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The text presents a compact practical system for realizing spiritual union by transforming the ordinary psychical mind into purer spiritual consciousness. It identifies mental functions and obstacles, then prescribes progressive methods for overcoming them, including ethical precepts, bodily discipline, breath regulation, focused attention, contemplative meditation and deeper absorptive states. The work outlines stages of practice, distinguishes reliable from misleading cognitive processes, and traces how disciplined practice can yield altered faculties and insights while warning of their limits. Its closing material describes the culminating fruit of practice as sustained liberation from suffering and abiding in awakened awareness.

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Title: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: The Book of the Spiritual Man

Author: Patañjali

Editor: Charles Johnston

Release date: February 1, 2001 [eBook #2526]
Most recently updated: May 14, 2022

Language: English

Credits: J. C. Byers and Dringbloom

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THE YOGA SUTRAS OF PATANJALI

“The Book of the Spiritual Man”

An Interpretation By

Charles Johnston

Bengal Civil Service, Retired;
Indian Civil Service, Sanskrit Prizeman;
Dublin University, Sanskrit Prizeman


Contents

INTRODUCTION TO BOOK I
BOOK I
INTRODUCTION TO BOOK II
BOOK II
INTRODUCTION TO BOOK III
BOOK III
INTRODUCTION TO BOOK IV
BOOK IV