Yoga For Your Health: Hatha Yoga

by Patañjali

The ancients who formulated the science of Yoga were way ahead of us in our modern world of stress and hurry.YOGA, at last, is coming into its own after many years of being dismissed as a bizarre cult attractive only to eccentrics. Yoga is now recognized as a fundamental art and skill.Recognizing, thousands of years ago, man’s basic need for discipline to counteract the physical and spiritual deterioration caused by the mere fight for survival, they evolved a science which is at once as ancient as India herself and as modern as the space age.The law of Yoga is the law of Life. Yoga embodies the secrets of successful living and combines profound and age-old truths with a way of life acceptable to the modern mind.But Yoga is not a religion, nor is it a mystic cult. It is a Hindu system of philosophic meditation and asceticism designed to effect the reunion of the devotee’s soul with God.It is a philosophy that integrates the individual life and the world surrounding us to achieve a basic harmony and equilibrium in the heart and mind of man.This book is primarily concerned with this Yoga of the physical body known as Hatha Yoga.

139 pages, Paperback

Published October 21, 2019

About the author

Patañjali (Devanāgarī पतञ्जलि) (fl. 150 BCE or 2nd c. BCE) is the compiler of the Yoga Sutras, an important collection of aphorisms on Yoga practice, and also the author of the Mahābhāṣya, a major commentary on Pāṇini's Ashtadhyayi. However, it is unlikely that these two works are that of the same author.

In recent decades the Yoga Sutra has become quite popular worldwide for the precepts regarding practice of Raja Yoga and its philosophical basis. "Yoga" in traditional Hinduism involves inner contemplation, a rigorous system of meditation practice, ethics, metaphysics, and devotion to Brahman. At the same time, his Mahābhāṣya, which first foregrounded the notion of meaning as referring to categorization, remains an important treatise in Sanskrit linguistic philosophy.