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Classical Yoga is a traditional system of yoga philosophy and practice that aims to help individuals attain inner peace, spiritual growth, and self-realisation. This is achieved through various practices like physical postures, breathing exercises, concentration, meditation, and enlightenment. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is the authoritative text that outlines the eightfold path of yoga, which consists of ethical guidelines, self-discipline, physical postures, breathing techniques, withdrawal of senses, concentration, meditation, and enlightenment. Classical Yoga emphasises the importance of a healthy and balanced lifestyle, including a vegetarian diet, regular practice, and detachment from material possessions and worldly desires. It is a comprehensive system that helps bring harmony and balance to all aspects of a person's life. This comprehensive and systematic analytical book studies the major philosophical concepts of classical yoga. The book consists of a series of detailed discussions of the key concepts used by Patanjali in his Yoga-Sutra to describe and explain the enigma of human existence and to point a way beyond the perpetual motion of the wheel of becoming. This book will be of interest to comparative religionists, Indologists, and practitioners of yoga who wish to deepen their understanding of its philosophical basis.