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Maharishi on Yoga and Transcendental Meditation

By Maharishi Mahesh Yogi — 2010

Maharishi explains the relationship between Yoga and the Transcendental Meditation® technique.

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Yoga—Discipline of Freedom: The Yoga Sutra Attributed to Patanjali

Dating from about the third century A.D., the Yoga Sutra distills the essence of the physical and spiritual discipline of yoga into fewer than two hundred brief aphorisms.

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Patanjali
1998
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The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali: A New Translation with Commentary (Shambhala Classics)

Compiled in the second or third century CE, the Yoga-Sutra is a road map of human consciousness—and a particularly helpful guide to the mind states one encounters in meditation, yoga, and other spiritual practices.

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Patanjali
2025
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The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

"The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are in themselves exceedingly brief, less than ten pages of large type in the original. Yet they contain the essence of practical wisdom, set forth in admirable order and detail. ... "Patanjali has in mind the spiritual man, to be born from the psychical.

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Patanjali
2016
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The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: “The Book of the Spiritual Man”

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is one of the most important texts of Yoga. This is an early 20th century translation and interpretation made by the author accessible for any non-specialized reader.

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Charles Johnston
2025
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The Most Important Thing: Teaching and Living the Yoga Sutras

I teach the most important thing. We are a part of something. This something exists in the eternal now. Yoga is how we connect to the now and what happens next. That is all.

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Rolf Gates
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What Is the True Purpose of Yoga?

In his classic work the Yoga Sutras, Patanjali describes yoga as “the progressive quieting of the fluctuations of the mind.

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Deepak Chopra
2013
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Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

BKS Iyengar’s translation and commentary on these ancient yoga sutras has been described as the “bible” of yoga. This new edition of the classic text contains a new introduction by BKS Iyengar, as well as a foreword by Godfrey Devereux, author of Dynamic Yoga.

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B.K.S. Iyengar
2002
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Core of the Yoga Sutras: The Definitive Guide to the Philosophy of Yoga

B.K.S. Iyengar has devoted his life to the practice and study of yoga. It was B.K.S. Iyengar’s unique teaching style, bringing precision and clarity to the practice, as well as a mindset of ‘yoga for all’, which has made it into a worldwide phenomenon.

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B.K.S. Iyengar, The Dalai Lama (foreword)
2012
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