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Shabda yogaShabda yoga

Self-discipline

Guru bhaktiGuru bhakti

Ajna

Pratyahara

Asparsa yogaAsparsa yoga

Vaidhi bhaktiVaidhi bhakti

Love of GodLove of God

Sexual yogaSexual yoga

Manana

Vishuddha

YogaKundalini yogaKundalini yoga

Bhakti

Manipura

Puja yogaPuja yoga

Raja yogaRaja yoga

Integral yogaIntegral yoga

Yogacara

Maithuna

Breath controlBreath control

Sahasrara

Svadhishthana

Bhavana margaBhavana marga

Hatha yogaHatha yoga

Yantra yogaYantra yoga

Adhyatma yogaAdhyatma yoga

Prayoga margaPrayoga marga

Abhiseka

Buddhi yogaBuddhi yoga

Initiation as spiritual rebirthInitiation as spiritual rebirth

Mythic yogaMythic yoga

Sravana

Yogic featsYogic feats

Restraint

Pranayama

Agni yogaAgni yoga

Tantra

Raga bhaktiRaga bhakti

Darsana margaDarsana marga

Nada yogaNada yoga

Jnana yogaJnana yoga

Six-member yogaSix-member yoga

Eightfold path of yogaEightfold path of yoga

Atma yogaAtma yoga

Shakti yogaShakti yoga

Laya yogaLaya yoga

Karma yogaKarma yoga

Taraka yogaTaraka yoga

Kriya yogaKriya yoga

Bhakti yogaBhakti yoga

Samadhi yogaSamadhi yoga

Bhava

Asana

Anahata

Animistic yogaAnimistic yogaDhyana yogaDhyana yoga

Muladhara

Mantra yogaMantra yoga

Soma chakraSoma chakra

Asaiksa margaAsaiksa marga

As a technique, yoga seems to have commenced in India in antiquity, prior to the Brahminism of the Aryan invaders under whom it was sometimestolerated, sometimes persecuted. It flourished in the period of the vedanta which followed that of the veda and is expounded in the upanishads and in

the Bhagavad Gita. It incorporates the nonviolence and doctrines of karma and reincarnation of Jain teaching; and was spread beyond India through thevarious forms of Buddhism. Literally meaning "union" and "control", from the same root as the word "yoke", yoga is a system of methods of physical, mental,moral and spiritual development. Its premise is that through self-estrangement, alienation from existence, man has lost contact with the infinite ground ofexistence. Restless search for truth and happiness outside himself occurs because he has forgotten that these are only to be found at the inmost centre ofhis own being. The purpose of all forms of yoga is to unite finite man in full consciousness with the infinite, by whatever name this ultimate reality is known.The term is used to designate any ascetic technique and any method of meditation (Indian thought), although classical (systemic), popular (nonsystemic),and non-Brahmanic (Buddhist, Jainist) yogas are distinguished. Even the way of the Christian mystic, in that it it is a path towards knowledge of and unionwith God, can be referred to as yoga. The fundamental goal of union with the spiritual world presupposes a preliminary detachment from the material world.Yoga therefore places emphasis on the self-discipline by virtue of which the individual can obtain the necessary concentration of spirit prior to anyexperience of true union. The exercises directed toward this end are extremely practical and guard against side-tracking into fanciful contemplation anddilettante exploration of profound ideas. In addition to being a system of methods, yoga is also a system of philosophy (although not in the Western sense)lived out through these methods. It is a system of coherent affirmations, coextensive with human experience (which it attempts to interpret in its entirety),with the aim of liberating man from ignorance and allowing him to experience the supra-conscious component of his personality. As such it is one of the sixorthodox Indian systems of philosophy.

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