[BEGINNER] The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is the foundational text of classical Hindu yoga, consisting of 196 sutras (aphorisms) organized into four chapters (padas). Written in Sanskrit by the sage Patanjali around 400 CE (though dating remains debated), the text systematizes the earlier yoga practices described in the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita into an eight-limbed path (Ashtanga Yoga) culminating in Samadhi (complete absorption). The text's famous definition of yoga as "Chitta Vritti Niro
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