Table of Contents

Preface to the American Edition

Preface to the Original Edition

Introduction
Patañjali and the Exegetical Literature
Some Philosophical Concepts of Kriya-Yoga
Overview of Topics Discussed by Patañjali

Annotated Translation
Chapter One: Samadhi-Pada
Chapter Two: Sadhana-Pada
Chapter Three: Vibhuti-Pada
Chapter Four: Kaivalya-Pada

Continuous Translation

Word Index to the Yoga-Sutra

Bibliography

Guide to the Pronunciation of Sanskrit

Index

About the Author

About the Author

Georg Feuerstein was an internationally recognized yoga scholar who began studying yoga at the age of fourteen. He also wrote The Essence of Yoga, Lucid Waking and The Philosophy of Classical Yoga.

Reviews

"Georg Feuerstein is a scholar with a heart and a spiritual explorer with a keen intellect."
*John White, author of The Highest State of Consciousness*

"This is certainly one of the most profound and original contributions to the understanding of classical yoga."
*Professor Mircea Eliade, University of Chicago, author of Yoga: Immortality and Freedom*

"The great value of this youthful work is in its thoroughness of approach."
*Dennis Littrell, reviewer, Feb 2008*