An Introduction to Yoga
Excerpt
These lectures[FN#1: Delivered at the 32nd Anniversary of
the
Theosophical Society held at Benares, on Dec. 27th, 28th,
29th,
and 30th, 1907.] are intended to give an outline of Yoga,
in
order to prepare the student to take up, for practical
purposes,
the Yoga sutras of Patanjali, the chief treatise on Yoga. I
have
on hand, with my friend Bhagavan Das as collaborateur, a
translation of these Sutras, with Vyasa’s commentary, and
a
further commentary and elucidation written in the light
of
Theosophy.[FN#2: These have never been finished or printed.]
To
prepare the student for the mastering of that more
difficult
task, these lectures were designed; hence the many references
to
Patanjali. They may, however, also serve to give to the
ordinary
lay reader some idea of the Science of sciences, and perhaps
to
allure a few towards its study.
