Tarakayoga, Tārakayoga, Taraka-yoga: 1 definition
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Source: ORA: Amanaska (king of all yogas): A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation by Jason Birch1) Tārakayoga (तारकयोग) refers to “preliminary, external yoga”, according to some of the manuscripts of the Amanaska Yoga treatise.—Several manuscripts of the Amanaska contain at least two hundred and ten verses in two chapters. [....] These additional verses attempt to divide the work according to its chapters, into two different yogas, named Tāraka and Rājayoga. In this scheme, Tārakayoga is said to be the preliminary, external yoga, whereas Rājayoga is the advanced, internal yoga
Note: Tāraka often qualifies something which causes liberation, such as a God (e.g., Kulapradīpa 1.3a-b), the Guru (e.g., Kulārṇavatantra 13.99c-d) or even Prāṇāyāma (e.g., Yogayājñavalkya 6.81c-d). In light of these examples, it is not surprising that Tārakayoga became the name of a type of yoga in the Maṇḍalabrāhmaṇopaniṣat, the Advayatārakopaniṣat, the Śivayogadīpikā and the Rājayogabhāṣya. In these texts, Tārakayoga is preliminary to the practice of Amanaska, and this is the main topic of the additional verses of the Amanaska's south-Indian recension.
2) Tārakayoga (तारकयोग) refers to a type of Yoga distinguished by teachings on the three gazing points (lakṣya), according to the Śivayogadīpikā by Sadāśivayogīśvara: a text dealing with Śaivism and Haṭhayoga in two hundred and eighty-nine verses.—The Śivayogadīpikā contains verses on Tārakayoga, which is a type of Yoga distinguished by teachings on the three gazing points (lakṣya) and by its classification as either an auxiliary or type of Rājayoga.
Note: Tārakayoga existed before the Śivayogadīpikā and this source is probably no longer extant. Other yoga texts which mention Tārakayoga are the Maṇḍalabrāhmaṇopaniṣat, the Advayatārakopaniṣat, the Rājayogabhāṣya and the Nandikeśvaratārāvalī (based on a quotation in the Yogasārasaṅgraha p. 60). These texts may all derive from south-India.
Yoga is originally considered a branch of Hindu philosophy (astika), but both ancient and modern Yoga combine the physical, mental and spiritual. Yoga teaches various physical techniques also known as āsanas (postures), used for various purposes (eg., meditation, contemplation, relaxation).
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