Author: Swami Veda Bharati
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 860
ISBN/UPC (if available): 81-208-2069-X
Description
The Sutras are a set of mental pegs on which to hand the principles and precepts of a system.
The Volume One of the Commentarty on the Yoga-Sutras of Patanjali (Samadhi-Pada) was published in 1984, and was highly acclaimed as a work of rare authencity, based on thirteen commentaries, synthesized and studied in the light of the oral tradition and direct experience in the master-disciple lineage of the yogis.
The value of the present volume on the Sadhana-pada is further enhanced by adding the study of even more published Sanskrit commentaries as well as unpublished manuscripts. Seven lengthy appendices can be further researched and enchanced to form into independent theses.
The author makes certain that the works of the previous commentators be examined in the light of how the Sutras are taught in the Himalayan caves among those who practice the various methods and re initiated into them.
Contents
Dedications
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations of Commentaries
Abbreviation of Texts cited
Prologue
Sutras II. 1 to II.55
APPENDIX I
Appendix to Sutras 29,30,32, Angas, Yamas and Niyamas
Appendix II
Appendix to Sutra II.50
Appendix III
Appendix to Sutra II.51: A summry of NTC
APPENDIX IV
Sukshma-Pranayma
APPENDIX V
Sutra II.54, Pratyahara
APPENDIX VI
Some Sages Referred to in YS Commentries
APPENDIX VII
Patanjala-Yoga-Sutrs: An Oral Tradition?
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Texts, Commentaries nd Translations
Primry Textual Sources
Secondary Literature
Reference Sources Bibliography
Scientific Bibliography
Manuscripts Consulted
Index