by Michael Roach
appears in Health, Spirituality, and Nonfiction.
The Yoga Sutra is the great motherbook of all the yoga works ever written; it was composed by the Indian master Patanjali some 2,000 years ago. The Sanskrit text is written in 210 brief, cryptic verses whose meaning has long ago sunk into darkness; the many, confusing modern attempts to explain them bear little resemblance to each other, which is j...
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Consider Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda. Recommended by 7 sources.
“Paramhansa Yogananda's first-person spiritual memoir reads like a series of awakenings: travel vignettes, teacher–disciple encounters, and repeated miracle accounts. Its useful aspect is the vivid sense of devotional practice and concrete portrayals of meditation routines and daily discipline, which can motivate people trying to adopt a practice. Its main limitation is a reverential, anecdote-heavy tone with little critical distance or historical sourcing. Expect a devotional voice more than an academic one.”
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