The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2739 page)

advocates three kinds of yoga,
karma-yoga
, the performance of action without attachment to its result,
jñ
na
yoga, knowledge of God, and
bhakti
yoga, devotion to God (which the
G
t
evidently regards as the highest).
Yoga became associated with the theistic traditions of
Vai
avism
,
aivism
, and
aktism
, the object of meditation becoming the deities of those traditions. During this period (900–1600 CE) various yoga techniques were developed along with ideas about the physiology of the subtle body (
li
ga/
s
k
ma
ar
ra)—for example in the Yoga Upani
ads. The
N
th