YOGA SUTRAS: Commentary by a Modern Mystic. योगसूत्रचूर्णि:

In the course of gearing up for my big lecture on Yoga Sutra I had come across a dramatic story that even Wikipedia mentions in its entry....

The succeeding lines of Yoga Sutras (namely, all remaining lines of the section) are dedicated to cognition. So I shall lay down a few con...

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...