YOGA SUTRAS OF PATANJALI
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Patanjali was a great sage that lived thousands of years ago. The yoga Sutras he wrote seem to have transcended time remaining one of the most influential spiritual writings in Yoga.
The Yoga Sutras consist of 195 verses divided into 4 chapters. It is a book for those who have already practiced some meditation and attained some higher states of consciousness.
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is a foundational text of Yoga. It forms part of the corpus of Sutra literature dating to India’s Mauryan period. In Indian philosophy, Yoga (also Raja Yoga to distinguish it from later schools) is the name of one of the six orthodox philosophical schools.Though brief, the Yoga Sutras are an enormously influential work on yoga philosophy and practice, held by principal proponents of yoga such as > Iyengar < (1993: p.xiii) as being of principal importance:
Patañjali fills each sutra with his experiential intelligence, stretching it like a thread (sūtra), and weaving it into a garland of pearls of wisdom to flavour and savour by those who love and live in yoga….
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Mantra of sage Patanjali:
- yogena chittasya padena vacham malam sarirasya cha vaidyakena | yopakaroti tam pravaram muninam patanjalim pranajaliranato’smi ||
- Let us bow the noblest of sages Patanjali, who gave Yoga for serenity of the mind, Sanskrit grammar for purity of speech and Ayurvedic medicine for the perfection of health.
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