--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "yifuxero" <yifuxero@> wrote: > > > > --True origin of the 8 limbs of Yoga: > > http://tegehel.deviantart.com/art/Birth-of-Cthulhu-62464392 > > > > > > FWIW, one yoga-upanishad (yoga-chuuDaamaNi) mentions only six (shat) > an.gas (ang-gas): > > aasanaM praaNasa.nrodhaH pratyaahaarashcha dhaaraNaa . > dhyaana.n samaadhiretaani yogaa~Ngaani bhavanti shhaT.h .. 2.. > > Simplified (Harvard-Kyoto'ish transliteration): > > aasanaM praaNasaMrodhaH pratyaahaarash ca dhaaraNaa . > dhyaanaM samaadhir etaani yoga-angaani bhavanti SaT (shat) .. 2..
aasana, praaNasaMrodha and pratyaahaara, dhaaraNaa, dhyaana (and) samaadhi, these (etaani) are (bhavanti) the *six* (SaT) limbs of yoga (yoga-aGgaani) > > Seems to ignore yama and niyama... > > http://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_upanishhat/yogachud.itx >