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 The main teaching of yoga philosophy is that the person should proceed from imprudence to excellence of thoughtfulness so as to achieve the ability & capacity to grasp the all-pervading idea of self-soul. Normally the temperament and the attitudes of human intellect used to have the quality of grasping physicality of worldly matters and to remain entangled within the same only, but as and as yoga ways are practiced intellect shall get impeded to hold back the temperament and attitudes to get these ones more and more talented to get the person acquire intuitive understanding along with the requisite exterior worldly knowledge and he shall be able to get reverenced both in the outer world as well as inner world. In this way, by way of yogic practice, after such an achievement he shall be attaining the stage of trans-meditation. People who do find the yogic practice difficult or who are incapable to grasp the preaching of yoga philosophy as a whole because of the difference in their liking or the disposition of mind, they used to get up to the ultimate goal of holding certain part or means of its preaching. This has resulted several branches of yoga in getting founded like Laya-yoga, Japa-yoga, Gyan-yoga, Mantra-yoga, Hatt-yoga, etc., which have gone up to more than one hundred till date. But there is no doubt about it that all these ones do have their origin in yoga philosophy of Patanjali.  

               Yoga philosophy of Patanjali has been inscribed in four sections which contain 195 Sanskrit couplets as a whole, 55in Samadhi Paad, 51 in Saadhan Paad, 55 in Vibhuti Paad and 34 in Kaivalya Paad.

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