What Is Yoga - History and Origins

What Is Yoga - History and Origins...
The disclosure of yoga in the West by yoga schools by the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (2nd century BC), almost to the origins of yoga of Patanjali is associated with the Western mind. In fact, the first image we have is the yoga of Mohenjo-Daro seals. Mohenjo-Daro is the remains of an ancient city in Pakistan, the Indus Valley civilization, which is along the Indus River etGhaggar-Riola HAKR in North-west India and whatIs now Pakistan. Mohenjo-Daro matrix Cities India was Harrap.

These cultures were from 3300 BC to 1300 BC. At a time when you think that suddenly terminated because of the Aryan invasion, archaeologists, but I think it is more likely because of climate change. Ultimately, however, nothing is certain in the world of archeology, at least to the next or evolutesulla science.

Stamps of Mohenjo-Daro a figure standing on his head, and sat down cross-legged unOtra.

Some see the origins of yoga and Vedic Shastra, Vedic or religious texts, which are based in India, Hinduism. The texts were written by 500 BC, Vedic, and the Rigveda was established by British Columbia in 1500. The Rigveda is one of the best early Vedic texts. The Rigveda, Samaveda and were YajurvedaBrahmanes, the caste of priests in general, or they can be priests of the date on which the caste system Herkunft.

Many of these texts refer to the ritual sacrifice. And "the victim of the prayers, spells, and issues related to magic, to name just a few aspects. These are now considered as symbolic, or philosophical, but rather are literally in the time. But the word" Yoga "was published in the Rigveda . Here we speak of 'yoking' our mind and vision of the "sun of the truth" (David Frawley, a StudieVedische so).

Yoga is also discusiónsed in the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna describes the case of 4 types of yoga:

* The selfless - in the soul, a way, the Dharma, in the first place, and without reflection on the results, the final result, or be motivated, self-gain (Karma Yoga)
* Auto shadowblackissance overcome (Jnane Yoga)
* Psycho-physical MEDITACION (Raja Yoga)
* Devotion - loving service to the divine essence (Bhakti Yoga) (source - Wikipedia)

The BHAGAVATEVAD Gita is that it is writtenseven were between the 5th and 2 Century before Christ. In Gita, the goal of yoga is the realization of Brahman or the divine essence. Although the roads to make it in May for the different people, important to know unequivocable the unity of divinity and the questotte fundamental reality is the same.

"Legit concerns discord between the senses and the intuition of cosmic order. He speaks of the Yoga of equanimity, a Committee of the Perspektiven. The term yoga covers una multitude of meanings, but also in the Bhagavad Gita, describes a uniform Outlook, peace of mind, skill in action, and the ability to remain attentive to the glory of the self (Atman), which is the essence of Etre (Brahman). "(Wikipedia )