The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali

Patanjali's Yoga Aphorisms, or Yoga Sutras, are rather like algebraic formulas. They are hardly comprehensible without a commentary. The commentary of Bhoja Raja is the clearest and simplest one known, and thus was chosen by the first translators of the Yoga Sutras. The better known commentary by Vyasa, and its sub-commentaries, are more complex and difficult. Here is the first, and still the only complete translation of Bhoja Raja's commentary. Although not an easy text, it provides what is perhaps the most comprehensible description of the ancient science ofmeditation found in the Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali.Rajendralala Mitra is the author of 'The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali', published 2006 under ISBN 9780895819888 and ISBN 0895819880.