problematic." Michele Desmarais summarized a wide variety of dates assigned to Yogasutra, ranging from 500 BCE to 3rd century CE, noting that there is a paucity...

interpretations and literature that discuss Raja yoga often credit Patañjali's Yogasūtras as their textual source, but many neither adopt the teachings nor the...

is moksha, the soteriological goal in Hinduism. Book 3 of Patanjali's Yogasutra is dedicated to soteriological aspects of yoga philosophy. Patanjali begins...

सुखदुःखपुण्यापुण्यविषयाणां भावनातश्चित्तप्रसादनम् — Yogasutra 1.33; "Patanjali Yogasutra". SanskritDocuments.Org. Martin G. Wiltshire (1990). Ascetic...

pain-giving as joy-giving, and the non-Atman as Atman. — Yogasutra 2.5 In verses 2.19-2.20, Yogasutra declares that pure ideas are the domain of Atman, the...

scholars narrowing this period down to between 2nd and 4th century CE. The Yogasutras is one of the most important texts in the Indian tradition and the foundation...

metaphysical concept in Yogasutras. Īśvarapraṇidhāna is investing, occupying the mind with this metaphysical concept. Yogasutra does not mention deity...

Bhasya). His Vivarana (tertiary notes) on the commentary by Vedavyasa on Yogasutras as well as those on Apastamba Dharma-sũtras (Adhyatama-patala-bhasya)...

different meanings. Desmarais states that Isvara is a metaphysical concept in Yogasutras. It does not mention deity anywhere, nor does it mention any devotional...

Pflueger, Lloyd (2008). Knut Jacobsen (ed.). Person Purity and Power in Yogasutra, in Theory and Practice of Yoga. Motilal Banarsidass. pp. 38–39. ISBN 978-81-208-3232-9...