The Yoga Sutras Of Patanjali

Including a comprehensive guide to the ten principles of yoga. *** The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are in themselves exceedingly brief yet they contain the essence of practical wisdom set forth in admirable order and detail. The theme if the present interpreter be right is the great regeneration the birth of the spiritual from the psychical man: the same theme which Paul so wisely and eloquently set forth in writing to his disciples in Corinth the theme of all mystics in all lands. We think of ourselves as living a purely physical life in these material bodies of ours. In reality we have gone far indeed from pure physical life; for ages our life has been psychical we have been centred and immersed in the psychic nature. Some of the schools of India say that the psychic nature is as it were a looking-glass wherein are mirrored the things seen by the physical eyes and heard by the physical ears. But this is a magic mirror; the images remain and take a certain life of their own. Thus within the psychic realm of our life there grows up an imaged world wherein we dwell; a world of the images of things seen and heard and therefore a world of memories; a world also of hopes and desires of fears and regrets. Mental life grows up among these images built on a measuring and comparing on the massing of images together into general ideas; on the abstraction of new notions and images from these; till a new world is built up within full of desires and hates ambition envy longing speculation curiosity self-will self-interest. The teaching of the East is that all these are true powers overlaid by false desires; that though in manifestation psychical they are in essence spiritual; that the psychical man is the veil and prophecy of the spiritual man. *** The series Large Print Reader's Choice features classic books with a font size of at least 16 points. This font size is not only highly recommended and useful for visually impaired readers but generally i