Core Philosophical Concepts

In Yoga philosophy, it refers to a systematic viewpoint or theory for understanding the world, existence, and truth.

Satya Yuga is the "Age of Truth," the first and most spiritually pure era in the Hindu cyclical framework of time.

Purusharthas is a concept in Yoga and Hindu philosophy referring to the four main goals or aims of human life: Dharma (righteous conduct), Artha (prosperity), Kama (desire), and Moksha (liberation).

They define Yoga as "the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind" (Yogaś citta-vṛtti-nirodhaḥ) and chart the path to liberation.

In Samkhya and Yoga philosophy, it refers to the three fundamental attributes (Sattva, Rajas, Tamas) that compose the material world (Prakriti).

Ahaṃkāra is the faculty that creates the sense of individual “I”-ness, anchoring identity in physical and mental phenomena.

It symbolizes the point of origin of creation, the subtle, concentrated source from which all sound, form, and consciousness emerge.

In Yoga philosophy, it refers to all physical, mental, and verbal actions and their consequences.

It refers to an individual's role or duty in this world, or the universal truth and laws that sustain the entire cosmos.

It refers to the phenomenal world and the cycle itself, where beings repeatedly experience birth, death, and rebirth within a cycle of suffering.

It refers to the ultimate state of complete and irreversible freedom: freedom from the cycle of Saṃsāra (death and rebirth), from the grip of Karma, from the suffering born of ignorance, and from the fundamental misidentification of the self with what is transient.

Puruṣa and Prakṛti are the two ultimate principles of Sāṃkhya philosophy, the metaphysical ground of Yoga.