KathaUpanishad
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aṅgāni = limbs<br />
Śānta-ātman is Puruṣa the Absolute or the Godhead. The Yogi must go beyond all<br />
mental images, all intellectual concepts, and by a gradual process of refined<br />
abstraction, one achieves self-realisation and experiences union with the Godhead<br />
in whom are perfect peace and fullness of being.<br />
(Raja Yoga received the status of orthodoxy due to its constituting text, the Yoga Sutras<br />
of Patanjali. The Yoga Sutras are a composite of various texts, composed in c.400 CE.<br />
[Maas, Philipp A. (2006), Samādhipāda: das erste Kapitel des Pātañjalayogaśāstra zum<br />
ersten Mal kritisch ediert, Aachen: Shaker, ISBN 3832249877] Traditionally it is<br />
ascribed to Patanjali, who compiled various traditions and wrote a commenatry on<br />
those, together forming the Pātañjalayogaśāstra ("The Treatise on Yoga according to<br />
Patañjali"), which consisted of both Sūtras and Bhāṣya.[6] According to Wuyastik,<br />
referencing Maas,<br />
Patanjali took materials about yoga from older traditions, and added his own<br />
explanatory passages to create the unified work that, since 1100 CE, has been<br />
considered the work of two people.)<br />
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