An Outline of the Religious Literature of India c9.69

c9.69

The Yoga system accepts the twenty-five principles of the Sāṅkhya and adds to them the Lord (Īśvara), thus raising the number to twenty-six. But the interest of the Yoga centres, not in the understanding of these principles, but in the practice of the method of yoga and in devotion to the Lord, which it sets forth as the most efficient means for the attainment of the Isolation (kaivalya) of the soul (purusha or ātman).