Books by Patanjali

This pocket edition offers a convenient format for this ageless guide and companion to the student on the Yogic path. Includes the full text of this classic Yoga work, along with brief commentary from a revered master of Raja Yoga.

The Yoga Sutras Of Patanjali: "The Book Of The Spiritual Man" , An Interpretation By Charles JohnstonThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions.2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work.We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPPY READING!

The sutras of the great sage Patanjali, which together constitute a landmark text in yoga spiritualism, are available here in this classic translation by theosophic scholar Charles Johnson.Historically the most translated of all ancient Indian texts, Patanjali's sutras since the beginning of the 20th century enjoyed audiences within and outside India. The translator Charles Johnson was one of Ireland's celebrated theosophists, with a great interest in the religious and philosophical texts of old. This edition originally appeared in 1912, and introduced yoga to Western audiences. The sutras explain the tenets of various yoga, and how the yogi is able to absorb energy and strengthen thereby. The means of gradually attaining a serene mental state known as Kaivalya as a precursor to the blissfulness of samadhi is detailed. The constant practice and disciplined honing of the bodily senses, and the differing forms of yoga used to achieve a state of perfection in each pillar of the practice.

The sutras of the great sage Patanjali, which together constitute a landmark text in yoga spiritualism, are available here in this classic translation by theosophic scholar Charles Johnson.Historically the most translated of all ancient Indian texts, Patanjali's sutras since the beginning of the 20th century enjoyed audiences within and outside India. The translator Charles Johnson was one of Ireland's celebrated theosophists, with a great interest in the religious and philosophical texts of old. This edition originally appeared in 1912, and introduced yoga to Western audiences. The sutras explain the tenets of various yoga, and how the yogi is able to absorb energy and strengthen thereby. The means of gradually attaining a serene mental state known as Kaivalya as a precursor to the blissfulness of samadhi is detailed. The constant practice and disciplined honing of the bodily senses, and the differing forms of yoga used to achieve a state of perfection in each pillar of the practice.

Samenvatting: Vertaling van een van de belangrijkste yogateksten; het kritisch commentaar belicht de context en de filosofische samenhang.Recensie:Uitdagende - soms gewaagde - vertaling van de belangrijkste yoga-tekst (4e eeuw v.Chr.).Het Sanskrit lijkt vrij van religieuze beïnvloeding vertaald te zijn, maar behoeft soms correctie. De uitgebreide inleiding en de commentaren en inleidingen bij ieder hoofdstuk verklaren de tekst, bieden analyses van de historische en religieuze context van de sutra's en belichten hun filosofische achtergrond. De tegenover elkaar afgedrukte getranscribeerde Sanskrit-tekst en de vertaling bevorderen de vergelijkingsmogelijkheid en leesbaarheid. Een Sanskrit-termenlijst en een index op de filosofische begrippen hadden de toegankelijkheid nog vergroot! De auteur, Oost-Westfilosoof, laat zich al jaren kennen als een origineel onderzoeker van de Indiase cultuur. Ondanks enkele verrassende misvattingen en -spellingen prikkelt dit boek tot nadenken en discussie, op zichzelf al een enorme verdienste. Voor kritische yoga-geïnteresseerden!