History Of Yoga: (History Of Science, Philosophy And Culture In Indian Civilization, Vol. XVI, Part 2)

History of Yoga is an attempt to trace the contours of origin and development of the discipline of yoga in all its possible remifications beginning from the Veda up till modern times. Long before Patanjali stood out as the greatest systematizer of the discipline, yoga had its origin undertaken to understand the mystery of creation of the universe and the individual both in their essence. In contravention of the Aryan Invasion. Theory dominating the process of investigation into the history of ancient India, the volume traces the locus of the yogic sadhana of the earliest Vedic seers in the high Himalayas getting percolated throughout the rst of the country gradually and leaving its remnants also in the Indus seals of the third millennium B>C> Being a product of total involvement of the personality of the Vedic seers in the task of investigation into the mystery of creation, the discipline has evolved into diverse paths such as bhakti, jnana, karma and meditation ranging from pure spiritual to the anatomical as is obvious in its hathayogic manifestation.