Yoga Philosophy of Patanjali

You Have 0 Item(s) In Cart |

My Account |

Order Status |

Check Out |

Yoga Philosophy of Patanjali
Containing his yoga aphorisms with Vyasa's commentary in Sanskrit and a translation with annotations including many suggestions for the practice of yoga

Click on image to enlarge

Swami Aranya Hariharananda - Author

N/A
Hardcover - 512 pages

Release Date: June 1984

ISBN10: 0-87395-728-8
ISBN13: 978-0-87395-728-1

Price: $37.95
Paperback - 512 pages

Release Date: June 1984

ISBN10: 0-87395-729-6
ISBN13: 978-0-87395-729-8

Available as a Google eBook for other eReaders and tablet devices. Click icon below...

Summary

"It is the most readable and reliable account of classical yoga that I know. There are, of course, numerous secondary works on yoga, many of which are useful and some of which have considerable scientific value. There are few good editions of the actual primary sources, however, and Hariharananda's is one of those." -- Gerald J. Larson, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Santa Barbara

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are universally acknowledged as the fundamental text on yoga and meditation in the Indian classical tradition. This English translation of Yoga Philosophy of Patanjali is widely regarded as the most authoritative and authentic that has been available in recent times. It is a serious and clear presentation of Patanjali's sutras and Vyasa's Bhasya, providing these basic texts both in the original Sanskrit and in readable and accurate English. These classical works are augmented by the commentary of Swami Hariharananda Aranya, a scholar and yogi of great repute, who, in his lifetime, was the foremost exponent in India of the Samkhya Yoga system of which the Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali are the principal work.

Table of Contents

1. Foreword by Swami Gopalananda

2. Preface to the First Edition

3. Introduction:

I. Indian Philosophy of Liberation
II. Yoga, What it is, and What it is not

4. Yoga Philosophy of Patanjali:

Book I. On Concentration
Book II. On Practice
Book III. Supernormal Powers
Book IV. On the Self-in-Itself or Liberation

5. Appendixes

A. Jnana-yoga
B. Tattvas and their Realisation
C. The Doctrine of Karma
D. Collection of Yoga Aphorisms
E. Diacritical Marks, Glossary of Sanskrit Words

Index

Related Subjects

India and South Asian Studies
Yoga

25565/25035(//)

Related Titles


Law and Morality in Ancient China	Chinese Theories of Reading and Writing	Walayah in the Fatimid Isma'ili Tradition	Wearing Cultural Styles in Japan	Thinking Through Confucius
Chong Yagyong	Self as Image in Asian Theory and Practice	When Huai Flowers Bloom	Cheng-Zhu Confucianism in the Early Qing	Neo-Confucian Ecological Humanism