The term kriyā-yoga has a grammatical sense, meaning 'connection with a verb'. Thus, bhakti-yoga means 'devoted attachment' in the monotheistic Bhakti movement. Many such compounds are also found in the wider field of religion. For example, guṇá-yoga means 'contact with a cord' cakrá-yoga has a medical sense of 'applying a splint or similar instrument by means of pulleys (in case of dislocation of the thigh)' candrá-yoga has the astronomical sense of 'conjunction of the moon with a constellation' puṃ-yoga is a grammatical term expressing 'connection or relation with a man', etc. Yoga in these words takes meanings such as 'union, connection, contact', or 'method, application, performance', etc. There are a great many compounds containing yog in Sanskrit, many of them unrelated to the technical or spiritual sense the word has taken in Vedanta. The more technical sense of the term 'yoga', describing a system of meditation or contemplation with the aim of the cessation of mental activity and the attaining of a 'supreme state' arises with early Buddhism (5th century BC), and is adopted in Vedanta philosophy by the 4th century BC. A sense of 'exertion, endeavour, zeal, diligence' is found in Epic Sanskrit. All further developments of the sense of this word are post-Vedic. In Vedic Sanskrit, the term 'yoga' besides its literal meaning, the yoking or harnessing of oxen or horses, already has a figurative sense, where it takes the general meaning of 'employment, use, application, performance' (compare the figurative uses of 'to harness' as in 'to put something to some use'). The Bhagavad Gita introduces distinctions such as Jnana Yoga ('yoga based on knowledge') vs. Patanjali's system is discussed and elaborated upon in many classical Hindu texts, and has also been influential in Buddhism and Jainism. Yoga in this sense is based on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, and is also known as Rāja Yoga to distinguish it from later schools. Within Hindu philosophy, the word yoga is used to refer to one of the six orthodox ( āstika) schools of Hindu philosophy. Someone who practices yoga or follows the yoga philosophy with a high level of commitment is called a yogi or yogini. As a term for a system of abstract meditation or mental abstraction it was introduced by Patañjali in the 2nd century BC. The Sanskrit word yoga has the literal meaning of 'yoke', from a root yuj meaning 'to join', 'to unite', or 'to attach'. 4 Yoga compared with other systems of meditation.Yoga as exercise or alternative medicine.Sivananda Yoga Teacher Training Course.Narasingam Yoga Narasimha Perumal Temple.Kundalini Yoga as Taught by Yogi Bhajan.Himalayan Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy.Consciousness Science, Society, Value, and Yoga.

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