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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Approximately two thousand years old, The Yoga-Sutra of Patañjali is the landmark scripture on classical yoga. The translation and commentary provided here by Georg Feuerstein are outstanding for their accessibility and their insight into the essential meaning of this ancient and complex text. About the Author: A scholar of international renown who has studied and practiced yoga since the age of fourteen, Feuerstein also brings to The Yoga-Sutra of Patañjali his experience as a professional indologist. His faithful and informed rendering of the aphorisms (sutras) is based on extensive personal research into the Sanskrit sources. Each word is explained so that the entire text becomes readily available to the western reader and student of yoga. "This is certainly one of the most profound and original contributions to the understanding of classical yoga." - (Professor Mircea Eliade, University of Chicago, author of Yoga: Immortality and Freedom ). sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Esta obra clásica de la filosofía india, uno de los documentos espirituales más importantes de todos los tiempos, integrada por 196 breves aforismos, explica, de forma detallada y certera, el funcionamiento de la mente y cómo utilizarla para alcanzar la liberación. Los Yoga sutra, compilados en el siglo II ó III de nuestra era, constituyen un mapa de la mente humana y una guía especialmente útil para los estados mentales que provoca la meditación, el yoga o cualquier otra práctica espiritual. Expresa las verdades de la condición humana con gran elocuencia y explica de qué modo conocemos aquello que conocemos, por qué sufrimos y cómo podemos descubrir el camino que nos libera del sufrimiento. La nueva y fidedigna traducción, así como sus extensos y lúcidos comentarios, hacen que el texto cobre vida de una forma maravillosa. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Since, the text is seriously written and dense, I often had to read paragraphs multiple times. Although, most parts are clear/understandable it also contains sentences like "[...] attention must narrow its scope [...] to just those impressions that evoke the felt sense of the body [...]" (end of p.42) that I could not endow with any meaning. Those parts that I could understand seemed logically sound and chapter 3 (about schamanic powers) is treated with an amount of distance that I found almost appropriate.
Given the subject at hand, the level of clarity achieved by the commentator is very respectable. ( )