a systematic discipline which includes a technique for the mastery of the bodily organism and for rendering it healthy (Hatha Yoga) and various methods or techniques of mind training for the sake of gaining the final knowledge and liberation. According...

the school of philosophy and yoga practice which grew out of the sectarian cult of Rāma in an attempt to match the success of the cult associated with the yoga methods expounded by him in the BhG. Philosophically it developed into a kind of...

the eightfold path of training one’s body and mind for the sake of liberation according to Patañjali’s system described in the Yoga Sūtras. The eight are: (1) yama, i.e. observance of (non-violence), satya (truthfulness), asteya...

A word meaning ‘yoke’, in the sense of ‘that which unites’, therefore ‘union’. The Hindu system of discipline which brings a man to union (with Reality). There are two great systems: Hatha Yoga, psycho-physiological...

Yoga (Sanskrit: योग Yoga, IPA: [joːgə]) is a group of ancient spiritual practices originating in India. As a general term in Hinduism[1] it has been defined as referring to "technologies or disciplines of asceticism and meditation which are...