“Yoga was never created. Yoga was discovered.”

One of the greatest misconceptions about yoga is the belief that it was founded by a single individual. We are often told that Hiranyagarbha was the founder of yoga, but this interpretation misses the deeper symbolism of our tradition.
Hiranya means golden, and Garbha means the womb or the living matrix from which life emerges. Hiranyagarbha is not merely a historical sage but the Golden Womb of Creation, the primordial source of life itself. Even modern science tells us that life began through the interaction of sunlight and the primordial waters. Significantly, one of the sacred names of the Sun is Hiranyagarbha, the life-giver without whom existence would not be possible.

The moment life appeared, duality also appeared. With the experience of “I” and “other” came the need for a path back to the original state of unity. That path is yoga.

Yoga, therefore, did not begin with a person or a particular moment in history. It began with life itself as the eternal means of returning from separation to oneness. The great rishis did not invent yoga; they discovered the timeless principles governing consciousness and shared them with humanity.

Yoga is both the state of unity and the method of attaining that unity. Through sincere practice, we do not acquire something new—we simply rediscover our essential nature, which has always been whole.

The living tradition of yoga survives not because of books or institutions but because of dedicated sadhakas who embody its teachings.

As long as even one sincere practitioner remains, yoga will continue to live as a vibrant tradition, guiding humanity from duality back to the timeless experience of oneness.