The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Patañjali · translated by Charles Johnston, 1912
Contents
- Book I
OM: Here follows Instruction in Union. Union, here as always in the Scriptures of India, means union of the individual soul with the …
- Book II
The practices which make for union with the Soul are: fervent aspiration, spiritual reading, and complete obedience to the Master. The word …
- Book III
The binding of the perceiving consciousness to a certain region is attention (dharana). Emerson quotes Sir Isaac Newton as saying that he …
- Book IV
Psychic and spiritual powers may be inborn, or they may be gained by the use of drugs, or by incantations, or by fervour, or by Meditation. …
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Patañjali. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Translated by Charles Johnston. 1912. The Library, Unitive Knowledge Society. https://www.unitiveknowledge.org/library/texts/yoga-sutras-johnston.
Patañjali, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, trans. Charles Johnston (1912), The Library, Unitive Knowledge Society, https://www.unitiveknowledge.org/library/texts/yoga-sutras-johnston.
Patañjali. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Translated by Charles Johnston, 1912. The Library, Unitive Knowledge Society, www.unitiveknowledge.org/library/texts/yoga-sutras-johnston.
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