ʏᴏɢᴀ ᴀɴᴅ ɪᴛ'ꜱ ꜱᴛᴀɢᴇꜱ
𝕎𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕚𝕤 𝕐𝕠𝕘𝕒? The word yoga derived from the Sanskrit root yug meaning to bind, join, attach and yoke, to direct and concentrate one's attention on, to use and apply. It also means union or communion. It is the true union of our will with the will of God. According to Mahadev Desai , ‘The yoking of all the powers of body, mind and soul to God; it means the disciplining of the intellect, the mind, the emotions, the will, which date yoga presupposes; it means a poise of the soul which enables one to look at life in all its aspects evenly.’ Yoga is one of the six orthodox systems of Indian philosophy. It was collated, coordinated and systemized by Patanjali in his classical work, the Yoga Sutras, which consist of 185 terse aphorisms. In Indian thought, everything is permeated by the supreme universal spirit (God) of which the individual human spirit (jivatma) is a part. The system of yoga is so called because it teaches the means by which the jivatma can be unit
