By Stephen Phillips
For critical yoga practitioners curious to grasp the traditional origins of the artwork, Stephen Phillips, a qualified thinker and sanskritist with a long-standing own perform, lays out the philosophies of motion, wisdom, and devotion in addition to the procedures of meditation, reasoning, and self-analysis that shaped the foundation of yoga in historical and classical India and proceed to form it today.
In discussing yoga's primary commitments, Phillips explores conventional teachings of hatha yoga, karma yoga, bhakti yoga, and tantra, and indicates how such center thoughts as self-monitoring realization, karma, nonharmfulness ( ahimsa), reincarnation, and the powers of attention relate to fashionable perform. He outlines values implicit in bhakti yoga and the tantric yoga of attractiveness and artwork and explains the occult psychologies of koshas, skandhas, and chakras. His e-book accommodates unique translations from the early Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, the Yoga Sutra (the whole text), the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, and seminal tantric writings of the tenth-century Kashmiri Shaivite, Abhinava Gupta. A word list defining greater than 300 technical phrases and an intensive bibliography supply additional support to nonscholars. A amazing exploration of yoga's conceptual legacy, Yoga, Karma, and Rebirth crystallizes principles approximately self and fact that unite the various incarnations of yoga.
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