[Igelau]

You say there are no commandments, but these two concepts pass the duck test for commandments.

> YAMA – Moral disciplines

> NIYAMA – Positive duties

You also say there's no creed, and then talk about "bliss in after life". That's a creed.

I get into this with Catholics sometimes where they think having special vocabulary and a big bag of trivia makes one thing not another. They tell you they don't worship Mary, but if it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck...

Viewed from the outside, Hinduism is just as much a religion as any of the Abrahamic ones.

[drieddust]

You are misreading my comment. My comment is with respect to Abrahmic creed offering "bliss in after life". Indian Dharmic traditions doesn't claim to give you "bliss in after life". They help you lead a blissful life in this world and leave the world fully satisfied.

Yoga teaches this blissful existence so some parts of these teaching deal with physical aspects like asanas(exercises) and pranayana(breathing). However, central ideas of Yoga is called निष्काम कर्म or unattached action which simply put means hell or high water, you should stick to your duties and perform them without caring for the results. No wonder many scholars like Beethoven, Eliot, Emerson, Oppenheimer to name a few got inspired by its philosophy.[1][2]

[1] https://www.yogajournal.com/yoga-101/first-book-yoga

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/nov/18/classicalmusic...