Project Gutenberg's The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, by Charles JohnstonThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: The Yoga Sutras of PatanjaliAuthor: Charles JohnstonPosting Date: March 28, 2010 [EBook #2526] Release Date: February, 2001Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE YOGA SUTRAS OF PATANJALI ***Produced by J. C. Byers and Dringbloom. THE YOGA SUTRAS OF PATANJALI "The Book of the Spiritual Man"An Interpretation ByCharles Johnston Bengal Civil Service, Retired; Indian Civil Service, Sanskrit Prizeman; Dublin University, Sanskrit PrizemanINTRODUCTION TO BOOK IThe Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are in themselves exceedingly brief, less than ten pages of large type in the original. Yetthey contain the essence of practical wisdom, set forth in admirable order and detail. The theme, if the present interpreterbe right, is the great regeneration, the birth of the spiritual from the psychical man: the same theme which Paul so wiselyand eloquently set forth in writing to his disciples in Corinth, the theme of all mystics in all lands.We think of ourselves as living a purely physical life, in these material bodies of ours. In reality, we have gone far indeedfrom pure physical life; for ages, ...