Yoga FAQ | 036 | What is the difference between Yoga & Vedanta?

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[Music] India has a very rich cultural heritage and many wonderful philosophies have originated from this land six of these philosophies are considered extremely important and together they are called as the shut Veda cat darshan of the sixth vedic philosophical school the goal of all of these philosophical schools was very simple they wanted to eliminate our suffering but the methods they chose to eliminate the suffering we're slightly different among these six philosophical schools are yoga and Vedanta so in effect they are two of these six philosophical schools my yoga understands that our suffering comes from our mind based on the way we see the world and therefore it prescribes a path of understanding the mind refining the mind and utilizing the mind to its full potential where Delta takes a slightly different approach where Vasant I say that the reason we are suffering is because there is a disconnection we have from the divine so Yoga is more like a psychological School where it asks us to look into ourselves and understand and explore our mind and find solutions to problem in the world Vedanta is asking us to look at the entire world as parts of grand divinity so this is the very fundamental difference between the two systems yoga authored by Patanjali the yoga system authored by Patanjali is presenting all the different ways to understand the human minds and gives a connection to the divine as a choice whereas in the valence of school the connection to the divine is not a choice but a necessity this is a very fundamental difference between the two schools yoga also is saying that liberation is freedom from suffering but as the school of Vedanta is saying that liberation is freedom from birth and rebirth in birth and rebirth the cycle of life so there are certain fundamental differences between the two traditions what is common is that both of them aim to reduce human suffering and what also is very unique about Vaden such tradition is that while we dance our tradition rejects the idea of yoga's presentation of the divine it still says that the method to meditate on the divine must be taken from the yoga school so in essence we Danza accept the meditation and other practice aspects of yoga however the difference is that without the school says we must choose to meditate only on the divine whereas Patanjali yoga will say that we can choose to meditate on any of the objects in this world which includes the divine [Music] you