Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali :
Patanjala Yoga Pradipika
by B. K. S. Iyengar
Published by Aquarian Pr
Publication date: May 1, 1993
ISBN: 1855382253
L., 06/19/97 A book which might clearly
broaden your concept of yoga.
"Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali" by BKS Iyengar illuminates
a mental approach toward yoga which, combined with the physical poses,has
created a much more cohesive yoga experience for me. After almost a lifetime
of yoga practice this text has brought together the emotional, physical
and thinking parts of my intention, guiding me toward the concept of yoga
as a way of life. Yoga as a way of thought. Yoga as a journey toward inner
and outer personal discovery. Yoga as a valid and time proven art with which
to joust, admire, enjoy life. Each sutra in this text is handled as a concept
or goal within itself, yet at the same time, the book is pulled together
to give the reader a sense of the web of yoga philosophy as a whole. Each
sutra is concisely presented and its' interpretation is made very clear.
Every time I open the BKS Iyengar "Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali"
I discover new information I can use in my practice and in my life. I find
this book offers comfort during times of anxiety because it shows that throughout
all time...people of a culture and period so far removed from mine wondered
the same things as I do...asked the same difficult things of themselves
and of their world and endeavored to conquer the greatest obstacle we are
all, sometimes confronted by. It is, ourselves.