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Critics unanimously welcomed the book, noting that it was surprising given yoga's popularity that many of its key texts had never before been translated. They described the book as scholarly, unprecedented, and admirably unbiased, making available a wealth of material in far more accessible form than
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up to the 19th century; tables of the systems of the limbs or "auxiliaries" of yoga, including fourfold, fivefold, sixfold, sevenfold and fifteen-fold systems as well as several eightfold systems including Patanjali's; a glossary; lists of primary and secondary literature; notes; and an index.
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points to the book's "endlessly diverse sources", which include "new critical translations of over 100 little-known yoga texts dating from 1000 BCE to the 19th century, threaded together with clear and steady-as-she-goes commentary". The translations, he states, "explode the available resources for
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The book has a main introduction summarizing the history of yoga and yoga scholarship, and each chapter has its own shorter contextual introduction and notes. The book provides a variety of helps for the reader such as a timeline of important events from the 1500 BCE
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everyday practitioners" and "drown the notions that yoga is any single thing that anyone has ever agreed upon or that it brings everyone to the same place." Remski proposes that it may "become the top book on every
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blog, writes that the most usual dismissal of yoga scholars is that "as non-practitioners can only have the most superficial of understandings of the practice", noting that Singleton is a practitioner of
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The editors note that there is at least an apparent paradox in describing these as yoga, as "yoga" is both the entire process and the goal or end-point, samādhi, of that process.
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volume of 540 pages; it was not preceded by a hardback edition. The book has no illustrations other than the cover image. In 2019, an Italian translation was published by
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Patanjali's text is structured as short pithy sutras (here, in quotes), summarising earlier wisdom, followed by his commentary on the sutras (smaller font).
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Its eleven themed chapters cover the nature of yoga itself and the traditional practices, theories, and contexts of yoga. These are the
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Press one heel against the perineum, fix the other foot above the penis and firmly place the chin on the chest. Motionless and
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ever before, and revealing yoga to consist of many strands rather than having a single definite philosophy and interpretation.
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but including several other languages, many not previously published, about the origins of yoga including practices such as
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Of these, non-violence is never causing harm in any way to any creature. The other rules and observances are rooted in it.
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The book is a collection of mostly original translations by the editors of over one hundred yoga texts, mainly from
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as "this monumental anthology" of some 150 primary Sanskrit sources will in his view become a classic.
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was welcomed by its reviewers, both academics and yoga teachers. Among academics, Neil Sims, reviewing
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on the Indian Philosophy Blog, calls the book scholarly, writing that the editors (the yoga
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Among the yoga texts translated in the collection are extracts from the 18th century
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is a 2017 book of commentary and translations from over 100 ancient and medieval
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and Mallinson is "much more demonstrably so", having been ordained as a
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the highest cognitive state, the attainment of the union called "yoga" (
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meditates on the self as the unconditioned, quiescent, resplendent
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reading list in the English-speaking world." The yoga teacher
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International Association of Yoga Therapists • Richard Miller
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preliminaries to yoga practice including ethical rules (
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