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Title: The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali : A New Translation with Commentary by Chip Hartranft ISBN: 1-59030-023-8 Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The yoke before Buddha
Comment: Before Buddhism and before formal Hatha Yoga, Patanjali, presents this guide of consciousness. Perhaps it is based on early Vedic texts, but it is based on his direct experience also. 1800 years later Hartranft, presents this new translation that somehow breathes new life into the 196 aphorisms.
His translation seeks to find a fluid way of expressing a line in English. In his commentary he explains some of the Sanskrit terms. He avoids going too deep into later Hatha Yoga, and avoids the highly philosophical discussion. Patanjali's aphorisms are about the "practice"; "Yogic activity has three components; discipline, self-study, and orientation toward the ideal of pure awareness".
Rating: 5
Summary: Ancient sutras for modern practice.
Comment: "Focusing with perfect discipline on the heart," Patanjali observes in one of the 196 sutras collected here, "one understands the nature of consciousness" (pp. 53; 197). Written in Sanskrit nearly two thousand years ago, THE YOGA SUTRA OF PATANJALI addresses the central concerns of our existence: how we know what we know, why we suffer, and how we can experience happier, more meaningful lives through spiritual practice (pp. ix; 75). Based on his own experience integrating yoga with Buddhist practice, and through his fresh translation and insights into Patanjali's notoriously esoteric text, Chip Hartranft succeeds in showing us how these ancient sutras are relevant to modern spiritual practice. Of the translations of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras I've read, including translations by Iyengar (1993), Prasada (1988), and Swami Prabhavananda's HOW TO KNOW GOD (136)--all of which are excellent, because of its commentary, Hartranft's translation was the most rewarding.
G. Merritt
Rating: 5
Summary: By far the best book on the yoga sutras ever written!
Comment: If you're a serious yoga student and meditator, you've probably been told by more than one teacher to study Patanjali's yoga sutras. Written around the 2nd or 3rd century AD (not BC as some used to think), they lay the philosophical and practical foundation for all of yoga, including the physical yoga that we all do now. If you're like me, you've dutifully plowed through one version after another, struggling with the often complex ideas and looking for something in them that actually made sense in terms of your life and practice. But until you've read this one, you haven't read the yoga sutras!
What's different about Hartranft's translation and commentary is that, unlike the versions by Iyengar, Satchidananda, and most others, he doesn't confuse the meditative yoga of Patanjali with the much later gymnastic stuff. It's not that he isn't interested in it - Hartranft himself is apparently a well-known teacher of hatha yoga as well as meditation, and considers them to be complementary - but it is clear he agrees with Patanjali that the primary purpose of yoga is enlightenment. Because the yoga sutras are couched in the often illogical samkhya philosophy, their striking similarity to the Buddha's teaching hasn't been noticed or explained very well by other authors until now. And unlike some of the scholars who have taken a crack at it - Miller, for example - Hartranft's breathtaking insights into the sutras seem to come from profound personal experience, which is the whole point of the teachings. As difficult as they can sometimes be, he manages to render them elegantly, proving that you can plumb their depths without having to wade through the tortured syntax of a literalist like Feuerstein. In short, Hartranft is that rarity, a true yogi who can truly write.
Like Hartranft, I've never read a version of Patanjali that didn't teach me something, and I think it's best to have several different translations for the sake of comparison. But just make sure you have Hartranft's - it's the one you'll keep coming back to. And if you only get one, this is the one!
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Title: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Sri S. Satchidananda ISBN: 0932040381 Publisher: Integral Yoga Distribution Pub. Date: October, 1990 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Anatomy of Hatha Yoga: A Manual for Students, Teachers, and Practitioners by H. David Coulter, Timothy McCall ISBN: 0970700601 Publisher: Body and Breath Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: How to Know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali by Swami Prabhavananda, Christopher Isherwood, Patanjali ISBN: 0874810418 Publisher: Vedanta Press & Bookshop Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Light on Yoga : The Bible of Modern Yoga... by B. K. S. Iyengar, Yehudi Menuhin ISBN: 0805210318 Publisher: Schocken Books Pub. Date: 03 January, 1995 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by B. K. S. Iyengar ISBN: 0007145160 Publisher: Thorsons Pub Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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