Yoga – Immortality & Freedom - Softcover

Eliade, Mircea

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691017646 ISBN 13: 9780691017648

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1992

Synopsis

In this landmark book the renowned scholar of religion Mircea Eliade lays the groundwork for a Western understanding of Yoga, exploring how its guiding principle, that of freedom, involves remaining in the world without letting oneself be exhausted by such "conditionings" as time and history. Drawing on years of study and experience in India, Eliade provides a comprehensive survey of Yoga in theory and practice from its earliest foreshadowings in the Vedas through the twentieth century. The subjects discussed include Patańjali, author of the Yoga-sutras; yogic techniques, such as concentration "on a Single Point," postures, and respiratory discipline; and Yoga in relation to Brahmanism, Buddhism, Tantrism, Oriental alchemy, mystical erotism, and shamanism.

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Review:

"[I]t states with clarity and precision what the beliefs and practices of yoga are, and how they originated from the primeval Indic religions."--The New Yorker

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0691017646
• ISBN 13: 9780691017648
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 558