Yoga Knowledge Series (3) - Historic Meaning of Yoga

Photograph of four pieces of paper with verses in Sanskrit.

Bhagavad Gita, 19th century Sanskrit manuscript in Devanagari script


22nd century BC


"Be like-minded in both success and failure. Such equality is called yoga" (2.48)


"Yoga is skill in action" (2.50)


"Yoga is that which separates pain from contact (person)" (6.23).


Bhagavad Gita



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3rd century BC


"The texts on yoga state: 'Yoga is the means of understanding reality" (Atha tatdvarshnubhyo yogah)" (2.1.3)


Adi Shankaracharya's Brahmasutra - Commentary







4th century BC


"Yoga is supposed to calm the fluctuations/patterns of consciousness"


Patanjali's sutras




4th century BC



"Yoga is fourfold: faith, aspiration, perseverance and means" (2.152)



Yogakarabhumi -Shastra (Shravakabhumi), a Mahayana Buddhist period work





4th century BC



"In this system, yoga is the union of the Self and the Lord" (II43)



Kaundinya's Pancharthbhashya on Pashupatsutra




A manuscript page of verses 1.1.1 to 1.1.3 of the Katha Upanishad, Krishna Yajurveda (Sanskrit, Devanagari script).


5th century BC



"When the five senses, along with the mind, remain still and the intellect is not activated, that form is known to be the highest state. They regard yoga as a firm restraint of the senses. Then any distraction to yoga. does not happen" (6.10-11)



Katha Upanishad



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6th century BC


"With conviction, the masters of yogis define yoga in our doctrine as the relation of three things, which are samyak jnana (right knowledge), right doctrine (sadhana) and right conduct (sanskaras), One who starts with the right knowledge, because from this one gets salvation (2, 4).


Yogasataka, a Jain work by Haribhadra Suri



Shaivism - Wikipedia



6th - 10th century BC



"Yoga is said to unite the existence of the one with the other." (mvut 4.4–8)



Malinivijayottara Tantra, Elementary in Kashmir Shaivism









6th - 10th century BC



"To be master in oneself is to be a yogi. The word yogin means "one who is necessarily combined with the manifestation of his nature.. Shiva-state (Shiva)" (MrTaVV yp 2a)



Mrigendra Tantravarti of Narayanantha, a scholar of Shaiva doctrine




A page from the Linga Purana Manuscript (Sanskrit, Devanagari)



7th - 10th century BC



"The word 'yoga' means nirvana, the state of Shiva." (I.8.5a)


Linga Purana




शक्ति तंत्र उपासना हिंदू धर्म की देवी केंद्रित परंपरा है
Shakti Tantra worship is a goddess-centric tradition of Hinduism



11th century BC


"Yoga experts say that yoga is the self-realization of the individual's soul (jiva). Others understand it as the non-differentiation of Shiva's soul and spirit. Agama scholars say it is a knowledge. Shiva's power The nature of. Other scholars say that it is the knowledge of the original soul." (SaTil 25.1–3b)


Saradatilaka (Śaradatilaka) of Lakshmanadikendra, a power tantra work




Women in Activewear Doing Yoga



114th century BC



The union of apana and prana, the raja and semen of the self, the sun and the moon, the individual soul and the supreme soul and so on, is called yoga. "(89)


yoga sacrifice, hatha yoga work


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