Atmayogaasutra

Author(s): Ram
Publisher: Institute of Bharatalogical Research Sriganganagar Rajasthan

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Appendix IV Atmayogasutra and Yogasutra
I have held in my research work “The samkhya-Yoga" that it was originally a united reasophy, reasoning about the seen and the realised reality, which came in existence in the seventh century B. C. It was later polluted and bifurcated in two philosophical, philosophy being the reasoning of the conceptualised systems, the Samkhya and the yoga. Its author is not known. Kapila is alleged to be its author but he is nowhere mentioned in the Vedas, the Brahmanas, the Upnishads. the Mahabharata and the Gita. The Gita does mention one Kapila Siddha with whom Krishna identifies himself (Gita 10.26) but he is not mentioned as the author of the Samkhya system though the very foundation of the Gita is the Samkhya-yoga system where it is declared to be one and the same. Kapila is mentioned only once in the Gita and only in this context but this context gives us the clue that the seer of the reality which he styled as the Samkhya-yoga was a Siddha, a jivanmukta (liberated-in-life ), an Atmayogin who finally attained siddhahood on the fall of his gross body. The polluted samkhya and the yoga systems have been purified from this Siddha point of view and reconstituted as one system in this research work. The third vibhutipada section of the yogasutra has been retained to reveal its pollutive nature though declared a fraudulent means of perversion of the yoga-way.
Patanjali has been given the authorship of the separated yoga system. He flourished in the middle of the second century B. C. and was the high-priest of the Brahmana king of Magadha, Pushyamitra Shunga and he performed two great yajnas for him, one being a Purushmedha which was performed at Kaushambi. The remains of the sacrificed human being have been found there in archaeological excavations. A Karmakandin (ritualist) Patanjali had nothing to do with the Yoga-sutra. At the best, he can be