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.
The Hatha-yoga corpus of texts unequivocally proclaims that the goal of yoga is the union of atman with paramatman. Academics tend to de-emphasize this aspect.
Sage Dattatreya divides yoga into mantrayoga, layayoga, hathayoga and rajayoga. Hathayoga is further divided into the yoga of munis and siddhas.
Amritasiddhi makes pioneering advancement in our understanding of the origins of Hatha Yoga.
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When the five perceptions are stilled, together with the mind, And not even reason bestirs itself; they call it the highest state. When senses are firmly reined in, that is Yoga, so people think.
– Kaṭha Upaniṣad, 6.10-11
When the five perceptions are stilled, together with the mind, And not even reason bestirs itself; they call it the highest state. When senses are firmly reined in, that is Yoga, so people think.
– Kaṭha Upaniṣad, 6.10-11