Origins

" Vedic resources are the common pool of Yoga-meditation techniques, tapped by Jainism and Buddhism, over millennia. Following are pre-Buddha period Vedic resources on Yoga-meditation teaching: ten major upaniṣads (circa7000 BCE or earlier), mokṣadharma teachings in Mahābhārata (circa 3100 BCE), Bhagavadgītā as a primer and consolidation of all Vedic Yogas (circa 3100BCE), Tantra works, Bhāgavatapurāṇa, Āgamas, Dharmaśāstras, Vēdāṅga works (more specifically Śikṣās and Prātiśākhyas). Vālmīki’s Rāmāyaṇa and Vyasa’s Mahābhārata as epic narratives provide a different perspective of Vedic Yogas through the characters -narratives- symbolism. "

 "According to legend, God taught the Vedic hymns to the sages. These were passed down from generation to generation. Hindu followers believe that the Vedas are Apaurusheya, meaning that they were created by humans but from the supernatural. In Sanskrit, the Vedas mean Svatah Pramana (means of evident knowledge). The epic Mahabharata states that the Supreme Creator Brahma created the Vedas. In the Vedic hymns themselves it is mentioned that they were the creation of sages"