Maiores partes iogae sunt in philosophia HinduicaRaja Yoga, Karma Yoga, Jnana Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, et Hatha Yoga.[7] Raja Yoga, in Yoganis Patanjali Orsis composita, et simpliciter appellata yoga in philosophia Hinduica, est pars memoriae Samkhyae (Jacobsen 2005:4). Multi alii libri Hinduistici de Upanishad, Bhagavad Gita, Hatha Yoga Pradipika, Shiva Samhita, variis tantris, et aliis yogae rebus dissererunt.
Verbum Sanscriticumyoga multas significationes habet,[8] et de radice Sanscritica yuj 'moderari, coniungere, copulare' deducitur.[9] Communia verba conversa sunt 'iungere, copulare, unio, coniunctio', et 'via'.[10][11] Fortasse etiam, verbum yoga de yujir samadhau 'contemplatio, absorptio' deducitur.[12]
Extra Indiam, vocabulum yoga usitate cum Hatha Yoga et eius asanis (statibus) consociatur, vel speciem exercitationis significat. Qui yogam faciat vel philosophiam yogae ad altum artis gradum sequatur yogi aut yogini appellatur.[13]
Si plus cognoscere vis, vide etiam Historia yogae, Hinduismus, et Asana.
Samhitae Vedicae mentionem faciunt asceticorum, dum exercitationes asceticae (tapae) in Brahmanis, primis commentariis de Vedis, annis 900 a.C.n. ad 500 a.C.n. scriptis, nominantur.[14] Aliquae signa ex locis Civilizationis Vallis Indicae (circa 3300 a.C.n.–1700 a.C.n.) in Pakistania inventa homines in statibus depingunt qui communem yogae meditationisve statum monstrant, "genus disciplinae ad ritus pertinens, quod praecursorem yogae significat," secundum Gregorium Possehlarchaeologistam.[15] Ignota coniunctio inter signa Vallis Indicae et yogae meditationisque exercitationes a multis eruditis accipitur, sed certa indicia non adsunt.[16]
Modi ad altos sensuum status in meditatione experiendos a memoriis shramanicis et Upanishadicis evoluti sunt.[17] Dum in primis scripturis Brahminicis absunt certa meditationis indicia, meditatio sine forma fortasse in memoria Brahminica orta est, secundum similitudines claras sententiarum Upanishadicarum de cosmologia et propositorum de meditatione duorum magistrorum Buddhae, ut in primis scripturis Buddhistis dictum est.[18] Licet etiam alia interpretationes.[19]
Calces vel proposita vel fines yogae sunt variae et ab salutem emendatam ad Moksham perfectam transiunt.[20] Intra Iainismum et monistasAdvaitae VedantaeSivaismique scholas, calx yogae videtur in Moksha, liberatione ex omni dolore quotidiano et circulo ortus mortisque (Samsara), cum sit cognitio eiusdem Supremi Brahmani. In Mahabharata, calx yogae varie descripta est: ut mundum Brahmae intrare, ut Brahman ipsum, vel ut Brahman Atmanve omnes res permanans percipere.[21] Intra bhaktiVaishnavismi scholas, bhakti 'ministerium ad Svayam bhagavan ipsum datum' fieri potest ultima rationis yoganae calx, ubi propositum est aeterná cum Vishnu coniunctione frui.[22]
De usibus verbi litteris Pāli, vide Thomas William, Rhys Davids, et William Stede, Pali-English dictionary (editio retractata a Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 1993, p. 558), liber apud books.google.com.
"[Verbo] iogae sunt quinque significationes principales: 1) yoga as a disciplined method for attaining a goal; 2) yoga as techniques of controlling the body and the mind; 3) yoga as a name of one of the schools or systems of philosophy (darśana); 4) yoga in connection with other words, such as hatha-, mantra-, and laya-, referring to traditions specialising in particular techniques of yoga; 5) yoga as the goal of yoga practice" (Jacobsen 2005:4). Monier-Williams iogam comprehendit in "the second of the two Sāṃkhya systems," et "mental abstraction practised as a system (as taught by Patañjali and called the Yoga philosophy)" in suis yogae definitionibus.
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"Yogi, One who practices yoga" (American Heritage Dictionary). "Yogi, A follower of the yoga philosophy; an ascetic" (Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary).
Karel Werner scribit: "Archeological discoveries allow us therefore to speculate with some justification that a wide range of Yoga activities was already known to the people of pre-Aryan India." Werner,Karel(1998).Yoga and Indian Philosophy.Motilal Banarsidass Publ..p.103.ISBN9788120816091.
Heinrich Zimmer unum signum describit "sicut yogi sessum." Zimmer,Heinrich(1972).Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization.Princeton University Press, ed. nova.p.168.ISBN978-0691017785
Thomas McEvilley scribit: "The six mysterious Indus Valley seal images...all without exception show figures in a position known in hatha yoga as mulabhandasana or possibly the closely related utkatasana or baddha konasana" McEvilley,Thomas(2002).The shape of ancient thought.Allworth Communications.pp.219–220.ISBN9781581152036
Gavin Flood disputat unum ex signis, "signum Pashupati" appellatum. Flood, pp. 28–29.
Geoffrey Samuel, de signo Pashupati, putat nos "non revera scire quomodo figura explanetur, nec quod is aut ea significat." Samuel,Geoffrey(2008).The Origins of Yoga and Tantra.Cambridge University Press.p.4.ISBN9780521695343.
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