B.K.S. IYENGAR
Light on the Yoga
Sutras of Patañjali
Thorsons
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Published by Thorsons 1996
Published by The Aquarian Press 1993
First published in Great Britain by George Allen & Unwin, 1966
Copyright © B.K.S. Iyengar 1993
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Source ISBN: 9780007145164
Ebook Edition © JUNE 2012 ISBN: 9780007381623
Version: 2017-02-21
This work is my offering to
my Invisible, First and Foremost Guru
Lord Patañjali
Contents
Introduction to the New Edition by B.K.S. Iyengar
Samadhi Pada
Yoga Sutras Text, translation and commentary
Appendix I A Thematic Key to the Yoga Sutras
Appendix II Interconnection of Sutras
Appendix III Alphabetical Index of Sutras
Appendix IV Yoga in a Nutshell
A note from Sir Yehudi Menuhin
Hints on Transliteration and Pronunciation
List of important terms in the text
Foreword by Godfrey Devereux, author of Dynamic Yoga
Patañjali’s Yoga Sutras are the bible of yoga. However, their inaccessibility in the hands of scholars and academics has left yoga practitioners adrift with neither chart nor compass. B.K.S. Iyengar’s translation, based on over fifty years of dedicated and accomplished practice and teaching, is unique in its relevance and utility to contemporary yoga practitioners.