An Introduction to Yoga

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - These lectures [FN#1: Delivered at the 32nd Anniversary of the Theosophical Society held at Benares on Dec. 27th 28th 29th and 30th 1907.] are intended to give an outline of Yoga in order to prepare the student to take up for practical purposes the Yoga sutras of Patanjali the chief treatise on Yoga. I have on hand with my friend Bhagavan Das as collaborateur a translation of these Sutras with Vyasa's commentary and a further commentary and elucidation written in the light of Theosophy. [FN#2: These have never been finished or printed.] To prepare the student for the mastering of that more difficult task these lectures were designed; hence the many references to Patanjali. They may however also serve to give to the ordinary lay reader some idea of the Science of sciences and perhaps to allure a few towards its study.