THE GREAT MAHAMUNI PATANJALI
Asatom Sat Gamaia
Tamasoma Jytheir Gamaia
Mritjerma Amritam Gama
Om Shanti Shanti Shanti
Patanjali yoga school of Patanjali
Lead us from ignorance to knowledge
From darkness to light
From Death to Immortality
Om Shanti Shanti Shanti
LEGEND
... Lord Vishnu, reclining on the thousand-headed hood of Adishi, the God of the Serpent, enjoyed the dances of Shiva and so imbued with his beauty and skill that he began to make a vibration.
Then Adishasha, seeing such a reaction of Lord Vishnu, wanted to learn this art to please his Master.
And touched by such devotion, Vishnu rewarded him with the gift, the nobleness to which Adisheesh can be born on earth and perfect the art of dancing of Shiva.
At that moment, a Yogini, named Gonika, prayed to God for a child. Adisha, who watched her, decided that she could be his mother on earth and descended into her closed palms with a small snake.
And when Gonika opened her eyes, the little snake took the image of a man. Adishasha asked the woman to become his mother, to accept him as a son. She was unspeakably happy and gladly agreed!
Since he fell into folded hands, he received from here the name of Patanjali. Pat - fall, Anjali - folded hands in a namaste (Anjali mudra).
He was very gifted with manifested higher intelligence and wrote several works one of which is "Yoga Sutras"
Every yoga lesson begins with the mantra of the worship of Patanjali - the Great Mahamuni (Sage), who is considered the founder of the orthodox Yoshi Ashtanga.
About two thousand years ago he wrote his treatise "Yoga Sutra", which became an outstanding textbook for all subsequent generations. In it, he systematized knowledge about the culture of the body, mind and consciousness.
According to the legend Patanjali is considered the reincarnation of God Serpent Adishi, which symbolizes the primordial energy of Kundalini, dormant in every human body, in the coccyx region.