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2. Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - Wikipedia

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   Statue of Patañjali, its traditional snake form indicating kundalini or an incarnation of Shesha. The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali (IAST: Patañjali yoga-sūtras) is a collection of Sanskrit sutras on the theory and practice of yoga – 195 sutras (according to Vyāsa and Krishnamacharya) and 196 sutras (according to others, including BKS Iyengar).

3. Patanjali - Wikipedia

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   Patanjali (Sanskrit: पतञ्जलि, IAST: Patañjali, Sanskrit pronunciation: [pɐtɐɲdʑɐli]; also called Gonardiya or Gonikaputra) [a] was an author, mystic and philosopher in ancient India. He is believed to be an author and compiler of a number of Sanskrit works. [3] The greatest of these are the Yoga Sutras, a classical yoga text.

4. Ashtanga (eight limbs of yoga) - Wikipedia

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   GN Jha (1907), The Yoga-darsana: The sutras of Patanjali with the Bhasya of Vyasa with notes; Harvard University Archives; Charles Johnston (1912), The Yogasutras of Patanjali; I.K. Taimni (1961), The Science of Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali; Chip Hartranft (2003), The Yoga-Sûtra of Patañjali. Sanskrit-English Translation & Glossary (86 ...

5. Samyama - Wikipedia

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   Samyama is defined in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali verses 3.1 through 3.6 as follows where the Sanskrit in Devanagari and IAST were sourced from Little [7] and the English from Iyengar (1993: pp. 178–183): [2]

6. Pratyahara - Wikipedia

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   Pratyahara [1] [2] (Sanskrit: प्रत्याहार, romanized: Pratyāhāra) or the 'gathering towards' is the fifth element among the Eight stages of Patanjali's Ashtanga Yoga, [3] as mentioned in his classical work, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali composed in the 2nd century BCE. [4]

7. Sutra - Wikipedia

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   The Yoga Sutras were compiled around 400 CE by Patanjali, taking materials about yoga from older traditions. [36] The text has been highly influential on Indian culture and spiritual traditions, and it is among the most translated ancient Indian text in the medieval era, having been translated into about forty Indian languages.

8. Pranava yoga - Wikipedia

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   Pranava yoga is meditation on the sacred mantra Om, as outlined in the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, and the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. It is also called Aum yoga and Aum yoga meditation . It is, simply put, fixing the mind on the sound of the mantra " Aum " – the sacred syllable that both symbolizes and embodies Brahman , the Absolute ...

9. Vritti - Wikipedia

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   The concept of vritti is central to the main definition of yoga given in Sutra 1.2 of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: "yogasch chitta vritti nirodha". I. K. Taimni translates this as: "Yoga is the silencing of the modifications of the mind". [1]