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There is no word called as “Yoga” in the Sanskrit. The word Yog is came from the word 'Yuj' and 5000 years old Indian body of knowledge, whose literal meaning is Samadhi. In Sanskrit, adding or deleting a single syllable or vowel in the existing word can change the meaning of that word.
as in hindi we say yog but while transliterating from english, it is being written as yoga. is the original word in sanskrit written as yog or yoga with an 'a' at the end of the word. it seems down south (in India) it is pronounced as yoga while in the north as yog.
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