Yoga is a group of physical,
mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines that originated with its own philosophy in ancient India,
aimed
at
controlling body and mind to attain various salvation goals, as practiced in the Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist
traditions.
Yoga may have pre-Vedic origins, but is first attested in the early first millennium BCE. It developed as
various
traditions in the eastern Ganges basin drew from a common body of practices, including Vedic elements.
Yoga-like
practices are mentioned in the Rigveda and a number of early Upanishads, but systematic yoga concepts
emerge during the fifth and sixth centuries BCE in ancient India's ascetic and Śramaṇa movements, including
Jainism and
Buddhism. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, the classical text on Hindu yoga, samkhya-based but influenced by
Buddhism,
dates to the early centuries of the Common Era. Hatha yoga texts began to emerge between the ninth
and 11th
centuries, originating in tantra.
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