The Yoga sūtras of Patañjali
Subtitle: a visual meditation Book One
By: Paintings, translation and commentary by Melissa Townsend
Contributors: Patañjali; Patañjali
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
ISBN-13: 9781517543624
Subjects: Yoga
Description: "A remarkable approach to the classic Yogic text, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - A Visual Meditation, is both a traditional, well-informed, translation of Book One of the Yoga Sutras, with commentary; and it is sophisticated art book, with full color, full page reproductions of the beautiful and evocative paintings, one for each sutra, created as meditative guides in response to the author's years of work, studying, working with, and translating the Yoga Sutras. The sutras themselves are in the original Devanagari, with transliteration, translation and succinct, accessible, grounded commentary, which draws upon author and artist Melissa Townsend's 30+ years of spiritual practice./The book is as accurate and useful as it is lovely. A graduate of Brown University, Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, along with her years of spiritual practice and study of Sanskrit, Ms. Townsend's many years' experience as an internationally known psychic, speaking to people one-on-one about their lives, informs her writing as well, helping to make the commentary clear, practical, human and delightfully accessible. Wry and warm, as well as knowledgeable, her writing brings an important yogic text into clear focus, while the artwork takes the book to an entirely new level./The work of Sanskrit and of the Yoga Sutras is to push one along the path towards Enlightenment. To this end, the Yoga Sutras "mean" both exactly what they "say," and each one means infinitely more. That, "infinitely more," is expressed through the remarkable artwork in this book." -- from the publisher
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-110).

Text and commentary in English; Sanskrit text with English translation.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: About Patañjali's Yoga sūtras; title: Sanskrit pronunciation guide; title: Book one: Samādhi-Pādaḥ: paintings, translation, and commentary; title: Acknowledgements; title: Bibliography; title: About the author