Hatha Yoga Pradipika Hatha Yoga Pradipika The Hatha Yoga Pradīpikā ( or Light on Hatha Yoga) is a classic fifteenth-century Sanskrit manual on hatha yoga, written by "Svāmi" Svātmārāma, who connects the teaching's lineage to Matsyendranath of the Nathas. It is among the most influential surviving texts on hatha yoga. The "Hatha Yoga Pradīpikā" is also one of three classic texts on hatha yoga, alongside the "Gheranda Samhita" and the "Shiva Samhita". Because this work originated so long ago, different manuscripts offer various versions of its title. The database of the A.C. Woolner manuscript project at the Library of the University of Vienna
Jnana Jnana In Indian philosophy and religion, jñāna (Sanskrit, pronounced gya:nə) (Pali: "ñāṇa") or gyan/gian (Hindi: "jñān") is "knowledge". The idea of jnana centers on a cognitive event which is recognized when experienced. It is knowledge inseparable from the total experience of reality, especially a total or divine reality (Brahman). The root jñā- is cognate to English "know", as well as to the Greek γνώ- (as in γνῶσις "gnosis") and Russian "знание". Its antonym is "ajñāna" "ignorance". In Tibetan Buddhism, it refers to pure awareness that is free of conceptual encumbrances, and is contrasted with vijnana, which is a moment of