The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali
By Patanjali
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Before the 20th century, history indicates that the medieval Indian yoga scene was dominated by the various other texts such as the Bhagavad Gita and the Yoga Vasistha, texts attributed to Yajnavalkya and Hiranyagarbha, as well as literature on hatha yoga, tantric yoga and Pashupata Shaivism yoga rather than the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali.
Yoga tradition holds the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali to be one of the foundational texts of classical Yoga philosophy.
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THE YOGA APHORISMS OF PATANJALI
AN INTERPRETATION
BY
WILLIAM Q. JUDGE
Table of Contents
Contents
Table of Contents 4
DEDICATION 5
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION 6
BOOK I. — CONCENTRATION. 13
BOOK II. — MEANS OF CONCENTRATION. 19
BOOK III. 25
BOOK IV. — THE ESSENTIAL NATURE OF ISOLATION. 32
REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 37
DEDICATION
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PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
This edition of Patanjali’s Yoga Aphorisms is not put forth as a new translation, nor as a literal rendering into English of the original.
In the year 1885 an edition was printed at Bombay by Mr. Tookeram Tatya, a Fellow of the Theosophical Society, which has been since widely circulated among its members in all parts of the world. But it has been of use only to those who had enough acquaintance with the Indian system of philosophy to enable them to grasp the real meaning of the Aphorisms notwithstanding the great and peculiar obstacles due to the numberless brackets and interpolated sentences with which not only are the Aphorisms crowded, but the so-called explanatory notes as well. For the greater number of readers these difficulties have been an almost insurmountable barrier; and such is the consideration that has led to the preparation of this edition, which 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 Patanjali’s life very little, if anything, can be said. In the Rudra Jamala, the Vrihan-nan-dikeshwara and the Padma-Purana are some meagre statements, more or less legendary, relating to his birth. Illavrita-Varsha is said to have been his birthplace, his mother being Sati the wife of Angira. 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. He is said to have married one Lolupa, whom he found in the hollow of a tree on the north of Sumeru, and thereafter to have lived to a great age. On one occasion, being insulted by the inhabitants of Bhotabhandra while he was engaged in religious austerities, he reduced them to ashes by fire from his mouth.
That these accounts are legendary and symbolical can be easily seen. Illavrita-Varsha is no part of India, but is some celestial abode. The name of India proper is Bharata Varsha. "In it and nowhere else do the four ages or Yugas—Krita, Treta, Dwapara and Kali—exist. Here devotees perform austerities and priests sacrifice. In this respect Bharata is the most excellent division; for this