The traditional systematizer of yoga philosophy, credited with compiling the Yoga Sutras into a coherent path of disciplined liberation.
Patanjali is the name tradition attaches to the systematic compilation of yoga philosophy into a structured text, the Yoga Sutras. Whether this points to one person, a school, or an editorial process is genuinely unclear, and this archive treats the attribution with the same caution it applies to other early figures whose biography is thin and whose legend is rich.
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A family of disciplines of body and mind aimed at restraint, integration, and liberation — far broader than the modern exercise sense.
A term for the innermost self explored in the Upanishads — its nature, and its relation to ultimate reality, are debated across traditions.
Liberation or release, framed as the ultimate aim in several Indian traditions — with each defining what it means differently.
The idea of a cycle of birth, death, and rebirth — a shared framework across several traditions that nonetheless interpret it differently.
A family of interpretive schools centered on the Upanishads, the Brahma Sutras, and the Bhagavad Gita.