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The Four Yogas may be: the Four Yugas in Hindu chronology; the Four Yogas (Buddhism) or four kinds of attachment, viz. lust, desire for a future life, wrong views and ignorance; the Four Yogas (Hinduism), or four paths to religion, viz. actions, religious devotion, meditation and knowledge
The systematic presentation of Hindu monotheism as divided into these four paths or "Yogas" is modern, advocated by Swami Vivekananda from the 1890s in his book Raja Yoga. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] They are presented as four paths to God suitable for four human temperaments, viz. the active, the emotional, the philosophical and the mystic.
[2] [3] [4] To a karma yogi, right action is a form of prayer. [5] The paths are not mutually exclusive in Hinduism, but the relative emphasis between Karma yoga, Jnana yoga and Bhakti yoga varies by the individual. [6] Of the classical paths to spiritual liberation in Hinduism, karma yoga is the path of unselfish action.
[1] [2] The term literally means tradition or "that which has come down", and the Agama texts describe cosmology, epistemology, philosophical doctrines, precepts on meditation and practices, four kinds of yoga, mantras, temple construction, deity worship and ways to attain sixfold desires. [1] [3] These canonical texts are in Sanskrit [1] and ...
The five yamas (constraints) of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are similar to Jainism's five major vows, indicating cross-fertilization between these traditions. [207] [note 16] Hinduism's influence on Jain yoga may be seen in Haribhadra's Yogadṛṣṭisamuccaya, which outlines an eightfold yoga influenced by Patanjali's eightfold yoga. [209]
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Jnana yoga (IAST: Jñāna yoga), also known as jnana marga (jñāna mārga), is one of the three classical paths for moksha (liberation) [1] [2] in the Bhagavad Gita, which emphasizes the "path of knowledge" [3] or the "path of self-realization". [4] The other two are karma yoga (path of action, karma-mārga) and bhakti yoga (path of loving ...
The Bhagavad Gita (/ ˈ b ʌ ɡ ə v ə d ˈ ɡ iː t ɑː /; [1] Sanskrit: भगवद्गीता, IPA: [ˌbʱɐɡɐʋɐd ˈɡiːtɑː], romanized: bhagavad-gītā, lit. 'God's song'), [a] often referred to as the Gita (IAST: gītā), is a Hindu scripture, dated to the second or first century BCE, [7] which forms part of the epic poem Mahabharata.