The original-yoga is not yoga
Originally,
the yoga is either a physical exercise, nor a discipline made by
postures of the body. The word yoga means: union since the
samnyasin monk; Adi Shankara, around the eighth century BC.
Before, this word meant freedom or liberation. This
freedom is the one that a person finds when it is not any more the
prisoner of the mind's fluctuations and its residues. The Union is
rather an assembly in a point: that of the Consciousness around its
core. The path is a practical spirituality which gives tools to
gather your Consciousness.
There
is only one yoga, that is only one freedom, union but various ways
which set to allow you knowing them. The freedom, the union and the
methods to arrive bear the same name, the yoga and methods,
there are plenty of them. Just enter the word yoga in a search engine
to have almost an endless list : new "yoga" are
created regularly.
The
path of freedom is not a yoga requiering physical postures nor to
recite mantras. We name it original-yoga because we argue that it is
at the origin of every yoga with spiritual aim, as the jnana, the
bhakti, karma* and the raja-yoga of the Yogasûtra. At the time of
the writing of the book, the writers practised the yoga which
belonged to the philosophic school Sàmkhya resting on Shruti
or revealed Knowledge which is, today, the path of freedom or the
original-yoga.
There is a version of Yogasûtra which takes into account this historic fact and the spiritual and linguistic context of the time: the treatise of the original-yoga.
*Krishna
taught this yoga to Arjuna. Yoga quoting in Bhagavad-Gita formed only
one, at the time, as the path today.
