Bally Chohan Yoga
The
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is a Hindu scripture and foundational text of Yoga. It
forms part of the corpus of Sutra literature dating to India's Mauryan period.
In
Hindu philosophy, Yoga (also Raja Yoga to distinguish it from later schools) is
the name o
one of the six orthodox philosophical schools. Though brief, theYoga Sutras are an enormously influential work on yoga philosophy and practice.Patañjali
fills each sutra with his experiential intelligence, stretching it like a
thread (sūtra), and weaving it into a garland of pearls of wisdom to flavourand savour by those who love and live in yoga.The Sutras are built on a
foundation of Samkhya philosophy and also exhibit the influence of Upanishadic,
Buddhist and Jain thought. Karel Werner writes that "Patanjali's system is
unthinkable without Buddhism. As far as its terminology goes there is much in
the Yoga Sutras that reminds us of Buddhist formulations from the Pāli Canon
and even more so from the Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma and from Sautrāntika."
Robert Thurman writes that Patanjali was influenced by the success of the
Buddhist monastic system to formulate his own matrix for the version of thought
he considered orthodox. The five yamas or the constraints of the YogaSutras of Patanjali bear an uncanny resemblance to the five major vows of
Jainism, indicating influence of Jainism. This mutual influence between the
Yoga philosophy and Jainism is admitted by the author Vivian Worthington who
writes:
"Yoga fully acknowledges its debt to Jainism, and Jainism reciprocates by
making the practice of yoga part and parcel of life."
The
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is a Hindu scripture and foundational text of Yoga. It
forms part of the corpus of Sutra literature dating to India's Mauryan period.
In
Hindu philosophy, Yoga (also Raja Yoga to distinguish it from later schools) is
the name oone of the six orthodox philosophical schools. Though brief, theYoga Sutras are an enormously influential work on yoga philosophy and practice.Patañjali fills each sutra with his experiential intelligence, stretching it like a thread (sūtra), and weaving it into a garland of pearls of wisdom to flavourand savour by those who love and live in yoga.The Sutras are built on a foundation of Samkhya philosophy and also exhibit the influence of Upanishadic, Buddhist and Jain thought. Karel Werner writes that "Patanjali's system is unthinkable without Buddhism. As far as its terminology goes there is much in the Yoga Sutras that reminds us of Buddhist formulations from the Pāli Canon and even more so from the Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma and from Sautrāntika." Robert Thurman writes that Patanjali was influenced by the success of the Buddhist monastic system to formulate his own matrix for the version of thought he considered orthodox. The five yamas or the constraints of the YogaSutras of Patanjali bear an uncanny resemblance to the five major vows of Jainism, indicating influence of Jainism. This mutual influence between the Yoga philosophy and Jainism is admitted by the author Vivian Worthington who writes:
"Yoga fully acknowledges its debt to Jainism, and Jainism reciprocates by making the practice of yoga part and parcel of life."
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