Origins of Yoga, are not of Christ....... Yoga From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For the discipline of exercise and physical postures, see Hatha Yoga. For other uses, see Yoga (disambiguation). This article contains Indic text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks or boxes, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Indic text. Yoga (Sanskrit: योग About this sound listen (help·info)) is a generic term for the physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India with a view to attain a state of permanent peace.[1][2] Yoga is a Sanskrit word which means "union" and is interpreted as "union with the divine".[3] One of the most detailed and thorough expositions on the subject is the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali, which defines yoga as "the stilling of the changing states of the mind"[1] (Sanskrit: योग: चित्त-वृत्ति निरोध:). Yoga is also interpreted as the yoke that connects beings to the machine of existence.[4] Various traditions of yoga are found in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.[5][6][7][8] In Hinduism, yoga is one of the six āstika ("orthodox") schools of Hindu philosophy.[9]
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