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Why Meditation? Plus Yoga's Sister philosophy, Samkhya - Full text of the Samkhy karika

Clearing out the 'draft post' drawer Contents 1. From the Samkhya Karika 2. Why Meditation?  What is the goal for Patanjali of Yoga 3. The Complete Samkhya Karika Appendix 1. Samkhya - Ramaswami's Newsletter Appendix 2. DHYANA - from YOGA BENEATH THE SURFACE Appendix 3. On Sam…

Summary of the Yoga Sutras.... in plain English. Update : The Siddhar's

Siddhar text Many of the oldest Siddhar texts are palm leaf manuscripts and not all of them are translated in English. - The earliest extant palm leaf manuscrips go back to the 4th century. See more at: http://www.ancient-origins.net/human-origins-religions/incredible-powers-ancient-siddh…

1:14 Practice continually.... but what exactly

Aranya's Yoga Philosophy of Patanjali my personal favourite presentation of the Yoga Sutras  partly because he had lived in a cave for twenty odd years before writing it and had also studied western philosophy as well as that of his own culture. * Patanjali had of course never heard o…