The Philosophy of Classical Yoga
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 152
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- EAN: 9780892816033
- Utgivelsesår: 1999
- Bidragsyter: Feuerstein, Georg, PhD
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This is the first comprehensive and systematic analytical study of the major philosophical concepts of classical yoga. The book consists of a series of detailed discussions of the key concepts used by Pata-jali in his Yoga-Sutra to describe and explain the enigma of human existence and to point a way beyond the perpetual motion of the wheel of becoming. Feuerstein''s study differs from previous ones in that it seeks to free Pata-jali''s aphoristic statements from the accretions of later interpretations; instead, the author places the Sutra in its original context and sees it as the source of the whole edifice of classical yoga and not just as a summary of previous developments. This book will be of interest to comparative reliogionists, Indologists, and practitioners of yoga who wish to deepen their understanding of its philosophical basis.