Patanjali yoga sutras
by Ravi Shankar · first published 2010
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Nice! I presume you mean Ashtanga Yoga as given in the Patanjali Yoga Sutras. Edwin Bryant's translation based on traditional commentaries is a must read. One interesting old classic on psychological application is Geraldine Coster's Yoga And Western Psychology : A Comparison…
on “Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?” ↗There are lots of english translations of "Patanjali Yoga Sutras" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali#Trans...) To see how succinct they are, read Bon Giovanni's translation at https://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/yogasutr.htm If you are new to the…
on “Images of Hatha Yoga from the Joga Pradīpikā (19th Century)” ↗…conversationally, at least in courts and debates. Its decline into a quasi-venerated read-only language over the last 1000 years would be an interesting (and contentious) topic for dissertation. [1] Patanjali Yoga Sutras http://www.arlingtoncenter.org/Sanskrit-English.pdf
on “Sanskrit and Lisp (2011)” ↗…like western gymnastic practices. Asana is only one specific part of the entire practice. It’s a good beginning point. But it’s also very clear from texts like Hatha Yoga Pradipika, Vasistha Samhita, Patanjali Yoga Sutras, Vajrayana Buddhist yoga texts, and others that yoga definitely isn’t a Scandinavian invention.
on “McMindfulness: How mindfulness became the new capitalist spirituality” ↗…of all extant Samkhya texts in over 700 pages!). Also see the books of Gerald Larson (one of the foremost western scholars on Samkhya) to get an idea of the evolution of the entire Samkhya School. In Patanjali Yoga Sutras the concept of "God" is merely used as an entity and technique to help you in your practice to break out of your self-identity (i.e. Ahamkara). It is just one among a set of techniques. There is only…
on “Helen Keller on her life before self-consciousness (1908)” ↗