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All the four Vedic Samhitas refer directly or indirectly to the Yoga system and the Yoga traditions. .

In the first three Samhitas there are direct as well as indirect references to Yoga.Therefore, it may be held that the Vedic seers and sages were aware of the nature, importance and implication of the practical aspects of .


Their supernatural knowledge also tells us they were practical . By following the , they had become successful in revealing divine knowledge within their minds.

It is also suggested that even Devas could not have achieved their divinity without the ." Dr.H.Kumar Kaul, Author

exclaim: “Lo! Ye who suffer know! A way has been found! A way out of all this darkness!” That way …. is Yoga!

Swatmarama Suri (Author of Hatha Yoga Pradipika) also describes many methods of achieving the Samadhi state.


He puts most emphasis on the use of Nada, or Inner Sound. Again in Verse 94, Chapter four he says, “Nada is like the net which ensnares the deer (the mind) and it is also the hunter who slays the deer within (the mind).”


Nada Yoga's theoretical and practical aspects are based on the premise that the entire cosmos and all that exists in the cosmos, consists of sound vibrations, called nāda.


In different conscious states, the mind is attracted to different   of   .


In   , these forms of Nada are known as   ; tonal frameworks that are appropriate to certain times of the day or certain seasons.


The word Nada comes from the Sanskrit root, Nad, which means to flow.   signifies a process or a stream of consciousness.


   
   
     
     
   
   
   
     
   
   

had many and renunciant sects, such as Sramanas, Parivrajakas, Ajivkas, Lokayatas, Vratyas, Samkhyas, Bhaktas, Bhagavatas, and Pasupatas.


Ascetic practices ( ), and bodily postures used by (prior to period) for and by Vedic priests to conduct yajna (sacrifice), might have been precursors to .


Vratya, a group of ascetics mentioned in the Atharvaveda, emphasized on which may have evolved into .


The seers of ancient India practiced tapas (an intensse form of discipline, ) because it generated intense bodily heat (tapam) by the physical and psychosexual in the body into (tejas), which gave them the ability to manifest things, control Nature, and alter the reality.


The term Tapas means "warmth, heat, fire". In some of the earliest references of Tapas and compound words from the root word tap, including in Rig Veda, describe it as the process that led to the spiritual birth of ṛṣis - sages of spiritual insights.

Ghata” in this sense refers to the “body”, and its literal meaning in also is “a pot” suggesting that the malleable “clay of the body” can be formed and fired by the practices of to make it a fit container to hold the “waters of liberation”.


The is in the form of dialogue between Gheraṇḍa, the preceptor, and Canakapali, the


Whereas Yogamaharishi calls Yoga as “ ”, (8Limbs) and Rishi Goraksa calls Yoga as “Shatanga", (6Limbs) Rishi Gheranda enunciates “Saptayoga” or 7 Limbs of Yoga.


Rishi Gheranda classifies the as 1. : Dhautis, Bastis, Neti, Trataka, Nauli, Kapalbhatis 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.


Great emphasis is given first to the purification of and we find the concept of 84 lakhs asanas and 25 Mudras described in great detail in this work.

Among these Āsanas, 84 are best, and of those eighty fours, 32 have been found useful for mankind.

Jeeva Samadhi or Adhishtanam is the tomb of a or a saint.


It is believed by some that Maharishi is an incarnation of the mythical serpent Ananta. And his half-man and half-snake body is a symbolical depiction of him transcending all his life forms on achieving absolute oneness.



Regarding his early years, a Tamil Shaiva Siddhanta tradition from around 10th century AD holds that Patañjali learned along with seven other disciples from the great Yogic Guru Nandhi Deva, as stated in Tirumular's Tirumandiram (Ta**ra 1).



In one popular legend, Patañjali was born to Atri and his wife Anasuya who got the boon where all the three Murtis ( ) will be born to them.



They were Soma Skandan or Patañjali, Dattatreya , and Durvasa.



There is another belief that when performed Ananda Tandava between the horns of Nandi, the two who witnessed it, were Patanjali and Vyakrapada and both their are found in this ancient Brahma

The HATHA YOGA PRADIPIKA is of later authorship, perhaps 600-700 years old (15th Century CE), authored by Yogi Swatmarama Suri.


It is divided into 4 chapters, , , and


He puts most emphasis on the use of Nada, or Inner Sound. The text describes only 15 Asanas, of which a few resemble those common in today’s


He describes 4 of these as “best among postures”. They are: ; ; and (Verse 33 Chapter One).


He recommends, “filling half the stomach with food, one quarter with water and leaving one fourth of the stomach free as an offering to Lord Shiva”. (H.Y.P. Chp, I, V.58).


You may find that the himself makes many references throughout the work. These references are very obscure and deliberately kept ambiguous, forcing the sincere aspirant not to rely on the text alone, but to seek the guidance of a qualified Master.

In Kathopanishad, Lord of Death (Yamraj) reveals the knowledge of Yoga to Prince Nachiketa who was adamant to know about that divine self that helps a man surmount the cycle of life and death.

The Upanishad warns that this control can be achieved and then lost again, but it concludes, "Nachiketa having been so instructed by Yamraj in this knowledge of the whole process of , became free from what controls us from outside, from impurities and death." .

Many Upanishads discuss , which have been taught by various great like Dakshinamurty, Hiranyagarbha, Kapila Muni, Vashistha, Bhagwaan Dattatreya, Maharishi Bharadwaaj, Dewal, Ash*t, Jaivishati and many others - before Patanjali.

"Jnana (knowledge) without Yoga cannot secure Moksha (emancipation), nor can Yoga without Knowledge secure Moksha", and that "those who seek emancipation should pursue both yoga and knowledge." Yogatattva Upanishad. .

Thy human right is for activity only, never for the resultant fruit of actions. Do not consider thyself the creator of the fruits of thy activities; neither allow thyself attachment to inactivity. O Dhananjaya (Arjuna), remaining immersed in yoga, perform all actions, forsaking attachment (to their fruits), being indifferent to success and failure. This mental evenness is termed yoga.
—The Bhagavad Gita II:47-48

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