The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali - A New Translation and Commentary

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Publisher : INNER TRADITIONS, VERMONT
Author : Georg Feuerstein
Language : English
Pages : 196
Cover : PAPERBACK
Dimension : 21.5 cm x 14 cm
Weight : 280 gm
Edition : 1989
ISBN : 9780892816910

About the Book

Approximately two thousand years old, The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali is the land-mark scripture on classical yoga. The translation and commentary provided here by Georg Feuerstein are outstanding for their accessibility and their insight into the essential meaning of this ancient and complex text. A,scholar of international renown who has studied and practiced yoga since the age of fourteen, Feuerstein also brings to The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali his experience as a professional indologist. His faithful and informed rendering of the aphorisms (sutras) is based on extensive personal research into the Sanskrit sources. Each word is explained so that the entire text becomes readily available to the Western reader and student of yoga.

About The Author

Georg Feuerstein, Ph.D., was born in Germany shortly after World War H and conducted his postgraduate research in Indian philosophy at the University of Durham in England. He is one of the leading voices of the East/West dialogue and since the late 1960s has made many significant contributions to our understanding of India's spiritual heritage, notably Hindu Yoga. He has authored more than 40 books, including The Shambhala Encyclopedia of Yoga, The Yoga Tradition, The Deeper Dimension of Yoga, Lucid Waking, Wholeness or Transcendence?, and Tantra: Path of Ecstasy. His most recent works include Yoga Morality and Green Yoga (coauthored with his wife, Brenda). His forthcoming works include a new translation and commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita. Although he no longer teaches in public, he offers several distance-learning courses on Yoga philosophy and history of Yoga through the Traditional Yoga Studies organization (www.traditionalyogastudies.com). For many years he has been a practitioner of Vajrayana Buddhist Yoga, and since 2004 has lived in semiretirement in Canada.