Raja Yoga

: For the style of Ashtanga Yoga taught by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois of Mysore, India see Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga.

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Raja Yoga or Ashtanga Yoga is one of the four major Yogic paths of Hinduism, the others being Karma yoga, Jnana yoga and Bhakti yoga.

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Raja Yoga involves psycho-physical meditational techniques to attain experiences of the truth and finally achieve liberation, described in Hindu thought as moksha (liberation from the cycle of rebirth). Raja yoga also is known as Ashtanga Yoga. The term Ashtanga means eight limbs, thus Ashtanga Yoga refers to the eight limbs of yoga. It is the classical Indian system of Hindu philosophy and practice (composed by Patanjali perhaps ca. 200 BCE)

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Sri K. Pattabhi Jois: Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois was born on Guru Purnima in 1915 in the village of Kowshika, near Hassan, Karnataka, South India. Jois currently teaches yoga at his school, the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute, in Mysore, India....

Mysore: :This article is about Mysore City. For information about Mysore District and Division, see Mysore District....

India: The Republic of India is a country in South Asia which comprises most of the Indian subcontinent. India has a coastline which stretches over seven thousand kilometres, and shares its borders with Pakistan to the west, the People's Republic of China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the northeast, and Bangladesh...

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