yoga sutra biography

• “The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali: a Biography”

• A comprehensive guide into Hindu texts in the beginning of the Chapter 2

• Ramachandra Chaudhari became Mahatma Ramchandraji Maharaj, cosharer of the office of pir with his master’s brother. At once a Hindu householder, the master of a Muslim religious order,  a tax collector for the British Raj, and a budding yoga practitioner, Ramachandra founded a school that he would later call Ananda Yoga (“Yoga of Beatitude”) in the first decade of the twentieth century. - Chapter 8

• Sufi practices as visualisation (muraqaba) and “the science hidden in the breast” (ilm-i-sina) - Chapter 8

• chanting, unnecessary tradition, Chapter 12

• two Jews three opinions, buddhist roots of Y.S., the last Chapter

• shankarananda poem

• a long line of yoga dilettantes

• metaphysics and ancient indian philosophy

• maharishi in yoga sutra biography

• also read: salvation without a savior