Yoga: The Indian Tradition
Yoga: The Indian Tradition by David Carpenter, Ian Whicher
Routledge | May 16, 2003 | English | ISBN: 0700712887 | 224 pages | PDF | 1 MB
Routledge | May 16, 2003 | English | ISBN: 0700712887 | 224 pages | PDF | 1 MB
The popular perception of yoga in the West remains for the most part that of a physical fitness program, largely divorced from its historical and spiritual roots. The essays collected here provide a sense of the historical emergence of the classical system presented by Patañjali, a careful examination of the key elements, overall character and contemporary relevance of that system (as found in the Yoga Sutra) and a glimpse of some of the tradition's many important ramifications in later Indian religious history.