-A wonderful translation, full of contemporary insight yet luminous with eternal truth.---Jacob Needleman
The Yoga Sutras were cast in their present form in India around the third century b.c. Yoga is from the Sanskrit root meaning -union, - and a sutra is a thread or aphoristic verse. The basic questions -Who am I?- -Where am I going?- -What is the purpose of life?- are asked by each new generation, and Patanjali's answers form one of the oldest and most vibrant spiritual texts in the world. He explains what yoga is, how it works, and exactly how to purify the mind and let it...