There are many wisdom traditions and spiritual maps to help you journey inwards. Yoga is one of these. Vedic scholars in ancient India spent many years in meditation to intuit this knowledge. Buddha ...

Maharishi Patanjali's exact birth details and personal history remain shrouded in ancient texts and legends. Traditionally believed to have lived around 2,000 years ago, Patanjali is often depicted as ...

This article looks at origins and philosophy of yoga, asking, what was the true and original purpose of yoga? A darshana is an outlook, a philosophy, literally, a “vision.” The term darshana is ...

Although the English version of this book was published more than a century ago (1912), it is, in fact, one of the oldest books in history, as it presents the truths that have been a part of the ...

The practice of yoga is about the body and mind. And the oldest book on yoga, the "Yoga Sutra Of Patanjali," talks about finding relief from pain. Pain trickles down from the mind to the heart to the ...

Patanjali is known as the father of modern yoga – not because he invented yoga, which was already there in various forms, but because he assimilated it into a system. Shiva, the Adiyogi or first yogi, ...

Yoga, as it is beamed through television channels today, is not what was written by Patanjali in the first centuries of the Common Era. Consisting of fewer than two hundred verses, the Yoga Sutra has ...

As the world celebrates International Yoga Day 2025, it’s the perfect time to remember the visionary behind the philosophy that transformed yoga into a holistic practice—Maharishi Patanjali. Known as ...