The contact of the Purusha with Prakriti makes the latter evolve itself into its various effects. The Yoga accepts a third principle, viz., Ishvara. The Yoga, in allegiance to the Sankhya, holds that there is an eternal and omnipresent inert Prakriti and a plurality of omnipresent Conscious Purusha. Vyasa has explained the original aphorisms or Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and this has been further elaborated through a gloss by a learned author named Vachaspati Mishra, and through the celebrated writings of Vijnana Bhikshu. This forms one of the Shad-Darsananas or Classical Systems of Philosophy. It is Patanjali Maharishi who formulated this science into a definite system under the name of Ashtanga Yoga or Raja Yoga. It is said that the original propounder of classical Yoga was Hiranyagarbha Himself.
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