A compact, systematically structured text organizing the practice and philosophy of disciplined liberation into a sequence of clear, terse aphorisms.
The Yoga Sutras is a compact text traditionally attributed to Patanjali, and it is treated in this archive as a primary source distinct from the wider concept page on yoga, which surveys many senses of the term across many sources. This text is one specific, highly structured articulation of the practice, associated with the philosophical school this archive covers as Yoga Darshana.
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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 traditional systematizer of yoga philosophy, credited with compiling the Yoga Sutras into a coherent path of disciplined liberation.
The philosophical school systematizing yoga as a disciplined path paired with Samkhya metaphysics, distinct from the broader family of practices covered under the general concept of yoga.
A dualist philosophical system distinguishing pure consciousness from the material world it observes, offering a genuinely different metaphysics from Vedantic non-dualism.