Sadhguru calls Patanjali father of modern yoga. Then is Sadhguru’s teaching of yoga older than the Yoga in the Six Darsana? Is his yoga Astika or Nastika?
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Sadhguru is absolutely correct.
The 6 schools Shad-darshana are all “nominally” Vedic, i.e., they’re all āstika as long as they don't deny the authority of the Vedas in metaphysical matters. So it is the non-denial that makes them “orthodox” rather than any direct link.
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Many of the basic ideas of all the 6 Schools have their seeds in the Vedas - but have an independent growth, flowering and fruition structure.
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The Yoga school of Patañjali is mainly concerned with the practice of meditation and practical self-development - it is methodology and psychology. Patañjali never quotes any Vedic text to support his position.
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Evidence of the antiquity of Yoga is found in the Pashupati seals of the IVC.
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