Yoga has many definitions but generally refers to joining the soul to the divine or the practice of concentration and meditation to attain supernatural powers. It is described as a bridge between science and spirituality that compresses one's evolution into a short period of focused practice. Key sources define yoga as the cessation of mind movements, joining the individual soul to the universal soul, calming the mind, education and character building, skillful action, unknotting the mind to reach deeper consciousness, a state where the senses are steadily held, and yoking all the powers of body, mind and soul to God. Yoga is considered an art, science and philosophy that transforms the mind in tune with the soul to master both internal and external

1. Definitions of yoga
Yoga can be defined in many ways
Every one has their own meaning
A general meaning of yoga:
‘Yujyate anena iti yogahaa’
Joining of our soul to the bhraman

2. • Yoga is a systematic set of practices by
which one can attain supernatural
powers through the process of
concentration
• Yoga is bridge between science and
spirituality
• Yoga is compression of once own
evolution into a single life of a few days
or few months of own bodily existence.

3. Yoga as defined by……..
 According to Maharshi Patanjali,
Yoga is the cessation of movements in the conciousness
Yoga is that which joins atma and paramathma
 According to Shri Arabindo,
Methodological efforts towards the self perfection by developing the
potentialities which is latent in the individual.
Yoga is the passage from ignorance to self knowledge, from our apparent
to our true being, from an outer phenomenal, mental, vital, materialistic
life existence to our inner spiritual nature.
 According to yoga vasista,
yoga is the tool to calm down the mind.
 According to B.K.S Iyengar,
Yoga is the education and character building

4. • According to Bhagavath Geetha,
Every skillfull action is yoga.
• According to Osho Rajaneesh,
Unknotting of mind to reach deeper levels of
conciousness.
• According to katha upanishad,
Yoga is state in which all the indriyas are held steadily.
• According to Mahadev Desai,
Yoga is yoking of all the powers of our body, mind and
soul to God.

5. Swami vivekananda
Yoga means compressing one`s evolutions into single life of
a few hours of few minites of one`s bodily existance
• Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy
• It is the practical medthod for making one`s
life purposeful, useful and noble
• Yoga is a friend ti those who embrace it
sincerely and totally
• It transforms mind in tune with the essence,
the soul, so that it gets blended into one

6. •A technique helping man to develop a
deeper awareness of himself of every
vibrations and pulsation within –at the
body mind intellect levels, and the internal
by virtue of which he can master the
external and internal

7. •Yoga helps him in transforming into original form
•It leads us to the true freedom, liberating the
human mind from the thralldom of finite matter,
from all sense of isolation as well as from
illusion of time space
•Provides the vision of REALITY by which man
perceives truth in its entirety