Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali
    The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali
    The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali
    Ebook59 pages1 hour

    The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali

    By Patanjali

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    The Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali are a collection of 196 Sanskrit sutras (aphorisms) on the theory and practice of yoga. The Yoga Sutras were compiled prior to 400 CE by the sage Patanjali in India who synthesized and organized knowledge about yoga from much older traditions. The Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali was the most translated ancient Indian text in the medieval era.

    Before the 20th century, history indicates that the medieval Indian yoga scene was dominated by the various other texts such as the Bhagavad Gita and the Yoga Vasistha, texts attributed to Yajnavalkya and Hiranyagarbha, as well as literature on hatha yoga, tantric yoga and Pashupata Shaivism yoga rather than the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali.

    Yoga tradition holds the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali to be one of the foundational texts of classical Yoga philosophy.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarakaldo Books
    Release dateMay 8, 2020
    ISBN9781839744105
    The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali

    Read more from Patanjali

    Related to The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali

    Related ebooks

    Buddhism For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Being A Kundalini Yoga Teacher

      May 21, 2021

      Being A Kundalini Yoga Teacher
      2 min read

    • Article

      Interest In Spiritual Healer Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev Rekindled As Will Smith Visits India After Slap-gate

      Apr 30, 2022

      Will Smith's wife Jada Pinkett-Smith has hogged the headlines since her Oscar-winning spouse "smacked the s**t" out of comedian Chris Rock during the 94th Academy Awards ceremony on March 27. As far as narratives go, she's been saddled with the dubio

      3 min read

    • Article

      Presence

      Jun 24, 2020

      Presence
      1 min read

    • Article

      Bhagavad Gita Influenced Many Great Thinkers

      Dec 13, 2020

      THERE are many paths to attain self-realisation yet there are many who choose to attain the knowledge from all different parts so that they can raise their consciousness to such a great extent that they see “One God” in all organisations and in all r

      2 min read

    • Article

      Daniela Da Silva

      Apr 21, 2022

      Daniela Da Silva
      6 min read

    • Article

      A Different Kind of Happy

      Sep 6, 2021

      Nearly 20 years ago, modern mystic Sadhguru went travelling through the US on a mission to find a new home for his non-profit spiritual organisation, Isha Foundation, which he founded in 1992 in Coimbatore, India. Along the way, he developed a partic

      5 min read

    • Article

      The Journey to Where We Already Are

      Mar 7, 2023

      The Journey to Where We Already Are
      10 min read

    • Article

      The Case for Rebirth

      May 8, 2018

      The Case for Rebirth
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Sutta Pitaka

      Jul 19, 2022

      The Sutta Pitaka
      6 min read

    • Article

      Why Should I Care about the Abhidharma?

      Jun 5, 2020

      Why Should I Care about the Abhidharma?
      12 min read

    • Article

      Ask The Teachers

      Feb 11, 2020

      BHANTE SUJATO: In 2014 I coauthored, with Bhikkhu Brahmali, a book called The Authenticity of the Early Buddhist Texts. The “early Buddhist texts” are essentially the main parts of the Pali suttas and vinaya, as well as the cognate texts in Chinese a

      5 min read

    • Article

      Why Buddhanature Matters

      Sep 20, 2023

      Why Buddhanature Matters
      12 min read

    • Article

      Book Briefs

      Feb 5, 2019

      Lama Zopa Rinpoche has long dreamed of creating a massive statue of Maitreya Buddha in India, a wish that originated with his guru Lama Thubten Yeshe (1935–1984) as a thank-you for India’s acceptance of Tibetan refugees. This vision led to the creati

      4 min read

    • Article

      The Tathagata’s Ten Wisdom Powers

      Jun 13, 2023

      The Tathagata’s Ten Wisdom Powers
      15 min read

    • Article

      What Stories Do We Allow Ourselves to Hear?

      Dec 7, 2021

      MOST MORNINGS, I sit with a cup of coffee and read a portion of a Buddhist sutra before doing my practice. The first two I ever read this way were the Lotus Sutra and the Diamond Sutra, both of which are chock full of profound doctrine and vivid, eng

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Abhidhamma Pitaka

      Jul 19, 2022

      The Abhidhamma Pitaka
      5 min read

    • Article

      How Do We Make Sense of Rebirth?

      Jun 28, 2022

      How Do We Make Sense of Rebirth?
      15 min read

    • Article

      Book Briefs

      Aug 7, 2018

      Ajahn Jayasaro’s STILLNESS FLOWING: THE LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF AJAHN CHAH (Abhayagiri 2017) is a remarkable testament to the legacy of the Thai Buddhist teacher Ajahn Chah (1918–1992). Over eight hundred pages in length, the book begins with Ajahn Cha

      4 min read

    • Article

      Buddhadharma ON BOOKS

      Dec 5, 2023

      THE FRENCH-BORN writer and photographer Matthieu Ricard earned a PhD in molecular genetics in 1972, and then walked away from his career to become a Buddhist monk in the Tibetan tradition. Today, Ricard is perhaps best known for his collaborations wi

      4 min read

    • Article

      Book Briefs

      May 7, 2019

      N 1940 IN NEPAL, Chittadhar Hrdaya was arrested for publishing poems in the Newari language, an act regarded as subversive by Nepal’s ruling Rana dynasty. During his subsequent five-year imprisonment, he wrote The Epic of the Buddha: His Life and Tea

      4 min read

    • Article

      In Defense of Ritual

      May 8, 2018

      In Defense of Ritual
      7 min read

    • Article

      What Is the Buddha in You?

      Sep 14, 2021

      What Is the Buddha in You?
      9 min read

    • Article

      Lessons Of The Gandharan Manuscripts

      Feb 5, 2019

      Lessons Of The Gandharan Manuscripts
      10 min read

    • Article

      Understanding Self Power & Other Power

      Jun 13, 2023

      Understanding Self Power & Other Power
      11 min read

    • Article

      Glimpses of Buddhanature

      Sep 20, 2023

      Glimpses of Buddhanature
      17 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali - Patanjali

      © Barakaldo Books 2020, all rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means, electrical, mechanical or otherwise without the written permission of the copyright holder.

      Publisher’s Note

      Although in most cases we have retained the Author’s original spelling and grammar to authentically reproduce the work of the Author and the original intent of such material, some additional notes and clarifications have been added for the modern reader’s benefit.

      We have also made every effort to include all maps and illustrations of the original edition the limitations of formatting do not allow of including larger maps, we will upload as many of these maps as possible.

      THE YOGA APHORISMS OF PATANJALI

      AN INTERPRETATION

      BY

      WILLIAM Q. JUDGE

      Table of Contents

      Contents

      Table of Contents 4

      DEDICATION 5

      PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION 6

      BOOK I. — CONCENTRATION. 13

      BOOK II. — MEANS OF CONCENTRATION. 19

      BOOK III. 25

      BOOK IV. — THE ESSENTIAL NATURE OF ISOLATION. 32

      REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 37

      DEDICATION

      THIS BOOK IS LAID UPON THE ALTAR OF MASTERS’ CAUSE,

      AND IS DEDICATED TO THEIR SERVANT H. P. BLAVATSKY.

      ALL, CONCERN FOR ITS FRUITS OR RESULTS IS ABANDONED:

      THEY ARE LEFT IN CHARGE OF KARMA AND THE MEMBERS OF THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

      PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

      This edition of Patanjali’s Yoga Aphorisms is not put forth as a new translation, nor as a literal rendering into English of the original.

      In the year 1885 an edition was printed at Bombay by Mr. Tookeram Tatya, a Fellow of the Theosophical Society, which has been since widely circulated among its members in all parts of the world. But it has been of use only to those who had enough acquaintance with the Indian system of philosophy to enable them to grasp the real meaning of the Aphorisms notwithstanding the great and peculiar obstacles due to the numberless brackets and interpolated sentences with which not only are the Aphorisms crowded, but the so-called explanatory notes as well. For the greater number of readers these difficulties have been an almost insurmountable barrier; and such is the consideration that has led to the preparation of this edition, which attempts to clear up a work that is thought to be of great value to earnest students.

      It may be said by some captious critics that liberties have been taken with the text, and if this were emitted as a textual translation the charge would be true. Instead of this being a translation, it is offered as an interpretation, as the thought of Patanjali clothed in our language. No liberties have been taken with the system of the great Sage, but the endeavor has been faithfully to interpret it to Western minds unfamiliar with the Hindu modes of expression, and equally unaccustomed to their philosophy and logic.

      About Patanjali’s life very little, if anything, can be said. In the Rudra Jamala, the Vrihan-nan-dikeshwara and the Padma-Purana are some meagre statements, more or less legendary, relating to his birth. Illavrita-Varsha is said to have been his birthplace, his mother being Sati the wife of Angira. The tradition runs that upon his birth he made known things past, present and future, showing the intellect and penetration of a sage while yet an infant. He is said to have married one Lolupa, whom he found in the hollow of a tree on the north of Sumeru, and thereafter to have lived to a great age. On one occasion, being insulted by the inhabitants of Bhotabhandra while he was engaged in religious austerities, he reduced them to ashes by fire from his mouth.

      That these accounts are legendary and symbolical can be easily seen. Illavrita-Varsha is no part of India, but is some celestial abode. The name of India proper is Bharata Varsha. "In it and nowhere else do the four ages or Yugas—Krita, Treta, Dwapara and Kali—exist. Here devotees perform austerities and priests sacrifice. In this respect Bharata is the most excellent division; for this

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1