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A widely respected yoga scholar offers the first comprehensive study of the philosophical concepts of classical yoga, based on the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali.

This is the first comprehensive and systematic analytical study of the major philosophical concepts of classical yoga. The book consists of a series of detailed discussions of the key concepts used by Pata-jali in his Yoga-Sutra to describe and explain the enigma of human existence and to point a way beyond the perpetual motion of the wheel of becoming. Feuerstein’s study differs from previous ones in that it seeks to free Pata-jali’s aphoristic statements from the accretions of later interpretations; instead, the author places the Sutra in its original context and sees it as the source of the whole edifice of classical yoga and not just as a summary of previous developments. This book will be of interest to comparative reliogionists, Indologists, and practitioners of yoga who wish to deepen their understanding of its philosophical basis.

Review Quotes:
” An all too rare combination of sound scholarship, common sense and personal experience. Feuerstein’s views, born of a long acquaintance with the original texts and tested against a large critical reading, are both fresh and mature, and he at last emerges from the role of skillful adaptor to be given his rightful place among the great masters of philosophy.”

Review Quotes:
” This is certainly one of the most profound and original contributions to the understanding of classical yoga.”

Review Quotes:
” Provides us with a highly original overall picture of classical yoga…The other great merit of this work is that it never loses sight of the psycho-integrative and experiential matrix of a great many key concepts of classical yoga.”

Review Quotes:

“This is certainly one of the most profound and original contributions to the understanding of classical yoga.”

Review Quotes:

” Provides us with a highly original overall picture of classical yoga…The other great merit of this work is that it never loses sight of the psycho-integrative and experiential matrix of a great many key concepts of classical yoga.”

Review Quotes:

“An all too rare combination of sound scholarship, common sense and personal experience. Feuerstein’s views, born of a long acquaintance with the original texts and tested against a large critical reading, are both fresh and mature, and he at last emerges from the role of skillful adaptor to be given his rightful place among the great masters of philosophy.

Review Quotes:

“This is certainly one of the most profound and original contributions to the understanding of classical yoga.”

Review Quotes:

“Provides us with a highly original overall picture of classical yoga…The other great merit of this work is that it never loses sight of the psycho-integrative and experiential matrix of a great many key concepts of classical yoga.”

Review Quotes:

“An all too rare combination of sound scholarship, common sense and personal experience. Feuerstein’s views, born of a long acquaintance with the original texts and tested against a large critical reading, are both fresh and mature, and he at last emerges from the role of skillful adaptor to be given his rightful place among the great masters of philosophy.”

Review Quotes:
“This is certainly one of the most profound and original contributions to the understanding of classical yoga.”

Review Quotes:
“Provides us with a highly original overall picture of classical yoga…The other great merit of this work is that it never loses sight of the psycho-integrative and experiential matrix of a great many key concepts of classical yoga.”

Review Quotes:
“An all too rare combination of sound scholarship, common sense and personal experience. Feuerstein’s views, born of a long acquaintance with the original texts and tested against a large critical reading, are both fresh and mature, and he at last emerges from the role of skillful adaptor to be given his rightful place among the great masters of philosophy.”