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The Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali

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by Satchidananda

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Readers must remember Patanjali lived more than 2000 years ago gave his teachings FREE. Each verse of 51 slokas packed with different layers of meaning as we evolve, free from anything we now associate religion, faith, gender, skin color etc. So, this book ifor humanity to find out and evolve. In order to get to the depth, one learns the original Sanskrit to fathom, like we have dive to get the pearls in the depths ?
cuvtixo I don't think there's any information whether Patanjali (scholars agree there was at least two authors who wrote the Yoga Sutras, not one) gave this i…moreI don't think there's any information whether Patanjali (scholars agree there was at least two authors who wrote the Yoga Sutras, not one) gave this information for free. It is certainly possible they were commissioned to write this, we just don't know. The original Sanskrit seems pretty obscure and difficult to interpret, which is why there are so many commentaries. It would probably be very disappointing to learn the language and realize new insights were sparse.(less)
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