Ma`rifat Adyan

Many are those who think that Yoga is some kind of exercises of meditation, not knowing that Yoga, one of the important philosophical systems in India and Samkhya, is coupled together and forms one system. Accordingly, without Samkhya, these exercises do not have sound basis, and if one does not observe it, one's practice is incorrect. Perhaps the most important part of any philosophical system is the way it views true human aspects. Giventhis, we have made a comparison between Islamic anthropology and Yoga Samkhya to bring out the similarities and differences between them, hoping that it will pave the way to a proper understanding of the truth. According to Islam and Yoga school, man has a metaphysical origin, the knowledge of which plays a major role in ensuring man's safety, but in Islam the word safety implies something other than that which Yoga school implies. Although both schools stress the importance of salvation, self-refinement, meditation and practice, there are sharp differences between them in as far as condition, type, method and objective are concerned.