Ancient Wisdom of Yoga Taravali

Adi Shankaracharya's text summarizes the highest teachings of yoga

- Ms. Sejal Pandya

Yoga is an ancient science, which has been taught for thousands of years. It is one of the six Darshanas. Yoga is gaining recent, rapid, global expansion as a health and wellness practice. Patanjali Yoga Sutras have become the focal point and critical reading for practicing and studying yoga worldwide, but there are many other yoga treatises that explain the concepts of yoga and the ultimate goal of human life.

One such text is ‘ Yoga Taravali ’ of Adishankaracharya. Through Yoga Taravali, he poetically and metaphorically summarizes the highest teachings of yoga. Yoga Taravali has expounded the concept of Antaranga Sadhana. There are twenty-nine verses in this, which discuss Yogic practices such as Bandhas