Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Литагент HarperCollins USD

       B.K.S. IYENGAR

      Light on the Yoga

      Sutras of Patañjali

      

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      Published by Thorsons 1996

      Published by The Aquarian Press 1993

      First published in Great Britain by George Allen & Unwin, 1966

      Copyright © B.K.S. Iyengar 1993

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      Source ISBN: 9780007145164

      Ebook Edition © JUNE 2012 ISBN: 9780007381623

      Version: 2017-02-21

       Dedication

      This work is my offering to

      my Invisible, First and Foremost Guru

      Lord Patañjali

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Foreword by Godfrey Devereux

Introduction to the New Edition by B.K.S. Iyengar

Patañjali

The Yoga Sutras

Themes in the Four Padas

Samadhi Pada

Sadhana Pada

Vibhuti Pada

Kaivalya Pada

Yoga Sutras Text, translation and commentary

Part I Samadhi Pada

       Part II Sadhana Pada

       Part III Vibhuti Pada

       Part IV Kaivalya Pada

       Epilogue

       Appendix I A Thematic Key to the Yoga Sutras

       Appendix II Interconnection of Sutras

       Appendix III Alphabetical Index of Sutras

       Appendix IV Yoga in a Nutshell

       List of Tables and Diagrams

       Glossary

       Index

       Invocatory Prayers

       A note from Sir Yehudi Menuhin

       Hints on Transliteration and Pronunciation

       List of important terms in the text

       On Yoga

       Acknowledgements

       By the same author

       About the Publisher

       Foreword by Godfrey Devereux, author of Dynamic Yoga

      Patañjali’s Yoga Sutras are the bible of yoga. However, their inaccessibility in the hands of scholars and academics has left yoga practitioners adrift with neither chart nor compass. B.K.S. Iyengar’s translation, based on over fifty years of dedicated and accomplished practice and teaching, is unique in its relevance and utility to contemporary yoga practitioners.