A family of disciplines of body and mind aimed at restraint, integration, and liberation — far broader than the modern exercise sense.
Yoga is a word almost everyone recognises and almost everyone misunderstands. In global usage it has come to mean a system of physical postures. In the traditions this archive covers, it names something far broader: a family of disciplines of mind and body aimed at restraint, integration, and ultimately liberation.
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A 700-verse philosophical dialogue set within the Mahabharata, addressing duty, action, and the nature of the self.
Liberation or release, framed as the ultimate aim in several Indian traditions — with each defining what it means differently.
A term for the innermost self explored in the Upanishads — its nature, and its relation to ultimate reality, are debated across traditions.
A cluster of ideas around duty, order, and right conduct that is understood differently across Indian traditions.
A family of interpretive schools centered on the Upanishads, the Brahma Sutras, and the Bhagavad Gita.
A comparative note on the deepest fault line in Indian philosophy — traditions that affirm an innermost self against the Buddhist analysis that questions it.