The Truth of Yoga: A Comprehensive Guide to Yoga's History, Texts, Philosophy, and Practices
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The Truth of Yoga: A Comprehensive Guide to Yoga's History, Texts, Philosophy, and Practices
it is conventional to separate the message of the Bhagavad Gita into three yoga paths: action, devotion, and wisdom. But all these three paths are there in the Yogasutra. It is just the emphasis on certain practices, depending on the stage of the practitioner, that is different.
A. G. Mohan • Yoga Reminder: Lightened Reflections
abhyāsa and vairāgya, practice and dispassion, were mentioned in the first chapter (I.15) as the means of yoga, whereas here in kriyā-yoga, tapas, svādhyāya, and Īśvara-praṇidhāna are being presented as the means.
Edwin F. Bryant • The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali: A New Edition, Translation, and Commentary
The Yogasutras and the Philosophical Life, part 2
mail.google.comThe most important elements of the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Buddha’s teachings, and the Bhagavad Gita were compiled by Sri Patanjali around two thousand years ago into the text we now refer to as the Yoga Sutras. This is the key text of Raja (Royal) Yoga, which describes the complete yoga path, a scientifically organized spiritual technology for
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