Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c16.102

c16.102

**Yoga System: its Self-sufficiency.** The Yoga system is more self-contained and self-sufficient than the other systems and does not prescribe or depend very much on any elaborate preparatory training. Its own measures of self-discipline are calculated to develop the outlook that is necessary for the comprehension of its philosophical theory and for the application of that theory to life. The system by itself prescribes the means and methods by which is to be achieved its aim and object, viz. the orientation of the whole life with reference to one idea and the emotional transformation corresponding to this focussed state.