The Yoga aphorisms of Patanjali (Timeless Wisdom Collection #283) - An interpretation

William Q. Judge

Business and Leadership Publishing

2013

78 páginas

2h 36m

ISBN-10: B00GZH1AW4

"The Yoga aphorisms of Patanjali - An interpretation" (1889)

This edition of Patanjaliʹs Yoga Aphorisms is not put forth as a new translation, nor as a literal rendering into English of the original. It attempts to clear up a work that is thought to be of great value to earnest students.
It may be said by some captious critics that liberties have been taken with the text, and if this were emitted as a textual translation the charge would be true. Instead of this being a translation, it is offered as an interpretation, as the thought of Patanjali clothed in our language. No liberties have been taken with the system of the great Sage, but the endeavor has been faithfully to interpret it to Western minds unfamiliar with the Hindu modes of expression, and equally unaccustomed to their philosophy and logic.
About Patanjaliʹs life very little, if anything, can be said. In the Rudra Jamala, the Vrihannandikeshwara and the Padma‐Purana are some meager statements, more or less legendary, relating to his birth. Ilavrita‐Varsha is said to have been his birthplace, his mother being Sati the wife of Angiras. The tradition runs that upon his birth he made known things past, present and future, showing the intellect and penetration of a sage while yet an infant.