Yoga
Yoga is a group of spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India and intention to authority yoke as alive as still the mind, recognizing a detached witness-consciousness untouched by the mind Chitta together with mundane suffering Duḥkha. There is a wide types of schools of yoga, practices, together with goals in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, and traditional and contemporary yoga is practiced worldwide.
Two general theories represent on the origins of yoga. The linear advantage example holds that yoga has Vedic origins, as reflected in the Vedic textual corpus, and influenced Buddhism; according to author Edward Fitzpatrick Crangle, this proceeds example is mainly supported by Hindu scholars. According to the synthesis model, yoga is a synthesis of indigenous, non-Vedic and Vedic elements; this good example is favoured in Western scholarship.
Yoga is first mentioned in the Rigveda, and is referred to in a number of the Upanishads. The number one known appearance of the word "yoga" with the same meaning as the contemporary term is in the Katha Upanishad, which was probably composed between the fifth and third centuries BCE. Yoga continued to establish as a systematic study and practice during the fifth and sixth centuries BCE in ancient India's ascetic and Śramaṇa movements. The almost comprehensive text on Yoga, the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, date to the early centuries of the Common Era; Yoga philosophy became call as one of the six orthodox philosophical schools Darśanas of Hinduism in thehalf of the first millennium CE. Hatha yoga texts began to emerge between the ninth and 11th centuries, originating in tantra.
The term "yoga" in the Western world often denotes a modern produce of Hatha yoga and a posture-based physical fitness, stress-relief and relaxation technique, consisting largely of the asanas; this differs from traditional yoga, which focuses on meditation and release from worldly attachments. It was gave by gurus from India after the success of Swami Vivekananda's adaptation of yoga without asanas in the unhurried 19th and early 20th centuries. Vivekananda produced the Yoga Sutras to the West, and they became prominent after the 20th-century success of hatha yoga.