The question came from a student now deeply engrossed in the Yoga Sutra (most editions have the word “Sutras” in the title, but technically Sanskrit doesn’t make a plural with “s,” and anyway “sutra” is both an individual aphorism and a collection of those aphorisms). He was wondering how this manual squared with Karma Yoga, [...]
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When A Body Meets A Body Going To The Ghats
The first attempt at an English translation of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra (“Threads of Yoga”) was made by James Robert Ballantyne (1813-1864), a Scottish Orientalist and linguist. From 1846 to 1861 he was the principal of the prestigious Sanskrit College in Benares, established in 1791 by the British East India Company. Ballantyne, an adherent of a [...]
