YOGA SUTRAS: Commentary by a Modern Mystic. योगसूत्रचूर्णि:

Thorough analysis of primary sources assumes concurrent study of authentic commentarial works. Thus in the process of writing my commentar...

They have once again asked me: why in general read ancient texts, the more so commentaries on them? Why a person like me, a modern yogi wh...

Deconstruction (from lat. de – ‘top to bottom, backward’, and constructio – “erection”, “putting together”)- a concept in modern philosop...

Summing up the block of seven lines that Patanjali dedicated to exercising the state of mind wholeness (chitta-prasadanam), I shall try to...

We have analyzed sutra 1.40 in the context of cognitive aspect proposed by Vyasa. But there can be a different view on techniques the sutr...

Many people are looking for kitschy miracles but turn their blind eye to the major one The sutra 1.40 been quoted out of context g...

The next line of Yoga Sutra (1.40) dwells on siddhis – at least this is what most of modern commentators think – so I shall give my brief ...