People who start doing yoga often have a question, who invented yoga? Where did it come from? How long has this system been in existence?
It is not so easy to get answers to these questions, because yoga has arisen so long ago that the names of the authors have not survived. This happened for several reasons. First, the tradition was not written down for a long time, knowledge was transmitted orally, from teacher to student. Secondly, it was not always appropriate to leave your name.
We can say for sure that the teaching of yoga originated much earlier than three thousand years ago. They call different terms. Someone says that yoga is more than five thousand years old, someone says that it is much more. But this, in fact, does not matter. The main thing is that yoga has survived to this day.
The fact that yoga has "lived" for such a long time can tell us how effective this teaching is. During this time, there was a great variety of very different systems of self-knowledge and other teachings. With its "vitality" yoga shows us how useful it is. And in ancient times, exactly as in our time, it would not be wise not to use such an effective method. Yoga was passed from mouth to mouth, from teacher to student. And then she came to us. Later, the names of teachers who brought this knowledge to people began to be recorded. We do not know the primary source of yoga. This is one of the most serious mysteries of history.
An interesting point about the reasons why yoga is becoming so popular these days. About one hundred and fifty years ago, no one in the West heard of yoga. One hundred years ago, the first information began to flow, and fifty years ago, more people knew about yoga. Now there are a lot of such people and the popularity of yoga methods is constantly growing every year.
This is explained by the fact that many people who have become acquainted with yoga begin to receive concrete, visible results from yoga. In this regard, this system of self-knowledge is gaining its growing popularity. Only here it is not necessary to forget that the safety and popularity of yoga are two different concepts.
Yes, yoga is widespread among the masses. But this does not mean at all that it becomes understandable to people. Knowledge about the principles of the mechanisms of how yoga works is very unimportant. These are crumbs of what has come down to us. Most of these principles, which would help us understand and understand how this system works, have been lost.
Modern man took the part that was preserved and began to use it for himself. And this system has proven itself in an amazing way, so it turned out to be very useful for you and me. Therefore, already only what has survived to this day, we can use it to our advantage.
