The Essence of Yoga: Reflections on the Yoga-Sutras of Patanjali

This book offers invaluable guidance to those seeking a deeper understanding of their true nature. The Yoga Sutras distill the essentials of an integrated system of physical and spiritual discipline. All too often, Westerners bypass the philosophy and practice the physical posture. But it is impossible to authentically practice the physical postures without first having grasped the philosophical underpinnings. This book provides:

• A translation of each sutra, study questions, themes for reflection, an illuminating commentary, and the sutra word for word in Sanskrit
• An eloquent translation by a celebrated yoga teacher for every yoga and philosophy student.
• A modern interpretation of yoga's most important text, the essential source of Yoga.

"In this book Bernard Bouanchaud combines his skillful mastery of Sanskrit and his direct contact with living yoga, as he has taught yoga in Paris for several decades. He transmits the knowledge he himself received from the eminent masters. Shri Krishnamacharya and his son T.K.V. Desikachar...to make this book at once so personal and so faithful to an ancient tradition, truly now" - JEAN VARENNE, author of Yoga and the Hindu Tradition

"The Yoga Sutras approach the psychological philosophical, and spiritual questions that so preoccupy modern man. The profundity and richness of Bernard Bouanchaud's commentaries speak volumes about the transformation that yoga has brought about in his life." - L'Imparient

"The author helps us rediscover the path to one's true self, through Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, with as much pertinence as once did Schopenhauer." - Anore Chouraqui

"Bouanchaud offers an invaluable commentary of Patanjali's fundamental text. One can not dream of a better and more serious introduction to yoga-practiced and deeply, damandingly understood." - Jean Pierre Jossua, author of The Spiritual Life.

About the Author:

Internationally acclaimed yoga instructor Bernard Bouanchaud began studying yoga in 1961. He is the author of several books on yoga including Le Yoga: Premiers Pas.

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