The Yoga sutras of Patañjali
Subtitle: a new edition, translation, and commentary with insights from the traditional commentators
By: Edwin F. Bryant.
Contributors: Patañjali.
Publisher: North Point Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; san
Number of pages: 674
ISBN-13: 9780865477360
Subjects: Patañjali; Yoga
Description: From the Publisher: A landmark new translation and edition. Written almost two millennia ago, Patanjali's work focuses on how to attain the direct experience and realization of the purusa: the innermost individual self, or soul. As the classical treatise on the Hindu understanding of mind and consciousness and on the technique of meditation, it has exerted immense influence over the religious practices of Hinduism in India and, more recently, in the West. Edwin F. Bryant's translation is clear, direct, and exact. Each sutra is presented as Sanskrit text, transliteration, and precise English translation, and is followed by Bryant's authoritative commentary, which is grounded in the classical understanding of yoga and conveys the meaning and depth of the sutras in a user-friendly manner for a Western readership without compromising scholarly rigor or traditional authenticity. In addition, Bryant presents insights drawn from the primary traditional commentaries on the sutras written over the last millennium and a half.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The history of yoga; title: Yoga prior to Patañjali; title: The Vdic period; title: Yoga in the Upanisads; title: Yoga in the Mahabharata; title: Yoga and Sankhya; title: Patañjali's yoga; title: Patañjali and the six schools of Indian philosophy; title: The Yoga sutras as a text; title: The commentaries on the Yoga sutras; title: The subject matter of the Yoga sutras; title: The dualism of yoga; title: The Sankhya metaphysics of the text; title: The goals of yoga; title: The eight limbs of yoga; title: The present translation and commentary; title: Meditative absorption; title: Practice; title: Mystic powers; title: Absolute independence.