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Yoga and Meditation
Art & Science of Meditation "These two are regarded in India as twins, the two aspects of a single discipline. Samkhya provides a basic theoretical exposition of human nature, enumerating and defining its elements, analyzing their manner of cooperation in a state of bondage (bandha), and describing their state of disentanglement or separation in release (moksa), while Yoga treats specifically of the dynamics of the process for the disentanglement, and outlines practical techniques for the gaining of release, or 'isolationintegration' (kaivalya)."
The foundational text of the Yoga school is the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, who is regarded as the founder of the formal Yoga philosophy. The Sutras of the Yoga philosophy are ascribed to Patanjali, who may have been, as Max Muller explains, "the author or representative of the Yogaphilosophy without being necessarily the author of the Sutras."
Hindu philosophy distinguishes seven major branches of Yoga:
Raja Yoga (also referred to as Classical Yoga), a system of yoga codified by Patanjali and classified as one of the six astika ("orthodox") schools of Hindu philosophy.
