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access to a mode not profane and hardly describable, as expressed by the Hindu schools
under different names: moksha, Nirvana, asamkr-ta, etc..
Of all the meanings it has in hindu literature shovel-bra "yoga", the best statement is the
one dealing with the "philosophy" Yoga (yoga darsana) as it is exposed to the treaty of
Patan-jali, Yoga -Sutra, and in his comments. A darsana obviously not a system of
philosophy, in sentidooccidental (darsana: sight, vision, understanding, perspective,
doctrine, etc. from the root drs ....,: see, contemplate, understand, etc.). . But that does not
cease to be a system of coherent statements, extensive human experience, which is
interpreted as a whole in order to "free people from ignorance" (for a variety may be the
acceptable tions ignorance of the term). Yoga is one of six "systems philosophy" Indian
Orthodox (Orthodox in its meaning: two per tolerated Brahmanism, unlike heretical
systems such as Buddhism and Jainism). And this Yoga "classic" as is formulated by
Patanjali and interpreted by commentators, is also the most known in the West.
Therefore begin our investigation by a review of the theories and practices Yoga, as
expressed by Patanjali. We have several reasons for doing so: first, because the work of
Patanjali is a "system of philosophy", and secondly because they are condensed in the
large number of indica-tions regarding the technical practices and the approach set ascetic
Board, indications that other varieties of yoga (varieties unsystematic), deformed or
rather with colors to suit their own concepts, and finally because the Yoga-Sutra of
Patanjali is the result of an enormous effort not only to collect and classify a set of
practices ascetic and contemplative known recipes by India since time immemorial, but
also to value, from a theoretical point of view, rendered, justified and include-aldolase, in
a philosophy.
But Patanjali is the creator of the "philosophy" Yoga as-lieve it-or could be, "the inventor
of the techniques yogis. The my-mo confesses (Yoga-Sutra, I, 1) that does nothing but
publish and correct (atha yoganusasanam) doctrinal traditions and techniques of Yoga.
The company's exclusive Indian ascetics and mystics, she knew, in fact, long before,
yogic practices. Among the techniques recipes preserved by tradition, Patanjali has
chosen and verified by centuries of experience. As with the tables-cerniente theoretical
and metaphysical foundation that Patanjali gives these practices, his personal contribution
is minimal. Does nothing but take up roughly the Samkhya philosophy, or-denada for
theism based on a quite superficial, which enhances the practical value of meditation. The
Yoga and Samkhya philosophical systems are so similar that most of the concepts
expressed SADOS are valid for one another. The essential differences are few: 1) while
the atheist Samkhya, Yoga is theistic, since it postulates the existence of a supreme God
(Isvara), 2 °) while that, according to the Samkhya, the only way to salvation is the
metaphysical knowledge, Yoga attaches considerable importance to the techniques of
meditation. In short, the effort-dader see Patanjali was devoted to the coordination of
material removed from the Samkhya philosophical-technical prescriptions concerning the
concentration, meditation and ecstasy. With Patanjali Yoga, which was mystical tradition,
became a "system of philosophy".
The Hindu tradition considers the Samkhya and the oldest darsana. The meaning of
Sankhya seems to have been "dis-cnminaciorT '. Being the main object of this philosophy
on decoupling the spirit (purusha) of matter (prakriti). The treaty is more anti-guo Karika
the Samkhya of Isvarakrsna: the date has not yet been definitely established, but by no
means can be after the v century after Christ (see note I, 1 at the end of the book). Among