Yoga is one of the six orthodox systems of Indian philosophy. It was collated, co-ordinated and systematised by PataiijiHi in his classical work, the Yoga Sutras, which consists of 185 terse aphorisms. In Indian thought, everything is permeated by the Supreme Universal Spirit (Paramatma or God) of which the individual human spirit (j1vatma) is a part. The system of yoga is so called because it …