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Yoga (philosophy)
One of six schools of Hindu philosophy
Yoga (philosophy)
Yoga philosophy is one of the six major important schools of Hindu philosophy, though it is only at the end of the first millennium CE that Yoga is mentioned as a separate school of thought in Indian texts, distinct from Samkhya. Ancient, medieval and modern literature often simply call Yoga philosophy "Yoga". A systematic collection of Yoga concepts is found in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, a key text which has influenced all other schools of Indian philosophy. The metaphysics of Yoga is Samkhya's dualism, in which the universe is conceptualized as composed of two realities: Puruṣa (witness-consciousness) and Prakṛti (nature). Jiva (a living being) is considered as a state in which puruṣa is bonded to Prakṛti in some form, in various permutations and combinations of various elements, senses, feelings, activity and mind. During the state of imbalance or ignorance, one or more constituents overwhelm the others, creating a form of bondage. The end of this bondage is called liberation, or...
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