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My limited understanding of PYS is that it’s primary concern is a guide to the practice of meditation leading to enlightenment or self realization. As long as the body is in a good posture for meditation there is no need for extensive bodily exercises in preparation for meditation.
Swami Swatmarama who wrote Hatha yoga pradipika n Guru Gorakhnath who wrote Goraksha Samhita n Goraksha Ratnavali had written n talked about Asanas Pranayama mudra bandha in details.
Patatanjali yoga is Science of practice. Not theory. e.g. Sasmita Samadhi means we can think without the body. That is in English called as Bereft of Body. Patatanjali Yoga is Science.
In the yogic text book Gheranda Sanhita it doesn’t envolves yamas and niyams (basic rules or steps in yog) because at that time these qualities of yama and niyamas are commonly aquired by most of peoples.
And in PYS, it has both steps with asanas also.
So in both text they has asanas part (postural movements) with some or more description.
The context of asana in PYS relates to the Raja Yoga practice or Ashtanga Yoga of Patanjali.
It presupposes, mastery of Hatha yoga before one commences Raja Yoga..
That’s why there’s hardly any reference to asanas in PYS
My limited understanding of PYS is that it’s primary concern is a guide to the practice of meditation leading to enlightenment or self realization. As long as the body is in a good posture for meditation there is no need for extensive bodily exercises in preparation for meditation.
Swami Swatmarama who wrote Hatha yoga pradipika n Guru Gorakhnath who wrote Goraksha Samhita n Goraksha Ratnavali had written n talked about Asanas Pranayama mudra bandha in details.
Patatanjali yoga is Science of practice. Not theory. e.g. Sasmita Samadhi means we can think without the body. That is in English called as Bereft of Body. Patatanjali Yoga is Science.
In the yogic text book Gheranda Sanhita it doesn’t envolves yamas and niyams (basic rules or steps in yog) because at that time these qualities of yama and niyamas are commonly aquired by most of peoples.
And in PYS, it has both steps with asanas also.
So in both text they has asanas part (postural movements) with some or more description.
The context of asana in PYS relates to the Raja Yoga practice or Ashtanga Yoga of Patanjali.
It presupposes, mastery of Hatha yoga before one commences Raja Yoga..
That’s why there’s hardly any reference to asanas in PYS