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The Yoga Sutras Of Patanjali
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| Swatmarajji 2006-02-25, 9:33 pm |
| Do you think that these are an accurate translation and if any of you
out there know how to chant them is this a good resource.
http://www.yogacards.com/yoga-sutras.html
I found it online and loved it.
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| howdydave 2006-02-25, 9:33 pm |
| Howdy!
IMO: Since the sutras themselves are such concise bits of whittled down
information, I worry more about how good the commontary is. A person
needs to know the slant of the person writing the commontary.
If all you get is the sutras, you need to know the yogic slant of the
person doing the translation.
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i always look for someone that has done some sort of karma yoga....,
and using a contemporary language, without judging foreign culture,
flexible...
reading more than one comentary will be very usefull, as it will open
the mind, creating perpective...
being inside an ashram, just translating it, will be some insipid
work...
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| LawsonE 2006-03-27, 10:33 am |
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"Swatmarajji" <bond007guru@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Do you think that these are an accurate translation and if any of you
> out there know how to chant them is this a good resource.
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> http://www.yogacards.com/yoga-sutras.html
>
> I found it online and loved it.
>
The Yoga Sutras are a lesson guide for enlightened teachers, not a texbook
for beginning students.
Commentary on them can be like taking the index cards from the teachers desk
and attempting to turn them into that textbook without having the background
to know what the cards mean in the first place.
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