Yoga means Union and the purpose is to teach the practitioner of yoga, called the yogi, how to achieve union or spiritual Absorption into the Supreme Absolute or God. The greatest classical text from the yoga school of Indian Philosophy is the Yoga Sutras of patanjali written in the 2nd century BC. Patanjali who popularly known as Maharshi Patanjali was a Great Sage and Philosopher who compiled 196 Yoga Sutras (aphorisms) that constitute the foundational text of ...
