The Original Yoga: as expounded in Sivasamhita, Gherandasamhita, and Patanjala Yogasutra (Original Text in Sanskrit Translated, Edited, and Annotated with an Introduction)

The concept of yoga is exclusively an Indian product. Yoga appears in history for the first time as estimated between the third and second centuries BC. At this time, though still without a definite date, there flourished a person called Patanjali, who is believed moulded the extant knowledge of yoga and wrote Yogasutra. The author of this book once replied against some requests: ...The real author of the Original Yoga is the Lord Siva. In the mundane world, Patanjali is the prime propagator of yoga. Any other claim to authorship, therefore, cannot but be spurious. ...It is Truth that matters, not the utterer of the Truth. No Truth ever becomes a bit truer even when repeated by the most distinguished person. ...Hence all genuine aspirants of yoga should be content to remain unknown and unnoticed by others.