The term Yoga has its verbal root as (Yuj) in Sanskrit. Yuj means joining (Yujyate anena iti Yogaḥ). Yoga is that which joins. What are the entities that are joined? In the traditional terminology it is joining of the individual Self with the universal SELF. It is an expansion of the narrow constricted egoistic personality to an all pervasive, eternal and blissful state of REALITY.
Pātañjala Yoga is one among the six systems of Indian philosophy known as Ṣaḍdarśanas. One of the great Rṣis (Seers), Patañjali, compiled the essential features and principles of Yoga (which were earlier interspersed in Yoga Upaniṣads) in the form of ‘Sūtras’ (aphorisms) and made a vital contribution in the field of Yoga, nearly 4000 years ago (as dated by some famous western historians). According to Patañjali, Yoga is a conscious process of gaining mastery over the mind.
The scope of Yoga as portrayed in the Bhagavadgītā and Upaniṣads is far more comprehensive. As Swami Vivekananda puts it "It is a means of compressing one's evolution into a single life or a few months or even a few hours of one’s bodily existence". In general, there is a growth process due to interactions with nature in all creation. But it may take thousands and millions of years for this natural growth; that is the long, instinctive way in animals. Manas, endowed with discrimination power, conscious thinking faculty, the intellect (Buddhi) and well-developed voluntary control
systems, aspires to accelerate his growth. Yoga is that systematic conscious process which can compress the process of man's growth greatly.
Sri Aurobindo emphasizes on all-round personality development at the physical, mental, intellectual, emotional and spiritual levels. He means by Yoga a methodical effort towards self-perfection by the development of the potentialities latent in the individual. It is a process by which the limitations and imperfections can be washed away resulting in a super human race.
Thus, Yoga is a systematic process for accelerating the growth of an individual in his or her entirety. With this growth, one learns to live at higher states of consciousness. Key to this all-round personality development and growth is the culturing of mind.
Pātañjala Yoga is one among the six systems of Indian philosophy known as Ṣaḍdarśanas. One of the great Rṣis (Seers), Patañjali, compiled the essential features and principles of Yoga (which were earlier interspersed in Yoga Upaniṣads) in the form of ‘Sūtras’ (aphorisms) and made a vital contribution in the field of Yoga, nearly 4000 years ago (as dated by some famous western historians). According to Patañjali, Yoga is a conscious process of gaining mastery over the mind.
The scope of Yoga as portrayed in the Bhagavadgītā and Upaniṣads is far more comprehensive. As Swami Vivekananda puts it "It is a means of compressing one's evolution into a single life or a few months or even a few hours of one’s bodily existence". In general, there is a growth process due to interactions with nature in all creation. But it may take thousands and millions of years for this natural growth; that is the long, instinctive way in animals. Manas, endowed with discrimination power, conscious thinking faculty, the intellect (Buddhi) and well-developed voluntary control
systems, aspires to accelerate his growth. Yoga is that systematic conscious process which can compress the process of man's growth greatly.
Sri Aurobindo emphasizes on all-round personality development at the physical, mental, intellectual, emotional and spiritual levels. He means by Yoga a methodical effort towards self-perfection by the development of the potentialities latent in the individual. It is a process by which the limitations and imperfections can be washed away resulting in a super human race.
Thus, Yoga is a systematic process for accelerating the growth of an individual in his or her entirety. With this growth, one learns to live at higher states of consciousness. Key to this all-round personality development and growth is the culturing of mind.
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