Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

I like Chris Chappel’s translation of the YS because of the rigor with which he decodes the roots.


Yoga and the luminous: Patañjali's spiritual path to freedom - Page 233

Christopher Key Chapple, Patañjali - 2008 - 301 pages - Google eBook - Preview
Just as the jnana bhava is the modality by which Samkhya claims one achieves kevala, so in the Yoga Sutra, ... H2 From these sutras, we detect a close link between the Samkhya system and its emphasis on the separation of the two great

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Yoga and the luminous: Patañjali's spiritual path to freedom By Christopher Key Chapple, is available as a Google ebook for $16.17 and in a Kindle edition for $16.47 (price as of July 2011). I like both formats.

Yoga philosophy of Patañjali, by Swami Hariharananda

This translation, by Swami Hariharananda, has been on my shelf for decades and has a fabulous Preface, rare for its honesty and humor:


To catch the mind and keep it still,
Is no small problem for my porous will;
As many times as I shut it down,
Unceasing thoughts on me rebound

In youth I tried through alcohol,
To ease my stress and cool my gall;
In later years I turned to grass
The effects were good – but did not last.

At last with fading hopes I turned,
To Eastern paths, and my soul yearned
To scale the mystic heights of bliss.
Alas, no easy method this.

And now with age and turmoil weary,
All that’s left me is this query;
Will heart break or mind implode,
Before my vrittis do nirode*.

- Swami Shankarananda

*Patanjali’s second sutra: Yogash chitta vritti-nirodhah, “Yoga is the stilling of the modifications of the mind.”

References to Swami Hariharananda’s edition of The Yoga Sutras

Yoga philosophy of Patañjali: containing his Yoga aphorisms with ... - Page 486

Patañjali, Hariharānanda Āraṇya (Swami.), Vyāsa - 1983 - 483 pages - Google eBook - Preview
These classical works are augmented by the commentary of Swami Hariharananda Aranya, a scholar and yogi of great repute, who, in his lifetime, was the foremost exponent in India of the Samkhya Yoga system of which the Yoga Aphorisms of

Classical Sāṃkhya: an interpretation of its history and meaning - Page 278

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Gerald James Larson - 1998 - 315 pages - Preview
Of interest also is a book by Jajneswar Ghosh, A Study of Toga, which sets forth Hariharananda's views on classical Yoga. According to tradition, Hariharananda entered an artificial cave at Kapila Matha on May. ...


The Yoga tradition of the Mysore Palace - Page 38

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N. E. Sjoman - 1999 - 124 pages - Preview
Swami Hariharananda's work is in specific contradiction to that. Vacaspati Misra , the most renowned commentator on the YOGASUTRAM, was reputed to be a great yogin and thus, at least according to legend, in specific contradiction of such ...



Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: With Great Respect and Love - Page xiv

Mukunda Stiles - 2001 - 124 pages - Google eBook - Preview
I was first introduced to the Yoga Sutms in the course of my studies at the University of California in 1974, ... translations by monks like Swami Hariharananda Aranya and Swami Satchidananda; others by Vedantins like Swami ...

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The Yoga tradition of the Mysore Palace - Page 37

N. E. Sjoman - 1999 - 124 pages - Preview
Only Hariharananda Aranya's translation, which is the least known amongst students of yoga, has any relation to actual practice ... There are well-founded opinions that the sutras themselves are not the teaching of a complete consistent ...
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Yoga: the technology of ecstasy

Georg Feuerstein - 1989 - 344 pages - Snippet view
Swami Hariharananda (1869-1947) was head of the Kapila Matha in Madhupur (Bihar) and a practitioner of Samkhya-Yoga. ... It is definitely not a tradition of book learning. As Dattatreya states in his Yoga-Shastra: There will be success ...
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The triadic Heart of Śiva: Kaula tantricism of Abhinavagupta in ... - Page 250

Paul Eduardo Muller-Ortega - 1989 - 330 pages - Google eBook - Preview
Yoga-sutra 3.34, translated in Swami Hariharananda Aranya, Yoga Philosophy of Patarijali, trans. PN Mukherji, rev. ed. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1983), p. 309. 51. Ibid., p. 82. 52. Eliade, Yoga, p. 71. 53. ...

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Yoga Journal - May-Jun 1997 - Page 106

No. 134 - 176 pages - Magazine - Full view
... translations of the Yoga Sutra, which have tended to be either overwhelmingly technical (eg, Swami Aranya's Yoga Philosophy ... Miller groups the sutras logically and comments on the groups, largely eliminating redundant commentary.

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Meditation for the Love of It: Enjoying Your Own Deepest Experience

Sally Kempton - 2010 - 408 pages - Google eBook - Preview
SOME FURTHER READING On Practice and Yoga The Bhagavad Gita Translated by Winthrop Sargeant The Concise Yoga ... of Patanjali Swami Hariharananda Aranya The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali Chip Hartranft The Yoga Tradition: Its History, ...

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The integrity of the yoga darśana: a reconsideration of classical yoga - Page 321

Ian Whicher - 1998 - 426 pages - Google eBook - Preview
Aranya was a Sanskrit scholar and a practitioner of Samkhya- Yoga. It is probable that many ancient commentaries have ... to his useful translation of the Vivarana entitled, The Complete Commentary by Sankara on the Yoga Sutra-s, pp. ...

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Catalog of Yoga Sutras and Sanskrit Manuscripts in Private Libraries

A catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts in private libraries of the ...: Volume 1

Northwest provinces, India, Rāmanātha Sukula, Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith - 1874 - Free Google eBook - Read
No. Title of MS. in Devanagari. Title of MS. in Roman. WfflWIWlWIfn Paraskar agr i. A hyasutravy a . vTraiwTnn ^jtfawi ^isreBrauTgswTW suraifafa ^S* SBia5tnWTt25R- khya. Jatapatalatip- pana. Rudravidhana. Rigveda pra - thamashtak a. ...

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The Nāradasmṛti - Page 34

Nārada, Richard Wilfred Lariviere - 2003 - 554 pages - Preview
A Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts in Private Libraries of the North-West Provinces. Compiled by Order of the Government, N.-WP part 1, Benares, 1874, p. 162-163: "No. 262 — Naradasmrti — 20 leaves — 11 lines — paper — nagari. ...
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Lists of Sanskrit manuscripts in private libraries of southern India: Volume 2 - Page iii

1885 - Free Google eBook - Read
The Second Volume of the " Lists of Sanskrit Manuscripts in Private Libraries of Southern India " contains the ... I have been supplied with catalogues by Government officials, the most important among these being that of the library of

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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay: Volume 1905 - Page 60

Asiatic Society of Bombay, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Bombay Branch - 1905 - Free Google eBook - Read
Not much has, however, been done as regards the publication of catalogues of manuscripts in private libraries, so far as the published results go. Dr. Buhler published four fascicles of a Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts contained in ...
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More Sanskrit manuscripts in private libraries.