The text teaches a technique called śāmbhavi mudra, to achieve a state of no-mind.
The metaphysics of yoga is purely Vedantic but the methods of reaching the goal are different in Vedanta and yoga.
Why should you love yourself the most? Yajnavalkya and Buddha have different answers.
Sage Dattatreya divides yoga into mantrayoga, layayoga, hathayoga and rajayoga. Hathayoga is further divided into the yoga of munis and siddhas.
Who is Shiva? Can he exist without Shakti? But who is Shakti if not Shiva?
Nilakantha Dikshita, a prolific 17th century poet, wrote a delightful poem cataloguing the fallen characters of the Kali age.
Mantras in Hinduism are associated with the primal uncreated sound called the Vac, the creatrix of the universe.
A devotee who knows the symbolism and philosophy behind the iconography would be better equipped to meditate on his chosen form.
There were more than seventy different kind of professions during the Vedic period!