People who begin to practice yoga often have the question and who thought up yoga? From where did it undertake? How long does this system exist?
It isn't so simple to receive answers to these questions because the yoga arose so long ago that names of authors didn't remain. There was it for several reasons. First, the tradition didn't register for a long time, knowledge was imparted orally, from the teacher to the pupil. Secondly, it wasn't always appropriate to leave the name.
We can precisely tell that the doctrine of yoga arose much earlier, than three thousand years ago. Call different terms. Someone says that to yoga more than five thousand years, someone says that it is much bigger. But it, in fact, and not important. The main thing that the yoga after all remained till our time.
The fact that the yoga "lived" such long amount of time can tell us about volume, as far as this effective doctrine. During this time there was great variety of various systems of self-knowledge and other exercises. "Survivability" the yoga shows us as far as it is useful. And in the ancient time, exactly, as well as presently, it was necessary to use such effective method. The yoga was handed down, from the teacher to pupils. And here it reached also us. Already later names of teachers which bore this knowledge to people began to be fixed. We don't know the primary source by yoga. It is one of the most serious mysteries of history.
The interesting moment which concerns the reasons why yoga to become so popular today. About hundred fifty years ago nobody in the West heard about yoga. Hundred years ago the first information began to arrive, and fifty years ago already bigger number of people knew about yoga. Now there is a lot of such people and the popularity of methods of yoga continuously grows about everyone year.
It is explained by the fact that many people who got acquainted with yoga concrete, visible results begin to receive from yoga. In this regard, this system of self-knowledge also gains the growing popularity. Only here it is worth to rememberit is worth to remember, the safety and popularity of yoga, are two different concepts.
Yes, the yoga widely goes in masses. But it doesn't say at all that it to become clear to people. Knowledge of the principles of mechanisms of how the yoga works, very much isn't essential. These are remains of what reached us. The big part of these principles which would help us to understand and understand how this system works are lost.
The modern person took that part which remained and began to use for himself. And this system proved in the most amazing way therefore was very useful for us. Therefore already only what remained up to now we can use with advantage for ourselves.