Ashtanga yoga (Sanskrit: अष्टाङ्गयोग, romanized: aṣṭāṅgayoga , "the eight limbs of yoga") is Patanjali's classification of classical yoga, as set out in his Yoga Sutras. He defined the eight limbs as yamas See more

Patanjali begins his treatise by stating the purpose of his book in the first sutra, followed by defining the word "yoga" in his second sutra of Book 1: See more

According to Bryant, the purpose of yoga is liberation from suffering, caused by entanglement with the world, by means of discriminative discernment between Purusha, the witness-consciousness, and prakriti, the cognitive apparatus including the muddled mind … See more

• Āraṇya, Hariharānanda (1983), Yoga Philosophy of Patanjali, State University of New York Press, ISBN 978-0873957281
• Bryant, Edwin F. (2009), The Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali: A … See more

Patanjali set out his definition of yoga in the Yoga Sutras as having eight limbs (अष्टाङ्ग aṣṭ āṅga, "eight limbs") as follows:
The eight limbs of yoga are yama (abstinences), niyama (observances), asana (yoga … See more

• Seven stages (Yogi) — the seven stages of progress in the Vyasa commentary on the Yoga Sutras
• Noble Eightfold Path
• Dhyana in Buddhism See more

• TR Tatya (1885), The Yoga Philosophy, with Bhojaraja commentary; Harvard University Archives;
• GN … See more