One of yoga's most important and influential works, this classicforms a keystone of Indian philosophical and religious thought. The eight-step path to Raja Yoga consists of restraint, observances, posture, breath control, sublimation, attention, concentration, and meditation. This volume contains complete sutras, along with a commentary by Veda-Vyasa and explanations by Vachaspati-Miçra.
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An alphabetic index of the Sūtras themselves is given in the edition of the Bombay Sanskrit Series, and in that of the Ānandāçrama Series of Poona.—This index is designed to include all the words of the text of the Sūtras, and no others. The text is that of the Calcutta edition of Samvat 1947 (Baptist Mission Press, A.D. 1891); and accordingly pañca, for example, is included. The numbers refer to pāda and sūtra.
The Sūtras contain almost no finite verb-forms (asti, syāt, kṣῑyate, jāyante), and I have therefore put the participles, not under the verbal roots, but in their proper alphabetic place: so atῑta, apeta, udita, vῑta under a-, u-, v-, not under root i ; similarly abhijāta, āsanna, utpanna, ukta (not under vac), a-labdha (under al-) ; and so the other negatives beginning with an- or a-. On the other hand, the pronominal forms are assembled in the usual way: tat, tasya, tāḥ, sa, under tad ; asya, eṣām, under idam ; etena under etad.
