Yoga-darśana Comprising the Sūtras of Patañjali with Bhāṣya of Vyāsa
by Patañjali
Yoga-darśana Comprising the Sūtras of Patañjali with Bhāṣya of Vyāsa
by Patañjali
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This edition of Yoga Darsana comprises of the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali with the commentary of Vyasa. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are foundational text of yoga. Though brief the yoga Sutras an enormously influential work on Yoga philosophy and practice. In recent decades the yoga Sutras has become quite popular worldwide for the percepts regarding practice of Raja Yoga and its philosophical basis. The most authoritative commentary is that of Vyasa.
Ganganatha Jha was an eminent scholar of Sanskrit Indian philosophy Buddhist philosophy and Pandit of Nyaya Sastra.
Preface
This revised and entirely re-written translation is presented before the world of scholars, in liquidation of the fourth, and I hope, the last debt due from me. This is the last of my works which I myself regarded as imperfect ; and it was therefore due to the scholarly world that it should be revised. I got the requisite opportunity for fulfilling this obligation when the Theosophical Publishing House asked me to revise the work for its second edition. It was a source of satisfaction to me that imperfect as it was, the first edition had secured enough readers to render it out of stock, though in twenty-five years. In this revised edition, I have made the work as good as it lay in my power to make it. I trust and hope that readers of this work will be more numerous than those of the first edition, and they will also derive greater benefit from it.
The Yoga-bhasya is an admittedly obscure and difficult text. There may be some people, therefore, who may not have the courage to read through it. For their benefit a brief resume of the teachings is here appended.
Yoga has been defined as the nirodha, inhibitionof the vrtti function of the citta Mind, brought about by Practice and Freedom from Attachment In reality, l the citta of the o
Back of the Book
This edition of Yoga Darsana comprises of the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali with the commentary of Vyasa. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are foundational text of yoga. Though brief the yoga Sutras an enormously influential work on Yoga philosophy and practice. In recent decades the yoga Sutras has become quite popular worldwide for the percepts regarding practice of Raja Yoga and its philosophical basis. The most authoritative commentary is that of Vyasa.
Ganganatha Jha was an eminent scholar of Sanskrit Indian philosophy Buddhist philosophy and Pandit of Nyaya Sastra.
Preface
This revised and entirely re-written translation is presented before the world of scholars, in liquidation of the fourth, and I hope, the last debt due from me. This is the last of my works which I myself regarded as imperfect ; and it was therefore due to the scholarly world that it should be revised. I got the requisite opportunity for fulfilling this obligation when the Theosophical Publishing House asked me to revise the work for its second edition. It was a source of satisfaction to me that imperfect as it was, the first edition had secured enough readers to render it out of stock, though in twenty-five years. In this revised edition, I have made the work as good as it lay in my power to make it. I trust and hope that readers of this work will be more numerous than those of the first edition, and they will also derive greater benefit from it.
The Yoga-bhasya is an admittedly obscure and difficult text. There may be some people, therefore, who may not have the courage to read through it. For their benefit a brief resume of the teachings is here appended.
Yoga has been defined as the nirodha, inhibitionof the vrtti function of the citta Mind, brought about by Practice and Freedom from Attachment In reality, l the citta of the o
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ISBN13: 9788192075228
Dev Books, 2011
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