History of Yoga - Ashok

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Yoga - Introduction

• Dr.C.Ashok,
• Associate Professor
• Ayya Nadar Janaki Ammal College
• (Autonomous, Reaccredited A by NAAC and
• College with Potential for Excellence by UGC)
• Sivakasi

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THE "SIX SCHOOLS" OF INDIAN PHILOSOPHY

• Nyâya - School of Logic / Reasoning
• Vaishes.ika - the School of Pluralistic
  Metaphysics
• Sânkhya - the School of Theoretical Knowledge
• Yoga - the School of the Discipline of Achieving
  Liberation
• Pûrva Mîmâm.sâ - the School of Interpretation
• Uttara Mîmâm.sâ - School of Interpretation

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History of Yoga

• meditating yogi - Indus Valley Civilization
• 6 to 7 thousand years old
• yoga appear in the Rig Veda
• between 1500 and 1200 BC
• Yoga text - 2nd century BC by Patanjali

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Yoga

• yuj root Sanskrit
• jugum root Latin to yoke or
  unite
• Yeug root European

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Diversity of yoga

• Bhakti Yoga - love and devotion
• Karma Yoga - selfless work
• Jnana Yoga - knowledge and discernment
• Raja Yoga - eight-limbed system of disciplines

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Roots of Yoga

• The Bhagavad Gita - the yoga of "action"
• The darshana - Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
• Tibetan Buddhism yoga - "guru yoga"
• Tantra - mantra and yantra

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