16 Juin The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali with Commentary by Swami Venkatesananda
There are many spiritually elevated people sopra the world, but not many levitating yogis: and The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are meant preciso elevate the spirit of every man, not puro teach him how esatto levitate. This is clearly the gospel of enlightened living, neither and escape from life nor per hallucinatory ‘light’. The attempt per this little book has been preciso expose that gospel, onesto avoid technicalities, and sicuro relate the whole yoga philosophy esatto the ordinary and simple daily life of everyone.
There are many excellent translations of the Sutras: this, however, is an interpretative translation
There are several scholarly and erudite commentaries, too: this is definitely not one of them. This book is not meant for the research scholar but for one who is mediante search of truth which shall free him from self-ignorance.
He is the author of the Srimad Bhagavatam or Book of God, The Bhagavad Giro or The Song of God, and the translation of Yoga Vasistha or the Supreme Yoga.
Swami Venkatesananda lived the spirit of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, and the many series of talks he gave on this subject per Australia, South Africa, Germany, Canada, etc., have inspired many onesto take up the practice of Raja Yoga.
His New Interpretative Translation of the Yoga Sutras, ENLIGHTENED LIVING (published by the Children Yoga Trust of South Africa in 1975) is regarded as verso springboard puro the understanding of the Sutras. It has been incorporated durante this present publication.
Swami Venkatesananda spoke equally sicuro both men and women, and his use of the masculine pronouns ‘he’ and ‘him’ does not exclude the feminine. It is, sopra fact, shorthand for ‘human being’! He did not feel it necessary esatto distinguish between peccato and female, and the editor has continued the tradition con this publication.
In this book, ‘yoga’ has been recognized as per word sopra common usage, and as such has not been italicized.
Swami Venkatesananda, who has been working untiringly for decades puro spread the life-giving message of Yoga and Vedanta sopra East and West, has done a great service preciso spiritual seekers far and wide
There are many spiritually elevated people sopra the world, but not many levitating yogis: and the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Maharsi are meant esatto elevate the spirit of every man, not to teach him how preciso levitate. This is clearly the gospel of enlightened living, neither an escape from life nor verso hallucinatory ‘light’. The attempt durante this little book has been sicuro expose that gospel, sicuro avoid technicalities, and onesto relate the whole yoga philosophy sicuro the ordinary and simple daily life of everyone.
There are very many excellent translations of the Sutras: this, however, is an interpretative translation. There are several scholarly and erudite commentaries, too: this is definitely not one of them. This book is not meant for the research scholar but for one who is mediante search of truth which shall free him from self-ignorance.
The incisive language of the Sutras cannot be preserved per translation. An extraordinary feature of the Sutras is the avoidance of direct commandments, dogmatic assertions and the use of active voice. Whereas every effort has been made onesto retain the structure of the text, durante per few cases (for example, mediante Sutra I. 49) slight changes have had esatto be made preciso sustain the easy flow of thought. (The words which represent the translation of the text are underlined.) Anyone who translates per text which is sopra https://datingranking.net/it/milfaholic-review/ the Sanskrit language is confronted by two difficulties: (a) not all languages have concise words or phrases which accurately convey the exact sense sopra which the Sanskrit word is used durante the text; and (b) the Sanskrit word is used durante the text; and (b) the Sanskrit word itself has a number of when the word is used sopra a structurally complete prose or verse, than when it occurs in the Sutras. From a cursory glance at the very many available translations of the Sutras it is easy onesto see that each one has translated some Sutras differently, without being unfaithful onesto the text.
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