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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Sri Swami Satchidananda explains the Yoga Sutras so they’re accessible and welcoming to seekers from every possible spiritual tradition worldwide.
Chapter 3: Yoga practice yields results you can test and confirm for yourself through direct experience.
Chapter 4: Yoga philosophy instructs you to cease identifying yourself with any external things, including your own mind and body.
Chapter 5: The True Self is spirit, and that identical spirit lives within everyone and everything.
Chapter 6: As Prakṛti, the mind becomes a warped, ego-driven reflection of Puruṣa.
Chapter 7: True Self ignorance inevitably results in deep egoism and suffering.
Chapter 8: Yoga practice calms and clarifies the mind, enabling you to fully behold the True Self.
Chapter 9: Yogic practice offers diverse physical and mental exercises that ultimately guide you toward the deeply spiritual state called Samādhi.
Description
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (1978) is a classic text on yogic philosophy and practice. Written in ancient Sanskrit, it explains the core metaphysical, spiritual, psychological, moral, and ethical ideas of yoga. It also lays out the principles of how to practice yoga, so you can put those ideas into action and use them to achieve lasting happiness and inner peace.
Who Should Listen
- Seekers of wisdom, happiness, and peace
- Followers of Eastern spiritual traditions
- Anyone interested in those traditions