Further, Advaita Vedanta school enjoins the use of Patanjali’s yoga practices and the reading of Upanishads for these in search of the supreme good, final freedom and jivanmukti. During the period between the Mauryan and the Gupta eras (c. 200 BCE–500 CE) the Indic traditions of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism were taking kind and coherent systems of yoga began to emerge.
This historical textual content of the Nyaya college features a discussion of yogic ethics, dhyana , samadhi, and among other issues remarks that debate and philosophy is a form of yoga. Description of an early form of yoga referred …