Psychology of Mystical Awakening: The Patanjali Yoga Sutras (New World Hinduism Vol 1)
Savitripriya, an American master of Shaktipat-Kundalini yoga and a Hindu nun, presents a new translation of the Patanjali Sutras, which are short instructions for spiritual development originally written in India over 2000 years ago. Her interpretation differs from other scholarly translations in that her understanding of the Sutras came through personal experience. She offers a concise, clear restating of the Sutras in modern English, but her study is by no means easy reading. The depth of the wisdom presented requires careful and thoughtful examination. Commentaries explaining the meaning of each Sutra, such as those that appear in Carl Japikse's The Light Within Us (Ariel, 1988), would have made her book more helpful to the general reader. The new translation and unencumbered text will, however, please serious spiritual seekers exploring classical Eastern thought.- Elizabeth Salt, Otterbein Coll. Lib., Westerville, OhioCopyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.