What people are saying - Write a reviewReview: The Integrity of the Yoga Darsana: A Reconsideration of Classical YogaUser Review - Nick Mather - GoodreadsNot for the lay reader. Whicher argues for a new reading of Patanjali's Yoga-Sutra that clarifies many of the long held assumptions of yoga. This is a very, very dense text and not an easy read. There ... Read full review Related books
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Common terms and phrasesaction afflicted ahamkdra arise asamprajndta asmitd attachment attained authentic identity become buddhi Buddhism cause cessation Chappie chapter cittavrtti classical Samkhya classical Yoga cognitive samddhi commentary context discriminative discernment dispassion duhkha ecstasy egoic egoity empirical epistemological example existence experience Feuerstein 1980 function gunas guru Hindu Hinduism human identification ignorance avidyd implying insight prajnd intrinsic isvara kaivalya karma karmic klesas knower knowledge Koelman Krsna liberation mahat manifest means meditation metaphysical mind citta misidentification mistaken identity modifications nature nirodha nonafflicted object one's ontological Patanjali Patanjali's Yoga perception perspective practice pratyaksa pratyaya pure consciousness purification purusa and prakrti rajas reality realization refers reflection Rg Veda samdpatti samsaric samskdras samyoga sattva sattvic seeable seer self-identity selfhood sense soteriological spiritual stage subtle subtler sutra tamas term tion tradition transcendent transformation understanding unmanifest Upanisad Vacaspati Misra vairdgya Vijnana Bhiksu viparyaya vitarka vrttis Vyasa Yoga philosophy Yoga-Sutra yogic yogin Popular passagesPage 8 - time the word Yoga had attained its technical meaning and he distinguished the root yuj samddhau (yuj in the sense of concentration) from yujir yoge (root Page 8 - The force of the flying passions was felt to be as uncontrollable as that of a spirited steed, and thus the word ‘Yoga' which was originally applied to the control of steeds began to be applied to the control of the senses. References to this bookFrom other books
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