An Introduction to Yoga, Annie Besant
An Introduction to Yoga, Annie Besant
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An Introduction to Yoga

Author: Annie Besant

Narrator: Douglas Harvey

Unabridged: 4 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/27/2021


Synopsis

These lectures are intended to give an outline of Yoga, in order to prepare the student to take up, for practical purposes, the Yoga sutras of Patanjali, the chief treatise on Yoga. I have on hand, with my friend Bhagavan Das as collaborateur, a translation of these Sutras, with Vyasa’s commentary, and a further commentary and elucidation written in the light of Theosophy. To prepare the student for the mastering of that more difficult task, these lectures were designed; hence the many references to Patanjali. They may, however, also serve to give to the ordinary lay reader some idea of the Science of sciences, and perhaps to allure a few towards its study.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Krystelle on October 26, 2020

This was a very rudimentary exercise in the study of yoga, and it spends the majority of the time it has on why you should really be reading books in Sanskrit instead (which, to be fair, is quite understandable). There's not much of substance here, and it could have been condensed (even though it al......more

Goodreads review by KarhuAnderson on January 20, 2020

Comes off as a foreword to a larger opus, than a work of it's own. Not as much an introduction to Yoga, as it is an introduction to the philosophies behind it, with the goal of helping one understand the possibilities of choice before them and ends before the actual introduction implied by the title......more

Goodreads review by R on July 12, 2023

This book was definitely an introduction to yoga. In places it was really hard to read. It was one of those books that you sort of "slog" through like moving through deep mud. Really, I think that some people would really enjoy this. You just need to be aware that it reads a great deal like a term p......more