YOGA-ETYMOLOGY (It is for yoga learners ) In sanskrit,the word yoga comes from the root YUJ which means "to add ","to unite "or"to attach ". In its most common senses, as such, By figurative extension from the yoking or harnessing of oxen or horses. The word took on broader meanings such as "employment, use, application, performance, skills, gaining "(compare to figurative uses of "to harness as in "to put some thing to some use "). All further developments of the sense of this word are post vedic. More prosaic moods such as "exertion ","endevour ","zeal "and "deligence "are also found in Indian epic poetry. There are many compound words containing yoga in sanskrit. Yoga can take on meanings such as "connection ","contact ","union ","method "application ","addition ", and "performance", in simpler words, yoga also means "combined ". For example gunayoga means contact ವಿಥ್ a cord ", chakrayoga has a medical sense of "applying a splint or similar instrument by means of pulleyes (in ಕೇಸ್ dislocation of the thigh ), as chandrayoga, punyayoga. In bhagavadgita, all the chapters are connected ವಿಥ್ yoga. Patanjali yoga ಸೂತ್ರ - Yoga: chittavrutti nirodha: Bhagavadgita - Yoga: karmasu koushalam(skill ) Adi shankara - Alabda laabha: