There are many spiritually elevated people in the world, but not many levitating yogis: and The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are meant sicuro elevate the spirit of every man, not onesto teach him how https://datingranking.net/it/flirt4free-review/ onesto levitate. This is clearly the gospel of enlightened living, neither and escape from life nor per hallucinatory ‘light’. The attempt sopra this little book has been puro expose that gospel, sicuro avoid technicalities, and sicuro relate the whole yoga philosophy esatto the ordinary and simple daily life of everyone.

There are many excellent translations of the Sutras: this, however, is an interpretative translation

There are several scholarly and erudite commentaries, too: this is definitely not one of them. This book is not meant for the research scholar but for one who is con search of truth which shall free him from self-ignorance.

He is the author of the Srimad Bhagavatam or Book of God, The Bhagavad Gita or The Song of God, and the translation of Yoga Vasistha or the Supreme Yoga.

Swami Venkatesananda lived the spirit of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, and the many series of talks he gave on this subject mediante Australia, South Africa, Germany, Canada, etc., have inspired many esatto take up the practice of Raja Yoga.

His New Interpretative Translation of the Yoga Sutras, ENLIGHTENED LIVING (published by the Children Yoga Esclusiva of South Africa durante 1975) is regarded as per springboard puro the understanding of the Sutras. It has been incorporated per this present publication.

Swami Venkatesananda spoke equally preciso both men and women, and his use of the masculine pronouns ‘he’ and ‘him’ does not exclude the feminine. It is, con fact, shorthand for ‘human being’! He did not feel it necessary to distinguish between male and female, and the editor has continued the tradition mediante this publication.

Durante this book, ‘yoga’ has been recognized as verso word con common usage, and as such has not been italicized.

Swami Venkatesananda, who has been working untiringly for decades puro spread the life-giving message of Yoga and Vedanta sopra East and West, has done a great service puro spiritual seekers far and wide

There are many spiritually elevated people mediante the world, but not many levitating yogis: and the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Maharsi are meant esatto elevate the spirit of every man, not esatto teach him how to levitate. This is clearly the gospel of enlightened living, neither an escape from life nor a hallucinatory ‘light’. The attempt con this little book has been puro expose that gospel, puro avoid technicalities, and puro relate the whole yoga philosophy onesto the ordinary and simple daily life of everyone.

There are very many excellent translations of the Sutras: this, however, is an interpretative translation. There are several scholarly and erudite commentaries, too: this is definitely not one of them. This book is not meant for the research scholar but for one who is sopra search of truth which shall free him from self-ignorance.

The incisive language of the Sutras cannot be preserved per translation. An extraordinary feature of the Sutras is the avoidance of direct commandments, dogmatic assertions and the use of adroite voice. Whereas every effort has been made to retain the structure of the text, con per few cases (for example, durante Sutra I. 49) slight changes have had puro be made onesto sustain the easy flow of thought. (The words which represent the translation of the text are underlined.) Anyone who translates verso text which is sopra the Sanskrit language is confronted by two difficulties: (a) not all languages have concise words or phrases which accurately convey the exact sense in which the Sanskrit word is used in the text; and (b) the Sanskrit word is used durante the text; and (b) the Sanskrit word itself has a number of when the word is used durante verso structurally complete prose or verse, than when it occurs mediante the Sutras. From per cursory glance at the very many available translations of the Sutras it is easy onesto see that each one has translated some Sutras differently, without being unfaithful to the text.