In the USA and UK alone there are some 10,000 yoga teachers, teaching approximately 2 million people. Every or perhaps virtually every yoga teacher in the world has heard of and acknowledges the work of sage Patanjali in approximately 500 B.C. In yoga, there is no better known textbook, there is no work that anyone has written that has superseded Patanjali's original "Yoga Sutras". It is the author's contention that all commentators have missed the essential joke that sage Patanjali played on his future commentators. There have been hundreds of commentators on this work and strangely all of them say very different things in regard to the more complicated sections of Patanjali's work. It needed a mathematical mind to understand how many hundreds of permutations of meanings one can give when with the lapse of time the original meanings of the Sanskrit words used have been lost. The author uses simple easy to understand logic to demonstrate why it is that there are so many different interpretations of this work. He also shows that Patanjali deliberately sought to confuse his audience. Virtually all of the 196 verses were written in such a way that a person who started off with the premise that the work makes sense would then proceed to make sense of it, irrespective of the truth. There is only one sutra in this work that is a specific benefit to the true yoga practitioner. The yogi needs to engage in work to help his fellow man.
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Author: Mehta, Shyam
Publisher: EbooksLib
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: The 108 Heads of Lord Patanjali
Pages: 00000 (MicrosoftReader.lit) / 00000 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 2005-12-01
SKU-13/ISBN: 9781412151702
Category: Philosophy : General
Category: Philosophy : Eastern
Category: Religion : Hinduism - General