concentration</dd> <dd>7. <i><a href="/wiki/Dhyana_in_Hinduism_(Self-knowledge)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dhyana in Hinduism (Self-knowledge)">Dhyāna</a></i> – meditation</dd> <dd>8. <i><a href="/wiki/Sam%C4%81dhi" class="mw-redirect" title="Samādhi">Samādhi</a></i> – absorption</dd></dl></dd> <dd>Besides insight into pure awareness (purusha), <a href="/wiki/Samyama" title="Samyama">samyama</a> gives 'supra-normal powers' (Sanskrit: <i><a href="/wiki/Siddhi" title="Siddhi">siddhi</a></i>), as the yogi gains access to and unites with the tattvas, the constituents of <i>prakriti</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJacobsen20116_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJacobsen20116-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The text warns (III.38) that these powers can become an obstacle to the yogi who seeks liberation.</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Kaivalya_Pada">Kaivalya Pada</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Kaivalya Pada"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>Kaivalya Pada</b><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWoods2003_37-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWoods2003-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEIyengar2002_38-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEIyengar2002-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (34 sutras). <a href="/wiki/Kaivalya" title="Kaivalya">Kaivalya</a>, "isolation", of the Seer from the contents of the mind so it is no longer disturbed by the movements of the mind. It stands for emancipation or liberation, and is used where other texts often employ the term <a href="/wiki/Moksha" title="Moksha">moksha</a> (liberation). The Kaivalya Pada describes the process of liberation and the reality of the Seer.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Philosophy">Philosophy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Philosophy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Metaphysics">Metaphysics</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Metaphysics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The metaphysics of Patanjali is built on the same <a href="/wiki/Dualism_(Indian_philosophy)" title="Dualism (Indian philosophy)">dualist</a> foundation as the Samkhya school.<sup id="cite_ref-Bryant_IEP_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bryant_IEP-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>web 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The universe is conceptualized as of two realities in Samkhya-Yoga schools: <i><a href="/wiki/Purusha" title="Purusha">Puruṣa</a></i> (consciousness) and <i><a href="/wiki/Prakriti" class="mw-redirect" title="Prakriti">prakriti</a></i> (mind, cognition, emotions, and matter). It considers consciousness and matter, self/soul and body as two different realities.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHaney200217_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHaney200217-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEIsaacDangwal1997339_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEIsaacDangwal1997339-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Jiva" title="Jiva">Jiva</a></i> (a living being) is considered as a state in which <i>puruṣa</i> is bonded to <i>prakriti</i> in some form, in various permutations and combinations of various elements, senses, feelings, activity and mind.<sup id="cite_ref-sambri_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sambri-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the state of imbalance or ignorance, one of more constituents overwhelm the others, creating a form of bondage. The end of this bondage is called Kaivalya, liberation, or <i><a href="/wiki/Moksha" title="Moksha">moksha</a></i> by both Yoga and Samkhya school.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ethical theory of Yoga school is based on <a href="/wiki/Yamas" title="Yamas">Yamas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Niyama" title="Niyama">Niyama</a>, as well as elements of the <a href="/wiki/Gu%E1%B9%87a" title="Guṇa">Guṇa</a> theory of Samkhya.<sup id="cite_ref-Bryant_IEP_45-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bryant_IEP-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>web 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Patanjali adopts the theory of <a href="/wiki/Gu%E1%B9%87a" title="Guṇa">Guṇa</a> from Samkhya.<sup id="cite_ref-Bryant_IEP_45-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bryant_IEP-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>web 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Guṇas theory states that three <i>gunas</i> (innate tendency, attributes) are present in different proportions in all beings, and these three are <i><a href="/wiki/Sattva" title="Sattva">sattva</a></i> guna (goodness, constructive, harmonious), <i><a href="/wiki/Rajas" title="Rajas">rajas</a></i> guna (passion, active, confused), and <i><a href="/wiki/Tamas_(philosophy)" title="Tamas (philosophy)">tamas</a></i> guna (darkness, destructive, chaotic).<sup id="cite_ref-aw_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aw-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-jamesg_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jamesg-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These three are present in every being but in different proportions, and the fundamental nature and psychological dispositions of beings is a consequence of the relative proportion of these three <i>gunas</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Bryant_IEP_45-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bryant_IEP-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>web 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When <i>sattva</i> guna predominates in an individual, the qualities of lucidity, wisdom, constructiveness, harmony, and peacefulness manifest themselves; when rajas is predominant, attachment, craving, passion-driven activity and restlessness manifest; and when tamas predominates in an individual, ignorance, delusion, destructive behavior, lethargy, and suffering manifest. The theory underpins the philosophy of mind in the Yoga school of Hinduism.<sup id="cite_ref-Bryant_IEP_45-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bryant_IEP-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>web 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Soteriology">Soteriology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Soteriology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="Purpose"></span> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quote-title,.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quotebox-quote{display:block}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .quotebox{width:100%!important;margin:0 0 .8em!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="width:30em; ; color: #202122;background-color: #ffffff;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> <div class="poem"> <p>1.2. Yoga is the inhibition of the modifications of the mind.<br /> 1.3. Then the Seer is established in his own essential and fundamental nature.<br /> 1.4. In other states there is assimilation (of the Seer) with the modifications (of the mind). </p> </div> </blockquote> <p style="padding-bottom: 0;"><cite class="left-aligned" style=""><i>Yoga Sutra of Patanjali</i><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaimni196116-17_39-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaimni196116-17-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></cite></p> </div> <p>According to Bryant, the purpose of yoga is liberation from suffering, by means of discriminative discernment. The eight limbs are "the means of achieving discriminative discernment," the "uncoupling of puruṣa from all connection with prakṛti and all involvement with the citta." Bryant states that, to Patanjali, Yoga-practice "essentially consists of meditative practices culminating in attaining a state of consciousness free from all modes of active or discursive thought, and of eventually attaining a state where consciousness is unaware of any object external to itself, that is, is only aware of its own nature as consciousness unmixed with any other object."<sup id="cite_ref-edbryant_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-edbryant-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBryant200910_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBryant200910-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>While the Samkhya school suggests that <i>jnana</i> (knowledge) is a sufficient means to <i>moksha</i>, Patanjali suggests that systematic techniques/practice (personal experimentation) combined with Samkhya's approach to knowledge is the path to moksha.<sup id="cite_ref-Bryant_IEP_45-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bryant_IEP-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>web 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Patanjali holds that <i>avidya</i>, ignorance is the cause of all five kleshas, which are the cause of suffering and <a href="/wiki/Samsara" class="mw-redirect" title="Samsara">saṁsāra</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Bryant_IEP_45-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bryant_IEP-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>web 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Liberation, like many other schools, is removal of ignorance, which is achieved through discriminating discernment, knowledge and self-awareness. The <i>Yoga Sūtras</i> is the Yoga school's treatise on how to accomplish this.<sup id="cite_ref-Bryant_IEP_45-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bryant_IEP-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>web 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Samādhi</i> is the state where ecstatic awareness develops, state Yoga scholars, and this is how one starts the process of becoming aware of <i>Purusa</i> and true Self. It further claims that this awareness is eternal, and once this awareness is achieved, a person cannot ever cease being aware; this is <a href="/wiki/Moksha" title="Moksha">moksha</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Soteriology_in_Hinduism" class="mw-redirect" title="Soteriology in Hinduism">soteriological</a> goal in Hinduism.<sup id="cite_ref-Bryant_IEP_45-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bryant_IEP-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>web 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Book 3 of Patanjali's <i>Yogasutra</i> is dedicated to soteriological aspects of yoga philosophy. Patanjali begins by stating that all limbs of yoga are a necessary foundation to reaching the state of self-awareness, freedom and liberation. He refers to the three last limbs of yoga as <i>samyama</i>, in verses III.4 to III.5, and calls it the technology for "discerning principle" and mastery of <i>citta</i> and self-knowledge.<sup id="cite_ref-yogadarsanabook3_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yogadarsanabook3-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In verse III.12, the Yogasutras state that this discerning principle then empowers one to perfect <i>sant</i> (tranquility) and <i>udita</i> (reason) in one's mind and spirit, through intentness. This leads to one's ability to discern the difference between <i>sabda</i> (word), <i>artha</i> (meaning) and <i>pratyaya</i> (understanding), and this ability empowers one to compassionately comprehend the cry/speech of all living beings.<sup id="cite_ref-ydbook3_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ydbook3-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Once a yogi reaches this state of <i><a href="/wiki/Samyama" title="Samyama">samyama</a></i>, it leads to unusual powers, intuition, self-knowledge, freedoms and <a href="/wiki/Moksha" title="Moksha">kaivalya</a>, the redemptive goal of the yogi.<sup id="cite_ref-ydbook3_56-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ydbook3-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Epistemology">Epistemology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Epistemology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Epistemology" title="Epistemology">epistemology</a> in Patanjali's system of Yoga, like the <a href="/wiki/Samkhya" title="Samkhya">Sāmkhya</a> school of Indian philosophy, relies on three of six <i><a href="/wiki/Pramanas" class="mw-redirect" title="Pramanas">Pramanas</a></i>, as the means of gaining reliable knowledge.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These included <i>Pratyakṣa</i> (perception), <i>Anumāṇa</i> (inference) and <i>Sabda</i> (<i>Āgama or Āptavacana</i>, word/testimony of reliable sources).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELarson19989_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELarson19989-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-eliottjag_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eliottjag-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBryant200935–37_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBryant200935–37-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Patanjali's system, like the Samkhya school, considers <i>Pratyakṣa</i> or <i>Dṛṣṭam</i> (direct sense perception), <i>Anumāna</i> (inference), and <i>Śabda</i> or <i>Āptavacana</i> (verbal testimony of the sages or shāstras) to be the only valid means of knowledge or <i><a href="/wiki/Pramana" title="Pramana">Pramana</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELarson19989_59-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELarson19989-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Unlike few other schools of Hinduism such as <a href="/wiki/Advaita_Vedanta" title="Advaita Vedanta">Advaita Vedanta</a>, Yoga did not adopt the following three <i><a href="/wiki/Pramana" title="Pramana">Pramanas</a></i>: <i>Upamāṇa</i> (comparison and analogy), <i>Arthāpatti</i> (postulation, deriving from circumstances) or <i>Anupalabdi</i> (non-perception, negative/cognitive proof).<sup id="cite_ref-eliottjag_60-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eliottjag-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Of the three <i>pramanas</i> that it accepts as valid, <i>pratyakṣa</i> (perception) is the most important according to <i>Yoga Sutras</i>. It is superior to the other two sources because testimony (<i>sabda</i>) and inference (<i>anumāna</i>) are ultimately dependent on a prior perception. Bryant distinguishes Yoga school from the <i>Vedānta</i>, <i>Nyaya</i> and <i>Mīmāṃsā</i> in their prioritizing of different <i>pramanas</i>. The <i>Mīmāṃsā</i> school prioritizes testimony and the <i>Nyaya</i> school prioritizes inference. The <i>Vedānta</i> school has as its main source testimony from the <i>Upaniṣads</i>, whereas the Yoga school ascribes supreme authoritativeness to "direct, personal experience". Bryant argues that because of its favoring of direct experience the <i>Yoga Sutras</i> will "remain a perennial source of interest to the empirical dispositions of the modern world".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBryant200935–37_61-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBryant200935–37-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="God">God</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: God"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Patanjali differs from the closely related non-theistic/atheistic Samkhya school by incorporating what some scholars have called a "personal, yet essentially inactive, deity" or "personal god" (Ishvara).<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-lpfl_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lpfl-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hindu scholars such as the 8th century <a href="/wiki/Adi_Sankara" class="mw-redirect" title="Adi Sankara">Adi Sankara</a>, as well as many modern academic scholars describe Yoga school as "Samkhya school with God."<sup id="cite_ref-lpfl_63-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lpfl-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-maxmuller_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-maxmuller-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i>Yogasutras of Patanjali</i> use the term <i>Isvara</i> in 11 verses: I.23 through I.29, II.1, II.2, II.32 and II.45. Ever since the Sutra's release, Hindu scholars have debated and commented on who or what is <i>Isvara</i>? These commentaries range from defining <i>Isvara</i> from a "personal god" to "special self" to "anything that has spiritual significance to the individual".<sup id="cite_ref-lpfl_63-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lpfl-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Whicher states that while Patanjali's terse verses can be interpreted both as theistic or non-theistic, Patanjali's concept of <i>Isvara</i> in Yoga philosophy functions as a "transformative catalyst or guide for aiding the yogin on the path to spiritual emancipation".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhicher199886_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhicher199886-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Whereas the purusa (spirit, or true self) of the yogin is bound to the prakriti – the material body subject to karmas and kleshas, the special <i>purusa</i> called <i>Isvara</i> is immaterial and ultimately free. </p><p>Patanjali defines <i>Isvara</i> (Sanskrit: ईश्वर) in verse 24 of Book 1, as "a special Self/Spirit (पुरुषविशेष, <i>puruṣa-viśeṣa</i>)."<sup id="cite_ref-pyogas3t_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pyogas3t-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>} This sutra adds the characteristics of <i>Isvara</i> as that special Self/Spirit which is unaffected (अपरामृष्ट, <i>aparamrsta</i>) by one's obstacles/hardships (क्लेश, <i>klesha</i>), one's circumstances created by past or one's current actions (कर्म, <i>karma</i>), one's life fruits (विपाक, <i>vipâka</i>), and one's psychological dispositions/intentions (आशय, ashaya).<sup id="cite_ref-se5_73-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-se5-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Philosophical_roots_and_influences">Philosophical roots and influences</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Philosophical roots and influences"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lotus_position.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Lotus_position.svg/220px-Lotus_position.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Lotus_position.svg/330px-Lotus_position.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Lotus_position.svg/440px-Lotus_position.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="410" /></a><figcaption>The fusion of <i>Dharana</i>, <i>Dhyana</i> and <i>Samadhi</i> is <i>Samyama</i> – the path to <a href="/wiki/Kaivalya" title="Kaivalya">Kaivalya</a> in Yoga school.</figcaption></figure> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Yoga_(philosophy)" title="Yoga (philosophy)">Yoga (philosophy)</a></div> <p>The <i>Yoga Sutras</i> incorporated the teachings of many other Indian philosophical systems prevalent at the time. According to Zimmer, Samkhya and Yoga are two of several schools of philosophy that originated over the centuries that had common roots in the pre-Aryan cultures and traditions of India.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEZimmer1951217,_314_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEZimmer1951217,_314-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Yet, the orthodox Hindu philosophies of <a href="/wiki/Samkhya" title="Samkhya">Samkhya</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yoga" title="Yoga">Yoga</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vedanta" title="Vedanta">Vedānta</a>, as well as the non-orthodox <a href="/wiki/Nastika" class="mw-redirect" title="Nastika">Nastika</a> systems of Jainism and Buddhism can all be seen as representing one stream of spiritual activity in ancient India, in contrast to the <a href="/wiki/Bhakti" title="Bhakti">Bhakti</a> traditions and <a href="/wiki/Vedic" class="mw-redirect" title="Vedic">Vedic</a> ritualism which were also prevalent at the same time. The <a href="/wiki/Vedanta" title="Vedanta">Vedanta</a>-<a href="/wiki/Sramana" class="mw-redirect" title="Sramana">Sramana</a> traditions, iconolatry and Vedic rituals can be identified with the <a href="/wiki/Jnana" class="mw-redirect" title="Jnana">Jnana</a> marga, <a href="/wiki/Bhakti" title="Bhakti">Bhakti</a> marga and the <a href="/wiki/Karma" title="Karma">Karma</a> marga respectively that are outlined in the <a href="/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita" title="Bhagavad Gita">Bhagavad Gita</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Samkhya">Samkhya</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Samkhya"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <i>Yoga Sutras</i> are built on a foundation of <a href="/wiki/Samkhya" title="Samkhya">Samkhya</a> philosophy, and are generally seen as the practice while Samkhya is the theory. The influence of Samkhya is so pervasive in the Sutras that the historian <a href="/wiki/Surendranath_Dasgupta" title="Surendranath Dasgupta">Surendranath Dasgupta</a> went so far as to deny independent categorization to Patañjali's system, preferring to refer to it as <i>Patanjala Samkhya</i>, similar to the position taken by the Jain writer <a href="/wiki/Haribhadra" class="mw-redirect" title="Haribhadra">Haribhadra</a> in his commentary on Yoga.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Patañjali's <i>Yoga Sutras</i> accept the Samkhya's division of the world and phenomena into twenty-five tattvas or principles, of which one is <i>Purusha</i> meaning Self or consciousness, the others being <i>Prakriti</i> (primal nature), <i>Buddhi</i> (intellect or will), <i>Ahamkara</i> (ego), <i>Manas</i> (mind), five <i>buddhindriyas</i> (sensory capabilities), five <i>karmendriyas</i> (action-capabilities) and ten elements.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated314_82-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated314-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The second part of the Sutras, the Sadhana, also summarizes the Samkhya perspectives about all seen activity lying within the realm of the three <i>Gunas</i> of <i>Sattva</i> (illumination), <i>Rajas</i> (passion) and <i>Tamas</i> (lethargy).<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i>Yoga Sutras</i> diverge from early Samkhya by the addition of the principle of <a href="/wiki/Isvara" class="mw-redirect" title="Isvara">Isvara</a> or God, as exemplified by Sutra 1.23 – "Iśvara pranidhãnãt vã", which is interpreted to mean that surrender to God is one way to liberation.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated314_82-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated314-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Isvara</i> is defined here as "a distinct Consciousness, untouched by afflictions, actions, fruitions or their residue".<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the sutras, it is suggested that devotion to <i>Isvara</i>, represented by the mystical syllable <a href="/wiki/Om" title="Om">Om</a> may be the most efficient method of achieving the goal of Yoga.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This syllable Om is a central element of Hinduism, appearing in all the <a href="/wiki/Upanishads" title="Upanishads">Upanishads</a>, including the earliest <a href="/wiki/Chandogya" class="mw-redirect" title="Chandogya">Chandogya</a> and <a href="/wiki/Brihadaranyaka" class="mw-redirect" title="Brihadaranyaka">Brihadaranyaka</a> Upanishads, and expounded upon in the <a href="/wiki/Mandukya" class="mw-redirect" title="Mandukya">Mandukya</a> Upanishad.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Another divergence from Samkhya is that while the Samkhya holds that knowledge is the means to liberation, Patañjali's Yoga insists on the methods of concentration and active striving. The aim of Yoga is to free the individual from the clutches of the matter, and considers intellectual knowledge alone to be inadequate for the purpose – which is different from the position taken by Samkhya.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated314_82-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated314-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>However, the essential similarities between the Samkhya and Patañjali's system remained even after the addition of the <i>Isvara</i> principle,<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with <a href="/wiki/Max_M%C3%BCller" title="Max Müller">Max Müller</a> noting that "the two philosophies were in popular parlance distinguished from each other as Samkhya with and Samkhya without a Lord...."<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita" title="Bhagavad Gita">Bhagavad Gita</a>, one of the chief scriptures of Hinduism, is considered to be based on this synthetic Samkhya-Yoga system.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i>Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali</i> is a foundational text of the <a href="/wiki/Yoga_(philosophy)" title="Yoga (philosophy)">Yoga philosophy</a> school of Hinduism.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhicher199849_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhicher199849-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-stuartsarbacker195_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stuartsarbacker195-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Buddhism">Buddhism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Buddhism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Buddhism_and_Hinduism#Yoga" title="Buddhism and Hinduism">Buddhism and Hinduism § Yoga</a></div> <p>While there are differences between Buddhist tenets and the views presented in the Yoga Sutras, scholars have noted <a href="/wiki/Buddhism_and_Hinduism#Yogic_practice,_Dhyana_and_Samadhi" title="Buddhism and Hinduism">striking similarities between Patanjali's Yoga Sutras and the teachings in Buddhist texts</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhite201431–43,_Chapter_2_93-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhite201431–43,_Chapter_2-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-peterheehs_94-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-peterheehs-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-micheledesmarias_95-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-micheledesmarias-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Karel_Werner" title="Karel Werner">Karel Werner</a> writes, "Patanjali's system is unthinkable without Buddhism. As far as its terminology goes there is much in the <i>Yoga Sutras</i> that reminds us of Buddhist formulations from the <a href="/wiki/P%C4%81li_Canon" class="mw-redirect" title="Pāli Canon">Pāli Canon</a> and even more so from the <a href="/wiki/Sarv%C4%81stiv%C4%81da" class="mw-redirect" title="Sarvāstivāda">Sarvāstivāda</a> <a href="/wiki/Abhidharma" title="Abhidharma">Abhidharma</a> and from <a href="/wiki/Sautr%C4%81ntika" title="Sautrāntika">Sautrāntika</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He adds, "upon the whole it [Patanjali's Yoga sutras] is more elaborate and summarizes the actual technique of Yoga procedures more exactly than the Buddhist exposition".<sup id="cite_ref-werner131_97-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-werner131-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, states Werner, "The Buddha was the founder of his system, even though, admittedly, he made use of some of the experiences he had previously gained under various Yoga teachers of his time. Patanjali is neither a founder nor a leader of a new movement. (...) The ingenuity of his [Patanjali's] achievement lies in the thoroughness and completeness with which all the important stages of Yoga practice and mental experiences are included in his scheme, and in their systematic presentation in a succinct treatise."<sup id="cite_ref-werner131_97-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-werner131-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Werner adds that the ideas of existence and the focus on "Self, Soul" in Patajali's Yogasutra are different from the "no Self" precepts of Buddhism.<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to <a href="/wiki/David_Gordon_White" title="David Gordon White">David Gordon White</a>, the language of the <i>Yoga Sutras</i> is often closer to "Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, the Sanskrit of the early Mahayana Buddhist scriptures, than to the classical Sanskrit of other Hindu scriptures".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhite201410_99-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhite201410-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He adds, historical evidence suggests that yoga philosophical systems influenced, and were influenced by, other philosophical systems in India such as early Buddhism and Jainism.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhite201419_100-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhite201419-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> White mentions controversies about the Yoga Sutras.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhite201431–43,_Chapter_2_93-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhite201431–43,_Chapter_2-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A significant minority of scholars, notes White for example, believes that Vyasa lived a few centuries after Patanjali and his "Hindu-izing" commentary subverted Yoga Sutras' original "Buddhist" teachings; while the majority scholarly view disagrees with this view.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhite201440–41,_Quote:_"A_significant_minority_opinion,_however,_maintains_that_Vyasa_lived_several_centuries_later,_and_that_his_"Hindu-izing"_commentary,_rather_than_elucidating_Patanjali’s_text,_actually_subverted_its_original_"Buddhist"_teachings."_101-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhite201440–41,_Quote:_"A_significant_minority_opinion,_however,_maintains_that_Vyasa_lived_several_centuries_later,_and_that_his_"Hindu-izing"_commentary,_rather_than_elucidating_Patanjali’s_text,_actually_subverted_its_original_"Buddhist"_teachings."-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Scholars also note differences between the conceptual frameworks of the Yoga Sutras and those in Buddhist texts.<sup id="cite_ref-peterheehs_94-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-peterheehs-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-micheledesmarias_95-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-micheledesmarias-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Robert_Thurman" title="Robert Thurman">Robert Thurman</a> writes that Patañjali was influenced by the success of the <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhist</a> monastic system to formulate his own matrix for the version of thought he considered orthodox.<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Yoga Sutra, especially the fourth segment of Kaivalya Pada, contains several polemical verses critical of Buddhism, particularly the Vijñānavāda school of Vasubandhu.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Barbara Miller also notes numerous similarities the difference between Patanjali's Yoga Sutras and teachings in Buddhist texts: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>In Samkhya and Yoga, as in Buddhism and Jainism, the most salient characteristic of existence is <i>duhkha</i> or suffering. According to Buddhism, the origin of suffering is desire; according to Yoga, it is the connection between the observer (Purusha) with the observed (Prakrti). In both systems, the origin of <i>duhkha</i> is ignorance. There are also similarities in the means of deliverance recommended by the two systems. In Buddhism, the aspirant is asked to follow the eightfold path, which culminates in right meditation or <i>samadhi</i>. In Yoga, the aspirant is asked to follow a somewhat different eight fold path, which also culminates in <i>samadhi</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-peterheehs_94-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-peterheehs-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Miller also notes differences between Patanjali's Yoga Sutras and teachings in Buddhist texts: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>..the aim of yoga meditation is conceived in terms that a Buddhist would not accept: as the separation of an eternal conscious self from unconscious matter. The purpose of Patanjali's Yoga is to bring about this separation by means of understanding, devotion and practice."<sup id="cite_ref-peterheehs_94-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-peterheehs-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>According to Michele Desmarias, Patanjali's Yoga Sutras accept the concept of a Self or soul behind the operational mind, while Buddhists do not accept such a Self exists. The role of Self is central to the idea of <i>Saṃyoga</i>, <i>Citta</i>, Self-awareness and other concepts in Chapters 2 through 4 of the Yoga sutras, according to Desmarias.<sup id="cite_ref-micheledesmarias_95-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-micheledesmarias-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Jainism">Jainism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Jainism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Yamas#Five_yamas_of_Patañjali" title="Yamas">five yamas</a> or the constraints of the <i>Yoga Sutras of Patañjali</i> bear an uncanny resemblance to the <a href="/wiki/Mahavrata" class="mw-redirect" title="Mahavrata">five major vows of Jainism</a>, indicating influence of <a href="/wiki/Jainism" title="Jainism">Jainism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Three other teachings closely associated with Jainism also make an appearance in Yoga: the doctrine of "colours" in karma (<a href="/wiki/Lesya" title="Lesya">lesya</a>); the <i><a href="/wiki/Telos_(philosophy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Telos (philosophy)">Telos</a></i> of isolation (<a href="/wiki/Kevala" class="mw-redirect" title="Kevala">kevala</a> in Jainism and Kaivalyam in Yoga); and the practice of nonviolence (ahimsa), though nonviolence (ahimsa) made its first appearance in Indian philosophy-cum-religion in the <a href="/wiki/Hindu" class="mw-redirect" title="Hindu">Hindu</a> texts known as the <a href="/wiki/Upanishads" title="Upanishads">Upanishads</a> [the <a href="/wiki/Ch%C4%81ndogya_Upani%E1%B9%A3ad" class="mw-redirect" title="Chāndogya Upaniṣad">Chāndogya Upaniṣad</a>, dated to the 8th or 7th century BCE, one of the oldest <a href="/wiki/Upanishads" title="Upanishads">Upanishads</a>, has the earliest evidence for the use of the word <i>Ahimsa</i> in the sense familiar in Hinduism (a code of conduct). It bars violence against "all creatures" (<i>sarvabhuta</i>) and the practitioner of Ahimsa is said to escape from the cycle of <a href="/wiki/Metempsychosis" title="Metempsychosis">metempsychosis</a>/<a href="/wiki/Reincarnation" title="Reincarnation">reincarnation</a> (CU 8.15.1).<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It also names Ahimsa as one of five essential virtues].<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Influence">Influence</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Influence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The contemporary Yoga tradition holds the <i>Yoga Sutras of Patañjali</i> to be one of the foundational texts of classical <a href="/wiki/Yoga_(philosophy)" title="Yoga (philosophy)">Yoga philosophy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhicher199849_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhicher199849-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-stuartsarbacker195_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stuartsarbacker195-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the appropriation – and misappropriation – of the <i>Yoga Sutras</i> and its influence on later systematizations of yoga has been questioned by <a href="/wiki/David_Gordon_White" title="David Gordon White">David Gordon White</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhite2014xvi–xvii_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhite2014xvi–xvii-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who has argued that the text fell into relative obscurity for nearly 700 years from the 12th to 19th century, and made a comeback in late 19th century due to the efforts of <a href="/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda" title="Swami Vivekananda">Swami Vivekananda</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Theosophical_Society" title="Theosophical Society">Theosophical Society</a> and others. It gained prominence as a classic in the 20th century.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhite2014xvi–xvii_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhite2014xvi–xvii-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its influence was reaffirmed by <a href="/wiki/James_Mallinson_(author)" class="mw-redirect" title="James Mallinson (author)">James Mallinson</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMallinsonSingleton2017xxxvi_note_34_109-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMallinsonSingleton2017xxxvi_note_34-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Before the 20th century, history indicates that the medieval Indian yoga scene was dominated by the various other texts such as the <a href="/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita" title="Bhagavad Gita">Bhagavad Gita</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Yoga_Vasistha" title="Yoga Vasistha">Yoga Vasistha</a>, texts attributed to <a href="/wiki/Yajnavalkya" title="Yajnavalkya">Yajnavalkya</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hiranyagarbha" title="Hiranyagarbha">Hiranyagarbha</a>, as well as literature on <a href="/wiki/Hatha_yoga" title="Hatha yoga">hatha yoga</a>, tantric yoga and <a href="/wiki/Pashupata_Shaivism" title="Pashupata Shaivism">Pashupata Shaivism</a> yoga rather than the <i>Yoga Sutras of Patañjali</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhite2014xvi–xvii,_20–23_110-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhite2014xvi–xvii,_20–23-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Much about yoga is written in the Mokṣadharma section of the epic <i><a href="/wiki/Mah%C4%81bh%C4%81rata" class="mw-redirect" title="Mahābhārata">Mahābhārata</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMallinsonSingleton2017xvi_111-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMallinsonSingleton2017xvi-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The members of the Jaina faith had their own, different literature on yoga,<sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Buddhist yoga stems from pre-Patanjali sources.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETolaDragonettiPrithipaul1987xi_note_3_113-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETolaDragonettiPrithipaul1987xi_note_3-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Some of the major commentaries on the <i>Yoga Sutras</i> were written between the ninth and sixteenth century.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhite20146_114-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhite20146-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the twelfth century, the school started to decline, and commentaries on Patanjali's Yoga philosophy were few.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhite20146_114-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhite20146-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the sixteenth century Patanjali's Yoga philosophy had virtually become extinct.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhite20146_114-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhite20146-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The manuscript of the <i>Yoga Sutras</i> was no longer copied, since few read the text, and it was seldom taught.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhite201416_115-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhite201416-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to <a href="/wiki/David_Gordon_White" title="David Gordon White">David Gordon White</a>, the popularity of the <i>Yoga Sutras</i> is recent, "miraculously rehabilitated" by <a href="/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda" title="Swami Vivekananda">Swami Vivekananda</a> after having been ignored for seven centuries.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhite2014xvi_116-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhite2014xvi-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was with the rediscovery by a British Orientalist in the early 1800s that wider interest in the <i>Yoga Sutras</i> arose in the West.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhite201416_115-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhite201416-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Popular interest arose in the 19th century, when the practice of yoga according to the <i>Yoga Sutras</i> became regarded as the science of yoga and the "supreme contemplative path to self-realization" by <a href="/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda" title="Swami Vivekananda">Swami Vivekananda</a>, following <a href="/wiki/Helena_Blavatsky" title="Helena Blavatsky">Helena Blavatsky</a>, president of the <a href="/wiki/Theosophical_Society" title="Theosophical Society">Theosophical Society</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhite201120-21_117-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhite201120-21-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It has become a celebrated text in the West, states White, because of "Big Yoga – the corporate yoga subculture".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhite2014xvi_116-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhite2014xvi-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Translations_and_commentaries">Translations and commentaries</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Translations and commentaries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <i>Yoga Sutras of Patanjali</i> was the most translated ancient Indian text in the medieval era, having been translated into about forty Indian languages and two non-Indian languages: Old Javanese and Arabic.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhite2014xvi_116-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhite2014xvi-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>In early 11th century, the Persian scholar <a href="/wiki/Ab%C5%AB_Ray%E1%B8%A5%C4%81n_al-B%C4%ABr%C5%ABn%C4%AB" class="mw-redirect" title="Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī">Al Biruni</a> (973–1050 CE) visited India, lived with Hindus for 16 years, and with their help translated several significant Sanskrit works into Arabic and Persian languages. One of these was Patanjali's <i>Yogasutras</i>. His translation included the text and a thitherto unknown Sanskrit commentary.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_29-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-sptg_118-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sptg-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Al Biruni's translation preserved many of the core themes of Yoga philosophy of Hinduism, but certain sutras and analytical commentaries were restated making it more consistent with Islamic monotheistic theology.<sup id="cite_ref-sptg_118-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sptg-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMaas201353–90_120-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMaas201353–90-120"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Al Biruni's version of Yoga Sutras reached Persia and Arabian peninsula by about 1050 AD.</li> <li>The <i>Yoga Sutras of Patanjali</i> was translated into Old Javanese by Indonesian Hindus, and the text was called <i>Dharma Patanjala</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-andreaacri_121-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-andreaacri-121"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The surviving text has been dated to about 1450 CE; however, it is unclear if this text is a copy of an earlier translation and whether other translations existed in Indonesia. This translation shares ideas found in other Indian translations particularly those in the <a href="/wiki/Shaivism" title="Shaivism">Śaiva</a> traditions, and some in Al Biruni translation, but it is also significantly different in parts from the 11th century Arabic translation.<sup id="cite_ref-andreaacri_121-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-andreaacri-121"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The most complete copy of the <i>Dharma Patañjala</i> manuscript is now held at the <a href="/wiki/Berlin_State_Library" title="Berlin State Library">Staatsbibliothek</a> in Berlin.<sup id="cite_ref-122" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-122"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>By the early 21st century, scholars had located 37 editions of Patanjali's <i>Yoga Sutras</i> published between 1874 and 1992, and 82 different manuscripts, from various locations in India, Nepal, Pakistan, Europe and the United States, many in Sanskrit, some in different North and South Indian languages.<sup id="cite_ref-pmaas2010_123-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pmaas2010-123"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The numerous historical variants show that the text was a living document and it was changed as these manuscripts were transmitted or translated, with some ancient and medieval manuscripts marked with "corrections" in the margin of the pages and elsewhere by unknown authors and for unclear reasons. This has made the chronological study of Yoga school of philosophy a difficult task.<sup id="cite_ref-pmaas2010_123-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pmaas2010-123"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Many commentaries have been written on the <i>Yoga Sutras</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-125" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-125"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Medieval_commentaries">Medieval commentaries</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Medieval commentaries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Medieval commentaries on the Yoga sutras include: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vyasa" title="Vyasa">Vyasa</a> (AD 4th or 5th Century), as mentioned above, has been attributed authorship of the commentary <i>Yogabhāṣya</i>, the first medieval commentary on the Yoga Sutras, and the one upon which all subsequent medieval commentaries were based. However, some scholars have argued that this commentary was written by Patanjali himself.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBryant200940_126-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBryant200940-126"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adi_Shankara" title="Adi Shankara">Adi Shankara</a> (AD 8th Century) is said to have authored the commentary <i>Vivaraṇa</i>, although the authorship of this commentary is debated.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBryant200941_127-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBryant200941-127"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V%C4%81caspati_Mi%C5%9Bra" class="mw-redirect" title="Vācaspati Miśra">Vācaspati Miśra</a> (AD 900–980) who composed the commentary <i>Tattvavaiśāradī</i>, described as the "most significant early subcommentary".<sup id="cite_ref-Jacobsen2019_128-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jacobsen2019-128"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhoja" title="Bhoja">Bhoja Raja</a>'s <i>Raja-Martanda</i>, 11th century.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vijnanabhiksu" title="Vijnanabhiksu">Vijnanabhiksu</a>'s 16th century <i>Yogabhashyavarttika</i> or simply <i>Yogavarttika</i> ("Explanation of the Commentary on the Yoga Sutras" of Vyasa). The writer was a Vaishnava philosopher and exegete who tried to harmonize Samkhya and Vedanta and held the <a href="/wiki/Bhedabheda" title="Bhedabheda">Bhedabheda</a> view.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_29-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Ramananda Sarasvati's <i>Yogamani-Prabha</i> (16th century).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Modern_translations_and_commentary">Modern translations and commentary</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Modern translations and commentary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Countless commentaries on the <i>Yoga Sutras</i> are available today. The <i>Sutras</i>, with commentaries, have been published by a number of successful teachers of Yoga, as well as by academicians seeking to clarify issues of textual variation. There are also other versions from a variety of sources available on the <a href="/wiki/Internet" title="Internet">Internet</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-129" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-129"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The many versions display a wide variation, particularly in translation. The text has not been submitted in its entirety to any rigorous textual analysis, and the contextual meaning of many of the Sanskrit words and phrases remains a matter of some dispute.<sup id="cite_ref-130" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-130"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Modern translations and interpretations include: </p> <ul><li>1852, 1853: First translation of Yoga Sutras of Patanjali in English containing first two chapters by J.R Ballyntyne published by The Benaras College, in 1872 Govind Deva Shastri completed remaining two chapters.</li> <li>1882, 1885:The whole complete book was published in 1882 and final revised edition published in 1885. The Yoga Philosophy with comments of Bhojaraja, J.R Ballantyne, Govind Shastri Deva, edited by Tookaram Tatya, Bombay Theosophical publication fund.</li> <li>1883: Yoga Aporhism of Patanjali with the commentary of Bhoja Raja by Rajendra Lala Mitra, Asiatic Society of Bengal</li> <li>1890: The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali, by <a href="/wiki/Manilal_Nabhubhai_Dvivedi" class="mw-redirect" title="Manilal Nabhubhai Dvivedi">Manilal Nabhubhai Dvivedi</a>, Bombay Theosophical publication fund.</li> <li>1896: <a href="/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda" title="Swami Vivekananda">Swami Vivekananda</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Raja_Yoga_(book)" title="Raja Yoga (book)">Raja Yoga</a></i> provides translation and an in-depth explanation of <i>Yoga Sutra</i>.</li> <li>1907: <a href="/wiki/Ganganath_Jha" title="Ganganath Jha">Ganganath Jha</a>'s <i>Yoga Sutras</i> with the <i>Yogabhashya</i> attributed to Vyasa into English in its entirety.<sup id="cite_ref-131" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-131"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With notes drawn from <a href="/wiki/V%C4%81caspati_Mi%C5%9Bra" class="mw-redirect" title="Vācaspati Miśra">Vācaspati Miśra</a>'s <i>Tattvavaiśāradī</i> amongst other important texts in the Yoga commentarial tradition.</li> <li>1912: <a href="/wiki/Charles_Johnston_(Theosophist)" title="Charles Johnston (Theosophist)">Charles Johnston</a> Dublin University: <i><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Yoga_Sutras?uselang=ja">The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: The Book of the Spiritual Man</a></i>.</li> <li>1914: The Yoga System of Patanjali with comment of Yoga Bhasya and explanation of Tatva Vicardi by James Haughton Woods, Harvard University Press</li> <li>1924: Patanjali Yoga Sutras with commentary of Vyasa and gloss of Vachaspati Mishra by Rama Prasad</li> <li>1953: <a href="/wiki/Swami_Prabhavananda" title="Swami Prabhavananda">Swami Prabhavananda</a>, <i>Patanjali Yoga Sutras</i>, Sri <a href="/wiki/Ramakrishna_Math" title="Ramakrishna Math">Ramakrishna Math</a>, Madras, India.</li> <li>1961: <a href="/wiki/I._K._Taimni" title="I. K. Taimni">I. K. Taimni</a>, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/TheScienceOfYoga">The Science of Yoga</a></i> commentary with <a href="/wiki/Sutra" title="Sutra">Sutras</a> in Sanskrit and translation and commentary in English.<sup id="cite_ref-132" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-132"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-133" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-133"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1963: <a href="/wiki/Swami_Hariharananda_Aranya" title="Swami Hariharananda Aranya">Swami Hariharananda Aranya</a>'s <i>Bhasvati</i>.</li> <li>1976: <a href="/wiki/Swami_Satyananda" class="mw-redirect" title="Swami Satyananda">Swami Satyananda</a>, <i>Four Chapters of Freedom</i>. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Yoga_Publications_Trust&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yoga Publications Trust (page does not exist)">Yoga Publications Trust</a>, Munger, Bihar, India.<sup id="cite_ref-134" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-134"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1978: <a href="/wiki/Swami_Satchidananda" class="mw-redirect" title="Swami Satchidananda">Swami Satchidananda</a>, <i>The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali</i>. <a href="/wiki/Integral_yoga_(Satchidananda)" class="mw-redirect" title="Integral yoga (Satchidananda)">Integral Yoga</a>, Yogaville.</li> <li>1978: P. Y. Deshpande, The Authentic Yoga, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: A Heartfulness publication in January 2021</li> <li>1989: <a href="/wiki/Georg_Feuerstein" title="Georg Feuerstein">Georg Feuerstein</a>, <i>The Yoga-Sûtra of Patanjali: A New Translation and Commentary</i>, Inner Traditions International; Rochester, Vermont.</li> <li>1993: <a href="/wiki/B._K._S._Iyengar" title="B. K. S. Iyengar">B. K. S. Iyengar</a>, <i>Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patañjali</i>. HarperCollins.</li> <li>1996: <a href="/wiki/Barbara_Stoler_Miller" title="Barbara Stoler Miller">Barbara Stoler Miller</a>, <i>The Yoga Sutras Attributed to Patanjali; "Yoga – Discipline of Freedom</i>. <a href="/wiki/University_of_California_Press" title="University of California Press">University of California Press</a>, Berkeley.</li> <li>1998: <a href="/wiki/Osho" class="mw-redirect" title="Osho">Osho</a>, <i>The Path of Yoga: Commentaries on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali</i>, Rebel Publishing House, Mumbai, India.</li> <li>2002: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://alistairshearer.co.uk/">Alistair Shearer</a>, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Goodreads<sup id="cite_ref-135" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-135"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2003: Chip Hartranft, <i>The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali: A New Translation with Commentary</i>, Shambhala Classics, Boulder, Colorado.</li> <li>2009: <a href="/wiki/Edwin_Bryant_(author)" class="mw-redirect" title="Edwin Bryant (author)">Edwin F. Bryant</a>'s <i>The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: A New Edition, Translation, and Commentary</i>. North Point Press, New York.</li> <li>2013: <a href="/wiki/Swami_Kriyananda" class="mw-redirect" title="Swami Kriyananda">Swami Kriyananda</a>, <i>Demystifying Patanjali: The Yoga Sutras – The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda</i>. Crystal Clarity Publishers, Nevada City.</li> <li>2022: Viswanatha Thalakola, <i>The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Made Simple</i>. Amazon KDP Select, Seattle.<sup id="cite_ref-136" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-136"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2023: <a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anandmurti_Guruma" class="extiw" title="pl:Anandmurti Guruma">Anandmurti Gurumaa</a>, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Goodreads.<sup id="cite_ref-137" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-137"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2023: <a href="/wiki/Ravi_Shankar_(spiritual_leader)" title="Ravi Shankar (spiritual leader)">Ravi Shankar</a>, Patanjali Yoga Sutras.<sup id="cite_ref-138" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-138"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output 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.reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Radhakrishnan and Moore attribute the text to the grammarian Patañjali, dating it as 2nd century <a href="/wiki/Before_Christ" class="mw-redirect" title="Before Christ">BC</a>, during the <a href="/wiki/Maurya_Empire" title="Maurya Empire">Maurya Empire</a> (322–185 BC).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERadhakrishnanMoore1989453_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERadhakrishnanMoore1989453-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Scholars such as <a href="/wiki/S.N._Dasgupta" class="mw-redirect" title="S.N. Dasgupta">S.N. Dasgupta</a>, (Yoga-As Philosophy and Religion Port Washington: Kennikat Press, 1924) claim this is the same Patañjali who authored the <a href="/wiki/Mahabhasya" class="mw-redirect" title="Mahabhasya">Mahabhasya</a>, a treatise on <a href="/wiki/Sanskrit" title="Sanskrit">Sanskrit</a> <a href="/wiki/Grammar" title="Grammar">grammar</a>. For an argument about the philosophical nature of Sanskrit grammarian thought see: Lata, Bidyut (editor); <i>Panini to Patañjali: A Grammatical March</i>. New Delhi, 2004. Against these older views, Axel Michaels disagrees that the work was written by Patañjali, characterizing it instead as a collection of fragments and traditions of texts stemming from the 2nd or 3rd century.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMichaels2004267_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMichaels2004267-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/yogasystemofpata00wooduoft">James Woods, <i>The yoga-system of Patañjali; or, The ancient Hindu doctrine of concentration of mind, embracing the mnemonic rules, called Yoga-sutras, of Patañjali, and the comment, called Yoga-bhashya (1914)</i>, archive.org</a> for a complete translation</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-72"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-72">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">क्लेशकर्मविपाकाशयैरपरामृष्टः<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> पुरुषविशेष <b>ईश्वरः</b> ॥२४॥</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-77"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-77">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Zimmer: "[Jainism] does not derive from Brahman-Aryan sources, but reflects the cosmology and anthropology of a much older pre-Aryan upper class of northeastern India – being rooted in the same subsoil of archaic metaphysical speculation as Yoga, Sankhya, and Buddhism, the other non-Vedic Indian systems."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEZimmer1951217_76-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEZimmer1951217-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-80"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-80">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Zimmer's point of view is supported by other scholars, such as Niniam Smart, in <i>Doctrine and argument in Indian Philosophy</i>, 1964, p.27-32 & p.76,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECrangle19947_78-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECrangle19947-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and S.K. Belvakar & <a href="/wiki/Inchegeri_Sampradaya" class="mw-redirect" title="Inchegeri Sampradaya">R.D. Ranade</a> in <i>History of Indian philosophy</i>, 1974 (1927), p.81 & p.303-409.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECrangle19945-7_79-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECrangle19945-7-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-125"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-125">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">For an overview of the scope of earlier commentaries: <i>Complete Commentary by Sankara on the Yoga Sutras: Vivarana Sub-commentary to Vyasabhasya on the </i>Yoga Sutras of Patanjali<i> Tr.fr. Sanskrit</i>, Trevor Leggett, Rev. Ed. 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.cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7103-0277-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7103-0277-9">978-0-7103-0277-9</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-129"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-129">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">A list of 22 Classical commentaries can be found among the listings of essential Yoga texts at mantra.org).<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mantra.org.in/yoga/myweb/fundamental_texts_of_yoga.htm">Mantra.org.in, <i>Fundamental Texts of Yoga</i></a></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWujastyk201133-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWujastyk201133_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWujastyk201133_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWujastyk201133_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWujastyk2011">Wujastyk 2011</a>, p. 33.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFeuerstein1978108-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFeuerstein1978108_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFeuerstein1978108_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFeuerstein1978108_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFeuerstein1978108_2-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFeuerstein1978">Feuerstein 1978</a>, p. 108.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTETolaDragonettiPrithipaul1987x-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETolaDragonettiPrithipaul1987x_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETolaDragonettiPrithipaul1987x_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTolaDragonettiPrithipaul1987">Tola, Dragonetti & Prithipaul 1987</a>, p. x.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhicher199849-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhicher199849_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhicher199849_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhicher199849_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWhicher1998">Whicher 1998</a>, p. 49.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-stuartsarbacker195-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-stuartsarbacker195_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-stuartsarbacker195_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-stuartsarbacker195_5-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Stuart Sarbacker (2011), Yoga Powers (Editor: Knut A. 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The Rosen Publishing Group. pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/illustratedencyc0000loch/page/506">506</a>–507. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8239-3180-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8239-3180-4"><bdi>978-0-8239-3180-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Illustrated+Encyclopedia+of+Hinduism%3A+N-Z&rft.pages=506-507&rft.pub=The+Rosen+Publishing+Group&rft.date=2002&rft.isbn=978-0-8239-3180-4&rft.au=James+G.+Lochtefeld&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fillustratedencyc0000loch&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYoga+Sutras+of+Patanjali" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhite201434–38-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhite201434–38_10-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWhite2014">White 2014</a>, pp. 34–38.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRenou1940" class="citation book cs1">Renou, Louis (1940). 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In Law, Narendra Nath (ed.). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/Law.1940.LaValleePoussinMemVol"><i>Louis de La Vallée Poussin Memorial Volume</i></a>. pp. 368–373.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=On+the+Identity+of+the+Two+Pata%C3%B1jalis&rft.btitle=Louis+de+La+Vall%C3%A9e+Poussin+Memorial+Volume&rft.pages=368-373&rft.date=1940&rft.aulast=Renou&rft.aufirst=Louis&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2FLaw.1940.LaValleePoussinMemVol&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYoga+Sutras+of+Patanjali" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERadhakrishnanMoore1989453-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERadhakrishnanMoore1989453_12-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRadhakrishnanMoore1989">Radhakrishnan & Moore 1989</a>, p. 453.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMichaels2004267-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMichaels2004267_13-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMichaels2004">Michaels 2004</a>, p. 267.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMaasPatañjaliHazel_M._Hussong_Fund2006" class="citation book cs1">Maas, Philipp André; Patañjali; Hazel M. 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Calcutta: Susil Gupta (India) Ltd. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7661-4296-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7661-4296-1"><bdi>978-0-7661-4296-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Six+Systems+of+Indian+Philosophy%3B+Samkhya+and+Yoga%2C+Naya+and+Vaiseshika&rft.place=Calcutta&rft.pub=Susil+Gupta+%28India%29+Ltd.&rft.date=1899&rft.isbn=978-0-7661-4296-1&rft.aulast=M%C3%BCeller&rft.aufirst=Max&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYoga+Sutras+of+Patanjali" class="Z3988"></span> Reprint edition; Originally published under the title of <i>The Six Systems of Indian Philosophy</i>.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Ranganathan, Shyam (2008). <i>Patañjali's Yoga Sūtra: Translation, Commentary and Introduction</i>. Delhi: Penguin Black Classics. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-14-310219-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-14-310219-9"><bdi>978-0-14-310219-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Pata%C3%B1jali%27s+Yoga+S%C5%ABtra%3A+Translation%2C+Commentary+and+Introduction&rft.place=Delhi&rft.pub=Penguin+Black+Classics&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=978-0-14-310219-9&rft.aulast=Ranganathan&rft.aufirst=Shyam&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYoga+Sutras+of+Patanjali" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Sen, Amiya P. (2006). "Raja Yoga: The Science of Self-Realization". <i>The Indispensable Vivekananda</i>. Orient Blackswan. pp. 219–227. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-81-7824-130-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-81-7824-130-2"><bdi>978-81-7824-130-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Raja+Yoga%3A+The+Science+of+Self-Realization&rft.btitle=The+Indispensable+Vivekananda&rft.pages=219-227&rft.pub=Orient+Blackswan&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=978-81-7824-130-2&rft.aulast=Sen&rft.aufirst=Amiya+P.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYoga+Sutras+of+Patanjali" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Sharma, Chandradhar (1987). <i>An Critical Survey of Indian Philosophy</i>. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-81-208-0365-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-81-208-0365-7"><bdi>978-81-208-0365-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=An+Critical+Survey+of+Indian+Philosophy&rft.place=Delhi&rft.pub=Motilal+Banarsidass&rft.date=1987&rft.isbn=978-81-208-0365-7&rft.aulast=Sharma&rft.aufirst=Chandradhar&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYoga+Sutras+of+Patanjali" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Vivekananda" class="mw-redirect" title="Vivekananda">Vivekananda, Swami</a> (1980). <i>Raja Yoga</i>. Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-911206-23-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-911206-23-X"><bdi>0-911206-23-X</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Raja+Yoga&rft.pub=Ramakrishna-Vivekananda+Center&rft.date=1980&rft.isbn=0-911206-23-X&rft.aulast=Vivekananda&rft.aufirst=Swami&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYoga+Sutras+of+Patanjali" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Ernest_Wood" title="Ernest Wood">Wood, Ernest</a> (1951). <i>Practical Yoga, Ancient and Modern, Being a New, Independent Translation of Patanjali's Yoga Aphorisms</i>. Rider and Company.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Practical+Yoga%2C+Ancient+and+Modern%2C+Being+a+New%2C+Independent+Translation+of+Patanjali%27s+Yoga+Aphorisms&rft.pub=Rider+and+Company&rft.date=1951&rft.aulast=Wood&rft.aufirst=Ernest&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYoga+Sutras+of+Patanjali" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dt>History</dt></dl> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/David_Gordon_White" title="David Gordon White">White, David Gordon</a> (2014). <i>The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali: A Biography</i>. Princeton, NJ: <a href="/wiki/Princeton_University_Press" title="Princeton University Press">Princeton University Press</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-691-14377-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-691-14377-4"><bdi>978-0-691-14377-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Yoga+Sutra+of+Patanjali%3A+A+Biography&rft.place=Princeton%2C+NJ&rft.pub=Princeton+University+Press&rft.date=2014&rft.isbn=978-0-691-14377-4&rft.aulast=White&rft.aufirst=David+Gordon&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYoga+Sutras+of+Patanjali" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <dl><dt>Translations</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edwin_F._Bryant" class="mw-redirect" title="Edwin F. Bryant">Bryant, Edwin F.</a> (2009) <i>The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali</i>. New York: North Point Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-86547-736-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-86547-736-0">978-0-86547-736-0</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>Practice and commentaries</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/B.K.S._Iyengar" class="mw-redirect" title="B.K.S. Iyengar">Iyengar, B.K.S.</a> (1993, 2002). <i>Light on the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali</i>. 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mind; Yoga-sutras, of Patañjali (1914)</i></a> Harvard University Press</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/yogasutr.htm"><i>The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali</i></a>, translation by BonGiovanni, at <a href="/wiki/Sacred-texts.com" class="mw-redirect" title="Sacred-texts.com">sacred-texts.com</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>Commentaries</dt></dl> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/yoga-sutras-with-commentaries">Yoga Sutras with commentaries by Vyasa and Vachaspati Mishra</a> English translation by Rama Prasada, 1925 (includes glossary and Sanskrit text references)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120202032732/http://www.ashtangayoga.info/philosophy/yoga-sutra-Pata%C3%B1jali/">Patañjali – <i>Yoga-Sutras</i>: A word by word translation with grammar and comment</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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<li><a href="/wiki/Pratyahara" title="Pratyahara">Pratyahara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dh%C4%81ra%E1%B9%87%C4%81" title="Dhāraṇā">Dhāraṇā</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dhyana_in_Hinduism" title="Dhyana in Hinduism">Dhyana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samadhi" title="Samadhi">Samadhi</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kriy%C4%81" title="Kriyā">Kriyā</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mantra" title="Mantra">Mantra</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pranava_yoga" title="Pranava yoga">Pranava</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N%C4%81da_yoga" title="Nāda yoga">Nada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surat_Shabd_Yoga" title="Surat Shabd Yoga">Surat Shabd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aghor_Yoga" title="Aghor Yoga">Aghor Yoga</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mudra#Yoga" title="Mudra">Mudras</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bandha_(yoga)" title="Bandha (yoga)">Bandha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahamudra_(Hatha_Yoga)" title="Mahamudra (Hatha Yoga)">Mahamudra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viparita_Karani" title="Viparita Karani">Viparita Karani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_mudras_(yoga)" title="List of mudras (yoga)">List</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nyasa_(ritual)" title="Nyasa (ritual)">Nyasa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kumbhaka" title="Kumbhaka">Kumbhaka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sama_vritti" title="Sama vritti">Sama vritti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shatkarma" title="Shatkarma">Shatkarmas</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Neti_(Hatha_Yoga)" title="Neti (Hatha Yoga)">Neti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dhauti" title="Dhauti">Dhauti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nauli" title="Nauli">Nauli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basti_(hatha_yoga)" title="Basti (hatha yoga)">Basti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kapalabhati" title="Kapalabhati">Kapalabhati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhastrika" title="Bhastrika">Bhastrika</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tr%C4%81%E1%B9%ADaka" title="Trāṭaka">Trataka</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tapas_(Indian_religions)#Yoga_and_brahmacharya" title="Tapas (Indian religions)">Tapas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S%C4%81dhan%C4%81" title="Sādhanā">Sādhanā</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Tantra" title="Tantra">Tantra</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Yogi" title="Yogi">Yogi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yogini" title="Yogini">Yogini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siddhi" title="Siddhi">Siddhi</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mahasiddha" title="Mahasiddha">Mahasiddha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shaiva_Siddhanta" title="Shaiva Siddhanta">Shaiva Siddhanta</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laya_Yoga" class="mw-redirect" title="Laya Yoga">Laya Yoga</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kundalini" title="Kundalini">Kundalini</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tantric_sex" title="Tantric sex">Sexual Yoga</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Hatha_yoga" title="Hatha yoga">Hatha yoga</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Amaraugha_Prabodha" class="mw-redirect" title="Amaraugha Prabodha">Amaraugha Prabodha</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Amritasiddhi" title="Amritasiddhi">Amritasiddhi</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bahr_al-Hayat" title="Bahr al-Hayat">Bahr al-Hayat</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ha%E1%B9%ADh%C4%81bhy%C4%81sapaddhati" title="Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati">Hathabhyasapaddhati</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ha%E1%B9%ADha_Ratn%C4%81val%C4%AB" title="Haṭha Ratnāvalī">Hatha Ratnavali</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hatha_Yoga_Pradipika" title="Hatha Yoga Pradipika">Hatha Yoga Pradipika</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hatha_Yoga:_The_Report_of_a_Personal_Experience" title="Hatha Yoga: The Report of a Personal Experience">Hatha Yoga: The Report of a Personal Experience</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gheranda_Samhita" title="Gheranda Samhita">Gheranda Samhita</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Joga_Prad%C4%ABpik%C4%81" title="Joga Pradīpikā">Joga Pradipika</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Shiva_Samhita" title="Shiva Samhita">Shiva Samhita</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sritattvanidhi" title="Sritattvanidhi">Sritattvanidhi</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Vasishtha_Samhita" title="Vasishtha Samhita">Vasishtha Samhita</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Vimanarcanakalpa" title="Vimanarcanakalpa">Vimanarcanakalpa</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Yogasopana_Purvacatuska" title="Yogasopana Purvacatuska">Yogasopana Purvacatuska</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>India <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Yogachara" title="Yogachara">Yogachara</a></li></ul></li> <li>Japan <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tendai" title="Tendai">Tendai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zazen" title="Zazen">Zazen</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Vajrayana" title="Vajrayana">Vajrayana</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>India <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Classes_of_Tantra_in_Tibetan_Buddhism#Kriyayoga" title="Classes of Tantra in Tibetan Buddhism">Kriyayoga (Buddhist)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Classes_of_Tantra_in_Tibetan_Buddhism#Caryayoga" title="Classes of Tantra in Tibetan Buddhism">Caryayoga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Classes_of_Tantra_in_Tibetan_Buddhism#Anuttarayoga" title="Classes of Tantra in Tibetan Buddhism">Anuttarayoga</a></li> <li><a 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Vedanta">Dvaita</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Advaita_Vedanta" title="Advaita Vedanta">Advaita</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Vishishtadvaita" title="Vishishtadvaita">Vishishtadvaita</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C4%80stika_and_n%C4%81stika" title="Āstika and nāstika">Nāstika</a>: <a href="/wiki/Charvaka" title="Charvaka">Charvaka</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="5" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Hindu "Om" symbol"><img alt="Hindu "Om" symbol" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Aum_Om_navy_blue_circle_hollow_coral.svg/100px-Aum_Om_navy_blue_circle_hollow_coral.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="99" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Aum_Om_navy_blue_circle_hollow_coral.svg/150px-Aum_Om_navy_blue_circle_hollow_coral.svg.png 1.5x, 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class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#FFC569;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Vedas" title="Vedas">Vedas</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rigveda" title="Rigveda">Rigveda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yajurveda" title="Yajurveda">Yajurveda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samaveda" title="Samaveda">Samaveda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atharvaveda" title="Atharvaveda">Atharvaveda</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#FFC569;font-weight:normal;">Divisions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vedic_chant" title="Vedic chant">Samhita</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brahmana" title="Brahmana">Brahmana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aranyaka" title="Aranyaka">Aranyaka</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#FFC569;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Upanishads" title="Upanishads">Upanishads</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aitareya_Upanishad" title="Aitareya Upanishad">Aitareya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaushitaki_Upanishad" title="Kaushitaki Upanishad">Kaushitaki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brihadaranyaka_Upanishad" title="Brihadaranyaka Upanishad">Brihadaranyaka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isha_Upanishad" title="Isha Upanishad">Isha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taittiriya_Upanishad" title="Taittiriya Upanishad">Taittiriya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katha_Upanishad" title="Katha Upanishad">Katha</a></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/Sangam_literature" title="Sangam literature">Sangam literature</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tirumurai" title="Tirumurai">Tirumurai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Divya_Prabandham" class="mw-redirect" title="Divya Prabandham">Divya Prabandham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tirumuruk%C4%81%E1%B9%9F%E1%B9%9Fuppa%E1%B9%ADai" title="Tirumurukāṟṟuppaṭai">Tirumurukāṟṟuppaṭai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thiruppugal" class="mw-redirect" title="Thiruppugal">Thiruppugal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thirukkural" class="mw-redirect" title="Thirukkural">Thirukkural</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamba_Ramayanam" class="mw-redirect" title="Kamba Ramayanam">Kamba Ramayanam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Five_Great_Epics" title="Five Great Epics">Five Great Epics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eighteen_Greater_Texts" title="Eighteen Greater Texts">Eighteen Greater Texts</a></li> <li><a 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style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#FFC569;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Worship_in_Hinduism" title="Worship in Hinduism">Worship</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hindu_temple" title="Hindu temple">Temple</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murti" title="Murti">Murti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Puja_(Hinduism)" title="Puja (Hinduism)">Puja</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhakti" title="Bhakti">Bhakti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japa" title="Japa">Japa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhajan" title="Bhajan">Bhajan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naivedhya" class="mw-redirect" title="Naivedhya">Naivedhya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yajna" title="Yajna">Yajna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homa_(ritual)" title="Homa (ritual)">Homa</a></li> <li><a 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style="width:1%;background:#FFC569;font-weight:normal;">Varnashrama</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Varna_(Hinduism)" title="Varna (Hinduism)">Varna</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brahmin" title="Brahmin">Brahmin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kshatriya" title="Kshatriya">Kshatriya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vaishya" title="Vaishya">Vaishya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shudra" title="Shudra">Shudra</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashrama_(stage)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ashrama (stage)">Ashrama</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brahmacarya" class="mw-redirect" title="Brahmacarya">Brahmacharya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grihastha" class="mw-redirect" title="Grihastha">Grihastha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vanaprastha" class="mw-redirect" title="Vanaprastha">Vanaprastha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sannyasa" title="Sannyasa">Sannyasa</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th 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