Beschreibung
Untertitel: A full translation of the newly discovered text
Es handelt sich hier um die Übersetzung eines bisher unbekannten Kommentars von Sankara (Gründer der Vedanta Schule) zum Yoga Sutra-Text des Patanjali. Es wird angenommen, dass die Datierung dieses Textes bei 700 AD liegt. Das Buch enthält die Yoga Sutra des Patanjali, einen kurzen Kommentar von Vyasa, den Sub-Kommentar von Sankara.
Aus dem Inhalt:
- Introduction for the general reader
- Technical introduction
- First part: Samadhi
- Yoga theory (Sutra I.1 – I.4)
- Mental processes (Sutra I.5 – I.11)
- Practice (Sutra I.12 – I.22)
- God (Sutra I.23 – I.28)
- Obstacles (Sutra I.29 -I.32)
- Special practices (Sutra I.33 – I.40)
- Absorption (Sutra I.41 -I.51)
- Second parts: Means
- Yoga of action (Sutra II.1 – II.2)
- Taints (II.3 – II.11)
- Karma (II.12 – II.14)
- Pain (Sutra II.15)
- Guna-s
- Release (Sutra II.16 – II.17)
- Guna-s again (Sutra II.18 – II.19)
- Purusa (Sutra II.20 – II.21)
- Seer-seen (Sutra II.22 – II.25)
- Release again (Sutra II.26 – II.27)
- Yoga (Sutra II.28 – II.29)
- Restraints (Sutra II.30 – II.31)
- Observances (Sutra II.32)
- Contrary ideas (Sutra II.33 – II.34)
- Perfections (Sutra II.35 – II.45)
- Controls (Sutra II.46 – II.55)
- Third part: Glory
- Inner methods (Sutra III.1 – III.12)
- Change (Sutra III.13 – III.16)
- Meaning-flash (Sutra III.17)
- Glories (Sutra III.18 – III.34)
- Knowledge (Sutra III.35 – III.51)
- Omniscience (Sutra III.52 – III.54)
- Transcendental Aloneness (Sutra III.55)
- Fourth Part: Transcendental Aloneness (Kaivalya)
- Perfections (Sutra IV.1 – IV.6)
- Karma (Sutra IV.7 – IV.12)
- Time (Sutra IV.13 – IV.14)
- Against Buddhism (Sutra IV.14, continued, IV.15 -IV.22)
- Mind (Sutra IV.23 – IV.24)
- Release (Sutra IV.25 – IV.34)
- Salutations and colophon
Leseempfehlung: für Leser, die tiefer ins Studium dieses Textes einsteigen wollen
