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THE SCIENCE OF YOGA THE YOGA-SUTRAS OF PATANJALI IN SANSKRIT WITH TRANSLITERATION IN ROMAN, TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY IN ENGLIS ...

PREFACE A large number of thougthful people, both in the East and the West, are genuinely in- terested in the subject of Yoga. T ...

ence of physical culture on a par with other systems of a similar nature. This over- simplification of the problem of Yogic life ...

small nucleus of fundamental and genuine teachings of Yoga has grown up during the course of thousands of years a volume of spur ...

accomplishments are discussed in detail and the Section is, therefore, called Vibhuti Pada. In the fourth and the last Section a ...

ten by a master mind in a language which is considered almost perfect. But it is one thing to interpret a Sutra in a loose and c ...

the stress and strain of ordinary life. It can be undertaken only on understanding fully the nature of human life and the misery ...

CONTENTS PREFACE 2 SECTION I Samadhi Pada 9 SECTION II Sadhana Pada 117 SECTION III Vibhuti Pada 245 SECTION IV Kaivalya Pada 33 ...

SECTION I SAMADHI PADA ...

SAMADHI PADA now; herewith (of) Yoga expounding; exposition (teach- ing). Now, an exposition of Yoga (is to be made). Generall ...

beneath the apparently unconnected ideas very often provides the clue to the meaning of many Sutras. It should be remembered tha ...

fact introduces endless possibilities of misunderstanding and misinterpretation of some of the Sutras. In treatises of a purely ...

This is one of the most important and well-known Sutras of this treatise not be- cause it deals with some important principle or ...

pect which is at the basis of the form side of the Universe and through which it is cre- ated. The reflection of this aspect in ...

gree the significance of Vrtti in the present context, but the word ‘modifications’ is also used generally and understood more e ...

the ‘seeds’ of Samprajnata-Samadhi and to the last stage of Nirbija Samadhi in which he inhibits all modifications of Citta and ...

In other states there is assimilation (of the Seer) with the modifications (of the mind). When the Citta-Vrttis are not in the ...

After indicating the essential nature of Yogic technique the author then proceeds to classify the Vrttis. He classifies them in ...

ings as not-painful. It will be seen, therefore, that the primary classification of Citta- Vrttis as painful and not-painful is ...

they were obtained through the sense-organs previously. In the case of Vikalpa or imagination they are reproduced in any form an ...