The yoga sutras of patanjali

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali A landmark new translation and edition.

Written almost two millennia ago, Patañjalis work focuses on how to attain the direct experience and realization of the purusa: the innermost individual self, or soul.

As the classical treatise on the Hindu understanding of mind and consciousness and on the technique of meditation, it has exerted immense influence over the religious practices of Hinduism in India and, more recently, in the West. Edwin F. Bryants translation is clear, direct, and exact.