YOGA TRADITION IN ANCIENT INDIAN LITERATURE

After the signicance and success of the Vedas, many ideological powers and branches were born on the basis of the Vedas. Through these branches, various types of Upanishads were born. When we discuss about Yoga, its development and propagation is seen in the Vedas and Upanishads. Upanishads are seen in the mainstream as the highest meaningful source of Indian knowledge tradition. We can also say that Yoga originated from the Vedas and it was nurtured in the Upanishads. A very beautiful description of all the queries of human life and their answers is found in the Upanishads. From the origin of life, the created world to the purpose of life, the philosophical and psychological analysis of happiness and sorrow is found in the Upanishads. The importance of Yoga has been considered in the Upanishads both theoretically and practically. The solution to most of the problems occurring in the present time can be found in the Upanishads. We only have to understand them well and follow them. Through the study of Upanishads, man moves from narrow knowledge to innite knowledge, from limited power to innite energy, from the sorrows of the world to innite joy and from bondage to the eternal peace of innite liberation. Keeping all these things in mind, here we discuss the description of Yoga in detail in the Upanishads.