"Hatha Yoga Pradipika" by Svatmarama makes an impression of the original and thoroughly thought work. "Gheranda Samhita" is also regarded as one of the most important texts on yoga but to put it frankly it is in fact a replica of the "Hatha yoga Pradipika" and a bad one with the language and observations being of poor quality.
Gheranda ignored the division of asanas into 2 separate groups made by Svatmarama and united all of them in one list. The result of this faulty unification was that poses for health became as important as meditative poses given by Shiva ( which bear the yogic practice) and even began to dominate because of number. Later the amount of asanas grew to a big number. Siddhasana and lotus, which were initially cornerstones of hatha yoga practice, got lost and got to be associated with meditation -as if a different kind of practice. So, people have started to make difference between asanas and so called meditation in hatha yoga.
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